Above Lulucca Island.
Boom!
After the blue flames devoured the crimson fire dragon, they shot straight toward Sephiroth, sending him flying over ten meters.
Because the Armament Haki covering Sephiroth's entire body was too powerful, Allen's attack didn't harm him.
He was just caught off guard because he couldn't dodge in time, and he hadn't spread his wings, so he couldn't fly and took the full force of the blow.
Whoosh!
After regaining his senses, Sephiroth's back immediately sprouted black wings. He flapped them, stabilizing his body, and instantly stopped his downward momentum.
The blue flames of the Phoenix didn't have the high temperature and burning effect of ordinary flames, but they suppressed the flames he produced with the Nether Flame Blade, which surprised him.
Seeing this, Allen flapped his wings and said proudly, "Hahaha! My Undying Flame is a very special thing! Although it can't burn objects, it can restrain all flames... That makes your fire-breathing sword half useless against me!"
"Well~! The Nether Flame Blade is just a weapon for large-scale attacks and clearing high-level mobs, anyway... When fighting experts, I basically only use it as an auxiliary! However, against you, its auxiliary effect doesn't seem very good! Since that's the case, I'll change weapons! With your strength, testing the quality of this sword is a good choice..."
As he spoke, Sephiroth sheathed the Nether Flame Blade in his left hand, and with his right hand, he swiped in the void, opening his personal space. He drew a black-sheathed saber from it, revealing its blue-black blade and the blood-colored patterns to Allen.
This sword was forged by him personally and was another "butcher knife" weapon, comparable in quality to the Supreme Grade Swords.
Seeing this, Allen's eyes couldn't help but twitch. He regretted being so talkative just now, trying to disturb the enemy's state of mind and make him unable to fight calmly.
For some reason, looking at the two swords in Sephiroth's hand — almost identical except for the color — he felt an inexplicable chill in his heart.
It can't be wrong!
Through Observation Haki, he instantly sensed that these two were extremely fierce cursed swords, and their characteristics should also be very similar: making his wounds difficult to heal!
"Then... the second round begins!"
Sephiroth chuckled softly, and dark red electric arcs quickly wrapped around the twin swords in his hand. While transforming into his human-beast form, he also used Paper Drawing, greatly increasing his speed.
After the brief exchange just now, he had estimated the general level of Phoenix Allen. His overall strength should be at the level of a quasi-Admiral, and his Armament Haki and physical techniques were very strong, just slightly weaker than him.
One of Allen's major advantages against other enemies was his powerful high-speed flying ability. This allowed him to attack and defend in combat, and even retreat calmly if he couldn't win.
However...
Allen's flying speed was useless against Sephiroth. In terms of flying speed and thrust alone, Allen was no match for him and was completely suppressed.
Now, the only troublesome thing was the rapid healing ability of the Phoenix Fruit...
Only by continuously inflicting damage and exhausting all of his stamina could he be completely killed!
Thinking of this, Sephiroth flapped his wings and repeatedly stepped on the air, using Moonwalk to accelerate his thrust. He charged towards the enemy in front of him.
Seeing this, Allen could only quickly flap his wings, raise his right foot claw, and condense a huge blue spiral shock wave, wanting to kick the silver-haired young man away again.
"Stop playing these little tricks!"
Two Sword Style - Tornado!
Sephiroth shouted, raised the twin swords in his hands in front of him, and began to rotate at high speed.
Sharp sword energy, wrapped in dark red lightning, quickly swirled around his body, finally forming a red tornado vortex. With terrifying power, it crashed directly into the blue air wave shock wave.
Boom-!
In just one encounter, the flame shock wave was shattered by the red tornado, turning into blue flames that filled the sky. It burst open and quickly disappeared into the air.
Sephiroth's body didn't slow down at all. He quickly swung the twin swords in his hands, driving the sharp sword energy wrapped around his body, and severely cut Allen's body. Even though Allen struggled to dodge and quickly rolled in the air, his back was still cut with hideous and terrifying bloody marks, becoming a bloody mess!
"Hiss~!"
The burning pain in his back made Allen grimace.
But...
He had no time to consider the condition of his back injury at all. He could only instinctively activate the Phoenix Flame for treatment.
At the same time, he also forcefully flapped his two blue burning wings.
Phoenix Feather Fall!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Hundreds of feather-like flames, enhanced by his Armament Haki, turned into sharp blades capable of cutting steel. They shot towards Sephiroth, who had just passed him.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!...
