The giant Reaper continued its path of destruction through the city. After the fall of Zaigon something shifted in the Reapers. They became mindless, bloodthirsty monsters hellbent on destroying and killing anything in their path. Zayne stood atop a small building with a small group of Hunters stood behind him.
"They sure are acting differently than before.... Hmm those girls, they did it!"
Zayne said as he suddenly heard an urgent voice over the comms.
"Captain Zayne... Do you copy?!"
"Quinn is that you? What happened over there, the Reapers, there is something different about them"
Zayne said but he could only hear static, he was getting frustrated until Quinn's voice came through.
"It's Jin Aldeus Captain... It turns out our theory was right. Zaigon was here but Jin defeated him. If they really were being controlled by Zaigon. Now that they aren't, that giant Reaper will be the biggest threat."
Zayne's eyes widened as he could see the giant Reaper begin too erratically destroy buildings and entire city blocks around it. Zayne turned to the Hunters behind him looking at all of them and with a stern voice he said.
"We are the only ones that stand between this thing and the destruction of our beloved city. the longer we wait the more this monster destroys. Attack with everything you have, don't hold back!"
Everyone leapt off the roof rushing towards this giant Reaper. Zayne flew towards the Reaper at blinding speeds; he flew above its head and looked down with a smile on his face. He slowly lifted his hands, and he created two separate orbs of magic, he pushed them together and it created a glowing ball that had the colors of the rainbow swirling inside it.
"Unison Flashbang"
He whipped this ball of magic towards the front of the Reapers face. When it reached its eyes, Zayne closing hid hand and the ball imploded and turned into a bright shining light. The Reaper was blinded, and it stumbled back into a building while trying to rub its eyes.
"Ground team... Do your thing"
A group of Hunters began to strike its legs until suddenly a swarm of smaller Reapers came running towards the ground team. As the swarm approached them a massive explosion went off blocking the swarm with the debris from multiple buildings.
"What was that?"
Mia appeared floating in the air above them as she shot another massive fireball towards the giant Reapers legs. When it collided, it knocked the Reaper onto his side its legs flailed around trying to get itself back up onto his feet. Mia heard Zayne's voice come through comms saying.
"I was wondering when you'd show up."
"Hmm don't worry I was caught up with a few things. Also, I brought a friend back with me."
Mia pointed at a small building to her right. Zayne looked over and there stood Jin, he was still bruised and beaten but he was breathing. Jin took a deep breath as he could feel power surge through him, he was taken aback from the amount of power he felt.
"Cain... I feel like my body is going to explode."
"Zaigon is different than a regular Reaper, the mana you received from his crystal is more potent and stronger than anything you've absorbed until now."
Jin looked at his hand as lightning crackled around it. The Reaper began to shoot beams from its mouth in frustration, Jin looked down at it and he leapt off the building. When he jumped the building crumbled into nothing just from the force of his jump, he looked down and saw everyone began to resume their attack on the beast.
"Oh shit... I didn't mean to destroy it."
Jin began to fall as he reached the apex of his jump, and he could clearly see the whole city. Jin dove downward and he began to speed up until his body was nothing but a blur, as he approached the giant Reaper the swarm Mia had thwarted broke through the debris and rubble and began to surround everyone on ground level.
"I won't let anyone else die."
Jin prepared himself and landed in the middle of this group of Hunters, the ground exploded into a cloud of dust and as it settled, he looked around at the Reapers and activated Hyper Sense. Jin could feel the presence of more than a couple hundred of them and he shouted.
"EVERYONE WORRY ABOUT THE BIG ONE. LEAVE THE SMALL ONES TO ME!"
Everyone around him was hesitant and the giant Reaper began to get up onto its feet. Jin exhaled and completely vanished and suddenly dozens of Reapers began to get sliced into pieces, everyone listened to Jin's word and focused their energy on the giant and began a full assault on it from top to bottom they relentlessly attacked it trying to overwhelm it.
"Time to test this new skill"
While Jin dashed in between the swarm he summoned a dagger and made a small incision on his thumb and squeezed blood from it. The Reapers piled on top of him until they were blown away and Jin stood there with blood covering his body and behind him two perfect clones of himself stood ready to fight.
"Hmm this is going to be fun"
Jin and his clones all summoned swords into their hands and they all vanished. Jin appeared in front of a Reaper; it let out ear piercing screech until it was kicked on the side of his head by his clone and he punched it directly in middle of its chest and it turned into a cloud of blood. Jin turned to his clone and fist bumped him, they both stood back-to-back, and Reapers began to swarm them. They both moved with precision and his clone punched one back with a Shotgun and then backflipped over him grabbing a sword Jin had ready for him and he dashed past him slicing an approaching Reaper in half.
"Time to finish these monsters"
Jin and both of his clones appeared next to each other, they each summoned dual daggers into their hands, they began to dash through them all slicing them apart as they fought, Jin was grabbing the crystals they dropped and absorbed them as they moved through the swarm.
