[Last Episode: [Somewhere far away, the war was still going]
Chapter 152, Episode 152
[The Chaos Universe — Nihiliya vs Quinn, Luna and Angela]
[The sky was gone]
[Where the stars of the Chaos Universe used to hang, there was a white scar the size of a galaxy and dead planets drifted around it like ash]
[Nihiliya stood on nothing]
[She was wearing an orange kimono. Gold knots. Auburn hair floating like she was underwater. Her blue crystal katana rested on her shoulder]
[Five hundred Hyper species hung around her in a perfect ring]
[Across from her stood three women, bleeding. Quinn's crown was cracked. Angela's headband was half burnt off. Luna's white fur jacket was black down one sleeve]
Quinn: Again.
Nihiliya: You keep asking for it.
[Quinn moved]
"Quinn - Nine-Hell Calamity Burst"
[She slammed her fist into the air and the air broke, suddenly nine pillars of black flame erupted under Nihiliya, one after another. Each one hit like a collapsing star]
[The shockwaves locked the space around her. The heat alone turned the floating rocks to glass]
[Nihiliya didn't dodge]
"Nihiliya - Genesis-Collapse"
[She lifted two fingers. The flames stopped. Then they changed. The black fire folded into white petals, thousands of them, drifting in the dead air]
[Quinn's eyes went wide]
Quinn: What did you...
[The petals turned sharp]
[They hit Quinn from every side. Her arms opened up. Her shoulder tore. She slid back through a wall of her own flame, spitting blood]
Quinn: Cheap.
Nihiliya: It was your fire.
[Angela dropped from above]
[Just a fist the size of a continent, then a fist the size of a fist, because she'd shrunk it back right at impact]
"Angela - Zero-Point Strike"
[Her knuckles hit Nihiliya's jaw. The atoms in that spot stopped moving. Cold bloomed across Nihiliya's face and her skin turned to white frost]
[Crack]
[The frost shattered. Nihiliya's head snapped sideways. A line of blood ran from her lip]
Angela: Got you.
[Nihiliya turned her head back slowly. The frost was already gone]
Nihiliya: Did you?
"Nihiliya - Logic Paradox"
[The hit reversed. The cold, the shatter, the impact. All of it jumped from Nihiliya's face to Angela's]
[Angela's head whipped back and her nose broke. Frost crawled over her cheek and cracked off in sheets]
[She hit a floating mountain and went through it]
[coughing, climbing out of the rubble]
Angela: Ow. Okay. Okay, that one's fair.
[She grinned with blood in her teeth]
"Angela - Karma Reversal"
[She slapped her palm to her own cheek. The wound jumped. It snapped back across the air and landed on Nihiliya's ribs. Her kimono tore open as blood ran down her side]
[Nihiliya looked down at it]
Nihiliya: Hm.
[Then the five hundred moved]
[A wall of Hyper bodies, every one wrapped in different light. Some screamed. Some were silent. Some tore the space open and stepped through it]
[Luna lifted her hand]
Luna: Down.
"Luna - Aura of Infinite Regression"
[A pale ring spread out from her feet. Every Hyper that touched it started to shrink. Muscles went soft. Scales vanished. They became young, then smaller, then infants, then a flicker]
[Sixty gone. Seventy]
Luna: More.
[The ring pushed wider. A hundred and ten]
[Nihiliya didn't say a word. She just raised her left hand]
"Nihiliya - Absolute Reality Rebirth"
[The ring stopped. Time inside it snapped forward and every erased Hyper rebuilt itself, face first, then body, then armor. They hung there again, whole, like they'd never left]
[But a thin line of blood ran from Nihiliya's nose]
[Luna saw it]
Luna: What... she rewind an entire timeline by ressurcting all the Hypers with her time magic
[Nihiliya wiping it away]
Nihiliya: Not enough.
[Luna vanished]
[She reappeared behind Nihiliya with a translucent sword in her hand. It was made of pure intent]
"Luna - Fate-Severing Blade"
[She swung at the line between Nihiliya and her own body. Nihiliya's shadow tore. Her hair fell loose on one side. Her breath caught]
[For half a second, Nihiliya stopped being connected to the ground she stood on]
[Nihiliya grinned through her teeth]
Nihiliya: Get off.
