Zane Williams and The Gods of Olympus

by thesuperone342

Ever felt like Jason Grace is a complete disappointment and a failure to what a son of Zeus should be? Ever feel like Thalia was a waste and was thrown away too quickly? Well, this is the fanfiction for you. Join Zane Williams on his quest to be the strongest. Current Arc: The Last Olympian. Yaoi. (Anime Elements/AU) [Bad First Chapter, Needs Rewrite]

55. The Final Battle: Part Three

Alright, y'all, it's finally here. Sorry it took the better part of a year. The third and final part of the final battle of the PJO saga, which means after this we only have one final wrap up chapter and then we're free to move on past Kronos. If we make it past Kronos, that is lol, no spoilers for this chapter. Hopefully this chapter came out much faster than the previous one did, and hopefully I can start to actually have a writing schedule and release weekly chapters like I did at the start. This chapter is going to blow all the previous ones out of the water, so get ready. But first, some reviews.

Mr. Reader: "Glad to see you're back on the platform. Really think you did a good job at portraying all of Zane's emotions in this chapter. Looks like the next chapter will be the conclusion to this fight, then. 9/10 chapter. Good work."

Response: Zane felt emotions last chapter that would destroy people and he's still going. This chapter was still a little late lmao but it did get finished a hell of a lot quicker than last chapter. I'm slowly getting better lol. Hope you enjoy this chapter; next one is the finale.

Echoxenvy: "Damn bro, that was crazy. Im speechless. Epic battle and i cant wait for the next part. Prophecy Power is finally here, and i also really liked how you utilized Taylor in this chapter. That was unexpected."

Response: This chapter going to be even crazier than the last one lol. Prophecy Power is going to be so insane I'm going to have to put my all into describing it's power. Can't wait til this book is FINALLY finished and we get to the third crossover. Been too long and I'm hopefully finally back lol. Also your story is the greatest of all time and it was amazing. Hope you enjoy this chapter, man.

Freedom-Knight02: "OK now I feel sorry for Luke, plus I can't pm or something, so can we please talk if you take story requests?"

Response: Feel sorry for him how lol? Bro is basically irredeemable at this point, with him literally killing incalculable amounts of people as he's destroy universes just to prove a point and has annihilated Earth in two different alternate universes lmao. But if you mean you pity him, I definitely get that. He's basically the textbook definition of pathetic and you can't help feeling a little sorry for his delusions. And depends on the story request, so try and dm me again, or better yet actually join the new ZW discord server lol.

Turkte: "Wow amazing, can't wait for the 5 demigods in the hoo getting a reality check that this man's the god dam alpha male"

Response: HoO is going to be VASTLY different than the canon version, like to a massive degree. Most of the canon character will be in it, but some might not. And maybe some new characters, too. Zane is an alpha male lmao, but he used to be very psychotic lmao.

Alright, enough with reviews. Let's blow this pop-stand.

(DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything portrayed here (Except the OCs). If the fact that this is on a Fanfiction site didn't tip you off, you're fucking stupid.)

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At my echoey words, Luke's jaw dropped to the floor, looking more stunned than I had ever seen the New Titan of Time, which was really saying something. He could no doubt feel my aura, which had further surpassed his own once more, being stronger than even my 'limit broken' Heavenly Thunder Form state that had nearly killed him in one hit beforehand. His eyes were wider than dinner plates, with his irises tracing the golden, rainbow particle infused energy that surged off my form.

As he looked at my new golden aura, Luke started to begin breathing heavily, despite not having to physically breathe at all due to his divine status. It started out slow before it quickly began to increase in speed to the point of hyperventilation, with Luke's face shifting from one of absolute pure shock to absolute pure rage, an expression I've seen on his face many times. Luke's hyperventilating reached a peak, with it resulting in the most 'Luke' thing ever.

"RAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" Luke let out a momentous roar, which the sheer force of the roar itself creating more reality cracks around us. The lava-riddled hellscape below where the shattered remnants of Earth lay rippled and sloshed with the force of Luke's power, with his multi-colored aura erupting around him and his Heavenly Diamond scythe. Luke's power, thanks to his constantly rising strength level via Aposynthesi, was now officially more powerful than my father, even my father at his absolute peak.

Luke's aura died down from the several dozen meter size it had risen to after Luke powered up, now only flaring around his frame by a couple meters. "I'm done….I'm completely done..heheheh.." Luke let out a small chuckle and shook his head. His voice was surprisingly calm, especially after he had completely blown his gasket after seeing my new 'Infinity' state, which is what I was officially naming the form. Had a nice ring to it.

But before I could continue to muse about my new form and the power it brought to me, Luke's aura flashed around him for a brief second before returning to normal size. It was the exact same thing that happened when he stopped time, as I had felt and seen his aura many times when using the ability. However, instead of disappearing from view faster than I could perceive…the world changed. A sickly orange hue overtook everything around me, a hue that is specifically different than the aura hue that Luke's energy blotted out the sky with.

Everything around me froze, even the subatomic particles I could detect with this new form's enhanced extrasensory abilities. Time was completely stopped…and I could still move. My eyes quickly twitched from side to side, quickly scanning everything around me with my Infinity State amplified brain. Luke was still floating where he had been before, still chuckling and shaking his head. "This has simply gotten ridiculous." Luke said to himself, before looking at me. "Got the time stop going before he could form a barrier. This will be easy." Guess Luke likes to talk to himself while in time stop, huh?

I kept myself completely still, using every ounce of concentration I had to make myself not move a single attometer. I wanted to make Luke believe his time stop still worked on me, which was still absolutely crazy to me that it didn't. How did I have the ability to move? Luke, when stopping time, can perform actions in zero time. To be able to do something or move somewhere faster than time can be measured, it means whatever is performing such actions has infinite speed, or at least that was the simplified explanation of it. Do I have infinite speed now, using this new state?

Whatever my new speed level was, it didn't matter right now. Luke approached me casually by floating towards my frame, holding Aposynthesi tightly in his right hand as his multi-colored aura built up around the weapon. He looked absolutely pissed yet had an ugly smile on his non-cracked face, as if he was angry beyond belief but still liked what was about to come. "You know, Zane, I wanted to see the light leave your eyes as you were being erased…" His smile faded and the only thing that remained on his face was pure fury. "…but you were too strong. I was lucky to even stop time quick enough before you killed me."

Luke stopped to my left, floating off to the side and looking at the ruined Earth beneath us. "I destroyed Earth, killed all your friends, annihilated the gods and even offed your pathetic father. I've all but won in every regard…and yet, you're still alive. More powerful than ever before. I can feel it in your aura." Luke growled to himself, clenching both of his giant gauntleted hands into a fist. "I'm ending this before it can go any further. Your story, Zane…is over!" Luke pulled Aposynthesi back into a swing with his giant right arm, intent on separating my head from my body.

However, before Luke could slice my head clean off and erase me from existence, I quickly dodged underneath his swipe, noting that me and Luke could move at the exact same speed while time was stopped. Luke's eyes widened further than I'd ever seen them, and a look of pure shock adorned his features. "WHA-!?" I didn't allow Luke to get the full word out, as I immediately slammed my now unarmored foot into his jaw.

The force of my kick immediately shattered every bone in the New Titan of Time's jaw, practically turning it into mush with a burst of ichor exploding from it. The force of the kick had another effect besides just instantly ragdolling Luke, which was almost exactly what happened when Luke tried to fight Old Man Matt over seven months ago. Luke's time stop broke, with the sickly orange hue around everything in view literally shattering like a pane of glass. The normal sickly orange hue that was Luke's aura permeating around the world came back, along with the gold hue that my vision saw everything under.

Luke flew back dozens of meters, before quickly readjusting himself in the air and turned to face me. I watched in real time as Luke's face completely regenerated, with his jaw reconstructing itself from gravel sized pieces to fully rebuilt within milliseconds. Luke was completely silent for once, not screaming out that something was impossible or roaring in rage. He just stared at me, dread starting to slowly form on his face. "My story is just beginning, Luke." My echoey voice rang out, once again sounding like multiple people speaking at once.

Luke's odd quiet state didn't last long, as he touched his jaw and looked down at the gauntleted hand he touched it with. "You…moved during my time stop…" Luke whispered to himself, more stunned that literally ever, something I found rather annoying this time. I can break any limit and do anything, Luke. Why are you so stunned every time I do it? Luke looked back to me, pure shock and outrage etched all over his features, and opened his mouth to say something. "A-!"

Before Luke could get another syllable out of his maw, I was suddenly in front of him almost faster than even I could comprehend. All I had to do was think about where I wanted to be and I was there literally instantly, not figuratively this time. Guess I did have infinite speed now. "Shut up." I slammed a golden rainbow infused aura coated fist directly into Luke's stomach, instantly shattering the orange tinted cuirass he had worn since Atlas' mountain, before continuing all the way through his torso and erupting out the back with an explosion of ichor.

Due to Luke's much more massive size, my entire arm was completely coated with his ichor, as it was buried all the way up to my shoulder in his torso. Whatever Luke was trying to get out immediately died in his throat, immediately replaced by gurgles and spurts of ichor from his gaping maw. I quickly ripped my arm from Luke's giant body, instantly annihilating all the ichor that stained it with a slight burst of rainbow particular infused golden aura around my arm. Luke grunted in pain as my arm left his body, the wound already starting to regenerate. "You're out of your league, now."

I appeared behind Luke faster than he could ever hope to follow, moving as fast as time itself with my new infinite speed in this new state. I spun around, throwing a spinning heel kick at Luke's leaned over torso, with Luke not having moved a micrometer due to me moving as fast as time could flow. My heel collided with the left side Luke's unarmored, regenerating torso, causing Luke's entire torso to pop like a watermelon. Ichor exploded everywhere, completely staining my leg golden as I returned to a normal floating position.

Time seemed to move normally, with Luke's mangled remains starting to fall from the sky where we had both been flying, with the only things intact now being Luke's limbs and his head. His torso had completely exploded, with all of his golden ichor and organs raining down below towards the burning hellscape that completely covered what was left of the planet. 'Pathetic.' I thought, glaring down at Luke's falling mangled body.

Suddenly, Luke's aura flared from his dismembered head and the same sickly orange hue appeared around everything in sight once more, signaling that Luke had stopped time. Luke's destroyed and gory form became completely coated in orange energy, quickly rebuilding itself faster than I could blink, causing my rainbow particle infused golden eyes to widen in shock. Did he just…revert himself to a previous point in time while time was stopped? Even with my new infinite speed, Luke reverted his form before I could even blink. Could Luke stack time abilities to achieve ability speed even faster than time?

Regardless of what Luke just did, he had completely reconstructed his form and quickly shifted into a defensive position, pulling his Heavenly Diamond scythe back into a reverse-held grip. Luke's expression was filled with utter shock and even a hint of fear. He had obviously quickly realized that this new Infinity State had put my speed so far above his that he had to constantly keep time stopped just to even the odds.

However, he could still even outpace my new speed by seemingly stacking his time abilities that could be done in zero time or had a time stopping effect on top of each other, achieving a new level of speed that could really only be classified as immeasurable, with this speed surpassing even time itself. Faster than even instantaneous movement.

I frowned slightly at this realization, one Luke probably hadn't even realized himself, given the apprehension in his stance as I stared down at him, the glowing lava thousands of meters beneath Luke casting a bright red shine on both our forms. With my new form or state or whatever you wanted to call it; I could move just as fast as Luke even with time stopped. Perhaps if I stacked one of my own abilities that could be performed in zero time, I could achieve the same ability speed as Luke could.

My teleportation technique I had created on the fly thanks to heavy inspiration from Malachi, the son of Ouranos, I could travel anywhere I could envision in the universe at infinite speed as well. But I wasn't sure how I could utilize both my natural speed and a teleportation technique at the same time, since both could move at the exact same rate.

I shook my head, the rainbow particles chirping throughout my aura and frame as I did so. It was worth a shot, as at this point, I didn't have anything to lose. Everyone was dead. All the mortals, all the gods and all of my friends. Luke had killed everyone. Rage filled my veins as my now unarmored hands formed into a fist, creating small multi-coloured reality cracks around my arms. I was going to make this quick but… painful.

I willed a sharp charge of golden lightning erupted from the center of my hand and twist towards my chest in an arch, allowing the rainbow particle surrounded golden electricity to strike me in the chest. My form shifted into lightning, entering that 'supercharged' physical and mental state whenever I teleported, only my heightened teleportation 'vision' was now golden hued instead of the normal bright electrifying blue. My eyes darted around for a place to teleport, as teleporting with lightning requires a place to strike, and the only thing that was actually around within millions of miles was the shattered Earth beneath Luke's giant frame.

Instead of just giving up and charging Luke with my normal full, infinite speed, I improvised. I willed my supercharged lightning to strike at reality itself, and the golden, rainbow particle surrounded electricity obeyed. The golden lightning that was my disassembled physical form struck reality right in front of Luke, who was currently frozen, despite already having time stopped. Guess my little teleport combined with my natural infinite speed did the trick. Millions of tiny, almost hair sized reality cracks form where my lightning struck and the air around ground zero of the reality impact seemed to get heavier.

My form shifted back into its normal, non-lightning flesh and blood state, with the rush of said blood quickly hitting the back of my neck and sloshing throughout my entire nervous system. Every muscle in my body seemed to flex, veins bulging visibly with striations clear all over my body. Time seemed to resume at normal speed, or at least normal infinite speed, as Luke's eyes quickly shifted to my returned form, his eyes wider than the Grand Canyon. I returned his stare with a dark, angry glare, my golden rainbow particle filled eyes shining like stars.

Luke tried to shift into a defensive position and fly away from me, fear clearly etched onto his expression, but I grabbed Aposynthesi by the hilt before he could float more than a meter away. Luke wouldn't dare let go of his only chance to kill me and I would take full advantage of the fact. I pulled Luke closer quicker than he could even blink and slammed my forehead into his, with the immense force of the headbutt creating a massive burst of energy and aura in every direction. Even more reality cracks appeared from the blow, with seemingly the entire universe being lit up from all the rainbow coloured rips in the fabric of reality.

The orange hue covering everything in sight shattered once more, again sounding like a trillion windows breaking all at once, showing that my blow had broken Luke's time stop completely. The orange miasma quickly vanished, with the golden hue that covered everything in my vision returning again. Looks like I found an extremely easy weakness of Luke's to exploit, as his time stop seemed to fail if you hit him hard enough. Guess the rest of this fight was going to be easy as fuck.

Luke's skull caved in from my headbutt, looking as if someone had taken some kind of godly hammer to his face. Ichor erupted from just about every orifice that the new Titan of Time seemed to have, with the golden liquid spewing from his heavily damaged nose, eyes, mouth and even his ears. Some of Luke's giant, divine teeth were missing, and his jaw seemed to be somewhat shattered and staying open by itself. Ichor dripped down onto my face from my forehead, causing me to frown once more. I need to hit him harder.

My left hand, the one with Taylor's shield still around it's wrist, formed into a fist as golden, rainbow particle infused aura erupted around it, along with small spurts of golden lightning. Once again, thousands of smaller reality cracks formed around my aura charged fist, illuminating the area around both me and Luke once more. Speaking of the New Titan of Time, his face quickly regenerated back into it's original state after his initial period of being stunned was over, just in time for his eyes to focus on my aura encased fist heading right for his chin at full speed.

Luke had no time to dodge, as his time stop had been completely interrupted by my earlier headbutt and he was only capable of moving at his normal speed, which made Luke appear to be frozen when I moved at my own top speed. As fast as time itself, my golden, rainbow particle infused aura coated fist slammed into Luke's chin. Time seemed to completely stop, even in my infinite speed enhanced point of view, for a split second as my blow seemed to do nothing to Luke. However, immediately after my fist smashed into his chin, everything took effect.

First things first, Luke's head immediately turned into a pile of ichor and golden gray matter, with the golden liquid and meat splattering all over my frame and the area around Luke's now headless body. My surging, golden rainbow particle infused aura around my form immediately eradicated the divine ichor and the bits of golden brain and bone as my fist passed through where Luke's skull used to be. Luke's body immediately went limp, but still kept its grip on Aposynthesi, the Heavenly Diamond scythe.

The attosecond after Luke's head was turned into mush, the absolutely momentous force of my uppercut finally took effect and unleashed a burst of pure aura in every direction as well as a massive shockwave that traveled only inches ahead of the omnidirectional burst of pure, golden rainbow particle infused energy. The shockwave instantly obliterated what was left of Earth, with the lava coated hellscape of the shattered planet immediately being destroyed on the molecular level and disappearing from view completely, as if it was never even there in the first place.

The explosion of aura continued out in every direction far beyond Earth, instantly erupting all throughout the solar system and annihilating everything that it touched, completely destroying what was left of the already heavily damaged solar system. Using my new amplified cosmic awareness and energy sensing, I could tell that the energy burst erupted all throughout the entire galaxy as well, even extending to multiple galaxies and obliterating them, too.

Back where the solar system used to be, there only remained as cosmic void filled to the absolute brim with multi-coloured reality cracks that were so massive they eclipsed stars in size. The spot where the Earth used to be was now basically a giant mixing pot of cosmic, multidimensional energy that sloshed around like a rainbow coloured cosmic soup. Using my 'Infinity State' powered aura sensing, I could tell that the very space time continuum was breaking apart. If Luke and I fought too much longer, we'd probably destroy the entire timeline, past, present and future, all at once.

Luke's headless body was blown back along with the giant shockwave, likely being sent literally galaxies away in an actual instant as my energy should be capable of traveling at the same speed I physically could, which was as fast as time. Floating beside the giant rip of space time itself, I shifted into a fighting position, as I knew Luke wasn't dead. He was a god now, which meant he had the regenerative abilities of one, too. He could come back from anything, whether it was being ripped apart into a million tiny pieces or annihilated on the atomic level, Luke would reform, especially with Aposynthesi amplifying his regeneration like it did Iapetus.

The only way I could permanently kill Luke was with Heavenly Diamond, which meant I had to finish him off with either Thymos or his own scythe, Aposynthesi. I had to restrain a smirk, as killing Luke with his own weapon would be quite embarrassing for the pathetic new Titan of Time, but I wouldn't. I was going to kill him with my Heavenly Diamond weapon, not his. Felt a whole lot more poetic that way.

My right hand slipped down to the handle of my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar, about to ready myself to immediately kill Luke with a slash to his skull whenever he flew or teleported back here. Closing my eyes and using my massively enhanced aura sensing, I could tell he was tens of millions of light years away, sprawling around nearly the core of the nearby Whirlpool Galaxy. However, as soon as my hand was about to touch the hilt of Thymos, something weird happened.

