The Muscular Swordsman's attack missed!
Yet just as the First Sword attempted to circle around her adversary and attack the Muscular Swordsman from the side, the latter's strike produced another surprise!
After missing its intended target, the rock-covered sword struck the fabric of space, generating a spacequake of sorts that rippled out in every direction!
The First Sword would have incurred significant internal damage if she had remained in her weak state, but her damaged but still functional Unending alloy armor system successfully resisted the quake effect with the help of lots of metal reinforcement!
"UNBREAKABLE BODY!"
Saint Dise practically felt invincible inside the cockpit of her trusty battle partner! The First Sword's armor system had always been a little thinner and easier to break in order to preserve her mobility, but now it was able to withstand attacks and effects that previously would have gotten her in trouble. This was just the start. Saint Dise was confident that as long as she mastered this new ability and raised her resonance strength, she could elevate the defenses of her First Sword much further
beyond the upper limits of a 'mere' second-class expert mech!
In the end, the surprisingly tricky spacequake only caused minor difficulties to the First Sword.
Though the expert swordsman mech ended up stumbling and missing the best timing to launch at counterattack, Saint Dise still pushed through and forced her machine to strike with her newly sharpened and strengthened Decapitator!
The sharp and eager masterwork mech sword swung across space and ended up slicing through much of the rock armor like an axe cutting through wood!
Even though the strike failed to penetrate all the way through, Saint Dise was still happy with this
result!
In the past, her expert mech's attacks bounced off the rock armor without inflicting any significant
damage!
The Muscular Swordsman channeled additional earth energy in order to close the gap, but it took precious time for him to complete this process.
Saint Dise strengthened her attacks. The First Sword continually circled around her much slower adversary and launched opportunistic attacks that damaged the exterior of the Son of the Earth.
The Muscular Swordsman tried to fight back as hard as possible, but his Collapsing Peak attacks had no chance of crushing the faster and much more elusive First Sword.
At most, the energy manifestation was only able to rely on the secondary effect of this offensive technique and generate spacequakes that disrupted the First Sword's stance and depleted her energy a little faster.
The Unbreakable Body ability was not for show.
While the defenses of both fighters had proven to be fallible, neither side displayed any remarkable offensive capabilities that allowed them to break past the defenses of their enemies and inflict a crippling or killing blow.
If the duel continued to unfold in this pattern, then it would turn into a contest of attraction where
the combatant that ran out of energy first would lose the fight.
This was not what Saint Dise wanted!
Her forced resonance state was continuing to move closer to its closing state, so her First Sword
backed off a bit in preparation to launch the extraordinary sword technique since evolving into an
ace pilot!
Which one should she employ? Should she go for the classic and highly penetrating Sword of Lydia, or should she attempt a Decapitation Strike that allowed her to evoke a semblance of Ketis'
sharpness?
None of them seemed suitable to her anymore. They were all sword techniques conceived in a time where Dise remained blind and ignorant to the power of metal.
They all needed to be reconstructed from the ground up in order to take full advantage of her
incredibly high metal affinity.
As Dise gazed at her rock-covered opponent, a new idea spontaneously entered her mind.
She gathered her cuphoria, her love for metal and the scattered sayings of Ketis and fused them all into a brand-new extraordinary sword technique that seemed incredibly fitting for this situation! The First Sword slowly raised the Decapitator sword before lowering the blade until the tip was
pointed at her target.
The masterwork mech sword then began to absorb more metal energy than ever before! The edges not only became sharper, but the entire blade gained additional extraordinary properties
that brought out the best of what metal had to offer!
As the Decapitator seemed to turn into an ultrasharp sheet of extraordinary metal, the First Sword finally charged directly forward, intending to finish off the Muscular Swordsman in a single blow! "MY SWORD SHALL NEVER KNOW DEFEAT!"