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"If I want to survive... I can't afford to falter...!" Shakily putting his fists up, Domio clenched his fingers as tightly as possible.
A single bead of sweat trailed down his face as he anticipated the deity's next move.
"Then allow me to savor your desperate struggle for your pitiful life!"
"Agent of Destruction"
Xero, the Ruthless
FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
RUSH!
Xero cackled before rushing ahead, a wide smile that reeked of bloodlust and torment.
Domio's eyes flashed into a kaleidoscope of colors before returning to their icy blue and springing into action.
CHILL!-
KICK!
BLAST!...
Feeling the bone-chilling sensation of death, the teenager hoisted his foot up in a kicking manner before using his sole as an outlet for an ice spell.
SLASH!-...
That succeeded in sending him flying with Xero barely missing and instead slicing a mountain standing behind the young warlock.
Whisking through the air, he planted his feet on the ground before looking up.
"Heh...!"
...!
With Xero already leaping from his last position, ready to slice the Loweean in twain.
CHILL!-
FREEZE!
Using Doppelgänger, the lad managed to force himself out of the way by creating an identical golem in his place that seamlessly spat him out of his composition with the VPU's sword swinging down.
SMASH!-
THOOM!...
The sword crashed into the ground, instantly breaking the golem into a million pieces while simultaneously creating a large crack with many rocks and stones flying in all directions.
ZOOM!
"Gyah!" Blown away by the force of the god's strike, Domio screamed with his body wildly flailing through the air.
FREEZE!-
...HALT
Quickly sprouting his wings, the multicolored appendages formed as the warlock stabilized himself before being punted too far from the battlefield.
Meanwhile, Xero had already made his move.
BOOM!
The egregious blade the VPU possessed was catapulted from his hand with enough velocity to create a sonic boom.
CHILL!
Domio's hair on the back of his neck raised in response, sensing something that was out to end his life.
WEAVE-
VOOM!
"Ghk!" Yet the wind pressure was still potent enough to scratch his cheek despite the inches of space between himself and the gnarly blade.
-SNATCH!
SWING!
Phasing behind the teen, Xero grabbed the hilt of his weapon before twisting his torso with his sword gathering momentum.
CHILL!-
DROP!
Halting the flow of his SP, the warlock hastily plummeted upon sensing the incoming peril from his magic.
SLASH!
CRASH!...
'Yikes...!'
Several mountaintops were cleaved to oblivion, causing Domio to sweat bullets upon what that would've done to his body had he not evaded.
"If you don't try to fight back, it'll be an early grave kid!" Xero laughed, before sticking out his hand at the descending mage.
"Diabolical Douser!"
BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST!
The VPU's hand glowed red before a battalion of fear energy blasts shot forth at unadulterated discretion, as numerous as they were dangerous.
TWIRL!-
SOAR!
Domio quickly reactivated his wings during his hurtling fall before regaining a parallel flight path with the ground.
CHILL! CHILL! CHILL!
The Loweean's Cold Sense was going off the charts from the sheer magnitude of Xero's attack, meaning that if any of those blasts made contact, he'd be wiped from the world's source code.
EXPLOSIONS!
A multitude of rattling explosions lit up the immediate area, many red spheres of energy rapidly taking up the ground with a perpetual earthquake from the constant influx of blasts.
TWIRL!-
BOOM!
Heaving his body to the side, Domio narrowly dodged a blast that vaporized a nearby lake of yellow liquid.
BLAST!
BOOM!
Using his foot once more to fire a spell, the propulsion briskly moved him from the line of another blast, that smashed into a cliffside before annihilation ensued.
SHATTER!-
"SHIT!"
One of the blasts zipped right through one of Domio's wings before it shattered and detonated, causing him to sprawl with several scratches from the attack.
BOOM!
"GYAHHH!" Then another blast hit one of his icy greaves before it broke and smacked him in another direction.
KA-BOOMS!
The warlock's body tumbled into the explosive epicenter, which was pretty much the ground at that point, with the explosions showing no sign of stopping.
KRA-KOOMS!...
After just under a minute, the blasts subsided.
Xero lowered his hand, before picking his nose without a care in the world.
"That was about a minute, so I'd consider that runt a charred carcass." Putting his sword on his shoulder, the VPU took a deep breath.
Below the floating VPU, the smoke clouds quickly cleared.
A flat cratered plain was the remains of the once cluttered biome.
Yet a singular block of ice stood tall despite the abject destruction that permeated the battlefield.
ABSORB...!
The block swiftly dissipated, before it revealed a scathed yet breathing Domio with much more burns and injuries.
"Thaw." He spoke, his voice slightly echoing from the structural vacancy.
'I didn't think Frozen Fortitude would last, but going for a more geometric execution saved me.' Silently recollecting his choice, he looked up at the unsuspecting VPU.
FREEZE!-
-EQUIP!...
Freezing himself in a large block of ice, Domio absorbed the ice before donning his full set of ice armor with his wings repaired.
His hair flapped as his armor readjusted to fit his body, his blue eyes narrowing at Xero's floating figure.
HOP!
MAGIC CIRCLE!-
SKYROCKTET!
Discreetly jumping, he kicked himself off the ground just high enough to create a magic circle that solidified into an icy platform before using all of his enhanced strength to springboard into the sky.
"What?" Xero's ears picked up on the vibrations of a fast-moving object, yet he didn't see anything from the ground, especially not after destroying everything in a mile radius.
CLEAR!...
"SUBZERO SMASHER!"
Falling from the clearing clouds, two bus-sized fists clasped themselves together to create a gigantic axe handle with the armored magician descending at terminal velocity.
"He's alive?!"
SMASH!
Barely raising his sword despite being off-guard, the immense pressure from the attack sent the deity shooting to the ground at breakneck speeds.
Cupping his giant arms, he extended his combo, not wanting to give ANY time for the VPU to re-engage.
"Kältenkatastrophe!"
THOOM!-
Xero's body was forced to the ground instantly from the trademark intensity of the EXE Drive's preliminary effect.
CRASH!
-FREEZE!
On a knee, Xero's eyes shrunk in aggravation before the ice bombarded his vision alongside the immediate area.
Flash froze, the VPU's body was put into suspended animation, his expression rigid with rage.
GLOW!...
ABSORB!...
Domio outstretched his gargantuan gauntlets before a glow encapsulated the parts of his armor.
They shrank to their regular size yet they maintained their luminance, ice magic flowing from their frames.
'Condensing the size instead of dissipating it lets me conserve SP and increase my combat agility while maintaining my power when my gloves were giant.' The Loweean thought to himself, before reeling his fist.
"Let's finish this!"
SOAR!
Seeing his opportunity to shatter the frozen god, he zoomed to the VPU's location with his wings thrusting him ahead with gravity aiding his objective.
"Verenden! (DIE!)"
Moments before the glowing fist could make contact with Xero...
BURST OF FEAR!
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The power in Xero's voice alone was enough to decimate the sheet of ice he was imprisoned in.
"GUH!"
