CHAPTER 2360  GRUELLING DEADLOCK

The Convergence spiraled out of control more than he could have ever imagined when the battle commenced. The only other time he had lost this much control was when he fought against the Harbinger.

Unfortunately, he was unable to bring himself back from the brink of madness.

It hadn't been Rui's intention to drive him crazy with emotion. Nonetheless, Rui exploited his irrational mental state to the best of his abilities, meticulously and carefully peeling away his rationality and refusing to give it back.

If the man had retained even the slightest shred of critical thinking through his rage, he would have known not to use his latest technique, as it simply increased the gap between his Body and his Mind.

It was not worth it to have this much power over which he had such little control.

Yet, he was too one-track-minded in his desire to destroy Rui that he couldn't even think to hold back rather than go all out. His frustration with his opponent only grew with each attack that Rui magically seemed to avoid.

Up until that day, the Convergence hadn't known it was even possible to be able to punch so far above one's speed class. He didn't entirely understand how Rui prevented him from landing another strike, leaving him feeling so helpless. Throughout the entire battle, he had only successfully landed a single strike on his opponent, and that too when he had been caught off-guard by his own failed finisher attempt.

And now, they had found themselves in a brutal and desperate battle for victory. WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

Rui pushed his systems of thought to the maximum as he found himself teetering on the edge of defeat and death. The man's attacks were powerful in and of themselves, yet they were avoidable.

What wasn't avoidable was the energy output that blasted into the environment around him.

Rui needed to use Flux Earther to not only keep his Body from being battered beyond a tolerable threshold but also to fuel his domain with the man's power. It was a sight that drove the Convergence even more insane.

"Hyargh!" The man unleashed an onslaught of attacks towards Rui with palpable desperation.

Not a single one of them struck Rui.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

He evaded his opponent's attacks in a single arc, before activating Flux Earther to absorb the incoming omnidirectional shockwaves that expanded and threatened to crush his Body with sheer force.

He needed to position his Body in precisely the right position to ensure that the collision was elastic such that the impact's energy could be converted into kinetic energy, which could then be used to fuel the cooling elements of his Niflheim domain.

WHOOSH!

The Niflheim domain grew stronger and stronger with each attack. Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

It grew colder and colder.

The cold was functioned by different principles of damage than the heat. While the Muspelheim domain needed to erode away his opponent's defenses, the Niflheim domain didn't need to go through the trouble of overcoming one's durability.

It could bypass that by freezing critical biological systems inside the Body. It also lowered the elasticity of the things that it froze, making them more brittle than ever before.

It reduced the difficulty of inflicting damage on an opponent's Body.

On top of that, it couldn't be resisted unless his opponent could generate as much heat as Rui took away from him.

In this case, the difference was narrow.

His opponent was not a heat specialist. He could only generate heat caused by his own inefficiency.

On the other hand, he was generating a lot of power that was going out of control.

CRACK…

Rui could see frost building up on the man's face and hair.

'I just need to hold out long enough.' His eyes narrowed. 'As long as I can hold out long enough, I can potentially hamper him with freezing long enough for me to take him down with one final finisher!"

It helped that Rui was continuously fueling his domain with his opponent's power from the very get-go. The more power the man outputted, the stronger the domain became. Eventually, as time passed, Rui was certain that he could win.

The question was whether it would happen before his stamina ran out or after. After all, he was using the Metabody technique, as well as powerful hypnosis and a domain, draining his stamina by the second.

It was a race.

If Rui could last long enough for the domain to harm his berserk opponent sufficiently for Rui to take him down, he could win. But, if his domain didn't last long enough, if he didn't last long enough, then his defeat was set in stone.

The two titans of the Master Realm struggled with all their might as they put their all into defeating their opponent.

Had the Convergence maintained his calm mindset, he would have been able to adjust his output in a way that ensured that he could negate Rui's efforts with his superior power. However, he hadn't.

Frost began building up on his Body as the extreme cool of the Niflheim domain sucked away heat from it at an extraordinary rate. His Body temperature cooled faster than it could heat itself, leading him down a dangerous trajectory.

Unfortunately, Rui was in no condition to continue any longer either.

Flux Earther was originally designed to defend against strikes, not shockwaves. The drastic difference between them was why he could only absorb half of the latter.

The other half struck his nerfed Body unhindered, inflicting immense damage with each wave.

BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM!

CRACK!

Rui gritted his teeth as each wave blasted against his Body, cracking bones with each blast. He activated Final Breathing, increasing his tolerance and endurance as he relentlessly pushed the battle in the direction.

RUMBLE…!

The two Masters fought in a fierce stalemate.

A brutal and perilous battle beyond any of the other Masters' ability to intervene or even participate. Yet, it was not to last too long.

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