[Last Episode: The war wasn't over. But for now, three friends were alive]
Chapter 150, Episode 150
[The Eastern World]
[The capital's main plaza was half gone. The fountain was rubble. Cracked streets ran straight into a sky full of pale, glowing shapes]
[Atlas floated above it all with his arms folded. His silver chain cloak clinked like wind chimes. A grin sat on his face like he owned the place]
[Behind him, five million Hyper Beings stood in perfect rows]
[That was only the first wave. The rest were still waiting behind the cracked sky]
[Jeannette stood at the front of the Guardians with her sword down]
[She kept her voice flat. Calm. Like she was running a meeting]
Jeannette: Listen carefully. This is an operational brief.
[Everyone turned to her]
Jeannette: Priority one is civilian evacuation. Infinite and Karnak to the north gate corridor. Move everyone out in waves.
Infinite: Understood.
[He was already moving.]
Karnak: I'll take the dragon wings. We can fly the slow ones.
Jeannette: Priority two is the Hyper wave. Lilura, Antoinette, Zosia, WraithLord, Martha, Pandorami, and I take it... kill them!
Pandorami: And Atlas?
Jeannette: Laxcarseel and Jairulioyo.
Laxcarseel: Fine... normally I don't follow orders but this is for the sake of our own world
Jairulioyo: Finally.
Jeannette: Antoinette is liaison. Status reports every five minutes.
Antoinette: On it.
[Zosia raised a shaky hand]
Zosia: What if I can't hurt them?
Jeannette: Then you slow them down. That's still a win and do your best pal!
[Atlas laughed]
Atlas: Slow us down?.. against almost a larger group of hypers
[He floated lower]
Atlas: You people are adorable. A kingdom of slimes, goblins, and little leftover heroes.
Laxcarseel: You talk a lot.
Atlas: I like hearing it.
[He spread his arms]
Atlas: Let me explain what you're facing. My army is Indestructible, even fate can't touch us nor time can't touch us. Law, space-time, reality. None of it works.
Jeannette: What a monstrous presence he possess
Atlas: And if you somehow do kill one, he stands right back up. Absolute resurrection. Absolute immortality.
Atlas: Five million of them. And you have eight.
Jairulioyo: Nine, if you count the wind girl.
Zosia: I'm right here!
Atlas: Nine. Ten. A hundred. It doesn't matter.
[Laxcarseel stepped forward]
Laxcarseel: Are you finished?
Atlas: No. I'm just getting started.
[Atlas dropped out of the sky and stopped ten feet in front of them]
Atlas: Which one of you is the leader?
Jairulioyo: Neither.
Atlas: Then which one dies first?
Laxcarseel: Neither.
Atlas: You're both so confident.
Laxcarseel: We have notes on you.
Atlas: Notes?
Laxcarseel: You like to talk. You like to show off. And you hit with only lightning.
[Atlas's smile twitched0
Atlas: Only lightning?
Jairulioyo: Lightning is my specialty. So you're in my department.
Atlas: Your department?
Jairulioyo: Think of it as a hostile audit.
[Atlas stared. Then he started laughing again]
Atlas: I'm going to enjoy this.
[He raised one hand]
"Atlas - Zeus Obliteration Bolt"
[A spear of gold lightning formed in his palm. It was twenty feet long and every stone on the ground floated an inch off the earth, drawn toward the spear like iron filings]
[He threw it]
[The spear crossed the plaza in no time at all. It didn't fly through space. It pierced dimensions. Five layers of reality tore open behind it like torn curtains]
[Laxcarseel and Jairulioyo split in opposite directions]
[The spear hit the mountain behind them causing it to explode. A clean, round hole opened in the horizon, wide enough to see the stars on the other side]
Jairulioyo: If we hadn't had dodged it, it would have instantly killed us
[The ground rumbled for ten seconds]
Atlas: That one only needed a little effort.
[Jairulioyo brushed a spark off his shoulder]
Jairulioyo: You're sloppy.
Atlas: Sloppy?
Jairulioyo: You aimed for the middle. I wasn't there.
Atlas: You dodged it. Barely.
Jairulioyo: Barely is enough.
