Ability can also be imagined as a special function carved into the Aura of the user. Starting by wishes and desires in the formation of something vague, then it will be slowly formed into a specific shape. And to understand which "shape" it is, the users must figure it out by themselves, finally, reforming it to some specific things, and one of them is "function."
Even though the Aura users hold in their hands their abilities, yet, at the start, those things are still "blurry" and "unclear" until the users start reforming their abilities to the specific models. That's why even if a genius with the stronger blessing in the Aura elements, but when putting him on the same scale as an experienced fighter with the same abilities, the genius would have 70% to lose. It's not only the difference in the output, but also the techniques and the greater basic functions.
The benefits are really obvious, they will no longer need to activate the unclear ability anymore. To be fair, it's like comparing one guy who always tries to think about one problem but each time he applies another different way to find out the result with one guy who has already made the one and only one road leading to the final destination.
Like struggling in a maze to find out the goal, one chooses to test all the possible ways, one has already figured out the best way for him to reach it. Even though all the roads lead to finality, but, specializing only one way is absolutely better.
It can be imagined to be any kind of object, concept or existence, yet, it's easier for me to claim it with the image of functions. Can be made, can be reformed, can be improved and also can be reversed; nothing is impossible.
And when a user can reform his ability to the specific function, he can also carve it into other objects. Such as rocks, swords, shields, spears,... but what if the target is a puppet?
"I didn't expect you to reach this far, well done." - A voice suddenly clangs around.
That man has already stood right next to Har, his left shoulder is touched, "I want to hear your name."
Crytinas only stands far away from them, her voice is quite confusing, "Har…?"
Hiding inside the darkness of the unknown truth, another Aura instantly overflows through his body. It's dyed in the color between dark pink and crimson smokes, a devil that covers itself inside the capsule of a spirit.
It slowly tears down the cocoon, throws away all the scraps of bloody meat and silently growls a bit. It has no eye but a torn smile, it's stretched to the very end of the ears.
*Grr… Grr…*
That man only smiles, he repeats himself again, "Tell me your name."
*Rrr…* - "A…"
He isn't in a rush, those two legs are still standing calmly - he is waiting.
"Ada…" - He stares at it and it also stares at him.
"Adarjia." - It murmurs…
"Great." He smiles, "Adarjia, from now on, you are the first commander under my authority."
*Grrr…* - As an agreement, it growls again and tears down all the cocoons. Slowly, slowly moves around and stops right behind that man.
Hex is one way that the Aura users unleash their evil thoughts outside via the Aura expansion. And instead of releasing Aura outside, *Whirr* - that devil-like spirit intensely paints the whole space around into its Hex. In other words, its evil thoughts are dense enough to unconsciously interweave themselves into the overflowing Aura.
After a touch, the corpse on the ground is also swallowed by that guy.
"Finally you are back." - Crytinas leisurely approaches him.
*Haha* - "Sure, long time no see."
|720 hours remained.|
He looks at Maiya, who is still looking at him with a smile, surely she thinks it's fun to start another fight.
"I've admired your power, Maiya." - He speaks up.
"I've witnessed your power too, but… what should I call you right now?" - She replies with a smile.
*Haha* - "Just call me Har."
After a long dream, that guy has woken up again with brand new strength. After 240 hours in real life, Har has come back with the whole new self.
"Alright, shall we begin?" - He rushes toward her with a strong and heavy punch from the right side.
*Crack - Crack* - Not only the seventh phase ice shield, but also her left arm is broken beneath that pressure.
No one knows how he can do that, but everyone already knows that this guy isn't an ordinary fighter.
Obviously, Har jumped into this battle with 120% of his maximum output at the start, no hesitation.
"Don't look at me like that, my Aura hasn't reached the bottom yet. I'm pretty sure that you should hold back anymore. Just dance and die, is it fine?"
"Don't be so cocky, boy." - *Fwoosh* - Two gauntlets, heavy armor and a bunch of ice stakes flying around her have been created.
Crytinas also moves to Yllinas side for the final victory, also the second fragment is in her hands already.
And then, when she starts moving, they both disappear and rush toward each other with a direct arm crash.
"Now the battle has just begun." - She declares while moving her left knee upward.
Parried! Counter - A strike that sends her backward two steps, Har stands right there with the overflowing Aura around himself, with a smile, he smocks, "Is that all your power?"
A grin and a smirk within, "What an arrogant brat."
*Crack* - That sound attracts Har in a short period of time and that chance is the golden treasure in Maiya's vision.
*Smack* - That strike is heavy enough to knock him back twice, yet, it's not too overwhelming after all.
"Seems like you think that I'm a threat."
His hands seal into each other again, he calls, "Come."
*Plop* - Three chimeras mixed with bulls and gorillas are called out via the shadow gates.
"Let it begin." - He declares.
The strategy is really simple, 4 on 1, non-stop pressing. Starting with strong strikes from both sides, consequently Maiya is forced to stop and parry them. And for the reason why she didn't choose to dodge… just look at her legs, all are sealed by the fourth chimera - a snake.
Manipulators need to divide their volitions equally to the number of controlled puppets, but Har needn't.
Let's see… just imagine that normal manipulators apply the system of one brain with many screens and Har is chilling with one automatic system for each screen. His power isn't clear at all, as if it can be anything that he wants it to be - a true cheating "bug" in a balanced system.
Also, he can do this - Smack - one heavy strike lands on her throat swiftly.
*Thud* - Her left arm is pressed by a strike and her right side is crushed by another one, this is truly a pincer situation. While Maiya is forced to stand still, another heavy punch has been on her belly already.
*Thud* - The third muscle chimera instantly attacks her from behind, another pincer situation interwoven into the previous one, dead end.
*Heh* - That land is frozen within a foot stomp, "It's hurt."
She raises her hands up one more time, on the right side a cold flow lingering, on the left side a windy orb twisting.
"One creature can't have more than one Aura–" A familiar theory, isn't it?
The bursting wind and the whirling ice particles all concentrate to the center. Instead of focusing on the feature of the Manifestation element, this bomb only carries the pure energy pressed into the level of corruption.
Wind always wants to release itself while ice always desires to lock them all together. The wind will cause the explosion and shockwave while ice particles solve the problem of concentration. And when the oscillation at the center, with the support of low temperature, goes beyond the limit of the lock surrounding it… everything will be gone.
*Crack* - After 63 seconds, Har has been able to move himself to break through the ice block. That sudden strike was too insidious, from the start to the end, he wasn't able to catch any movement of her Aura flows until it was released.
Yet, does it even matter? When the energy orb flowing over her fingers is ready?
*Boom - Fwoosh* - Two sounds that are supposed not to put into one scenario almost clang around at the same time, and that field is changed to the artistic stadium of ice.
"–unless they have two hearts." This is not a defect or deformity, it is a blessing from mother nature.
