Chapter 454: The Fight For The Whole World To See

[Proto Earth]

The moment Argos managed to grab ahold of Madrigal, he then did as he pleased, as he toyed her around like a ragdoll and smashed her all over the place. However for some reason he felt like Madrigal herself suddenly became tough as a titanium while also having some regeneration on top of her initial showcased two abilities.

The moment he saw this, Argos could clearly suspect that Janus might have a hand on this, as Kaido did stated that Janus has boosted them to the point that they can fight agaisnt them on equal ground. With that in mind, it was no brainer on how Madrigal could withstand the blows that Argos lands.

All in all she have phasing, switching, hardening, and regeneration. With four abilities in tact, it was enough for them to hold down not only Argos himself but Kaido too.

Unfortunately her hardening doesn't matter much to Argos, as he simply pummeled her down to ground repeatedly, until the whole ground itself started to shake in every blow he dealt. Soon after he suddenly felt his hand phased through something, as Madrigal used her phasing ability and countered back with a punch with hardening.

Just like that Argos was blown back by a few feet, as he felt like in a daze, before he snapped back into reality and try to fight back. However the moment Argos did that, Madrigal already phased through his body, as she tries to catch Kaido who seemed to be doing something to counter her ability.

Seeing that Argos quickly caught up to her by unfolding his wings, as he grabbed her collar and threw her towards the alleyway.

Gathering mana unto his hand, Argos sent multiple projectiles towards Madrigal  as numerous explosions rung our from the alleyway itself.

However just as he was about to check on what happened to her after the explosions, Madrigal suddenly popped out the ground, as she dragged Argos down to the earth by partially phasing his body, causing him to be caught unable to move under the earths surface, as the pressure of the mantel is slowly crushing him to bits. Not only does his body feel pressured, he is also losing oxygen the longer he stays stuck underneath.

On the otherhand when Madrigal successfully trapped Argos, she quickly resurfaced back to the surface, only to realize that Kaido begun attacking him with multiple metal pillars, forcing her to use her phasing ability once more.

However no matter how much she runs, Kaido kept throwing metal pillars at her, until she got herself surrounded by it and nowhere to escape. Soon after Kaido suddenly injected a type of electrical current on the metal pillar, as it suddenly produced a frequency that was invisible to the naked eye.

Seeing such pillars surrounding her, Madrigal quickly ran forward as she plans to pass through the pillar object and attack Kaido. However the moment she did this, she suddenly got herself slammed agaisnt the the metal pillars, as she fell on her but and confused on what just happened.

"What did you do?" Asked by Madrigal in surprise

"Simple! I nullified your ability to phase through" Laughed by Kaido

To be exact nullifying a phasing ability depends on the context and the nature of the ability. There are many ways on how to deal with them. The first is energy disruption, using an energy field or device that interferes with the mechanism of phasing. For example, an EMP or a disruption field could destabilize the technology that enables the phasing ability. Phase Locking Devices, some universes have technology or gadgets that lock someone in a particular phase or frequency, preventing them from shifting between phases. Dimensional Anchors, devices or fields that anchor a person or object to a specific dimension or reality, preventing any phasing between them.

There are also ways to counter it using magic and esper ability. Power Nullifiers, some universes feature items, materials, or characters that can temporarily or permanently disable powers. Energy or Magic Manipulation characters with control over energy fields, magic, or dimensions might be able to nullify or counteract phasing by locking the target into one state of existence. And lastly Psionic/Reality Warping Abilities, characters with reality-warping or strong psionic abilities can force someone into a physical state or prevent them from changing their phase.

In thus case Kaido implemented the energy field using a special type of frequency invisible to the naked's eye and psionic solution. With this double layer of a trap, it would be almost impossible for Madrigal to escape, unless the formation was destroyed.

"Nullify? That's impossible"

"Its possible, every ability has a limit, they are not invincible, the same goes for you and I simply used it to counter your ace ability... without your phasing ability, you won't be able to go anywhere"

After saying that Kaido suddenly manifested an highly energized spear out of thin air, as he made it rotate like a motor and gain more friction from the natural elements of this world. By doing this, he is slowly strengthening the spear which could potentially give it a destructive capability.

While doing this, Argos mana suddenly burst the ground open, as he flew out from the hole that he had made and turn to face the trapped enemy.

"She's all yours... dont worry she cant phase anymore" said by Kaido

Upon hearing Kaido's words, Argos smirked for a bit, as he begun gathering mana unto his mouth, in order to release his attack. This time the charging up took more time than he previously did, as he charged it to the point that it would be enough to tale down Madrigal.

"Dark Renegade!!!"

