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"Almighty... Cycle...
"Equation!?" YeeNessa and I, as well as the others were absolutely appalled by this development.
"They actually used it on him? Not even a moment's hesitation when using a move that ALL of STRIFE forbade!" Xenoshaa states.
"Then again... They've been quite treacherous for the last ten thousand years. Easy to say they're villains at this point, with everything they've done." She thought to herself whilst she watched the two of them blow Tahny away with their attack. Marking and coating his very existence with the main brunt of the attack.
It was a condition and status affliction forced upon him by their forbidden technique. It forces his soul, mind, body, and even his essence to undergo the inertia and volatile force that is the cycle of Life and Death. A conflicting event that transcends both concepts, entering their domains freely whilst still being afflicted by one. The ultimate conflicting force, a true marker upon the concept of Strife. Tahny was now being afflicted by this very technique.
"Hm... I just died and went into the afterlife for my kind, then came back a little weaker. What in the-
"It's one crazy ass technique, ain't it? Now we can start the real fight, LET'S GO, ZEE AND YEEE!!!" Shiitania shouted as she and Clarissa raced towards Tahny.
He readied his guard, deflecting their attacks. But as he deflected everything coming his way, he began to feel pain wherever we managed to make contact. This was due to his constant cycle through life and death using the Strife theorem. His body may be able to move even without a soul, but each time the soul returns, it loses more and more if it's tethering connection to the body. Making the body weaker and weaker without the constant flow of essence the soul commands. This made it harder to handle our attacks, on top of the fact that Lord Ripper's essence was still holding a tight grip over Tahny's capability to summon more strength and essence. He was truly against the wall for the first time since his arrival. And whilst he's in one of his stronger forms, no less.
"Damn, you're all more trouble than you're worth! Getting in the way of me eliminating the two Erasula and Erasallizz cherish the most. The two biggest threats to everything we've got planned as of now!" He swept past Shiitania and Clarissa after smacking them with back fists. Using a superior burst of speed to come after YeeNessa and I!
"Tch, here he comes, cousin!"
"I can see him clear as the stars around us, cousin Zee!" YeeNessa states as she uses her short sword to rush towards Tahny.
He summoned a blade of essence, thinking he could cut through her and her short sword all at once. Their blades clash and he is surprised to find himself being pressed, unable to cause even a knick within her blades dense metal. The material was known as Wartanium. A metal found in the clan of Gahwardia in Colossaverse one. It was a thick and resilient metal suited for combat purposes. And by that, I simply mean that it embodies the concept of Combat as a material. Allowing it dissolve all combat prowess sent it's way. Accompanied by YeeNessa essence and strength, it was made to be a very difficult weapon to crack.
Tahny found himself being pressed backwards, which only made him more violent as he power swung his sword and moved YeeNessa back. They entered a clash of weapons as they released thousands of strikes by the second. Each was very calculated, but no strike could land betwixt the two of them. This would eventually be interrupted by my arrival into their battle. Tahny caught wind of it and pushed YeeNessa away once more. He ducked below the strike that came his way, dodging my right hook just as it was going to make contact. He glared at me with nothing less than the intent to obliterate me. His glare was followed by a hefty high kick coming from a low position. So easy to say that the kick carried a lot of weight and power behind it. Which was made painfully evident when I got sent flying even though I brought about my guard faster than I ever have before. But just as he kicked me away, Shiitania came flying in with a powerful, flying roundhouse kick that nearly got through his guard.
"My body has weakened even more!?" He thought to himself.
"Heh, looks as though our technique is taking a serious toll on your spirit and body." Shiitania states as she hopped in place. Shadow boxing and stretching her body out using martial arts.
"Next will be your mind, buddy-boyyy!!" Clarissa rammed her knees into the blade of his sword, using her essence and the force behind the strike to send Tahny flying like a flying disk.
"Let's get after him, YeeNessa!"
"Right, I'm following behind ya, Zee!!" YeeNessa and I formed a line with Shiitania and Clarissa. Flying after the likes of Tahny, hoping we can follow up on our attacks before he can rebound.
"Daaaarrrgh!!! These brats and Dolphy are quite the annoying combination. But to all hell with this fuckery!! IT'S TIME TO CRUSH YOU LITTLE BITCHEESSS!!!" Tahny shouted loudly, aiming his essence for our ears and sense of hearing. It left our ears bleeding and our minds nearly fuzzed out. Luckily, Shiitania is half wolf and was able to sense the aroma behind his concepts. Tracking them back to him as she leapt forward. She used her tails to grab the three of us and throw us towards him. Clarissa used a punt kick to disrupt his constant angry yelling. She then proceeded to heal all of our ears with her life abilities. Putting us in the perfect position to put the hurt in this man.