"Nihiliya - Dimensional Unshackling"
[Every boundary around her broke. Distance meant nothing. Time meant nothing. Luna's blade cut through empty air]
[Then Nihiliya was behind Luna, blue katana drawn]
[The blade went through Luna's side]
[Luna's eyes went wide. She looked down. Blood soaked her skirt]
Luna: Paradox Engine!!
[The wound disappeared. The cut un-happened. Luna stood there whole. Only a tear in the fabric was left]
Nihiliya: Annoying... healed from a dimensional attack
Luna: Likewise.
[Quinn came back through the petal storm with her hands on fire]
[She didn't use a name this time. She just ran. Black flame crawled up her arms, hotter every second]
Quinn: You think I'm done?
Nihiliya: I think you're loud.
[They met in the middle. Quinn threw a punch]
[Nihiliya's katana turned it aside. Quinn threw another. The blade turned that too. A kick. Parried. A knee. Parried]
[Fire and steel screamed against each other. Sparks of crystal and cinders sprayed across the dead sky]
Quinn: Stand still!
Nihiliya: Make me weakling!
[Quinn grabbed the blade with her bare hand]
[The flame wrapped around the crystal. The katana started to melt]
[Nihiliya's eyes narrowed]
Quinn: Nine-Hell... no.
[She stopped herself. She lowered her voice]
Quinn: Dragon Maint!!!
[Her foot swung up.It was a black-gold dragon's head with its jaws open, and it bit down on Nihiliya's chest]
[The impact threw Nihiliya backward through six hundred Hypers. A dozen got crushed by the shockwave]
[She slammed into the edge of the white scar in the sky and the sky cracked around her]
[Silence]
[Nihiliya hung there. Her kimono was torn from collar to waist. Blood ran from her mouth. One of her sleeves had burned away]
[Slowly, she smiled]
Nihiliya: Just die!!!
Angela: We won't go down without a fight!
Nihiliya: Childish words
"Nihiliya - Paradoxical Null-Sphere"
[A dark glass ball opened around Angela and Luna. Inside it, nothing made sense, every power kept swapping in places even speed itself stopped working. A punch that went forward came back from behind]
[Angela hit herself in the face three times before she understood]
[Angela muffled, from inside]
Angela: Luna! Do something!
[Luna's voice came back flat]
Luna: Working on it!!
[Outside, Nihiliya spun toward Quinn]
"Nihiliya - Tapestry Erasure"
[She reached out and pinched the air in front of Quinn's chest. Something thin and bright came loose between her fingers. A thread. It was Quinn's]
[She pulled]
[Quinn's body flickered. Her outline blurred. One hand went see-through]
[Quinn gasping]
Quinn: What... My... my own...
"Quinn - Dragon Immortality"
[The hellfire came up from inside. It wrapped the thread, burned it free, and sewed her back into the world]
[Quinn staggered as the steam rolled off her]
[She spat out a mouthful of red]
Quinn: Try that again.
Nihiliya: I will.
[Inside the Null-Sphere, Luna had finally stopped trying to fight the nonsense. She closed her eyes]
"Luna - Kairōs Devourer"
[She reached out and ate a piece of time. Just a thin slice. The part of the moment where the sphere had been cast]
[The sphere cracked. The dark glass fell apart. The three of them stood together again, breathing hard]
Angela: Your power keeps increasing even your energy power
Luna: Yes, but don't underestimate her, she Is hard to take down!!
Quinn: She's making everything up on the spot.
[Nihiliya floated toward them, katana lowered. Five hundred Hypers moved with her like a cloud]
Nihiliya: You've been fighting for a long time.
Quinn: So have you
Nihiliya: I'm not tired.
Luna: Your hands are shaking.
[Nihiliya looked down. They were]
[She closed her fist]
Nihiliya: Then I'll finish it with shaking hands.
[Quinn's aura roared up]
Quinn: Then don't hold back.
"Quinn - Demonic Solar Queen"
[Her hair turned white-gold. Black fire ran across her skin like veins. Her eyes burned with a sun inside them]
[The Chaos Universe screamed around her. Stars on the far horizon began to melt]
[The longer she stood there, the hotter she got]
[Angela cracked her neck]
"Angela - Asura Deva Integration"
[Six arms of pure force unfolded from her back. Three faces opened her expression into rage, calm and joy.]
