Scene – Thunder cracks violently above an ancient, war-torn mansion.
Inside, broken chandeliers sway from the cracked ceiling.
Dust drifts over a shattered marble floor.
Two powerful beings face each other.
Aquira (True Dragon of Time & Space):
"Show me, Precious… show me the power they fear."
Precious's Clone (calm, unfazed):
"Alright. Try not to blink."
Scene – Aquira vanishes in an instant, reappearing behind Precious, her claws shimmering with swirling galaxies.
Aquira:
"[Void Talon]!"
Scene – She slashes through the air.
The attack is so fast and silent that the air itself tears apart.
The wall behind Precious erupts in a violent explosion—
but Precious hasn't even moved.
Aquira (thinking, eyes wide):
"Did I miss…? No—he saw through it?!"
Precious (Clone) (barely turning his head):
"Too slow."
Scene – He lifts a hand gently—
"IMPERIAL BURST!"
A wave of pressure erupts from him.
Light bends.
Space distorts.
Aquira is blasted backward, smashing through three marble walls.
Umbros (watching from the shadows, stunned):
"…He deflected a time-twisting attack… with a single pulse?"
Scene – Aquira rises from the crater, hovering mid-air.
Her wings spread wide, her eyes blazing.
Aquira:
"You want fast? Then drown in infinity."
"[CHRONO PULSE: 1000 Strikes per Second]"
Scene –
A thousand astral beams rain down in a blinding storm.
But Precious's clone simply walks forward—
calmly—
as each strike misses by mere millimeters.
Precious (Clone) (softly, as he walks):
"Seen it. Seen it. Seen it…"
Aquira (furious):
"Fall already!!"
Scene – She summons a massive golden sphere—
a super-condensed ball of compressed time—
"[ETERNAL COLLAPSE]"
She hurls it with a roar.
Precious (Clone):
"Hmm."
Scene – He flicks his finger casually.
The golden sphere reverses its trajectory, warping into Aquira's own timeline and disappearing.
Aquira (staggering, coughing):
"W-What… what kind of monster plays with causality like this?!"
Scene – The mansion begins to fall apart.
Walls melt.
Time stutters.
Air rips like cloth.
Scene – Aquira lets out a roar and transforms into her True Dragon Form:
A cosmic serpent, glittering like a nebula, with six luminous wings and a crown of stars circling her head.
Aquira (booming voice):
"Time is MINE to command!"
"[ABSOLUTE EPOCH: REALITY REWRITE]"
Scene –
Everything freezes—
Gravity halts.
Wind stops.
Time itself ceases to flow.
But—
Precious's clone continues to walk forward,
unaffected.
Eyes calm. Footsteps silent.
Aquira (horrified):
"How… HOW are you still moving?!"
Precious (Clone):
"I exist outside your time."
Scene – He raises his right arm.
A sword stance using just one finger.
Precious (Clone):
"Let's finish Part One."
"[DIMENSIONAL NAIL]" —
A blazing white spear of pure energy forms above his fingertip.
Scene – He throws it.
It pierces through space itself, warping reality around it.
BOOOOOOM!!
A silent, compressed shockwave erupts.
Aquira is thrown to the ground.
Her wings shatter.
Her body crashes, skidding across marble and stone.
She coughs blood, her armor cracked open.
Aquira (gasping, defeated):
"...You're… not normal…"
Precious (Clone):
"You haven't seen anything yet."
TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 52