Alexander: No... Don't get carried away, you can still stop.
Demian: What did I say? Shut the fuck up...
The young man begins to throw a shower of stakes at Alexander, until he lands a critical blow that pierces his soul, killing him. His holey body falls to the ground as it begins to disintegrate. The king accepts death, closing his eyes as his breathing calms and fades.
Demian: Ignoble...
He turns and heads outside, walking to the castle's artifact warehouse. He quickly circles around everything, searching every corner and shelf there, obviously in a great hurry, however, he doesn't find what he's looking for, frustrated, he destroys the place.
Demian: Nothing... Simply nothing, that imbecile was of no use to me.
Turning to the exit, he hurries outside, walking through the castle's corridors. He comes across one crawling on the ground, however, instead of letting it go, Demian narrows his eyes and generates two tentacles that stab the soldier, bringing him to him.
Demian: see how weak you are... I'm sure you must have committed many atrocities... Don't worry, you will die, but your family will visit you soon.
With that, the young man decapitates the soldier. He normally wouldn't do that, but that encounter with the charitable man got on his nerves. He hated killing those who tried to convince him otherwise. Demian leaves the soldier's body there and leaves the castle. A few steps away, he looks up at the sky. Green clouds cover the sky, this being the sign of one of his companions. The young man widens his eyes and a smile of twisted joy appears on his face. He raises his arms.
Demian: they found it! They found it! Hahahaha
He runs through the kingdom, turning into a cloud of dust, quickly heading to the kingdom of Fragor. The inhabitants of the kingdom watch in horror as the castle is completely in pieces, as well as the bodies of several men there.
A little while earlier, in the Kingdom of Fragor...
The Pacis Gladiator group arrives at the kingdom, out of breath from running so much when they arrive, they are quickly surrounded by several guards, who without thinking twice advance against them. Amelia and Marcus advance, swinging their heavy weapons and crushing their bodies against the ground.
Amelia: Quick! We won't have time to be discreet, either we find that artifact now, or we won't find it anymore.
Elaina: No need to even say anything!
Marcus: Demian has been in that other kingdom for a week, if he hasn't found it yet, it means it's not there.
They enter the walls, devastating everything in front of them, then they see a spiral of pink light falling from the sky, going straight to the center of the kingdom, devastating everything, a large smoke forms around the crater generated, a silhouette forms and begins to emerge from the dust.
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Jitsuko is 17 years old and 1.80 meters tall.
Aki: Jitsuko?
Amelia: So that's Julian's brother.
Elaina: Oh, yes it is! Our strongest ally, how proud I am of this guy.
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Marcus: You say it as if you trained him.
The masked man looks at the group, then throws the last fragment of Apocalypsis to Aki, she promptly catches it, everyone's eyes light up. Meanwhile, Jitsuko takes a special pistol given to him by Demian, he points the gun at the sky and fires. The bullet goes to the clouds, when it reaches, it begins to change the color of the sky to green. After that, he walks towards them.
Jitsuko: You were running, what happened?
Elaina: We were found! {pouting}
Jitsuko: How careless, but the important thing is that you are fine now, they are fine according to you so far.
Marcus: We imagine it won't take long for them to get here.
Jitsuko: Okay, let me take care of most of them, you guys will help a little, we will stay here until Demian gets here.
Aki: It seems like they have already arrived here...
They turn their eyes to an entrance, from where, in the blink of an eye, Olivia comes out, who almost splits Aki in half vertically, who is pulled back by Elaina.
Marcus: Stay alert!
The sky, which was previously green, begins to have blue sparks forming, and then, the sky changes into a strong storm, which launches several thunders against the terrorists, as fast, or better, faster than Olivia, Hayden advances against Marcus, punching his chest and throwing him back, along with the lightning, several pink guided balls go against each of them, Belinda could be seen, on the walls, launching several of these Vitalis balls, there next to her, was Millie, taking a deep breath, she opens her eyes and generates her bow and arrow, aiming at Elaina, she launches three arrows at once, the arrows destroy the sound barrier, making a shrill sound that shakes everything around, without Elaina being able to even blink her eyes, the arrows hit her, a gigantic explosion occurs, then, a laugh echoes from the destroyed area, Elaina jumps from rubble to rubble in the direction of Millie.
Elaina: Do you think you can do something? You little brat!
Natalie: Ah!