Feather-like flames cut wounds of varying depths on Sephiroth's body, tearing his clothes to pieces.
Aerial combat had this disadvantage: the inertia and the large attack wind-up made it difficult to fully utilize one's speed and power advantages.
Just like Allen's attack just now, Sephiroth clearly sensed it, but still couldn't dodge and could only endure the opponent's attack.
"Hahaha! Even if your hard power is stronger than mine, I ca..."
Allen quickly flapped his wings, immediately increasing his altitude. He looked down at the silver-haired young man with a condescending posture and a smug expression.
Hearing that, the corner of Sephiroth's mouth curved slightly, and a playful smile appeared on his face.
"I'm sorry! I'm actually very good at exchanging injuries as well..."
As he spoke, the wounds of varying depths on his body surface quickly healed as before. Except for his still damaged clothes, there was no sign he'd been injured just now.
"How is this possible?!"
Allen's eyes widened suddenly, his face full of shock and disbelief.
"Do you think you're the only one in this world who can recover quickly?!"
As soon as Sephiroth finished speaking, he launched another surprise attack on Allen, swinging the twin swords in his hands repeatedly. They brought up deadly cold light in the air, forcing Allen to hastily parry.
Soon, in just three to five minutes, Allen's injuries increased, and his stamina began to decline drastically. His strength, speed, and Haki all showed extremely obvious decreases.
In contrast, Sephiroth's offensive continued relentlessly, and the twin swords in his hands occasionally cut a wound on the opponent's body.
Allen tried to turn around and escape, but Sephiroth's flying thrust speed was more than a notch faster than his. No matter how he escaped, he was caught up!
"It's time to end this! I'm no longer interested in playing with you..."
Sephiroth looked at Allen, who was already panting. His eyes were full of indifference, and he announced the opponent's death in an extremely calm tone.
Then, he took out a red pill from his western pants pocket, threw it into his mouth, and swallowed it.
After several years of research by Sephiroth, he finally developed a drug specifically used to suppress the will of the Vampire Fruit and achieve awakening without side effects...
Boom!
A violent and majestic aura suddenly erupted from Sephiroth's body.
His physique and height, even in the Paper Drawing state, still expanded by a circle. His well-defined muscles bulged one after another, and his whole body was full of the beauty of strength.
Blood-colored smoke clouds appeared on his body surface, forming a blood-colored ribbon wrapped around both sides of his shoulders... Vampire Fruit Awakening!
In this state, in addition to gaining stronger strength and speed, Sephiroth's perception and control of blood were greatly improved.
If he wanted to, in a situation where the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, he could even control and extract the blood of others from a distance, absorbing the life force within...
However, the awakened state of the Vampire Fruit consumes a lot. It consumes one year of stored lifespan per second, and even if Sephiroth absorbs the maximum stored life force, the upper limit is only three thousand years.
In other words, if he activated his awakened state and didn't replenish his life force, he could only maintain it for a maximum of fifty minutes.
Considering that he needed to use life force to heal injuries, maintain his physical condition, and fuel the butcher knife in actual combat, that time would be greatly reduced.
Therefore, when there was no external life force to replenish, he could only use the awakened state at a decisive moment and couldn't maintain it for long.
Gulp!
Phoenix Allen swallowed a mouthful of saliva as he watched Sephiroth's aura surge again. A layer of fine cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
This guy has been toying with me, and he still hasn't used his full strength?
His heart trembling, Allen desperately flapped his wings, flying backward, and said in a panic, "Wait! I think we should have a good talk..."
"Not interested!"
Sephiroth's face was as calm as an ancient well, his tone full of indifference. He completely ignored what Allen wanted to say.
His hands first assumed a special starting posture, then he forcefully flapped his wings, stepped on Moonwalk, and his body sped toward Allen.
Dragon Devastation Slash!
Roar!
Accompanied by this loud dragon roar, a dark red dragon head phantom with an open mouth and roaring quickly condensed in front of Sephiroth, while a red whirlwind swirled behind him.
Allen desperately flapped his wings to dodge, but with his speed greatly reduced, he simply couldn't shake off Sephiroth's pursuit!
The next moment.
The dark red dragon head phantom directly crashed into Allen's body. One, two, three... hundreds of thousands of hideous and terrifying wounds covered his entire body, and without exception, they were all gushing blood.
At this moment, the blue flames on Allen's body were like a candle in the wind, suddenly extinguishing, and he directly exited the human-beast form, falling powerlessly from the air and crashing into the azure sea...