Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 146 - Dissociation
Amidst the dust, Palund stood there above the ground on condensed space, smirking with a devilish grin. Suddenly, everyone in the room felt a wavelength, a powerful one, a heartbeat came along with it. A green light echoed through space, a mind activated and his aura brought forth many feelings. Palund looked across the room, Apollo had stood up and something was happening to him. His energy was fluctuating quickly. The nub where his arm used to be was pulsating and his sword seemed to start growing a 2nd point on the Tsuba, even his hair and eyes turned more green in color. Suddenly, Bone started emerging from his arm, nerves and muscles formed around those and finally a layer of skin layered on top of that, his arm had grown back! Then his sword started making weird noises, it sounded like it was shattering and combining into something else but in the next second his right hand held another sword.
He was dual wielding the same sword. There were 2 Akarui's, and with those, he darted towards the location of Palund KACHUNK. He slammed his right sword on top of the axe and used the other sword to strike the armor of the man, causing it to crack.
Palund thought to himself (Did he just gain a layer of assimilation as well as be able to manipulate his soul by reconstructing the part that he had lost? What's weirder is that there was a scar there even when it regenerated.)
A voice sounded in his head (I haven't seen this phenomenon before, but I've heard of something similar. When someone's soul gets damaged it can usually be repaired once one gains control of their soul, but even further down the line is someone's celestial body. This body usually can't be damaged by anyone except for an absolute which is why I'm confused.)
CLINK CLINK CLINK Apollo exchanged blows with the priest, the priest backed up. He disappeared and reappeared behind Apollo but instead of making contact with Apollo there was another sword that appeared out of his back, it wasn't just spiritual weaponry that came out of him, it was another Akarui. Apollo had sensed his opponent warp through space and countered the blow accordingly. He then turned around with warped space and proceeded to slash at Palund. Part of Palund's chestplate broke and Apollo didn't waste his opportunity, he closed the distance and stabbed his sword directly into the wound STIK.
Palund tried teleporting away again but he sensed a force that was stopping him from doing so. Evan Trunsworth blocked out the space around Palund from being used to teleport and Fused hydrogen and oxygen that he created and concentrated the energy straight at Palund. The energy blitzed its way through Palund and entered directly into his skull. The powerful light instantly stopped the thought process of Palund and killed him. But instead of falling, he stayed there. The energy was somehow getting stronger, the demon had completely taken over the body of Palund.
Evan screamed ,"ATTACK HIS SOUL!!!"
But Apollo was too late, whatever took over Palund ascended into the air and reddish black light exuded from his body, it blew off the lid of the castle and destroyed many on the pillars, letting the cosmos rain its light into the room. The radiance illuminated everyone, but especially the demon, Evan placed a barrier around the weaker cohort that came with them as support.
The demon breathed a sigh of relief ,"Finally, it's my turn to fight, it's been a while since I have been able to fight. I must introduce myself, I haven't gotten to say my name directly to anyone in so long. Thank you for entertaining my fun, I am Dissociation."
Immediately, many of him appeared in the air. They all reeked of the same evil aura, causing everyone to immediately be terrified, not by chance, but by the nature of his existence. Apollo, Cias and Evan readied themselves for combat. Apollo dashed out at the numerous clones. He darted across the room and hundreds of clones dismantled due to the power of Apollo's slashes. He then sensed a blip on his radar and clashed with an axe that came straight down on him CLANK.
He tried stabbing the figure in front of him when a portal appeared and half of the sword teleported elsewhere. Clones of Akarui's blade stabbed out and through the man in front of him, or that's what he thought happened. In reality, these portals sent the blades elsewhere to deal with Cias and Evan. The demon had used Apollo's own swords against him. He backed away and threw a Water Wave which clashed with the axe KABOOM. Then, suddenly, there were a bunch of Apollo's filling the room, each of them had themselves two katanas of their own.
They swarmed and started chewing down the increasing number of clones that Dissociation was pulling out. Before, Apollo's clones couldn't do much because they were mostly used for decoy but now that they all had Akarui they could be further used for combat. They didn't have the power that he had but they could still deal a significant amount of damage on their own.
Apollo was quickly analysing the combat style of the demon in front of him, his eyes could see everything, they even started filtering out his pitch black soul. Then Apollo thought of an idea. He formed more clones and had them all summon swords which they embedded into the ground. Each of them then started grabbing and throwing the katana's at the clones and the demon. Evan came up from behind the demon and held him in place with all of the power he had. Cias spread his Spirit Flame onto the swords and Evan added his own Primordial Flames and power on top. The clones and Apollo then pelted round after round of flaming swords at the demon.
They all penetrated not only the armor or its skin but also its soul STIKSTIKSTIKSTIKSTIKSTIKSTIKSTIK. It was hanging on by a thread but Apollo and Cias reared back and launched at the demon, they stabbed it right through the chest and Evan summoned a Black Hole that consumed only the demon KABOOM.
Apollo and Cias fell to the ground in exhaustion as Evan walked over to the artifact that was making sure that this dimension was stable. He forced his hand through the immense energy and tore it out. The space itself started to quake as Evan teleported all of them back to the base.
Evan smiled ,"Good work guys."