[Jairulioyo vanished]
"Jairulioyo - Godspeed Circuit"
[Lightning wrapped around his legs. His whole body became a streak of blue-white light as the air snapped. The ground tore up behind him. He crossed the plaza faster than the thunder could follow]
[He hit Atlas in the jaw]
"Jairulioyo - Aethon Blitz"
[A fist wrapped in crackling energy slammed into Atlas's face. The blow made a sound like a mountain splitting. A ring of white light rolled out across the ruined streets. Windows exploded a mile away]
[Atlas slid back ten feet. His heels carved long trenches in the stone]
[He wiped his mouth and looked at his hand]
Atlas: That tickled.
Jairulioyo: You talk like someone who's never been hit.
Atlas: I haven't.
Jairulioyo: That explains the attitude.
[Atlas's eyes flashed]
"Atlas - Volt Speed Divine"
[His body blurred. He was no longer in one place. He was everywhere at once. Atlas appeared in front of Jairulioyo, behind him, above him, below him, to the left, to the right. A hundred Atlases surrounded the two of them, each one with a fist raised]
[Every fist struck at the same time]
[Laxcarseel, standing a few steps away, didn't flinch. He lifted two fingers]
"Laxcarseel - Wonder Nullification"
[He attacked the idea. A thin line of black light cut across the air. For two seconds, the concept of "everywhere at once" stopped working in that district]
[The hundred Atlases collapsed into one]
[Atlas appeared in the middle of the plaza, suddenly in a single spot, fist half-raised. His eyes went wide]
Atlas: What...What did you do?
Laxcarseel: I removed the word 'simultaneous.'
Atlas: That's not possible.
Laxcarseel: It was fast. Don't strain yourself.
[Jairulioyo was already moving]
Jairulioyo: Don't get off guard, you forgot about me pal!
"Jairulioyo - Omni-Directional Blitz"
[A billion tiny lightning copies exploded outward from his body. Each one fired from a slightly different moment in time. They tore through the air and hit Atlas from every angle at once]
[Atlas flew backward through a row of broken shops. The walls crumbled into dust]
[He hit the ground, rolled, and stood up]
[His coat was torn. His left arm was smoking]
Atlas: You annoying piece of shit!!
Laxcarseel: There's the anger!!
[Laxcarseel turned to Jairulioyo and spoke quietly]
Laxcarseel: His body won't break because of his resistance.
Jairulioyo: I noticed.
Laxcarseel: His abilities are different. Each one needs rules to run on.
Jairulioyo: So we don't hit him.
Laxcarseel: We hit the rules.
Jairulioyo: Same page.
Atlas: What are you whispering about?
Jairulioyo: Your performance review.
[Atlas snarled and raised both hands toward the sky]
"Atlas - Plasma-Genesis Storm"
[Black clouds rolled across the heavens like a tide with golden lightning flashed inside them, wind howled so loud the windows rattled in their frames]
[The storm grew until it covered the whole sky above the Eastern World]
Antoinette: What!!!
[Then it started to fall]
[Bolts the width of towers crashed down across the capital. Each one burned hotter than a sun. Houses vanished. Streets melted. A bolt hit the old market and turned it into a pool of white glass]
[In seconds, half the district was ash]
Atlas: That's the opening act.
[Laxcarseel raised his hand]
"Laxcarseel - Nihilism Void"
[The void opened above them like a dark hole and every bolt that reached it vanished. The storm clouds stretched and twisted into the void, like water into a drain. For five seconds, the sky was empty]
[Then the void shuddered]
[The storm was too big. A single bolt slipped through, grazed Laxcarseel's shoulder, and punched through the ground behind him]
[Blood sprayed]
[Laxcarseel staggered. His coat sleeve burned. A deep burn cut across his shoulder]
[He smirked]
Laxcarseel: That's more than I expected.
Atlas: You're bleeding.
Laxcarseel: I noticed.
[Atlas slammed his palms together]
"Atlas - Ragnarok Thunderclasp"
[The clap sounded like the sky tearing in half. A shockwave rolled outward in a perfect ring. The laws of space shattered along its path. Distance bent. Up became sideways and a building ahead of the shockwave folded in half, then twisted into a spiral and fell apart]
[The wave hit Laxcarseel and Jairulioyo]
[Both of them flew through five collapsing walls. Rocks crashed down around them. Dust billowed. A cloud of dirt rose a hundred feet into the air]
[Jairulioyo crawled out of the rubble, coughing, blood ran from a cut on his forehead. His left arm was black from elbow to wrist]
Jairulioyo: He is too powerful
[Laxcarseel pulled himself out of a pile of bricks]
Laxcarseel:"He's stronger than the report said.
