"Activate Nano-Reaper..." Ryuk whispered, and in the instant, the gigantic scythe appeared in his grasp.
Instantly, he shot forward toward the flaming swords, his scythe slashing out with speed.
The entire arena immediately became a world of explosions as Ryuk figured his way through the world of swords, his scythe revolving around him with devastating speed and ripping the entire swords into two clean halves.
"So this is the fine blade, huh?" Ignatius roared in excitement as Ryuk sliced through the last sword.
In the next instant, he twirled twice in the air, and the scythe instantly soared forward with speed, thrown by Ryuk toward Ignatius, who instantly sidestepped, the scythe passing mere inches from his face.
The instant Ignatius turned back, a kick slammed into his chest, causing him to take five steps backward. In the next instant, Ryuk’s scythe revolved in a circle in the air, landed back into his hand, and instantly he cleaved downward toward Ignatius’s retreating figure.
Immediately, a heavy explosion resounded as Ignatius’s burning arm furiously punched toward the scythe.
The power behind it was enough to send Ryuk’s arm jerking backward as he took three steps backward.
Yet he once more faded away in the next second as Ignatius raised his head to the airspace above him, watching as the scythe cleaved down once more.
Another thunderous explosion resounded as swords of flames instantly appeared in the path of the scythe, acting as shields that roughly smashed together with the scythe, but they were blown apart into nothing.
In the next instant, it became an all-out war, as Ryuk’s image split into hundreds, his scythe image increasing by hundreds of times, slashing around with horrific speed toward Ignatius, who rapidly retreated under the barrage, opting to use his swords to block the slashes.
But quickly, Ignatius’s brows furrowed before his eyes unconsciously flashed a worried light for the first time.
’The scythe… there is something wrong about it…’ Ignatius mused in his head.
He could see that the scythe was somehow speeding up in its ability to slice up his swords, but he could also sense Ryuk wasn’t increasing his power.
"It is like… it is like the scythe’s strength was growing with every passing second..." Ignatius thought in shock laced with confusion, as dozens of swords were instantly sent flying toward Ryuk once more.
But with a slash, he cut through them all before using the momentum to rise up and slash forward straight into Ignatius, his speed momentarily increasing.
Immediately, Ignatius punched outward once more, but then...
What followed was the sound of the scythe passing through Ignatius’s wrist like a knife through butter as Ryuk coldly changed the scythe’s path, cleaving through Ignatius’s wrist.
Immediately, Ignatius’s hand soared toward Ryuk’s face as he slapped it away with the back of his hand, sending his scythe flashing forward once more.
"What’s happening?" Ignatius wondered as he felt pain shoot up to his head.
He saw Ryuk slap away a severed hand, but he was barely given time to react as another scythe was already flashing toward his face.
The scythe cleaved through his second arm, severing it straight down to his elbows.
Ryuk twisted the scythe, cutting even deeper until he tore the scythe out of Ignatius’s shoulder, slashing by the side of his head as Ignatius hurriedly placed his head smoothly over his shoulder dodging the lash by mere inches.
Half of his entire arm was sent flying away into the air.
A heavy explosion resounded as Ryuk’s legs slammed straight into Ignatius’s chest, sending him flying into the ground as he bounced a couple of times before coming to a stop.
His back slammed into the barrier, and blood poured out from the side of his lips.
Immediately, silence filled the entire colosseum as they watched Ryuk calmly step forward with his huge scythe dragging down beneath him and the defeated, sorry figure of Ignatius whose back pressed against the barrier.
Slowly, Ignatius looked at his own arms in ultimate fear and watching as red blood shot out of the wounds.
He slowly raised his head in shock, but all he felt was Ryuk magnifying the scythe, which cleaved straight toward his face, seemingly wanting to divide his head into two smooth halves.
"Cataclysm Embers…" Ignatius called out at the last second, his body suddenly bursting out with ghostly white flames and like an ocean wave sneaking with speed toward Ryuk and then exploding outward.
KAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
The explosion was unlike any other, as Ryuk was instantly sent flying away from where he stood, slamming into the ground and reducing his speed by slamming his scythe into the ground.
His legs dug deep into the arena as massive flames burst out from the friction of his feet, before he finally managed to pause.
’Another skill?’ Ryuk wondered.
’His sword skill is the first, and this should be the second.’
’He should only be able to use two skills since he’s still only at the Plane of Ascension.’
’This skill was powerful, but it can’t defat my Nanobody. So this is all Ignatuis Blade really is capable off..."
"If so, I can defeat him...’ He thought as he ignored the various burns on his face, looking at Ignatius, who was now back on his feet and stepping forward toward him.
’Something is different…’ Ryuk mused with narrowed eyes as he watched Ignatius slowly exit the explosion.
Right now, he was no longer burning with flames from every part of his body, and all of the runes on his body were concentrated onto his arms which had already regenerated
Slowly, he raised them into the air as the arena fell into a deafening silence.
White flames grew on Ignatius’s arms, flickering unnaturally, but then they began fading into an unnatural dark blur at the edges.
The air itself seemed to recoil in terror, vibrating with a sinister hum as Ryuk felt his heartbeat crazily increasing.
It was his body sensing the danger and reacting to it.
Ignatius’s golden eyes turned away from his raised hand to Ryuk, who couldn’t help but notice his golden eyes burning brighter—just like that of Morgaine when she activated her domain.
"Witness the realm of absolute annihilation, human…" Ignatius declared, his voice echoing with an unnatural resonance.