He glared at us with fury in his eyes, completely unfazed by the blood and teeth sewing from his mouth. Which is understandable when you see the guy's mouth fully healed by the time he pulls his head back down, gritting his teeth as he snarls like a beast. He conjured his sword to stop Shiitania's scythe assault. He repels her just as he blocks a kick coming from my weapon used greaves. It was my first time conjuring them since mastering more kick techniques during my training with Lord Ripper. He dodged and waved away from my flurry of kicks, leading me towards an approaching Clarissa. She swung her Scepter of Life and I threw a roundhouse of Annihilation. Both attacks clashed and sent out waves that brought sentient life into everything they touch. The resulting change delivers an imminent blow from Annihilation. Successfully destroying all matter of all kinds that were dare accept it's life giving blessing.
We took those waves and condensed them as we increased our output. Then we turned all of its sentient attention towards the likes of Tahny. Perfect timing too, seeing as the dick head was busy fending off attacks from both Shiitania and YeeNessa. We hurled the waves his way with follow through attacks from my leg and her scepter. Shiitania and YeeNessa flew out of the way after clashing with him once more to push him back. He body was directly hit by the wave, but we noticed something off about our success immediately.
"You've turned a bad situation into an opportunity without so much as skipping a beat in your tempo. I applaud such grand efforts, but now... allow me to reverse such bullshit efforts, young Goddesses!" He began to use the concept of Reverse to literally flip our attack on itself. Cancelling it out using its own principles as the weapon and measn to make it happen.
The wave dispersed and we now found ourselves losing ground in skills to a dying body. One that has less than half the link to his soul as it did when we first began. But yet... His power has barely dwindled since he let out his... Wrath? Oh shit, that's IT!!
"Hey, guys... Call in the calvary! I figured out why his power continues to increase despite what we and Lord Ripper have accomplished." I explained to the others what was going on. They all immediately understood then after.
We all called in four more members to assist in defeating and nullifying his efforts. Tjaye and Dila burst into action, firing off an arrow and bullet just as we were all kicked away by a singular, full on roundhouse with a follow through of three-hundred and sixty degrees in its rotation. Luckily for us, Tjaye had recently taught Dila the trade secrets behind he and his sharpshooting dad's near instantaneous ammunition travel. Dila was still a bit rusty in the concept, but had a good enough handle to successfully fire a similar shit with his arrow every once in a while.
"Heh, now I have the four of you right where I want you- hm? An arrow... and a bullet wound?? Impressive technique indeed." Tahny glared at Tjaye and Dila with enough essence woven into the glare to drill holes into their bodies. But the glare was completely nullified by the Glare of Odin. A technique created by Odin that is capable of neutralizing essence and concepts through a simple, yet complex means. He's able to send whatever is unfortunate enough to be met with his gaze into any or multiple realms under his domain. He currently has nine Gigatoverses where he has complete Dominion over them and his many subjects. It was within those nine realms that he broke down the attack and allowed his subjects to absorb what they could. The realms themselves would do the rest. This was all thanks to his concept of Realms, Domain, Dominion, Ruler, Rallying, and Control.
Just as that occured, Tahny attempted to redirect the technique back towards Odin, not knowing Odin is well versed in reversing. Keeping them at a standstill until links from a bow staff wrapped around Tahny's waist. He looking into the distance and noticed a hole that was opened within the fabric of space. Within that hole sat my precious Heemy. He attempted to pull Tahny in, but by the time I started pulling him in, Tahny broke the links. Forcing them to form into a short staff and a long staff. He charged a beam with his fingers only for a kick to scrape across his jaw.
"Son of a..." He glared at Heemy, but Odin cancelled that out too.
Tahny was annoyed and his wrath grew even more, increasing his power just as the cycle of Life and Death repeated. But this time, his increase was a bit larger than the decrease. He used that element of surprise to backhand YeeNessa and I as we approached. Thrashing through the cosmos at full speed as he blitzed past a rain of arrows and bullets.
"You not being able to breach past the large gap of nigh-instantaneous and instantaneous is perfect. It leaves just a big enough window for me to get to you without trouble, young gods!" He grabbed Tjaye's face, then he grabbed Dila's. Creating a wall of essence to drag their faces against as they approached a nearby planet.
"AAAAUUUUURRGHHH!!!" They both shouted as he ran them along the path.
Tahny coated that planet with his essence, tossing Tjaye and Dila into it at speeds beyond light. But just as he did, four arrows and four bullets came flying through his body.
"Tch... Durrghn.. these damned brats!!" Just as he healed his wounds, Heemy wrapped his body with his bow staff links.
