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40 hours later in space -
–CRASH–
Thor blocked Jyahnar's axe kick with his arm as his feet were dug into the rock, the earth splintered around him. "HAHAHA! You really are an anomaly!" Jyahnar had a twisted grin as she pushed off his arm flipping backwards and landing metres away.
But before her feet could ground her, Thor was already in front of her, his tattered suit and multiple blood spots around his body as a rainbow aura covered his arm.
Reacting quickly Jyahnar kicked leftward as she was thrown to the right and his fist barely grazed her cheek, but it still tore off the skin and a golden liquid pooled outwards.
Thor, not letting up, pivoted and in a flash appeared behind her his blade now in hand, a swirling mass of aura as he drove it through her from behind.
–SQUELCH–
As his now golden blade exited her chest. After almost two days of continuous combat Thor had landed a fatal blow.
…
"HAHAHA!" Or what should've been fatal.
"*Cough* I-Incredible, to wound me to this extent…" From under her tattered robe, tendrils spilled out, but unlike the black ones before, these were blood red.
Thor felt something forcing his sword out of her and as his senses flared he flicked as a thick red tendril sprouted from the rock where he was previously.
He gazed upon her as the tendrils wrapped around her obscuring her form from his view. He raises his sword, coating it in a mix of Lightning, death, and vitality and slashes forward, a crescent projectile shoots towards the covered Jyahnar, but it just vanishes within the tendrils.
"Just fucking perfect." Thor muttered. Frustrated, Thor tossed his blade into his inventory as he closed his eyes.
A pulse of Honkai energy burst out from him, luminescent horns grew from his temples, a thick golden tail appeared, from his back, the remains of his shirt were torn as two new appendages emerge, and grew, and kept growing until he had two large wings spanning over 30 meters.
The space trembled, cracks in the fabric of reality appeared, Thor opened his eyes as they shimmer a crisp golden blue. He raised his fist and clenched and unclenched it, feeling the immense power that he now can use.
He sets his eyes on Jyahnar or what was once Jyahnar. In her place a towering beast emerged from the ground, shattering his expectations, he gazed upwards to try and truly grasp the size of what was before him.
Millions of eyes, a body that would eclipse entire countries and a tail that was still pulling itself from the earth despite the body being miles above him.
"Well, I guess it's time for round two." His voice reverberated across the plane, space swirled and crumbled at the power of his words.
He took a step forward,
–BOOM–
The moment his foot touched the rock below him, he vanished and the earth tore along with it.
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Earth -
"How the fuck do we even get close to her!?" Kevin growled as he cleaved another beast in half.
They had managed to catch up to the Herrscher after 7 cities were in ruin. Yet at the eighth they had managed to intercept the Herrscher and were now fighting their way through the Honkai towards her.
They had witnessed how that black mist of hers disintegrated anything it touches, whether that be human or beast.
–CACKLE–
–SWISH–
–CLINK–
Aurora looked up after sheathing her blade and turned back to Kevin.
"Just avoid the mist. It's not very quick so you can outpace it easily. Just don't make direct contact with her-" Aurora spun and slashed upwards as lightning arced and cut through the battle field, slashing through honkai beast and debris like a hot knife through butter.
"–She might have a similar field around her that does the same thing." Aurora finished and pushed forward.
Kevin and Elysia made eye contact and gave a nod as they moved to support Aurora.
Mobius and Eden were not far behind as they covered their tracks. Eden gathers Honkai using her water and then incinerates them with her flames. Mobius was rampaging as she tore through beast after beast, cutting bits and pieces from each piece collecting them as she did so.
…
"HAHA! You humans sure love to make absurd things." The herrscher gleefully laughed while swatting away the traitor's blade, as unlike what she expected the weapon was unaffected by her control.
Quickly Aurora flickered and disappeared and the Herrscher saw a barrage of pink arrows closed in onto the Herrscher.
Feeling a weird feeling from them, the Herrscher moved to evade, but ended up moving right into Kevin's path of attack, his beam sword clipping her arm as she winced at the pain.
"ARGHH!" The Herrscher held her arm and glared at Kevin with rage, no longer the gleeful amusement from before, now pure rage and hatred at the toy that dared harm her.
"I'll break this toy first!" She held out her injured arm as thick black mist shot forward toward a wide eyed Kevin.
–CACKLE–
A trail of lightning reached Kevin and evaded the attack with him in the next moment. Both Kevin and Aurora appeared hundreds of feet away from the mist as everything in its path turned to dust.
The Herrscher glared at Aurora, "Stay out of this TRAITOR!" She threw a hand forward as a pillar of mist emerged from the Earth and began to chase her, Aurora covered in lightning and started to run as the earth cracked beneath her.
She set her eyes back on Kevin, but he had already made a move and his beam sword was now encased in ice as he drove it towards her chest.
Not surprised, the Herrscher flicked a finger and a thick mist burst from below and created a wall that disintegrated the ice as it came into contact.
"Damnit!" Gritting his teeth, Kevin halted his charge and pulled back, putting distance between him and the Herrscher.
Throughout the city ELFs were already evacuating those that were still alive and bringing them as far from the city as possible, Mobius and Eden were providing them cover as they did so and Elysia was preventing any Honkai from distracting Kevin and Aurora.
"Kekeke~" Kevin fixed his eyes on Herscher as she cackled, "Poor little human, so much fight, yet so little strength." She spread out her arms as she smiled wide enough for her teeth to show. "Truly a pathetic existence~"
–Crack–
"Shut up Herrscher." Kevin's cold voice resounded from next to the Herrscher surprising her as Kevin had just been in front of her. Her eyes quickly snapped to where Kevin was before only for his form to flicker and disperse into smoke and revealed that Eden had put up an Illusion.
The Herrschers eyes shone red at the mockery as Kevin's beam sword reached her side.
–DOOM–
Honkai burst out from her, slowing Kevin down for just enough time for the Herrscher to dodge, she then tried to graze his arm as he passed by but,
–CRACKLE–
Aurora appeared and pulled Kevin away at the last moment and the mist that was chasing her crashed into the Herrscher, throwing her across the city.
Tumbling through the air, the Herrscher set herself up right, ready to charge back at them, but she felt coming from above and looked upwards.
A massive robot was falling from the sky, a glowing red weapon coming down on top of her
–BOOM–
A dust storm was kicked up as the surrounding area shook from the impact, still standing buildings crumbled and soldiers lost their footing amidst the shockwave.
[Did I get her?]
Aurora facepalmed, "Why did you jinx it Vill!?"
Inside the mech Vill smiled wryly, why did she say that?
Suddenly the pile of rubble started to shift, mist started to seep through the cracks and rush towards Vill, she quickly activated the thruster and the six wings shimmered blue and she flew away managed to avoid the disintegrating mist.
–BOOM–
The pile of rubble exploded and a figure shot upwards from the pile, covered in blood and dust as her once pretty face was now marred with cuts and bruises.
"DID YOU THINK YOU COULD TAKE ME DOWN LIKE THAT?! SILLY HUMANS!" The Herrscher roared at the group as they also readied themselves for a second round.
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