The moment Argos released his breath, Madrigal was immediately swallowed by the light, as the buildings were vaporized and the whole section suddenly exploded to the point that it shook the isolation space that Janus had set up. In just a matter of few minutes, a whole section of the isolated space was vaporized as Argos attack was almost equivalent to a small hydrogen bomb.

After that explosion happened, the smoke that was trapping Belial inside suddenly disperses, as Kaido took this chance to quickly grab his magnified spear and threw it towards Janus like a missile.

Just like that another explosion erupted, as it covered everything in bright light and completely disrupted the flow of the isolated space. With that, it the brought them into the current situation where the whole city was fully awake after the sudden shockwave that woke the city up.

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Upon seeing the isolated space broken once more, Janus couldn't help but be surprised as he witness Kaido breaking through their space over and over again. It was as if nothing could hold him back and that irritated Janus. If it weren't for him, him together with Ekaterina and Lucian would have been caught up in that explosion and receive a major injury.

Thankfully he was fast enough to react and teleported them outside the explosions range. However the shockwave itself still blew them back and crash on their backs. When they were finally able to stabilize themselves, they couldn't help but exclaim when they saw the destruction it caused from the shockwave alone.

While Janus and his group near him were shocked, Aileen and Fengris on the otherhand, finally regained their consciousness, as they clearly remembered that they were swallowed up by the explosions. However when they woke up, they were surprised to see the building was intact while they themselves simply passed out from that explosion.

"What happened? Didn't we get caught up in that explosion? Why is the building still in tact?"

The moment fengris asked those words, Aileen examined the place for a bit, until she realized why the building was still in tact.

"I see... now I understand, it seems like the only thing that incur the majority of the destruction is the isolated space, since the isolated space is a separate plane from reality which also exist parallel to the real thing, it is only natural to say that the only thing that was fully destroyed was the isolated space itself while the reality only got its setbacks... that is why the building is still on tact"

"I... I wanted to understand all of that, but honestly I dont"

"Well what do you expect from a dog's brain?"

"Hey!!!"

In that moment while they were bickering at each other, Tomas who was also caught by the explosion together with them, also slowly started to regain consciousness which caused the both of them to realize that it wasn't over yet. Since this hunk of muscle was still alive, it was only natural that the fight still hasn't ended just yet.

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Meanwhile located at the building quite a distance from the battle, Axel was watching everything from birds eye view as he is also watching out for the authorities that were heading towards the battle after the shockwave literally woke them all up.

Just like he guessed Kaido never ceases to amaze him, the attack that he did was ever so powerful that it had overwhelmed the capacity damage of the isolated space. It was truly a dangerous attack that even he felt danger from. Now he wonders that of he ever had the chance to face agaisnt such power, how would he fare agaisnt such an attack.

As he thought of this, he then turned towards the approaching authority as he needs to stop them from approaching tha battle any longer. After all one of his job that he got asked for was to keep out from the fight and keep everyone out from reaching the battlefield location. That was what Janus said to him, even at the moment he realized that he had met with Kaido.

Since helping them was under his jurisdiction according to the current head of the G.E.N.O.S organization, he had no choice but to comply and temporarily distract the authorities, but dealing with them was all up to him.

According to the authorities in this world, the shockwave itself was caused by a gate opening from a dungeon that hasn't been cleared by the players. Since that was their assumptions, Axel then simply made the false into the truth, by repeating the scenario and used his reality manipulation ability to create a fake dungeon, and fake monster wave.

As for the monster themselves, he simply recreated the scene he had watched back on his world. Some sly aliens  from the ali*ns x pr*dat*rs. With those nasty bastards stalling them, he is pretty sure it will take the players of this world, some time before they could filly take out aliens themselves.

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On another place near Axel's location, Lilia on her nightwear was slowly reaching the place where the shockwave happened, as she suddenly felt that the area had been twisted and transformed into something different. Soon after the space itself seems to change, a huge portal suddenly opened up in the middle of an intersection, as two types of monsters walked out from it.

The first one was a monster with a long head, no eyes, bone like body, sharp claws, long tail, and can only screech when communicating with its own species. The other monster was standing like a human, but with drizzle hair, fully weapons zed armor, and seemed to sensitive to its surroundings.

Upon seeing such weird looking monsters, Lilia couldn't help but be shocked as she doesn't know what this creatures are. Infact she even suspected that this might be a new monster that they haven't discovered yet.

But one thing is for sure and that is this dungeon suddenly appeared when the space is twisted, meaning this was all fake and someone has deliberately changed the whole area to hide the real battle. With that in mind, Lilia then rememebered the opponent she and kaido fought and somehow recalled its ability, reality manipulation.

