194 - overturned fate

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A mix of black and white scars this empty realm. Continually dodging, his body left countless afterimages as Amelia's blade gave chase. The near invisible thread like blades split forth and rush towards his body, leaving the concept of distance behind. Unfortunately Zet was also able to abuse the absence of 'distance' as a concept and maintained himself at a position infinitely far away.

The blades warp space and teleport, slowly filling up the realm with less and less space safe for existence. The fabric of reality ruptured around her power, leaving unstable space that would explode on contact with the force of a few suns.

"This is getting tiring, fall in despair, it's time for your defeat." (Zet) In a monotone voice, he declared our deaths as a matter of course. Before we noticed, the background had changed to an urban cityscape. Concrete buildings unlike the marble and wooden ones in the new world populate the land as skyscrapers reached the grey foggy sky.

Without pause, Houzo used 'envy', the concept of getting to a desired position and attempted a corkscrew punch on Zet's shoulder. Vanishing before it landed, the shockwaves of the punch blew a large portion of the city away as a path of destruction ravaged the ground into a barren wasteland. In a second, a portion of the city had already disintegrated along with all the lives that had been going about their day there. From Houzo's position, there was a wide cone shaped path of destruction as a result of his punch.

Perhaps he didn't care about the lives here, or that he found killing Zet to be more meaningful. Whatever reason he had, it helped steel our resolves as well.

[Demonic energy]

As Amelia's blades flew toward Zet's new location, scythes of [Demonic energy] flew in from every conceivable direction, leaving more destruction upon the streets and buildings.

"Time stop" (Zet)

The world was consumed by darkness as even light had stopped movement, the attacks stood mid-air, inches from penetrating Zet's flesh.

"Time resume, 'wrath' ."

I wasn't going to make it so easy.

"[One above all]! Obtain authority over time and stop all attacks and enemies!" (Zet) As he teleported outside of the attacks range, he gave a deep sigh before a small orange flare came and went from his index finger.

The flare shot forth faster than any bullet, moving between atoms that had been stopped in time. If needed, Zet would have made the flare resume time in a miniscule radius around itself, however given the speed and reaction time of his enemies, it was an obvious decision to make.

Raising his concentration to the max, only the time of the flare was moving as it weaved inbetween every particle in existence. It had been given a property of being able to move objects that have been stopped in time, however crashing would still cause it to lose considerable velocity and he needed all the power he could get.

Searing everything in its path, the flare went through the skulls of each of his enemies. The heretics that have come back for a second round to rebel his divine rule, he had finally purged them off. With her master dead, Amelia wouldn't have enough power to defeat him anyway.

As the urban cityscape of [Eternal fantasy] vanished to reveal a black and white dimension, he walked with a melancholic air towards a throne seat that shifted into existence out of thin air.

"I guess it's time I erase the univ-"

(Zet)

Blood shot forth from his throat, coating his seat from a glimmering gold into a crimson red. The distinct Iron-like smell of blood permeated his nostrils, the further parts of his vision blurred, his confusion evident in his expression of a gaping jaw and furrowed brows.

Craning his neck down like a badly oiled cartwheel, countless blades of [Externalis Amelia] had penetrated his torso, stomach, throat and in a second, his limbs had also been attacked while he stayed stunned in his own confusion. His mind raced erratically to comprehend what had happened, however his body shivered in more excitement than ever before. Creaking his lips into a smile, he spoke with an uncanny expression.

"[One above... All]" (Zet)

He had just regained his hope. Trying to shake himself free of all the blades impaled in his body. However all that happened was that the blades multiplied and more blood flew off into the air. His divine blood stained the flooring in a brownish-red as he struggled to free himself. Tears welled up under his eyelids, contrasting with his enraptured smile.

"Before I die, could I ask how you did it..." (Zet) He struggle to speak through the blades stuck in his throat. Perhaps he was looking for a weakness, it was the last plea for life in his final moment. Something like that wouldn't be appeased for the rest of time. Hahah.

" No... Die here peacefully you scummy god. I'm going to fulfill it, my promise, my goal, my aspirations, my ambitions! and kill you off once and for all."

[Reality displacement] operated on the basis of axes of time and space and could shift you anywhere on the graph, especially into the negatives where it also maintained your existence. By using other people's memories of you, the skill defines your existence and keeps you safe in the case of any time-space esque attack.

It didn't work on pseudo time-stops like ice elemental attacks or pseudo space manipulation like wind elemental magic, however it was Zet that was the enemy here. He would use law manipulation of the highest calibre, which worked against his favour here. By shifting my time into the negative values, I was moving before the start of the universe, while watching my enemy's moves.

And finally the key to overcoming [One above all]. With the evolution of [Reality displacement] into [Reality displacement Ex] with [Conquest]and [Death] , it had achieved the ability to manipulate a third axis of universal significance, it dictated your meaning in the whole grand scheme of the universe and could alter you to be, as meaningless as a human, or as omnipotent as a God. It was the key to creating Amelia, granting her God like power, however if used on myself, there could be unforeseen side effects. For instance I could into dear Zet over there, which was for the worse.

This skill was used once more on itself, raising the significance of [Reality displacement Ex] to a conceptual level, a natural law in the universe that cannot be overturned unlike fate. By doing so, it could withstand the effects of [One above all] for a small amount of time and damage him.

When he tried to free himself, it was used once more on Amelia, so that she could operate outside of logic, it used the conceptual axis and had send her logic into the negatives. Her attacks got stronger instead of Zet being freed as he kept pushing her down the ladder of power. As he had reached the top, [One above all] could no longer bring him above others, instead it pushed others down. There was no running from it, Amelia suppressed his divinity and his last crutch, [One above all] was finally disabled, albeit temporarily, it was enough to instantly sap his health points away and erase his soul.

Rest in peace for your million year journey has finally ended. I hope if I ever fall in the same path, someone would do the same for me.