SPRAWL!-
-SKID!...
Domio was blown away by the shockwave of fear energy, pushing him away before he sank his fingers into the ground to stop his trailing.
"I did NOT almost get packed by a FUCKING overgrown sperm cell!" Raving about his near-loss, he stomped the ground.
RUMBLE!...
The impact was enough to cause the teenager to wobble, having to shift his legs to gain balance.
"I'm going to do what Pl*n B didn't!"
"W-What..?" Domio stuttered, the threat abruptly concerning.
...S-S-S-SHUDDER!
The ground shook in preparation for what the VPU was going to unleash, with the fear energy materializing off of Xero's body.
"YOU'RE DOOMED!"
BURST!-
AURA SPIKE!
Red fear energy surrounded and expanded from Xero, before it wrapped around his body, letting off an eerie glow with yellow irises glowing and shaking with indignation.
Domio's hands unconsciously shook from the surges of fear, feeling his muscles freezing up from the singularity of fear before him.
He knew that Xero was someone under no circumstance he was allowed to falter, yet his body could not help itself.
It was as if a cornucopia of wallowing souls screeched from the fearsome aura that the VPU exhibited.
"G-Grr...!" Domio grunted.
Slowly working through the fear, he clenched his teeth with difficulty.
"T-Then... THEN PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS, ASSHOLE!" Clenching his fists, he got into a stance.
"RAAH!"
TOSS!
Throwing the strange sword, it spun with the RPM of a beyblade as it quickly beelined for the teenage ice user.
SLIDE!
Getting low, Domio skidded on the floor to evade to incoming weapon with severe caution amid his adrenaline-rushing sense of fear.
SWIVEL!-
-TELEPORT!
Appearing behind the young mage as he grabbed his blade, the warlock had turned around with a hand aimed at the VPU upon realizing that this was not an unknown maneuver.
"Artic Bolt!"
SPELL-
"FUCK OUTTA HERE!"
CRASH!-
Attempting a point-blank spell, Xero was faster and cut off the casting time by attacking the space in front of the warlock and messing up the execution, nullifying the effect.
GRAB!-
-BAM!
Balling up the shirt of the Loweean, the VPU clenched his hilt before rewinding his fist and clocking the teenager.
SHOCKWAVE!
"GURK!"
The boy's body flailed from impact, his face burning in pain from a monstrously powerful attack.
PHASE!-
SLICE!
"ARGH!"
Appearing at his flank, Xero slashed the back of the tumbling teenager to his victim's agony.
SLASH!-
SLICE!-
STAB!
A diagonal slash to the left cut away at his flesh, while a diagonal slice to the right shed his blood once more. Then a piercing strike to his side caused some more blood to be spilled as the warlock found himself defenseless.
SMASH!-
-BAK!...
Using the flat side of his mortifying sword he smashed in the warlock's head, causing his body to rotate before Xero twirled his sword to reverse grip and strike the teenager's temple with the pommel.
SLICE!
Stopping all turning, he was in the perfect position with the VPU grabbing his sword with both hands before landing an overhead slash on Domio's body, blood flying from the wound on his chest.
ELBOW!
"...!" Pain overloaded his system, yet he found clarity to experience that moment of torment.
He used his nearest arm to his target to sink an elbow into the teenager's sternum at speeds rivaling visual teleportation.
KNUCKLE!-
-SHOCKWAVE!
His further arm was utilized to send a migraine-inciting blow to the boy's forehead.
PLUMMET...!
Domio's body corkscrewed through the air, his eyes whited out with the majority of his armor shattered and cracked with several visible wounds on his person.
STOP!...
Before he could hit the ground, the back of his armor was grabbed, his feet dangling off the ground with Xero standing next to him, a little behind his body.
"Don't tell me you're dead yet. You've barely given me any fear energy you good-for-nothing shit." Slowly dangling from the god's hand. Domio's vision slowly returned to him through the swimming pain in his head, and all over his body.
"Besides, even if you were... That doesn't distract me from the fact that..."
FLASH!-
...THUNDER!
"The storm's illumination fails to distract the world from how pathetic you are." A cruel grin formed on Xero's face.
Blinking slowly, his eyes focused as color returned before internalizing the situation.
"!..."
His irises shook with horror, sweat leaking off his pale face upon realizing he was not flying with his volition.
GLEAN...!
"Guh!" The warlock swallowed.
The sword that Xero wielded was raised to the teenager's neck, its edge glistening with the weapon inching closer and closer to the Loweean's jugular to shed his flesh.
"And now I've got you right where I want you... Any last words before I send you to the lobby?" A wicked expression took over the VPU's face.
"G... Geh dich ficken, arschgeige."* Domio guttered, his voice assuming a baser pitch from using his strange tongue.
"... What?"
FREEZE!
Using the confusion to his advantage, the Loweean created an ice golem to eject his body from Xero's grip at the cost of his armor.
TWIST!-
"Blizzaga Burst!"
ICE BEAM!
Heaving his body to spin mid-air, he faced the distracted VPU before pointing his hand which contained the rune and yelled out the SP attack he'd cast before a large beam of ice magic shot from his hand, with a magic circle glowing brightly in front of the warlock.
SHINE!
The golem that Xero still held came into contact with the ice, yet instead of being obliterated, it absorbed the spell.
"The fu-?!"
Glowing brightly, Xero blinked before realizing just exactly what the golem's intention was.
-EXPLODE!
After containing the sudden influx of SP, the doppelgänger of Domio spontaneously detonated while releasing a powerful pulse of ice magic point-blank at the destroyer deity.
SKID!
FREEZE!...
Driving his nails into the ground, the teenager scrambled to his feet before freezing on some gauntlets and greaves.
Not sensing any danger from his Cold Sense, the warlock showed a smidgen of relaxation.
THOOM!
"GHK!"
From easing to flinching, elbow-to-jaw contact was made with the VPU and the human with Xero appearing into existence despite being struck by a crafty move moments ago.
DASH!
Vertically spinning from the impact, Domio's body hurled through the air with the interdimensional menace sprinting at a pace that kept up with the dazed victim.
CRASH!...
The boy found his head implanted into the side of a rocky wall, his body rigid from the landing and residual pain from the edgy god's elbow.
RUSTLE...!
-EXTEND!
The chains around Xero's forearm jingled before a link extended with several following behind it.
WRAP!-
-YANK!
Before long, Domio's leg was grabbed as the teenager felt inertia rip him out of the lateral dumbass tree he cosplayed moments ago.
DRAG!...
The Loweean's frame was forcibly dragged alongside the side of the wall, the chain acting as a tool to wipe his skin off of the abrasive surface of the cliffside
SMASH!
CRASH!
BASH!
THRASH!
Before Xero proceeded to flail his arm wildly, the ice mage bounced off the wall awkwardly. He was reintroduced to the painful sensation of damage each time he connected with the uneven surface.
SLAM!...
After his body hit the wall a fifth time, the VPU willed the chain to release the teenager only for a dark expression to grace his face, a maniacal grin making its presence known.