Upon remembering that, she then knew what she needed to do, as she disregarded the fake dungeon and find where Axel is.

However finding a reality manipulator is harder than it seems. After all he could be anywhere and nowhere at the same time. That's how reality manipulator stays in hiding in the society. So for a person of her caliber, she has literally to no chance in finding Axel.

On the other hand the only way for Axel to manipulate the reality of the whole city, he would need to be placed somewhere high up wherein he could see the entirety of the city itself and the only place where that might be, is the station tower near the center of the city.

However Lilia still does not have enough proof to support her claim, due to that she was not sure whether Axel would be in such place considering that he could just rewrite reality wherein he could fly himself. Nevertheless she needed to check.

With that in mind, she then rushes towards the tower station, east of where the chaos is happening, and begun to search for Axel earnestly.

But the ment she managed to reach its proximity, she suddenly felt chill all over her body, as she suddenly felt dizzy and drunk at the same time, which doesn't make sense. After all she never drunk alcohol all her life and she had achieved a really fit body where simple things like dizziness almost doesn't occur. Since that is the case, then the only plausible explanation for this sensation was that someone was deliberately trying to keep people away from the place.

The only person who would do such thing would be based on what she can remember is the Axel person himself. With that she then quickly pulled out a knife and stabbed her thighs, in order to snap himself awake using pain. Luckily for her, such trick was enough to snap him awake, as she quickly patch up her wound while enduring yhe stinging pain.

"Urk!!!"

After pulling her wits together, she then quickly rushes in towards the building, until she realizes that in order to reach the top of the building, she would need to choose whether to take the stairs or the elevator.

After imagining a lot of negative stuff about the elevator in the hand of a reality manipulator, Lilia then quickly chose the stairs as she begun to ran up to the top.

The building itself consist of 20 floors.  Meaning the building itself have about 320 stairs from top to bottom. In order to meet Axel and rush towards Kaido's aid, Lilia have to climb 320 stairs in a very fast momentum. With that starting from the bottom, Lilia begun to rush towards the stairs with no rest in her momentum at all.

Climbing 1st floor to the 10th floor was easy considering her stamina, however the moment she reach the 11th floor, she begun to feel fatigue due to the gravity pulling her down. From this alone, Lilia could already guess that Axel had done something to hinder anyone from climbing the stairs in order to reach him.

Despite that Lilia sinpley forced herself to pick up the pace as she started gaining speed once more. But the moment she got to the 13th floor, something weird happen.

"13th floor finally!... 13th floor, didn't I passed that number before?... 13th floor, something is really wrong.... 13th floor again?... 13th? Hol up, I'm in a loop ain't I?"

When Lilai figured out that she was in a loop, she then slowly begun to panic, as she tried to calm herself and think rationally. There are many ways to get out of the loop but with a person of such caliber behind it, finding ways to get out of  the loop may prove difficult.

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15 minutes later, Lilia finally reach the top as she looked for Axel and saw the person himself sitting down and watching from afar. On the otherhand, when Lilia reached the top floor, he then noticed her precense, as he turned towards her.

"You... you look like shit"

"I hate your stair..."

"Stairs? Right... its the one where there is loop right? Your unlucky"

"... I don't care about that, I want you to bring me where Kaido is"

"Bring you to him? Why should I?"

"Its because I can give you something valuable from my storage..."

"Not interested"

"Not interested? Can you still say that if I give you a ruby and jewel?"

"Yup! Not tempted... jewels, means so little to me, why should I be interested on them when I can make them myself"

"... how about an all purpose potion?"

"I have a lot of them in stock"

"Then what do you want?"

"Honestly I dont know, it's vague, nevertheless I would really like to gift once more, this time I hope it will only in between the two of us"

"..."

"But even if I tell you that, I can't let you get to him and that is not because I won't let you go near him, I'm just saying it for your safety" said by Axel

"My  safety?"

"Yup! As you are now, you would most likely die in their confrontation... your too weak"

"I... I'm not weak, I'm pretty strong you know"

"But not as strong as Kaido and his group"

When Lilia heard that, she then bit her lip as she can't deny his words due to the fact that she is literally league's below Kaido's group. However despite knowing all that, she would still never falter as she she confidenty says to Axel his answer with full of determination.

Unfortunately having determination isn't enough, so in order to make Axel bring her to the battle, Axel then did something as he suddenly said aometging while looking away.

"I like the way your determination is unwavering, however that not enough to convince me... try defeating this guy's first then I decide"

As Axel said those word, a huge monster suddenly came in between them, as it screamed and attacked Lilia.