“Who is that?... Is that a shadow elementalist?...” says stefan3B, as he didn't know the difference between a shadow and a darkness elementalist.
Her hair was tied as a ponytail, he could feel a mystical presence around her, as if she was way different than DG. stefan3B goes around to see her face. She looked like she was around his age as well.
“Hey, are you alright?...” asks stefan3B, worried.
The girl doesn't reply, once he stops speaking, she closes her mouth shut and stops her weak groans, still having the same expression marked by pain. She was looking down and she was slightly leaned.
“Do you need help? Should I try plucking those chains?” asks stefan3B, confused.
The girl says nothing, blinks and looks to the other side.
stefan3B pouts, he feels like he can activate Yellow Blitz once more. He grabs tight onto the chains and then pulls and activates Yellow Blitz simultaneously. The chains broke with little effort, the girl, seemingly tired, falls into his arms. stefan3B catches her and smiles, his left arm around her back and his right hand on her tummy. However, one thing was missing… stefan3B activated Yellow Blitz, but his form didn't appear, but he feels as powerful as if he was in the form.
. . .
It was all an illusion. There were no chains to begin with, there was no conscious girl, the room wasn't as “empty” as he knew, it was fully filled with black strings, her body being fully wrapped in them, her core being fully entangled into them. stefan3B activates his Yellow Blitz, he grabs onto her arms and then tears them apart by pulling them upwards. Her body broke free from the strings, falling onto him, but he punches a hole through her stomach and pulls out her guts. The room suddenly broke down, all the strings being pushed in each direction individually. DG looks at stefan3B with his mouth agape, his eyes traumatized, stefan3B slowly turns around him with his fists full of his daughter’s guts. stefan3B looks dead into his eyes, DG remains on the ground paralyzed from everything he’s witnessed until now in his entire life. He forgets every good memory, every bad memory, he forgets every time he struggled, every time he managed to survive another day, all that he knows now, is that he will not get away with this. DG frowns as hard he can, he doesn’t even do it manually, his facial muscles move on their own. He stands up, his whole body cracks at once, but it doesn’t stop him from facing his new greatest rival. They were both still staring deeply into each other's souls.
“Drop them.” says DG.
stefan3B crushes the guts of his daughter in his hand then drops them.
DG clenches his teeth.
“You absolute fucker…” says DG in the most angered tone ever.
“I told him not to enter… because he entered there, dark energy passed through his mode, it may have nullified his brain, of course that he wasn’t able to see it, it was pure dark elementalist energy, however, I never expected one’s battle instincts to be so wild, especially unconscious. The effects of the energy might have not passed by now. He’s surely still berserk.” says DG in his mind.
DG casts a white pentagram beneath him, followed by a white circle around it which starts emanating a purple gas. DG starts laughing maniacally.
“Since everyone is dead, why shouldn't I just eat this place whole?! After all… I was their leader!” shouts DG with an insane expression then continues laughing out loud
The purple gas suddenly expands and stretches to the extremities of the cube, the whole cube starts shrinking, as if crushed. stefan3B suddenly snaps back, he realizes the situation he's in and quickly rushes out of it on the way he came. The cube was shrinking fast enough to give stefan3B anxiety that he might be caught into the spell, but he manages to barely get out of it. stefan3B looks back and sees the whole cube be crushed onto DG’s silhouette, slowly fading into his new form.
Meanwhile, Darius, Ares and Radu manage to arrive at the grand wizard's altar.
“Wizards! Please save us! It's the end of the world! Please!” cries out Darius as he manages to arrive there the fastest.
The second wizard quickly opens the door.
“Come on boys, come on!” says he.
Radu and Ares both arrive just a second after, all 3 of them rush inside and shut the door.
“What should we do?!” shouts Radu.
“Listen, calm down, I know what we have to do.” says the second wizard he grabbed what seems to be a spellbook from his bookshelf.
"Did you forget we can't cast spells?” says the first wizard.
“No, I didn't, that's why they will be casting it." replies the second wizard.
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Both the first and third wizard are flabbergasted by this information.
“What do you mean?! Are you really putting the fate of the world in the hands of some kids?!" says the third wizard.
“We already put it twice and they succeeded. I find no reason to not do it a third time.” says the second wizard as he quickly shuffled through the pages of the large book.
Radu is seemingly confused, as well as feeling a part of him get crushed into dust.
“But… why can't you cast spells?” asks Radu.
All the wizards look at him for a brief moment.
“Uhh… basically… all the spells we have are basically too powerful, so we can't cast them without accidentally blowing up the whole world.” answers the third wizard.
"Yeah… there's nothing we can really do about it." continues the first wizard.
Radu closes his eyes and clenches his fists as he looks down. The heroes he was such a big fan of turn out to be fakes. His arms start shaking, keeping in the anger of a spartan army.
“Fine, tell me what to do.” says Radu with an angry tone.
Suddenly, Darius sees something, his eyes widen and he points towards it.
“Uhh, guys, I think we should rush…” says Darius, as the black liquid slowly phased through the door.
“Quick! Boys! Start the incantation!” says the second wizard, as he hands them the spell book.