REEL!-
-WHIP!
-roblox kid screaming meme-
Only the likes of slaves and disobedient children in third-world countries could imagine the sting of a chained whip that the innocent soul of Domio had to endure.
OBLITERATE!
The fabric and skin on his right side were torn to shreds, with flesh and blood flying off of the new wound with an impending shockwave spreading from the point of impact as the sensation rattled the boy's entire body.
Even the cliffside next to him was shattered into a million pieces from the obscene trauma he was doled.
PHASE!
The unfortunate warlock was not even given time to dangle in the center of his agony before his aggressor found his next vantage point.
KNEE!-
-SHOCKWAVE!...
Lurching forward, Domio's body retched from the blow with an unnatural protrusion being seen from the other side of his body, an abnormal miracle that he didn't find himself with a hole through his body.
"BLEARGH!"
Bile and blood mixed ejected from the teenager's mouth, and his digestive system was surely impaired from that moment onward.
Sticking out his hand before the lingering warlock, he pointed it as the chains wrapped themselves back onto his outstretched arm.
"See you in hell."
FEAR BLAST!-
A large beam of pitch-black fear energy erupted from his hand and engulfed the boy.
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
As the blast subsided, Xero chuckled before laughing heartily at his first blood within the parameters of Hyperdimension.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! FINALLY!..." The VPU laughed, before seeing two twinkling objects in the distance, quickly approaching his position.
"Looks like some fresh meat for a killstreak...!" The deity's yellow eyes glinted with killing intent, focusing on the newcomers with their figures becoming discernable as the moments passed.
Meanwhile, with the two entities...
"Are you sure we can make it in time, Ram?" Rom questioned, squinting at the person floating in the air.
"Of course we can, Rom! We're CPU Candidates after all." Confidence brimmed from the pink Loweean goddess, believing in their power when reunited.
The two CPUs hovered through the skies with enough speed to close the gap between themselves and the entity relatively quickly.
Upon reaching closer, the features of the individual floating were unknown to Rom, as her brows knitted from the lack of reference when it came to the new figure.
"Uh... Ram?" The docile sister inquired.
"Rom?" The boisterous sister responded in turn.
"I don't think that's Domio." Rom pointed out.
"What?- But this was the direction he was flying in!" Ram adamantly reminded.
"That's right." A second voice confirmed her belief.
Both twins halted at the presence of a third member in their conversation.
Xero floated behind them, his face covered in darkness yet his yellow irises brightly glowing with malicious jubilation.
ゴゴゴゴ...!
Rom and Ram slowly turned around, the murderous intent radiating off of the VPU.
"Do you girls think it's weird that only kids populate a graveyard? I wonder if this is a euphemism for abortion." He stroked his chin, smirking at the dark thought.
"I-... What's an a-abortion?" Ram couldn't decide whether to be horrified or confused at the scary deity's question.
"W-We need an adult." Rom stuttered, her newborn courage replaced by her shaking voice.
"You sweet summer children, I AM AN ADULT!" Cue the demented beaming from the harbinger of destruction.
BAM!
"Tch!" Ram guttered.
"K-Kyaa!" Rom squeaked.
Driving his feet into their spines, he pushed his weight off of their backs before the twins were sent horizontally flying.
VANISH!
Xero flipped from the momentum before dematerializing, his speed becoming untraceable to the sprawling junior goddesses.
...SLOW!...
The twins used their processors to slow their sudden rush from the stinging blows, hovering with some aching backs.
"That smarts just as much as last time...!" Ram coughed, her hand resting on her back.
"Owww! Who was he, sis?" Rom was still on high alert from the radiating terror the Xero possessed.
"I dunno, but he's stupid strong! We'll have to be on our toes if we wanna win!" The pink CPU Candidate told her sibling.
MATERIALIZE!-
-CRASH!
"KYAAAAAAAaaaaa...!"
From thin air, the malignant VPU materialized with sickening speed before dropkicking the divine youth in the noggin which sent her body hurtling toward the ground.
"Too bad my ten toes never fold. So Rom, back to what I was saying." Turning to the miffed CPU Candidate, she gripped her staff tightly, struggling to deal with the overpowering fear that coursed through him.
"Since Domio bit the bullet, how about you hit the sack? We can do this the easy way or I'll smoke your pack." A taunting glint made its way to his eyes, smiling at the wordplay he performed.
"Wait, Domio is..." Rom's heart sank, her eyes slowly shrinking in realization.
"You missed it! I beat him like a dog before I whipped him like a slave! Too bad I vaporized that sorry bitch or else I would've shown you his severed head!"
flightreacts laugh sound effect
Cackling wildly, he missed the subtle change in Rom's features.
From disbelief to disdain, widening eyes narrowed before a slightly agape mouth curled into a curt frown.
"...!"
RUSH!
Rushing ahead, her staff was held by both hands with full intention of smashing the VPU before her.
SWING!-
WHOOSH!
"Haha!" The evil deity giggled, his body moving out of the way with Rom's strike missing.
SLICE!
"STOOPID-"
"Ack!" Rom was immediately punished via counter slash from the laughing harbinger, creating a cut on her side that sprayed blood.
"-I'm not gonna let you get the chance!"
SLAM!-
Swinging his shin into Ram's plexus was next on the menu, with the blue CPU Candidate holding back the instinct to retch with her eyes turning white from the blitzing pain that Xero unloaded.
SLICE!-SLASH!-SLASH!-
...SLICE! ...SLICE!
While the CPU Candidate was stunned, Xero swung his sword in a diagonal, vertical, and horizontal manner before twirling the blade in his hand to finish the combo string with a two-handed slash that formed an X.
THOOM!
"Guk!"
And punting the twin with a front kick to the left side of her ribcage, Rom sent tumbling with the finishing blow.
RUSTLE!...
SNATCH!
"Grk...!"
Yet Rom was grabbed by the waist with a rope of chains that gripped her with enough force to cause the CPU to wheeze in discomfort.
"GET OVER HERE!"
YANK!-
Pulling his hand, the chain retracted with unprecedented velocity with Rom's body ripping through the sky from the force that Xero tugged with.
SHOCKWAVE!
"Kya!"
Driving his fist into Rom's face left a nasty mark alongside an echoing shockwave as she was propelled from the hit, her senses dazed from the sudden occupation change to paddle ball.
SHOCKWAVE!...
"Gyah!"
An elbow strike was there to greet the CPU Candidate's temple.
SHOCKWAVE!...
"Ow!"
A headbutt was the culprit of the rubber banding of Rom's form.
SHOCKWAVE!
"Urk!"
Return of the knuckle sandwich.
SHOCKWAVE!
"Uff!"
The same arm that pulled the blue goddess in was utilized to side-punch her cranium.
SHOCKWAVE!-
"Owww!"
A flicker jab knicked the CPU Candidate on her temple.
SHOCKWAVE!-
"Oof!"
Several blows later, Rom's head was swimming in pain from the repeated strikes that Xero mercilessly doled on her petite frame.
