A knife was hardly the most ideal weapon to use in a duel between phase lords, but it was all the Dark Apostle had at his disposal.
At least that was originally supposed to be the case.
"I added a last-minute surprise to the raiment. It is time to use it. Give me control over your true body for a moment. I need to do a bit of field engineering and I don't trust your clumsy hands."
The Dark Apostle did not question Ves' request and straightforwardly gave the original owner access to the true body.
The human phase lord efficiently went to work. He immediately transmitted a special command that detached the reactor backpack module from his raiment.
The reactor was fairly compact and had already expended much of its power to feed the hungry Teragon Plasma Spear.
Now that the weapon no longer existed, there was not much point to keeping the reactor.
Ves began to use his armored limbs to push and pull at different grooves and other seemingly innocent parts of the backpack module.
Soon enough, the casing started to part from the construct. Ves folded up the pieces of casing and linked the amalgamations together. He then retrieved a wrench and other basic tools scaled to his current physique from the sides and the internal cavity of the reactor module.
He used these tools to cobble together… a staff.
By the time Ves was almost done with his bizarre crafting session, he produced a complete metal staff with a round shaft and decent balance!
It was not nearly as good as the shaft of a proper spear, but it was still impressive that Ves had managed to anticipate this kind of situation and made preparations in advance.
Ves proceeded to place the handle of the Murder Knife into an open slot that just happened to match the exact dimensions of the weapon!
A few actions later, the knife solidly became affixed to the shaft.
Ves had managed to produce a glaive!
Though it literally consisted of a knife at the end of a pole, it had a lot in common with spears, so much so when Ves withdrew his control, the Dark Apostle immediately felt at home while wielding the improvised polearm!
He spun the shaft of his new polearm before pointing its dark blade directly at the Unshakeable King.
"Your reign ends here. I enjoyed this fight. For all of your ideas, you fought with honor and tenacity. I will respect and remember you for the rest of my long existence as the first Ascended Giant who perished at my hands."
The Dark Apostle wasted no more time and went on the attack!
He encountered much less spatial interference than before as the Unshakeable King was no longer in a good physical and mental state.
Despite his erratic tics and his absence of control, his fighting skills and instincts were still mostly intact!
In fact, his partial demonic possession caused the strategos to fight with greater brutality and a complete disregard of how much abuse he was putting his body through!
His pain stoked his rage, and his rage propelled him to strike at the Dark Apostle with his fists and legs!
The difference in mobility was much less than before. The Unshakeable King may have suffered serious injuries, but the removal of his thick raiment made him a lot faster than before.
He was even able to outmaneuver his opponent at times!
A large amount of blackened fists and feet struck the Dark Apostle's raiment.
This was despite the latter's effort to preserve his armor and avoid as many attacks as possible!
The Unshakeable King was so fast, while the Dark Apostle's own raiment slowed him down.
The flurry of attacks weren't negligible either. The Unshakeable King already displayed an abundance of physical strength when he was wielding his Impact Hammers.
Even without his familiar weapons, his unarmed combat skills and raw physicality were still enough to pose a serious threat against the Dark Apostle!