The chaotic energy of my Morningstar and the golden, rainbow particle infused aura of my Infinity State seemed to…repulse one another. Not like in a school yard mean girl bully way, but in like an energy/physics way. I tried to reach for my Heavenly Diamond weapon, only for my hand to literally be repulsed away as if both my hand and my weapon were magnetic. I looked at both my golden rainbow particle infused hand and my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar in confusion. What the fuck?

I closed my eyes and used my aura sensing on both my weapon and my own energy. I could feel the chaotic power rolling off the Heavenly Diamond weapon, the familiar feeling of the corrosive and all erasing energy sprouting throughout my mind and causing me to grimace slightly. Due to the Infinity State amplifying my sensing abilities, I could feel the Morningstar's connection with Chaos itself far more clearly. The feeling created a small, but sharp pain in the back of my neck. Even with my prior aura sensing, I've never really realized just how powerful Thymos truly was.

Switching the target of my aura sensing to my own Infinity State, my eyes widened as I sensed the intricacies of the energy for a few attoseconds, realizing that the Infinity State seemed to carry the exact opposite type of energy that Heavenly Diamond exuded. It seemed…binding, as if everything that currently existed couldn't exist without it. The energy felt as if it was constantly being imbued with life itself and I could just feel the raw potential the power was capable of, as if I was only scratching the surface.

It was the exact same type of energy I felt whenever my father would warp reality, an ability he had called 'Law Manipulation,' something he used whenever I was trapped under Atlas' barrier and when a wormhole nearly destroyed camp in the Battle of The Labyrinth. Could I possibly manipulate this type of energy and perform feats like that as well? I finally let a smirk appear on my face, with the expression almost feeling foreign. I could use this…order energy to effortlessly annihilate Luke in any way I deemed fit. Literally.

Before I could continue to muse about the nature of my new Infinity State, a small burst of sickly orange mixed with black and blue colored energy erupted into existence dozens of meters away, with Luke's giant form appearing nearby the massive tear in space-time I had created with my previous uppercut. Luke was completely healed, his head back and everything, like I hadn't even touched him at all. I shook my head with a scowl, as I didn't expect anything else.

Luke didn't say a word after teleporting back to where Earth used to be, only leveling an absolutely hateful snarl in my direction. His golden, almost orange eyes burned with rage as his frame shook, something I honestly found laughable. He glanced at the massive rip in space-time where the Earth used to be, not even bothering to give it a second glance.

I smirked at the New Titan of Time, the smile on my face filled with barely suppressed fury. "You just gonna spend our final battle being nothing but a punching bag or are you going to actually make this enjoyable? I've got a lot of anger to let out after you killed all my friends." My smirk completely dropped as I finished the sentence, with small spurts of golden rainbow particle infused lightning to dance up my shoulders and arms.

Luke snarled once more at my words, with the grip around his Heavenly Diamond scythe creating a shockwave as it tightened. However, he didn't immediately respond with baseless screaming like he normally would. No, he took a few seconds to reply, as if he actually thought out his words for once. "…I'm not even going to comment on all the impossible things you just did. You blow my mind every time we fight." Luke held Aposynthesi out in front of him, grasping the shaft of the weapon with both hands. "…Now it's my turn!"

Luke's aura flared like never before, as his strength rose to even greater heights, a well-documented side effect of Heavenly Diamond. The sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura built up around the new Titan of Time, his face full of concentration and severe effort. Multi-coloured reality cracks formed around Luke charging form, along with a miasma of Luke's multi-colored energy several meters the new Titan of Time. It was the same ability he used before where he brought back all the Titans I'd killed. What the fuck was Luke doing? Bringing back more pathetically weak villains from the past to serve as literal cannon fodder to me?

All across the miasma wall of Luke's orange, black-blue energy that spanned hundreds of meters in width behind the Titan, dozens of multi-colored portals erupted into existence. I scoffed at their appearance, before shifting into a fighting stance. No matter who Luke brought from the past, they would die just from the pressure of my aura, even Typhon. That's how much more massively powerful than this new Infinity State has made me.

However, instead of villains and foes I'd already faced in the past before, a now far too familiar sight jutted out of the portals, all of them clutching their own perfect replicas of Aposynthesi. Luke, dozens of Lukes, all glared at me with intense hatred, multi-coloured aura blazing off each and every one of their forms. My eyes narrowed at their appearance. Time clones. The same ability he used to mortally wound my father.

My expression instantly became murderous, with flashes of my father's death at this bastard's hand echoing throughout my mind. The sound of my father's severed head splattering against the ground would not stop replaying in my head, as well as the sight of his corpse fading away. My aura flared all around me, golden rainbow particle infused lighting sparking around my body in spurts. My blood was pumping and the sound of my own enraged heartbeat nearly drowned out all sound. Luke had killed my father, permanently.

Luke would share his fate.

Power, sheer power and energy erupted from me in every direction, my golden rainbow particle infused aura exploding in size as giant flares of lightning crackled throughout my energy cone. Luke and his dozens of time clones were forced to bring up their arms to cover their faces, and all of them had been sent flying back hundreds of meters before recovering. My aura had burst from only surrounding me for a meter in diameter to now being thousands of meters wide. The almost indescribable cosmic rip in space-time where the Earth used to be rippled from close proximity to my might.

My aura calmed, shrinking to only a few meters around my form, blazing with golden lightning and rainbow particles that seemed to mirror the black particles of chaotic energy. Luke and all of his time clones stared at me in shock, all of them no doubt sensing the strength of my aura. I wasn't going to hold back my strength in this battle, only try to control it. It was going to be difficult, as honestly I had enough power to kill my father at his absolute most powerful state with a single punch. If I wasn't careful, I could do unfathomable damage to the multiverse.

I glared at all the Lukes, my golden rainbow particle infused eyes meeting every one of the unnerving, hateful golden eyes of the new Titan of Time, or… Titans of Time. I counted that there were exactly sixty-seven exact copies of Luke floating thousands of meters around me, with every clone the exact same power as the original. I couldn't even tell which Luke was the original one, as all of their auras were identical. If Luke was bringing this many copies at me at once, it probably didn't matter which the original was, they were all the same person.

A sickly orange hue quickly eclipsed everything in my sight, and every particle in the universe froze, lining up perfectly with the flaring of all of the Lukes' auras. My eyes narrowed as I looked at the sickly orange energy, the hue turning the space time rip to become the same colour as Luke's aura. Every one of them had stopped time, which meant I likely couldn't break the time stop by only hitting one of them. I'd have to severely damage every Luke at once, which was now easier said than done, now that time was stopped and they could move at the same speed I could.

I withdrew Prometheus' sword and Keravnos, as this form seemed to limit my use of my Heavenly Diamond weapon, holding both the giant blade and celestial bronze axe at my sides. My golden rainbow particle infused aura coated the massive buster sword and the one-sided axe, with golden rainbow particle infused lightning sparking along my weapons, bringing a smirk to my face. Glad to see this energy was compatible with my other weapons.

The small smirk quickly died as dozens of bursts of sickly multi-coloured aura erupted into existence around me, with the energy quickly forming into the dozens of Luke time clones as they teleported closer to me. The Lukes did not immediately attack, with all of them holding their Heavenly Diamond scythes defensively, as if waiting for my first move. I held out both my arms, as if motioning to all the copies of Luke to attack me. I glared at the Titans of Time; anticipation clear on my face. "Your move."

Some of the Lukes growled in anger, their auras exploding around them as rage filled their expressions and they charged me at full speed. Six of the sixty-seven clones of The Titan of Time erupted from aura bursts in front of my face, with the Time Clones all teleporting less than three meters from my floating form. I quickly blasted myself back with my telekinesis, preparing to be on the defensive against multiple time clones of someone stronger than my father at his best, with each clone containing the exact same power as the original.

Half of the Lukes who charged me immediately went on the attack, attempting to dice me into a million pieces and erase me from existence. I quickly dodged and weaved through every attack from the group of Lukes, my brow furrowing in slight irritation as I barely dodged a downward slash from a clone of Luke that was practically frothing at the mouth. Each and every Luke could move just as fast as I could, as time was stopped, making this much more difficult than normal. Usually whenever I fought, there were massive or even just slight speed differences between me and my opponents.

That was not the case here, which honestly made this battle insanely dangerous. One hit from any of the Lukes' Aposynthesi, and I was probably finished, new order energy infused form or not. As I dodged underneath another double horizontal slash from two Luke time clones, my eyes traced the area around the cosmic void where we were fighting, noting that most of the Lukes were staying back with their eyes placed on me like hawks. Hm, seems they were looking for any openings and then they would likely jump in and jump me.

Three of the six Luke's that were actively trying to dice me apart all swung at once, coming from three different directions and making it nearly impossible to dodge. I would have to be half my current size and twirl like a ballerina to just barely dodge, and I couldn't resize my physical form like a god. Yet. I quickly formed an aura guard, preparing to use the same absorbing technique I had used before when fighting Luke back on Earth. My golden, rainbow particle infused aura shrunk down to my frame, only extending outwards by an inch.

Three Heavenly Diamond scythe heads slammed into my torso, instantly stopping and bouncing back as if the weapons hit a completely invulnerable wall. The aura and chaotic energy from all three attacks instantly swirled around my form just like before, but I didn't unleash the power of it yet. All three Luke's were instantly caught off guard and unbalanced, giving me a prime opening to really deal some damage. I darted towards the nearest Luke, slamming the golden rainbow particle infused aura coated axe directly into the closest Luke's liver, causing Ichor to explode from the wound and be instantly annihilated by my aura.

The Luke who I had nearly disemboweled with the single swing grunted in pain as ichor spurted from his mouth, his grip around his Heavenly Diamond scythe completely loosening. I let go of Keravnos, leaving it in the Luke's torso and quickly grabbed the Luke by the neck. Both of the other Lukes who had been disoriented quickly recovered and tried to stick me in the torso with their respective Aposynthesi's, with the other three attacks Luke time clones flying in behind them with their Heavenly Diamond weapons drawn back.

As fast as I could, my fingers dug into the Luke's neck, ripping through his flesh, muscle and voice box, before grasping around the neck area of the Luke's spine. The Luke gurgled as his Ichor coated my hand for a brief second, before I quickly pulled his entire skull and spine out of his body through his neck. Ichor absolutely exploded everywhere before being atomized by my aura as I imbued some of the chaotic energy from my earlier aura guard into the Luke's mangled body, permanently killing him as the Luke's corpse completely faded into green dust.

The Luke's who were attacking didn't even hesitate at me brutally and quickly murdering their fellow clone, continuing to attack me with a massive barrage of slashes from their Heavenly Diamond scythes, prompting me to swerve and avoid three quick attacks that tried to separate my head from my body, all while still holding the ichor covered skull and spine of the deceased Luke time clone.

My hand gripped around the skull's spine as I imbued order energy into it. Golden, rainbow particle infused aura and lightning erupted all over the ichor caked skull and spine, immediately turning it into a deadly weapon and bone dry. I twirled the skull and spine like a flail, using it to deflect a slash from the nearest Luke clone's Aposynthesi to the side, the energy acting as a barrier that resisted the immense power of Heavenly Diamond.

Due to the weird repulsing effect of order energy when touching chaotic energy, the deflection actually knocked the Heavenly Diamond scythe away from the time clone's hand unexpectedly, leaving him completely open for a follow up uppercut twirl from the skull and spine. The golden rainbow particle infused aura coated skull connected with the Luke's chest, before completely obliterating his torso and head in another explosion of golden blood.

Before moving on to the other time clones, I quickly imbued the mangled body of that Luke with the last of the chaotic energy of the aura guard, permanently killing this time clone of Luke, too. Still unperturbed, the remaining four aggressive time clones all attacked at once, attempting to overwhelm me with sheer numbers and ferocity. I darted backwards on the defensive once more, deflecting, parrying, redirecting and blocked every attack from the Lukes' scythe slashes with nothing but the skull and spine of an already dead Luke.

No giant shockwaves or timeline rupturing impacts had happened from the blows, as the stopped time made it impossible for physics to take effect yet, since we were moving in zero time. One Luke tried to imbue his scythe with immense amounts of chaotic energy while his other three fellow time clones continued to attack me, no doubt believing that he could build up enough power to actually give me pause. I quickly noted that my celestial bronze axe, Keravnos, floated in the cosmic void behind him, frozen in stasis.

While perfectly deflecting and defeating against the attacks from three time clones at one with nothing but a skull and spine in my right hand, I subtly imbued my golden rainbow particle infused energy into the axe, coating my relatively weak weapon in insane power without even touching it. I used my telekinesis while defending against the other three Luke time clones to command my axe to bury itself into the back of the charging up Luke time clone, with the energy infused axe quickly doing my bidding. Ichor erupted from the wound of the time clone, prompting him to yell in pain as the power he built up dispersed.

Now no longer having to worry about that now injured Luke, I turned my attention towards the three heavily aggressive and attacking time clones, all of which were still trying and failing to overpower me whilst I casually held them off with a copy of their own skull and spine. I quickly thrusted Prometheus' sword, which had uselessly been doing nothing in my left hand, into the gut of one of the Lukes, completely immobilizing him and causing a giant explosion of ichor once more. I twisted the massive buster sword, moving the Luke directly in the path of the swings of the other two Lukes.

The Luke pinned on Prometheus' sword had two Heavenly Diamond scythe heads slam into his face, with the tips of the Aposynthesis peeking out the back of the Lukes skull with ichor dripping off them. The Luke gurgled for a second before going slack, dropping his own Heavenly Diamond scythe and crumbling away into green dust. The two remaining attacking Lukes' eyes widened in shock at the accidental kill of their fellow time clone, which were their last mistakes.

Before the Luke on the left could readjust his own Aposynthesi into a defensive position, I quickly bisected the time clone in two with Prometheus' sword, slicing him clean in half vertically as the golden rainbow particle infused aura surrounding the massive blade eradicated the burst of ichor that escaped both halves. The Luke on the right immediately tried to stick me in the side with his respective Heavenly Diamond scythe, prompting me to glide underneath his swipe and slam the skull and spine in my right hand into the Luke's gut.

The Luke's torso immediately exploded into a shower of ichor and golden gore, the golden blood and meat splattering all over my form, quickly being atomized by my flaring, rainbow particle infused golden aura. I created a telekinetic barrier around my hand and grabbed Thymos from my belt after sheathing Prometheus' sword, smirking in satisfaction when my spontaneous idea actually worked, and the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar wasn't repulsed from my hand. Closing my eyes for a brief moment, I summoned a surge of chaotic energy from Thymos, with sapphire coloured chaotic aura and lightning erupting around the weapon.

Turning my rainbow particle infused golden eyes towards the two mangled and torn forms of the two Lukes I quickly murdered, I swiped my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar in their direction, unleashing a wave of sapphire chaotic energy mixed with bits of chaotic lightning. The two massacred bodies of the Titans of Time, which had just started to regenerate and reconstruct themselves, were quickly eradicated from view, having been killed permanently by my chaotic energy.

The final Luke from those original six who attacked me froze, the one who I had Keravnos slam into to interrupt his charging, hesitation and fear all over his face from seeing just how quickly and effortlessly I dispatched five perfect copies of himself without a single scratch. Before the Luke could fly away, teleport away, scream or charge me in defiance, my rainbow particle infused golden eyes began to glow, completely overtaking whatever white I had left in my visual organs.

Two rainbow particle infused golden aura beams erupted from my eyes, instantly piercing a hole through the final Luke's skull, allowing my enhanced vision to see out the other side of his head as ichor slightly dripped from the cauterized wound. The Luke went slack, his own Heavenly Diamond weapon falling out of his hand and floating in the frozen cosmic swirl of reality cracks and space-time rips. Before the Luke could regenerate, lightning sparked off my form and connected with me, allowing me to teleport right behind him in a burst of rainbow particle infused golden lightning, moving at immeasurable speed thanks to time being already stopped.

With a telekinetic barrier still around my hand, I gripped my fist around Thymos and slammed the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar into the back of the already disabled Luke, instantly obliterating the rest of his head and permanently killing him. The final Luke of the initial vanguard Luke group dispersed in a cloud of green dust, dead forever. I sheathed my Morningstar and dissolved the telekinetic barrier, before turning back to the remaining sixty-one Lukes who had been floating around me and the Lukes thousands of meters away watching the fight.

I glared at the Lukes, my eyes darting from Titan to Titan. I held out both my arms, with my right hand being still carrying the skull and spine and my left still clutched around the massive handle of Prometheus' sword. "Is that all!?" I shouted at the remaining Lukes, who remained floating thousands of meters away, as if calculating their next moves. I imbued my rainbow particle infused golden aura into the spine and skull, causing it to evaporate right in my hand.

Suddenly, the multi-colored auras of the Titans of Time flared, exploding all around each and every time clone of Luke and creating a giant energy cone that completely enveloped the entire area of broken space, we were currently doing battle in. After what seemed like a few seconds, the energy calmed down, reducing from a powerful flare to a controlled one. Like before, no environmental damage occurred, as time was still stopped by the Lukes. With my enhanced vision, I could see the massive hands of the Lukes tighten around each respective Aposynthesi.

Despite the serious nature of the fight and the traumatizingly soul crushing events of everyone I know being erased from existence, I grinned at the sight. I created a telekinetic barrier around my right hand and summoned Thymos to it with the same telekinesis, with the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar literally flying to my grip. "Now…that's more like it." I slipped into a fighting stance; my rainbow particle infused golden aura exploding to life all around my form. "COME AT ME!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, with the force of the shout likely strong enough to shake a galaxy cluster if time wasn't stopped.

Unperturbed by my shout and readiness for battle, the remaining sixty-one Luke time clones all charged me at once, leaving absolutely no room for error. The Lukes instantly surrounded me, with nearly ten of them immediately appearing around me in a burst of multi-colored aura, signaling teleportation. Three of them tried to stick me in the face with their Aposynthesi's, prompting me to immediately block the strikes by raising Thymos in front of their trajectory. The four Heavenly Diamond weapons collided, with the three Lukes immediately following up with a barrage of swipes, swings and slashes.

I floated backwards, immediately put on the defensive as more and more Lukes joined the melee. Three attacking opponents quickly turned into eight, which immediately turned into twenty as more and more Luke arrived to try and erase my existence. I ducked, dodged, deflected, redirected, parried, avoided and outright overpowered each and every attack, my fighting skill being pushed to the absolute breaking point as effort started to fill my facial expression. The closest four Lukes all tried to hack me apart in multiple directions, making it impossible to not get hit if I didn't do something about it.

