Lord Shadow - Chapter 1969: Old Rivalry

Chapter 1969: Old Rivalry

The small forces could curry favor with Death Monarch and there is no downside of having great relations with Pandemonium even if they are not under the rule of the Seven Great Powers.

Most islands continents near Arturia are independent power.

Small forces.

Of course, these small forces are small forces compared to the Great Powers. But by no means are they truly small.

That small part is their influence and their power to affect global changes.

It did not mean they are truly powerless.

And most of these small powers did not want to get involved in something big.

That is the response of the small powers around Arturia.

They did not know what to think and they sent their delegations to probe and to clear the air.

As for the Great Powers, Hirate had made contact, but he did not say anything about the civil war that is happening in Pandemonium, nor did he spread the word to the allied nations and vassal kings under the World Government

Instead, he lay low.

Hirate must have his own problem.

Oreki and Hikigaya also did not do anything other than meeting Death Monarch.

The one meeting Death Monarch is Hikigaya and Oreki clone. Both of their real bodies is still in Japan in seclusion.

Only after they come out of their seclusion all of the experience of the avatars would be imparted back to them

The world is standing still

..

“Huh, huh”

She could not believe it.

She looks at the person in front of her.

Loose long white hair.

She is wielding a staff.

And that staff governs the water around her. The water itself is big, almost like she had summoned the sea with her.

As for her, there is snow falling from the sky, seemingly protecting her. There is a gust of wind around her moving these snowflakes to circle around her like a rotating shield.

White snowflakes that seem to carry the coldness of the coldest winter each time they drop.

And each time the snow falls into the water, it changes the water into ice

But when that woman waves her staff, the snow around turns into water. The staff could turn into a sword, a spear, a thousand permutations, a thousand changes

And around her, is the vast expanse of white. A sword in front of her piercing the ground, acting like a wall

A wall against what?

A wall against a tide of water. A ten-foot tsunami

Held back by the force of one sword.

And that water that is like a ten-foot wave is now slowly turning into ice

The waves of water turn into a mountain of ice.

This woman that is facing the women with the staff, she is the wielder of that sword.

The fact that she could do such a thing with only one sword is enough to highlight her power

This kind of power of nature seems catastrophic.

But with one sword, she managed to stop it

But such an act surely does not come without a price.

There is a wound on her arms and on her ankles.

Golden blood dripping out and brings out the coldness of winter in this tropical forest. There is nothing tropical about it any longer

This place is a tropical forest, having a lot of sun. But now, these two people fighting each other not only changes the weather, it changes this entire island continent.

It has become flooded

It is like a great flood washing away all of the trees and the mountains. On another it is filled with water and on the other side is a land of ice.

Encasing everything in ice.

This is the rumored battle between Rosulka and Katarina. These two have been fighting for a long time.

Katarina had many chances of killing Rosulka but she never kills her.

Which has always confounded people. It is not like Katarina is someone who could not kill. Instead, when she kills, she is very decisive.

It is one of the reasons she fits as swordsman. That decisive will.

But for some reason she never wanted to kill Rosulka. Even if she hinders her many times and everyone knows Rosulka wanted to kill her, Katarina did not seem vengeful or even angry.

No one knows the story of this matter, and no one dares ask her.

Even Azief did not know much about this rivalry between these two other than the few things that Katarina let slip.

The woman who is coughing up blood right now is Katarina. And the one with the staff is none other than Rosulka

This is another one of their battles

She looks at Rosulka with a complicated expression.

She still remembers this woman as that girl with that bob haircut and just only four feet high. A scar on her left cheek is still there. Even when she has reached this level, that scar is still there

A reminder maybe. So that she would not forget. Cold eyes like winter that rarely shows any light

But it did show light before. Katarina understood her somehow. This is a woman that is even more tragic than her. Rosulka, the Girl Who Wanted to See the World Burns

That is the assessment of many people. And Rosulka actions is really like that. She wanted this world to burn.

And she understood her.

After what she had experienced, every light in her life is snuffed out. She understands her, sympathizes with her and connects with her

But she could not allow her to do that. Simply because she knows just because your light has been snuffed out, it does not mean other people’s light has been snuffed out.

Katarina has her brother, but this girl had no one.

Katarina did not know what it was that attracted her to this girl. But she wanted to save her. It is like saving herself.

And so, even though she kills all of her enemies, Rosulka always is spared.

The battle between them has been going on for three days.

They were fighting through mirror dimensions and even through other parallel dimensions and then returning back to Earth

Three or four days have passed. At least that is what she estimated. Does this make her regret sparing her?

No. She just feels even more pity.

“Where is Yuri?”

Rosulka face changes for a moment before she reverts back to her usual appearance.

“he’s not here?”

Katarina closed her eyes for a moment and then she got up.

She takes a deep breath, and all the coldness of the world seems to be absorbed into that one breath and all of the wounds on her body seem to heal quickly like it was never even there in the beginning

She held out her hand

Swoosh!

The sword that was pierced on the ground flew to her hand.

ROAR!

The moment that sword reached her hand, it felt something was roaring.

The will of the sword lives in the sword and when it meets its owner, it roars in happiness. The space around the sword seems to distort and the grass where the tip is pointed is cut

Powerful aura suddenly surged and Katarina smiled

“Be patient”

There is a mountain of ice in front of her.

The distance between her and Rosulka is ten kilometers away.

But she sees her like she is only a few feet from her and when she talks, her voice reaches directly to Rosulka ears just like Rosulka words reaches her ears directly.

Rosulka eyes narrow

“You..” before Rosulka could even speak, Katarina swept the sword. And in that moment, it was like the whole world was eclipsed.

There is only a bright light, and before Rosulka could even act, when the light faded, there is a sword just a few inches from her throat.

In that moment, it was like time itself stops.

She did not know how Katarina managed to do this.

All she knows is that it was done.

Still, even as the sword is on her throat, there is no fear in her eyes

Instead, she wanted to move her staff.

She wanted to turn the staff into a sword and stabs her.

But as she tried to move her hand, she found something terrifying.

She could not feel her hand.

She looked down and saw that both of her hands had something wrong with it

“it is cut off” that is her premonition. She notices it the moment she sees her hand. There is something like a line just below her elbow.

A straight thin line that is not there before

But the hand is still there.

But the moment she makes even the slightest move; the hand slowly slides down from her elbow.

It was like it is happening in slow motion. Rosulka watches as her part of the hand below the elbows slowly fall off to the ground and only the sound of the hand hitting the ground brought her back to her senses

The cut was so smooth that even she could not notice it. But now that she had tried to move, she sees her own hand slide down from her elbow.

Katarina did not explain why she did not use this sword method from the beginning. Rosulka is accustomed to this. Katarina looked at Rosulka and then said

“You have improved. You could even delay me this long. But….it is still not enough”

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