PULL!
The VPU didn't intend to strike the defenseless goddess this time and reeled his arm back.
ZOOM!
Using the fear energy within his body, he created a solid surface to kick off with his aura before blazing through the air, tactlessly dragging the CPU Candidate along with him.
Elsewhere, Ram was holding her head in pain from the blitzing kick that her poor head was traumatized from.
"Urgh... That big jerk!" Thr pink CPU Candidate complained before her ears picked up a descending whistle in the background.
SWING!
"Huh?-" She barely had time to turn around, before the back of her sister blinded her eyes.
SMASH!...
"GAH!"
"ARGH!"
The two CPUs collided, the twins shouting in agony from the crash with a crater formed from the impact's velocity.
RETRACT!
Calling his chain back to his hand, Rom was freed from the terrible bondage her torso was subjected to. Yet this was anything but a blessing for what Xero planned to do next was the exact opposite.
POINT!...
"Foul Vibration...!"
...TREMOR!
Flipping off the two wincing girls, they were suddenly alerted to the unstable shaking of the floor.
"W-W-W-What's happening!?" Ram shouted, struggling to get to her feet after being hammered by the body weight of her sister.
"W-W-W-We have to get up!" Rom didn't understand the unsettling feeling from the ground, but it was nothing worth risking their lives to find out.
"It's too late for that, toots!" Cackled Xero, before the ground could no longer contain the impending devastation it harbored underneath its surface.
EXPLOSION!
"KYAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"GAHAHAHAHAHAHA!~"
A behemoth of an explosion rocked the area, with the shrieks of the twins and the laughter of the VPU echoing faintly compared to the deafening roar of the blast's crescendo.
Rom and Ram were sent flying, their frames dangling through the air, considerably damaged from the SP Skill executed on their bodies with every inch of their divine flesh aching them from the fearsome attack.
FLOAT!...
Utilizing their processors while in mid-air slowed their ragdolling bodies from continuing to tumble through the air.
"Ow, ow, ow! I'm not sure if we can do this by ourselves...!" The harsh truth was beginning to dawn on the rather persistent pink twin.
"We need help, but who can help us right now?" Rom responded to her sibling, unable to think of anyone off the top of her head.
PHASE!...
"Already?!" Both twins' jaw dropped, exasperated.
Their conversation was cut short by Xero's appearance.
"Don't tell me you two are ready to throw the towel in. Even Domio put up more of a fight before he got iced." Folding his arms, he shot a snigger to the injured lasses.
"Domio is..." Ram couldn't believe what the VPU was alluding to.
"You're lying!" She refused to buy what the destroyer deity was selling, as he snorted at her predictable reaction.
"Then why hasn't he stuck out his scrawny little neck to help your sorry asses out? Face the music C Pee Ews, the mockingbird is dead."
LIGHTNING!-
THUNDER!...
The cinematic light show returned to add more weight to Xero's claim.
"I won't believe a word you say, dummy!" Ram shouted, before gripping her staff.
"We know he's still alive!... So we'll beat you until you tell us where he is!" Rom readied her staff at the VPU, who was wholly unimpressed.
"I'll do you one better, girls." Unfolding his arms, he gripped his sword with both hands.
"I'll show you where he is... After I send the both of you straight to hell!"
FEAR BURST!-
WHOOSH!
Fear energy spiked in all directions from the VPU, the wind blasting off his energetic presence with the two CPU Candidates putting in all their might to withstand the severe winds.
Ram was about to blurt out what they'd do, yet she stopped herself.
Remembering when Domio explained his plan to her against Warechu, she took a page out of his book.
"Ich werde ihn von kopf an kopf bekämpfen. Sie können ihn Zauber werfen." (I'll fight him head to head. You can cast spells on him.)
Ram spoke in a strange language that Xero couldn't understand, yet Rom's face lit up in surprise before she nodded sternly.
"Again with that fucking gibberish! Speak like you have some brain cells, you glue-sniffing fucks!"
ZOOM!-
"Make me!" Ram defiantly shouted.
FLY!
Rushing the last person to speak which was Ram, she took the incentive to charge at the VPU while Rom put some distance from the incoming clash.
BOOM!
"You just did, dumbass!" Immediately after their weapons made contact, the demented edge lord pointed out the obvious.
SHOVE!
Before pushing his blade, and the CPU Candidate back, who used her wings to stabilize herself.
FIREBALLS!
Casting some fire spells from her staff, the goddess began her offense.
EVAPORATE!...
Yet the flaming projectiles were dispelled upon contact with the VPU's aura, persisting in the face of adversity.
"Ice Coffin!"
Rom shouted her SP Skill before the ice imprisoned the VPU.
-SHATTER!
Yet he easily broke out of the icy confinement, no strain remotely present on his face.
"Boring~..." Rolling his eyes at their attempts, he used his sword tip to scratch his back.
"I'll show you boring!" Ram snarled before pointing her staff at him.
GUSTS!-ICICLES!-FLAMES!
Twirling her staff with both hands, a torrent of elemental spells were launched from her magical weapon with mini-tornadoes, sharp icicles, and swirling fireballs sent at Xero.
SWIRL!...
She leaned to the side, to surround the VPU with the elemental attacks, the spells soon forming a maelstrom pattern around the destructive god who did nothing but scratch his back in tandem.
EVAPORATE!
EVAPORATE!
EVAPORATE!
It was all for naught, with Xero's fear aura negating every spell it came into contact with, no matter their quantity.
"Don't have all day, Ram. Better start running up numbers before I run that fade." Xero warned lazily before holding his weapon to his side.
SLASH!
Swiping his sword three-sixty degrees, the elemental attacks were dispersed in one fell swoop.
"Tch! Absolute Zero!"
MAGIC RINGS!
Magical blue rings surrounded the CPU Candidate in a sphere before magical circles spawned on the perceived surface of the sphere before she threw her arms to the side.
FREEZE-
FREEZE!-
FREEZE!
Ice spikes sprouted from all angles of Xero's body, his aura diminishing with a surprised look on his face.
"Whuh?" Raising his brow, he looked down at his restricted body.
MAGIC CIRCLES!
Twirling around, she created three more magical circles before driving her staff through them as they shattered into ice.
FREEZE!-FREEZE!-FREEZE!
Xero's body was hit by more ice spikes, completely burying his body in a cold position in the sky.
SHATTER!
The plentiful protrusions shattered, dealing monumental damage to the VPU with the ice particles floating away in the winds.
Or so she thought.
BURST!
"Womp womp!" A crazed grin flashed by the divine slaughtered snapped Ram out of any optimistic thought trains.
"No way!" Ram was shocked at the lazy exhibition of the ravenous strength of the VPU's aura.
"Northern Cross!" Seeing her sister's barrage being subsequently silenced, she took out the big guns as her EXE Drive was mustered.
MAGIC CIRCLE!
A large blue magic circle was summoned beneath Rom before four large cyan spheres surrounded Xero at cardinal points.
BZZZT!...
BZZZT!...
BZZZT!...
