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Try as you might it was truly hard to describe their battle as anything but mythical. An older man dressed in a purple suit crouched down as blood dripped from his jaw before standing back up again. 

Across from him dressed in a golden laurel wreath, giant golden shoulder pads and baggy white pants. He had shorter golden hair and the most perfect chiselled chest in history. 

“ What’s the matter? Not as into it when you can’t overwhelm your opponent from the get-go?” The old man was mocked as he was down but even then the old man didn’t seem to pay any attention. 

“ Listen here your days of crime are over. The greatest hero of them all Invictus is here” Invictus said as he pointed his thumb at himself before he started to hover off the ground. 

“ When… did it become common for even the most insane of foes to retreat at just the mention of my name? When did it become acceptable for me to hold back against my enemies? When did I become so… weak?” The on his knees looked up as the sky above, despair was all his eyes could see. He looked around at all the high rise buildings, most were piercing the clouds above suddenly his face was shaking with rage. 

“This can not be! The ultimate power I sought wasn't overwhelming strength, it was technique created with the strength of my heart and soul, to overcome the impossible odds! And defeat an overwhelming opponent!” Suddenly the world seemed to crack around the old man who shouted his name once last time “ I am... the ‘World’s shadow’!” 

Suddenly a car flew over the head of the shadows and slammed into Invicta who swiped it away like he was pushed a shower curtain. With a confident stride, Invictus took a step towards Worlds Shadow or the world’s shadow before launching himself like a rocket through the air colliding with World, who wrapped himself in purple energy before expelling that energy into Invictus’s chest, however, all that happened was that World was sent flying and a purple bolt of lightning bounced off Invictus into slammed into a nearby building cutting straight through it and flying off into the clouds above. 

Invictus threw a punch at World who tried to intersect with his own but was instantly overpower and sent flying a full city block before crashing into the ground and bouncing his frail old bones barely protected by his power. “ hOLY fUuK.” World grunt in what seemed to be barely human as he used his power to stop his bones from vibrating and healed himself.

Suddenly World held up his hands and two giant purple hands made of the same energy formed fifty meters above him, and two more hands cupped around him like a shield, sudden Invictus flew with his arms up and his body level to the ground at supersonic speeds towards World but he was slapped at by one of the hands that also moved at supersonic speeds and actually moved faster then Invictus, however it didn’t hurt Invictus or even leave a scratch. 

Suddenly a swirl of wind formed a tornado and World started to float in its centre.

As if to by time hundreds if not thousands of cars and a truck flew at Invictus sealing him in a cage of metal that was crushed and condensed before every bit of anything that wasn’t bolted to the ground flew towards Invictus trapping him. However even trapped under one hundred meters of pure condensed metal he simply started to swim through it not a care in the world as he did. 

The tornado grew and grew before it towered the clouds, then World held out his real hand towards a building with over one hundred and sixty floors and then he closed his hand into a fist and with a pulling motion ripped it from the ground before swing it like a bat into Invictus who simply flew through it straight as if he didn’t see or feel it before he slammed his fist into Worlds jaw which sent his hurdling across the sky, he moved so fast that the friction between him and the clouds and caused his skin to burn. 

Suddenly World stopped himself and once more flexed his power this time over a thousand of thoughts hands appeared each hit like a truck and moved beyond the speed of sound while World himself started to dart around near the speed of lightning.

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“ You can’t win I will wear you down!” Shouted World 

“ Didn’t you know I’m invincible.” Despite not speaking that loudly World seemed to hear every word of Invictus as he made a mocking smile of doubt.

“ You can’t beat me!” Sounding enraged World shouted back however that was just an act because in truth Worlds mind was cold and was fully away… that he was the underdog why? Because his opponent was the invincible hero, Invictus and he was far from his prime. 

What followed was like a perfect game of cat and mouse was World used a thousand hands to swat Invictus away like a fly only for Invictus to be fine and return on the defensive forcing World to run through the sky, Invictus not able to reach World and World not able to hurt Invictus. 

