"Gern, right? My name is Roger." The sea breeze abruptly stopped, and the air froze.
Roger's voice was quiet, yet it struck the entire battlefield like a heavy hammer.
He merely charged straight ahead with casual ease, yet he seemed like an insurmountable mountain, weighing down on everyone until they could barely breathe.
"So..." Roger's lips spread into a wild grin, but his eyes remained sharp as blades.
"Please survive this!!"
"Roger..." Gern's pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints, and the blood throughout his body seemed to boil.
Facing the pinnacle of this era, his lips still curled uncontrollably into an almost deranged grin.
"Then come at me!!!"
There was no escaping, so he would face it head-on!!
Clang!! Facing the man who had once defeated its previous master,
Black Blade: Eight Desolations suddenly shuddered, its blade releasing a low hum unlike any before!
The black patterns on its blade churned like living things, and purple-black lightning coiled madly around it.
The space around its edge began to distort and collapse, forming a black-hole vortex that swallowed the light!
Humm! At that moment, the blade rang at a frequency far beyond anything before, even more violently than when it had cut down Golden Lion!
It was excited!
It was roaring!
It was-yearning to fight Roger!
Gern suddenly burst forward, Black Blade: Eight Desolations trailing a purple-black torrent that pierced heaven and earth!
Wherever its edge passed, space shattered layer by layer like fragile glass, and pale shock waves tore countless fissures through the void!
The coastline collapsed beneath the residual pressure. Towering waves hundreds of meters high had barely risen before the rampaging blade energy blasted them into a sky full of mist!
Fast! Faster than the eye could follow!
All anyone could see were a crimson blur and a dark-purple