BZZZT!...
The four orbs began shooting smaller green magical spheres at rapid speeds, the blasts all sinking into Xero's aura with no visible effect occurring.
"I need to try harder... Southern Cross!" Rom shouted as she knocked her ankles together and pointed her staff up after twirling.
FALL!
CRASH!-
BOOM!
A quartet of red magical orbs descended from the skies before it collapsed on the VPU with both groups of spheres promptly detonating in a spherical explosion.
"Nice one, Rom!" The pink CPU Candidate shouted, a small smirk spreading across her lips.
"Hehe! Thanks, sis!" Her blue sibling responded happily to the praise.
The smoke lingered for a while, with the twins continuing to celebrate landing a hit on the VPU.
WHOOSH!
"L plus ratio." Xero yawned.
"?!"
Clearing the smoke, Xero and his indignant aura remained steadfast and unmoved by the goddesses' attempts at taking him down.
"You two should go back to the tutorial, holy shit." Cracking his neck, he had an uninterested look on his face. "Did your mana go down after using that? Cuz My HP sure didn't." Dusting off his shoulder, he looked at Ram before turning to Rom.
"But those were our EXE Drives...!" Rom was left agape.
"But those were our EXE Drives- AND? The sky is red, anything else, Captain Obvious?!" Xero mocked harshly.
"Yeek!" She promptly shut up after his outburst.
"Y'know what, if you're going to throw nothing but snowballs at me at least have the brains to keep a conversation going, you stupid brat!" Xero started shouting at the girl, a tick mark on his forehead.
"Hey, don't talk to Rom like that you big dummy!" Ram defended her sister.
"Shut the fuck up, you stupid bitch!"
CHARGE...!
Sticking out his hand, the VPU concentrated fear energy in his palm.
BLAST!-
KA-BOOM!
Firing off a fearsome blast in Ram's direction, it struck almost instantly with the CPU Candidate's last known position covered in smoke.
PHASE!
Floating before Rom in a move of sheer speed, the gap between them became minuscule as he continued.
"The only reason you're not dead at my feet is because there's a lot of fear to be extracted from that naïve soul of yours." The interdimensional ruffian made himself clear.
Rom recoiled at his sudden appearance as he continued speaking.
"Unlike Ram, your mental resilience is sorely lacking." He suddenly moved his hand with enough force for it to dematerialize.
GRAB!
Yanking Ram's staff out of her hand, she realized what just occurred before reacting.
"Give it back!..." She demanded, reaching out for it.
SNAP!
Before it went the way of Ram's staff, breaking in twain over Xero's knee.
"How about no." Xero causally responded after disarming his opponent permanently.
Grabbing the CPU Candidate by her forehead, his face was covered in darkness except his eyes filled with malicious intent and his teeth in an almost fanged smile.
"Now hold still."
BURST!-
Fear energy coursed through his body, expressed by his aura.
TRANSFER!...
Before condensing it to his hand that held Rom, her body shaking and sweating incessantly from its proximity.
INJECT!
Rom's eyes shifted to glassy, with the brunt of Xero's fear energy being directly inserted into her brain.
Her shares that would've acted as an antibody to such energy were instantly overwhelmed by the nightmarish potency of the VPU.
...
..
.
'GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARHH!' 'I have a family! Don't do it- AAAAAAARGH!' 'Why did you kill them? WHYYYYY!- ACK!-' 'You demon! You know no mercy- GAAH!'
'Please don't kill me!' 'SOMEONE SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEE!-' 'What did we do to deserve this...!? YOU MONSTER!-' 'Don't kill my children, I beg of you!'
'Mommy, save me- GHKAAAAAA!' 'I d-don't w-w-wanna d-die!' 'How could you?!... AHHHHHHHHHHH!-' 'My parents never did anything to deserve this!'
.
..
...
A myriad of screams rattled the CPU Candidate's brain, the cries and screams of slaughtered souls and tortured spirits as their final moments and deepest grievances were shown in Rom's head.
Scenes of gore and bloodshed were played akin to a compilation with each one preceding the next speedily with just enough context to hammer in her tiny noggin just what the VPU was capable of.
This earned a sniffle from the little girl, once completely unaware that one person could make so many people suffer throughout their lives, with the waterworks silently falling from her eyes.
"... You cryin'?" Xero noticed the faint sobbing from the blue CPU Candidate, his voice filled with disgust.
"W-W-Why did you do that to those people?!" She couldn't take it anymore, screaming at the top of her lungs in distress through the sobs.
"It's my fucking job! Why are you crying? It hasn't even been forty seconds yet!" Xero barked at the goddess.
"B-Because you're a horrible person!" Rom uncharacteristically shouted, mentally traumatized by what she was forced to witness.
"..." Silence befell the sobbing goddess, with the VPU morphing his expression to that of a straight-faced donkey from Shr*k.
"NO FUCKING SHIT, YOU DIMWITTED RETARD!"
THUD!
His eyes lit up with ire before he drove his knee into the CPU Candidate's chest.
"BLEK!" A gob of saliva mixed with blood was expelled from Rom's mouth, her abdomen writhing in agony.
BURST!-
-GUST!...
Xero's energy reappeared, flaring with power from the extraction process, creating winds strong enough to cause the ground to be cleared of all objects that weren't bolted down.
"That's it... The fear of a goddess is exactly what I needed!" The VPU relished the sensation of fright with Rom's facial features becoming petrified throughout the process.
Nearby, Ram floated from the ground, her face severely damaged from taking one of the interdimensional menace's blasts without guarding despite her HDD's stats.
"Urk..." She wiped her nose, checking her hand as a deep red substance stained her glove. "That little attack sent me flying? We gotta get the other over here to help us!" She turned to do just that.
"But I can't leave Rom on her own! And Domio's..." She didn't want to finish that sentence, gloom spreading on her wounded face.
"Grr...! Why did that guy have to show up? We just wanted to save our sisters!" Ram shouted, frustrated.
"Then you'll have to live with the fact you won't be able to save either of them!" Xero's voice cut into her monologuing, which caused Ram to twist in his direction.
"ROM!" She yelled upon witnessing the harvesting of her sister's fear.
"Whatever will you do, Ram? Just try to attack me but know nothing stops me from using your sister as a human shield!" The VPU grabbed Ram's neck with the same hand used to extra her fear, brandishing her pale, sweating face of fright.
"You wouldn't!" The pink CPU Candidate of Lowee hissed.
"HA! I've done far worse, brat." A dark snigger spread upon his lips, no presence of lies in his words.
"...!"
FLY!
Ram hesitated upon hearing his response before rushing in, unable to think of anything else that would work against someone of Xero's strength.
Pouring some of her SP into her new staff, the arrows imbued into it glowed with mana.
SWING-
"Nuh-uh."
Before Ram's staff could bash into the VPU's face, he raised Rom's body into the path of her sister's staff.
HALT!
Which caused her to stop her attack, leaving her wide open.
BIFF!
"Gah!"
