Reaper Sparring

Nikolai picked up the two blades and imbued with fire, waiting for a move.

Shadow's thrown blades continued moving towards Nikolai.

The fire manifested itself in the form of missiles, which launched from the blades, and towards the double-edged swords.

Just like Shadow did earlier, the two thrown blades appeared to have gone straight into the fire and came out unaffected. The two blades retaliated by throwing numerous full-circle energy blades toward Nikolai as they approached his stomach.

"It's like Shadow's phasing through his attacks!" a spectator shouted.

"Don't be stupid," another said. "He isn't going to get hit so easily."

In fact, he wasn't going to get hit at all! The two "missiles" of fire can sense spiritual energy, just as Nikolai can. As soon as the others phased through, the fire rushed back towards Nikolai, who was creating another large bellow of fire to completely destroy everything that was in his path.

Shadow's swords and energy waves suddenly disappeared into thin air without any trace of spiritual energy before they collided with the fire coming off of Nikolai. Shadow himself stopped a distance away from Nikolai.

"There's a lot of energy coming off of Nikolai... Meanwhile I still can't sense Shadow's power." a spectator said.

"Okay, I need to figure out some stuff."

Shadow wasted no time vanishing and immediately reappearing above Nikolai to perform an overhead dive kick. At the same time, his two blades and their energy wave attacks reappeared at ground level to attack Nikolai from all sides.

Nikolai thought of three things: Losing, winning, and drawing. He wasn't inclined on losing, nor drawing for that matter. A man-like shadow appeared in the steel of the wings, along with that, several energy waves were coming towards him. He wasn't inclined on getting killed. The Reaper vanished from thin air and reappeared seventy feet in the air, using Shunpo to narrowly evade the attack.

Shadow immediately noticed Nikolai disappearing and reappearing overhead. As he landed, his attacked suddenly went upward as if they were homing onto Nikolai.

Nikolai then thought for a second. "So he can phase out of existence?" A wild guess. As the swords rushed towards him, he generated a massive firestorm hot enough to melt metal.

"Those firestorms are really annoying..." Shadow sighed as his swords flew back to him while his energy blades began to bombard into Nikolai's firestorm.

The fire roared as Nikolai maintained a fighting stance, ready for whatever was coming.

"Eliminate, Phantom." Shadow muttered as his energy waves begun to collide into Nikolai's firestorm. Shadow suddenly reappeared beneath the fire user and made two upward slashes with his four blades against his legs.