[The air around her warped]
[Luna's hair lifted. Clocks she'd never built ticked in the space around her]
"Luna - Temporal Sovereignty"
[Nihiliya looked at the three of them]
[She smiled at her own bleeding hands]
Nihiliya: Fine.
"Nihiliya - Infinite Timeline"
[She pushed her katana forward. A million versions of her stepped out of the blade]
[The three of them met it head on]
[Quinn's flame. Angela's six fists. Luna's frozen second]
[The collision tore the Chaos Universe in half]
[White light. No sound. Just pressure]
[When it ended, four silhouettes floated in a hole where a galaxy had been. All four were bleeding. All four were still on their feet]
[The five hundred Hypers were all that moved around them]
[Nobody had won]
[Nobody was close]
[The Realm of Empire — Zrag vs Zeovar]
[Lightning hit the world like a hammer]
[It was an entire storm falling in a single heartbeat. Mountains vanished. A mile of sky turned white]
[The sound arrived a second late and flattened the ground for ten thousand miles]
[Then the light went out]
[Zrag stood in the crater]
[Spiky white hair. Cold blue eyes. Red and black dragon-scale armor with gold trim, smoking at the edges. His white-hilted blade hung loose in his right hand]
[He was grinning across the crater, Zeovar stood with his halberd planted in the broken ground. Black hair wild. Gold crown crooked. Pink gem on his brow flickering like a heartbeat. His yellow robes were torn along one arm]
[Blood ran from his shoulder. It dripped off his fingers]
Zrag: That tickled... your not weak as I taught
Zeovar: Stay standing. I'm not finished.
Zrag: You've been finished since you picked up that stick.
[Zeovar moved]
"Zeovar - Volt Slash"
[He swung the halberd once, sideways. A crescent of plasma left the blade and tore across the crater. It cut mountains. It cut the horizon. It cut a hole in the nearest dimension and kept going]
[Zrag raised his sword]
[The crescent hit it]
[Zrag's boots dug trenches as he slid back, ten feet, a hundred, a mile. Then he stopped]
OThe crescent shattered against his blade. The residue crawled up his arm and bit into his skin]
[Zrag hissing]
Zrag: That one stung.
Zeovar: Good.
[He was already there]
[The halberd came down. Zrag's blade came up. The two weapons met with a crack that split the air]
[Lightning screamed down the shaft of the halberd. Zrag's armor lit up red where it met the sword. They locked, face to face]
Zrag: What the
Zeovar: Good mastery but I am stronger
Zrag: Shut up
Zeovar: Whatever
[He twisted the shaft]
"Zeovar - Dragon Tempest of War"
[A dragon the size of a moon burst from the staff with Lightning scales. It roared and the whole realm shuddered. The jaws opened above Zrag]
[Zrag grabbed the halberd with his free hand and pulled]
[The dragon bit down on him instead]
[Light appeared]
[Zrag was gone. In his place, a black crater. Heat. Ash]
[The dragon turned its head and tasted the smoke]
[Then it stopped]
[A hand came out of its mouth]
"Zrag - Endless Phoenix Core"
[He tore the dragon's jaw open from the inside. Fire burst out of his chest, red and gold and white]
[The dragon blew apart in a flash that cracked the realm. Lightning rained across ten thousand miles of broken sky]
[Zrag walked out of the fire. His armor was half gone. Blood ran down his chest. He didn't care]
Zrag: Another one.... hahahaha
Zeovar: You didn't heal.
[Zrag blinked]
[He looked down at his chest. A long, black line of burnt flesh ran across it. It was still open. Still bleeding]
Zrag: ...What?
Zeovar: This weapon doesn't let wounds close.
[Zrag laughed. Blood leaked between his teeth]
Zrag: So that's the trick.
Zeovar: Not a trick.. you punk
Zrag: Then I'll just break your stick.
[He lunged]
"Zrag - Undying Wrath"
[His blade came down with the weight of his entire lifespan. Every eternity he'd collected went into one cut]
[Zeovar blocked]
[The ground under him collapsed. A shockwave tore the crater wider. His arms shook. His knees bent]
[Blood ran from his nose]
Zeovar: Heavy.
Zrag: I told you. Four hundred and one.