Jairulioyo: Reports are always optimistic
[Atlas strolled forward through the dust]
Atlas: Get up. I'm not done.
[He reached out and grabbed a broken wall. The stone turned to dust under his fingers]
"Atlas - Hyper-Voltaic Disintegration"
[His hands glowed with a pale blue light. Anything he touched broke apart at the subatomic level. The wall crumbled into a fine mist. The ground under his boots turned to sand. The air around his fingers shimmered]
[He lunged and grabbed Laxcarseel's arm]
[Laxcarseel's sleeve vanished. The skin beneath turned gray. Flesh started to break into fine, glowing dust]
[Laxcarseel didn't scream]
"Laxcarseel - Liberal Infinity"
[He erased the idea of Atlas's hand being a weapon. The glow around the fingers flickered out. Atlas's grip loosened, and Laxcarseel ripped himself free]
[He staggered back, clutching his arm]
[The skin was bleeding. A piece of his forearm was gone]
Atlas: What the... his arm
Laxcarseel: I know what it looks like.
[He lifted his chin and grinned through the pain]
Laxcarseel: I still have another.
[Jairulioyo raised his one good hand. Lightning crawled up his arm]
"Jairulioyo - Judgment Volt"
[A white bolt shot from his palm. It was thin as a needle and sharp as a blade. Instead of burning, it dissolved magic]
[When it hit Atlas's chest, the blue glow around his body flickered and went out for three whole seconds]
[Atlas's eyes widened]
Atlas: My core!!
Jairulioyo: Your lightning runs on a rule. I turned the rule off.
Atlas: Impossible!
Jairulioyo: It's called a patch.
[Laxcarseel was already moving]
"Laxcarseel - Ethereal Soul Sword"
[A pale blade appeared in his good hand. It looked like glass and smoke. He swung it in a short arc]
"Laxcarseel - Abyss of Sin"
[A dark crescent flew across the plaza and hit Atlas across the chest. It cut through the coat. It cut through the skin]
[Blood sprayed]
[Atlas stumbled backward, staring at his own chest]
[A long red line ran from shoulder to hip]
Atlas: That's no ordinary sword
Laxcarseel: I removed the defense that was in the way.
Atlas: That's not possible.
Laxcarseel: I'm tired of that word.
Jairulioyo: Is it bleeding?
Laxcarseel: A little.
[Jairulioyo smirked]
Jairulioyo: Finally.
『The Guardians vs. The Hyper Wave』
[Five million Hyper Beings poured through the streets like a flood]
[They moved in perfect rhythm, each squad led by a single glowing commander]
[Jeannette stood in the middle of the broken road with her Cosmic Sword raised]
Jeannette: Squads, hold your positions!
[She swung]
"Jeannette - Cosmic Sword"
[A silver arc of light split the air. The blade cut through magic, through space, through armor. A hundred Hyper Beings in the front row were cut in half. Their bodies fell in a heap]
[For a heartbeat, the street was silent]
[Then the corpses sat up]
[Their wounds closed. Their eyes opened. They stood and kept walking, as if nothing had happened]
Jeannette: Resurrection???
[She tried again. She raised her free hand]
"Jeannette - Order Reality"
[She reached for the ether behind reality and tried to rewrite the street. The idea was to trap the Hyper Beings in a loop, but the Hypers shrugged it off]
Jeannette: They resisted my power
[Martha, beside her, tightened her grip on her sword]
Martha: Then we cut them until they stop standing up.
"Martha - Ultra Hope Dash Form"
[A pale glow wrapped around her body. Her hair rose in a quiet wind. Her sword shone with a soft gold light. She ran forward and slashed]
"Martha - Hope Slash"
[Her blade carved through a line of Hypers. Heads rolled. Arms flew. A wide trench opened in the middle of the street. The light from the blade burned the ground black]
[The dead Hypers rose again]
[Martha's chest heaved. A cut opened across her cheek where a Hyper's blade had grazed her]
Martha: They don't stop.