Pushing the restrained CPU Candidate into Ram's vicinity, Rom's forehead smashed into the pink CPU Candidate's eye.
"Whoops." Xero reeled Rom's body back, as the pink goddess held her eye in pain.
Flinching, Ram moved her hand from her face to reveal a slowly darkening ring around her left eye.
"You jerk-"
SLICE!...
Swinging his blade, the wind pressure from his physical exertion was enough to cut Ram's lips despite being relatively far from close range.
"Ah ah ah. Silence is golden, brat. And only the strong can voice their opinion. Besides, you should be using that time to think of a way to save your sister." Xero reminded, brandishing Rom's pale form.
"You only have so much time until all the fear is extracted from her. Once that's done, she'll be in a vegetative state and easy pickings for someone like me." He smirked before switching to his sword arm.
"Tch!" Standing her ground (air, technically?), Ram was between a rock and a hard place.
Meanwhile...
'Ugh... I can't believe I got defeated like that.' The voice lamented.
Surrounded by a void, the ethereal plane of limbo welcomed it.
'I can.' Hyuzu's voice mockingly responded.
'Not this shit again.' Groaned the Loweean.
'This is worse than Warechu, by Celestia.' The apparitional voice mused.
'I did NOT ask for the peanut gallery's opinion.' Domio was not in the mood for a post-game analysis by his uncle of all people.
'Analytically I'm on the money. With the rat, you looked like you were breathing down victory's back. Regarding this Xero fellow, you were simply trying to avoid ending up here.' Hyuzu aptly stated.
'And your point?' Domio rose a brow.
'No way in hell am I giving you that power again. You fumbled so badly last time, only a fool would consider letting you have a second shot.' The voice got to the point, denying him a second wind.
'So what, you rather me rot in some hole somewhere?' Confusion took over the teenager's demeanor.
'Absolutely.' Hyuzu did not stutter.
'... Come again?' Although the warlock still needed the words repeated.
'You deserve to die a pitiful demise for all that effort. Even now, it baffles me how we share blood yet none of the performance.' The apparitional voice spoke of the comparisons.
'We do share it by your standards, because last time I checked, AL smoked your dusty ass.' Domio reminded him.
'At least I didn't get the whooping of a lifetime by that fiery fucker. All the times I beat you into the dirt pales to your fight's brutality.' The uncle's voice recalled how Xero whipped him senseless.
'Shut up!' And the ice user did not want to hear it.
'You don't have the right or the power to shut me up. Enjoy oblivion, useless nephew.' Hyuzu's voice dismissed his outburst.
'Oh, yes I do! Trade shoes this instant and you wouldn't even have the constitution to be in limbo as we speak! I've probably been more powerful than you since I fought Warechu the second time!' Yet Domio stood on business.
'Keep telling yourself that.' Only for the voice to ignore the claim.
'And you talk a lot of shit for someone who's rotting in a cold cell somewhere in Lowee's prison! At least I went against the grain and did something right compared to the rest of you good-for-nothing scourges!'
'And where did that end you up? Like your mother?' A snide tone came from the voice, knowing it had pressed a sensitive button.
'LEAVE HER OUT OF THIS, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!' And it got the reaction it hoped for.
'She couldn't leave her snatch off of me, so what's the difference?' Hyuzu reminisced.
'THAT'S BECAUSE YOU...!' Domio croaked, unable to stomach the reason.
'Can't even say it. And you think Xero wouldn't do the same? You're still far too pure-hearted for this world.' A disappointed tone came from the voice.
'She's already dead, what could he possibly do-' Domio regained the will to challenge the voice's idea.
'He's a VPU. Do you think he won't find and desecrate her ashes with his semen or some shit?' Giving a disturbing example, it gave no reprieve to the severity of the scenario's implications.
'That's just your depraved imagination!' He denied the idea.
'It's still pissing you off, so the possibility isn't off the table.' Hyuzu's voice called him out.
Domio grew silent.
It wasn't outside of Xero's repertoire to do something of that nature. If Vergo's recollection of the future was anything to go by he already did something similar to that in Gamindustri's destruction.
'Then keep your stupid power. I don't need it if I have to interact with you every time I find myself on death's doorstep.' Decided to reject the kaleidoscopic power, he folded his arms.
'Face it. You're never going to get my power!' Laughing at the boy's refusal, Hyuzu's voice was overtaken by amusement.
'DO I LOOK LIKE I NEED YOUR POWER!'
FLICKER!
The sea of void temporarily lightened into a blinding white, before settling back into an abyssal darkness.
'You do need it! Warechu would have killed you without it!' The voice shouted, adamant in its stance.
'And I still lost! By your logic, that shitty ass power is USELESS!' Domio screamed, growing tired of the conversation.
FLASH!
The same brightening occurred for a second time, lasting longer compared to the previous.
'And another thing, get the fuck out of my head! If I wanted to listen to your voice, I'd kill myself so my soul would drop into the deepest pit in hell so they'd torture me with it!' Domio vehemently refuted the apparition's presence.
'Fuck you!' Hyuzu's voice bellowed.
SHINE!
A sea of white overwrote the void that Domio floated around in.
'So let this be the last time we ever meet, uncle!' Domio's voice started to fade, signifying his stir to consciousness.
His body radiated particles of light, as his physicality became transient. Soon to be completely energetic from how it was chipping away at his coil.
'Ungrateful brat.' The appartional voice grumbled, before growing silent.
'Yeah, yeah, cry about it.' A taunting remark was uttered before his body dissipated completely.
...
..
.
"!" Opening his eyes, Domio opened his eyes, before pushing himself off the ground.
His feet stumbled before he quickly got his balance.
"Everything hurts..." He muttered, his body smoking from the blast that Xero delivered, his clothes burned to nothing but some of his pants, now fingerless gloves, and damaged boots.
"But that's no reason... To give up!" Clenching his fists, he felt the mana course through his veins.
"I'm not even supposed to be alive right now without that power." His grip momentarily faltered.
"So I'll find another way..." He assured himself, before closing his eyes.
...AURA!
The white aura, which had not been seen since the days of Lowee permeated off of the wounded teen's form.
FREEZE!
His body froze, a thin sheet of ice covering its form fittingly.
GLOW!...
A bright light illuminated from the ice, cracks forming with beams of aura peeking through the openings.
SHATTER!-
"And I'll beat that edgy piece of shit no matter what it takes!" Domio screeched, his voice booming.
Shards flew in all directions, upon the release of SP that caused the ice to break.
Domio felt light, akin to a snowflake.
Yet his senses were sharper than an icicle in the arctic.
As for his body...
STEP!-
-VANISH!
His movements had completely changed.
"Better hurry up, Ram! Your sister's fading...!" Xero taunted, pushing Rom's form in front of her.
Ram held back tears of frustration, her teeth gritting together in aggravation yet unable to act on her emotion.
"JUST LET HER GO, YOU BIG DUMMY!" She shouted, the tears flying from her eyelids in movement.
"No, I don't think I will." Shaking his head, the VPU closed his eyes.
