Winding Destiny

Richard stopped the backward momentum with great difficulty, coughing out a few more mouthfuls of blood before breathing in sharply and staring at Moonlight. There was actually a nick on its edge!

His expression darkened and he turned to look at the man in the distance. Moonlight was supposedly indestructible, but that had its limit. It was difficult to muster the strength to damage it within the bounds of the laws of order, but his opponent this time had a similarly indestructible weapon with power that approached the limits of the world’s laws. An inconceivable thought crawled into his mind; had this man already reached the limit of pure strength?

This was a shocking revelation. Richard himself wasn’t at the true limit of sheer power,...