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"Ughhh" As Thor was flung through another planet, bursting it in the process, he shook his head and used a chunk of it as a launch pad and propelled himself toward the towering enemy.
The millions of eyes glowed and moments later Thor was dodging beam after beam of highly concentrated pure Honkai as he charged forward.
"Tch!" His shoulder was clipped by a beam followed by his thigh, cheek and hip. He ignored the pain and pushed forward, gathering Honkai in his wings as he increased his speed further, almost reaching that of light itself as his form vanished from view.
The beams died down and the country sized opponent couldn't find him, but suddenly, something impacted them from behind, their form caved inwards before being flung across the space, burst through planet after planet, asteroid after asteroid and collided with a star.
–BOOOOOOOM–
The resulting supernova engulfed the transformed Jyahnar and Thor pushed forward, completely unaffected by the energy being thrown at him.
His form became covered in energy, matching that of a shooting star, his speed increased further, effectively erasing anything in his path.
The form of Jyahnar amidst the supernova flickered and shrunk, unable to hold the form any longer, Jyahnar reverted to her human appearance and her eyes widened feeling the incoming attack.
"What the fuck is he!?" Tens of thousands of barriers appeared in front of her, but she knew it was futile, the incoming Thor shattered them with ease.
With no other option Jyahnar gathers all her remaining Honkai energy into a final attack, but as Thor was rapidly approaching just a few thousand kilometres away and she puts both her hands together, black portals focus energy into a single point.
"Just DIE ALREADY!" And with a final shout, the energy coalesces into a laser of energy that shoots through all her barriers with ease, and collides with the oncoming Thor.
His speed slows after connection, but still pushing forward rapidly, Jyahnar grits her teeth putting everything she can into the attack as the power spikes further engulfing Thor's form.
She smirks, but it quickly shifts to worry, she can still feel him, he is still coming closer.
That he was, Thor's cells worked to their absolute limit, pumping as much Honkai as possible through his body, his skin showed signs of corruption at the absurd levels of Honkai running through him, but he pushed forward, and in time reached Jyahnar.
He laser shatters, Thor thrusts his arm forward, burying it in her face.
–BOOOOM–
Honkai flows past them tearing through anything for millions of kilometres and Jyahnar is thrown along with it.
Moving beyond that of light she appears on the other side of the half destroyed Galaxy embedded deep into a super planet.
"*Cough* *Cough* W-what w-as t-th…*Cough*"
–POP–
Thor appears through teleportation and wraps his hand around her neck pulling from her crater.
"Kkkh–Haak–!" As Thor chokes her she looks into his cold dead eyes.
"What are you?" Thor spoke coolly, but his words sent a shiver down her spine.
Her hands pulled at his own hand trying to pull herself free, but Thor just tightens his grip further before dropping her to her knees.
"I won't ask twice." Immediately Jyahnar felt he would kill her if she kept quiet so after rubbing her neck she started talking.
Despite the pain she tells Thor of the Honkai, sending her here to deal with the Anomaly(Him) and to eliminate not only him, but also the Earth along with it.
She also mentioned how she is from a different branch of the Imaginary tree and that she was what was known as a Planet-Class Honkai beast. Not a Herrscher, but something equivalent in terms of destruction.
Thor ponders her words and the implications, 'So when I touched the core, that was the Honkai? And it knows I'm not from here.' That alarmed Thor as if the Honkai sent Jyahnar here, couldn't it send more?
Deciding to deal with it later as he needed to get back to Aponia, he cast a rune that sealed Jyahnar as the equivalent to stasis, he sealed both her movements and power as he still had use for her as a source of information. 'Maybe Aponia can force her to talk with Discipline in a weakened state?'
–POP–
He vanishes from the face of the planet teleporting across the cosmos back to where Aponia was with the 2nd Key.
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Back on Earth, the group with the addition of Vill in a mech, were slowly but surely making progress against the Herrscher.
At this moment Aurora was engaging in close quarters against the Herrscher, abusing her speed advantage to avoid hits while slowly cutting away at the Herrscher.
"Kevin!" Aurora shouted before dashing back, as the Herrscher looked up and Kevin came down like an icy meteor, preferring to coat his arm in ice than to hold a clunky sword.