"You feel it too, right?" - Maiya slightly approaches Har, who is still stuck in the ice block with half of his body frozen, with another bomb on hands.
*Haha* - "It's even more dangerous than the combination of fire and explosion."
"Thanks for that praise, but it won't change your death after all. You're strong." - She slowly approaches.
Until the distance between them only remained a meter, "Keep your head high and stand proud."
A smile as a reply, Har closes his eyes as an acceptance to this reality, he has lost.
She smiles, "Die with a smile, are you doing a reference to that song?"
*Fwoosh* - A howling sound of the winds, "Don't worry, I won't kill Crytin as the fact that you didn't kill my princess."
He smiles, "Oh? I thought that I just hid it very well."
*Haha* - "You don't know yourself well, do you?"
He also replies with another smile.
*Crack* - The creepiest sound has been clanged around. Maiya instantly cancels the seal on her bomb, intentionally trying to blow away everything in range. Yet, the barriers are built up already, those fifty six blocks have already sealed her again, the explosion is also captured inside the cube.
"Don't smile while your enemy hasn't died yet, my rival."
*Crack* - Within a sudden turn, the ice cage around him is broken into pieces, "You're so innocent that you really believe that you've won."
Har also grabs that cube and transfers into it 20% of his current Aura. But don't look down upon that amount of energy, to be specific and fair, it can also burst everything inside the zone of five miles to dust without any chance to restrict.
At the previous time, the clone was forced to fight Maiya at the start while non-stop spending his Aura to balance the pressure and running the cube before its true function activated. And then, 40% of his Aura was used for maintaining the prison to lock Maiya up just for a few minutes.
I'm not going to lie but… that clone just takes him 15% of his total Aura eight days ago. Which means, at least this time, that cube can hold Maiya for half an hour without any variable.
"Have fun, lady." - Har swiftly moves himself toward the next field, it should come to an end right now.
*Boom* - "Oh? Don't you all want to cover your prince?"
A total of one hundred supporters on Harba's side are all here.
"Hmm? Oh–" Har smirks, he just realizes that the total of 277 members on Aliny's side have been slaughtered.
"Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, o~ poor Aliny." - He smocks the wicked truth.
"Jump him!" - Ten meteors, thousands of fire balls and countless flames instantly surround him as a trap.
"Good grief~" Different from other times, Har doesn't choose to call out his pets, but to make a gesture by fingers - Domain Expansion…
Following his will, all the shadow essence pops up and covers everything inside itself, even the enormous meteors rushing toward him with absolute destruction.
Abyssal Gluttony - has been activated and completed with only one small gate left in the general space of the world, no barrier, no dominated zone, just only the disappearance of them and a gate remained.
*Clomp - Clomp* - He slowly steps on those ninety-nine stairs with each loss of one member on Harba's side.
*Clomp* - The third corpse has appeared among them, without any signal. And then, someone just screams out loud, instantly waking up everyone that's still alive. But what should they do right now?
*Clomp - Splash* - One man deserves one slash on his neck, the blood overflows and his body falls down hopelessly.
"Get him!" - Another guy casts three giant fire balls and throws them toward Har with a mentality of chance.
*Clomp - Splash* - He is cooked and those fire balls also evaporate in the darkness.
"He somehow can attack us without landing a strike, use Guard!"
*Clomp - Splash* - That guy is cooked too, poor guy.
But then, some of them start using one special technique that they came up with - Zone. This idea just started when some guys wonder what if they just expand their Aura respectively in a specific small zone to determine any movement around them in the specific radius.
Yet, witnessing three other guys just die even though they've used everything, the rest of them split up to three groups. One group non-stop cast fire balls and fire spears to throw toward Har, the second one has already given up and the third one is aiming to survive.
Via the current zone, they apply Guard based on the zones that they've made, which means they are expanding their Guard to the edge - forming a patched stable wall around them.
In short, it's just a cumbrous and patchwork idea only for this life-on-line dead end. But no one knows that, many years later, there will be one man who figures out this legacy and reforms it to the brand new treasure among mankind. It still exists till the current days of the human world, with the familiar and famous name - Simplified Domain techniques.
*Clomp - Crack* - For the first time, that strike has been stopped before its goal is reached. Because its core function is just like an expanded Guard with the base of Zone's edge, the space inside it and Har's domain isn't totally isolated. Which means the wall is determined by the hardness of "Guard" on the edge of "Zone" - purely a tug-of-war of Aura.
What is set to be ended must end. The final step is right in front of him already, but the good news is there are still twelve phoenixes staying still right in their places. Being devoured or devouring, those twelve guys are those who are able to catch up with the situation and anchor their lives on the line between life and death - the law of elimination of nature.
"Well, well, well, well." - Leisurely, Har sits on his throne of authority with a smile.
"Good job, you all are the elites among the ordinaries." - That grin is so sickening.
But then, he seals his hands again and this time, the pressure is raised up to the whole new level. In the deadly silence, it's really obvious to witness their bones slowly but surely getting cracked time by time. The sound of something standing right on the broken edge is really, really and really wonderful.
*Crack* - One guy is taken down easily as pie beneath that pressure, it's too overpowered.
What is this? He wonders.
What should I do? Almost a scream, this hopelessness is too overwhelming.
*Crack* - "Elia!"
Until the end, he witnessed his crush being crushed literally, a bloody corpse remained.
F* F* F* F* What should I do?! His eyes open wide and all the neurons inside his brain are running with 200% their potential, as if today is the last day they can do their job.
*Crack* - This time, his barrier is the target, thankfully, the pressure isn't currently enough to break through his shield, he's going to die soon.
What should I do? What should I do? WHAT SHOULD I DO?! His eyes also overflow with a bit of blood drops, they are going to be crushed to scraps of meat too.
"There are two kinds of abilities." As I said.
The inherited one is carved inside their bodies since their birth. In this kind of clan, those phoenixes, who can awaken the clan's traditional ability, are treated better than those who can't. And for the purpose of maximizing the power of that ability, the Phoenix Clan had come up with one technique 100% suitable for their well-known power - The Blazing Phoenix.
Which means they should stop maintaining the patched domains and assemble their Aura into one zone for a better output. Yet, among these ten Phoenixes, only Uklamas doesn't have the gifted ability to use that technique. Surely, no one will care about a discordant piece in this field.
"Any deviant will be crossed out in their way to achieve the final goal." This is one of the natural elimination laws. Yes, it's that wicked and cruel, beneath the scythe of reapers, nothing is longer more valuable than their own selves.
I… I… His eyes open wide, looking at them, where his five "besto friendo" are also looking at him with a pitiful look.
I don't want to die! I don't want to die! A scream, a curse and a whisper haunt him inside.
The second kind of abilities are those powers which can be awakened by wishes and desires. Using the most secret longings and appetites as the base to mold the abilities carved inside their Aura(s).
And, "Nothing is more severe than the longing to survive, than the wish to be alive."