I threw out both of my arms, unleashing a burst of rainbow particle infused golden aura in all directions, blowing back dozens of Lukes all at once, forcing them to hold their massive arms in front of their faces. The Lukes were all pushed back hundreds of meters, giving me breathing room to finally strike. My rainbow particle infused golden eyes narrowed at the nearest Luke and my hands tightened around my weapons. Time to kill as many as possible with absolutely terrifying efficiency. Golden lightning sparked off my form and struck me in the back, instantly allowing me to move at immeasurable speed once more as I teleported while time was stopped.

I appeared in a burst of rainbow particle infused golden sparks behind the closest Luke, instantly bisecting him in two before he could spin around and block my attack with Prometheus' sword. I then twirled with the swing, slamming Thymos into the Luke's skull and causing his head to be instantly atomized as the Luke crumbled into green dust right afterwards. Golden rainbow particle infused lightning sparked off my form once more, again teleporting me to the nearest Luke. Once again, I appeared behind another Luke, vertically bisecting him as soon as I appeared in a burst of golden sparks.

I closed my eyes and quickly reached out with my connection with Chaos through my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar, charging the weapon with a massive amount of chaotic energy in the blink of an eye, causing the chaotic Morningstar to surge with sapphire aura and lightning as I created a telekinetic barrier around the weapon once more, allowing me to touch it. By this point, the majority of the Lukes has recovered, with the majority of them charging me with their respective Aposynthesi's pulled back.

I blocked three Aposynthesi swings at once with Prometheus' sword, my arm not buckling in the slightest feeling the physical strength of three beyond Zeus level beings at the same time, and I chucked Thymos like a throwing axe behind the Lukes. Two of the Lukes who were in the trajectory of the throw immediately dodged, as did several others who were in the path behind the original two. I held out my right hand, willing the chaotic aura built up around the weapon to explode in all directions, instantly annihilating nearly fifteen Lukes at once, as well as the Luke who I bisected vertically earlier.

Many of the Lukes' eyes widened at seeing nearly a third of their remaining number immediately die, with nearly ten of the time clones instantly teleporting almost a thousand meters away, their auras flaring all around them. Another massive, thousand-meter-wide energy cone formed, with another miasma of sickly orange aura mixed with black and blue energy materialized behind the ten Lukes. My eyes widened this time, as I realized exactly what they were doing. They were making more time clones?!

Before I could even think to teleport right over to them and interrupt their summoning, the last twenty time clones all charged me at once, with the five closest trying to shred me to pieces with their Aposynthesi's. I quickly withdrew Keravnos and charged it with order energy, just like Prometheus' Sword, and immediately blocked all five of the Lukes' attacks. I twisted Keravnos around immediately after defending against two swings with it, trapping the Heavenly Diamond scythe heads underneath the axe blade of Keravnos. As I held off three Aposynthesi's with Prometheus' Sword, I slammed both Keravnos and the massive buster sword together, pinning all five Aposynthesi's together.

My rainbow particle infused golden aura flared and I closed my eyes for a split second. Using my Infinity State amplified aura manipulation, I conjured thousands of small, golden aura needles and quickly shot them out in the direction of the pinned Lukes, efficiently creating enough holes in the Lukes in front of me that it would make Swiss Cheese jealous. The needles even pierced six Lukes behind the original five that charged me, though not to the degree of the first five.

I immediately sheathed Keravnos and held out my hand, summoning Thymos to it in the blink of an eye with my telekinesis, catching it right after creating a telekinetic barrier around my hand. I summoned a decent amount of chaotic sapphire aura and lightning around the Morningstar and swung in front of me, creating a large burst of chaotic energy that eradicated the five Lukes who had been shish kabobed by the rainbow particle infused golden aura needles. The six Lukes who has only been minority wounded were knocked back by the after spurts of the energy, still alive but not for long.

Golden rainbow particle infused lightning sparked off my form and collided with me, allowing me to teleport behind the wounded Lukes at immeasurable speed. I sheathed Prometheus' Sword and quickly grabbed one of the Lukes by his massive leg, forcibly creating a coat of rainbow particle infused golden aura around the copy of the Titan of Time. I swung the Luke around like a ragdoll, slamming him into the five other wounded Lukes and causing them to be torn apart like paper as my aura had forcibly enhanced the ragdolled Luke's durability, ichor and golden gore exploding everywhere.

I then held the Luke out in front of the mangled corpses of the other Lukes he had been manhandled through, dispersing the aura coat around him and tossing him up like a baseball. I swung Thymos back, once again summoning a healthy amount of chaotic energy into the weapon and swung in the Lukes' direction. The mostly fine Luke and the five mangled corpses behind him were immediately atomizing, now permanently dead. I sheathed Thymos and quickly glared at the remaining four Lukes who had charged me to stop me from stopping the ten Lukes behind them from summoning more time clones.

The four Lukes immediately froze, complete shock and awe etched all over their expressions as they watched me dispatch eleven more perfect time clones of themselves as if they were literal cannon fodder. Golden, rainbow particle infused lightning sparked off my form once more and recollided with me, instantly teleporting me behind the time clones at immeasurable speed, causing me to reappear in a burst of rainbow particle infused golden sparks. I quickly held up my hand in an outstretched position, using my divine telekinesis to completely immobilize the four Lukes.

The four Lukes immediately stiffened and could not move, the pressure to crush hundreds of realities immediately forced upon every particle in their immortal bodies. I closed my hand, telekinetically forcing all four of the Lukes into a ball, using so much pressure the Lukes immediately turned into mush and formed into sphere of ichor and golden gore. However, instead of just immediately drawing Thymos and finishing them off before they could regenerate…I wanted to try something new.

This new Infinity State, which was powered by massive amounts of order energy, could theoretically warp reality in the exact same way my father did back on Atlas' mountain and back in Camp Half-Blood, when he used his Law Manipulation ability to overwrite the Burden and the wormhole that nearly destroyed camp. This order energy was the exact same type of energy Zeus tapped into small amounts of when using that ability, only far more concentrated and abundant. My father couldn't use it on organic beings…but maybe I could.

I closed my eyes, once again opening my outstretched hand and focused, imbuing the massive ball of golden meat that was once four Luke time clones with a healthy amount of order energy. I… willed the energy to warp to my command, immediately ripping out the souls and aura of the four Lukes and manipulating it into an energy sphere above my hand. Sickly orange energy in the form of ethereal Lukes that seemed to be made of the same sickly orange energy were torn from the golden gore sphere, all forming into a ball of sickly orange aura contained by my hand.

I opened my eyes, staring at the soul and aura sphere in my hand in wonder, completely shocked at my own new ability. I literally ripped their souls from their bodies, as well as every drop of their energy and it floated above the palm of my hand. The sickly orange soul sphere swirled with power, and the golden gore cube faded away into a massive cloud of golden dust, ceasing to exist shortly after. I grinned slightly, realizing with this Infinity State, I could literally rip out the souls of my enemies and steal their strength.

However, before I could continue to muse on the deeper implications of what my new reality warping ability could truly do, hundreds of new energies and aura flared into existence to my right. My rainbow particle infused golden eyes shifted back to where those ten Luke time clones had been creating even more time clones, only for my eyes to widen as hundreds of sickly orange mixed with black and blue rifts opened up in the miasma behind the ten Lukes, allowing hundreds of more time clones to blast out of them.

My eyes narrowed at the sight and my expression became deadly serious, as this fight had only gotten even more dangerous. Luke's time clones number in the hundreds, with my enhanced vision able to spot exactly five hundred and thirty four perfect time clones, all of them more powerful than my father at his peak and their strength only continuing to grow. The hundreds of Lukes all glared at me, their hands gripping around the hilts of their respective Heavenly Diamond Scythes. Guess I was going to have to get fully serious.

I closed my hand around the orb of sickly orange soul and aura, immediately absorbing into my own with the help of the reality warping ability of my Infinity State. The aura part of the sphere immediately flowed into my own, significantly increasing my power even further, with my rainbow particle infused golden aura increasing in both natural size and intensity. I only grew around ten percent in actual power, if even that. This new Infinity State made me far more powerful than even I realized. However, that wasn't even close to the most interesting thing that happened after absorbing the aura and soul sphere.

Immediately after absorbing the soul part of the orb, my mind was assaulted with flashes of memories that I'd never lived through myself. I saw flashes of a childhood completely foreign to me, with a mother who I never knew but after absorbing the memories, I knew everything about. Her name was May Castellan…Luke's mother. Apparently, she had taken Luke to Camp Half-Blood when he was only a year old, and tried to host the Oracle of Delphi, which had gone utterly poorly and caused her to become extremely mentally ill. I saw myself as Luke run away from home at the age of nine, not able to deal with his mother's shit any longer.

I saw parts of Luke's memories I had an actual inkling about, seeing him survive for years on his own in the wild and in cities, watching him kill and barely live against powerful monsters. I saw him meet both Thalia and Annabeth, being stunned when his memories told me he actually had a massive crush on the daughter of Zeus. I viewed his many adventures with both Thalia and Annabeth, from his encounter with Halcyon Green, their meeting with the Hunters of Artemis and Zoe, their meeting with Grover and the whole debacle with the Cyclops', ultimately culminating in them arriving at Camp Half-Blood when Luke was fourteen and seeing Thalia's sacrifice firsthand at the hands of the Furies.

I felt every single piece of bitterness and rage at the Olympians Luke felt himself, actually starting to truly understand why Luke turned out the way he did and was so effortlessly manipulated by Kronos. I was shown Luke's later memories as well, with him meeting and training me and Taylor, as well as the Hesperides quest which had utterly failed and led to Luke watching all his quest mates die and his facial scarring. His bitterness towards the Olympians only grew after this, especially with the way he was treated afterwards.

Then I saw things I mostly had been there myself for or had a very good idea about. I saw him swearing allegiance to Kronos, stealing the Master Bolt and the Helmet of Darkness from my father and Hades with the helped of an influenced Ares, his betrayal against me and Percy in the forests of Camp Half-Blood, as well as the atrocities and murders he had committed while as the leader of the Titan army, plus his battle against me with Koios by his side. It was trippy seeing that battle in the perspective of someone vastly weaker than me, as it made me look like a force of nature during it.

Everything else I'd seen was easily glossed over and understood. His fusion with Kronos, our battle at Mount Othrys, his utterly brutal leadership of the Titan army after his fusion, his mental state falling and tearing apart thanks to the influence of Kronos, our fights both prior and during he Battle of the Labyrinth, the whole chaotic and destructive multiverse debacle with me and Matt, and finally, the events of him nearly killing my father and being humiliated by me at the Battle of Manhattan, which ended with him killing everyone and fighting me now. I saw all of this, every single bit of his memories, in less than a second of stopped time.

I was immediately brought out of the memory flashes by yet another flash of the hundreds of time clones of Luke auras, my rainbow particle infused golden eyes immediately shifting back towards their direction. An absolutely giant energy cone surrounded the hundreds of Lukes, and I expected them to immediately charge towards me trying to dice me into trillions of pieces. However, instead, they did something that utterly stunned me. The aura cone's intensity weakened, becoming much calmer and more serene, and all the Lukes joined hands.

The sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura swirled, as if it was spinning around each and every one of the hundreds of Lukes. I closed my eyes and used my Infinity State amplified aura sense, realizing their auras were…unifying. They were pouring their energy into a singular Luke who was in the middle of the giant energy cone, likely the original Luke if he was still alive after the carnage from before. My eyes widened as the strength of the center Luke massively increased, with the power gap between myself and him closing extremely quickly. I created a telekinetic barrier around my hand and immediately unsheathed Thymos, charging forwards at full speed, intent on stopping whatever the fuck Luke was trying to do.

However, the instant I reached the swirling aura cone, the intensity and power of it increased a million-fold, immediately blowing me back thousands of meters and forcing me to bring up both my arms in front of my face. Through my rainbow particle infused golden aura coated arms, I saw the forms of the hundreds of Luke time clones…dematerilize into pure energy, much like the soul forms of those four Lukes I had killed only about a minute ago or so of stopped time, but the hundreds of Luke time clone's bodies literally broke down into the sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy. The Lukes literally seemed to sacrifice themselves, all joining into one singular Luke.

The sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura cone only grew in power, thankfully not having any immediate effect on reality around it thanks to time still being stopped, still forcing me away and making me unable to approach the energy even an inch. As soon as every Luke time clone faded away into the single Luke, the energy cone calmed in an instant. Luke, now the only one left, floated in the cosmic void of space time rips and reality cracks with his eyes closed, as if digesting his new power. He then suddenly held up his left arm, and a small bit of his aura coated it, with the Titan of Time then snapping his fingers.

Almost instantly, the sickly orange hue that seemed to cover everything in sight as time was stopped also faded away, allowing time to move normally once again. The effect was instantaneous, as the force and destructive energy of the battle I had with the dozens of previous time clones I had killed immediately occurred. Millions of absolutely titanic shockwaves and energy bursts all happened at once in the thousands of meters of space I had fought Luke's time clones in erupted into existence, ripping apart reality even more than before. The entire universe shook, with reality cracks and space time rifts appearing everywhere in sight, dotting the entire universe of space as the fundamental laws of reality began to break down.

The force immediately blew me hundreds of thousands of light years away, blasting me out of what was left of the Milky Way Galaxy so quickly I practically teleported even in my own perspective. I brought my arms that were encased with rainbow particle infused golden aura away from my face, my eyes immediately tracing the galaxy I was just shot out of. I noted that the Milky Way Galaxy was practically in complete shambles, as it not only had been halfway annihilated by a single swing from Thymos when I fought Hyperion only a couple days ago, but it was further shattered and fractured as reality cracks that were thousands of light years long were sprinkled all throughout what was left of my former home galaxy.

I quickly glanced at the millions of dots that were the surrounding galaxies all around the universe, realizing that the cosmic rips in space time and reality cracks had literally expanded as far as my eye could see. Millions of galaxies were ripped apart, with almost infinitely coloured tears in space time swirling all throughout their broken frames with almost innumerable amounts of rainbow coloured reality cracks filling the entire fabric of the universe. This is what those universes that were destroyed when Matt and I had battled Luke in the Multiversal border realm, only I was seeing it across my own universe firsthand.

My teeth gritted and my expression twisted into one of complete fury as my Infinity State amplified aura sensing told me that these cracks and space time tears were literally everywhere across the entire infinite universe, with likely all life in this reality except for mine and Luke's being completely extinguished. My rainbow particle infused golden aura erupted around my form once more, now more intense and powerful than ever. Luke would pay…for all of it. For the deaths of my friends, the deaths of everyone in this universe, and the countless deaths that had transpired I. The Multiversal border realm when I fought Hyperion.

Before another thought could even grace my mind, a burst of sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy erupted into existence out of nowhere only thirty meters away from me, with Luke's massive divine form sprouting into reality after teleporting. My eyes narrowed as I noted the changes of his form after his fusion with hundreds of perfect copies of himself, which admittedly, weren't very much. His armor and features were the exact same, except his aura was far more intense and more powerful than ever. Reality seemed to bend and warp from his very presence as he no longer bothered to even control his strength, which didn't matter anymore, as the entire universe was practically gone at this point.

However, another key difference were Luke's eyes. Initially, they were simply demonic yellow and shined brightly, but left enough white in his eye that they still looked at least somewhat remotely human. But now, they glowed the exact same sickly orange as his aura and completely filled his eye, not leaving a single trace of white in his entire eye, much like the same thing my Thunder Form caused but a different colour instead. Luke held out both of his arms as his right hand clutched loosely around Aposynthesi, as his signature arrogant insane grind returned to his face, his look of dire seriousness disappearing the first time since our battle had started after I acquired my Infinity State. "Once again, Zane…you are out of your league."

Sensing the power of Luke's new fused state, a grimace became etched upon my features, as Luke was unfortunately correct. After fusing with hundreds of perfect time clones of himself, each time clone more powerful than Zeus in his prime, Luke's power was practically unfathomable. He was vastly stronger than me once more, the strength difference so large that he could probably kill me in a single strike, easily containing enough power he could probably destroy thousands of realities. He was even stronger than the Super Heavenly Judgement I used against Hyperion two days ago, which had been infused with the power of my Power Stressed Heavenly Thunder Form multiplied by itself hundreds of times.

What was worse is the fact that even with his new almost immeasurable power…Luke's strength only continued to climb, a long-known side effect of wielding phis Heavenly Diamond Scythe. He already had basically infinite power at his disposal, and it only got even more powerful. And the most infuriating thing was that Luke knew it, if the almost slimy looking grin on his face had anything to say about it. My grip around Thymos tightened as rage became clear on my face once more. I may have known everything about Luke's life now down to nearly every second of his existence, but that did absolutely nothing to curb my hatred for the New Titan of Time.

Luke immediately started chuckling as he saw the pure rage and hatred on my face, twirling Aposynthesi as if he was a colour guard. "Heheheheheh…my power is infinite now. After you so stupidly let me fuse with all my time clones…there's not a single being in our entire pantheon and beyond who could do battle with me. Not Zeus, not that washed up old godly counterpart of your son of Hercules friend, and definite not Ouranos." Luke said that last part with hatred, referring to when he was embarrassed by Old Man Matt and subsequently, Alternate Ouranos seven months back. Luke's new glowing orange eyes stared into my rainbow particle infused golden ones, seeming to almost pierce into my soul. "Even you, Zane, who has far surpassed them all with this most recent asspull of a form of yours…is nothing compared to me now. I am truly the most powerful being in the Multiver-!"

Before the words could even finish leaving Luke's mouth, I immediately interrupted him with a snarl. "Ugh, will you just shut the fuck up, already!? Every time you gain a new level of power or even the smallest smidge of an advantage, I have to listen to the same megalomaniacal bullshit you've spouting for the past TWO FUCKING YEARS!" Luke's trademark insanity riddle arrogant grin immediately faded from his face, with it being replaced by an expression of sheer annoyance and fury in the form of literal veins popping up on his forehead. I rolled my rainbow particle infused golden eyes at his anger, letting a scoff out. "It's just getting exhausting at this point! I mean, is this just some glorified divine dick measuring contest to you or something!? Hate to break it to you, but even with your new giant size, mine's still bigge-!"

I was immediately interrupted by the most powerful force I'd ever felt in my entire existence slamming into the left side of my face, immediately being blasted back millions of light years through the fractured and shattered cosmic void that was now the remains of my universe. Half of my vision immediately disappeared and so did half of my hearing, with the remaining half of my vision becoming blurry and my hearing being filled with nothing but an absolutely intense ringing sound. My thoughts immediately became scrambled, with my focus immediately being butchered and eviscerated.