Radu grabs the book with total annoyance, he sees the most random words one could ever witness.
“And how am I supposed to even read this one?!” shouts Radu.
Darius tries to shock the goo dripping from beneath the door, but it has no effect whatsoever. Darius and Ares quickly approach Radu and look into the book as well, but none of them can clearly read anything.
“Kids, come on, read it!” says the first wizard.
“Why don’t you help us?!” says Ares.
“If we do, the spell won’t work anymore!” continues the third wizard.
Radu takes a deep breath and then reads, slowly:
“Pote-potentia… Pru..nia… Sigi…llum… Transu…Er…So… Animi…Su…Perante…Fervore, Redi quo semel, genitus es!” say the 3 boys at the same time, struggling.
Right after the incantation, a powerful yellow energy wave with a white hue repels and purifies away every single particle of the void substance. Every elementalist is freed from the cage of unknown energy, they all cheer altogether once they realize they have been freed. The wave was so powerful it pushes stefan3B forward, making him stumble. He quickly gets up and looks back, noticing that everything was cleared out. He smiles bright, but he feels a wild cluster of compressed energy behind him. He cannot properly see DG’s body, but he can tell from the energy readings that he is wearing a new suit with a tie, having a triangular prism on the upper half of his head. DG arranges his tie slightly before saying to himself “All of that just for a suit…”
“All of that just for a suit…” says stefan3B in his mind.
DG puts his hands behind him and slowly comes down, touching the bright green grass. He looks up and smiles, then looks at stefan3B. His grin turns into a hard frown, he steps forward, lunging his arm. The entire world gets covered in darkness once more, as if the spell had never happened.
“You cannot revert darkness, it is your impending doom to die at my hand.” says DG with a double echoing voice.
“What… But how…?” asks stefan3B.
“Once I absorbed the cube, I gained its abilities…” says DG, looking at his raised and clenched fist. “No matter what cheap trick you pull out of your ass now it won't work.” says DG while walking towers stefan3B.
stefan3B prepares to assault him then dashes violently into him. DG blocks his attack and knocks him upwards.
“You are in my world! And in my world, I'm king!” shouts DG with a smile as he jumps up to stefan3B, his arm takes a giant form of clustered dark energy, then he delivers an uppercut, knocking him out of Yellow Blitz mark 4, downgrading him to mark 3, his arm turns back to normal, then he sends him crashing into the ground, slamming him with his arms. The ground bursts into little pieces in a zone of 10 meters square, covering stefan3B in a cloud of dust. DG slowly steps down once more, no longer with a smile on his face.
“This world is worthless, there's nothing to live for anymore. It's lost all of its value.” says DG to himself. He looks at his own hands. “It seems I have ranked up to a grandmaster thanks to the cube…” he looks back then turns around and stares into the tar black sky. “And yet… I can feel a pinch of energy similar to the void one… Perhaps… I could use the void element in small doses…” he looks down, his rage building up at a rapid pace, then he falls down and from the sheer rage, he starts punching the ground, shattering it with each punch, dirt flying in every direction as he does so. After around 8 hits, he finally stops. His right hand now bleeding and his mouth panting, he doesn't seem to be affected by the pain.
“I've removed every single limiter from my body, I don't give a single fuck anymore, they dragged me in this state, if I can't have a wonderful life… no one will…” DG extends his arm and opens his palm, facing the ground. A swirling, pulsing black orb appears in his hand. “Mundi Creatio.” says DG.
The orb bursts, transforming into a large cuboid, expanding barely long enough to catch stefan3B inside of it as well. Its walls fortify, becoming extremely dense and strong.
stefan3B gets up, his Yellow Blitz regaining mark 4, healing his body. DG realized stefan3B is there too.
“You little plague rat, can't you leave me alone?! I'm so fed up with your existence!” says DG angrily as he charges up energy in his palms.
stefan3B dashes faster than before at DG, but at a meter away from him, two cubes clash and crush stefan3B between them. His right arm remains outside, he starts flexing his muscles and pushing the cuboids apart, eventually revealing himself. He was panting and struggling, but to DG’s surprise, stefan3B finally learned how to control his Yellow Blitz.
“What the… how is he able to…” says DG in his mind, amazed.
stefan3B’s body was naked of Yellow Blitz, the whole energy was being pushed against the crushing cuboids.
“Hey, I think I finally got a small hang of this thing~, ain't that cool~?” says stefan3B with a smirk and one eye closed, despite his struggle to keep it going.
His Yellow Blitz was pulsing onto the cuboids like violent explosions, he wasn't actively using the energy to put them away, he was wildly throwing it out of his body, in an almost uncontrolled manner, as the energy desired to come back to his body like a magnet.
“You're as dull as a common rock, don't you ever think you're a razor!” says DG before kicking him in the head and knocking him to the ground.
stefan3B’s Yellow Blitz leeches back to his body covering it once more.
“Whenever I use my energy there's always a small amount exploding in every direction, using this chamber, no energy of mine will ever go to waste!” says DG in his mind.
stefan3B grunts, tired, as he stands up yet again.
“How much fight does this old man have left in him?...”