stefan3B stands up with his new mode, but he suddenly feels his heart give out an insane pain signal and he falls down yet again. He gasps and tries to clench weakly onto his heart with his eyes permanently widened.
“Why is this… Why… What even is this thing… God… This… Is so much different than mark 3, it's so complex and powerful, I can't stabilize, I can feel it phase through my body, it's so uneasy… And the feeling just worsens by the second…” says stefan3B before feeling his entire body being destroyed at once.
He faces the ground with his whole body and tries his best to stabilize the energy, then, unexpectedly, he feels his right femur, 6 ribs and his left forearm break, fissure in an instant. The pain was too insufferable for his body to handle, and so, he vomits, plain from the pain itself, but because of his Yellow Blitz and its coat, the vomit spreads all over his face… Then… Silence… His brain stopped acknowledging pain for a brief moment, allowing him to have a chance at learning to balance his power. Thanks to it, he was able to find the key.
“In order to stop the energy from breaking my body I have to focus on making it rotate around my body, the way planets make tours around the sun… just like that… I have to become a star itself…” says stefan3B in his mind.
stefan3B stood up but then fell back down due to his injuries. He pushes himself up, and then, he manages to learn the control of this energy. His coat was smooth, with a powerful bright yellow hue, lacking facial features, acting as a full body suit of pure power. Suddenly, he feels his body changing, and at the same time, his brain reactivated his pain sensors. He instantly felt an unbearable internal pain, as if someone put his hands through his body and manually glued his bones back together. He tries to scream, but his shouts are barely heard as muffled sounds outside his 2 cm thick form.
“My body…. It's healing! But, why does it hurt?! Could it be… this thing altered my mind and swapped my pain and pleasure sensors?...” says stefan3B to himself.
The pain starts to slowly fade away into a passive uneasy sensation, he tries to stand up once more, succeeding.
“The worse my injuries are, the faster they heal… It's alright… But, I still can't see a single thing…”
stefan3B spreads out a very weak signal of energy over a very large distance, allowing him to sense the presence of any energy around him. Right after that, a pair of 2 sharp white eyes appear on the face of the coat.
“Yes! It worked! I can see!... Partially… I can only tell where he's located, at least that!”
DG was staying at quite a distance, away from him, believing that he's dying and that is just his final moments, little did he know that the final matchup had just begun.
“I can't control this energy properly, I must get used to it before I start fighting.” says stefan3B as he turns around and starts walking slowly towards DG, every step he takes feels warm to his feet.
“He's still not dead?! Unacceptable!” says DG before instantly rushing to stefan3B, punching him in the face then attacking him with dozens of dark tentacles rising from the ground before picking him up, spinning him, then throwing him down and covering his body by slamming dozens of boulders imbued with dark energy.
DG shakes his hands off dust. “That should be his grave, I must focus on becoming a void elementalist at once. I cannot defeat the three immortal grand wizards with my current power level, even with this whole domain.” says DG before turning around and walking in the opposite direction.
“The void element, evolution of the dark element, which is the evolution of the shadow element. In order for one to evolve on this path they must fulfill the conditions of becoming a grandmaster, then, with a chance, you either become a grandmaster, or you evolve your element. I was quite lucky though, there was already a shadow grandmaster to begin with and so my element automatically evolved into dark. Now I can only hope to beat the odds and become a void elementalist, I can't win as a dark grandmaster against them.” says DG.
stefan3B’s body was crushed entirely, but his Yellow Blitz did not allow him to die yet and healed him to peak condition. stefan3B gets out of the rubble and spots DG. Despite the pain, he crouches and charges his legs before jumping straight to DG at really unexpected high speeds, crashing into him. DG gets knocked forward but stabilizes himself quickly and summons arms of dark energy, grabs stefan3B, smacks him into the ground and then punches him.
“My body's bones are fissured, they heal back quickly, I'm starting to get used to the pain, but it affects my thinking, I can't even order my thoughts properly, I just want to tear this guy into atoms…” says stefan3B to himself.
Another hand tries to grab stefan3B, but he gets a hold of its fingers and rips the whole arm in 2. stefan3B slams into the ground and dashes to DG, launching a mighty blow in his jaw, not stopping his movement and pushing DG a large distance. Before he gets to recover, stefan3B lands a mighty kick in his back, launching him up back into the cube. stefan3B charges up before jumping, DG summons multiple hands to attack stefan3B, but he destroys them one by one with a single punch each before quickly arriving at DG, spinning once and kicking him in the head. DG catches himself using more summoned arms then sprays stefan3B with a swarm of small dark energy projectiles, despite them not dealing great damage they manage to push stefan3B into the ground. He braces himself then after a few seconds he dashes out of the attack.
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“I have no ranged moves, I can't manifest this energy in any way unlike mark 3, I can barely keep it around my body without losing focus, the pain is still ticking me off.” says stefan3B to himself.
DG jumps down as well, he forms the same energy blade he had on his arm before, then releases a large horizontal energy slash. stefan3B rushes to him and slides beneath the projectile before leaping towards him.
“Got you.” says DG before unleashing a fury of instant cuts.
“I left an afterimage of myself here meanwhile I charged the space in front of it with energy by planting cuts, specifically to destroy your coat of energy, the slash you just dodged was nothing but a show off, I win.” continues DG.
stefan3B’s Yellow Blitz suddenly gets shredded off his body almost fully, alongside dozens of visible scars all over his body, his pants being torn to pieces, but his hoodie still intact. But, before he knew, his Yellow Blitz reappeared with the same strength and shine.