"Guys! Activate the clan's traditional technique and attach all your blazing Aura on me!" - Uklamas shouts out!
Who do you think you are? Another guy silently disdains him.
Don't you really think that we're going to bet our lives on a loser who can't even awaken the clan's traditional power? He doesn't really care about Uklamas at all, this is the prejudice that is carved into the conception of the Phoenix Clan up to the present time.
*Whirr* - But at that moment, all of Uklamas's friends have already bet their lives on him.
Idiots! Why the f* you all bet your lives on him? It isn't different from a shockwave that blows away all his mind.
Idiots! We should ignore him and carry all the pressure while using the technique. Are you all dumb? He can't believe what he's witnessing.
You all shouldn't do that ass thing. Are all of you aiming to kill all of us? Idiots! His eyes open wide while his mind has gone.
Idiots! Idiots! Idiots!
But then he witnesses one more guy change his mind and bets on that outlier. He is forced to stay on the line, whether to support Uklamas or ignore everything because of the pride of himself.
F* it, this damned world!
He emancipates his hands and runs toward Uklamas too, following that action, all of them are already assembled around Uklamas as the center.
They change the hand gestures to the synchronous one - Phoenix Clan's traditional technique: The Blazing Phoenix.
At the same time, Uklamas also starts on his new ability - Together.
This ability gives him the power to carry on all the Aura of the companions if they're willing to put their belief in himself. Also the ability to control the Aura flows, the shape, elements and features. The higher the synchronization is, the higher the output is.
And just in case that all the input Aura(s) is set at the same element, now it is flames, the loss wouldn't exist for the whole process.
Patched Domain technique: Phoenixes of Forever Flames.
Starting at the center, Uklamas, a radius of seven meters is drawn on the shadow. He swiftly moves his hands around to rotate it to form a circle under their feet - Zone.
Then the barrier is built up from the edge in the form of blazing fire and behind themselves, their own phoenixes raise up.
"Polin, use your Sight and check around." - He orders.
"Together" doesn't stop at sharing Aura, for those who contribute to the zone, they can also gain the ability to share the other techniques, except ultimate moves.
And right at the moment that she activates the Aura in her eyes, Uklamas are able to witness the truth of this domain.
This domain has the center, which isn't supposed to be at a specific coordinate, that is its caster - Har. Within the support of Sight, Uklamas has seen that at the "edge" half of the domain is covered by the countless cracks.
"How many minutes have we surpassed?"
Zoe replies, "I don't know it exactly, but perhaps around 2 minutes."
"Alright, we have two more minutes to bestir. We will only focus on blocking the strikes." - Uklamas declares, surely, he doesn't want to risk all of their lives on the unstable gamble.
But… *Crack* - One point on the barrier has been pierced through, instantly painting a weak spot on their wall.
"Guys! Use Sight!" - Uklamas tries to hold on the barrier while fixing the broken point.
To join this muddy pool, none of them are still putting their own pride at the first priority, and somehow, all of them both have the steady belief in the currently unofficial leader - Uklamas.
*Whirr* - One phoenix is sent outside the barrier to parry a piercing shot from the upper corner, left side. Even though half of its body is destroyed, every wound is recovered by the flaming zone.
*Haha* - "A technique that I've never seen, so exciting to push you guys all to the up-coming limits."
*Clap* - He claps his hands once, "Unfortunately, we don't have time to have enough fun with a minute left. So, let's meet again at the next domain."
He casts the same hand gesture on his right hand with a smile and nicely he declares, "I hope that you guys have collected enough experience to counter me at the next time, good luck."
Arrogantly, he emancipates his domain in intention.
But… Why is there a twisted orb between his two palms? Uklamas slightly rubs his eyes in order to recheck if he's seeing the illusion due to the insanity from the accumulated pressure.
No, sh*t. His brain instantly shakes his body to wake it up again. If it could say something, it would scream at the body like the main characters in the average American horror movie when the final bosses catch them.
"Ability can be imagined as a function."
So what if we reverse that function? From the shadow essence, it will become light essence.
Oh, forgot to explain, shadow essence isn't shadow, also light essence isn't light elements. They work as the projections of those two elements, in short. They carry on the basic features of the related elements.
For example, shadow essence can trap light into itself in order to create a blind spot in others' visions, but it can't be created by putting an object to block the light sources; the product of that action is shadow, not shadow essence. Another one, light essence can be created by reversing Har's function of shadow essence, it isn't the light element.
Also, don't misunderstand about reversing Aura. You can't say that reversing a shadow to have light. It doesn't obey the rules of energy conversation.
So what is the problem? Is it related to that twisted orb? Surely it is.
The rules of the world determine that light is the reversed concept of shadow, an ordinary creature can't put those two existences into one spot by overwriting everything all at once. That action is set to be an anomaly point below the "Eye of World," consequently, the product of that process can't be made.
Yet, let's not mention the higher authority that can control the rules of the world, just start at the basic points first. Shadow essence isn't shadow, also light essence isn't light, if light and shadow can't be in the input of the "machine," so how about their essences? While the essences aren't totally the same things as the related elements?
The "Rules" running this world aren't that absolute, there are always some tricks to circumvent them. Right at this moment is the assembly of light essence and dark essence, they carry on themselves the features of those two elements that aren't supposed to be put in the same spot. Which means the boundaries between light and dark are somehow broken just for this twisted "function."
An existence that goes against the orders of the stable worlds is known by the welter nature itself. The existence that goes beyond the perception of humans and other creatures, the power that leads everything back to the era that nothing was formed and structured the current world - Chaos.
Yet, thanks to the fact that the overwritten things aren't the pure elements below the authority and orders of the world, so the "chaos" that is made isn't the true chaos which would destroy the entire realm. Also, based on the input power, the output destruction is set to be equal and the only difference between them is the nature of the attack.
Nevertheless, did I claim that it's weak?
For the true damage, we will be able to admire when he releases it very soon.
Normal Function - Shadow Gates: Shadow Essence.
Reversed Function - Light Gates: Light Essence.
And when those two functions are put into one machine again, it will create the whole new creation - Abnormal function - The Gate of Anomalies: Aberration.
*Note: The machine consuming those two functions as the input is the brand new one that goes beyond the original ones and the user's imagination. It can only be mastered via non-stop forcing their brains to reach that undefined function again and again.
He smiles confidently, "What would you do right now, Phoenix?"
As being woken up, Uklamas runs his brain again in order to find out the best strategy in this situation. It's so dead end right now.
"Should we attack him?" - Zoe suggests.
"I don't think we should." - Polin declines that thought, yet, he also doesn't have any replacement.
"Oh? It looks fun." - Maiya instantly jumps in from nowhere and that fact just shocks Har.
"Don't be too surprised, not only you have an ultimate move." - She declares with a smile.
Ultimate move? Uklamas silently observe everything while trying to isolate his teammates and himself out of that battlefield.