As I flew through the swirling cosmic space time tears and reality cracks of space throughout the universe, I noticed a massive amount of blood erupting from the part of my vision that had disappeared, leaving me to draw a single conclusion. Luke had destroyed half of my head with a single strike, which explained the lack of vision and hearing on one side of my face. I didn't even know how I was still alive, as a wound like that would have spelled the end of me in the past. But I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth and was going to adapt. Luckily, the half of my head that was destroyed quickly regenerated in less than a couple of seconds, returning my vision and hearing to normal.

Right after slamming through a Supermassive black hole and completely annihilating it from reality, the time dilation effect not doing a single thing to me as I was moving at infinite speed throughout the universe after being struck, I immediately slowed my movement to a complete halt with my divine telekinesis. I shook my head and spit out the last leftover globs of blood from my mouth, my rainbow particle infused golden aura immediately eradicating it before it could even go an inch from my mouth. I felt the half of my head that had been destroyed in amazement, realizing that this Infinity State amplified my healing exponentially. Could Luke even kill me now? The order energy around me would likely expel his weapon away and my regeneration was incredible, likely on the same level as the New Titan of Time's.

Speaking of that traitorous bastard, he appeared in a flash of sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura less than ten feet away, Aposynthesi reeled back and prepared to slice me into nothingness. I noted Luke was moving the exact same speed as me as I barely dodged a ferocious swipe from me, causing me to grimace as the Heavenly Diamond scythe head missed my neck by only a foot or two. Luke was moving at infinite speed without time even being stopped, which meant if Luke actually did stop time, his speed would be immeasurable, without even stacking it with teleportation. Explains how he hit me so hard without me being able to react.

I bobbed and weaved through thousands of slashes from Luke, with the two of us flashing across the entire universe as fast as time itself. We appeared and disappeared in and out of view in completely different galaxies in literal instances, with the sheer force of Luke's swings themselves literally creating reality cracks and more space time rips. The fabric of the universe's reality was literally ripping apart just from Luke's swings. I didn't even bother drawing a weapon to try and deflect or block Luke's attacks, as I knew that the destructive would be even worse. The second our blows would collide, the entire universe would shatter like glass, likely leaving us in the Multiversal border realm. Plus, the power gap between us was now large enough that one swing from Luke would probably knock any weapon I used to block out of my hand immediately.

As I dodged yet another slash from the New Titan of Time, Luke's frame immediately disappeared from view, causing my eyes to widen in surprise. I felt Luke's aura behind me, but before I could even turn halfway around, I was hit with a momentous force in my back. I felt nothing pierce my skin and the blow honestly didn't even hurt, but I was sent blasting off millions of light years away once more, with my aura sense telling me Luke was also sent flying away a similar distance. The repulsion effect of order energy and chaotic energy colliding likely did that, causing me to smirk slightly as I slowed myself down to a halt after being forced to traverse millions of light years. I may be vastly weaker than Luke once again, but my unique energy from my Infinity State made it impossible for Luke to actually capitalize on finishing me off.

Luke erupted into existence in a burst of sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura once more, signaling that he teleported once more, only about ten meters from me this time. He looked at my aura in amazement, surprise etched all over his expression. "What is that energy? It repelled my Aposynthesi like it was nothing!" I remained silent, not going to give up any piece of information that could spell my downfall to my worst enemy. Luke's eyes traced my rainbow particle infused golden energy, lighting up after a few seconds. "It's as if it's the…opposite of chaotic energy. That's why they repelled each other!" Luke grinned at me, assuming a fighting stance once more. "Well, then…that makes this far more interesting. Some sort of…order energy, am I right? That's what the Ophiotaurus gave you? It's going to take far more than that to defeat me."

Luke immediately vanished from view faster than I could even think, appearing in front of me and grabbing me by the throat. I immediately gagged and tried to punch his arm away, only for it to predictably do nothing. Luke brought me up to eye level and gave me his signature insane grin, his glowing orange eyes staring into my own. "Well…with my new power, my speed matches yours. Combined with my time stopping abilities, that makes my full speed beyond time itself! It doesn't matter what kind of power you gain. You couldn't hope to hit me in a billion years and I'm so much stronger than you now it's pathetic!" I didn't need to breathe, but Luke could just pop my head off with his immeasurable strength. I could probably regenerate from it now, but I would be separated from all my weapons if I regrew a whole body.

So instead of futilely trying to knock Luke's massive arm away, I closed my eyes and focused. This new order energy empowered Infinity State gave me control over reality itself, so I needed to use it instead of just trying to kill Luke in the old conventional way. I could feel…some sort of odd energy around the New Titan of Time. Not his regular aura or the chaotic energy churning throughout it, but something completely different. I had noticed it ever since I absorbed those Luke time clone's souls but hadn't given it much thought since they all fused into this singular Luke right after. However, I didn't have time to think too hard on what it was. It was…well, for lack of better word, Luke's connection to time itself.

After absorbing those time clone's souls, I gained all of Luke's memories as well. Luke drew power for his time abilities from this…alternate time dimension called the Chronorealm that existed above time itself, yet where all of time throughout the multiverse originated from. Luke's memories told me it contained every single timeline of every single universe in the entire multiverse, and every time Luke traveled in time to create a time clone, he would have to travel through said Chronorealm across the timeline itself, which would then add yet another timeline to the infinite timelines of the time dimension. All of Luke's time powers came from the dimension itself, as did Kronos' when he was alive. It was weird to learn of a completely new dimension separate but connected to every single universe in the infinite multiverse yet exist above and beyond the multiverse itself.

After I had absorbed those time clone's souls and energy…that same connection Luke had to the Chronorealm existed in me as well. Not quite as powerful as this super fusion of Luke who had me grabbed by the throat, but enough to where I could actively feel it. And thanks to my Infinity State amplified aura manipulation and the knowledge of how to correctly utilize the Chronorealm's time energy that had flowed through Luke and now flows through me…it was a simple matter to manipulate time to my very will. Sickly orange energy flashed throughout my rainbow particle infused golden aura of my Infinity State, quickly flaring through my energy and immediately coating everything in sight in the same sickly orange hue. I had stopped time, finally doing so myself rather than having the ability used against me.

Everything in the broken universal cosmic void around us immediately gained an orange hue, not having any of the black and blue energy that it normally was filled with as I had stopped time, not Luke. However, he wasn't trapped in stasis in the slightest, no doubt because he resisted the time stop. His eyes widened as he realized what I had done and his jaw dropped slightly as he stared at the orange tinted broken and shattered universe around us, temporarily distracted and shocked. "W-What the fuck…?" Luke whispered to himself, probably more surprised than I'd ever seen him. I mean, I did just copy his trademarked ability.

Taking advantage of his surprise, I willed a small bolt of rainbow particle infused golden lightning to spark off my shoulder and collide with my back, immediately teleporting me several dozen meters away and completely out of his grip. I appeared in a burst of rainbow particle infused golden sparks, drawing both Thymos and Prometheus' Sword and slipping into a fighting stance as my aura exploded to life around me once more. "Are you really that surprised? I mean, I did absorb the souls and powers of four of your time clone things. Your memories plus my ability to learn hints on the fly…well, you can guess how I copied your time stop."

Luke's eyes widened at my reveal, and he stared at me with his glowing sickly orange eyes. "Y-You absorbed their souls? T-That means you-!" Luke's face went cold with shock and was as still as a stone statue, likely realizing what that meant. He knew if I could perfectly utilize his time stopping ability without any prior practice and that I had just absorbed at least four of his own souls…he probably knew I'd seen his memories, all of them. "You saw, then?" Luke's face conveyed no emotion, although I could see his brow tighten with my enhanced vision.

I nodded; a grim solemn expression being etched on my expression. "I did. Everything. And after seeing all the horrific, shitty things you did in your time leading the Titans…killing you would be doing the old version of you a mercy." My rainbow particle infused golden aura flared around me, increasing from only being a few meters around me to hundreds of meters in size, with small bits of golden lightning sparking off my form. "Now, Luke…let's get started." Time had stopped and we could both now move at infinite speed, making our pure speed completely equal. This was probably going to be the hardest battle of my entire life.

Luke's face became completely murderous at my words, with his grip around Aposynthesi becoming so tight his fist would have turned white if he was still a mortal, and his sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura exploded around him as well. Both of our auras were massive in size and collided against each other, with Luke's unfortunately being more powerful. The New Titan of Time charged me at full speed, his Heavenly Diamond Scythe pulled back to slice me apart, roaring the entire time. As soon as Luke reached my position, I side-swiped the swing, barely avoiding it by only a few inches and immediately slamming Thymos into Luke's chest.

Luke barely even flinched at my swing, his aura only cracking slightly, and the New Titan of Time was only sent flying back a few feet, which gave me a brief second to press the attack. I imbued Prometheus' Sword with a healthy amount of order energy, the massive buster blade being coated with rainbow particle infused golden aura and swung the giant sword directly down at Luke's skull in an attempt to vertically bisect him in two. Instead of moving to the side like I had done just prior, Luke simply casually battled Prometheus' Sword to the size as if it was nothing, not at all bothered by the multiverse shaking strength behind the swing.

Luke then twisted Aposynthesi in his hand and immediately launched a barrage of swipes, swings and cleaves, trying to cut me into ribbons with extreme prejudice. I avoided and dodged every single attack, not at all bothering to try and deflect or block any of Luke's strikes, as the massive strength disparity would cause Luke to probably turn every bone and muscle in my arm into nothing just by blocking even one attack. By the excessively angered look on his face, he probably wasn't holding back even a little bit. However, Luke couldn't even land a single attack on me, as our speed was equal and honestly, I was a better fighter than him now.

I dodge underneath a hate-filled slash by limboing under it, a frustrated grimace appearing on my face. I may have the tools to actually not immediately die facing Luke, but I had virtually nothing actually powerful enough to even seriously hurt him. My physical blows weren't strong enough to even make Luke flinch, none of my powers or abilities would even work on Luke, except for maybe my reality warping abilities from my Infinity State. However, I needed at least a little bit of time to focus and channel my Law Manipulation, and I couldn't exactly do that with Luke actively trying to dice me into little pieces. Even Thymos was out, as Luke wasn't dumb enough to attack me without having an aura of chaotic energy strengthened around him to defend himself from the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar. I had a million ways to attack Luke, but I wasn't sure any of them would even work.

However, an idea came into my mind as I was forced to bob and weave through a barrage of chaotic energy empowered aura slashes as Luke unleashed a barrage of energy based ranged attacks. I could use my Aura Guard ability, which I had developed fighting Luke earlier at the Battle of Manhattan. I may not be powerful enough myself to actually hurt Luke, but I could use his own power to damage him. Luke erupted from a burst of sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura, teleporting in front of me while already swinging his Heavenly Diamond scythe down towards my face. I quickly sheathed Prometheus' Sword and brought up my left arm, immediately using my Aura Guard and absorbing the power of Luke's attack. Due to Luke's insane power advantage, I couldn't use my Aura Guard in the normal way I would use it, which would be by corrupting Luke's energy with my own and making his power mine. But since even specks of Luke's aura were more powerful than literally everything in my reserves, I would have to improvise instead.

As soon as Luke's Heavenly Diamond Scythe touched my arm, I used my enhanced aura manipulation to simply steal the chaotic energy imbued around his scythe and create the same kind of energy swirl around me as my normal Aura Guard, this move being possible due to how my Infinity State seemed to amplify how easily I could control both my own aura as well as an enemy's. Aposynthesi clanged off my arm as if it hit an unbreakable wall, all of the chaotic aura imbued into the attack immediately transferring to me, materializing around me as an extremely powerful swirl of chaotic energy. Luke quickly recovered from being caught off balance by the Aura Guard, but instead of simply trying to continue to cut me to shreds with Heavenly Diamond Scythe, he wised up and dispelled the sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura around himself. He immediately threw a powerful punch directed towards my face, the blow only utilizing his raw strength instead of his aura power.

I immediately performed yet another Aura Guard, only this time I was sent blasting back dozens of meters instead of completely absorbing Luke's attack. I still took no damage thanks to the ability, however, I still let an annoyed look etch onto my expression. Guess I couldn't absorb and manipulate raw strength unlike aura with my Aura Guard, something Luke quickly realized and used to neutralize one of my biggest advantages. However, that hasn't put me out of the fight yet. I held up my right hand and charged a massive amount of rainbow particle infused golden lightning into and around it. I then waved my hand in Luke's direction, unleashing a massive, thousand-meter-wide wall of pure lightning towards the New Titan of Time.

The lightning wall did literally nothing to Luke, with the new Titan floating through the lightning as if it was nothing but a sheet of water, but I wasn't at all surprised or even annoyed. In fact, I had to keep down a smirk from forming on my face as Luke blasted through the lightning, as it was actually part of the little plan I had quickly made on the fly. As Luke got closer, I withdrew Prometheus' Sword from its barely holding together sheath on my shirtless back and coated the weapon with the rainbow particle infused golden energy of my Infinity State. I twirled the massive blade into a reverse grip, and as soon as Luke flew within twenty meters of me, I threw the giant buster sword at him like a spear.

The massive sword flew faster than time itself, thanks to time being stopped and it being flung towards Lukie at infinite speed, directly at the New Titan of Time's massive, armored torso. Luke twisted in his flight, only dodging the blade by a few inches, making me nearly sigh in relief. If he had just tanked the throw, it would have just bounced off his sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura, ruining my entire plan. Luckily, the buster sword blasted past him and torpedoed towards the insanely massive lightning wall, quickly catching up to the surging rainbow particle infused golden lightning. As Luke quickly blasted towards me with his non-aura encased leg to bypass my Aura Guard, I closed my eyes and focused.

I focused on the massive lightning wall with both my aura sense and my reality warping abilities from my Infinity State, creating small little teleportation 'anchor' points on each curve and zig-zag of every single bolt, which would allow me to zip between each and every anchor via my teleportation and achieve a speed even faster than immeasurable speed for brief instances that could be heavily stretched over a larger period of time. I don't even know what to call this theoretical level of speed, since it was infinite speed stacked on top of infinite speed stacked on top of another source of infinite speed. It might as well be beyond the concept of speed itself, allowing me to move faster than speed faster than time.

I then opened my eyes, seeing Luke was literally only a few feet away at things point, his Heavenly Diamond Morningstar already arched back and prepared to slash me in two diagonally. I willed a small spurt of rainbow particle infused golden lightning to sprout up from my skin by an inch and turn around to strike me, immediately teleporting me to the closest teleportation anchor point of my lightning wall. I literally erupted from the already existing lightning, practically physically sliding out of the anchor point.

I pointed a finger at Luke, channeling a healthy amount of chaotic energy from the chaotic energy swirl around me made up of Luke's earlier absorbed power from my Aura Guard into a pressurized finger beam of pure chaotic aura made of Luke's own power. The chaotic finger beam was only a small part of the energy I'd absorbed from just a single aura enhanced slash from Luke's Heavenly Diamond Scythe, yet it was more powerful than every single ounce of my own strength. The strength difference was legitimately that much.

As soon as the beam left my finger and before it could even traverse an attometer, I willed some of the rainbow particle infused golden lightning from the massive lightning wall to strike me once more, teleporting me the next anchor point and I repeated my previous action by forming yet another chaotic energy filled finger beam and fired it towards Luke. Rinse and repeat this same action thousands of times, with me teleporting between teleportation anchor points in the lightning wall and shooting another aura finger blast filled with Luke's power, with me slowly but surely willing the lighting wall to become a massive lightning dome with each teleportation.

In Luke's perspective, I had to have been flashing in and out of existence in infinitesimal bursts of rainbow particle infused lightning, likely barely even being able to keep track of me thanks to the triple stacking of infinite speed caused by the stopped time, my natural infinite speed, and the infinite speed of teleportation. As soon as I teleported to the last anchor point and fired off the last aura finger beam that contained the final bits of the chaotic energy I'd absorbed from Luke, I teleported one final time right in front of him only a few meters away, erupting from a burst of rainbow particle infused golden lightning. I quickly created a telekinetic barrier around my hand and withdrew Thymos, quickly summoning as much chaotic energy from its connection to chaos itself as I could and drew it back for a momentous strike.

As soon as I drew my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar, every single aura finger blast made up of Luke's own chaotic energy collided with The New Titan of Time's sickly orange mixed with black and blue chaotic aura around him, smashing into it with enough force to actually crack it and stagger him. I immediately charged forward and swung Thymos directly at his chest, instantly shattering his aura completely as it had been heavily weakened by his own power. A massive explosive wave of sapphire coloured chaotic energy erupted in every direction for billions of light years occurred, not yet annihilating a massive chunk of what was left of the universe as time still remained stopped.

Luke immediately began to blast backward, completely taken off guard by my insanely intricate and masterfully executed plan and now actually defenseless. Before Luke could even fly twenty feet away, I used my divine telekinesis to summon Prometheus' Sword back towards our direction, as I had thrown it as a distraction at Luke earlier when he had been charging me. The massive buster sword exploded from the rainbow particle infused golden lightning dome which had started to fade away now, with me using my enhanced aura manipulation to imbue the giant blade with order energy, and it launched itself directly at Luke's torso. Prometheus' Sword immediately pierced through Luke's torso, easily cutting through his armor on the molecular level and causing it to erupt out of the front of his body with a massive explosion of Ichor.

Luke roared in pain as his left hand gripped the ichor-covered blade that had ripped through his body, looking absolutely bewildered and completely stunned at what just happened. "I-Impossib-!" Luke's predictable words were immediately cut off by me charging directly at him whilst sheathing Thymos, quickly creating a coat of chaotic aura summoned from the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar around both of my fists and my legs and punching him directly in the face. The force of the punch didn't actually do much damage, barely even knocking his head to the side, but the fact that it even did anything made me grin in satisfaction. I landed on top of the giant blade of Prometheus' Sword, which still remained firmly pierced through Luke's giant torso, and stood on top of the ichor-stained weapon like it was a surfboard. I growled and drew back my fist, imbuing them with even more chaotic energy from my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar.

I then unleashed a massive barrage of punches, kicks, elbows, knees and even headbutts on Luke' injured and somewhat immobilized form, with the strikes initially not doing that much damage, but after nearly a hundred uninterrupted strikes, Ichor started to spew from Luke's face with each strike. Luke's face slowly became more and more damaged, with me busting his lip, cutting his brow, breaking his nose and even bruising around his right glowing sickly orange eye. I then drew back my leg and quickly kicked Luke across the face with my boot still encased with a shroud of sapphire coloured chaotic energy imbued with black particles, actually knocking out one of Luke's teeth. Ichor splattered on my face, and I unsheathed Thymos and drew it back while screaming bloody murder, intent on smashing Luke's head and killing him once and for all.