“It’s impossible for you, even if you are invincible eventually you will get tired and I can go for years!” Shouted world.  

“ Oh, I think I will rise to this occasion.“ The confidence in Invictus voice allowed World to know that his bluff failed then suddenly he felt someone grab his shirt and there stood Invictus now holding onto the scruff of his collar with his other hand-winding back for a punch. 

There was nothing World could think to do in time as be was punched straight back to earth, crashing like a meteor into the centre of a park he coughs up some blood before sitting up and see Invictus floating above him, then looking to the side he saw a giant screen and then to the back was a news helicopter. His defeat was being played in real-time for all to see he imagined. 

“It’s over.” Said Invictus but World just smiled before standing up. He had a lot more he could try but he knew that they wouldn’t work so he shifted his power around inside, he was the first and maybe the last class six psychic… honestly, he quickly went over his power.  

Apportation, teleportation, Astral projection, automatic writing, divination, dowsing, levitation, three-second precognition, psychic surgery,  he was a specialist at telekinesis and psychometry the ability to know about someone or something after touching it which was why he knew what would and wouldn’t work on Invictus, plus he could see things from far away and he was even starting to unlock new powers involving time manipulation but he wasn’t there yet. 

However, if there was something that drove him up the wall it was that Blur was interfering preventing him from using teleportation. 

However, he still spoke with confidence “ I have ruled this city from the shadows for a hundred and thirty-seven years and I have learnt a lot I will even surrender willingly of you can answer just one question.” The World’s shadow held out his hands with his palms facing up and you could hear the sound of defeat in his voice. 

Invictus simply smiled and said “ Ask away” while moving his hands in such a way to show that he was completely confident. However, suddenly he felt regret when he looked into the Worlds eyes. Something he saw scared him. 

“ How do you kill a god?” 

“ What?” Invictus was shocked by the unexpected answer but honestly, he was more annoyed at himself for feeling fear despite one of his powers being invincibility. 

“ You show the world he can bleed and it does the rest.” 

Suddenly every fibre in Invictus’s body told him to run as the old man raised a single weak-looking fist into the air before pulling it back and stepping forward, Invictus moved as well and the moment Worlds foot touched the ground the two had thrown a punch at each other. 

And then, Worlds broke the sound barrier and kept on rising, then it broke supersonic speeds, then it made it pas relativistic speeds before it touched upon light speed where it matched Invictus punch which shockingly was also travelling at light speed. 

The two fists collide and everything in seventeen city blocks was destroyed and yet this was actually only done so World could set up another punch by sliding forward and suing his first punch to deflect Invictus arm. 

When the two touched he confirmed it, Invictus’s mind couldn’t follow events that happened at this speed even though his body could move this fast. 

Then, the World put his life into a final attack. Where his hand became the first item to ever reach a universal speed, simply by slowing down the world’s time and speeding up his own time his body his hand transcended the speed of light and became immeasurable however when here World felt something… this… was simply the begging as next his fist achieved a start off if he could describe it he would say it was an immeasurable omnipresent speed that was more like a new way of existing then anything else. 

Then Invictus was sent flying about ten meters before he stopped himself and looked around dazed coming to his senses he dropped to his feet before falling to the ground as he felt the world shake as he lost balance. 

He looked up and saw… the Worlds attract had been too much for him and his arm and half of his upper tose had been destroyed. The two locked eyes and World smiled before “ I win.” 

The World died standing. 

Invictus felt something wet running down his face, being his hand up he patted his face and looked down to see red. He had a scar across his lower lip that led down to his chin. 

He looked over to the side where he saw the giant screen he had prepared to show off the defeat of his nemesis but all he saw was his own face, wrapped in shock and surprise. He looked like a deer in the headlights before he felt the world go dizzy and then he collapsed. 

The invincible Invictus was no longer… invincible in the eyes of the world.