Ultimate move isn't the third function like what Har just performed. In short, it is the consequence of maximizing the output and Aura efficiency of a function until the power contained inside it surpasses the "ultimate threshold."
Maiya's ability is called "Glacial," yes, it is that simple. There is no rule that an ability should be called with a powerful name and Maiya is here to prove that even a simple skill can dye everything in doom and despair, in the death of coldness.
After running her "function" up to 120% via the Ignite, she rapidly forces it to work faster until the maximum output is raised to 200% power. When the quantity reaches the limit, it will reasonably corrupt and form the new ability with the change in quality.
And that's how an Ultimate Move is made based on the normal ability.
"What is the name of that ultimate move, human?" - Maiya holds the strongest strike into her two hands.
*Haha* - "Aberration." - Har replies with a confident smile.
"Let's see how far you can get to. This move will behead you." - She rotates the orb between her hands and unleashes it in one rotation.
"I call it the Ice Age!"
"Hm~" - Har licks his lips, surely he's really excited.
Yet, the field isn't dyed in an explosion like everyone thought. At the start, the cold flows on Maiya's side still bursted and covered the space in the eternal glacials. But then, Har slowly stepped toward her with the twisted orb between his two hands too. It slowly, slowly devoured everything in its way, also swallowing all the Aura flows into itself.
Finally, the distance between them is maintained at two meters, a meter and half of a meter. Until his hands are put over hers and those two orbs are overwritten. He slightly touched her hands and gently pressed them to the center between them, to the unstable orbs.
Until the gap among her hands and his hands is equal zero, everything has gone, her ultimate move has gone - nothing remains.
"Even me, the caster, don't know exactly its function at all." - A gentle smile, he kicks her back two steps.
"Ultimate move…" He wipes the ice dust on his clothes, "Seems like it isn't that strong, right?"
*Tch* - Maiya frowns her eyebrows, she just realizes one cruel fact, that her enemy is the true final boss of this royal duel.
"Don't blame me that I give you no chance." - That hand gesture again is casted.
Maiya instantly gets back her sanity and seals her hands together again - performing the peak technique of every Aura user.
Domain Expansion: Abyssal Gluttony/Glacial Finality
*Clash - Clash* - The howling sounds, the twisted space and the broken barriers are falling down. Starting with the distorted zone and ending with another undefined dimension. Seems like none of them won the domain clash, so everything is forced to disappear without any explanation.
"Abilities are machines and running it will leave the ash of energy inside the users."
From now on, for the next three minutes, their abilities are disabled totally.
*Tch* - "What are you exactly?" - Maiya wipes away the cold sweat on her cheeks.
"I'm a human that is named Har by my own self and my own will. I am and only am myself." - He declares mockerily.
*Vsh* - With the rate of one hundred times of sonic speed, he shifts himself right in front of his enemy with the destructive strike on the left side.
*Thud* - He lands the first attack on the second phase of their fight, officially beginning it with a dominant preemptive assail.
*Thud* - Same strategy. Har again delivers one strike at her solar plexus while avoiding all her blocks. Taking that advantage, the third strike full of Aura again lands on her face.
*Splash* - An ice blade attached to the left heel to form a slash. Even though it only damages him once on the left arm, it still currently freezes a part of himself. In short, it's dangerous even for just a strike.
And Maiya only glances at her rival with the sharp eyes, she materializes her gauntlets again since the start of the duel, "Between you and all the young generation in my clan, I'd rather pick fighting all of them than struggling with you."
"My honor."
But again, Har has made a mistake when he chose to force his ability to reach the limit ten seconds ago. The winds start moving in his surprise.
"Oh… forgot you have more than one." - He smiles with a cold sweat slowly dropping down.
The combination of maximum output of both Glacial and her second ability was called Fusion Ability, not Ultimate Move.
It is also formed by pushing the ability(s) over 120% but to another suitable level, corruption edge, for a change in quality. However, it doesn't thrive anymore, instead it starts collapsing into one small point where all the combined powers are assembled.
In short, the difference between them is one keeps thriving in the special features, one is forced to stop and its change will only be the density of the concentrated power.
And right now, her second ultimate move is activated on her second ability - Whirlwind.
This ultimate move is made by non-stop twisting the winds into one small point as pressing the hill into a tiny orb. But then, her fingers slightly touch it, reforming it to a sharp shining light covered in the sparkling green Aura edge.
Ultimate Move: Tempest Fang
She swiftly swings it, meanwhile the space at Har's right palm is oscillated. It's not different from a risky gamble that much, one fusion ability and one ultimate move have been used on the second ability. After this strike, it'll also be disabled for three minutes.
*Bang* - The light instantly dominates the battlefield since those two strikes collide to each other in the maximum output. Yet, it's too fast for Maiya to witness the truth, standing still right behind the dirt and smoke among the destroyed land, Har is still there with a half-broken right forearm.
"How the f*?" - She opens her eyes wide, she doesn't get it.
"Don't worry, not only you have a trump card." - He steps forward with the full Aura body.
Har also strengthens his fists, "Come come~"
From now on to the next 2 minutes and 38 seconds, they are disabled in special abilities.
*Bang* - A strike full of Aura and the second impact is driven on the ice shield, heavily knocking her back a mile. Non-stop, he rushes forward with another strong kick aiming at her torso, yet, it's blocked. Consequently, another shockwave again forced her three steps backward.
On the attack, he one more time landed the third strike on the same spot, cracking a deep rift on the shield.
When Har aims to drive one more high kick anew to Maiya's turtle shell, he has fallen to her trap already. *Fwoosh* - A stomp and the following ice stakes, half of his body is stuck inside that cage.
"Veil?" - He wonders.
Besides the power of her first ability - Glacial, Maiya also can concentrate her Aura to form the ice blocks as a manifestor. As such, she starts her counters by a direct slash at his left carotid.
Even though they are considered as super creatures already, yet, Har also Maiya can't survive if they let a serious wound like that last for half an hour without any recovery. No matter if they have an ability to control blood or not, letting that wound aside without any intentional strategy is the weirdest and stupidest thing a fighter can do during the fight.
But, it seems like she just forgot that the temperature around them is cold enough to instantly freeze any kind of liquid, even the blood. Yet, in order not to get necrosis, he still needs to maintain a specific amount of Aura to keep everything alright after reinforcing the scabbed over wound at the carotid.
"It's sharp." - He evaluates.
With the non-stop efforts, Har also vibrates the ice stakes to break down its structure without an absolute heat like Crytinas' bombs. And then, it's broken as predicted, light work.
"Why are you fighting for your princess?" - He asks.
"Hmm? Isn't it too clear?" - She frowns.
She steps on a block of ice and declares with a confidence inside her eyes, "I am the shield for my princess, I have a duty to obey her. And my highness' heart still lingers with the demand to finish the path that she chose long ago."