Before I could end Luke for good, the New Titan of Time let out an absolutely reality shaking roar, his sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy once again exploding around his form and immediately blasting me back hundreds of meters. I quickly paused my momentum with my telekinetic flight, letting out a deep breath as I watched Luke's aura practically engulf his form and expand for hundreds of meters, which once again forced me to bring my arms in front of my face from the sheer pressure of Luke's power. Once his aura calmed slightly, his still injured face looked at me with the most hateful expression I'd ever seen in my life from Luke, which was really saying something.

Luke's face was still covered in ichor, with him having not healed at all due to the chaotic energy infused attacks I'd used to absolutely brutalize him. The New Titan of Time growled like an animal and nearly frothed at the mouth, absolutely enraged at me even landing a single blow on him, much less actually damaging him and drawing Ichor from his face. The sight actually legitimately unsettled me a bit, which caused me to hesitate in letting out one of my usual quips. "…You're fucking DEAD!" Luke started the sentence at a relatively normal octave but devolved into his normal insane yelling, his aura once again erupting to power around him.

Luke then disappeared in a flash of sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy, appearing hundreds of meters behind me and rearing Aposynthesi back whilst charging it with his aura, growling and seething like a monster the entire brief timeframe. Luke then unleashed three quick energy slashes that launched towards me just as fast as Luke could move at the moment, which was the exact same speed as me. Luke then did the exact same thing I had done prior with the chaotic energy powered aura finger blasts, teleporting around me in extremely short bursts and unleashing several energy slashes before doing it all over again. The New Titan of Time flashed all around me in a several thousand meter area hundreds of times, moving just as fast as I had previously, which I decided was beyond the concept of speed itself in short bursts as he teleported. My rainbow particle infused golden eyes could barely even keep track of him, something which probably happened to Luke when I had done the same thing prior.

I was immediately forced to dodge through the ranged energy slashes, pushing my reaction speed to the absolute brink. I bobbed and weaved through thousands of Luke's blast slashes, knowing that if even one of them touched me I'd immediately be annihilated with absolutely no trouble, before a rather obvious idea came to mind. Luke was just shooting pure sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura slashes, not at all using his physical strength. Perfect opportunity to use my Aura Guard, which would fill the swirl that would be created around me with enough chaotic power I could likely kill Luke outright with his own strength. I sheathed all my weapons as I dodged yet another energy slash, immediately bringing up one of my arms to absorb Luke's power as the next energy slash came at me right after.

As soon as the energy slash touched my arm, I used my Aura Guard technique to absorb Luke's power and turn it into a weapon of my own, the chaotic energy creating a swirl of sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura filled with bits of black particles around me once more. More of Luke's aura slashes blasted towards me, with me continuing to use my aura guard to absorb them all rapid fire. Several slashes turned into dozens, which quickly turned into hundreds so quickly I could barely even count them, with every single ounce of my focus having to be poured in both my reaction speed and focusing on my perfected Aura Guard. The sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura swirl around me only grew more and more powerful as well as intense, starting to reach dangerous levels.

Luke finally noticed this, and instead of just trying to copy the exact same thing I had done to him earlier, Luke erupted from a burst of sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura only a couple meters in front of me, immediately trying to kick me in the face with his giant armored boot. Instead of just dodging normally, I willed a small spurt of rainbow particle infused golden lightning to spark off my shoulder and strike my bicep, immediately teleporting me behind Luke faster than the concept of speed itself. Luke was open and vulnerable, something I was about to take advantage of. I warped every bit of the sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura swirl to coat my right hand, looking like a multi-coloured ethereal energy gauntlet filled to the brim with spurning black particles that absolutely shined with power, and rushed at Luke with my aura coated hand outstretched towards him. I was going to grab his face and unleash all the power at once, hopefully ending him once and for all.

However, Luke vanished in a flash of his aura, instantly reappearing behind me and doing the exact same thing I had done to him only a brief time prior. I immediately twisted around to face him, quickly balling my chaotic aura encased hand into a fist and throwing it directly towards Luke's face, only for my eyes to widen as I saw Luke swing Aposynthesi directly into the trajectory of my monumental punch. The aura coated fist filled with Luke's own power and Aposynthesi collided, with every seeming to completely freeze for a brief instance. I closed my eyes in anticipation as the two collided, knowing this shit was about to suck.

It did indeed suck, as soon as my fist collided with his Heavenly Diamond weapon, an absolute momentous burst of sapphire as well as sickly orange mixed with black and blue chaotic energy exploded in every direction from our collision, easily traversing the entire infinite universe in an instant, still not affecting anything due to time still being paused. However, instead of our attacks simply colliding and the two of us being launched back, we both struggled at the point of impact for dominance.

Constant waves of both Luke's and my stolen chaotic power erupted in rapid fire flares of omnidirectional bursts of our energy, which was no doubt going to erase the entirely of our reality once time resumed at normal speed. I couldn't even begin to hope to control the power I'd absorbed from all of Luke's energy slashes with my Aura Guard, as it was practically impossible to even measure in any reliable metric. If we had been fighting in the multiversal-border realm, we'd probably have annihilated thousands upon thousands of universes.

I gritted my teeth as an expression of absolutely supreme effort became plastered over my expression, As I was putting absolutely everything I'd absorbed from Luke into the punch as every muscle on my entire frame bulged out and convulsed. Veins appeared all over my body as every striation in my muscles became extremely visible and blood even started to leak from my nose and mouth with how much strain I was under. Looking at Luke on the other side of the collision between my chaotic aura coated fist and Aposynthesi, he was clearly putting a good bit of effort into the strike, but he wasn't practically on the brink of every molecule in his body basically lighting on fire like I was.

Eventually, the power of the sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura gauntlet made of Luke's power started to wane, as I'd only absorbed so much of it when I used my Aura Guard to defend against all those energy slashes. Luke's Heavenly Diamond Scythe slowly but surely began to overpower my strike, with Aposynthesi gradually pushing back my outstretched arm into a bent position as the ethereal aura gauntlet around my hand started to flicker. The gauntlet then finally shattered, releasing another universe spanning wave of Luke's sickly orange mixed with black and blue, stunning me while blasting my arm back and leaving me completely open.

Luke's Heavenly Diamond Scythe then buried itself into my shirtless abdomen, easily ripping through my torso and piercing out through my back. Blood burst from both my abdominal and my spine, the red liquid instantly being atomized by the chaotic aura around Aposynthesi's scythe head. My eyes widened in utter shock and honestly a good bit of complete dread, as only one outcome was now my fate. An absolutely corrosive feeling filled my entire body, similar to the feeling brough upon by Prometheus' poison, but much, much more powerful and all consuming. I closed my eyes, completely expecting to fade away into a cloud of green dust and be erased from existence. Forever.

However, something completely stunning happened instead. Instead of instantly dying and being eradicated from reality for all of eternity, a completely different sensation to the all-destroying and corrosive feeling of chaotic energy filled my body. A feeling of life, vigor and electrifying bursts sprouted through my body, with my rainbow particle infused golden aura emanating from the wound Aposynthesi was still pierced through like a miasma of golden energy, prompting me to look down at the scythe in my gut in pure amazement. Both energies were still there, as if they were fighting for dominance and cancelling each other out, negating the Heavenly Diamond's erasure effect. Feeling like everything about your existence was dying as well as feeling like every cell in your body was being pumped with so much life that you felt tingly was probably the weirdest experience I'd felt in my entire life.

Luke looked at me in utter surprise, the same expression as earlier when I'd moved in his stopped time now etched on his face. He looked like a fish gapping for oxygen, unable to even speak a word for a few seconds, frozen in complete shock. I managed a grin as I grabbed the black, gilded handle of Aposynthesi, mentally preparing to pull my body to the side and halfway bisect myself so I could escape being impaled. I know I'm not even close to being strong enough to force Luke's weapon out of my body against his grip, so I'd just horrifically injure myself to be able to get away. Hopefully the order energy in my body could counteract the chaotic energy that would try and erase me from that as well.

Luke finally found his voice, with his expression going from one of pure astoundedness to pure hatred once more. "Y-You…RRRRRAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!" Luke roared in absolute fury, quickly spinning around and swinging Aposynthesi whilst I was still impaled on the Heavenly Diamond scythe head, the momentum causing my body to slide against the sharp edge of the head and be halfway sliced in half anyway, with Luke doing what I was going to do for me. I was sent torpedoing through the time stopped, annihilated space that was filled with so many space time rips and reality cracks that the normal almost all-encompassing darkness of the cosmos was nowhere to be found, with the entire universe being lit up with so many colours it looked like a giant cosmic Jackson Pollock painting.

I flew billions of light years, with blood spewing from my half-way torn body like a geyser as my entrails flapped around wildly, although the wounds didn't even bother me. No, the extra chaotic aura that was been pumped into my half-bisected form from Luke's throw was what was causing my discomfort. The natural order energy surging through my body caused by my Infinity State was working overtime to counteract the erasing effect of Heavenly Diamond, with the rainbow particle infused golden miasma pumping from my open wounds, with an almost unseeable traces of chaotic energy spewing from me as well. I was surviving, thankfully, albeit it was painful, and my healing was probably going to be extremely slow instead of almost instant like the previous wounds that had been healed by the order energy of my Infinity State. Luckily, I hadn't grown any weaker as well, as if the Infinity State also fought against that, too.

I quickly summoned more order energy around me and my rainbow particle infused golden aura exploded around me, quickly pushing out the remnants of the chaotic energy from Luke's Heavenly Diamond scythe and healing me immediately. My halfway bisected body quickly closed up, with my entrails being fully healed and me being brought back in one hundred percent fighting form. I looked down at my muscular torso in amazement, completely stunned I'd survived being hit by a Heavenly Diamond weapon, as a mortal. Usually, a single scratch was all it took to instantly erase any non-immortal it hit, and thanks to the order energy of my Infinity State, I was still alive.

My surprise quickly turned into annoyance as I thought of my current situation, knowing that even though I couldn't die in a single hit from Luke now, I had no way of beating him. Even if I stole parts of his power with my Aura Guard, Luke pretty much had an infinite supply of it now after his fusion with all his time clones. He was basically some kind of Ultimate version of himself now, and he already had infinite stamina on account of him being a god.

I could tell I too had limitless stamina thanks to the rejuvenating effects of my Infinity State, so this fight could literally go on endlessly and we could probably fight for years. I was a better fighter and seemed to have a much larger array of abilities with my reality warping powers, but Luke was just far more powerful and was definitely almost as skilled as me. I couldn't just reality warp Luke away since his power was far greater than mine, so I'd have to beat him straight up.

I needed an equalizer, something that would push me beyond what I was normally capable of, even with the jaw dropping power of my Infinity State. Something then immediately came to mind, and I nearly smacked myself for not thinking about it sooner. The Master Bolt. It had been in the Olympian Throne room when Luke…killed my father, and it had just been sitting there. It looked like it had been depowered or not charged in a way, but maybe I could imbue order energy into it and revitalize its power or make It even stronger.

The multiplication from the Master Bolt was even greater than any form of Heavenly Thunder Form I'd ever used, and my strongest Heavenly Thunder Form transformation, which was that limit broken state of Power Stressed Heavenly Thunder Form I used to punch Luke through a multiversal portal, literally made me one hundred decillion times stronger than my base form. If I added that on my already greater multiplication that my Infinity State gave me than my strongest version of Heavenly Thunder Form…maybe I'd actually have a chance.

I needed to get back to wherever Earth used to be and try and find the Master Bolt amidst the space-time rift and reality crack covered space. If the bolt actually survived, I'd use to against Luke and hopefully manage to finally kill the bastard. Before another thought could even cross my mind, a burst of sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy erupted into existence around twenty or so meters away, materializing Luke out of nothing. The New Titan of Time's face was still covered in injuries and Ichor, as despite his new perfected godhood, he still couldn't heal from chaotic energy afflicted injuries…unlike me now.

Luke looked at me with pure hatred and rage, something that had become absolutely commonplace throughout our entire reality shaking battle. "So…you've done the impossible and survived a blow from my Aposynthesi with no long-lasting effects and did what even your father couldn't…as a mortal. A mere demigod." Luke said the word 'mortal' with pure disgust filling his voice, as if he was talking about a cockroach or a worm. Luke's rage-filled face became completely deadpan, and he stared at me with his glowing orange eyes. "Guess I can't kill you by just impaling you or cutting you to pieces."

Luke's deadpan expression then switched to one of pure insanity, with his eyes widening to their fullest extent and a grin that threatened to split his face in half appearing onto his expression, with his sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura exploding around him in a several hundred meter wide energy cone and forcing me to once again put my arms in front of my face as I was blown back a few meters. "THEN I'LL JUST ANNIHILATE YOU TO THE VERY LAST ATOM!" Luke's aura only continued to grow in size and power, and if time wasn't stopped, he'd probably threaten the very fabric of all of space-time in our already shattered and doomed universe.

Luke then pulled back Aposynthesi and charged a massive amount of his aura into the Heavenly Diamond scythe head, his aura only growing both in power and intensity. A thick and immensely powerful sphere of Luke's aura completely coated and obscured the scythe head of Aposynthesi, with Luke's energy cone actually starting to shrink and imbue into the already impossibly strong attack he was charging. Luke was definitely preparing for a blast of some kind, although I didn't expect it would be in the form of a simple blast. No, Luke knew I could teleport anywhere and would just simply dodge it without much issue. This blast…was probably going to be in every direction and finally destroy everything left in this universe.

I knew I had to find the Master Bolt and find it fast. I didn't wait around and continue to stare at look like a gobsmacked fish, immediately willing a tiny spark of rainbow particle infused golden lightning to spurt of my shoulder and strike my arm. I immediately teleported right to where Earth used to be and materialized in a burst of sparks, seeing the absolutely massive multi-coloured rip in space-time that completely dwarfed even how big the sun used to be before it was annihilated. I didn't even bother trying to use my eyes to find the Master Bolt, as even with my enhanced vision, finding it with the naked eye was just going to be impossible. Instead, I closed my eyes and reached out with my aura sense.

I scanned everywhere where Earth and Olympus used to be, trying to find even a trace left of my father's aura, as the Master Bolt had been filled with it. Even though it had looked dim and depowered the last time I'd seen it, it had to have at least some specks of his energy left…if it was still around. Luckily, I felt it. Small, almost infinitesimal bits of my father's aura leftover gathered in a single place. I quickly teleported right over to where I'd sensed it, erupting in a burst of rainbow particle infused golden lightning and finding the Master Bolt right in front of me.

It was completely dim and almost clear, having none of the seemingly infinite power it had possessed before. It more or less just looked like a dim crystal in the shape of a zigzag, completely lacking any strength. There were only small bits of Zeus' aura left over inside the aura of the weapon, making my face drop and my being fill with dread. Without any power to amplify me…Luke was going to kill me, and the rest of my entire reality. I felt Luke's aura flare tens of billions of light years away, and the back of my neck felt a sharp pain, symbolizing the immense power of Luke's attack. I could feel his aura erupt from him in every direction, proving my earlier theory on what type of attack to use correct.

I created a telekinetic barrier around Thymos and unsheathed it, preparing to open up a multiversal portal and completely escape the blast radius from Luke's attack by just going into the border realm and…running away. I could find something out there in the infinite multiverse to deal with him, maybe another universe's Master Bolt that could probably help me, but Luke would just immediately follow me the second I left, and I'd be back at square one, only with the entire multiverse now at risk from our battle. I then looked at the depowered Master Bolt and gulped, likely only having seconds to do something that would either be completely stupid or would save my life.

I then grabbed the center of the Master Bolt and began pumping order energy into it, hoping that the rejuvenating effects would jumpstart the Master Bolt and massively amplify my power to Luke's level. And to my surprise…it started to work. The bolt began to brighten and surge with power, bits of rainbow particle infused golden lightning beginning to spurt off it's form and surge around it as if the Master Bolt was a tesla coil. Instead of returning to it's normal bright, electric blue colour…the Master Bolt began to turn a bright golden one, with the same rainbow particles being infused into the bolt as well. The Master Bolt began to be infused with my power instead of my father's, with it starting to be bonded to me as well.

I could feel the Master Bolt on a completely different level than I ever could before, with the weapon seemingly almost a sentient entity itself. It felt like it contained an entire dimension within, with it's true scope and power being almost infinite. I thought pouring my own power into the Bolt would weaken me, but it actually didn't. It's almost as if there was some sort of outside constantly pumping me with power, keeping me at my absolute best throughout the entire fight, and it wasn't just the regenerative effects of the order energy. Was it something to do with the Ophiotaurus and its whole prophecy thing? Was it Fate itself or the Fates? That didn't make sense, as even my father was beyond the Fates in power, and both me and Luke had surpassed him by far by now.

Whatever was the case for my power and reserves not running out, it didn't matter now. The Master Bolt had bound itself to me like it had done to my father, seemingly becoming my own weapon now that Zeus was dead and gone. Its power was completely refilled and even further strengthened than ever, pretty much becoming a new weapon entirely and being completely filled to the brim with order energy yet having every aspect as its previous state. I guess it needed a new name now, rather than just Master Bolt. The Master Bolt, imbued with the power of order energy from my Infinity State…guess I could call it The Infinity Bolt now.

Just like the Master Bolt had imbued me with immense power and massively multiplied my current level against Hades, Ares, and Ouranos, The Infinity Bolt amplified me to an even greater multiplier. It was like multiplying the power of my Infinity State by the power of my Infinity State, pushing my strength to levels I barely even comprehended was possible. Rainbow particle infused golden lightning erupted around my aura just like my Thunder Form usually did, filling almost every single inch of my energy cone as it expanded to thousands of light years in size. My eyes completely glowed a rainbow particle infused golden colour, mirroring how Luke's completely glowed a sickly orange and completely blotted out the whites of my eyes.

Power beyond anything I could even imagine flushed through my aura, with me literally growling in exertion just from the massive surge of energy rushing from the Infinity bolt as my giant, rainbow particle infused golden aura only grew in size. My energy cone became larger and larger, even eclipsing the size of an entire galaxy just on its own. The number of sparks of rainbow particle infused golden lightning were completely innumerable, likely outnumbering how many stars there were in the entire universe itself back before it was decimated, as the lightning was so dense there was only a few inches of space between each streak of it. Every muscle in my body tightened and bulged out as my aura formed a massive barrier around my form for hundreds of thousands of light years, completely protecting me as Luke's omni-directional universe spanning blast passed over my location.

I let out several heavy breaths as I desperately tried to gain control of the sheer amount of power swirling throughout my body and around my frame, not used to practically infinite destructive power multiplied by practically infinite destructive power surging in my aura. With the power of my Infinity State multiplied by the power of the Infinity Bolt…I made my father look like a pathetic child in terms of pure raw power. As I let out a few deep breaths and my galaxy sized aura cone decreased in size and became less intense, a thought crossed my mind. I'd finally surpassed my father, which I'd honestly done with just my Infinity State.