That left him open, despite his aura being active. Xero had taken for granted that fact as he felt another cruel cackle in his throat.
ELBOW!-
"H-Ghk!"
Yet it never arrived.
DISPERSE!
Xero's aura vanished from the spot where he was struck with pain marring his face for the first time since his arrival.
RELEASE!...
His fingers relinquished Rom's neck, with Ram diving to catch her.
"No fucking way!-"
FREEZE-
SHATTER!
A fist froze and shattered with contact on the VPU's face, stun-locking him.
This gave the CPU Candidate enough time to catch her sister, as she hugged her tightly.
"R-Rom!" She sniffled, overjoyed at her sister's safety.
"Who in their right mind-... YOU." Xero backed away to look at who was stupid enough to hit him.
Domio floated, his body light enough to sustain itself without plummeting, only bobbing up and down from the slight wind.
The hairs on his head had frozen, becoming ghastly white in appearance and turgid in form.
Blue irises returned with a spark of life, and visible geometric veins and arteries that glowed cyan were sported on his exposed skin. The esoteric markings faded as quickly as they appeared.
"Yeah. Me." Domio's voice was cold and slightly deeper than his normal tone. A stern glare burned holes into the interdimensional god's head.
"You're supposed to be dead!" Xero barked, a vein forming on his forehead.
"Likely story." Domio mused, before looking at Rom and Ram. Spotting their depreciating state after being left alone, he shifted his gaze back to the VPU.
"What the hell did you do to them...?" The Loweean bared his teeth.
"The same thing I'm gonna do to you!" Xero poised his sword before rushing at the warlock.
ZOOM!-
He rushed ahead with a piercing motion, but his sword drew no blood.
Only the empty air of Domio's previous position.
"You missed." To Xero's side, the teen floated next to him unimpressed.
"Wh-" The VPU could not finish his sentence.
BIFF!WHAM!SMASH!POW!
Four strikes that sounded like one.
A jab followed by an elbow, a back punch, and a hook.
"Ptoo!" Unaided by his gauntlets, Domio's body was enough to slightly hurt the VPU, after which Xero spat some blood.
"Answer my question." He pressed the matter.
"Like hell, I will!" Xero screeched before counter-attacking.
SWING!
Swinging his blade, the blade aimed directly at the boy's neck.
DENT!
GLOW!...
The side of the teenager's neck intermittently glowed with geometric blue veins upon contact with the abnormal sword edge.
Ram gawked at the no-selling of the sword strike, unable to believe someone she thought was dead moments prior could withstand such a powerful attack.
"This is bullshit! You shouldn't have a head right now!" Xero raved about his failure to decapitate the ice user.
"Not so fun when the shoe is on the other foot, is it?"
BOOM!-
Shoving his foot into Xero's chest, the warlock forced him several feet away with a loud grunt escaping the dimensional terrorist's lips.
"Ram." As his opponent adjusted to the previously powerless warlock's increased strength, Domio floated to the two goddesses.
"You look... Different." Ram looked the boy up and down before looking away sheepishly, after locking eyes with his cold gaze.
"How's Rom?" He asked the pink CPU Candidate, knowing that'd be far more responsive.
"That dummy did something to her, now she can barely function!" She worriedly explained, seeing the blue goddess's face looking vacant.
Rom's eyes barely focused on the two faces that gazed at her, struggling to recognize the new one before shifting her gaze back to her sister.
"She most likely needs some shares to cleanse the fear energy from her system." Domio calmly explained.
"Then I'll just use mine!" Ram volunteered.
"You've also come into contact with Xero's fear energy. You'd just be averaging the contaminant instead of disposing of it." Domio went off on what he heard Nebula explain throughout his indirect lessons.
'That is if their shares did not belong to the same pool. In the worst case scenario, she can wind up infecting herself.' The thinking process of the warlock became calculated emulating his power-up's icy nature.
"Find a GPU. Only Nebula or Gris can securely restore Rom's shares to their original, untainted condition. If a CPU or CPU Candidate attempts it, they risk sharing Rom's fate." He instructed, not wanting to risk any goddesses suffering like Rom.
Ram shifted her eyes to her fading sister, before doing a once-over on Xero's flinched state.
"Make sure he gets all the hurt he's caused us plus interest!"
FLY!
Ram veered away from the battle, quickly whisking her sister with Xero's eyes tracking their departure.
"You ain't goin' nowhere!"
ZOOM!-
The VPU, deciding to prey on an easier target rushed to where Rom and Ram were withdrawing to cut them off.
The pink CPU's expression became pale, feeling the onset of the dense fear quickly approaching.
-BASH!
"Grah!" The venom-eyed harbinger shouted in surprise, Domio's shoulder slamming into his body and sending his trajectory out of whack.
Ram briefly sighed, relieved before continuing her frantic journey to the GPUs.
...CRASH!
Xero's feet dragged across the ground upon landing, forcing his body to halt.
FLOAT!...
Domio's weight was manipulated to reach his body's terminal velocity before returning to the weight of a snowflake right before touching the ground.
'I don't know how long I can maintain this...' The warlock monologues. 'But I have to buy them time, no matter what.' Putting up his fists, he prepared for one hell of a fight.
"Three lucky shots!" Xero shouted, almost as if it were a slur from how much it disgusted him to imagine being hit that many times by Domio of all people.
SNAP!...
SNAP!...
"I don't know how you got back up, but when I knock your ass out, you'll stay down!" Ripping his limiter rings off of his wrists, the unrestrained VPU seethed.
SURGE!
A pillar of fear energy erupted from Xero's core before unveiling the inflated muscles and pupilless eyes. His raven hair was spiked out, with the chains wrapped around his arms and legs jingled in response to the pressure surrounding him.
"SO JUST DIE ALREADY!"
SPRINT!
The empowered VPU shouted, before rushing the white-haired teenager with a direct charge.
CHILL!-
RUSH!
Domio felt the instinct to evade his Cold Sense, yet he met the VPU halfway with his rush.
BLOCK!
Using his arm to block, the geometric veins returned to minimize damage while smacking the sword out of Xero's hands.
JAB!-
MISS!
-SMASH!
"Tch!"
The augmented VPU jutted his other arm out to sucker punch the warlock's face, but his icy danger sense allowed him to dodge effortlessly. Concurrently, Domio sent a fist of his own that slammed into Xero's chin.
CHOP!-
BLOCK!
-HOOK!
PUNCH!
"Hnrk!"
Xero went for a chop, yet Domio blocked with his veins before striking the god's liver and jabbing right in the nose, causing a nasal grunt to escape the deity's nostrils.
HEADBUTT!-
The VPU swung his skull forward, smashing his forehead right between the Loweean's eyes.
-SIDE KICK!
Before using the flinching warlock's stance to deliver a nasty side-kick to his stomach.
The ice mage slid back, activating his skating to create a larger berth between the combatants.
UNRAVEL!
SWING!
Swinging his arm, Xero extended his chain on his left forearm to smash into Domio's side with extreme velocity as it zipped through the air.