"I'm here to support her will, to break all the chains locking her wings and to accompany her until I die." - Maiya takes time, she materializes an ice spear besides finishing the speech.
"Oh fine. Sometimes I'm quite jealous to witness everyone around me determining their goals with the blazing passion inside their hearts. You know what… I only attended this duel just for fun." - Har slowly tells the truth.
*Crack* - One side of the armchair is crushed to pieces. He is one of the elder elites in the Phoenix Clan, who supports the old-fashioned faction, surely he can't tolerate that superficial declaration during the royal duels.
"How dare you…" - His eyes open wide.
Yet, even though other elder elite phoenixes feel pissed off too, they don't have the courage to do something stupid, especially right now. They all know that when the highest authority holder hasn't said anything, the lower ones like them shouldn't go over the edge.
But the leader of the clan only sits right there without any reaction to that libel. Observing that everyone also says nothing, obeying the first rule - no skepticism to the leader without tyranny movement.
"Why? Do you know that you must bet your life to be a companion of a candidate?" - Maiya doesn't get it.
*Haha* - "It's quite ass to explain thoroughly. But, I just want to thrive harder. I can't see the bottom of my power and clashing with the strongs like you or Yllinas is the best choice currently."
Maiya doesn't laugh, she accepts the challenge, "Maiya Aisen, declare you a duel of glory."
"Har, declare you a duel of glory." - Since that moment, that reply started the true fight between them.
On the other side, another battle has already started in the third phase. With the support from Crytinas, Yllinas even has more chances to negate every movement of Harba. Yet, they both have the same feeling, that their enemy has been becoming stronger time by time unusually.
"Yllin, what's wrong with him?" - Crytinas asks.
"I'm not even sure, perhaps he has an item." - Yllinas also boosts herself with Ignite.
The reason why she hasn't used her ability is because of the principle of shield in this royal duel.
Her origin and power are special, in short she has many chances to beat Harba but she's limited in chance(s) to actually kill him. If she bursts everything up from the start, Harbo only needs 500 points to negate everything. And from the beginning to the present time, he has abused not even less than thrice. That's a big deal.
Third information update after 104 hour(s) 15 minute(s) and 03 second(s):
Harba Aza: 2700 points (-2200) - supporters: 10 members.
Aliny Lam: 4300 - supporters: none.
Crytinas: 1920
Yllinas: 4060
Current participants: 10 members (-379).
"You brats, so annoying." - Harba instantly approaches Yllinas with a blazing right fist.
*Bang* - That impact even sent her flying back miles even though her two legs were doing great in braking the force.
"Crytin! His maximum output has increased tenfold!" - Within a strike with maximum output, she has already figured out the absolute difference from the previous ones.
"Where are you looking?" - His fingers instantly catch Crytinas' face as red-hot claws.
*Crack* - Har rapidly jumps into their fight from nowhere with a fast kick landing right at Harba's elbow - instantly breaking it.
*Fwoosh* - The ice stakes cut through the dried earth and devastate everything in their way, even half-self of that prince.
*Smack* - A heavy kick strike knocks him two steps backward, "Get away." - Har throws a sharp look on him.
*Smack* - Another drive kick is driven to Har's head, yet, it's parried. It's Maiya, with a grin, she instantly increases the pressure and knocks her rival backward, "Not enough heat!"
"Who do you think you are?" - Harba doesn't take it calmly, he throws toward them a bunch of fire balls in order to– *Boom* - Three shots instantly are sent from Crytinas' side, she obviously just negated all his attacks.
*Swish* - With the maximum output, Yllinas one more time drives her blazing kick to his head for a critical strike. *Smack* - Yet, being parried goes ahead.
Switching the field, also the view, Maiya is crushing all the objects in the way with Har beneath her right foot. Fast and furiously, Har swiftly grabs that cute ankle and redirects it aside a distance that's enough for him to approach the rival while his right elbow sneaks upward like a snake.
*Smack* - Maiya instantly thrust her hips and left knee forward while curling her right leg correspondingly for a fast parry. Right foot sticks with left hand, left knee lands on right arm, they stick like that for thirty seconds with the space submerged into their bursting Aura.
*Bang* - Har's two arms are broken beneath that pressure and Maiya also got one torn left leg too. It's not a good deal for Har to sacrifice those two claws, however, he has something else to fix this problem.
*Plop* - The shadow essence slightly overflows through his two wounds and patches everything up. He still smiles, as if it's a cheap trick worth a buck at the market.
Maiya also smiles, but way more distorted, "I hate your expression."
*Haha* - Replying to nothing, he keeps approaching… approaching… until the gap between them is close enough for a headbutt.
"Domain Expansion." - They both do their own hand gestures and try to dominate the space around them in their own Aura.
*Vroom* - But different from the last time, Har chose to close his two palms together for the gesture. It's quite strange for Maiya to witness one guy try to expand his own domain with the different signals.
To explain it, no matter how many abilities they have, one Aura user can only expand one domain at the same time. Domain is carving Aura or even Ability on the dominated space via the zone and barriers, so basically and literally one Aura user just needs to switch the input to get the output they demand. No one has time and reason to build up a brand new world just for each ability they possess, it's not economical at all.
And an Aura user usually has for himself a signal to start casting the domain, switching the different signal isn't a good choice due to the difference in space perception. About the "perception," there is no way in words that we can explain it thoroughly, it should be like: "if you know, you know" situation. In short, just imagine that one hand gesture stands for an Aura user's base in space perception and reflex. To expand a domain, they must assemble three things: space perception; reflex; experience. Changing a new hand gesture is similar to redoing everything but with only reflex - a high risky bet.
Someone also explained that the requirement of "hand gestures" is one way for domain casters to announce to the world that they are going to lay their hands on the field of space domination. There were also many facts that some domain casters messed up without the significant signal and got crushed by the collapsed space field. Yet, there are always the outliers. Not only one, but there were five legends that could expand their domain without that requirement, also theirs had no barrier, which means literally their domain can expand up to the infinite range.
And possessing one domain, not even mastering it, is really an incredible achievement, let alone to do something weird ass like Har just did.
"Weirdo." - Maiya smocks.
"Let's see who it's for." - Har increases his Aura into space, aiming for a clear hit to knock her out of this fight via the space dispute.
*Vroom* - The space around them keeps twisting itself over and over again, following their beat and rhythm, all the zone they're standing on is isolated from the outer world. It's like two fishes swimming around a center point and those forces are enough to draw a brand new flow over them in the river - a wonderful blessing.
*Vroom* - There hasn't been a winner yet, they keep themselves on this peak fight. The space is still kept the same, being twisted and oscillated among their Aura movement.
*Vroom* - At the third phase, instability inside the space vortex has already appeared on Har's side. Is he going to lose?
*Vroom* - Besides that familiar sound, lingering among them are the small cracking sounds. Whose do they belong to?