“I-Impo-”
But DG’s words were cut short by a strong right punch directly in his face, smashing him into the ground. He grabs his face with his left hand then turns around and throws him into the grand mountain then dashes right into him and dropkicks him into it, piercing the mountain, fissuring a part of it. stefan3B dashes once more into him and punches him hard enough to pass through it as a whole. DG's whole body is fully overwhelmed by the sheer power stefan3B is putting up.
“My body got used to the healing properties, I reached my limit, I can't regenerate anymore…” says DG in his mind with a drop of sadness.
stefan3B doesn't stop, he jumps off the mountain and grabs his face again then throws him into the cube, as they were no longer beneath it. Once DG lands against the cube, DG summons several hands, recreates the blade on his arm and charges a blast of dark energy, ready to fire in case of anything. stefan3B jumps to him, the hands swarm him, DG fires the blast, stefan3B parries the blast and redirects it to his left, he one shots the hands, DG lunges at him with his energy blade. stefan3B punches the tip of the energy blade, breaking it, and knocking DG back into the cube, then he dropkicks into him, breaking the wall of the cube. The impact had so much energy, it lowered stefan3B’s Yellow Blitz down to mark 3. Both of them are stunned and confused, but stefan3B manages to get a hold of his consciousness quicker.
“No! It's not ending here! No!” says stefan3B with pure anger and a frown before grabbing DG and throwing him into the next wall of the cube, then dashes and punching him through the wall as well.
There seemed to be 2 identical hollow rooms, stefan3B can't decipher whatever this meant, but by no means it got him to stop fighting. The second wall he broke lowered his Yellow Blitz to mark 2. He did the same with the next wall, punching DG through it again, lowering his Yellow Blitz to mark 1, and then, another wall, disabling his Yellow Blitz. The walls were huge, at least 50 meters tall and 20 centimeters thick. DG falls flat on the ground and stefan3B lands down safely, having a sparkling yellow glow in his chest. stefan3B looks around him, confused by the seemingly simple sight.
“What even is this place? It's just 4 empty rooms, yet they're so big.” says stefan3B
He turns to DG. “What are you hiding here?! All of this show-off for nothing?! You made me go through all of this just for an empty cube?!”
stefan3B kicks DG in the face and knocks him back, DG pants and his body starts twitching as he tries to get up.
“You see nothing here… because we used to control it using only elementalist energy… the thing that was spilled over the Other Lands was the fuel with which we summoned the other small cubes and corrupted the atmosphere… right now we're in the engine room… on the left side of it.” says DG.
stefan3B raises an eyebrow.
“Left side you say? And why would you specify that?” says stefan3B as he walked to the other side.
The room they are in right now is less wide compared to the other rooms. stefan3B wiped the last bits of vomit with disgust as he was walking. DG suddenly shouts.
“Wait! Please! S-stop! Wait… Please wait please! Kill me, kill me but spare her, she did nothing…”
stefan3B stops his tracks then turns around, the yellow spark from his chest intensifies and some yellow energy can be seen floating around him.
“Explain yourself.” says stefan3B.
DG looks at stefan3B for a few seconds then closes and eyes and looks down.
“I did not want this, I was… forced into this… my whole family was… my parents are still waiting for me…” says DG.
stefan3B is extremely confused.
“I think I hit you a bit too hard, your mind is fucked, dude.”
“Listen! Listen… it all started a long time ago… there were so many shadow elementalists who wanted to have a new home, as they got tired of living in the dark dimension, 9 thousand elementalists to be precise. I was part of that group too, but I wasn't too insane about it… until someone self proclaimed themselves as a leader… the shadow grandmaster found out about this and he wasn't happy about it… he asked us who started it all, the leader blamed me and said that I'm his secret underling, that I'm the cause of everything and I have big plans for the future… which was a total big fat lie… the grandmaster kicked us out of the dark dimension, we eventually managed to create this cube and basically live inside of it until we found out about the Other Lands. We instantly wanted to overtake this land and live within it…”
“But couldn't you just ask them if you could live there too?”
DG suddenly grows angry.
“You're mocking me at this point! You're either mocking me or you're dumb, you'd kill us just because we exist!... Anyways… me and my family were forced to lead the 9 thousand people to a new home, otherwise they'd call us traitors and kill us.”
“So… you say that you had no other choice?”
“Yes… I evolved to the dark element because I was a high ranker, my wife was a shadow elementalist and my child is a darkness elementalist.”
“So, where's your family then?”
“My wife is dead… just because of that fire elementalist moron… if i ever get my hands on him… well… to maximize our chances of winning… I fused both my wife's body and mine into the small cube where this fire elementalist arrived, I thought she would have been strong enough to defuse herself, turns out she wasn't…”
stefan3B feels a bit sad for him, but it changes nothing, he still sees him as the same enemy he's been fighting until now.
“Alright… whatever you say, old man…” says stefan3B as he continues walking to the right.
DG suddenly opens his eyes and shouts
“No! Sto-!” but his speech was suddenly cut short.
stefan3B found himself in a pitch black world, DG disappeared, there was nothing. He looks around him and he sees a dark elementalist girl, chained by her arms, the chains wearing a pure glowing white color, being stuck to the ground. She stood with her back to him. He could hear her weak pants of suffering.
“What the… hell…?” says stefan3B