Amidst the fight between Yourupt and Umbryx within the frozen parts of Pōtangotango (translated to The deep darkness), a one armed man covered in scars from countless battles under his robes stood witness to this battle viewing the fight from a far. The man could feel the shockwaves made from the battle grow ever stronger, the man could recognise Youtupt through his mana. The man seemed bored by his posture being stiff, so the man flexed his muscles to stretch out his tired muscles as mana started to flow out of him sending out a strong heat as he says.

The one armed man: “It seems like things are heating up from what I’m seeing”.

Even more mana started to be released upon the frozen lands around him, slowly melting the snow around him. It was said that no matter how hot any flame could get, fire itself can’t exist within this part of the realm but the man mana burns hotter than any fire could ever be. The man's right arm started to unleash a fire-like aura surrounding the arm. As the man slowly feels the cold air be taken over by his own mana, he lifted up his right arm and threw a punch from behind away from Yourupt’s fight which caused half of the frozen parts of Pōtangotango to evaporate all the snow and permanently change the environment with one punch. Once the shockwave caused by the man god-like punch lowered his mana and stopped releasing his mana while saying to himself.

The one armed man: “I still got it”.

A huge explosion could be hear from where Yourupt was fighting, the one armed man looked at the explosion where he could see the both of them fighting it out but before he got a chance to watch the rest of the fight sensed and saw a huge rift started to appear from the west side of the realm where the man’s punch evaporate all the snow. Due to the mysterious rift showing up, he now has to check it out and leave the fight which pissed him off as he said.

The one armed man: “God damnit, I better check out the rift, I was hoping to see how far your power can go”.

The man then left to investigate the rift from the west, as the battle continued. It seemed like both fighters were equally matched, as several shockwaves being created from the fight coming from every direction, both ground and sky with no end within sight. Yourupt finally managed to find an opening among the clashes as he countered Umbryx’s punch by kicking it away, mid air as he was ready to land a strike with his daggers. Unfortunately Yourupt’s attack wasn’t able to hit him as Umbryx transformed himself into shadows escaping the attack to counter with a grab holding him within his upper arm and launching him away with monstrous force.

Yourupt was able to recover quickly, with Umbryx sending out his shadows to attack Yourupt as the shadows tried to chase him down. Yourupt is trying to hold off the endless attacks from Umbryx’s shadows by dodging while keeping his distance, thinking of a plan to take him down.

Yourupt: “Yuna have you found any openings we can exploit or anything to keep an eye on”.

Yuna: “Can’t find anything we could use to our advantage but, it seems like he is hiding some within his left arm as I’m getting high magic readings from it. You should try taking this fight more seriously”.

Yourupt: “Should be enough info to go off on. Thanks for the heads up Yuna but it is about time I show this lizard real strength. NOW UNLOCK THE SEAL THAT HOLDS BACK MY TWIN DIVINE WRATH DAGGERS TRUE POWER”.

Yourupt’s daggers started to glow with a white light as the seal put onto it had been broken. Revealing their true power with Yourupt finally taking the fight seriously, blitz through the shadows destroying them with light imbued attacks closely heading straight towards Umbryx with him being able to react to the attacks and move away in time. Out of nowhere, Yourupt predicted this and caught Umbryx with his chains from the daggers, encasing the chains with his mana to insure Umbryx couldn’t use his shadows to escape once again. Yourupt proceeds to pull Umbryx closely to land a devastating punch straight to him, sending him flying to the sky with Yourupt flying towards him fast.

He continued the attack by pulling himself to Umbryx with the chains hitting him with both legs causing a lot of damage. Proceeding to toss him around the sky, eventually started to strong winds from throwing Umbryx. As Yourupt’s rage continued to grow his own power as he was ready to use a strong attack something weird happened.

Unknown Voice: “First Devoid Form, divide and conquer, Abyssal Edge”.

Yourupt fired a large sword mana slash, hitting Umbryx head on while causing a rift in space and more massive destruction to the environment. Once Yourupt descended from the sky back to the ground still in the weird state, looking on at the destruction he caused with little to no emotion marked on his face. Umbryx soonly emerged out of the debris looking a lot more anger due to being humiliated and nearly being cut aparted from one attack while his body struggles to regenerate.

Umbryx: “Why aren’t my shadows recovering the damage? What are you truly? I might be in trouble if I don’t use it now”.

Umbryx now back in a corner and getting more desperate with the suddenly change in power from Yourupt, tires to figure out what to do next with him looking at his right arm. Umbryx is also trying to figure out why Yourupt's mana change for only a moment when he unleashed that attack. Without Umbryx knowing, Yourupt was about to sneak up behind ready to strike him down, not before Umbryx spoke”.

Umbryx: “Domain Superiority: Drakoshade’s Abyss”.

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Darkness now covers the whole battlefield leaving everything to be turned to darkness where light can’t be seen. Now in the belly of the beast, Yourupt is now trapped in Umbryx’s domain still in the emotionless state suddenly when back to normal looking around trying to figure out what happened, so he tries responding back to Yuna with nothing coming back to him. As he tried getting back to Yuna, the ground started to sink into the ground quickly. Yourupt realized what was happening and used his mana to create a barrier around his feet to make sure he didn't sink into the ground again.

Among the bottomless darkness beneath his feet, a huge shadow came from the darkness and started to speak.

