CHAPTER 2359  OUT OF CONTROL

Had Rui not employed Temporal Disharmony moments before the man moved, he would have undoubtedly been dead.

WHOOSH!

Rui barely evaded the coursing incoming blow with the powerful hypnotic impediment. His hypnosis had always been extremely potent, far more so than the norm, but especially so when he was in his Megamind state.

Time sped up to a blinding blur in the Convergence's eyes.

He lost sight of Rui.

He lost sight of the world.

He lost sight of his own body.

The technique worked.

Yet, the consequences of its success were more grave than he had expected.

BOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!

The devastating power of a Martial Master erupted out of his control of his Martial Mind.

Each step shattered heaven and earth asunder, leaving a vast valley in his wake. Each movement the Convergence made set the entire atmosphere for a hundred kilometers ablaze due to the sheer friction his movements had with the world around him. RUMBLE!!!

A truly mind-boggling amount of seismic and sonic radiation exploded from his being as a result of every movement he made.

Every twitch produced an unfathomable amount of energy output, sinking into the radiation.

All because the Convergence's Martial Mind was extraordinarily lagging behind his Body.

Ordinarily, each Master possessed the power to bring the world around them to ruin with the simplest of gestures.

Even a sneeze could ravage a town.

Yet, this seldom happened.

All because Martial Masters possessed an extraordinary level of control of power over their power thanks to their heightened cognition, allowing them to ensure that not an iota of power went to waste in the environment as a result of their efficiency.

That was why Masters were known as Masters.

They were masters of their own power.

Yet, Rui's hypnosis in this state of mind was so potent that it crippled his mind, causing the fine control it had over his Body to disappear.

Yet, that wasn't all. In the case of Master Stephen, not only did his mind fall far behind, but his special technique caused his body to surge quite ahead of his mind, leading to a particularly devastating imbalance and power that went out of control.

And out of control, it went indeed.

One moment, he was a dignified Martial Master with grace in his control.

The very next, he became an abominable Master who unleashed an unfathomable amount of power with each movement he made.

Normally, that would have worked in his favor.

But unfortunately, the power he outputted was so great that he couldn't even step near the man without being ravaged.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!" The Martial Master roared as the force of his voice shook the very world around him. "I WILL KILL YOU! YOU HEAR ME?! I WILL KILL YOU IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!"

His fury had reached a whole new echelon of intensity.

It bubbled into his mind, eroding away his rationality as his decisions became increasingly driven by emotion instead of thought.

He was beyond applying the systems of thought of his Martial Mind. Owned by .

Of course, all his systems of thought were centered around his energy absorption and application, which he simply didn't get to do because Rui had only struck him a single time. And Rui didn't intend to give him an opportunity to change that.

He didn't expect this to happen, but he didn't complain. His mind raced into thought as it incorporated the new variables that came into action as a result of the stunning anti-synergetic combination of the man's energy storage and Rui's Temporal Disharmony.

"I SAID I'LL KILL YOU!!!" BOOOOOM!!!

He shot at Rui's direction with blinding speed, threatening to reduce him to dust with a single blow. An attack of unrivaled lethality.

WHOOSH!!!

Rui leaped back at the most optimal moment, avoiding absolute death by millimeters.

What he couldn't avoid, however, was the powerful energy output that came with each blow. BOOOM!!

The devastating shockwave struck him, threatening to shatter his weakened constitution.

Unfortunately for the bloodlusted Convergence, Rui had foreseen it coming.

It wasn't easy applying the Flux Earther to high-pressure waves of sound, which was why he couldn't do it as well, but nonetheless, he not only pulled the technique off but even took a page from his opponent's playbook.

He channeled his opponent's energy for his own attacks.

"Niflheim." A single whisper escaped him while the very world around them began freezing over. It froze over as the realm of frost descended upon heaven and earth.

In an instant, it began snowing as the humidity in the air began condensing spontaneously. The land around them froze for a while, and the temperature even lowered. Within moments, drops of oxygen and nitrogen began depositing in the world around them. Yet, it was unable to cool down the rage that burned in the depths of the Convergence's eyes.

He couldn't absorb the cold.

"YOUR WORTHLESS DOMAIN CANNOT HURT ME, BOY!" A guttural roar escaped him as he desperately leashed out against Rui with a barrage of wild attacks that threatened to flatten Rui should they have landed.

Yet, they didn't.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

Blow after blow, Rui sidestepped everything that was thrown at him.

The attacks were blindingly fast, reduced to indistinct blurs that left ruinous destruction that spread out around them unhampered.

"HYRAGH!" His kick cleaved through the atmosphere with such force that it left an inferno behind as it surged towards him.

WHOOSH!

Rui ducked sharply before summersaulting away at the nick of the moment.

BOOOOOOM!!!

A powerful drop-kick ravaged the world asunder at the very spot he was less than a microsecond prior.

"AAAAARRRGHH!!!" the Convergence snarled with deep frustration as he unleashed a furious onslaught of attacks that threatened to crush Rui where he stood. Yet, despite that, not only did none of them touch him, but Rui strengthened his domain more and more with each wave of destructive power that the man unleashed.

A poetic scene of profound contrast unfolded before the few who could even witness the ongoing battle.

A Master with unparalleled energy and power over which he was losing control, fighting against one with far less power but extraordinary control over what little power he had.

A battle that would play a bigger role in the future of East Panama raged outside the Shionel Confederation.