Now, with this level of power…I was probably the strongest being to ever exist in our pantheon, sans Chaos itself. Despite that realization and the fact that my goal of becoming the strongest in existence only getting closer and closer to being realized, I didn't even take a lick of joy out of it. To get here, I had to be pushed so far beyond my own normal limits and shatter them to pieces to gain this amount of unimaginable strength. I had to lose the love of my life, all of my friends, all of my family, my planet and home, and even my entire universe to come this far. If I could take it all back and change to outcome of everything…I'd do it in a heartbeat, immeasurable power be damned.

That musing only made the cold, furious, murderous rage in my heart only grow stronger, with that alone motivating me to shrink my aura done from the size of several thousand light years to only a few dozen meters in a near instant. I couldn't make the rainbow particle infused golden energy cone surging with lightning every few inches any smaller, as there was simply just too much raw power blazing throughout my aura and lifeforce. I didn't have to worry about my body exploding or anything, as the rejuvenation effect of so much order energy swirling within me practically made it impossible for my body to even take any damage without immediately healing from it. I looked down at the Infinity Bolt grasped in my left hand, a cold, furious look of hate etching itself onto my face. Even with all the power in the universe…the only thing I had left, was vengeance.

And Luke's death at my hands.

Willing one of the small, almost uncountable rainbow particle infused golden sparks through my Infinity Bolt amplified Infinity State's aura to strike my frame, I immediately teleported directly to Luke's location, appearing nearly one hundred meters away from him faster than the concept of speed itself. I erupted into existence in a massive thunderbolt seemingly striking reality itself surrounded by smaller sparks of surging lightning, immediately staring dead into Luke's glowing eyes with the most dead, coldest stare I could muster. The New Titan of Time stared at me in complete shock, his glowing orange eyes looking directly into my own glowing rainbow particle infused golden ones. "WHAT!?"

Luke looked at the Infinity Bolt in complete awe, as if he completely forgot about its existence as the Master Bolt entirely. I couldn't blame him, as the level of strength it held when my father commanded it was practically nothing to him after he fused with all his time clones, not even being a drop of his new strength. But now, as the Infinity Bolt, combined with multiplying my power on top of its new order energy, it was even beyond his current strength by a fair margin. I smirked at his surprise as I felt him sense my aura, the expression on his face once he realized I'd surpassed him yet again was completely priceless.

I held out both of my arms to my side, my left hand grasping around the Infinity Bolt and the smirk already plastered on my face widening further. "You know…you really should have destroyed this thing back when you murdered my father on Olympus. With my new power, it's pushed me to completely new heights." My smirking expression morphed into one of pure hate, a mirror of the same expression Luke had constantly been giving me our entire battle. My several dozen meter wide aura exploded with intensity; the entire energy cone being filled to the brim with small spurts of rainbow particle infused lightning streaks. "Let's end this, Luke…once and for all."

The shock and awe on Luke's face twisted in rage and pure hatred, becoming an exact copy of my own at the moment. He twirled Aposynthesi into a reverse grip and shifted into a fighting stance as he floated in the cosmic void of the time stopped fractured space, his glowing orange eyes staring directly into my own glowing rainbow particle infused golden ones. "Yes…COME ON!" Luke let out a reality cracking roar, my ears actually ringing a small bit from the sheer volume, and charged me. Luke's signature sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura coated the entire Heavenly Diamond scythe head of Aposynthesi, and just from a split-instance of sensing it's power, I could tell Luke wasn't holding back in the slightest.

My brow furrowed and my grip around the middle of the Infinity Bolt tightened, and I decided to meet Luke's charge. Just like how I had done when I fought Ares and Hades almost four years ago, I willed the Infinity Bolt to warp into a massive, seven-foot-long axe made out of pure rainbow particle infused golden lightning and swung directly towards Luke's neck. Luke reared back the aura-coated Aposynthesi and swiped directly into the path of my Infinity Bolt axe. As the two weapons grew closer, one filled to the brim with chaotic energy and the other imbued to the core with order energy, reality itself around the two weapons seemed to grow heavy, even with time still stopped. This collision was going to be monumental.

It was.

As soon as the Heavenly Diamond scythe head coated with chaotic aura met the axeblade of the order energy imbued Infinity Bolt, the sickly orange hue around everything in sight that symbolized stopped time seemed to crack. The cracks started at the collision point as a massive burst of energy of both chaotic energy and order energy exploded in all directions as the cracks expanded in front of the aura wave. The cracks only grew outward in all directions, with reality itself looking like a giant cracked orange tinted mirror everywhere in sight. Luke struggled against my Infinity Bolt axe as effort washed over every facet of his face, with Aposynthesi shaking as he tried to overpower my strike. I held firm, handily standing up to Luke's strength without much issue, noting I was now considerably stronger than him.

The cracks in the time stop only became more and more numerous, almost filling every inch of reality all around us, with bursts and waves of a mix of chaotic and order energy erupting from our weapon struggle in every direction in the shattered and barely holding together universe. Everything around us, that meaning the entire universe, started to warp and distort. Images of the space-time rips and reality cracks began to repeat, colours besides the normal sickly orange hue started to fill the universe around us, and everything started to break apart. Eventually, the time stop itself seemed to completely shatter.

Everything, all in sight, became bombarded with insane amounts of bursts of order and chaotic energy. Colours that I didn't even know existed completely filled my vision, with reality itself completely breaking apart and washing over my several dozen meter wide energy cone, and I felt as if I was completely ragdolled and thrown around in what felt like a massive cosmic ball full of explosions that completely escaped any amount of description. I couldn't even see my own two hands in front of me, with the best I could do was to simply continue holding onto the Infinity Bolt and waiting for it to be over.

(000)

Finally, after what seemed like hours, I felt the feeling of being blown around like a piece of paper in a massive hurricane subside, and the blinding, innumerable colours that had completely covered reality itself fade. I finally opened my eyes, and they widened to the size of dinner plates once I noticed where I was. Everything around me was covered in the same sickly orange tint everywhere in sight, with infinite streams of pure sickly orange energy the width of planets stretching in every direction infinitely, seemingly with no end.

There were millions of them that I could actually see, but I knew they likely had no end. The same miasma of sickly orange energy that appeared whenever Luke or I stopped time seemed to be ever present, as if it was part of whatever reality this was itself. I looked closer at some of the nearby infinitely long pillars that seemed to go on forever, noting that it looked like a sea of innumerable unique events that stretched along the pillar, with each depicted event looking as if it was a completely different time period. Some of the events looked like they were in the Stone Age, and others looked as if they were so far into the future that it was completely unimaginable.

My eyes were practically the size of dinner plates as I stared like a gobsmacked fish at the never-ending pillars that seemed to depict timestreams itself, with my jaw practically on the floor…well, if there had actually been a floor of this strange realm. What the fuck was this place and why was I here? With just a quick look with my aura sense, I could feel time itself, the exact same feeling that I could sense whenever Luke used his time stop. His connection with the…Chronorealm? My eyes widened even further, if it was possible, and pure shock filled my entire expression. This is the Chronorealm? Were those pillars entire timelines? Luke's memories only told me of the Chronorealm's existence, not what it actually looked like.

I quickly turned around, trying to find the timeline that belonged to my universe, only for my face to turn whiter than a sheet of paper as I found it. My entire timeline, which normally probably should have probably looked like a copy of the other innumerable, sickly orange pillars of time, but…it didn't. The entire timestream was shattered, looking like an explosion had blown the entire timeline apart from within, with both Luke's chaotic energy and my rainbow particle infused golden energy spewing from every fracture and broken shard of each part of the entire timeline.

I looked at my shattered timeline, dread filling the entire core of my being. The entire timestream was no longer the sickly orange colour the other ones were, instead now being completely greyed out and dead. Uncountable events could be seen all along the broken timeline, with some of them being things I'd lived through myself. I saw myself fighting Ares alongside Percy, nearly being killed by Luke on Polyphemus' Island, sitting on the edge of Mount Olympus with Taylor and Nico, fighting Prometheus and barely winning after expending nearly everything to fight the Creator of Mankind, and finally, Luke killing all of my friends with his diagonal energy slash that annihilated the entire battlefield of Manhattan. All of these events, unlike the other things happening on the countless other time pillars, seemed to be frozen and dead.

The only thing that came to mind was that my entire timeline was now obliterated. The collision of the Infinity Bolt axeblade and Aposynthesi's Heavenly Diamond scythe head had been so powerful, it hadn't just annihilated the entire universe, but was so strong it must have sent the attack both forwards and backwards across the entire timeline. Past, present and future, all destroyed by one attack in the present. The idea was absolutely mind-boggling, but there was no other explanation given the completely shattered greyed out timeline that floated above me in my vision. How did that even happen? Was it because time was stopped? Explanations and hypotheticals filled my thoughts, thinking that since time had been stopped when our monumental attacks impacted each other and we were connected to the entire timeline in some way, it probably allowed for the energy wave to traverse along the entire timestream.

That was…insane. Had me and Luke grown so much in power in only our brief fight, that we could obliterate other moments in time we weren't even experiencing? The evidence literally was right in front of me, so there was no other explanation. Before another thought could even cross my mind, a flash of bright, shining crystal blue appeared in front of my vision, forcing me to swerve to the side. I twirled around in the air with my telekinesis, my eyes narrowing in on my attacker, only to find that it was predictably Luke.

Luke seemed a little worse for wear after the timeline explosion, his armor being cracked and somewhat dilapidated. His face was still bloody from my earlier barrage of chaotic energy infused strikes, with even one of his teeth still missing. His medium length blond hair was messy and unruly, and pure rage was etched all over his expression. Other than all that, he looked relatively okay, especially for somewhat who just survived a timeline destruction point blank at ground zero. My expression didn't change at all upon seeing him, not surprised in the slightest that he'd survived. It was going to take more than that to kill this bastard.

Luke shifted into a fighting stance as he floated in the sickly orange tinted void of the Chronorealm, with him twirling Aposynthesi into a reverse grip. His hateful expression subsided somewhat and smirked at my serious face. "Seems you survived as well, Zane. Hm, figures. It seems nothing can kill you. Not Heavenly Diamond, not the destruction of the entire timestream, or anything else. But I will find a way. Despite your new power…you're still just a demigod." Luke held out his left arm to the side and motioned to the Chronorealm all around us, his smirk shifting into his patented insane grin. "Welcome to the Chronorealm! I've never actually been here physically myself, only traveled to it's alternate timelines via my own powers." Luke looked around at the infinite timestreams that dotted the Chronorealm around us, an almost reverent look appearing on his expression. "Ah….look at all those timelines, all ripe for domination and subjugation with my new power…it's almost like an entirely different multiverse."

My expression twisted into a glare, and I formed the Infinity Bolt into a lightning spear, much like Malachi, the son of Ouranos, would do. I pointed the Infinity Bolt spear at Luke, my grip tightening around the middle of it. "You're not even going to have the chance to touch them, Luke. You die…right here, right now. No more games. For the good of all of existence…and justice for all the ones you took from me!" Hatred filled my face as my rainbow particle infused golden aura mixed with incredible amounts of lightning erupted around my form for dozens of meters, with thousands of nearby timelines literally quaking from just the presence of my power. "THIS IS YOUR END, LUKE!"

Luke, instead of cowling at the might of my aura or turning serious, simply busted out laughing from my declaration, his own sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy cone exploding around his frame with a similar size and width as mine. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I could say the same to you, Zane!" Luke twirled his Heavenly Diamond scythe around as if it was a bo-staff, rearing it back into a reverse grip and coating it with insane chaotic power. "Now…let's end this!" Every timeline in sight around us started to shake and churn, which was literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of them. This battle was probably going to threaten the very Chronorealm itself…and I didn't care in the slightest. Luke was going to die, no matter what had to be destroyed for that to happen.

Instead of charging at Luke like a madman, I allowed a small spark of rainbow particle infused lightning inside my aura to strike my form, teleporting me behind Luke in an eruption of lightning faster than time. I immediately unleashed a barrage of stabs and swipes with the Infinity Bolt spear, trying to stick Luke like a shish kabob. Luke, likely sensing my aura flare, swerved around and met each and every one of my stabs and slashes with the black gilded hilt of Aposynthesi, immediately being put on the defensice.

I didn't relent a single inch, quickly forming a telekinetic barrier around my hand and drawing Thymos, dual wielding the two most powerful weapons in my current arsenal at once. I swiped at Luke's massive head with Thymos, trying to kill him in a single blow, only for Luke to dash backwards with a burst of his own divine telekinesis and quickly slam the scythe head of Aposynthesi against the spiked ball of my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar. Chaotic energy exploded everywhere in a massive burst of sapphire blue and sickly orange, washing over thousands of timelines in a literal instant. Said timelines instantly shattered to pieces much like my own timestream, being instantly erased from existence not long after.

For once, I didn't even bat an eye at unfathomable amounts of people dying just from one blow between me and Luke, the only thoughts crossing my brain was Luke's own death. Luke had…broken me. Gone was the previous heroism that actually cared about protecting others from my own power as well as my enemies. Now, I was just a vessel of revenge and death. Luke's destruction was the only thing I cared about, with everything else not mattering anymore. Not even my own life. I unleashed a wave of rainbow particle infused golden lightning from my aura powered by the Infinity Bolt, blasting Luke back several dozen meters.

I spun the Infinity Bolt around in my grip, willing the spear it had warped into away with nothing but my thoughts and letting it fade back into the regular massive rainbow particle infused golden lightning bolt in my hand, immediately throwing it full force like a pila at Luke's throat. Luke formed a coat of his signature sickly orange mixed with black and blue chaotic energy around his left hand, catching the Infinity Bolt like an arrow as it unleashed a massive burst of order energy in every direction around us. Even more timestreams fractured and fell to pieces from the force, with reality seeming to bend around the point of impact.

Luke was pushing against the Infinity Bolt like it was some kind of immeasurable weight, as it didn't lose any momentum after he caught it. My new bond with the weapon allowed me to control it even after it left my hand, as well as continue to channel it's power through my Infinity State even without touching it. Luke was forced to sheath Aposynthesi on his back and fight against the push of the Infinity Bolt with both hands, his face full of effort and his teeth gritted in frustration. However, I didn't just float around aimlessly and wait for the power of the Infinity State amplified Infinity Bolt to overwhelm the New Titan of Time.

Willing one of the almost innumerable rainbow particle infused golden lightning bolts surging through my aura to spark off my back and restrike my frame, I appeared in a explosion of lightning behind Luke, and drew back a fist. Quickly coating my right arm in pure aura and encasing it with a small cage of golden lightning, I smashed my fist directly into Luke's spine, feeling both his armor and his bones crack with a savage sound. Luke let out a quick gasp of pain as he was taken off guard, which allowed the Infinity Bolt to strike him right in the stomach. The order energy enhanced bolt of my father pierced directly through Luke's torso and erupting out the other side, immediately atomizing the burst of ichor that occurred as it passed through the New Titan of Time and landing directly back into my grip.

Luke roared in pain as the signature almost deafening sound of thunder rung out, with the area around where the Infinity Bolt had flown through shifting from the normal sickly orange tint of the Chronorealm, with colours of blood red, dark green and bright yellow appearing as if reality itself had been scorched. Luke's torso had nearly been split in half from the power of the Infinity Bolt, yet he was already healing. His hand quickly gripped around Aposynthesi and pulled it out of it's sheath, his healing only becoming even more rapid. Before his torso could heal up and have the New Titan of Time's torso back in full form, I quickly pulled back the Infinity Bolt, warping the rainbow particle infused lightning bolt to turn into a massive hammer that was both bigger and wider than my entire body.

As fast as possible, I swung the Infinity Bolt hammer to the side of Luke, smashing the lighting hammer into his entire body all at once and sending him rocketing thousands upon thousands of meters away. Luke literally crashed through several timestreams and shattered them into trillions upon trillions of shards, the force of my blow creating another burst of aura in all directions that seemed to quake every timeline in view around me. Luke seemed to quickly recover from my swing, immediately appearing only around twenty meters away from me in an eruption of his sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy, fully healed from being nearly cut in two from the Infinity Bolt and an absolutely pissed off expression plastered all over his features.

However, instead of screaming in rage or going off on some fury riddled tangent, Luke immediately pressed the attack. He held Aposynthesi out in front of himself and charged his aura around him briefly, his sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy cone expanding around him for dozens of meters before shrinking to only extended around half a meter from his form. His aura seemed to condense around his frame, as if he was forming a full body coat of pure energy around himself. After what felt like a couple seconds, dozens of…aura shades of Luke materialized from his aura coat, looking like transparent energy clones of himself. They even carried aura copies of Aposynthesi, although thankfully not the real thing unlike Luke's time clones.

As Luke's aura shades charged me and tried to overwhelm me, I mused that Luke likely couldn't utilize his time clone ability while existing outside of a timestream. He created time clones by opening portals to different points of the timestream only seconds or even microseconds in the past, however without a timeline to reach to a different point of…he was on his own. As the aura shades started to surround me, I let a vengeful grin fill my face. All I had to do was win fair and square for once. Luke couldn't pause time, nor could I for that matter, as well were currently outside of the natural flow of time itself. No more time reverts, no time clones, no time stop or slowing. For the first time since before Luke betrayed the Camp and joined the Titans…it was just me and him.

Instead of taking down each aura shade one by one and giving Luke time to make another plan or do something that could be dangerous, I gripped my hand tightly around the Infinity Bolt and unleashed a huge web of rainbow particle infused lightning that instantly annihilated the horde of aura shades in the blink of an eye. I willed a small part of the lightning wave to arc back to my body and collide with it, instantly teleporting me right behind Luke and I willed the Infinity Bolt hammer to quickly shift back into the seven-foot-long axe I had formed earlier. Luke seemed to predict this, as he swerved around and tried to stick Aposynthesi into the side of my head, forcing me to duck underneath his swing. As I dodged under his slash, I quickly reared back Thymos and tried to smash the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar into his size, only for Luke to just barely recover on his backswing just in time to bright his gilded hilt into the path of my weapon.

The force of the impact once again churned thousands of timelines around us, with reality once again growing heavy in the radius of a few dozen meters around us, the same colors of scorched reality appearing through the radius once again. Luke struggled against my strength as I pushed against his guard, the New Titan of Time growling in both exertion and anger, with my expression being filled with stone-cold hate as I stared into Luke's glowing orange eyes. Before Luke could even think of teleporting away or anything like that, I quickly hooked the Infinity Bolt axeblade on the hilt of Luke's Heavenly Diamond scythe, pinning him and making him unable to pull away from me. I pushed the Infinity Bolt axe forward towards Luke's face, the tip of the rainbow particle infused golden lightning axe piercing into Luke's forward and spewing ichor all over my own face.

