Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 153 - Sloth
Apollo's eyes widened (He's attacking through time…)
The aura that the demon in front of him emanated emitted a slow but intense power, Apollo barely knew how to describe it. Behind him he noticed a blade made of Quison barreling towards him and he dodged to the side but not before getting slashed at through his stomach, shoulder and leg. Blood didn't flow out of his wounds however, because Apollo controlled his body to be able to function after being cut with Telikinesis.
Apollo had his own ideas about what kind of demon this could be but he had to confirm through gritted teeth ,"What is your name?"
The demon said ,"Not that it matters, but I am Sloth."
Sloth's wings came together as he pushed off of the space and time around him to move towards Apollo. He stabbed at Apollo's head but Apollo dodged to the right. Sloth then stabbed again, forcing Apollo to move back to the same spot STAB. His eye was directly stabbed by the attack that was just there.
Apollo's brain started churning in order to find a way to counter this ability, but his head was splitting with pain, damage from demons wasn't so easily dealt with. He could sense the attack coming a very very small fraction of a moment before it happened and he knew where the man could attack by glancing at his body beforehand. The demon and Apollo then exchanged blow after blow as Apollo began to understand his attack style. Another thing he noticed was that it didn't matter when the man attacked, he could always go back and deal the same attack regardless of how much time passed in that spot.
Apollo and Sloth shot through space, Apollo roaming around areas that they hadn't fought and using Memory Amplification in order to remember exactly where Sloth had attacked beforehand. Then, the demon started to ooze an even more sinister aura as he slowed down and disengaged from the battle. Apollo wouldn't let this happen, however, as he went on the counterattack. He could get a hit in as the demon was flying through the attack regions that he had previously fought in.
Sloth's body started to overlap with itself, and then, it split into different versions of himself.
Sloth spoke ,"Let's see how my Time Variants do."
These different versions of Sloth flew around Apollo and started attacking with a vengeance, he was instantly overwhelmed. Being attacked from so many angles and not being allowed to fight in previous regions of the battlefield was a lot to think about and fight at the same time. Apollo's eyes darted around the battlefield as swords started spurting out of his body, he was adapting to the Time Slicing.
He felt his soul resonating with the battlefield as the space and time started to speak to him, he could sense the attacks clearly and understood exactly how to counter at least one of the attacks. He absorbed the energy that transcended time with Akarui and at that moment his sword started to glow and shining upon the battlefield.
Akarui had gained a third point on the handle as Apollo gained knowledge of what this ability was. It could attack two possibilities of movement. Apollo warped the space and time in front of him as he shot through Sloth. His form seemingly separated into two people as he slashed with four swords. Sloth's body separated and blocked the incoming blows and then he felt an attack from before it happened. Apollo body protruded many blades and extended thousands of meters in every direction, turning Sloth into a shish kebab. At least that's what he thought. Sloth was completely fine even with all of the blades seemingly protruding from him.
Sloth spoke ,"You think that only I can only send MY attacks through time?"
Apollo realized that the man in front of him was deepening his connection further and further into time, Apollo knew he needed to kill the demon in front of him fast before he got too powerful. Apollo backed away dashed in circles and summoned many clones around Sloth, they all held their own Akaruis, but this time, they weren't held back by time. Unfortunately, Apollo knew that he could only use this mysterious parallel slash attack only on one version of himself, at least for now. They all stepped on the hardened space behind them and pushed off, surrounding the demon, Lightbringer - Clone Onslaught.
Sloth smiled and sent all of the attacks to different areas of time SLASH. Sloth looked down and saw a sword pierce him.
Sloth smirked and looked at the current Apollo that had attacked through time ,"It seems that you can walk through time as well."
Apollo had spread his parallel self forwards in time in order to attack the man in front of himself, masked by his own movements. Apollo made all of his clones disappear, slashed and stabbed at the man, clashing his blade with Sloth's through time, they both started exchanging damage with each other. Time and space were shattering around them, streaking through the sky in transcendent glory. Apollo's green aura was deeper as his eyes and hair turned closer to the color of his aura, his soul was living in the moment as it shouted in glee. Apollo was loving every second of this battle, stretching his existence to his absolute limit against a powerful foe always made him feel alive.
Apollo sent a slash forwards in time at the same time he extended his existence towards the past, he imbued both of his blades with Water Waves, Lightbringer - Tsunami. He was cutting off the battlefield in real time. Sloth looked around himself as he started expending all of his energy to fight against Apollo but he was getting overwhelmed. Apollo stood in the sky and smirked as he activated Art: Time Slash and cut the demon into little pieces, Lightbringer - Time Supernova. The consciousness of the demon stayed but the soul was shattered to such an extent that he couldn't do anything, even reverting his body to a previous spot in time would do nothing because Apollo figured out the limits of the demon's ability. The last thing the Demon saw before he fully dissipated was a flat brimmed hat covering the eyes of someone that wasn't even 3 decades old.
… Sloth stood up for the first time in ages from his bed in the middle of a large castle, wrapped in comfortable oversized black robes, his skin was gray and his eyes were a shade of red. He felt the disconnection of one of his avatars that existed in dimension, a black chain wrapped around him, a man in a voided cloak looked at him from across a hellish castle, it was really dark, but he could see him clearly.
The demon felt terror as he said ,"GIVE ME ANOTHER CHA-"
The sharp edged chains killed the demon and completely ripped him from existence, staining his existence with his pitch black energy. The man in the voided cloak looked over with a slight on his face as he disappeared again, as if he was never there in the first place.