*Vroo–Crack* - And the first one to fall has finally been here. Behind Maiya, it starts cracking and breaking all apart.
*Crack* - Like crossing the night sky with the blazing meteor over the bottomless firmament, the patterns are being carved into space. The glacial flowers have bloomed through the twilight.
Wait? Why is it twilight? Why was the sky dyed into the darkness already? Wasn't it noon?
Domain: Glacial Finality is built up in her confusion. But then, Maiya instantly regains the sanity and focus, she has no time for gossip.
By the way, she has used up to half of her ability duration in this period of time to win against Har seconds ago. Which means, literally she only has one minute and thirty-five seconds more to use this domain until the Glacial ability has to be gone again.
There's a fact that they both used Aura and Abilities in that space domination duel. Consequently, Har's ability is wasted too.
And Maiya had caught the detail that Har lost in that fight due to his gone ability. Which means for the next one minute and thirty-five seconds, Har is cooked, right?
"What the f–"
Inside that palm prison, a twisted orb is lingering madly.
Aberration? He used the third function while casting domain? How was it possible? Her brain is dumped by the chaos, she doesn't get it.
Casting domain requires the casters the highest focus and maximum power to dominate the space, carve the Aura or Ability for the guaranteed attacks/sure-hits. So basically casting domain and forming the third function at the same time is just an improbability. It's cheating if someone can actually do it, let alone to dance around with smockery on the smile like Har.
"How is it possible?" - Maiya shouts out!
"Nuh uh~" - He points forward, going to release it outside.
In this situation, Maiya has two choices. Whether she keeps finishing the domain barriers and eliminating her rival within one strike in maximum output with the guaranteed hit feature of the domain. Whether she cancels everything and dodges that nuke.
Har lost the space domination duel because of his exhausted ability, which means he's unable to use any ability after releasing that third function. So Maiya can literally defend herself from that bomb and then she's won. After all, from the perspective of a gambler, Maiya should risk her life. And from her own perspective, Maiya will actually do it no matter the consequence.
Domain Expansion: Glacial Finality - completed.
She also isolates Har inside the dense ice block, waiting for the explosion. And right now she has two more scenarios that are possible. First one, if Har can't break through that cage, she can instantly kill him. In the worst case, if he can't only break it, but also cause the damage on herself, she wouldn't be able to maintain the domain barriers.
So actually, it's a risk of whether having one more chance to cast domain after being canceled this time or whether going straight to the final victory with the cost of disabled Glacial ability.
Don't forget that she's still fighting for her princess, taking down Har in the second scenario is good enough to bet, yet, Yllinas and Crytinas are the threats. Nevertheless, the contract between Aliny and Harba was broken since she's disabled during the royal fight.
Starting with no trust, consequently ending without any reliability on both sides. So teaming up temporarily and declaring one clause allowing them to cancel that boundary locking them up easily is the best choice to split up without any damage.
Correspondingly, not too direct but Maiya is put into the case that Yllinas, Crytinas, Har and Harba are all her enemies on the way leading to the final goal. This is the worst thing ever, even though she had a chance to earn points, yet, she declined; she is waiting.
I'm counting on you, Aliny. She whispers in her mind.
I… I… one more time, I messed up everything…
Aliny Lam is a potential phoenix from Lamy's branch, one of the top tier forces in the whole Phoenix Clan. They maintain the clan classes absolutely, which we can clearly see in the difference between power of participants and candidates. And also there's a fact that those 1000 participants were trained specially at a young age in order to be more superior than other normal phoenixes.
Let's look at their system of power and authority distribution. The leader stays on top of the group, following him are five Supreme Elders who can force the leader to do something with 4 votes out of five. The third tier is for Elder Elites, the class for some strong clan members that's achievable by a specific contribution to the clan. Below them, the tier full of phoenixes contributing up to 20% of the clan impact - Elder tier.
Even lower than that tier is three more classes, respectively decreasing: Elites - Main Line Descendants - Cadet Branch Descendants.
The clan rules prohibit cadet branch descendants to learn about Clan Ability before they reach age of 25, no matter if they awaken it or not, access clan high level techniques and learn normal branch techniques before age of 30. It causes a big gap between main line members and cadet line members.
There's also a treasure that has been inherited by main lines - the structure of fire essence in their Aura. The structure of the Aura determines the power in the output, which means in the same condition, who has the better essence deals more damage. Moreover, to apply to Elite class, the cadet line members must turn in the applications then after getting allowed, they will receive the permission to perform and be considered by the Elders.
With those injustices and discrimination, the Cadet Lines also found other ways to achieve power by themselves. Impacted by that ideal, one of six sovereign lines, main lines, the branch of Supreme Elder Lamy also allowed their members to go beyond the box.
And that's why Aliny could choose her own path and focus on her own way to the current position. Carrying the belief of justice and equality, she stepped on the reversed path of that flow of class system. She demands a clan that no longer needs to look at everyone's origins and categorize them into groups for corresponding treatments. She demands no discrimination.
But then… Why did Yllinas mention, "Aliny, she is too calculating and cunning" before the contract between her and Crytinas was made? It isn't supposed to be a plot hole of an immature novel, is it?
There were three times that she lost herself.
I… I…
Gross–
You make me sick, Aliny.
Ti… Tiama?
Don't call me by that name. Can you just throw away the weakness and that ass prejudice and accept me as a part of yourself?
No… No. No! You aren't… You aren't!
Yes. I. Am. Aliny, we are one and only one existence. That's the fact you've been ignoring since that day.
No! No! No! You are not me.
You exist as the goodness and I'm the wicked fund. We were split but assembled, it is His demand.
I, I, I!
Do you want Maiya to die? Or do you want her to sacrifice for you?
…
She's being attacked continuously outside this mental cage. And you are here and crying as a loser. Stand up Aliny, accepting a truth isn't that hard.
I don't want to lose myself, stop cursing me Tiama.
Tiama… There is no Tiama at all. Everything was made up by your imagination, just obey the destiny, then we're good.
I don't know what you are talking about. I'm Aliny and I won't fuse my mind into yo–
Aliny. As I said, we are one self and we are set to be in this situation just by your selfish will. Am I not qualified for a fair life? Don't I deserve that normal life? Is that your own justice by locking me up in this darkness and isolating me from your life? To enjoy those days individually without me, is that your justice?
I– I…
Years ago, Aliny had a twin and that was a little girl following her as a tiny tail. She remembers those days playing with her little twin up to the sunset. She held those hands and danced over the sunflowers field, she remembers that they were on the hill. Those days are the precious treasures in her mind, forever. She wishes, she wishes–
"I wish I didn't kill her." - Mourning, she cried.
Maiya only looked at the princess that she'd been following, without any reply, she put her hands on those shaking shoulders.