Jeannette: We need a pattern.
[On the far side of the street, Lilura stood in a pool of moonlight]
[Her Sword Lunar glowed silver. The hum of it filled the air]
"Lilura - Crescent Blade: The Edge of Nowhere"
[She swung. It cut the distance between her and her targets. A thin silver line appeared inside the Hyper ranks, slicing through two thousand bodies at once. Hundreds of heads fell. Hundreds of arms spun into the sky]
[The silver light faded]
[The bodies pulled themselves together, one by one]
Lilura:"Come on.!
[She swung again. And again. Each cut sent waves of silver light across the street. The ground cracked. Buildings fell. But every Hyper she killed rose again within three seconds]
Lilura: This isn't working.
[She wiped sweat off her forehead]
Lilura: And I have a headache.
[Nearby, Zosia clung to her teal cloak with shaking hands]
[A group of Hypers rushed her]
"Zosia - Gale Step"
[She vanished, leaving a trail of wind. She reappeared on top of a broken wall. The Hypers swung at empty air]
"Zosia - Cyclone Crown"
[She raised both arms. A spiral of wind rose into the sky, a mile wide. It caught a thousand Hypers in its center and spun them like leaves. The air howled. Roof tiles flew. A banner ripped off its pole and disappeared into the clouds]
[The Hypers flew a hundred miles and crashed into a hillside]
[They stood up again]
Zosia: They keep coming back!
Jeannette: Keep them away from the evacuation route!
Zosia: I'm trying
[WraithLord stood in the middle of a shadow circle with his arms spread]
"WraithLord - Dark Matter"
[Black mist poured from his body. It spread across the ground like spilled ink. Dark matter gathered in the air and compressed into spheres. The spheres floated up and exploded]
"WraithLord - Shadow Devour"
[A pit opened in the street. It swallowed five thousand Hypers in a single bite. The shadow closed over them with a soft whisper]
[For a moment, nothing moved then the shadow cracked]
[The Hypers climbed out through other shadows, slipping from lamp posts, walls, and bodies]
WraithLord: What, They're using my own darkness against me.
Pandorami: How many are there?
WraithLord: Too many.
[Pandorami raised her hands]
"Pandorami - Xarath Lair"
[A dark aura spread from her feet. Anything inside it lost life force. The Hypers closest to her started to slow. Their steps grew heavy. Their eyes dimmed]
[She focused]
"Pandorami - Omix Supreme"
[A swirl of colors opened above her. It created and destroyed at once with a wave of power crashed across the street and slammed into the Hyper lines]
[They got up]
[But something had changed]
Pandorami: Wait.
[Antoinette, standing behind her, watched closely]
Antoinette: They stood up slower.
Pandorami: A little.
Antoinette: Three point two seconds. Last time it was three.
Pandorami: So their resurrection isn't infinitely after a
Antoinette: Maybe.
Jeannette: Keep drilling it. Find the limit!
[Antoinette closed her eyes]
"Antoinette - Polaris"
[She saw nine seconds ahead. The whole battlefield spread out in front of her like a map. Every sword, every spell, every falling body]
[She raised both hands]
"Antoinette - Telekinesis"
[A hundred thousand Hypers rose into the air at once. She spun them like a storm, slammed them into each other, and dropped them in a pile. The ground shook]
[The pile moved]
[Antoinette's nose started to bleed. She wiped it with her sleeve]
Antoinette: It's a lot.
Martha: You're bleeding.
Antoinette: I know. It's fine.
[She lifted her chin]
Antoinette: I'll keep going.
[On the north road, Infinite and Karnak worked together]
[Infinite pointed. Karnak flew low in his dragon form, carrying families on his back. Goblins climbed onto his wings. Slimes bounced in the folds of his scales]
[A group of Hypers cut off the road ahead]
[Karnak roared]
"Karnak - Frozen Verdict"
[Frost spread across the street. The Hypers froze in place. Infinite walked through the ice, cut a path with a quick sweep, and waved the refugees through]
Infinite: Go! Go!
[The refugees poured out of the city]
[Meanwhile Atlas wiped the blood from his chest and straightened up]
[His smile was gone]
Atlas: You cut me.
Laxcarseel: You keep saying that.