"SUPERNOVA!!"
Above Jin he saw Mia shoot a massive beam of fire towards it, he looked to his clones and they both say in unison.
"Go, we got this!"
Jin began to run towards the giant Reaper and summoned a giant hammer swinging it into its back left leg. It stumbled back and was about to crush a small group of hunters. He dashed over to them kicking its leg moving it just enough to miss them as it landed. Mia contacted Zayne through their comms.
"Captain, nothing we do is slowing it down. More smaller Reapers are swarming the Hunters on ground level."
"Yea we're in a tough spot...." Zayne replied, "But I know how we can stop it, all I need from you is to lure it away from the facility it's gotten too close!"
Mia flew around to the other side of it and began to shot fireballs at it. The giant Reaper flinched a little but turned towards her and tendrils suddenly sprouted from its back, they were scaly and had eyes the grew in random spots all around it. The tendrils began to rapidly thrust toward her; Mia shot herself around the air with her flames dodging them as each one tried to pierce her.
"Expanding Sun."
She charged the ball of fire and shot it at the Reapers face, it caught the orb with its tendrils, and it continued to expand until it threw it back toward her. Mia watched as it flew towards her and she tried to shoot another Expanding Sun at it, but the attempt failed as it fizzled out when it collided with it.
"Am I going to die?" Mia thought "Is this really it..."
As it rushed at her it was suddenly hit far into the sky, and it exploded letting out a blinding light. When Mia looked down there was Jin, he began to fall until she grabbed his arm.
"Listen, Captain Zayne needs us to lure this thing away from the facility, I'm going to keep hitting it from up here to try and draw it towards me,"
"I'll try to get to his back. Maybe I can get some of these tentacle things off of you "
Mia looked at the Reaper and noticed it began another assault with its tendrils; she quickly took action grabbing Jin and quickly began to dodge them.
"Mia drop me."
"WHAT, ARE YOU INSANE!!"
Another tendril suddenly came at them from the front and Mia shot a fireball at it just merely dodging it and almost dropped Jin.
"Mia...Trust me"
Mia sighed and hesitated but slowly loosened her grip on him. As Jin started to drop a tendril shot at him with great speeds, he punched it to the side and grabbed it pulling himself onto it. He summoned daggers and stabbed them into it to hold on.
"Cain, with how far I've come. How long could I last if I use one hundred percent?"
"With you current Cultivation level and the crystal increases I'd say you could sustain it for about 3 minutes."
Jin smiled and his body immediately surged with power. He pulled himself to his feet activating Hyper Tension, Jin began to sprint up the tendril running toward the Reaper. He leapt off of it summoning swords into his hands, he landed perfectly on its head and ran down its back jumping from tendril-to-tendril slicing them apart.
"I have to get this thing to move faster somehow."
As Jin said this his clones joined him and began to attack the tendrils with Jin.
"Both of you follow me!"
Jin and the clones activated Hyper Tension and they all jumped off its back. they each grabbed each other and began to spin around gaining momentum and the clones threw Jin back towards the Reapers back at breakneck speeds and he charged a Shotgun and punched it in the back with everything he had. Its body was sent forwards sliding across the rubble below him. Mia contacted Zayne saying.
"Have we reached an optimal distance yet"
"You just need to push a little more it's still too close. I'm helping the ground team with the swarms."
Jin continued falling until his clones caught him and landed safely. He looked at the Reaper and his clones slowly withered away behind him.
"Cain how much time do I have left?"
"A little over a minute sir"
The Reaper recovered and Mia continued her fireball assault on it, the Reaper continued to follow her, and she summoned all of her strength and unleashed this massive wave of fire that shot towards the Reaper. Suddenly it was hit with a concentrated beam of magic that exploded on impact. A voice was heard through the comms,
"This is going out to all Hunters in the area. This is captain Zayne, if anyone is currently engaging the giant Reaper, flee now. That's an order"
Jin stood looking at the Reaper and Zayne appeared next to him, they looked at each other and Zayne said.
"If you really are the one who defeated Zaigon, I could use your help... Do you think you could knock that thing forward like you did before?"
"I can, but I can only do it one more time"
Zayne began to charge his body with some sort of bright light it was almost angelic. Jin took that as his sign to rush it the monster, his body shot forward at high speeds, he parkoured over rubble and then leapt into the air. He breathed in and then exhaled as he charged a Shotgun and shot his fist forward at the Reaper. Jin slowly started to lose consciousness as the Reaper fell forward, Mia swooped in and grabbed Jin flying away.
"Heavens Might."
Zayne says as his body floated into the air and a beam of light pierced the dark clouds hitting the Reaper, it began to burn and as it tried to escape it was as if the light was keeping it trapped. It let out deafening roars as it slowly burned away until the light grew brighter until it exploded from where the Reaper stood blinding everyone who looked at it.