Path of Absolute Transcendence

The freezing temperature successfully affected Sebastian, as Kai planned.

Sebastian's speed slowed down, and even his thinking became slower due to the temperature invading his body from his amputated hand.

Kai arrived before him and stabbed him with his sword. He applied every basic principle of swords to that stab.

Sebastian blocked promptly, he stumbled and fell backward. Kai didn't give him any chance; he used every single basic move to perfection while also adding principles of other moves to it.

Kai hadn't fought with the sword like this for a long time. He never got a chance to perform his basic techniques since most of his opponents were too strong or too weak.

Kai slowly gained an advantage in the clash, and Sebastian became more passive. Due to not having an arm and the interference of an icy environment, Sebastian wasn't able to show his skills perfectly.

Kai suddenly did a feint and kicked Sebastian's stomach; after that, he continued with another stab.

Sebastian wasn't able to dodge it perfectly, and the sword directly plunged into his thighs.

With this move, Kai gained total dominance in this battle. Sebastian's healing on his hand stopped, and other injuries appeared on him.

Sebastian now looks more like a beggar than the king of an entire tribe. His clothes were torn and his hair was ragged; coupled with his blood, it was accurate to call him a beggar.

'Now I should finish the battle before something unexpected happens.' Kai thought since he suddenly had a bad feeling.

*CRACK*

A cracking sound could be heard clearly. Soon the earth began to shake; it seemed like a big earthquake was about to happen.

'How did he do that?' Kai cursed, as he knew it wasn't an earthquake.

Sebastian just broke the seal on his bloodline.

"You seem surprised by the situation? Did you want to know how I broke that seal?" Sebastian asked calmly, and his injuries began to heal rapidly, visible to the naked eye.

But it didn't heal in a proper way, as Sebastian healed every injury using an unorthodox method.

The sand on the ground merged with the injured areas of his body. Soon, it turned into a new body part without any flaws.

'What a pain! How am I going to kill this now in this situation?'

Sebastian used his bloodline ability to reform his hand and heal him. Kai knew he wouldn't be able to kill Sebastian if he didn't find a way to seal his bloodline ability immediately.

Kai backed away from Sebastian and began to think of a solution. But Sebastian didn't allow that; he made his move.

A small fire appeared between them; it looked like candlelight in a blizzard, but it didn't stop burning.

It slowly began to spread and soon covered their entire battle. It formed some sort of semi- and half-finished domain.

It eliminated Kai's cold field, and now the battlefield has become a home ground for Sebastian.

'Is it some sort of bloodline ability? But how much ability does he have, and why didn't I have something like this?' Kai looked at the half-finished domain with envy, and he didn't seem to be concerned.

His darkness dragon bloodline or darkness bloodline must be superior to Sebastian's sand spirit bloodline in every way.

But Kai only has one ability, and Sebastian already showed him two abilities, so Kai can conclude that Sebastian has some kind of hidden trump card.

'Don't tell, is it because of my luck that I only have a single bloodline ability?' Kai pretty much concluded after thinking about it.

Luck is a factor that determines the outcome of ability, and because of that, Kai only got a single one, but his [Darkness Absorption] ability isn't supposed to appear on a mystic-grade bloodline.

It is the ability of a pure-blooded true dragon with an ancient-grade bloodline, and it will only appear in a selected few. It's just that he didn't fully understand and develop his abilities.

The reason he got it was because of [Self Sovereign] ability, which purified the dragon bloodline to an almost impossible level at the time of acquiring the ability.

Kai thought everything through using his parallel thinking ability, so he didn't waste any time on it. He coated himself with the surrounding fire element to avoid that weird candle flame, and he attacked Sebastian.

But suddenly he felt something weird with the fire element, so he inspected it using his Will Power.

"Ha Ha Ha! Do you think you could escape from his candle field? Every single fire element in this place must obey my order." Sebastian said while he casually dodged the attack.

Kai immediately dispersed the fire around him and coated himself with water, but that didn't work as it soon evaporated.

Without any choice, Kai coated himself with the darkness element.

Sebastian smirked after he saw Kai coating himself with the darkness element. He knew that Kai's darkness element was the most dangerous one, and it was even capable of giving him an attack beyond his level.

He never thought such an ability could exist, but after the battle with Kai, he found and guessed most of its properties and workings.

'Old man, I won't let you off easily for doing this.' Kai cursed after seeing Sebastian's smile. He knew his plan to do a final single attack was a failure before he could even execute it.

Kai didn't hold back anymore and directly buffed himself with Will Manifestation. He charged toward Sebastian without hesitation.

Sebastian threw a candle fireball toward him, but Kai reflected it using his Will Shield without any problem.

Kai continued his charge, and Sebastian attacked him with a variety of attacks, but Kai deflected everything without fail using his Will Shield technique.

Sebastian directly cut the space between him and Kai, but Kai already anticipated this move from him and dodged before the attack could even finish.

As soon as he appeared near him, Kai used [Absolute].

Sebastian tried dodging it, but Kai used the [Will Might] technique additionally. The power wasn't enough to overwhelm Sebastian, but it was enough to catch him off guard.

The sword aura directly ripped him into pieces, and he died dramatically without any struggle.