Atlas: Nobody's cut me in a thousand years.
Jairulioyo: Then we're overdue.
[Atlas laughed. But there was no joy in it]
Atlas: Fine. I'll show you what I really am.
[He raised his arm to the sky]
"Atlas - Dimensional Rift Lightning"
[Jagged arcs of blue lightning ripped across the air. Wherever they touched, holes opened in space]
[The holes were black and bottomless. They swallowed everything near them, including the shockwaves of Laxcarseel's and Jairulioyo's attacks]
[Jairulioyo threw a bolt. It vanished into a rift]
[Laxcarseel swung his sword. The cut disappeared]
[The rifts spread. They crawled across the plaza like cracks in ice. One of them opened under Jairulioyo's feet]
[He jumped]
[A second rift opened where he landed. The third one opened above him. He dodged them, one after another, leaving trails of sparks]
Jairulioyo: I'm running out of room.
Laxcarseel: Hold on.
[He lifted his hand]
"Laxcarseel - Erasure Destruction"
[The nearest rift flinched. Laxcarseel erased the rule that said a hole could eat things. The black hole turned into a flat gray patch of sky. The rift beside it did the same. Then the next one]
[Within ten seconds, every rift in the plaza had closed]
[Atlas stared]
Atlas: Impossible!!!!!!!
Laxcarseel: You keep using that word.
Atlas: Shut the hell up!!
[Atlas's body began to glow]
"Atlas - Celestial Lightning Core"
[The blue light around him brightened until it turned white.His body turned into a column of living plasma, a singularity of divine energy. The ground around him cracked and burned]
[His voice came out layered. Deep and bright]
Atlas: Now I'm immune to energy and physical force.
[Laxcarseel studied him quietly]
Laxcarseel: So I can't hit you with force.
Atlas: Correct... you have no chance of winning now!!
Laxcarseel: Or energy.
Atlas: Correct!!
Laxcarseel: That limits our options.
Atlas: Pathetic!!
[Jairulioyo wiped the blood off his chin and laughed]
Jairulioyo: Good. I hate easy fights.
[Atlas raised his hand toward the sky]
"Atlas - Giga-Strike Divine Judgment"
[A single column of supreme energy dropped from the heavens. It was wider than the capital. It hit the ground and kept going. Land, sky, and atmosphere burned away in a thin, perfect line]
[The air turned to white fire. The hills beyond the city went black. A crater a mile deep opened where the beam landed]
[Laxcarseel and Jairulioyo stood in its path]
Laxcarseel: Jairulioyo.
Jairulioyo: Yeah.
Laxcarseel: Together.
Jairulioyo: Always.
[They lifted their hands]
[At The Terra Celestial World]
[Gold light. Warm stone. The soft ring of chimes drifting through the air]
[The Terra Celestial World looked peaceful from a distance. White towers rose out of silver gardens. Fountains sang in the courtyards. The sky glowed like the inside of a pearl]
[Ivarak has arrived]
[The guards on the wall dropped their spears and ran at the top of the palace steps, five figures waited]
[Musaha, tall and silent, a pale blue glow in his eyes]
[Daylight, in a flowing white dress, a soft prism of colors dancing around her hands]
[Bellatrix, calm and cold, a pale violet mark glowing on her forehead]
[Lunar, graceful, her silver hair drifting in the wind]
[Celestie, young, slender, her wings folded and trembling]
[Behind them, at the top of the stairs, stood the God of Lunar]
[She wore white and silver. A crescent crown rested in her hair. Her eyes were two full moons. In her arms, she held a large book bound in silver, its pages shifting like water]
[The Infinite Book]
[Ivarak stopped at the base of the steps]
Ivarak: I've come for the Infinite Book.
God of Lunar: No!!
Ivarak: I haven't asked yet.
God of Lunar: You don't need to.
[Ivarak smiled. It wasn't a friendly smile.]
Ivarak: Your Celestials will stand aside.
Musaha: We will not.
Daylight: The Book belongs here.
Bellatrix: You're not taking it.
Ivarak: How many of you are there?
Musaha: Five.
Ivarak: And a God.
God of Lunar: Yes.
Ivarak: That's six. I count one.
[He drew his sword]
Ivarak: Come.