Later, when her mutated ability woke up and sent herself into madness. Lingering through her fingers, she witnessed the ice particles flowing. Having such an ability that goes beyond everyone's potential, she was happy, she was happy, until…
Right behind her, there was a corpse, a little, a familiar and… a frozen carcass that she wouldn't want to witness. Her twin, Tiama, was killed by her ability; within a blood drop transformed to crystals, she left Aliny without any announcement and fear. Until the very end, that smile still lingered on her smile.
That's why she kept calling the other side of her mind with that name, to persuade herself that she had a twin and her name is Tiama. But what if that "truth" is made up by her imagination? As "Tiama" said–
No! I had a twin, she is Tiama. And you!
I… I? What's wrong? I am just a part of yourself, not the curse of that "twin." Cruelly, Aliny, let me tell you the truth, there is no Tiama.
Impossible! Impossible! Imp–
Why do you keep persuading yourself that she is real?
I held her hands, we cruised the seas and mountains, we… we?
Can't remember right? A story that's made for just filling up the lost in your soul isn't perfect. Am I right?
We… We! We! We… I…
Don't need to try, also cry, the true pain only comes from the barriers between us. Break it, accept me as a part of yours, there's no longer pain for us. Come, Aliny.
The dark fragment slightly approaches the light source among the darkness of mysteries. It is waiting for the assembly, for that release of "itself."
*Sigh* - "Seems like I need to break the rule." - That guy sits on the head of a void worm and laments.
"You don't need to." - Yujin slightly watches the whole situation without any worriness.
"How? I mean why don't you just show out that you're worrying about that movement of the Outer Gods? The perfect vessel is going to be created. We must…" - He stops.
Yujin smiles, he looks at the silhouette standing right next to the long-red-haired girl.
"Nah, we'd win."
Claris: "Hey, Yuiz, what do you thin–"
Her voice struggles when she witnesses her "husband" pointing straight to the gate leading to the other dimension, the royal duel.
*Whirr* - All the strong phoenixes sitting at the stadium instantly unleash their Aura to stop him.
Claris swiftly tries to calm them all down, but then, for the first time he actively speaks up - "Claris, don't worry. I'll only fix the aberration of this world."
*Bang* - The leader instantly stands right next to him with a cold face and a sharp look, "You'll explain your actions to us, won't you?" - A question, a request but also a command.
"Don't worry, old man, I'm doing my job." - He replies while aiming his attack to that dimension gate.
"Lazal! What are you doing?" - One of the five Supreme Elders shouts out.
The patriarch only looks at Yuiz with hesitation, but then he gives them a hand sign, which prevents all the clan members from any hostile act.
"If you harm any of them, I'll kill you and your girl immediately." - He declares.
Meanwhile, Claris only looks at Yuiz with a worried manner. She believes that he won't sacrifice her, also she isn't scared that a death sentence may come. She only worries about the relationship between her clan and this Phoenix Clan.
"Deal, but to kill Claris beneath my protection, I don't think you're strong enough." - He doesn't mind anything at all.
Come here, Aliny. Hold my hands and we are all good. I want to feel the love of our parents too.
Finally, that last sentence has already broken all the mental walls inside that little girl. She is crying, Aliny regrets all her selfish acts.
I… I…
When her arms are moving forward for that embrace, Yuiz has already done his preparation.
*Vroom* - A slash, he divides the "Tiama" from that mental world of Aliny within a slash. Left behind, everyone doesn't get it. They all look at him with the same confusion.
"Don't worry, as I said, no one is harmed." - He steps forward.
"Oh, also, I will jump into that dimension. Don't worry, I only prevent the calamity that may come and wipe out all your candidates."
Leaving the book of prophecies on the second page, he disappears into that gate.
*Vroom* - The explosion has come as it may come. But different from the two cases that Maiya predicted, the barriers are even broken beneath the overpowered destruction of that third function. For the previous time, she wasn't able to watch it thoroughly due to the strange features of the Aberration. Yet, this time, she had enough time and a closer gap to examine it thoroughly via the barriers of her domain.
As I said, to cast the domain with the barriers, the user must dominate the space. Which means just a second ago, no one else but herself took all of that devastation. And then, she realized that the third function has the ability to break all the rules, even the features of space.
"Wicked thing." - She evaluates.
"Oh thanks, I'm even impressed by my power too." - Har for the first time breaks all the perception of Aura in Maiya's perspective again.
He again makes that hand gesture, not the two hands one, this time it is the same as the first signal he made minutes ago.
"How the f–" Maiya also seals her hands again, she knows that she can't wait anymore.
Domain Expansion: Abyssal Gluttony/Glacial Finality
*Vroom* - For the first time, she witnesses someone can even cast the domain twice continuously without any delay.
Based on her knowledge, she determines that no matter how wicked the world is, there can't be any case that a human can win against her in this domain clash. Especially when the trace of exhausted ability that's gone at the previous fight wasn't fake.
Even if you are the outlier, you still can not break that rule. She determines.
But then, one more time, Har again breaks all the formats. With the difference of 0.025 second of faster casting, Har instantly overwhelms Maiya in the space field easily as pie.
"How can? Your ability?" - She shouts out.
With a grins, he replies, "I didn't admit that I only have one."
As usual, domain casters always maintain their domains until their minds reach a limit. And after that, they shouldn't expand their domain again due to the weaker ability, also weaker sure-hits, and also the overflowing mental pressure.
That's why she's shocked when Har chose to expand his domain even though he just ran out of the ability previously and failed the clash.
And right now, right at this moment, Har one more time proves to the world that nothing is impossible. He didn't only win against Maiya in the space domination, but also overwhelm her not to be able to maintain the Glacial Finality anymore.
Domain clash can send the casters to the twisted space to determine the winner, but it can also be changed to the patched reality that all the domains can be overwritten into each other when the equilibrium is set between them (no winner counted).
Three impossible achievements in one day, Har is on the fire.
*Vroom* - Abyssal Gluttony has been casted thoroughly. The barriers are built up around them, totally locking everything inside it. Yet, Maiya isn't overwhelmed by that truth for too long. She has already pushed her second ability up to the level of corruption - Ultimate Move: Tempest Fang.
However, the difference has already occurred. The devastation that's supposed to cut through the domain is prevented in the air. And slowly, slowly, slowly evaporates into the bottomless abyss below the throne that he sits on.
Moreover, the ninety-nine stairs at the previous domain were just the optional objects that he made for fun. Cruelly, those twelve phoenixes believing that they surpassed the whole domain of Har were blindfolded. They didn't survive through the sure-hits, they just "luckily" tolerated all the stronger attacks of Aura in the domain.
"Greedy…" - She admires. She can't believe that one day she can admire this kind of domain features.
"Sorry lady, our play time has come to an end." - He declares with the guaranteed strike at her head.
"We gave up our identity, we ignored being anything but fixers in this world."
That is the declaration of that organization, the Fixers, where all the aberrations on the world are solved soft and sound.
