Zen knew he needed all the luck possible, so he instantly entered his own mind, and met Kirigakure. She was turned away from him, silently meditating.
"Are you strong enough to be the Shadow Monarch? Are you strong enough to help those who you wish to? Are you strong enough to even use this power you be been blessed with?" Kirigakure arose and spoke, causing for Zen to stay silent. "These are the questions that go through your mind. Your doubt clouds your judgement, and it weakens your Shadows trust in you. They need a strong leader, and every time they choose to follow you, they wanted you to be strong enough."
Kirigakure turned to face Zen, her face covered by her hollow mask. "Show us your strength, or I will lead the Shadow Army." Kirigakure's Shadow stretched behind her, quite a few of Zen's own Shadows appearing behind her. "These Shadows all have some doubt in you, and their doubt will one day come back to bite you." Zen looked to see Gon, Killua, Erza, Minato, Tank, Orihime, Kenpachi, and Ornstein all standing against him, silently meeting his gaze.
Behind him though, was Nix, Baruka, Annie, Leonardo, and Igris. "We will follow you until the end, My King." Igris bowed, bringing a small smile to Zen's face.
"All of you, I thank you for having unshakable trust in me. And for those who doubt me, I will show you today, why you have no more reason for doubt!" Zen yelled out, the flames of determination raging wildly in his soul.
"Let's take back the crown!" Kirigakure yelled, causing for the Shadow Army behind her to cheer in agreement.
In an instant, without holding anything back, Zen accelerated himself to the max that he could, moving several times faster than before. He could maintain the boost for awhile, but he wasn't done with his boosts just yet.
He activated his newest skill, Black Dragon of Space, and Zhen Heilong's Constant boosts after it. Not being done yet, he activated Mana Shield for some help with his defenses, and the Cheon Bu skills after it.
The Shadow Monarch finished his buffs by using Hollowfication, his mask appearing on his face. Even though he wouldn't be able to keep all the skills active for too long, he was going to use the minuscule amount of time for its best.
Without warning, Zen used Black Dragon's Leap to close the distance between himself and Kirigakure.
While most of the Shadows were almost not moving compared to his fast he was, Kirigakure matched Zen's speed with her own, reminding him that they shared similar skills.
Zen threw a right hook, using Black Dragon's Blow, and instead of Kirigakure trading blows, she ducked, and her mask suddenly shifted.
Her mask grew, covering her her head with two horns coming out of each side. In the same instant, she shattered Zen's Mana Shield, and landed a blow directly into his gut.
For a moment, only a moment, Zen could feel his inside rearranging from the pure shock of the blow, before Gamer's Body kicked in and took a large chunk from his health. Zen was launched into the air, seeming to fly for multiple long seconds before he crashed against the ground yet again.
All of his generals that still followed him wished to help, but they all knew their respective jobs, all of them crashing against the other Shadows.
Instead of making any small banter, Kirigakure rushed Zen again, using Negator before he could reactivate any of his skills.
She jumped into the air, summoning Odin's spear, Gungnir, and throwing in straight down into Zen. Last second, before the attack would undeniably take another huge fraction of his health, he felt a sudden instinct to dodge to his right, one of his passive skills coming to save his neck. He listened to it, quickly rolling over to his side, but not fast enough to completely avoid the attack.
Because it never missed.
The attack went straight through Zen's brain, which would've certainly killed him without his original skills, Gamer's Body and Gamer's Mind.
-3000 Health Lost!
"Title Equip: Black Dragon's Student." Zen spoke, and he felt small changes to himself begin to happen, his skin becoming more solid, he grew a bit taller, he felt two small wings grow from his back, and he felt his nails sharpen a little bit.
[Black Dragon's Student]
[The Black Dragon gains his 5th student. Tap into the mighty power of the Dragons by equipping this title. All Black Dragon/Zhen Heilong skills cost 30% less.]
Zen flipped himself onto his feet before leaping into the air, and activating Empty Time for the first time.
Time stopped all around.
All the Shadows were completely halted, all of their sounds and movements all frozen in the one instant Zen paused in. His acceleration was stopped as well, simply because you couldn't stop time while speeding it up as well.
Kirigakure was stopped midair for only a moment, before countering with her own use of Empty Time, effectively negating the effects of the ability on herself.
Even though the skill was new, they both continued fighting as of nothing happened. Zen rose and Kirigakure fell, and they both met in the middle with separate Gungnir's in their hands. They both shot out the spears, and both the legendary spears clashed in the center.
A gargantuan explosion of pure energy occurred, but both Kirigakure and Zen stayed steady, not being thrown into different positions by the explosion. The stopped time didn't let the explosion actually proceed.
Zen used Dominator's Will and pulled Kirigakure towards himself, reaching out to her and gripping her neck with his Dragon-like hands.
He planned on throwing her into the ground before his skill faded, not having nearly enough Mana to go on much longer, but instead, a beam of energy started to form from in between her masks horns.
Zen didn't even have a chance to react, even with his incredible senses before the beam of energy was launched into his face.
The force pushed him off of her, and left him open for Kirigakure's next move. She took a page from Zhen Heilong's skills, and adapted it to her hollow-like skills.
She slammed her feet into Zen's chest, launching him into the ground with a monster-like roar.
Zen crashed into the ground and didn't get a single moment of a break, Kirigakure seeming to form a new attack out of her Mana.
"Die, and give me the crown I deserve!" She formed Artemis's golden bow, and yelled before pulling the string back, her intentions as clear as daylight.