Reborn as a Snake! (2.) [COMPLETED]

(102). - A Hollow Soul.

        Our weapons clanged together as we begun our fight. Flin had clearly gotten much stronger and faster since the last time we clashed, as his strikes felt a lot more impactful and were coming towards me and much swifter speeds compared to the last time we faced off.

Last time, I managed to overpower him thanks to my new evolution and Flin beginning to make mistakes out of desperation, however, I could feel confidence and even a slight overconfidence flowing from him this time around. Flin was sure that he had no way of losing.

Guess I have to give him a slight reality check.

We began to leap and move through the inside of the building, striking eachother with our weapons, but not managing to actually get any of our attacks to connect to eachothers body. We both were too fast for the other one to get the jump on.

Slashing at Flin, I caused a giant burst of air, which shot towards the nearby wall and sliced through it, creating a large opening in the buildings wall as well as causing magical energy within the walls to start pouring out in the shape of a mist. I knew that it was a space manipulation spell that had been used to construct this building.

The Void Lord leapt back, before swinging and spinning his swords around a bit, kneeling down as a pitch black aura engulfed him and then his blades. Afterwards, Flin leapt at me with insane speed, the black aura extending off of his swords and onto his body — creating a sort of black fire that surrounded him.

I shed a sweat before blocking the initial strike from him in that moment. Afterwards, it was a standoff of speed — as Flin thrusted his swords towards me at insane speeds. So fast, that even with 'Limitless Acceleration' I was just barely managing to keep up.

'Jesus Christ—!'

I thought, before shedding a sweat and in the small opening I got, immediately created distance between me and the Void Lord, by crashing my scythe down into the ground with high acceleration, which knocked Flin back quite a bit, as he hit the ground and rolled back, before regaining his balance and brushing off his face.

He smirked underneath his mask, before getting up and tossing his swords up into the air.

<Flin>;
"Not bad, not bad.. Glad to see that you've gotten stronger since our last meeting as well."

I sharpened my gaze, slightly scuffing at his 'compliment' towards me.

"Empty words won't help you beat me."

Flin cackled maniacally.

<Flin>;
"Oh I know that much — I was simply killing some time."

Flin stated, confusing me slightly. What was that supposed to mean? 'Killing some time'? Why would he do that in the middle of a...
Oh.

Oh no.

Flin laughed psychotically, before pushing up his sleeves, revealing his scarred arms, which were also covered in pitch black patterns, which looked a lot like tattoos of stiches.

After this, the eyes on Flins mask lit up with a deep red colour, before crimson red flames shot from them, engulfing his entire mask. Afterwards, the flamed spread to his hands in the form of two strips, before engulfing his hands. As his swords came back down, Flin caught them, before spinning them and smashing their handles together and extending the handles into a long pole, before spinning the newly created weapon.

A Double Sided blade.
The blades of the weapon were then engulfed in the same crimson red flame as a single white and black pupil lit up inside his masks left eye.

<Flin>;
"This — is a new trick I managed to pick up since our last meeting. I like to call it... 'Devils Prowler'."

Flin announced, spinning his double sided blade around before placing one of his feet back and then dashing at me with incredible speed, to which I just barely managed to react, blocking his strike with my Scythe.