Luke grunted in pain as the Infinity Bolt axe was embedded into his skull, the ichor drops starting to become atomized by the sheer potency of the Infinity Bolt's power. Luke's focus was temporarily scrambled, allowing me to catch him completely off guard with a momentous kick to the gut that cracked the entire front half of his orange-tinted armour that send him blasting back nearly five meters, completely breaking his posture and guard. I lunged forwards with a growl, slamming the Infinity Bolt axe directly into the center of Luke's head, literally splitting it in two with an explosion of divine blood and grey matter.

Luke's body surprisingly did not go slack and remained tense, quickly knocking the Infinity Bolt to the side and out of his vertically bisected head with a powerful slash that I'll admit surprised me. He couldn't have had any thoughts with his head cut in half, was his body reacting on pure instinct or did divine biology just work differently? I grunted as my Infinity Bolt axe was knocked to the side, flying back a couple meters to regain my bearings as Luke's entire head fully reconstructed itself slowly quickly that if I'd blinked, I would have missed it. Luke didn't even bother wasting words and quickly tried to dice me into a million pieces with a massive barrage of aura coated slashes with his Heavenly Diamond scythe, fury and even a bit of desperation on his features.

Instead of being forced to bob and weave through Luke's attacks like before when we had fought in our shattered universe from before, I easily met each and every once of Luke's attacks with one of my own. We traded blows and collided weapons with such speed, we were moving as fast as time itself. Billions upon billions of strikes were exchanged, with every kind of maneuver imaginable taking place in our clash of skill and strength. Slashes, swings, swipes, deflections, parries, reposts, thrusts, cleaves and more occurred, all happening in an instant due to our infinite speed. Dual wielding the Infinity Bolt axe and Thymos, the immense power and energy let off by our colliding blows unleashed massive bursts of aura in innumerable amounts, with the power only growing with each and every attack.

The fabric of the Chronorealm only seemed to crumble and fall apart at our unthinkable barrage of weapon attacks, with millions upon millions of timestreams being annihilated and erased as we appeared in flashes across the realm of infinite timelines of the multiverse. We probably traveled hundreds of trillions of light years in our clash, with unimaginable amount of death occurring from just the two of use trying to dice each other to pieces. We were forces beyond nature, beyond the scope of even the strongest gods. Luke's power only continued to grow and get stronger, the well-documented side effect of Aposynthesi making itself known once again.

Eventually, after one final reality quaking blow that seemed to fold and warp the fabric of existence around us, both me and Luke dashed back from each other, with neither of us seeming to gain an advantage over each other, or at least a permanent one. In that entire exchange, Luke hadn't even landed a single hit on me, whilst I had hit him with probably thousands. It proved I was not only stronger than the New Titan of Time, but also a better fighter than him. I was already his superior in terms of fighting skill even before absorbing his memories from his time clones, but now I knew every move in his arsenal, plus all of mine. Despite me landing all of those attacks, I hadn't landed a decisive blow with Thymos, which was the only thing that could permanently finish Luke. Luke knew this as well and had made his ultimate mission to avoid getting scratched at all costs. Not only could he not heal from any damage dealt from my Heavenly Diamond Morningstar, it would also make it him weaker as well.

I let out a deep breath, giving Luke my best and most hate-filled glare I could possibly muster, with the traitorous bastard doing the same. I twirled the Infinity Bolt axe around in a couple circles, willing it to form back into the regular Infinity Bolt as my glare turned into a smirk, something that confused Luke a little and made him raise both his blond-coloured eyebrows. "You know, Luke…you're actually a really good fighter. I've fought a lot of skilled bastards in my day, but you definitely take the cake, and it's not even close." Despite how much sheer hatred I held for the New Titan of Time…he had earned at least a modicum of my respect. He's kept up with my frankly stupid level of power increase, surpassing me several times himself and actually survived what was probably the most dangerous and destructive weapon clash I'd ever been a part of. I hated him to my core…but I had to admit, he was one tough ass enemy I actually enjoyed fighting.

Luke looked a little shocked at my words and his orange glowing eyes widened a little, clearly surprised that I actually admitted that. My smirk immediately grew wider and crueler, the rainbow particle infused golden sparks surging through my Infinity State becoming more numerous and intense. "But you have one, very obvious, glaring weakness." I sheathed Thymos and started to focus my aura around myself, my aura cone growing smaller in the exact same way Luke's had when he had made those energy shades of himself. "The past three years ever since you betrayed camp…you have relied far too much on your time abilities to keep up with me. Now that we're here, in this… Chronorealm, you're on your own." Luke's eyes widened even further, clearly shocked I'd realized his time abilities were practically null here. My smirk turned into a full-on savage grin, and I looked Luke dead in the eye. "But me? Hehehehehe….I'm not."

I closed my eyes and focused on the order energy surging with power around my body, focusing on it's reality warping properties once more. To make clones of himself, Luke had to reach back in the timestream and create entire alternate timelines to make a time clone. All I had to do, with the power to warp reality itself with order energy…was just will it. Dozens of flashes of my own rainbow particle infused golden aura flashed into existence, forming into exact perfect copies of myself that floated around me, completely with their own perfect copies of my weapons, minus Thymos as it was made of pure condensed chaotic energy. I opened my eyes, grinning once I saw the nearly fifty perfect clones of myself, every one of them containing the exact same level of strength I had. Reality warping powers were absolutely bullshit, huh?

Luke's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as my perfect reality warped clones popped into existence from flashes of my rainbow particle infused golden aura, his jaw literally visibly dropping. I had to stop myself from breaking out into absolute giddy laughter, as now I was the one with bullshit, borderline unfair powers and Luke was the one left with only himself. I looked around at my order energy materialized clones, noting every one of them had an emotionless, blank face. That was on purpose, as I'd created them to more or less be drones of power that I could control with just my thoughts alone to completely overwhelm Luke. They didn't have any actual sentience or level of autonomy, as that was something I didn't need to try and juggle while about to murder my archnemesis once and for all.

Luke shifted into a fighting stance and looked around at the fifty order energy created clones of myself, dread and maybe even a hint of fear etching itself into his expression. His eyes darted around as he frantically looked between each and every clone, his eyes finally landing on me and narrowing. I followed his eyesight and noted it was pointed directly at Thymos, which hung from its sheath on my barely holding together belt. The order energy materialized clones didn't have a copy of Thymos, as the reality warping abilities of my Infinity State couldn't seem to replicate Heavenly Diamond. My own eyes narrowed at the realization. That was how Luke would know which one was the real me.

I pointed my finger forwards at the New Titan of Time, mentally commanding each and every order energy materialized clone to charge at the bastard at full speed, only for Luke to disappear in a flash of his signature sickly orange mixed with black and blue aura. Using my aura sense, I felt Luke's aura erupt out of nothing from behind me, and I swerved around to catch the hilt of Aposynthesi right before the Heavenly Diamond scythe could pierce me in the eye, with the glowing crystal scythe blade only millimeters from my eye. Luke audibly growled in frustration, clearly irritated by my insane reaction. He wanted to take my out in a single hit rather than fight my clones, although by now we both knew Heavenly Diamond couldn't kill me in only a single strike.

I tightened my grip around the hilt of Aposynthesi as Luke tried to pull it away from me, having to actually put in a good bit of effort in pinning Luke's weapon in my grasp, as Luke had grown even stronger while we had clashed all across the fabric of the Chronorealm. Luke gritted his teeth in effort as he tried to rip my weapon from my grip, veins popping from his forehead as his massive, divine muscles bulged in effort. I was forced to grab the hilt of his Heavenly Diamond scythe with both of my hands, the both of us shifting into a test of strength. Luke glared at me with his glowing orange eyes, pure hatred etched all over his expression, something I returned with my own glowing rainbow particle infused golden eyes. Reality grew heavy and distorted once more as the two of us fought for dominance over the Heavenly Diamond scythe, with the sickly orange tint of the dimension sporadically shifting to dozens of others and even more of the millions of timelines in the distance shaking from our immeasurable might.

The two of us were virtually evenly matched in pure raw strength, with me having a slight advantage over the New Titan of Time. I knew this wouldn't last, thanks to Luke's infinitely growing strength, but thankfully it really didn't have to. Closing my eyes for a brief moment, I willed my order energy materialized clones to appear all around both me and Luke in bursts of a miasma of rainbow particle infused golden energy, several of them immediately charging at Luke with their fists and legs drawn back. Luke's eyes widened in shock, and just from the look on his face, I could tell he knew he was screwed. If he teleported away, he'd either just take me with him or he'd have to let go of Aposynthesi, two outcomes I know he'd rather avoid.

The closest order energy created clone of myself smashed his fist directly into the side of Luke's face, knocking his head to the side and causing a glob of ichor to erupt from Luke's mouth. His grip around Aposynthesi weakened slightly, and another clone slammed his foot into the traitor's gut and knocked the wind out of him. All of the remaining clones quickly charged in after the first two blows and immediately unleashed a barrage of punches, kicks, elbows, knees, palm strikes, chops, and more all across Luke's massive frame, the Chronorealm around us quaking even more from the combined power of fifty order energy materialized clones of myself that had all the strength of the original. Luke's entire frame quickly became covered in Ichor and indents, his armor full shattering and leaving him shirtless, only wearing a pare of brown hosen with his orange tinted armoured boots.

Luke's grip around Aposynthesi grew almost completely limp, with the fact that he was even managing to hold on while getting the absolute fuck beaten out of him rather astounding me. I shifted my grasp to the middle of the scythe's hilt in between Luke's hands, pulling it towards my chest with every ounce of my physical might, kicking Luke full force in the face at the exact same time. Luke's grip completely broke as both of my boots buried into his face, with him being sent blasting backwards dozens of meters away from both me and my crowd of perfect clones with Ichor spewing from his form the entire way. Luke regenerated from all the damage me and my clones had delt to him with our physical blows within seconds, his healing factor actually being somewhat slower now he no longer held Aposynthesi in his grasp.

I looked at the Heavenly Diamond scythe in my right hand as I held the Infinity Bolt with my left, quickly using my aura sense to scan the Heavenly Diamond weapon as I held it for what was actually the first time. It felt just like my own weapon in the way it was connected to the overarching entity and energy source that was Chaos itself, but it felt different as well. It absolutely radiated the same time energy that was both Luke's and my connection to the Chronorealm itself, having an even stronger connection than both me and even Luke, despite Luke literally being the new Titan god of time. It also held some sort of alternate connection with Luke himself, as if it was tethered to his very existence. It made sense, since it was his symbol of power, after all.

Surprisingly, Luke didn't really even look worried now that I held his signature weapon in my grasp, having fully healed and recovered from the clone barrage from earlier. Instead, Luke simply closed his hand into a fist and opened it, causing the Heavenly Diamond scythe to disappear in a flash of sickly orange aura and reappear in his hand like it was nothing. I deadpanned at the turn of events, realizing that getting Luke's scythe away from him was honestly useless, because he could just resummon it straight to him instantly, just like Hyperion and his spear. I really should have seen that coming, since Luke was a full god just like Hyperion now.

Luke's sickly orange aura mixed with black and blue energy erupted around his frame once more, and he shifted back into a fighting stance with Aposynthesi in a reverse grip, showing he wasn't even close to being defeated. I glared at the New Titan of Time, mentally commanding all of my perfect order energy created clones to rush him, with half trying to pummel him unarmed and the other half drawing both Prometheus' Sword and Keravnos. The clones all surrounded Luke, every one of them attacking in tandem and working together better than even the most attuned teams, since they were all being controlled by me alone.

Luke surprisingly kept up with each clone, being forced on the defensive and having to dodge, deflect, avoid, block and swerve through thousands of unique attacks. His face was filled with supreme effort, and I can tell every single ounce of his skill and experience was being put to the test, as he dodged underneath as slash from Prometheus' Sword from a clone that nearly took his head off. My own mind started to strain, and I could feel a massive headache coming on from controlling all of the clones, as I was trying control every clone at the same time and have them fight uniquely to overwhelm Luke. I was doing an amazing job, especially since it was my first time using the ability and because Luke was having to put every inch of his power and skill into surviving.

However, Luke's power only continued to grow and get even stronger by the second, and he once again surpassed my strength, if only barely. A grimace appeared on my face, and I knew I had to finish Luke off right now, otherwise the gap would quickly outpace my strength to such a degree that I wouldn't be able to damage him, just like before when Luke fused with all his time clones. Luke deflected another aura enhanced swing from Keravnos being wielded by one of my order energy created clones, keeping up with three right in front of him at the same time with pure skill. Looking for the right time to jump in, I withdrew Thymos from its sheath and pulled it back into the air, accessing it's power via it's connection to Chaos itself and surrounding the Morningstar in a coat of sapphire energy permeating black particles. More and more chaotic aura surged around the weapon and grew in power, something that would be required to catch Luke off guard.

While Luke pinned two Prometheus' Swords together with the curve of his Heavenly Diamond scythe blade, I willed a small spark from the nearly uncountable amount of rainbow particle infused lightning streaks throughout my aura to strike my frame, instantly teleporting me right in front of Luke faster than the speed of time itself. Luke's eyes widened in shock from my sudden appearance, and I swung Thymos directly at his chest, with the New Titan of Time only barely bringing up the shaft of Aposynthesi to block my attack. The impact of my strike unleashed a massive burst of chaotic aura so powerful it immediately annihilated thousands of timelines around us once more, instantly breaking Luke's guard and leaving him vulnerable. I immediately kneed Luke in the chin, sending him flying upwards from the force of my blow.

Closing my eyes and commanding my order energy materialized clones, dozens of them appeared around Luke and interrupted his trajectory. Luke was then knocked around by hundreds of unarmed, aura enhanced blows from my order energy created clones, almost as if he became a living, divine tennis ball being knocked between dozens of players. Golden ichor spewed from his mouth from each hit, with oddly coloured bruises slowly but surely appearing all over his body from my clone's attacks. Eventually, after one extremely well-timed roundhouse kick to the gut, Luke was knocked right into the path of a clone who quickly withdrew Promtheus' Sword and pointed it right where Luke was blasted towards. Luke landed onto the point of the massive buster blade, with the blade instantly piercing through his torso and ichor exploded everywhere, splattering all over my clones and the giant sword.

Luke roared in pain from the sudden impalement, with him temporarily becoming vulnerable. I commanded a bolt of lightning to spark off my shoulder and strike my hand in an arc, causing me to appear onto of the blade in a burst of rainbow particle infused golden sparks. Not wasting any breath or words, I immediately raised Thymos in the air and prepared to instantly crush Luke's head with the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar to kill him permanently, but of course it wasn't going to be that easy. Luke summoned an explosion of his sickly orange mixed with black and blue energy around him in all directions, the aura wave actually powerful enough to blast both me and all of my clones hundreds of meters away.

Luke quickly teleported away with a flash of his aura, materializing from nothing thousands of meters away. He let out a deep breath, as if he was almost tired from the extended battle we'd been having, although I knew that was not the case. I just nearly ended his life, and he was letting out a sigh of relief that he was still alive. Luke looked at me and all my order energy created clones, desperation filling his face. His was still growing infinitely in power and surpassed me once again, but even he knew I'd still find a way to kill him if this fight went on for too long. "This…has gone on long enough, Zane!"

Luke lifted his Heavenly Diamond scythe above him in the air and charged his aura around it, with reality again growing heavy and distorted just from the sheer power emitted by the New Titan of Time. Aposynthesi started to feel odd, with the time energy around the weapon growing thicker and thicker as every moment passed. "If I do this…there's no way you'll be able to keep up any longer." The sickly orange tinted around us that seemed to permeate around us across the entire Chronorealm itself started to dim slightly, making an entire wave of dread fill my core. What was Luke doing?

Luke let one of his patented insane grins plaster itself onto his face and his eyes glowed an even brighter orange. His aura grew thicker and more powerful than ever before, becoming stronger and stronger at an absolutely unprecedented rate. My eyes widened in shock at the rate of his growth, completely stunned at just how powerful he was getting. Even Heavenly Diamond didn't grow your power that fast. "I'll take the very power of the entire Chronorealm itself and make it mine! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The sickly orange energy all around us that normally filled the entire realm thickened and formed into a miasma that warped all around Luke's form, turning into streams of pure time energy that completely surrounded and imbued into Aposynthesi.

The normal sickly orange colour of the Chronorealm started to fade way, with the entire time dimension losing its power and turning a dead grey tint. Even the infinite timelines and timestreams that expanded onwards forever all around us started to lose their colour and energy, all of it flowing into Aposynthesi and vastly increasing Luke's power. The entire dimension quickly looked like it was being drained of every drop of time energy within every timeline and the fabric of the realm itself, every bit of it being absorbed into Aposynthesi.

My eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as this happened, pure shock etching itself onto my expression as I looked on helplessly. How did Luke even do that? I know he had a connection to the Chronorealm and was a literal god of time but…this was unthinkable. Maybe Aposynthesi was the main catalyst for it and Luke's abilities combined with the Heavenly Diamond's power made it possible? If that was the case, the Heavenly Diamond was even more dangerous and stronger than I could have ever imagined.

Every single last bit of time energy flowed into Aposynthesi, leaving the entire Chronorealm lifeless and dead. Each timeline froze and looked exactly like the shattered timelines that were easily spotted across the Chronorealm while I battled with Luke, including my own timeline, only they were still intact but dead and lifeless regardless. The pressure of Luke's new stolen power was pretty much immeasurable, feeling heavier and more intense than anything I'd ever felt. My eyes widened upon seeing Luke's form, with the New Titan of Time undergoing another change.

First off, Aposynthesi now seemed to be completely imbued with so much sickly orange time energy, it had a permanent coat of it that had black particles flaring and blazing all through it, with the original black and blue aura it slightly emitted nowhere to be seen. Luke's aura had undergone a change as well, now mirroring the aura around his Heavenly Diamond scythe, no longer containing the mix of black and blue aura it used to. It was now firmly a bright, almost blinding orange that had thousands of tiny black chaotic particles surging throughout it, almost looking like a cloak of fire wrapped around Luke's divine frame.

Luke's new power was absolutely through the roof, making his previous level of strength look like a speck. He was literally imbued with the power of all of time itself, plus his previous strength from before. Couple that with the ability to still continuously grow in power via his Heavenly Diamond scythe…he was practically unbeatable now. He could probably destroy the entire multiverse while not holding back, infinite timelines and universes…gone from only the power of one being. Luke opened his eyes, with them now being the same colour of his brighter, sharper aura and still glowing with power. Luke looked at his arms and at Aposynthesi, with an almost euphoric expression appearing on his face.

