At the sound of her words, his apparition dashed towards Mitchell at the speed he could only envy first and defend against later.
He summoned his purple sword and blocked the upwards attack from his apparition's white sword. Cracks appeared on his sword. 'Already'.he thought and raised his leg to give a side kick but his apparition sidestepped and used his free hand to give Mitchell a punch to the chest.
He slid several meters back ignoring the pain before dashing forward again. He may not be a swordman but his skill after watching several tv shows back on earth were nothing to joke with.
His apparition showed the same level of skill and dodged or blocked every one of his attacks perfectly before counter attacking with moves that Mitchell could barely keep up with.
He used 'qi blood explosion' to short the distance between them and tried looking for an opening with every slash of his but himself did not let him have that chance.
After several classes with their sword, he left open a gap in his defense that the apparition capitalized on but instead of slashing as he had expected, he moved back a few feet and cast a technique that he knew all too well. 'Golden sword slash'.
Mitchell's pupil dilated and he immediately brought up his sword to block the attack from the apparition's sword that was glowing with a golden light. 'F*ck, after this I'll change the name to god slayer since it had been very close to slaying me'. He thought as his already cracked purple sword showed even more cracks.
"Interesting". The woman on the throne said before her gaze moved back from the sword that was shining with a golden light back to Mitchell.
After his failed attack, the apparition moved back to give Mitchell some breathing spaces which he immediately regretted as Mitchell threw the shards of his purple sword straight at him and while he was distracted with dodging, he ran towards him and managed to disarm him by ramming into him.
Now they were both weaponless and Mitchell seemed to prefer it that way. He took in a deep breath and dashed towards his apparition again who was also ready for hand to hand combat.
Mitchell punched at his chest but his apparition calmly deflected with his own. They both threw punches that the other could both block and deflect and the fight became even more heated as they increased their speed. Gradually they would punch the other and he would behave like he did not feel the pain and punch with even more ferocity.
He kicked and Mitchell held into his leg and slammed him down on the floor and tried to smash his head to the ground the apparition moved just in time and kicked Mitchell's leg and he fell to the ground. He held his head before pushing him away and kicking him as hard as he could. Mitchell felt his lungs squeezed of all the air it had and the unimaginable pain that followed.
He saw his apparition appear behind him then saw another in front of him at the same time. Even though the pain was strangling he managed to shout. "What!!".
Two of his apparitions both dashing at him with a speed he knew was enhanced by 'Qi blood explosion'.
Their hands both struck his solar perplex and he flew back and watched one of the apparitions turn to white smoke and the remaining one stared at his receding figure with a cold gaze.
Mitchell crashed into the wall at the other side of the room and couldn't hear the noise it created because his ears were already bleeding.
His apparition turned to face the woman who did not have an expression on her face "He's not yet done". Her voice was cold.
His apparition stared at where Mitchell laid with hatred and shouted. "Its time to end this".
Suddenly several more of him fell down from the sky like ants and they amounted close to fifty. Some of them had swords while some were barehanded.
Mitchell got up from the rumble with one of his eyes glowing purple and the other glowing crimson. The purple eye had a calm but domineering nature while the crimson eye had a wild nature that screamed evil and death.
"Attack". The apparition that had summoned the others shouted the order and they all yelled while running to fight. The main apparition stayed back while crossing his arms.
Several apparitions dashed towards Mitchell but he remained calm. The first ones to dash towards him were barehanded so all he had to was punch the first one, its head exploded and it turned to smoke before even falling on the ground and punched the other in its chest. Its internal caved in and it knelt down on the floor before disappearing and turning to white smoke as well.
'They only have half the strength of the real me'. Mitchell said inwardly. The death of their fellow apparitions did not stop the ones that were still rushing forth.
The next ones that came were were welding swords so Mitchell disabled the first one that came to him and plunged is own sword into it back while he slashed at the others. They were out half as powerful as him so their speed could not match his hand they ended up without heads or other body parts before disappearing into white smoke.
The remaining game at him in their numbers and he made short work of each of them by killing them in the most brutalizing way possible. They would either turn to smoke without theory heads or without a part of their bodies contact.
Even though all these apparitions were the exact copy of him, Mitchell did not show any mercy on them and killed them like he would if he was fighting his mortal enemies. He imagined himself being the apparitions and him being an opponent.
He was also using this opportunity to learn and correct his own flaws that he could only see through this battle.
He was learning his own mistakes and correcting them while he was battling. A perfect way to know your own weakness and since he was fighting against himself, he was visualizing the deaths of himself if he was facing a really strong opponent like the ones his apparitions were facing now.
"My word, is he training even during this test. He must be either very courageous or foolishly stupid". The beautiful woman said but had a smile on her face.
Over a few punches, Mitchell's speed increased even more and he hit the apparitions with deadly precision that most would die on the spot and the rest would be incapacitated.
His movements became even more smooth and his body moved like fluid. In this short battle he had learned of his own weaknesses and some parts of his body he couldn't defend against.
He treated these apparitions like himself and watched to see how they would react to his attacks. Since they were him, they also gained some experience as well but Mitchell killing them soon after did not give them time to use it.
Soon five apparitions attacked him at once but Mitchell used 'Qi blood explosion' to increase his speed that the five apparitions movements were very slow in his eyes.
He punched all five of them repeatedly in their vitals, they hung in midair and by the time the effects of the technique wore off, he had managed to kill two more of his apparitions as well.
Their bodies turned fell limp and turned to white smoke.
"Time to end this". The main apparition said and dashed at Mitchell with inhuman speed, so fast that he passed by the other apparitions that had yet to reach Mitchell.
He raised his hand and brought it down so much force that Mitchell could not see anyone else so rather than the main apparition.
'Am not as fucking fast as that. This is clearly unfair'. But that was actually how fast Mitchell moved when ever he used 'Qi blood explosion'.