SKATE!-
CHILL!
LEAN!...
Once the warlock regained his bearings, the geometric lines on his face and abdomen faded before he skated ahead and felt the incoming threat of danger only to bend his knees and lean back, dodging the chain in its entirety.
PUSH!-
SOMERSAULTS!
"Nowhere to run!" Xero screamed, after seeing the teenager kick off the ground to use his reclined position to push off the ground and flip several times into the air.
SWING!
"Cold Bolt."
FREEZE!-
WOOSH!
Using his feet, the warlock propelled himself to Xero's location with a large ice spell before the chain could close the gap.
Since the chain's angle would move slower the closer to the vertex being Xero's hand and the straight angle from it, the chain couldn't touch him as long as Domio was faster than the VPU's arm.
"?!" The destructive VPU's pupilless eyes widened with Domio's face practically jump scaring him from closing the gap so quickly.
"Artic Bolt."
POWER UP!-
FROST!
Xero's aura flared right before Domio uttered his spell, his hand releasing a storm of ice from its magic circle.
It coated the immediate battlefield in a violent sheet of ice, jagged spikes quickly expanding in all directions with a blast of cold wind accompanying the already severe effect.
"Almost got me there!" Xero taunted with a jagged smile appearing on his face.
Only the VPU's aura remained untouched by flaring it to near maximum capacity to negate the effect, with everywhere else frozen.
ABSORB...!
ZOOM!-
AFTERIMAGES!
Domio stuck his hand near the ground, before moving at speeds fast enough to render his body untraceable. Soon after, many afterimages of his body appeared with the ice thawing into his outstretched palm.
Xero's eyes narrowed before he motioned his hand for his chain to extend.
EXTEND!
CLANG!
It struck the displaced blade into the air, causing it to spin wildly to the VPU's location.
APPEAR!
Domio stopped moving, with all of the ice absorbed in front of his hand, taking the form of a spherical accumulation of SP.
"Blizzaga..."
GLOW!
His aura shined throughout his body, a searing white that clung to his form.
SNATCH!
"This is the end for you!"
DARKEN...!
Raising his sword in the air, the VPU concentrated fear energy into the blade, causing it to lose all color before darkening to a black shade with the outline of the sword.
"Shot."
"BURN IN HELL!"
BLAST!-
SLASH!-
The orb in Domio's hand, no bigger than a snowball was launched at breakneck speeds, whilst Xero brought down his sword and released the enigmatic energy stored inside it.
BIFURCATE!
'What?!' Domio's expression became that of shock, where his brows only slightly moved.
The spell Domio cast was cleaved in two when Xero's slice was beelining to his position.
DASH!-
-CLEAVE!-
Narrowly evading the attack, the arc of fear energy sliced through many objects, leaving a large gorge that slowly expanded laterally the more one observed.
'I can't drag this out, as much as I want to. Xero continues to gain strength, and it's unclear how long this situation will remain in my favor.' The warlock weighed how much time he could give Ram.
'My attack must be unrelenting. Otherwise, this is where it ends.' Gazing at the gorge one last time, he turned his head to his opponent.
CHILL!
FREEZE!-
SHATTER!
Domio summoned a golem to shift his body out of the way, barely dodging an overhead slash that completely obliterated the frozen substitute.
HOOK!-
CLANG!
UPPERCUT!-
CLANG!
ELBOW!-
CLANG!
In less than a moment, the VPU's blade deflected an elbow and guarded a blitzing right punch before parrying a left uppercut.
STAB!-STAB!-STAB!-STAB!-
DODGE!-MISS!-EVADE!-WEAVE!
Xero retaliated with a stabbing spree, the warlock quickly bobbing his body and head out of the way with slight scratches forming on his face and torso from the grazes received.
PARRY! PARRY! PARRY! PARRY! PARRY! PARRY!
Geometric veins glowing in reaction, the warlock used his forearms to perfectly guard the VPU's sword strikes with each chill he felt before they could reach full swing.
FREEZE!-
-UPPERCUT!
Summoning an ice golem at his current position, Domio ejected his body out of its position before sending a rough uppercut into the deity's gut.
"Ugh-"
BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK!
BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK!
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Xero guttered but was soon cut off by a barrage of fists that assaulted his frame with enough pressure to create miniature shockwaves from their constant and heavy-handed output.
GLOW!...
PUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCHPUNCH!
The geometric veins returned millimeters before Domio made contact with another rush of fists, the damage accumulating over time as the veins glowed in tandem with the momentum of his punches.
FEAR AURA!
Xero's body ached, yet he refused to relinquish his guard and flared his aura in response to stonewall the blows.
FREEZE!...
"Subzero Thrasher."
The warlock noticed the aura's erection and moved to suit with a technique of his own. Coating his arms in ice, he created gauntlets normal in size.
SCATTER!
Before he shattered the ice weapon, causing the shards to fly into the wayside.
'The fuck...?' Xero's eyes narrowed, trying to pick apart what the warlock was trying to pull off.
SOLIDIFY!
ドドドド!...
Yet instead of being rendered a redundant use of his mana, hundreds of ice fists that glowed light blue formed from the meticulous mana distribution floated behind him.
CLENCH!-
The Loweean's fingers dug into his palms, Xero's eyes widening upon realizing what Domio planned to do. The constricting pupils told the VPU all he needed to know.
RAIN...!
BARRAGE!-
Soon, the gauntlets rained on the VPU's aura concurrent to the warlock's fists.
Ice gauntlets beat down on the aura of Xero as much as the fists of the augmented warlock with the ire of the violent deity skyrocketed from being pressed at such a significant rate.
"FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!"
CRASH!-
EXPAND!
Screaming at the top of his lungs, Xero utilized a technique similar to Hellish Holler, the Chaotic Overdrive being executed to expel fear energy in an omnidirectional and highly destructive manner.
FREEZE!-
GLOW!...
It consumed the warlock almost instantly, the teenager's skin developing geometric veins all over his body while freezing his armor onto his body.
FADE...!
Several seconds passed as the dome of fearsome energy persisted, before subsiding.
"Damn... fucker...!" Xero breathed, cursing under his breath with the large crater formed by the expulsion of his fear energy.
His chest rose and fell with each breath with his body slowly levitating off the ground.
"But if he can survive something like one of the blasts, this might not have killed him." Looking around, he tried to pinpoint the warlock's position.
REVERT!...
Xero's musculature shrank back down to its base form with his eyes returned to their venom-yellow state.
"Shit! Is it over already?" The weakened Xero felt his fear energy condense into a smaller aura pool than it was seconds ago.
"That stupid fucking piece of shit!" The warmongering VPU barked.
"When I find him I'm gonna-" The malicious edge lord was cut off when he felt something pat his shoulder.
"What's the big idea?" He turned his head dismissively, before seeing Domio with a straight face and glowing brightly with immense amounts of mana coursing through his body.
"This. Kältenkatastrophe." Domio calmly stated, his hair briefly shifting from ivory to hazel before the ice engulfed the area.
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