He swung him around this verse of ours over five-hundred times whilst destroying his essence levels. He pulled Tahny inwards and attempted to slug 'em with a haymaker. Tahny snapped the links whilst bursting forth with an evil smile n his face. Smashing his fist into Heemy's to create a vortex of violent essence. Both of their arms shattered from the impact, only... Heemy used his concept of destruction to instantly remove his wounds. Giving him the initiative and the chance to land a heavy strike. He threw a heavy hook that landed square on Tahny's jaw. Tahny never allowed his glare to leave the body of Heemy. Watching as Heemy allowed his anger to go a little to far, causing his punch to go too far out. He was off balanced and exposed to a counterstrike from Tahny. Tahny smacked Heemy in his chin with an uppercut that cracked his jaw into a fracture. They traded blows like this whilst Tahny backhanded and kicked anyone trying to interfere. But I couldn't allow that, none of us could for that matter. Heemy was losing ground fast!
"AAUUURRRGH!!!"
Heemy's head snapped back a bit, just before he snarled. Gritting his teeth with all his might as he snapped his body back down. Dodging three heavy jabs whilst delivering three heavy body shots simultaneously. Tahny actually flinched as he smiled at my hubby. But just as he used Heemy's movement against, creating an opening to exploit. I rammed the heel of my left greave into Tahny's face, sending him flying for countless astronomical units worth of space.
"Heemy! Are you-
"Enough of this holding back!!! We must go at him with everything or we risk losing you, YeeNessa, ZeeNastasia, and even YeeRashuri!! I refuse!!" Heemy grabbed my shoulders firmly.
"Heemy..."
"We must take the fight to him, right here... right now. TIMOOONE, THEODOOORE!!! DO IIIIIIIITT!!!"
From the highest layer of space and point within our realm came two shadows. Both were wielding hammers that glowed green, matching the essence color of the two weilders. They smashed their hammers into the body of Tahny before he could charge forward. It completely thrashed half of the Colossaverse we created, pummeling Tahny like a gang of chimpanzees jumping a monkey.
"Heh, I definitely wasn't expecting that! Hopefully the rest of our group can heal the verse back to normal." I looked below to try and locate Tahny. He completely wiped away his own aura and essence signature.
"Where did the floppy, demony looking wallaby go?" Theodore asked, looking down into the depths of our verse to try and locate Tahny.
"No clue, mahn. Yah boa be more slippery than a see serpent, ya 'ear?" Timone responded.
But before we knew it, a gigantic fist came from below and from above, like a mirror effect. Almost like seeing the affects of the concept of As Above, So Below. The principal held its will on the ten of us with an iron fist. Plowing his heinous attack into us as he attempted to shatter our verse. Everyone used their mastered concepts of Annihilation and it's variants. We were able to minimize the damage, but took on damage ourselves. Luckily for us, our Infinity forms allow for some of the best regeneration essence can afford. This definitely evened out the playing field when it comes to facing Tahny and his monstrous regeneration.
He flashed towards us and we flashed towards him. Clashing and thrashing about as he uses his mastery of the Cloning concept. We ended up having to fight three clones each. Every single one was equal to the original, and that bastard was flying around, defending his clones from vital attacks that'd end their petty existences.
"Are you ready to go, Seikosen?"
"Let's slice'em into particles, Zeramera-senpai!" Seikosen went on to respond.
She and Zeramera placed their hands on their famed katanas made by Lady Betsalynn. She has a nasty habit of infusing katanas with the Dracula Concept. So the more a user kills with their katana, the stronger the blade becomes. And these two, well they've killed countless in their quake. Flashing forward was those two as holes within our verse closed up soon after. By the time they could, every single copy and clone of Tahny was shredded into particles before our very eyes. Tahny himself blocked all of their attacks, for he was watching their every move as they entered. We all stood there in slight disbelief, watching as he walked towards us, varey dazed by the onslaught we unleashed.
"Hmph, it could be the entire team at once and you still wouldn't be able to conquer me completely. You fools will all die trying to protect my targe- huh?" He fell ti his knees, trembling as his body grew weaker.
"The cycle and it's effect accelerated at an alarming rate. What... Is going .. ooooon!?" He snarled as he looked up at Shiitania and Clarissa.
They stood over him with triumphant looks being worn on their faces. Smirking as they stare deeply into the current effects taking hold within his being.
"Aaaaah... Finally, you've truly fallen victim to our technique. It's best used with the Infinity concept being woven within. That way, it's power never wavers, instead... It grows."
"That's absolute facts, Clarissa. You can basically call it a no limit fallacy at this point. Now that you've weakened enough, the true effects have taken hold. And your soul is barely recognized by your body!" Shiitania stated as she placed her foot on his face!
"Now that we see it in action. There's probably a better name for this...
Almighty Cycle Equation!"