DG started chuckling for a while before speaking once more.

“Truly… I truly thought I was fried right there, but you are just that dumb after all!” says DG before chuckling once more. "Oh… It feels… So divine, to be back again… An experience that you, my rival, will only receive halfway.”

stefan3B turns to the cat, shocked.

"No one ever told me I can use this power to purify!”

"Don't look at me! I didn't know either!” says the cat.

"Oh, you dumbass fools…" says DG as he slides his left arm over his right, forming a blade of dark energy.

“Square up monkey, I'm too tired to use magic now." says DG.

stefan3B frowns then smiles.

“Have you ever seen yourself in a mirror?”

DG’s eyes widen and he gasps.

“That's it! You're finished!”

DG dashes straight into stefan3B and stabs his shoulder with the dark energy blade, putting him to the ground and knocking the sword out of his hand. stefan3B groans and struggles against it, but he can't do anything. The cat sees this and quickly grabs the sword then smacks it in DG’s back, but does no effective damage. DG slowly turns around with a frown and gets off stefan3B, the cat drops the sword and backs off slightly with a worried expression. DG wildly jumps to his throat and starts choking the cat.

“I'm so done with your floating white shit companion, just fucking die already you pile of levitating shit!" says DG with hatred in his tone.

However, no matter how much DG tried to exert force, nothing happened. DG’s eyes start to slowly widen, then he suddenly lets go and steps back.

“What the absolute hell are you?! Why won't you die?!" says DG before throwing a punch in the cat's face and knocking him back a great distance, but to his surprise, the cat didn't even have the smallest injury "What?!” shouted DG in confusion.

stefan3B pants heavily yet quietly, as he sees the sword laying on the ground. He hardly stands, picks it up and pierces DG in his back with his teeth clenched, with all the energy in his body. DG starts laughing, he keeps laughing for a while, then he grabs the blade of the sword and pulls it through his body, snatching it from stefan3B’s hands. He turns around, with a large hole in his body and black blood pouring through his injury. With his left eye closed and a teasing smile he holds the dripping sword as if it was a stick, not a literal tool to counter his own being.

“This trick would've worked when I still had any bit of normal being inside of me, now it's too late." says DG, before snapping the blade with his bare hand.

stefan3B tries his best to keep his composure, despite his mind being assaulted with countless questions. DG drops the broken blade and starts walking towards stefan3B as his body quickly heals his injury. stefan3B activates ASM and he's struck with an instant wave of power.

“Ugh-what the… Why am I breaking down?! But… I don't feel like fainting yet, I just feel tired, but more powerful… As if my body cannot handle my current level… I never knew my artificial sword mode was this good…” says stefan3B in his mind.

“Hmph? Still got a spark in you? Let me put it out~" says DG before throwing a punch.

stefan3B manages to brace himself and take the hit, sliding back a small distance. DG is amazed by his durability.

“You have had no power up, have you?... No… You did something else, haven't you?! What is that blue form?! What is it?! Answer me! Maggot!” says DG before punching stefan3B again, but this time, his skin felt a little harder.

DG quickly noticed it and backed off.

"Something's wrong, everytime I strike him he gets harder… “

However, stefan3B is confused as well.

"Why do I passively feel stronger… Why does my power keep on increasing… I was about to faint a few moments ago and now I'm ready to fight…” said stefan3B in his mind.

DG frowns.

"That matters not, I'll strike him down before he gets to power up further! After all, he's standing there like a dummy!” says DG,lunging at him with an insane expression.

He sharpens the dark blade from his right arm by pinching the sharp ends of the blade, then swings it forward, however, right at that moment, a piercing blast comes through DG, straight into stefan3B, knocking him back. It was the cat, he had a gun and a grenade. The cat quickly pulled the pin of the grenade and threw it to the sword.

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“I made it in time, I was able to harvest the champion energy which emanates around stefan3B, even if it was little, it's enough to pierce that guy's body and inject itself into stefan3B. Now, it's time for the grenade to do its role.” said the cat in his mind.

DG looked back, frustrated, but he didn't want no more disturbances and so he turned back to stefan3B.

"I don't care! You're in my range!” shouted DG as he went for a final powerful strike to his throat.

The shot from the cat’s gun enters right into stefan3B, then, one second later, it empowers him, forcing his body into activating Yellow Blitz once more. The grenade which the cat threw exploded right next to the broken blade, on explosion, the blade evaporated into energy and flew right into stefan3B, regaining his powers, exploding with energy and getting back into Yellow Blitz mark 3. DG finally manages to hit stefan3B, but he parries his blade with his newly created energy sword. Both of them jump backwards a bit.

“I'm so sick of this." said DG in his mind.

Both of them engage in a series of extremely fast combat, both trying their best to land a hit with their own blade, traversing hundreds of meters in the span of seconds. stefan3B goes for a diagonal slice from the right, DG blocks it and kicks him right in the guts then jumps and goes for a downwards slash, stefan3B dashes, leaving an afterimage behind then strikes DG in his back with a punch charged with energy, leaving a visible hole in DG’s body. DG takes a great knockback and rolls on the ground for some time before recalling himself and getting up, healing his wound quickly, again.

