Struggle for Superiority Final

(Denzel's POV):

"For the Imperial Castle Asylum!!!"

"Wha!" - Chrominus

My weight increased to twofold, then threefold before it was all dispersed away.

"Null Zone!"

A large grayed out zone was formed in the surroundings. Dispersing all forms of mana, including gravity and Chrominus' skills. I only have ten seconds so I have to make each one count!

I pushed myself up effortlessly and removed the dagger with my left hand harshly. Chrominus starts walking back and shot three bullets in burst. I took all of which head on and sustained damage on my left wrist and right ear. He wasn't able to shoot more since he reloads bullets via magic. I grabbed hold of his collar and stabbed him with the dagger twice before throwing it away. That took around five seconds, I stabbed him in the nape and the ribs.

He vomits out blood but I didn't give him room to breathe. I kicked him in the solar plexus and dashed forward to grip his face in an iron claw and smashed the back of his head to the stone bulge behind him twice.

Nine seconds.

I took out and drank the last energy recovering potion I had while dashing backwards. The null zone disappeared and we can use a limited amount of mana once again. Both of our mana stock is limited since mana hasn't reproduced back to this place after getting sucked off. He summoned a baton and dashed at me while drinking a health recovery potion. I changed my gauntlets into twin short swords to block his strike. I swung to his left arm but he kicked off the sword easily. With one weapon dropped, I entered a disadvantage once again. But I don't intend to end it with me losing.

"Bleeding Crown!"

A skill the converts my health into mana and energy. I was able to summon four phantasmal blades and attacked Chrominus with five swords at once. Both our weapons were locked into each other but I try to strike at him when he's locked.

"It's quite sad that you missed your chance to kill me retard!"

"What did you say?!!" - Chrominus

While angered, Chrominus rushed to my back and formed a stance out of anger.

"Then I'll kill you right here! Right now! Chronoeternum! Caricature!" - Chrominus

Clear copies of Chrominus spread out from his body and multiple portals formed around both of us with me as the center. Cheh! It's not enough!

"Bleeding Status!"

A derivation of the Bleeding skill, it sacrifices blood to convert it into status, mana, or energy. There are only two existing skills with Bleeding. I received Bleeding X+, losing more than a quarter of a thousand health per second. My health status will reach red in a few seconds and into dying state in half a minute. The two deep stab marks are my only hopes to damage him even further. Blood starts pouring from every part of my body including the eye sockets. I dashed forward and landed three strikes at his body along with and locked him there. My speed exceeded Jake's top speed just for that one second.

I received a power strike to my side with his baton continuously while he punched my face once, further losing more health but I didn't falter. The three phantasmal blades in the air stabbed him in the groin, and in the joints of his shoulders.

"At least die with me!"

"You scum! I refuse to die!" - Chrominus

Chrominus screamed in pain as I reach dying state. I cancelled the Bleeding skills and cleared all of my effects using mana. I stood there with one health as Chrominus dash back after the phantasmal blades dispelled. Due to his panic, he wasn't able to finish me off, but since he is also about to die, he put his hands together with his right hand behind his left wrist and twisted some switch.

"Chronobreak!" - Chrominus

All that for nothing eh? Then I only have one last choice then.

"Lost God!"

The final skill on the Traveler vocation, allowing invulnerability for only thirty seconds. With stats reaching almost tenfold, I dashed towards Chrominus' position, lifted his neck and jumped up high.

"Wha!" - Chrominus

I didn't talk bad as I have absolutely zero time for this. I then summon a blade that's glowing with light blue aura and struck him directly to his chest.

"Impo-!" - Chrominus

"Crystalization!"

I instantly froze his body and threw him high in the sky.

"Your time of death has been decided! Prisma Ray!"

A crystal triangle formed in my hand and directed the tip towards Chrominus. I channeled everything I have into this final strike to surely kill him.

"Die!"

A beam with a mixture of colors was fired from the tip and slowly enlarged into a size of a beacon light. The size of the beam reached five meters in diameter. I held it for about five seconds before it dispersed. I knelt down with my lack of health and laid myself down facing the sky. I then see some items falling down to the ground and a bunch of lime green particles that may be experience points.

"Guess I won huh..."

Looking at the items around me, there were materials that I haven't seen in the entire game. I took out a health potion and recovered my health to some degree. I then stood up and walked towards the items dropped by killing a fellow player. No weapons, pieces of brownish blue clothing, chronogrenades though!