Umbryx: “Yourupt the apex predator, you will now face the weight of the sins you have caused on my very kind, with my domain which I have full control over the whole space with extra perks”.

Multiple more shadow dragons popped out of the shadows below, surrounding Yourupt from every direction ready to attack him on sight. Umbryx himself is revealed to have hidden inside his shadows on his right arm. A golden bright light which was shown to be a familiar golden gauntlet. Yourupt instantly recognised it as the former weapon of the dragon king himself Drakos called The dragon king’s scorching gauntlet .

Yourupt: “How did you get your hands on that weapon?”.

Umbryx: “Ain’t you more worry about my slain brothers you murdered by your own hands”.

Yourupt: “I don’t know what you're talking about”.

Yourupt’s response made Umbryx even more mad as from his point of view, Yourupt has killed so many that he couldn’t even remember when he killed nearly every dragon in all creation which snapped something inside Umbryx.

Umbryx: “Liar, I saw you slaughter my family with my own eyes, so how dare you lie to my face or do those lives mean so little to you, that you think of them as an afterthought, I haven’t seen anyone as heartless sided from Lordanis”.

If Yourupt’s previous piss off Umbryx. Umbryx mentioning and comparing Lordanis to himself reminded him of the past which made him really mad as well.

Yourupt: “I truly have no idea what you're talking about and to be honest, I don’t care if you believe me or not but don’t ever compare me to that monster”.

Now the two beings' power grows even more as things start to heat up more now. Umbryx with no hesitation unleashed all the shadowy dragons on Yourupt. Yourupts reacts as he quickly moves around and takes down the multiple dragons but looks around to see even more coming from the ground, making it look like Yourupt didn’t kill a single one. Looking confused, Umbryx when for the attack with Yourupt nearly dodging in time giving himself more room by moving away.

Umbryx: “I wouldn’t stop moving if I was you, especially these are the same dragons you killed 10 years ago and they are eager to rip you apart, Sacred Draco Arts: Darkscale Fury”.

Multiple slash attacks coming from Umbryx’s wings aimed at Yourupt, were coming straight towards him with Yourupt dodging and deflecting the attacks while maintaining the other dragons coming at him. Sooner or later either the dragons or Umbryx’s attacks will hit him, with little options left for him, Yourupt swapped out his daggers for a new weapon. Suddenly the area is consumed by ice with Yourupt freezing all of the shadow dragons with an ice scythe. Among the frozen wasteland stands Yourupt with his new weapon named Winter's Demise and given by Death himself.

Yourupt: “What were you saying about not staying in one place for too long”.

Umbryx charged towards Yourupt gearing up for an attack as he screamed out.

Umbryx: “Sacred Draco Arts: Golden Claw”.

Yourupt: “Shattered Icefall”.

Both attacks collide with each other causing huge shockwaves within the domain. The clash continued as the both of them tried to overcome the other until Umbryx overpowered Yourupt and opened him up for an attack. With no time to do everything, Umbryx with the gauntlet prepares to perform a massive attack.

Umbryx: “This is for taking everything from me, Sacred Draco Arts: Divine Roaring strike”.

Umbryx landed a massive attack that could harm Yourupt as it damaged the soul itself. Umbryx then was able to break free all the shadow dragons, to also send out to attack Yourupt while he was down leaving nothing behind. Umbryx is still trying to make sense of why he doesn’t remember killing all of dragon kind ten years ago, while tt seems like Umbryx finally got his revenge for the death of his people but the energy is about to shift as Yourupt got back up and cut through all the dragons instantly going for Umbryx. Both exchanges blows to each other, Yourupt now can take hits from the gauntlet as he took a punch to the face to then push Umbryx back exchanging blows once more. Umbryx is being slowly overpowered as Yourupt power is growing faster than his own shown with Yourupt now being able to heal his wounds instantly compared to the beginning of the fight where it took time to heal from the same attacks created by the gauntlet.

As a last resort, Umbryx uses the Dragon King’s scorching gauntlet main ability, which allows the user to grant any wishes no matter how impossible the wish itself is there is no limit. Within a few moments, Umbryx managed to push Yourupt back, as Umbryx activated the gauntlet to say.

Umbryx: “Now I wish, Yourupt the apex predator to be erased in every way completely and leave nothing behind”.

The shadows quickly covered everything in sight and as Yourupt was about to be taken by the shadows and erased from all creation he smiled for a second before everything turned black.

Minutes passed by, the shadows now show Yourupt on the ground slowly being erased with Umbryx remaining standing looking tired.

Umbryx: “I finally did it everyone, I took down Yourupt at last”.

Umbryx couldn’t believe his eyes, seeing the one who gave him so much pain and lost for years and it was finally over. To make sure he was actually dead he kept watching before There was only his head left, while waiting he was thinking of the reason why he didn’t seem to remember the events that took place ten years ago. It took him a while to figure out the weird changes to his mana. He finally realized why he didn’t seem like how he acted when he killed his whole race compared to now”.

Umbryx: “I must be overthinking things, there is no way Yourupt has……”.

Before Umbryx could say a single word the same unknown voice stops him.

Unknown Voice: “You're going to regret making that wish you made”.

Once those words were spoken everything once again went dark. Umbryx is now going to be shown what true fear truly looks like.