[Zeovar kicked him in the stomach]
[Zrag folded. Zeovar's halberd came around in a flat arc and took him across the face. A crack. A spray of blood. Zrag spun through the air, hit a ridge and went through it]
[Zeovar didn't wait]
"Zeovar - Keraunic Strike"
[He thrust the halberd forward. A beam of lightning punched across the crater and hit Zrag where he lay. The beam folded space around itself. The whole ridge collapsed inward. It crushed, then it erased]
[For a moment, there was nothing there at all. Not even dust]
[Zeovar panted]
Zeovar: Get up.
[Silence]
[Then, from nowhere, the ground reassembled itself. Dust. Stone. Armor. Bone. Zrag came out of the air like he'd never left it]
[His chest still bled. His face had a new gash. But he was standing]
[Zrag wiping his mouth]
Zrag: You keep wasting that.
Zeovar: You keep coming back.
Zrag: I always come back.
Zeovar: Then I'll stop letting you.
[He raised the halberd over his head with both hands]
"Zeovar - Absolute Spear"
[The tip tore a hole in the air. A wound beyond it, there was nothing with no color, no time nor direction. Just empty]
[The jab came fast]
[Zrag didn't move]
[The spear went through his chest]
[For a second, he was just standing there, impaled, with a small, dark, silent hole where his heart should be]
Zrag: That's... new.
[Then he grinned again]
"Zrag - Primordial Continuity"
[The hole refused to take him. Space tried to drag him in. He held onto the world with both hands. His body screamed in a thousand directions at once]
[Zeovar pushed harder]
Zeovar: Go.
Zrag: No.!!
Zeovar: Go!
Zrag: Make me.
[He grabbed the halberd's shaft with both bloody hands and yanked himself forward. The spear sank deeper through his body, until he stood chest to chest with Zeovar]
[Zeovar's eyes went wide]
[Zrag headbutted him]
[The crown cracked. Zeovar's forehead split. Blood ran into his eye. He stumbled back. The spear slid out of Zrag's chest with a wet sound]
[The hole closed. Slowly. Too slowly]
[Zrag swayed. He pressed a hand to the wound. His fingers came away black]
Zrag: Impossible...
[Zeovar spitting blood]
Zeovar: where did that confidence go!!
Zrag: Then let me return the favor.
[His sword lit up]
"Zrag - Undying Wrath"
[He swung. Zeovar raised the halberd to block. The blade hit it dead center. The shaft bent. The pink gem cracked. A shockwave rolled outward and flattened a thousand miles of what was left]
[Zeovar went down on one knee. His ears rang. Blood ran from both of them]
[Zrag stepped forward and kicked him in the ribs. Something cracked. Zeovar flew across the crater and tumbled to a stop]
[He didn't get up right away]
[Zrag walked toward him. Slow. Dragging his sword behind him, leaving a long scar in the stone.
Zrag: That's the thing about lizards.
[He raised the blade]
Zrag: You always fall down.
[Zeovar's fingers closed around the halberd]
Zeovar: Time Dragon Time.
[Zrag froze]
[Sparks crawled across his skin. Each one was a thread of lightning that stretched backward and forward at the same time. They sank into him. They struck him in the past. They struck him in the future]
[Zrag screamed]
[Blood poured out of him]
[Zeovar rose to his feet. His left arm hung wrong. His breath rattled]
Zeovar: You can't die.
[He lifted the halberd]
Zeovar: So I'll make you stay.
[The tip glowed]
"Zeovar - Duality-Volt Collapse"
[He drove the halberd into the ground. Lightning shot through the stone and met itself on the other side. Creation and destruction folded into one point right under Zrag's feet]
[The ground wrapped around him like a fist]
[It pulled him down]
[Zrag fought it. His arms. His legs. His blade. He tore chunks out of the stone. The stone closed over them]
Zrag: You can't bury me!
Zeovar: Watch.
[The crater caved in. The earth folded. Lightning poured into the seam and sealed it. Zrag's roar echoed from the middle of the world]
[Silence]
[Zeovar leaned on the halberd, shaking]
[Then the ground began to crack]
[A hand burst out. Then another. A head with white hair and blue eyes, soaked in blood, teeth bared in something that wasn't quite a smile]
Zrag: Is that all you've got?
[Zeovar didn't answer]
[He just raised the halberd again]
[Both of them bled]
[Both of them stood]
[And the realm shook beneath their feet as they charged]
To be continued...