[The Celestials charged together]
"Musaha - Odin Pillar"
[A pillar of pale light rose behind her. She raised her hand and rewrote the past. A glowing wave rolled across the courtyard. In the new version of history, Ivarak never walked through the gate. The gate itself vanished. The garden behind it unraveled. Ivarak's body stuttered like a bad recording]
[For a heartbeat, he was no longer there]
[Then he was]
"Ivarak - Nexus"
[The Nexus bent time back. It controlled the flow of energy and matter, and it bent the law of cause and effect to fit his will. The stutter smoothed out. The gate reappeared. Ivarak stood on the same step, unmoved]
Ivarak: Cute.
Musaha: Huh, did he rewrote the past and turned it back..
Ivarak: With the power of the nexus.... I am unstoppable
[Bellatrix stepped forward]
"Bellatrix - Oblivion Azathpino"
[A pale violet beam shot from her palm. It erased anything it touched, down to the idea that it had ever been there. It hit Ivarak's left arm]
[His sleeve vanished. His skin vanished. His arm vanished to the shoulder]
[For a second, there was only empty air]
[Ivarak's eyes narrowed]
Ivarak: That cost me something. I am impressed
[The Nexus woke. Silver light poured from his shoulder. A new arm formed out of nothing, bone, muscle, and skin. It took four seconds]
[Ivarak flexed his fingers]
Ivarak: It was an effective trick.
[Bellatrix stared]
Bellatrix: It took four seconds to regrow.
Ivarak: Which means the next one will be quicker.
[Lunar moved next]
"Lunar - Azariel Plux"
[A pale dome opened around the courtyard. Inside it, magic weakened. Spells flickered. Even the Nexus inside Ivarak shuddered. For the first time, the silver glow around his hands dimmed]
Lunar: Your magic is thin.
[Ivarak looked at his palm. The glow was fading]
Ivarak: Interesting!!
[Lunar raised her fist]
"Lunar - Moon Heaven"
[A pale silver beam shot from her fist. It curved in the air, bending around a pillar, then back. Ivarak couldn't track it. It hit him in the cheek]
[His head snapped sideways. A thin red line opened on his skin]
[Blood]
[Celestie gasped]
Celestie: He's bleeding!
[Ivarak touched his cheek and looked at the blood on his fingers]
Ivarak: That's the second time this month.
[Daylight raised both hands]
"Daylight - Order Prism"
[A rainbow prism opened in the air. It controlled every order in the courtyard. Up, down, before, after]
[She rewrote the rules around Ivarak. A new law fell over the garden: no one may attack within these walls]
[Ivarak's sword dropped to the ground. His fingers stopped moving]
Daylight: Be still.
[Ivarak took a slow breath]
"Ivarak - Vessel"
[A wave of pressure poured from his chest. It was an aura. It forced lower beings, systems, and concepts to collapse into static data. The rainbow prism cracked. The law dissolved. Daylight's order broke into fragments of dull gray light]
Daylight: My authority...he collapsed all the concepts
Ivarak: I am only getting started!
[Celestie flew up and spread her arms]
"Celestie - Divine Seraphim"
[A column of white feathers burst from her wings]
[They lifted every stone in the courtyard into the air, even the stones that didn't exist. She flipped fate, destiny, and law in her favor. The entire battlefield tilted]
[Ivarak swung his sword at her]
[The blade turned in mid-air and hit his own shoulder]
[He grunted. Blood sprayed. A deep cut opened from collarbone to chest]
Ivarak: My sword can cut through anything even the literal fate itself
[He looked at the wound. Then he smiled]
Ivarak: That one almost worked.
[The Celestials pressed forward, bleeding, shaking, but not stopping]
[Musaha rewrote the past again. Bellatrix erased the air. Lunar sent beam after beam. Celestie spun the stones. Daylight kept trying to rewrite the rules]
[Ivarak answered with a single motion]
"Ivarak - Vessel: Dimensional Swap"
[He vanished and reappeared behind Musaha. His sword flashed. Musaha's back opened. Blood flew in a long arc]
[He vanished again. He reappeared above Bellatrix. His boot hit her shoulder. She slammed into the stairs]
[Vanish. Reappear. Strike]
[He crossed the courtyard five times in a single breath]
[Daylight fell with a cut across her arm. Celestie spun out of the sky with a broken wing. Lunar staggered back with her hand pressed to her side]
[They stood up]
[All of them]
Musaha: Again... his speed is unmatched
Daylight: We're not done!!