"HAAAA!" As Kevin falls upon the tired and exhausted Herrscher, without enough time to react the Herrscher receives the full brunt of Kevin's attack,
–KABOOOM–
A loud bang spread across the land, a dust cloud the size of skyscrapers were born from the impact.
The rest of the group gathered just outside of the cloud as it started to clear.
Kevin was standing holding his blade against the neck of the beaten Herrscher. She was on her knees, arms hanging by her side, as she tilted her head forward.
She'd given up.
Just as Kevin was about to decapitate her, "P-please…E-end…i-t. I-I-I don't w-want…" she suddenly spoke causing him to pause,
But in those moments of hesitation, Alter screamed to Aurora that something was off, following her ego's warning she rushed to Kevin, time slowing as she noticed the Herrscher's arms tense, and she started to flick her fingers.
Not needing to guess her plan, Aurora grabbed Kevin and immediately retreated with him as…Nothing happens.
Kevin faces a moment of confusion, but is soon interrupted.
"Hehehehehe…" The Herrscher giggled to herself, a dreaded feeling was felt among the group. Quickly Vill pulled out the mechs cannon armament and fired at the Herrscher.
–CRACK–
The cannon never fired, the Herrscher had moved, appearing in front of the cannon's barrel as she crushed it in hand. Instantaneously, the group spread out, Vill letting go of the cannon with reluctance as it started to disintegrate seconds later.
"HAHAHAHA!" The Herrscher laughed maniacally, as everyone felt a chill shoot down their spine.
The Herrscher raised her hand, prompting everyone to ready themselves. Elysia with her bow, Kevin with his greatsword, Aurora with her weapons whip form, Vill and her dual sided laser blade, that she pulled in two, having one in each hand, Eden with a flurry of elements swirling behind her and finally Mobius held a scythe in hand.
"HAHAHAHA DIE–" She stopped mid shout, her hand still raised above her head, then a chilling voice came from behind her.
"What do you think you're doing?"
She couldn't move, she felt frozen in place, like a prey in front of a predator.
Ignoring the Herrschers predicament Thor scanned the area, noting his group's status, they were ok, for the most part. A few broken bones, but not anything beyond repair.
He also caught sight of the mecha that he could tell Vill was in and smiled in satisfaction, 'She actually did it.'
He came ahead of Aponia as he felt something was wrong, and it seems he was right. He turned his attention back to the trembling Herrscher, 'To think in this form even a Herrscher feels fear."
"Did I stutter?" He growled and just as the Herrscher worked up the courage to turn her head, she was met with a backhand to the face as she was thrown across the city.
–BOOM–
Despite the distance, they could still hear the resulting impact from here.
His eyes met Aurora who shivered under his gaze, her senses were flaring at her to run, 'Is that…?"
(Yeah Aura, that's the form. I can see why he said it would destroy the world, but he seems to have control over it.) Alter said and Aurora agreed with her statement, but her eyes narrowed when she saw that Thor was holding someone with his other hand.
'Who is that?' Her question will go unanswered for a while.
Thor's gaze next lands on Elysia whose eyes were locked onto his horns, he almost chuckled at the look she was giving him, but held back as there is something more important to deal with.
–Thud–
"Stay Here." It's not like she could escape considering the seal on her is still in place.
–POP–
Thor teleports over to the Herrscher leaving the rest of the group to marvel at his form and look curiously at the woman he brought with him.
…
Thor looks down on the Herrscher embedded in the dirt. "Come on, you can't be that weak for a Herrscher."
No response.
He then realised that he was still in his Honkai form, so he reverted to his normal form, his already smaller wings merging back into his body, his horns disappearing, and his tail shattered.
He immediately felt weaker, as you would after being in that state for almost two days.
He looked back to Herrscher and noticed that she was not actually looking at him, not with the paralyzing fear, but interest.
"Y-you, I-I like you…H-uman…" Thor raised a brow at her words but nonetheless kneeled down next to her and put his hand above her chest. She didn't even try to resist as he drove his hand in and pulled out her core, instantly killing the Herrscher and the Human host.
He analysed the black and white core, trying to feel that same connection he felt after touching the 4th's, but he got nothing from it. He stood up, throwing one last glance to the Herrscher's corpse, deciding to store it in his inventory for now just in case.
–POP–
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