“Haven't I told you? Your little tricks are useless, can't you see I just keep on regenerating?" says DG.

“That, or you are passively getting more sensitive to my attacks. That punch was barely charged with energy, if I had put just a bit more energy, it would have pulverized you, however, I don't want to risk losing my Yellow Blitz once more, but now I'm convinced… That you're just one tap away from death!” says stefan3B, ready to engage.

stefan3B charges up his blade then swings it, unleashing a fury of blasts in a large area around DG. DG manages to dodge them by jumping high, but stefan3B rushes to him and slams him to the ground with the blade. DG quickly gets up and heals his wounds, but he suddenly realizes stefan3B is somehow in front of him and before he'd be able to do anything, stefan3B unleashes a flurry of stabs with his sword, puncturing DG all over his body then charges a blast in his hand, however, as he was doing so, DG manages to combine his remaining body parts and compress them into a fist, unexpectedly punching stefan3B in the face, making him lose his charge. DG’s body fully regenerates in a matter of a second. With a frown, DG points upwards.

“Remember that cube? It's not just for show off. You've already lost this battle, you have no idea.” says DG.

stefan3B looks up and he sees that the cube starts to melt very slowly, dripping off the mountains, slowly flooding into the land. stefan3B gasps, not knocking how to react or what to do.

“Something still remains unclear to me, is his body fully made out of pure energy?... I guess so, he can literally regenerate infinitely using the cube… But it seems that the more he uses the regeneration the more the cube’s base weakens, leaking out that voidlike substance… No matter how it goes, it's in his favor…” said stefan3B in his mind.

DG turns his hand into a dark energy tendril and extends it to the cube, stefan3B realizes that he might try to break the cube and allow more of that black substance to pour on the Other Lands and so he shoots a quick energy slash to cut his arm then dashes into him with a kicks and knocks him to the ground while standing on top of him. DG punctures his left leg with his energy blade.

(Side note: the arm with the energy blade is the right one, stefan3B cut his left arm.)

stefan3B slits his throat then stabs his energy blade, breaking it. He jumps off of him and then plucks out the remaining part of the energy blade from his leg, followed by him falling to the ground, shocked.

“Agh! My whole body is destroyed under this veil of energy, what do I do?! I really can't go on… My body is fully done for today and it feels like Yellow Blitz just wants me to keep going…” says stefan3B in his mind, sweating from the pain.

stefan3B sees the void substance touch the ground, and just now he realizes that the little drip he saw on the mountain was actually a gigantic slow downpour.

DG stands up as he regenerates and speaks.

“You might be wondering… Why didn't I just let the cube flow from the start? Well, to put it simply, me and my… past crew… would use this substance to feed ourselves. Yes, I'm using my own food as my last resort of the battle!” shouts DG with his arms opened wide and an insane expression.

“So there's nothing to be afraid of then. I'll just beat you to a pulp until you eat all of it.” says stefan3B, panting.

“And that's where you're incorrect, because as we're speaking, the land is being corrupted. I can feel it, it's around 10% as of now… I feel my powers rising just by this percentage…” says DG, looking at his hands “And now…”

DG jumps up high, then grapples onto the cube and snaps its base into the ground, allowing a ton of dark gelatin to fall free into the world. stefan3B starts worrying as he cannot do anything as of now. Everyone else gets scared as well. It takes a matter of seconds until the fluid floods the entire world. Everyone that got to touch it was immediately deformed and turned into a pile of energy as well. Ares Radu and Darius quickly rushed to the altar of the grand wizards where they were safe. The cat looked up then back down to stefan3B.

“Go to the temple again, unlock your final form.” says the cat before leaving.

stefan3B’s eyes widen and he tries to reach out for him, but it's futile.

“Wait-! Do-don’t leave me here! No! Stop!”

DG was laughing maleficently as his body was covered in goo and then enhanced. It didn't take long until stefan3B was submerged within it as well, but, thanks to his Yellow Blitz, his body is able to survive it. He closed his eyes and kept them shut for a bit, then opened them slowly. The whole world as he knew it was a pitch black void, the only things he could see were the sun temple underground and the wizard's altar. DG quickly dashes into stefan3B and kicks him in the back, knocking him a very large distance. The ground was much rougher and colder, as if it was made out of stainless steel. DG continued the ruthless assault, not stopping to give stefan3B hard blows all over his body, one after another, knocking him around like a sandbag. His Yellow Blitz starts to fade out and his body slowly convert into energy, but then, DG gets a hold of the Sun Temple as a whole, then smacks it into stefan3B.

“I'll crush you… with the source of your own power!” says DG.

The bricks of the temple flew in every direction as it dismantled on impact. But… just afterwards… the bricks of the temple lose their bright yellow color and turn into a dark deep blue. stefan3B’s body starts to glow, and then, in an instant, his entire body is covered fully, from top to toes, into champion energy, including his eyes, which make him resort to only energy detection instead of visual capabilities.

“Yellow Blitz… Mark 4…”