UGB Chapter 129: PLANE
Chapter 129: PLANE
Levi stared at Patrick with a cold gaze.
He unsheathed his sword with the calm of a seasoned warrior who was fighting just another enemy, one that was at most comparable to the thousands he had slain before.
The sword released a chime that rang through the air as it exited its sheath.
Then Levi pulled it out fully, a sleek black sword that screamed danger.
Patrick smiled as he looked at Levi.
"The rumors are true, you don’t even negotiate with your enemies," he said. "Was that why you brought me to a desolate star area?"
As he said those words, he looked at the dead planets that drifted through space.
Levi did not reply. Rather, he scrutinized Patrick, every bit of him.
"I don’t like those eyes," Patrick said, his voice dropping to a dangerously low level.
"You can gouge them out," Levi scoffed.
"I might have to do that."
As he said those words, metal boots formed around his legs and heels.
Like it was a declaration to proceed with the fight, both sides lunged, the distance between them erased like it had never mattered in the first place.
Levi’s sword arced downward, towards Patrick’s shoulder.
The space along the blade’s path was sliced cleanly like fabric as the blade descended.
Patrick did not block.
His sight had followed the attack from the start, his body could have reacted to it before it even completed its arc.
But he dared not.
His body tilted to the side, letting the sword pass through.
Levi did not wait; he transitioned from a vertical cleave to a horizontal one flawlessly.
Patrick had moved before the attack could complete.
He ducked beneath it, letting the blade slice through the space above him.
Levi, as if in anticipation of the maneuver, had transitioned to another vertical cleave.
A crack formed beneath Patrick at that moment, and his body fell into it.
Levi’s sword struck empty space, cutting through it like it were paper.
His eyes remained sharp as he looked around.
"Plane deployment," he muttered.
"Since you are in such a hurry, let’s try to end this fight as soon as possible," Patrick’s voice echoed through the space.
At that moment, another crack formed above Levi, larger than the previous one.
Levi furrowed his brows, his gaze piercing into whatever was there.
He did not need to look for long.
A pillar of lightning shot through the crack.
The pillar was larger than a planet at a glance.
Space groaned and warped, imploding under the weight of its power.
Levi’s frame pulsed as lightning spiralled along his frame, covering a radius of one light year in an instant.
He lunged towards the pillar, sword gleaming in his hand as he swung upward.
The pillar was split into two clean halves as the sword passed through it.
The crack closed in an instant, and another formed beneath.
"Stop hiding and let’s end this once and for all," Levi yelled as he looked at the new crack.
He swung his sword at it before it could fully form.
A sharp burst of plasma tore through space, slicing through the crack with relative ease.
"Now you want me to fight you, why should I do that? To lose?" Patrick asked, a maniacal laughter echoing through the space.
Levi shook his head.
Another crack formed to his left.
Levi did not look at it. His sword swung sideways without turning his head, the blade severing the crack before it could open fully.
It sealed shut like it had never existed.
Patrick went quiet for a moment.
Then three cracks formed simultaneously, above, below, and directly behind Levi.
Levi exhaled once.
Time slowed.
Not for him. For everything else.
The cracks hung suspended, half-formed, the energy building inside them frozen mid-accumulation.
Levi moved through the slowed space, his sword passing through each crack in three clean strokes.
All three sealed, the energy disrupted before time snapped back into place.
Patrick’s laughter grew louder than before.
"It is this law of yours that made you one of the most feared swordsmen in the empire," he said.
"I don’t have time for all these talks, let’s get this over with," Levi replied.
Silence followed.
A crack formed directly beneath Levi’s feet, wider than the others, the edges pulling apart fast.
Levi looked down at it.
He drove his sword into the center of it.
His law moved through the blade and into the crack, severing it at its root rather than its surface.
The crack did not just close. It collapsed, the energy Patrick had fed into it scattering outward in a burst of raw lightning that lit the dead space around them.
Silence followed.
Patrick stepped out. "You had to force me out," he said with a grin.
Light flared along the soles of his left shoe, and shadow along the soles of his right shoe.
Both elements danced together, coiling and intertwining till they reached a neutral state of grey.
Boom.
Space tore apart.
A crack that showed only pitch darkness opened through the hole.
But it closed in an instant.
Not like there was anyone to witness it anyway.
Levi and Patrick had flashed past that place from the first time they attacked, less than a millisecond ago.
Flickers appeared in the space, creating large explosions that destroyed planet after planet in their wake.
Even though the planets were bigger than them, their attacks made the planets look like ants crawling under two elephants in a brawl.
Patrick’s leg tore forward, a grey streak forming in the air as it reached for Levi’s head.
Levi’s body dropped into a crack that appeared beneath him.
The kick met empty space.
Levi stepped out of another crack that formed behind Patrick.
He thrust his sword towards Patrick’s chest from behind.
Clang.
A loud chime rang through space, sending a ring of energy that tore through everything within its path, debris and planets alike.
Patrick brought his leg down, then backflipped, avoiding another slash.
Patrick drove in almost immediately, his leg a burst of energy as it rocketed towards Levi’s chest.
Levi raised his sword, catching the leg with the flat of its blade.
"Enough gimmicks, weren’t you the one who said you were in a hurry?" Patrick asked, twisting mid-air as he brought his other leg into Levi’s head.
Levi caught the leg with his free arm.
"Very well."