Bellatrix: Never.
[Ivarak watched them with a small smile]
Ivarak: Persistent.
[The second charge was worse]
[They threw everything they had. Light, shadow, void, order, fate. The courtyard shook. The garden burned. The white towers cracked. The pearl sky above them rippled like water]
[Ivarak raised his hand]
"Ivarak - Nexus"
[He grabbed the flow of energy in the air and bent it and musaha's light turned on Daylight. Bellatrix's erasure hit Lunar's shield. Celestie's feathers flew into Musaha's chest]
[They crashed into each other]
[Ivarak stepped through the chaos with his sword raised]
"Ivarak - Red Blade Cut"
[A long red slash crossed the courtyard. The blade pulled the gold light out of the air. The garden withered and the fountains stopped. The white towers cracked down the middle]
[All five Celestials fell]
[Blood ran across the stone steps in slow rivers]
[Musaha lay on his back, staring at the sky, breathing hard]
[Daylight crawled forward on her elbows]
[Bellatrix pushed herself up. Her arm bent the wrong way]
[Lunar tried to stand and fell]
[Celestie curled into a ball, eyes shut, wings broken]
[They were still alive. Barely]
[Ivarak stepped over them like they were fallen leaves]
Ivarak: That's enough.
[He climbed the stairs at the top, the God of Lunar waited]
[She hadn't moved. The Infinite Book floated in front of her, pages turning slowly]
[Ivarak stopped three steps below]
Ivarak: Your Celestials are done... surrunder!!
God of Lunar: They're not dead.
Ivarak: They will be.
God of Lunar: No.
Ivarak: Hand me the Book.
God of Lunar: I told you
Ivarak: I heard you.
[He looked at the Book]
Ivarak: I'm told it holds every power that exists.
God of Lunar: It does.
Ivarak: I'm told it can grant any wish.
God of Lunar: It can.
Ivarak: And that its destruction would end the multiverse.
God of Lunar: That too.
Ivarak: Then it's worth taking.
God of Lunar: It will not choose you.
[Ivarak tilted his head]
Ivarak: Explain...
God of Lunar: I created it. But I cannot give it to anyone. The Book picks its user.
Ivarak: A book that chooses.
God of Lunar: Your soul and your magic must be one. Only then does it accept an owner.
Ivarak: That sounds negotiable.
God of Lunar: It isn't.
Ivarak: I'll make it work.
God of Lunar: It can't be forced.
[Ivarak smiled]
Ivarak: Everything can be forced.
God of Lunar: Not this.
[She opened the Book]
"Infinite Book - Page of Moonlight"
[A single page lifted from the Book and spread across the sky like a veil of silver light. Only a portion of the Book's power answered her call. The Book had not chosen her as its official user. But a portion was enough]
[The silver veil dropped over the whole courtyard]
"God of Lunar - Full Moon Decree"
]She spoke a single word]
God of Lunar: Fall.
[The word became law. Inside Terra Celestial World, whatever the God of Lunar spoke was true. The air itself obeyed with a crushing weight dropped on Ivarak's shoulders]
[His knee hit the ground]
[For the first time in the war, Ivarak was on his knees]
[He looked up]
Ivarak: Interesting.
God of Lunar: That is a law, not a spell.
Ivarak: And a very heavy one... I guess it's going to take a whole for me to handle you
[He stood]
[It took effort. A drop of sweat ran down his temple]
"God of Lunar - Crescent Sanction"
[She flicked her wrist. A thin silver arc cut across the stairs and It cut authority itself. Ivarak's coat split open]
[A line of blood ran across his chest]
[He stepped back]
[Ivarak looked at the blood on his coat. Then at the God of Lunar. His voice stayed calm, but something behind it had changed]
Ivarak: You can destroy me in less than a second.
God of Lunar: If I used all of it.
Ivarak: But you can't... it has limitations if it dosent find it's user..
God of Lunar: Not yet...
[She raised the Book]
God of Lunar: But I can try.
[Ivarak wiped the blood from his chest and smiled]
Ivarak: Good. I was getting bored.
To be continued...