And right now, one of them is floating over the sparkling clouds under the night sky, Yuiz - the last fixer of this era.
"Shall we begin, Seed of Evils?" - He looks straight at that frozen corpse on the ground, where the dark smoke is overflowing.
It madly struggles in the darkness and the silhouette of the demon appears.
"Mammon, this era doesn't belong to you all." - Yuiz declares with a cold voice.
*Kek-kek-kek* - "HUmAns… AnnOyNnINg."
It rushes toward him with the cursed Aura. Within this strike it'll be able to invade himself and control that body - temporarily creating another vessel for the seven deadly sins.
*Vroom* - "Huh?"
Forced to stay between his hands, the seed is locked up by the prison of time stones.
*Rumbling* - It struggles, it struggles!
"The age of holy light and evil darkness ended years ago. You all do not belong to this era." - Crushing the cubic prison inside his hands, instantly devastating everything to the nihility.
Flashback: They were washing themselves in the moonlight pool.
"Aliny."
"Hmm?"
"I want you to carry all the points." - Maiya looked at her princess with determination.
"Don't be silly, you need it to recover your Aura or wounds." - She denied.
"Nah, I'm the strongest. Just believe in me." - She looked very confident.
"Jezz, with that manner, there'll be one day that you'd fail."
"I'd like to see it too." - Different from Aliny's thoughts, Maiya reacts very calmly to it.
"I hate being the strongest, you know? Yllinas can't use her ability due to the restricted limits, since the day I awakened my ultimate moves, everything'd been done."
Maiya only looked at her shield within the silence.
"Don't be a stubborn lady. Your safety is the first priority, got it?"
*Sigh* - "All up to you."
Flashback in flashback: When Maiya was still a teenager. She was in the forest with the mysterious guy.
"Why are you so untalkative?"
"So why should I be talkative?"
*Ble~* - "Boring girls won't have any husbands."
*Ble~* - "Who just needs them tho?"
But then he stopped right at the elder oak tree with plenty of carved patterns.
*Ah~* - "Such a long dream."
"What are you even talking about?"
"So do you know why I led you to this place?"
"To kidnap me?"
He slowly downed his knees and pinched her two cheeks, "E, e, ee~ E, e, ee~"
"Stop harassing me." - Maiya made a face.
"Nah, you are so boring."
She didn't get it, she didn't know why she must accept weaker phoenixes as her companions.
"Listen, Maiya."
"I'm hearing."
"Making friends isn't mandatory, it's optional."
"Yes, then?"
"A strong person like you can choose whatever you want. But isolating yourself from peers isn't a good choice while you can learn something from other successes or even mistakes." - He threw away the mockery.
"Then what? What should I do? Different from others, my ability is mutated and it's even stronger than others. I'm the outlier and no one accepts me truly as a normal phoenix." - She replied with a cold face, it seemed like she'd been hearing this lame thing for a while.
"Oh c'mon my little lady. I didn't tell you to try matching them, on the contrary, I believe in you to keep going ahead, as far as you can until everyone around you desires to lower themselves while following you." - He laughs.
Maiya didn't get it, she didn't consider this different case that she would experience. She thought that this guy would repeat same sh*t as every elders in her clan.
"Don't worry. Your speciality isn't a curse, it's a gift. So just go ahead until the boundary is left behind, some days you will find out the place you belong to and the person that you want to accompany." - He looks at her with the patience in the eyes, softly, he persuades.
"Is there anything like that?" - She's confused, she hesitated.
"Sure. Why not? Unfortunately we're on the slope of the cycle. iIf one day everything again may repeat, I hope you would have enough power to fly as high as you can, to spread your journey as far as you can and open your mind as great as you can. The world isn't like your clan, it's not a boring cage or a limited box, it is the greatest painting that you must admire." - He told the story with the longings lingering.
"Why?"
"Hmm? What do you mean?" - He asked.
Maiya looked at him. She still remembers that day, she looked at him with the eyes of confusion and… a little bit of anticipation.
"Why are you that happy?"
*Haha* - He laughed and stroked her hair, "Sure I am. Recording everything and watching the natural changes are my desires. I want to figure out the essence of this world."
For a while, he kept looking at the starry night sky over their heads.
Then he spoke up, "Your mind will change through time, Maiya. So just remind yourself each moment from now on, that if there is anyone that you want to bet your life on."
"I won't deny it, nor accept it. It's just boring."
"Then you would be so lonely, my dear."
"At least I have you, a stubborn old man." - She wasn't sure about her feelings.
*Haha* - He stroked her hair again, "One day, you will find it out."
One day…
*Splash* - Her left hip is destroyed to nothing and the blood drops overflowing within. She smiles, "Annoying old man."
"Hmm? What are you even talking about?" - Har slightly takes out the right gauntlet, surely he's going to activate Rage for the last hit.
*Haha* - A low-pitched laugh, she calls, "Aliny, I'm going to die. Are you still sleeping?"
"Sure not." - That girl again pays 100 points to cure her neck while moving her two hands on the barriers of the domain from outside. Her Aura instantly bursts through the level of 120%, 150%, 180% until it reaches 200% after two seconds.
Ultimate Move: Glacial Crystallization
Based on the features of the ice element and her own space perception, she instantly interrupts the structure of the domain barriers - freezing it until the black orb is covered by a layer of ice crystal.
*Crack* - Not only the barriers but also the entire domain is forced to disappear.
"Oh wow, the power of friendship, so fair." - Har grins.
"You're so late." - Maiya touches that arm and stands up.
"Let's go beyond, Maiya."
"Sure~"
Over the sky, under the starlight, there is a silhouette staring at them with the controlled Hex covering all the firmament above.
He slightly takes out a stone, "Claris."
"Yes?" - She replies.
In the witness of the high class phoenixes, he declares, "From now on, we are no longer related. I don't want to break the relationship between your clan and this phoenix clan."
She unconsciously crushes the armchair, "Wait! What is actually going on?"
"He has come." - Yuiz slowly unleashes his Hex outside.
"He? What do you mean?"
"The wicked entity."
Since two years ago, Claris has heard about that term from her "husband" frequently. She doesn't get it, nor what it stands for, but she surely knows that Yuiz won't let that guy survive.
"Don't worry my dear, even if everything may come to the worst case, I won't leave you behind." - Claris doesn't joke, she's really determined.
"Thanks." - He offs the call.
Yuiz looks at Har as looking at the worst criminal in the world. His eyes showed him the future already.
After the victory of princess Crytinas, she will be able to achieve the support of the Phoenix Founder of her clan. Surpassing all the betrays, she finally has a family with Har.
They embrace each other and enthusiastically having s*x.
Is it important for me to mention that detail? Why not? When the most disgusting existence was shown in his mind. After ten seconds of using the special ability of his two eyes, Yuiz witnessed the origin of one of the seven deadly sins of Hell - the seed of Lust.
"Finally, I've found you. The Unholy Entity."