"Power…" Luke whispered out, as if completely lost in his own strength. The insanity that seemed to be ever-present in his expression ever since he began his fusion with Kronos all that time ago seemed in intensify a thousand-fold. Luke let an absolutely giddy laugh out as he no doubt sensed his own aura, throwing his head back. "Hehehehehehe….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THIS IS IMMEASURABLE POWER! I HAVE FINALLY BECOME THE STRONGEST BEING IN THE MULTIVERSE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Luke completely lost it, breaking down into the most insane laughter I'd ever heard from him in my entire life, which was really saying something.

Luke suddenly looked over at me, his euphoric expression not changing in the slightest. "Do you see, Zane?! Do you not feel my new power!? Look!" Luke's eyes flared brightly for a split moment, unleashing a burst of aura that immediately sent me flying back faster and with more force than anything I'd ever felt. As I was blasted away, I saw each and every one of my order energy materialized clones just…cease to exist as a wave of pure orange energy brimming with black chaotic particles completely overcome him. My eyes widened even further, something I thought was impossible, and dread filled my core. He just effortlessly overpowered me and annihilated all of my clones that had the same amount of power I did…with a look.

Before another thought could even shoot through my brain, an absolutely immeasurable force clamped around my throat and effortlessly stomped my momentum, feeling like the grip of a hand. Obviously, it was Luke, with his massive hand grasped around my neck, having moved so quickly I couldn't even comprehend it. He just moved at immeasurable speed…without any time stop or teleportation stacking. My eyes stared at Luke as he grinned down at me with me in his grasp, fear actually filling my being. I…I didn't even know what to do. His power…it was impossible. Beyond the concept of anything I'd ever believed was ever possible.

My arms fell limp at my sides, not even trying to punch away his arm or stick him in the face with Thymos. He would just blast my weapons away with a single aura enhanced look and that would be that. I looked down at the Infinity Bolt, and its previously immeasurable power now seemed suddenly very finite and limited. Even with the bolt being imbued with the power of order energy and its strength being multiplied by the strength of my Infinity State, it probably wouldn't even scratch Luke, even if the New Titan of Time let it hit him full force in the face without protecting him.

Luke's insane grin widened as I hung in his grasp, with me not even trying to fight against his grip. It was pointless, as Luke had grown so much stronger than me that it was mind-boggling. "What? Are you just going to hang there and let me kill you? You're not even trying to fight back anymore? Are you…scared?" Luke immediately let out another one of his insane spouts of laughter, throwing his head back and guffawing. "HAHAHAHAHAHA! The great and fearless Zane Williams has finally given up! He's finally hit his limit!"

Luke wiped a tear from his eyelid extremely casually, not even treating me as a threat, which to be honest, I wasn't. "Ah…well, it was fun while it lasted. I have to admit, you really had me going there for a while. Our fights have always been insane and dangerous, but this one was the crème dela crop." Luke shook his head, an arrogant smirk still etched onto his expression. "Too bad it had to be cut short. Maybe if you could combine all your current power with your goofily named Thunder Form, you'd actually stand a chance."

Luke words suddenly made me perk up, with the idea actually making some sense. The Infinity State, the transformation granted to me by the prophecy of the Ophiotaurus, was just a massive amount of order energy infused into my body and being constantly supplied through unknown means. I was currently amplifying it's power by the Infinity Bolt…so what if I further amplified it by trying to combine it with my Thunder Form? I could do it with chaotic energy, so why not order energy? I honestly didn't think it would work, but at this point…it was either give it a shot or die.

Closing my eyes, I focused on my divine potential, the conduit of my Thunder Form transformation, and lined it up with the power of the Infinity State. The aura around my frame instantly exploded with ferocity, extending to hundreds of meters in diameter and filling with even more streaks of lightning than before. Luke's eyes widened in shock at the occurrence, and he was quickly blasted back against his will, being forced bring his arms up in front of his face. The power of my aura grew stronger and stronger, the Infinity Bolt amplified Infinity State merging perfectly with the Thunder Form transformation, even easier than Heavenly Thunder Form ever did.

My aura grew larger and more intense, my teeth gritting in effort just containing the sheer amount of new power flowing through my aura. I roared, the lightning cage in my aura once again growing bigger and more numerous, my power rising to the exact same level of the New Titan of Time's. Reality probably would have bent, distorted, warped and discoloured had the Chronorealm been in its normal state, but since its very essence was absorbed into Aposynthesi, nothing much besides me powering up happened. My new power reached a peak, absolutely equal in every manner to Luke's power, if not a slight bit stronger. I opened my eyes, with the visual organs still glowing a bright, rainbow particle infused golden and glaring at Luke.

Luke's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates and his jaw literally dropped in pure shock, not expecting that his throwaway words were a catalyst for me instantly catching up to him and slightly surpassing him in power. If he hadn't said that I probably would have been too desolate and terrified of Luke's strength, allowing him to effortlessly murder me. But now, once again, the power race was neck and neck again.

I wasn't sure what to call this new state, as Infinity Bolt amplified Infinity State Thunder Form was a huge mouthful, but that didn't matter. I formed the Infinity Bolt back into a seven-foot-long axe like before, with a coat of pure rainbow particle infused golden aura and lightning surging around it with power I believed beyond comprehension. "Shouldn't have said anything, dumbass."

Luke was so flabbergasted he didn't even respond, literally frozen in pure shock. He stayed like this for a few seconds, before his expression slowly warped into rage and disbelief. "No….no,no,no,no,no,no, NOOO!" Luke's own bright orange aura surging with chaotic black particles exploded around his form, being equal in size, power, and intensity to mine.

Luke glared at me with pure hatred, literally frothing at the mouth like a crazed animal. The fact that I'd once again matched and slightly surpassed him completely sending him over the edge. "NOT AGAIN! THIS WILL NOT STAND!" Luke drew back Aposynthesi, coating as much power and chaotic aura around the Heavenly Diamond scythe as possible. His aura, instead of growing in size and width, actually shrunk and curled around his scythe head, showing he was putting absolutely everything into this attack. He was clearly done playing around, as we could dance around and clash for eternity, and wanted to take me out in a single hit.

My face quickly became deadly serious, and I reared back the Infinity Bolt axe, copying Luke and imbuing as much strength into the axeblade as I could. That attack of his could probably blow me away if it landed, being charged with so much chaotic energy it would likely erase me entirely, no matter how much order energy flared through my body and aura. I had to answer in kind and attack with everything I had as well, otherwise even with this insanely amplified transformation of mine, it would be the end. My own aura shrunk around the axe blade of the Infinity Bolt, both me and Luke's aura shine being so bright and powerful it actually lit up the entire greyed out Chronorealm. This was it, the final attack of our final battle, filled with everything both of us had. Whoever won this one…wins it all.

Luke then charged forwards, screaming like a mad man the entire way and blasted towards me. I did the exact same, letting out a reality quaking roar of my own and rocketed towards Luke, swinging the Infinity Blade axe directly towards his skull. Luke met my swing with one of his own, the two extremely powerful aura coated weapons colliding with each other.

The force of the blow was immense, with even the greyed-out fabric of the Chronorealm itself cracking and shaking just from the impact of Aposynthesi and the Infinity Bolt. Me and Luke both growled and grunted in exertion as we both fought for dominance, the chaotic energy of his weapon and the order energy of mine constantly canceling each other out and breaking apart of the fabric of reality all around the impact.

This collision probably would have immediately annihilated the entire multiversal border realm and likely would have destroyed the Chronorealm itself immediately had it existed in its normal state. Omni-directional blasts of both bright orange chaotic energy and rainbow particle infused golden order energy exploded and emitted from our impact, sending thousands, if not millions of waves rapid fire that would have annihilated anything in its path if there was anything to actually destroy.

My muscles bulged to full size as I struggled against Luke, with his doing the exact same. The two of us were dead even, with either of us unable to gain any ground in the slightest, although I knew that wouldn't last. He would eventually grow stronger thanks to Aposynthesi's bullshit infinitely growing power mechanic, and Luke would overpower me and completely eradicate me from existence.

My eyes shifted to the Heavenly Diamond scythe that was surrounded in a permanent miasma of time energy, feeling the entire power of the Chronorealm sealed within. If I couldn't find a way to actually take Aposynthesi out of the equation, then I stood absolutely no chance.

An absolutely radical idea crossed my mind, something completely bonkers and it had a very low chance of actually working, but right now…it was all or nothing. I let one of my hands go of the hilt of the Infinity Bolt axe, quickly shifting it to the Heavenly Diamond scythe head of Aposynthesi and reaching past the aura coat from behind, as Luke luckily only coated the front of it.

I closed my eyes and focused, using my enhanced aura manipulation to focus almost every single bit of order energy surging throughout my form, having to immediately shift it from the coat around the Infinity Bolt and directly into the Heavenly Diamond scythe head. I had no idea what was going to happen, but hopefully…it would be good, as I was in danger of instantly dying if this went wrong.

Immediately, the almost absurd amount of order energy that was surging through my aura transferred directly into the scythe head of Aposynthesi, instantly dispelling my Infinity State and my Thunder Form alike. My rainbow particle infused golden aura immediately faded away, leaving me only with my regular Thunder Form state without a single drop of the order energy I'd become accustomed to throughout this entire battle. I quickly closed my eyes, preparing for instant and inescapable death at the hands of the New Titan of Time…only it never came.

Before Luke could continue slashing and skewer me into oblivion, the effect of me imbuing Aposynthesi took effect. The chaotic energy and order energy immediately clashed together, their utter incompatibility making themselves known. The black chaotic particles around Aposynthesi faded away and the Heavenly Diamond scythe head began to crack, with the signature rainbow particle infused golden energy being visible in these cracks. Luke's chaotic energy infused aura coat immediately faded, and his eyes widened in shock as Aposynthesi started to vibrate and shake, with it literally bobbing in his hand. "What the fu-!?"

Before Luke could even complete his utterly shocked cry, Aposynthesi literally exploded, hilt and all, unleashing a massive burst of order energy and chaotic energy in every direction. The force of the energies erupting blasted back both me and Luke, with me immediately shifting into Power Stressed Heavenly Thunder Form and creating a barrier of pure sapphire, chaotic aura to be able to even survive the explosion. The energy barrier I'd formed was instantly shattered, but it saved my life. Luke was not so lucky, and tanked the eruption point blank in the face, only not being annihilated due to the power of the Chronorealm running through him.

However, right after the Heavenly Diamond scythe exploded, the miasma of pure time energy that was the power of the entire Chronorealm that had been surrounding Aposynthesi and surging through Luke's aura also expanded in every direction, leaving Luke's control and returning back to the Chronorealm. The dimension's sickly orange tint immediately returned, and every timeline regained their colour, now no longer depowered and greyed-out, thankfully after the burst of the initial energy so the entire Chronorealm wasn't annihilated. Surprisingly, even the timelines that had actually been destroyed in my battle with Luke had returned, no longer annihilated, as if recreated by both the wave of order energy and the return of the Chronorealm's very essence.

I lowered my arms and dropped Power Stress Heavenly Thunder Form, letting out a deep breath of relief. That had actually worked. Aposynthesi was gone, and so was Luke's power stolen from the very Chronorealm itself. I looked down at my arms, noting that the order energy that had once been surging through my aura I called my Infinity State was completely gone, none of its power remaining. I was back to normal, no longer amplified by the power the Ophiotaurus granted me. I sheathed Thymos and looked at the Infinity Bolt, which actually was still imbued with its own order energy I'd pumped into it earlier, with it not being affected by what I'd done to Aposynthesi.

My eyes then darted around the Chronorealm and its infinite timelines, trying to find Luke. Was he utterly annihilated by the explosion? I doubted it, because he had still been imbued with the full power of the Chronorealm when it happened, so he was probably still around here somewhere. I closed my eyes and reached out with my aura sense, quickly finding him to what equates to millions of light years away. I summoned a bit of sparks to surge off my shoulder and strike my form, immediately teleporting me to Luke's location.

I instantly appeared around fifteen meters away from the New Titan of Time in an explosion of electric blue lightning, scanning what had happened to him. Luke was floating in the sickly orange tinted void of the Chronorealm, seemingly unconscious. However, upon closer inspection, his eyes were simply closed in pain as his expression was scrunched up and he was clutching his stomach. Embedded into his abdomen was a large shard of Heavenly Diamond pierced deeply into his torso, with ichor flowing freely from the wound and staining his shirtless form, as well as floating in the void.

His power was almost nothing compared to how it used to be only moments prior, not even a drop in the bucket of his previous strength. He'd lost all the power he gained from the Chronorealm's energy, now being reduced to his level of power from before. He was actually even weaker than when he first completed his fusion with Kronos, with the previous damage from chaotic energy and the current impalement further draining his power at a constant rate due to being stuck in his torso.

You'd think he'd still be vastly stronger than his post Kronos fusion completion, as he'd fused with his time clones earlier, but no. It seemed that Aposynthesi had carried all that power, since it had been his symbol of power and likely the reason he'd even been able to even fuse with his time clones. Without it…that strength seems to have faded.

Luke opened his eyes at my appearance, now back to their original bright demonic yellow colour from before. His expression from before had been a mix of complete bewilderment and utter agony, but now…rage and disbelief covered his face. "Z-Zane…how did you-?" Luke broke out into coughs, with globs of ichor spewing from his mouth and completely covering his face.

Luke looked extremely worse for wear, as his injuries completely covered his body. His face was heavily bruised and cut from my barrage of chaotic energy enhanced punches from before, one of his teeth was missing, his entire body was covered in splatters of ichor and his torso was impaled with a shard of Heavenly Diamond. The only time I'd seen him more damaged was on Polyphemus' Island and when Matt laid the smackdown on him back in Old Man Matt's universe.

I didn't even bother to respond to Luke's interrupted question, instead simply unsheathing Thymos and transforming into Heavenly Thunder Form, giving me way more than enough power to kill him in this weakened state in one shot, as I'd grown vastly stronger after absorbing Luke's time clones' souls and energy. Honestly…I was probably comparable to my father at his prime, just in base. I'd really pushed myself far beyond what I thought was possible in this battle, gaining power I used to think was unthinkable.

Luke's expression of disbelief and anger quickly faded as he saw me transform and unsheathe my weapon, his face now being filled with a mix of desolation and…acceptance? I guess even Luke's insane ass knew when he was about to die. He had absolutely no way out this time. No time stops, time reverts, time clones or anything to save his ass here. He was firmly weaker than me by a massive amount due to his symbol of power being destroyed and his permanent injuries from Heavenly Diamond and chaotic energy. This was the end…once and for all.

I looked at Luke, rage and hatred filling my eyes as I kept my expression as impassive as possible, rearing Thymos back behind my head. I took a deep breath, trying to calm my heart from the anticipation I felt. "Before I kill you…I want to know something." Luke looked me dead in the eye, surprise on his ichor-stained face as his eyebrows raised.

"You betrayed everyone you ever knew, commanded the armies of your families' greatest enemy, and even fused with said greatest enemy. After doing so, you've murdered countless people, destroyed entire universes just because you wanted to, and killed everyone who once looked up to you and called you family. Everyone." I emphasized, rage creeping into my voice as I started to list Luke's most horrific deeds, and my arms started to shake in fury. "I've seen all your memories, know all of your experiences and watched them from your eyes after taking those souls from your clones. Tell me…was it all worth it? Throwing away everything and becoming a monster…for power?"

Luke was silent for a few seconds, not immediately answering my question, thinking about my words. He didn't look at me in the face for a bit, his eyes seeming to not focus in on anything and glazing over for a solid ten seconds as the two of us floated in the Chronorealm. Luke then lifted his head up, his expression filled with both determination and defiance. " Yes." Luke only uttered a single word, not a shred of doubt or hesitation on his face.

I froze at Luke's answer, almost not expecting him to be that truthful. After seeing his memories, I thought he would have tried to justify his actions or at least have even a small hint of regret. But none of that was there, with only confidence and truth in Luke's eyes, filling me with disgust. I immediately charged Thymos with a healthy amount of chaotic energy, anger filling my face, and I twirled the Heavenly Diamond Morningstar a couple of times in the air.

"Motherfucker." I immediately swung Thymos in Luke's direction, unleashing a wave of pure sapphire, chaotic energy towards the absolute bastard. The chaotic aura wave washed over Luke's frame and immediately annihilated him, not leaving behind a single atom of the New Titan of Time, completely eradicating him entirely.

Luke was dead.

Silence filled the sickly orange tinted void of the Chronorealm, with the only inhabit being me floating by myself. I sheathed Aposynthesi and let my Heavenly Thunder Form fade away, leaving me back into my base state. I had gotten my revenge, finally killing Luke and avenging everyone he'd killed and the deaths he was responsible for. All my friends, all those people in those realities he'd destroyed, all the gods, everyone on Earth, every sentient being in our universe, and even…Taylor. I'd finally done it.

Yet…I felt empty.

Luke's death, despite all the bastard had done to me personally and to countless others throughout the multiverse…I didn't feel any better in the slightest. If anything, it finally let me truly feel the scope of what he had done. He killed everyone I cared about. Everyone I loved. They didn't even exist in the past, as our battle had annihilated our entire timeline.

I looked at my hands, a blank and emotionless expression appearing on my face. Minutes passed, and I just stared, absolutely dead inside. There was nothing to even live for anymore. There was no further reason to even go on. My universe wasn't just destroyed, the entire timeline of it was gone. There was nothing left of it but greyed out cosmic shards and frozen depictions of the events of the timestream.

I floated in the sickly orange tinted void of the Chronorealm, everyone I'd ever known and loved more than just gone. Desolation filled my being, with it being even worse than when Luke trapped me in that aura cage on Olympus.

I might have won the battle and killed Luke, but Luke had won the war…and taken everything I'd ever cared about.

(000)

Finally, chapter fifty is finished! Kind of a depressing ending to the chapter, huh? Everyone is gone and Zane has lost the will the live…but it's not over yet. One more chapter after this, the one that wraps everything up and finally finishes The Last Olympian Arc. I've got some more stuff planned after it, stuff I'll reveal at the end of next chapter, but this story is actually very close to ending and being marked Completed. Don't worry, as Zane's story isn't even close to finished, that much I can promise.

Sorry this one took so goddamn long to finish, as my life got really hectic and I honestly got extremely depressed and just couldn't write. But I've quit drugs, got a job and I've got my life back on track. Not promising to get back to my old writing speed when I started, but things should be quicker from now on.

Anyways, hope y'all enjoyed the climatic finale of Zane v. Luke! See you in the final chapter.