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Several attacks bombarded Shade from every imaginable angle. The assassin had never faced a foe capable of covering so many spots at once. Even the strongest opponent he had fought alone, the Demon King, whom he had dueled in that desperate battle to buy time for others to heal, could not cover every angle imaginable. Instead, the Demon King's fighting style, akin to his wife's, struck so powerfully that the shockwaves of his blows negated most smaller attacks at once.
However, Shade's technique was far from finished. His thousands of stabs continued, faster, stronger, and mightier this time. His Aura erupted with power as he unleashed its potential after years of secret cultivation.
What emerged from his aura, his Aura Guardian, was a monstrous entity, a fusion of his spirits' spiritual power and his affinities for darkness, shadow, phantom, and death, combined with the runes within his physique and magic circle.
