While Zagreus didn't answer me, it seemed that he had remedied the situation and had to retreat a little, but while he did, I pulled out his sword, the Stygian blade, which was hanging at his waist.
I held my sword in my left hand and Stygian blade in my right hand and assumed a combat position, leaning slightly forward as I pointed the points of the swords towards Hades, my right sword on the upper side of my body and my left sword on the lower side.
For most people dual wielding isn't effective nor practical, and this is due to the inability of the average person to focus on fighting and controlling both sides and responding to enemy attacks at the same time. There are also many other drawbacks and it's require long training.
But I simply do not suffer from these defects, thanks to my training in this art, and thanks to the thoughts acceleration and parallel processing, I could control my extremities and plan my attacks and avoid the opponent very efficiently.
After staring at each other for a moment, I dashed towards him at my maximum speed of close to Mach 4 and waved Stygian towards his head, but a black spear appeared in his hand and he used the spear stick to repel Stygian.
I used my sword to attack it from the bottom side, but it tilted its spear in such a way that it could block both swords at the same time.
I hit the ground with my feet and jumped back several meters in order to try to break out of his range, but he grabbed his spear and pointed the head of the spear at me and rushed with the intention of penetrating with the spear.
Realizing this, I raised my sword up high and hit the head of the Hades spear, ithe sound of metal hitting the metal appeared as sparks flew from the intensity of the physical force behind our exchange, but I managed to push the spear away from me.
I used this split-second to anchor myself firmly in the ground because Hades pulled his spear back before pushing it back toward me, and I hit the head of his spear again with my sword hard enough to create sparks of fire.
We did this several more times before I could have a chance to hold back, because we could do this in vain for several days.
This is very difficult, I am faster than him, and our physical strength was close because we did not use any energy to strengthen our power, but while I could rely on mental processing abilities in order to counter him, he possessed a much higher combat experience than me.
I thought for a while before letting my sword fall to the ground, and I grabbed Stygian with both hands and pointed it at Hades, before I rushed towards it.
Hades fixed himself in the ground and pushed his spear toward me with all his might. I would have been killed instantly if he had hit me at my high speed, but I struck the place between the spear blade and his stick with enough force to make the spear and Hades' hand fall back.
Knowing that his armor was indestructible, I discarded my remaining sword and punched Hades in the chin causing his body to rise a few centimeters off the ground, before I kicked him in the air and sent him several meters away.
However, I did not attack him again, but I picked up the Stygian blade and pulled back.
All we did now was a simple exchange, we did not use any special abilities, magic spells, or divine energy, and we completely depended on our raw physical ability, without saying, our physical strength is very close.
"Uh ..." he said while smiling enough to show his white teeth, "Not bad, but can you continue after ..."
Is he laughing seriously? I know that he is invincible in the underworld, but does he realize that he is much weaker on earth? Either he's too arrogant or he's just stupid ... but I didn't underestimate him and kept the defense.
"Well…" Hades said while holding his spear tightly but he did not come toward me, took a step forward and vanished.
Disappearance, it must be the ability of his helmet ... I tried to check the wind and ground paths for footprints but I didn't find anything, even there was no sound, of course someone the age of Hades would know how to use his equipment.
Suddenly I was stabbed in the shoulder from behind by 'nothing', while it was painful, I ignored the pain and waved my sword back in an attempt to hit Hades, but as soon as I did this, he took his spear out of my shoulder and retreated ... I think.
Since the wound did not affect any vital areas, it will close in just a few minutes.
Anyway, does he really think his invisibility is invincible? Well, as such a great wisdom god is me, I must prove him wrong and give him advice on how to better use his powers.
I took a few steps back until I reached the side of my thrown sword, but I didn't took it.
After a few moments, I was stabbed again in the same shoulder, apparently he was planning to play with me slowly, again I endured the pain like a man and used mind magic to move mentally my sword and make him bump into Hades who was behind me.
As soon as I heard the sound of the sword hitting Hades' armor, I smiled and turned quickly and waved towards the direction of the sound, hitting Hades's armor and causing sparks to fly.
I held my other sword and started waving at it, thanks to my mental abilities I could compare his previous body dimensions, weight, height, weapons and movements in order to simulate his shape, so while I can't see him with my own eyes, I already know where he is.
His invisibility ability is useless now.
I used my dual wielding skill to try to attack him and counter his attacks. This lasted for a while before Hades canceled his invisibility and leaped back several dozen meters.
He placed his hand on the ground, and dozens of skeletons began to come out of the ground and move towards me ..
I planted my swords in the ground and pointed my hand at the army of skeletons. "Grand fire ball, Turn to ashes!"
A pumpkin-sized red fireball was fired from the palm of my hand and quickly reached the Skeleton Army as it exploded with power and turned a large number of skeletons into ash and charcoal, while I used Finn shots to quickly finish the rest.
This is something I love about magic, so versatile and powerful as long as you can spare the time to train it, in fact, I think it's more powerful than the mystical arts.
The mystical arts were relying on external energy in order to use their spells, and the source of their power was to form contracts with deities or magical entities in order to use their power, and using their treasures like Eye of agamotto.
Since I am a God, I am more than qualified because I am the God of wisdom, magic and blacksmithing.
When Hades saw that I easily destroyed his entire "army", he began to use his divine energy.
i don't know why people think that mc wasn't training hard and that he is still weak, sure, he is weaker than Zeus and Odin and the higher ones, but he is still very powerful compare to gods.