Four days ago…

Morgan was patrolling the kingdom of Fundus when she suddenly received a message. She opened the letter and began to read it. When she finished reading, she crumpled the paper and threw it away.

Morgan: They're asking me to come back? What a joke, and I haven't found anything interesting yet.

The woman burst through the air, flying down the road towards the kingdom of Arcismundi. After two days, upon arriving, she entered Alexander's castle and headed to the throne area.

Morgan: So! What do you want?

Alexander: Protection, some recent information has led me to believe that the final fragment is either here or in Fragor, and believing in the possibility of it being here, I believe I wouldn't be able to survive alone, so I need more guards.

Morgan: I get it... You coward, so I'm going to stay here for the rest of the time?

Alexander: Not specifically, after a certain period of time that has not yet been determined, we will release you.

Morgan: Okay!

The woman had already turned her back and headed for the exit before the king finished speaking, walking through the streets of that kingdom. She grabs a lollipop and goes to an inn, where she stays. Two days pass, when suddenly the kingdom's castle is detonated, she expresses a mischievous smile.

Morgan: I think staying here wasn't such a bad idea, time... for action!

She snaps her fingers and forms her clothes, then takes flight, flying upwards, he stays there, floating for a while, while assessing the situation, until he notices a black cloud passing by, she imagines it is someone, so she goes straight to stop in front of him.

Morgan: Hey, hey, where do you think you're going?

Demian's dissolved form gathers and forms his body.

Demian: Get out... Now...

He transforms his hand into a blade, moves his arm and prepares for a confrontation.

Morgan: Come here, big boy.

Meanwhile…

Hayden uses the teleportation ring, leaving the place and sending himself to Arcismundi, a distant kingdom where it would take a long time for Jitsuko to find him. He falls into one of the streets of that world. Demian notices his sudden appearance.

Demian's thoughts: at the right time, perfect, a means of instant locomotion.

He generates tentacles that hold Morgan and throw her to the ground, then Demian advances towards where Hayden was. When he gets close to him, he pierces the fallen man's stomach and brings him closer to him.

Demian: you appeared out of nowhere, tell me, how did you do that?

Hayden: I won't say anything…

Demian: I imagined it, but sooner or later you will.

He generates some stakes and impales them on Hayden, who was already badly injured before, so the pain from his injuries, combined with these new injuries, makes him almost faint, but he resists. Demian notices a bag on Hayden's belt, he quickly grabs the bag and opens it, observing a significant amount of rings there.

Demian's thoughts: this must be it, I already know how this should work.

Demian takes the ring and throws it against a wall, imagining the kingdom of Fragor. The ring turns into a portal where the entrance shows the desired kingdom. Meanwhile, Morgan had already stood up and, observing the possible escape, he joins his hands in front of his body, accumulating all his Vitalis quickly.

Morgan: Maximum release… Ultimaetenebrae

The energy finishes concentrating and then bursts through the air towards Demian, but he enters the portal before being hit, the attack pulverizes everything within a radius of 200 meters, Hayden's body is thrown away like a rag doll, Morgan ignores him and heads into the portal before it closes, entering a second before it closes, she realizes that she is in the kingdom of Fragor, observing the remnants of Demian's cloud, she tries to follow him, but comes across Elaina, the two stare at each other for a moment then assume position.

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Elaina's thoughts: I don't remember seeing this woman in their group, but she has a good amount of Vitalis, she is definitely an enemy.

Demian flew over the kingdom until he noticed that his closest companion was Marcus, who had just been defeated. She quickly heads towards the combat.

In the present…

Very slowly, a cloud of nanobots begins to gather in the air in front of Julian, after a while the form materializes into Demian, who looks down at him.

Julian's thoughts: should I attack him while he's forming? Better not, it could be a trap or I could get screwed that way.

Demian lands on the ground, staring deeply at Julian. The red glow in his eyes meets the golden glow in his opponent's. Julian holds his katana tightly as he prepares for combat.

Julian's thoughts: now that I realize, this guy... Golden hair... He's the one who killed Joana's parents, he's the one I must defeat, I have to make sure of this, I can't let him leave here alive.

Demian's right arm turns into a blade, while his left arm turns into a bunch of chains that connect to a sphere full of spikes at the end. Julian takes a deep breath and runs towards him. With that, he moves the chains against his opponent, moving the sphere of spikes horizontally. Julian crouches down and continues his advance, without stopping. Demian continues moving the chains, vertically, diagonally and horizontally, without resting. Julian jumps and bends, dodging all the attacks. When he is inches away from Demian, he tries to stick his hand/sword in Julian's face, but he dodges and punches the center of his stomach, then cuts his neck and legs. However, he is shocked when his blade passes through his body without making a real wound. Taking advantage of his confusion, Demian sticks the blade in Julian's chest, bringing back his Mognistar Hammer and lowers the sphere of spikes vertically, from top to bottom, burying his face in the ground. Demian moves away while Julian He stands up, not caring about the damage, the blond generates two giant arms that hold Julian in place, the young man grits his teeth and screams, expelling the arms with an explosive Vitalis. He holds his katana tightly, starting to cut Demian's body over and over, even though it doesn't cause any real damage. However, an hour later, Julian lands a cut on Demian's abdomen, a cut with his blade that is critical. The part that was hit materializes, becoming something other than as if it were sand. Julian lands a punch in the same area, realizing that his punch has now hit him, not just gone through him.