I then found a scroll which fell to the ground gracefully. I took the scroll and opened it, the text contained was...

"Time Warper Class, nice!"

A class, which means I'm able to use skills that Chrominus used against me. It doesn't have the glitched clone or the Chronobreak skill, I guess it requires a tool.

But Glitchy Process huh? I'll take a look at it later.

I was about to place everything I gained in the magic storage in one go but two sets of items took my attention. I saw the brown piece of rock that oozes out a powerful aura despite being a pile of rocks. There were eight pieces with sizes reaching thirty centimeters maximum and three inches minimum. I examined the rock and felt a beautiful usage for this. I broke into a smile since this thing is basically.

"Chromium..."

It's an element in real life but in this game, it's an ore that can interfere with time itself. I haven't found one when mining underground alone or with Michael. But it doesn't change the fact that I can add more things to my weapon now. Another object that fell on the ground is.

"A book."

Yes, a book, but when I opened the book.

A grimoire for lifestyle spells.

"This will definitely prove useful for our cause."

Upon closing the book and placing everything in the magic storage. Seymour's voice came in from somewhere.

"Denz, quite a flashy ending there I see." - Seymour

"Honestly though, I'm beat. Got any good drinks when I come back?"

"Depends, just get here." - Seymour

I start walking back to the castle with staggering steps and exhaustion. But that doesn't change the fact that our group survived the battle.

At least Seymour accepted my request to go one on one against that guy. Though I would've been brought to the next world if I made a bad mistake. But it ended well.

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"Zel!" - Rika

The moment I was seen walking back to the castle, Rika rushed out like she doesn't care about anybody. Rather, why did she call me 'Zel', That's my nickname in another place that I didn't bother talking about.

While pondering and walking, I was tackled straight from the front. I took a bit of damage from her tackle but I have regenerated my health once again. Rika then hugged me while shedding tears.

"I'm glad! So happy that you're safe!" - Rika

I hugged her back tightly as if I'm trying to recover just by placing my scent on her. Though everyone else is watching right now but I don't care about that.

"You're safe now, for sure. Nobody will try to terrify you now."

I looked up to all the Asylum members on the castle walls and noticed a new person in the group. William isn't around but I noticed that he used his Wormhole to escape. I knew that because of a ready clone that stopped me from blasting the flesh of Chrominus. I then noticed that I'm suddenly getting fueled up my energy and mana. I saw a flash of blue light from Ashley who was recovering my body.

"Rika's scent, is pretty nice."

"Ah, mm! You're too much of a flirt even after your fight! But, it's not bad." - Rika

Yeah right.

I noticed Seymour walking slowly towards me with Mitch and Chesca escorting behind him.

"Good job Denz." - Chesca

"Yeah, all in a days work, I guess."

Chesca fixes a thumbs up to me while being impressed to my prowess. Honestly, fighting someone that's stronger than me in stats and class is painful, I almost lost too.

"You really went flashy there." - Mitch

"You were watching?"

Mitch was smirking and holding a small piece of glass in between his fingers.

"Yep! I even recorded it all!" - Mitch

"Ye pickin a fight?! Oi!"

I tried to stand up from this sitting position but Rika entrusted the top half of her body while covering her face in my stomach.

She seems to like it so I'll let her be.

"Well, first things first. Congratulations for becoming the seventh known strongest player in game now. Let us celebrate the victory of the war inside the castle and return to our daily lives." - Seymour

I pat Rika in the head and smiled.

"All good now."

I stood up while carrying Rika in a princess carry, but I let her down immediately and faced Malech's group.

"Where's William?"

"Ah!" - Malech

Malech opens a chat box for reference.

"He said that he's in the Crystal Palace with some guests right now. He locked them down with another pinnacle skill and is scaring them by telling that we're on the way there." - Malech

Damn straight he knows how to bluff.

"How bout this kid?"

I pointed at the girl beside him that wears a pointy hat and a lot of frills in her skirt.

"This person is Flora-" - Malech

"Pleased to meet you again, the person who killed me once." - Flora

Killed her once? The heck does she mean?

I asked her just that and the response was not what I had expected. The group seems confused for a short time.

Seymour's group already went ahead, Ashley and my other benefactors came along with them, Leo, Miguel, and the other kids aren't present.

"Cause today, is a day to party!"