STRONGEST HERO REINCARNATED AS A PRINCESS?

[Chp 14] Assassin's Oath

Arius just stood, continued to talk as Leonardo's blade reached closer to his neck. Leonardo was troubled. He had slowed down. He was moving as slow as a snail ......

Arius:- No. You are moving fast, as fast as you should. Only your mind is moving faster..... This my original spell.
Yet to be named.....

Leonardo realised, he was not the only one moving slowly.

Leonardo:- I ....... Seeeee.

Slowly getting used to accelerated time, he spoke. Arius shocked by his quick adaptation to the distorted flow of time, said,..

Arius:- A mind, so calm and composed that it sends shivers down ones body. A true assassin's characteristic.

Leonardo realised that only the mind is accelerated. In other words, both of them can't move. However...... 'mana' an natural force, which is controlled and moved by the mind will also move faster in this method.

Leonardo shifted his attention to the scythe. He could feel the immense mana, concentrated at the blade.

Arius:- You realised the situation already? Scary...

Leonardo:- Dome?

Arius was taken by surprise yet again. His original spell, which he spent decades on creating, was deciphered completely by Leonardo in a matter of milliseconds.

His spell creates a dome around his surroundings for a 3km radius. Accelerating the minds of all intellectual entities by 100. In the ordinary course of action, the enemy's mind should be overloaded.

Arius:- Normally my opponents start coughing blood by now..... I see this trick won't work on you. You are numb to the flow of time just like me.

Arius released his magic. Leonardo redirected his attack towards the scythe desperately trying to reduce the damage.

Arius:- You are focusing too much on my weapon.

Leonardo successful managed to defend the swing from the scythe but the mana was redirected to Arius's hand, creating a mana blade.

Leonardo:- Cough Cough..... You could control the size of the dome?

Arius:- Of course. Why can't I?

There it was, blade shaped mana flowing out of Arius's left hand. It had red blood dripping down from the tip.

Arius:- You are a shadow element user? No wonder my curses are not working at all, what a waste of mana! Ok no more curses from now.

Arius stopped the mana flowing out, and stared at Leonardo who now had a wound on his right side.

Leonardo:- Useless.

Ignoring the wound on his body, Leonardo moved.

Silently and swiftly, he ran forwards. His blade moved downwards, again, aiming for his enemy's neck.

Arius used his scythe and fended of the blade, using the lower half of his weapon, he hit Leonardo on the open wound.

Leonardo coughed blood but was mostly unaffected by the blow. He increased his speed and used a combination of slash, stab, cut and defending, and continued his attack on Arius.

Arius also used his scythe to defend against his enemy's onslaught of attacks and prepared his spells at the same time. He spun the scythe continuously, creating a sheild of sorts which was able to redirect all the sword attacks and also threw Leonardo of balance.

Leonardo quickly balanced himself everytime not allowing his opponent to have the advantage.

Leonardo:- Persistent.