Julian's thoughts: that's it! Critical damage! I need to make critical hits.

In desperation, Demian generates several stakes from his body, piercing Julian and forcing him to move away, with the appropriate distance, he places his hand on the ground and several stakes appear on the ground, heading in a straight line towards him, Julian advances anyway, cutting each of the stakes, moving his arm in a lying figure eight. Before he could get too close, Demian jumped onto a ledge and generated several stakes and threw them at Julian, who cut them with ferocity, finishing cutting the rest, spinning on his axis, creating a small hurricane of fire that destroyed the stakes. After that, Julian flew towards Demian, pressing both feet into his face, then jumped back and kicked his heels.

Julian's thoughts: Damn, he dodged a little, he was supposed to hit his stomach, hitting non-physical parts of him, it's like hitting a sand dummy.

However, unfortunately for Julian, his elemental mark failed, unable to maintain it, he deactivated it, placing his hand over his left eye, I felt discomfort, Demian took advantage and transformed his arm into a trident, piercing the young man's chest, he shook his body from side to side and then threw him away.

Demian: How disappointing, is that all you have to offer? Your father was much more than you.

Julian: Are you trying to… humiliate… me? Well… you won’t… succeed.

The young man stands up and wields his katana, wiping the blood that was coming out of his mouth with the back of his hand.

Julian: second round.

Without much patience, Demian advances against him, his hand that resembles a saw comes down against Julian, who defends with the tip of his blade, but the difference in strength causes the sword to be thrown away, Demian immediately executes a knee to his chin, and then finishes with a spinning kick, however, Julian closes his fist and punches his left cheek, pushing him away.

Julian's thoughts: our difference in strength is great, my Vitalis is badly refined now, all I can do is withstand his blows until I can activate my mark once more.

With a war roar, Julian advances against Demian, trying to land punches on his face, but he generates a web without holes that covers his vision, in addition to pushing him further away with a swing of his mognistar hammer. So, he moves away and raises his arms, generating an abundant amount of stakes that go against Julian, impaling him from all sides. He grits his teeth as he tries to free himself, managing to free himself with another great scream while finally managing to restart his Vitalis operation, reactivating his elemental mark.

Julian: now yes…

Demian's thoughts: this kid… managed to activate that damn mark again?! His Vitalis transport is much more refined than before, now I can see that he really is that guy's son.

The two head towards each other. Due to the hand-to-hand combat, Demian decides to undo the chains and transform both hands into swords, he tries to cut Julian's chest, but Julian leans to the side and dodges, taking advantage of the angle, he lands a critical punch in Demian's stomach, making him lose his breath as he is thrown away.

Demian's thoughts: A second critical? Damn him... He has completely reactivated.

Julian jumps to where Demian had bumped into, before he could do anything, he begins to receive a barrage of punches to his face and stomach.

Demian's thoughts: wasn't he supposed to be a samurai? Why is he using his fists so much?

Julian raises his hand and his katana flies towards it, he holds the katana and cuts Demian's body, without the ability to regenerate and without being able to rely much on his sandy body, he begins to suffer damage that he cannot regenerate, merely managing in a last effort to push Julian's blade away, even so, the young man continued to execute voracious punches against him, a different sound echoing each time his fists met his body, circles of fire surrounding his arms. Julian grabs Demian's face and buries it against the mountain, moving away when he notices the tentacles forming on Demian's back, which try to pierce Julian, but if they don't succeed, making him grit his teeth in anger, he makes his tentacles launch themselves against the walls of the surrounding mountains, making several defects fall against Julian.

Julian: Maximum release... Final Ignis...

He concentrates his burning Vitalis between his hands, generating a sphere that explodes in a burst against all the debris, making a hole in Demian's body, heading towards him, he executes a knee to his chin that makes him fall, without strength, Julian grabs him by the hair and throws him against the distant ground.

Julian: Time for the final blow, last words?

Before Julian could do anything, in the blink of an eye, Jitsuko appeared between them, behind the mask, he looked with all his energy at Julian, without knowing his kinship with the one in front of him, Julian prepared for another battle, but what would happen next would be a complete humiliation.

Demian: Jitsuko! I'm terrible… {writhes}

Jitsuko: I can see

He advances against Julian, just touching the palm of her hand on his belly, making him be thrown back with great force, spitting blood and losing his breath completely. His vision becomes dizzy and he tries to stand up, but his body denies it, shivering, his instincts telling him to run, to get out of there. He looks ahead, observing two of Jitsuko's raised fingers, pointing at him. A pink energy accumulates at the tip of his fingers, until it forms a small black hole with several rings around it, forming what resembles an atom. The ball advances against Julian, but Jitsuko makes it deviate its trajectory, so as not to hit him, hitting only the mountain behind him, which is simply pulverized as if it were nothing, without any noise of explosion or anything very loud.

Jitsuko: You're going to die anyway, I'm not going to waste my time with you.

He goes to Julian and hits him in the back of the neck, making him faint, his body falls to the ground, completely exhausted.

Jitsuko: Come on, Demian! I've already found the last fragment of the artifact, we just need to get rid of these nuisances, most of them are already on the round. WE HAVE A UNIVERSE TO SAVE!