I dropped down into the shadows as Satan send a massive sphere of Obliteration barreling down towards me, vaporizing the entire arena and reducing it to a crater before swooping down as the sphere petered out.

I swiftly emerged back out of the shadows and sent a wide mass of slime shooting up towards him, spreading out and starting to engulf him before he fired out a blast of Obliteration to create an opening and flew out.

I then rapidly extended my whips out towards him, chasing after him as he zipped through the air to evade them, swerving and weaving across before slamming his palms together to trigger a shockwave as I fired out a rapid beam of plasma at him.

The shockwave knocked back my whips before he quickly flew across, grimacing as my beam grazed his right side, before he unleashed a barrage of Obliteration blasts down towards me.

I flew up to evade them as they peppered the crater where the arena used to be, before he shot towards me and fired out a rapid blast of Obliteration towards the middle of my body.

I quickly veered off to my left, the blast carving out a chunk of my right side, before he closed in on me and grabbed my throat as my side repaired itself.

As he began to tighten his grip, he hissed in pain as I turned my neck into acid slime, melting the skin around his hand before my whips shot in towards him from either side.

He swiftly flew back while simultaneously firing out an Obliteration beam at my face, which shot through my left ear as I quickly tilted my head across, as my whips grazed the front of his chest and drew out trickles of blood.

This is bad...I don’t have much time left with my Contracts, and my Soul Weapon Ascension won’t last a couple minutes past that. I’ve maybe got two and a half to three minutes, at most, before all my power boosts reach their time limits.

And once that happens, I won’t stand a chance of defeating him. Alright, then, it’s all or nothing from this point on!

I then unleashed a barrage of lightning bolts at him as shot towards him at full speed, rapidly extending my whips towards him as he evaded my lightning before firing off a rapid slashing wave of Negative Energy towards me.

I zipped across to evade it, the slash grazing the side of my right arm, before I unleashed a burst of flames and wind from my feet to put on a sharp burst of speed, whipping my daggers across at his chest as I closed in.

He quickly flew back, grimacing as I inflicted two diagonal slashes across each other on his chest, before he swung his claws at my face, slicing through the bridge of my nose before his eyes widened in alarm as I grabbed his right ankle with one of my whips and jerked it across sharply, pulling him off balance before I sent my other whip zipping straight towards his throat.

Suddenly, he whipped his claws across and sliced his foot off, freeing himself from the grasp of my whip before quickly twisting his body across, my second whip grazing the side of his neck before he countered with a blast of Obliteration, which struck my stomach and burst out my back.

I then quickly swooped down as he unleashed a wide, massive wave of Obliteration, narrowly evading it before I zipped up towards him again, drawing back my right fist and driving it towards him, as he simultaneously swung his left fist down towards me.

A fierce explosion followed by a shockwave erupted upon impact, as I’d charged Azazel’s Exploding Fists ability into my fist, while Satan activated his Magnify Impact ability.

The force upon impact sent me flying back, before I spread out my wings to come to a halt as Satan shot towards me. I quickly unleashed my Magic Eater Skill as he fired out a swirling sphere of Obliteration at me, swallowing it up as he zipped up and rapidly swooped down towards me, balling his fists together and swinging them down at the top of my head.

I flew back as fast as I could, his fists whizzing past the front of my face before an intense shockwave burst out, blasting me back as I felt the effects of my Contract nearing the time limit.

I unleashed a blast of blue flames at him as he shot towards me, which he narrowly evaded and closed in on me, right as my Contracts reached their time limits, the effects wearing off.

I began to plummet as my wings disappeared, before using my Wind Magic to hover, starting to fly away as fast as I could but I was too slow, as Satan zipped towards me and struck my wrists, my daggers falling out of my grasp as he grabbed my collar with his right hand.

"You put up a good fight, but it’s over now!" He declared, as he drove the claws on his left hand towards my head, one of my whips shooting in towards his right, but it wasn’t fast enough, his claws would reach me well before the whip would reach him...

As his claws closed in on my forehead with a triumphant look on his face, his eyes then widened in alarm as my other whip suddenly burst out of my stomach, a smirk spreading out across my lips as I pierced it through my back so that he wouldn’t see it coming, before rapidly extending it towards his throat.

The tip of the whip closed in on his neck right as his claws pricked through the skin over my forehead, starting to hit my skull before he suddenly vanished from sight as my whip bore into his neck. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

The thrust of his claws was fast, much too fast for me to evade in my base form...but the speed at which my whip extends is second to none...

"AND THE WINNER OF THE ARCADIA CHAMPIONSHIP CLASH IS...LARRK STRYKER!!!!! What a match! What a way to conclude the competition! After an intense, raging battle, and with Satan seemingly having victory in his grasp, Larrk Stryker is the one who emerges victorious!" Bellowed Phyurio, as the crowd erupted into deafening cheers.

The barrier around the arena faded as the whistle of fireworks shooting up echoed out, before erupting in bright, colorful flashes up across the sky, as I pumped my fist up triumphantly and basked in the glow of my victory, a wide grin spreading our across my face...

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