Mikey is running around the Shadow Sanctum, attempting to bust it open, when suddenly.

"The Menacing Crossroads!" A man breaks inside the Shadow Sanctum from the outside?! This shouldn't be possible, that's what Mikey was told.

There shouldn't be any way to enter a domain from outside, that's what Mikey thinks... but in reality, you can. By opening your own domain, you enter the domain dimension, and that's exactly it.

If you open your domain near someone's elses domain. You can enter their domain while having your own domain active. This will usually create a clash between the domains, changing half of the original domain, into the domain of the newcomer.

The man that entered this domain is the fourth strongest player at the moment. He has the number four above his head, with a bounty of 70 000 Emerald Nuggets. For whatever reason, the number four is also written on his forehead. He is also wearing a full diamond armor, which is somewhat unusual between the higher ranked players.

His domain is quite small compared to the Shadow Sanctum.

Which doesn't make sense. As already mentioned, domains will clash between one another when opened in the same area, but in this case, the man's domain is within The Shadow Sanctum, not clashing with it at all. This means only one thing, the man's domain is a rare exception.

The Menacing Crossroads (as he called it) is a small domain around him. The Shadow Sanctum's domain has a pitch black floor, but there is a white square below the man (that's the domain).

A white square which is rotating around him.

The square has a diameter of about two meters, making it a really small domain, unusual.

The man looks at Mikey and says.

"What's up number one? You're not the owner of this domain are you? There's another one, the owner of this domain." He says.

"Did you bust in here using your domain?" Mikey asks the man.

"Yeah, I still don't know how exactly this interaction works, but it's pretty goddamn cool." The man answers. "I compressed my domain into a smaller one, I was given information that if you use your domain in its full form it will clash with the other one. So what if I just compressed my own domain? Somehow, it works!!" He laughs like a madman.

What's up with this guy... Mikey thinks to himself.

The man seems very casual about this situation, even though he's probably about to fight Mikey and the second strongest player to death. He gave Mikey a hint however. He mentioned that he compressed his domain, this means that his domain normally isn't small. Not sure if this will help Mikey in any way.

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After the man busted in the domain, it started automatically fixing itself and all of the cracks dissapeared. This is most likely because Mikey stopped moving, and all of his soldiers got eliminated.

"Shit, just when I was about to break out of this domain, the timing couldn't be any worse for me." Mikey says to himself as the domain completely repairs itself.

The woman reappears again, right between Mikey and the man. She dissapears and tries to touch Mikey. This time, she actually fails, because the moment she dissapears, Mikey uses his dusk step and goes behind the man, entering his domain. He enters it without thinking twice. Right after he dusk steps, his body starts feeling extremely heavy and Mikey has to drop his Duskblade.

"So that's your domain huh?" Mikey smiles while barely managing to stand on his feet.

"I am surprised you haven't fell to the ground yet, however, that isn't all of it." The man says. Small black squares and other four-sided geometrical objects start appearing on the domain.

The woman enters the domain aswell, not knowing its effects, she instantly falls to the ground. There is a large physical strenght difference between Mikey and her, which is why he can stand on his feet and she cannot.

"Anyways." The man says and starts slowly walking towards Mikey. The woman manages to crawl out of his domain. Mikey is trying to back off, but he can't move as fast as the man.

The man punches Mikey, and misses? He did all that just to miss? Mikey is confused for a second, but then, he receives full impact of the punch and falls to the ground.

What the hell was that? He asks himself and very slowly gets up from the ground, he is still inside the man's domain.

The man misses his punch again, and hits Mikey again, but this time, Mikey was prepared and blocked the attack. However, the punch was still really powerful and knocked him to the ground.

This happened two more times until the second ranked player appeared again.

She appeared right above Mikey and the man, she dropped on the man and touched him. He then punched her and sent her flying away, she dissapeared and the man started getting cut from all sides.

"Sentinel Square!" The man chants, all of the black shapes within the square turned dark green. The so called Sentinel Square was deflecting the invisible attacks, once the attacks stopped, Mikey got pushed out of the man's domain.

That Sentinel thing... interesting. Mikey mumbles to himself, at that moment, the woman appears behind Mikey and touches him, she then dissapears.

[You have activated an ability of the "Ultimate Fighter"]

Air gathers around Mikey's feet and he feels very light. He turns around and runs to the invisible woman, he's able to spot her thanks to his Adapted eyes and the micro disturbance in the air.

He grabs her, which reveals her for a moment, he aims his hand at her, and just as he is about to punch, he starts getting cut by the invisible force again.

Mikey still manages to land a really good hit on her, but the punch doesn't fully connect, because he loses his concentration while getting cut.

The woman puts her hands in front of herself to block Mikey's punch, however, the punch is really strong and literally sends her flying into a wall.

Mikey feels that his power is slowly fading away. Not only is he exhausted from his fight with Arthur, the woman's domain is actually sapping away his power. That's another one of the Shadow Sanctum's abilities.

With that knowledge, you would think that the woman has to simply hide, but that wouldn't work.

In order to keep draining Mikey's and the fourth ranked man's power, she needs to maintain physical contact with them.

Same thing applies for her cut ability.

Mikey isn't fully aware of it yet, but he is starting to have suspicions that his power is being sapped away.

"Hey! Mr.Strongest, my name is Xander. What about you?" The fourth ranked man asks.

"Mikey." Mikey answers.

"Mikey, I would like to ask you something. What do you think about the number four?" Xander asks and smiles.

"Number four? I don't know, what am I supposed to think about it?" Mikey asks.

"Don't you think it's amazing? Like squares for example, they are perfectly symmetrical. This doesn't apply to pentagons, triangles or even hexagons. Did you know?" Xander says and starts laughing.

"I didn't, but what about it?" Mikey asks.

"Huh? What do you mean 'what about it'?!" Xander answers angrily.

"My domain, even my rank, my skills, and my weapon aswell, I will show you the strenght of the number four." Xander says fearsomely and pulls out a really strange shaped sword...