The woman is stopped by Natalie, who appears from a blind spot in her peripheral vision, she is kicked away, her body is thrown with such force that it goes through the walls, she falls into a flowery field full of mountains that is outside the walls of the Kingdom, Natalie lands in front of her, with a confident smile, while clapping her fists and getting into position.
Natalie: You seem like the fighting type, so I already like you, let's see if that six-pack is resistant or just for aesthetics.
Elaina: You can be sure... It's more resistant than yours.
The two stare at each other, like mirrors, reflecting the same confident smile, they run towards each other, Elaina executes a high kick to Natalie's left cheek, she raises her forearm and defends, she closes her fist and punches Elaina's abdomen, grabs her by the hair and smashes her face into the ground, then jumps away, throwing two spheres of water against nearby mountains, which collapse on Elaina, but she gets up first and jumps between the falling rocks and reaches Natalie, she activates her elemental mark and begins to repeatedly punch her face and abdomen, to finish with a spinning kick that throws her against the ground, Elaina positions herself in the air and falls on top of Natalie, making a second brutal impact on her belly, the floor below them shakes and collapses, they fall into a set of caves, even with that, the two continue the fight, Elaina takes advantage of Natalie's weakness and concentrates her Vitalis as much as she can in the palms of her hands.
Elaina: Maximum release, raw element... Priamus flammae purae
She laughs as the concentrated sphere of Vitalis in her hands turns into a beam of orange light that goes towards Natalie at an absurd speed, illuminating the entire place that was previously scarce of light. Natalie had managed to get up before she finished preparing this attack, she smiles at this, and raises her forearms.
Natalie: Just like that... Damnumknockback
Natalie's arms turn into crystalline rocks that absorb all the damage she would suffer. She grunted as she tried to stay in place, then, when Vitalis's barrage descended, she growled and smiled animalistically, while going towards Elaina, who was not understanding anything.
Elaina's thoughts: those arms... Unique technique, for sure, I imagine it is a power absorption, but are punches also absorbed? No... She would have already absorbed my previous punches if that were the case.
The two returned to exchanging incessant blows. In the kingdom, Marcus was being beaten by Hayden, until Jitsuko intervened, appearing between them and punching him in the face, almost dislocating his jaw. He retreated in disbelief, moving away to rethink what he was seeing, a concentration that came close to what he once saw in Jonathan.
Hayden: What are you?... A clone of him or what?
Jitsuko: If you're referring to Jonathan, then I'm his son.
Hayden: Really?
His eyes widen at this statement, he moves his chin a little, checking if everything is okay, and then he advances against Jitsuko.
Hayden's thoughts: Totally different than with those two, with this one... I have to go all out, or even more...
On the other side of the kingdom, Olivia was cutting off Aki's limbs consecutively, she could only try to dodge and run away, because Amelia was being pressured even more than her, Margaret was throwing her from corner to corner, in addition to the difficulty of staying intact, since Millie and Belinda were throwing arrows and energy balls at all times, besides Riley and Sayako were nearby, increasing the stats of all the fighters, and Julian, along with Nikolas, were decorating Marcus.
Aki's thoughts: We're cornered, our hopes would fall on Jitsuko and Demian, but he hasn't even arrived yet. How long will it take for him to arrive?!
Margaret: Did you think you could do something? Look around you, all your companions will fall sooner or later.
Amelia: Ugh! Not at all, we'll make it regardless, besides, we're not all together yet.
Margaret: You've stirred up the entire universe, several powerful warriors would obviously come to stop you, and on top of all that, not everyone is here, there are still a good number of strong people out there.
Amelia: It's not like we're useless.
Margaret: You want to destroy life, you have no chance of victory.
Amelia: I can't bring myself to argue with a little girl like you.
Margaret: That same little girl is making you spit blood.
Amelia: Tsk, damn it…
The large woman swings her blade, trying to hit Margaret with a vertical cut, but she dodges to the side and kicks Amelia's jaw. She then clenches her hand and pierces her stomach, then removes her hand and kneels in the same area, making her fall backwards.
Margaret: You can't even regenerate fast.
The small girl generates the sphere of her territory and then expands it.
Margaret: Venandiagrum!
Margaret's territory expands and covers her and Amelia, who receives the harm from the place, vomiting and falling to the ground on her knees, struggling to support herself. The small girl walks towards her slowly, while generating her long dagger and begins to inflict several cuts against Amelia, until she lands a critical hit.