Chapter 91: My Decree

The force of Kayn's punch sends Xzina flying back. As she does, he continues to teleport to her sides, delivering kicks and punches, shattering more of her armor which struggles to keep up, recovering from the damages as he does.

Damn it! If only I had more time to learn more of Habil's techniques, combat skills, or memories— I might have had a better answer to this!

The only solution at hand now is to use a large-scale technique that targets space. That's the strength of his technique, after all— complete mastery over space.

But I'll have to stop using the obstruction technique to release such a large-scale move. Unleashing it takes time. He will be free to use perfect forces as he pleases to crush me, and it doesn't seem like he intends to give me a breather like last time. He will continue to attack nonstop. Then I'll have to create the opportunity myself.

Xzina tightly covers herself under the protection of her crystallized tails, leaving no gaps. Matter shouldn't overlap; if it ever does, the results might be disastrous.

Kayn uses two methods when dealing with gases. For short distances during a battle, he ensures the scatter of minuscule, almost invisible amounts of element zero are suspended in the air or any other gas. Whenever he wants to teleport somewhere, he creates a vacuum at that location to avoid overlapping with the air or any gas in that space.

The second method involves teleporting the element zero particles to the desired location before he arrives, allowing the particles to create the vacuum before his arrival. This method works because gaseous compounds and elements have particles that fly all over, providing enough space to teleport the element zero comfortably without much worry of matter overlapping and with very reliable results.

However, with solids and liquids, the particles are far too cluttered together for him to risk attempting it. He might be able to do it with liquids one day, but it requires much more practice.

As a result, Kayn can no longer reach Xzina and continue pummeling her.

"I'll make a way then!"

Immediately, four copies of Kayn surround the cocooned Xzina, as if he has cloned himself. But that isn't the case. Kayn's abstract technique transcends the speed cap enforced by the universe on everything— light speed, the limit at which information can travel. Imagine holding a long slinky from the top side, letting it hang down, and then releasing it. If your hand travels faster than the speed of the slinky falling from top to bottom, and you place it under the bottom of the slinky, by the time the information that the slinky should start falling reaches its bottom side, your hand will already be there to keep it in place. Thus, the bottom will never fall!

Kayn's technique is something that shouldn't exist in this world. It is supposed to merely exist as a mathematical expression, like the concept of infinity. Yet, he breaks through.

Right now, the world searches for Kayn, trying to catch up, and finds him in four places.

"Knock knock!" The fissions glow brightly, but before they can fire, it is safe for him to fire from such a place in such a way that he can outrun the explosion and not be caught in it. Not to mention the time the fissions will take to travel and hit— a luxury he could not afford on his last fission as he had to launch Xzina away with it.

Fourth Chemistry Technique: Blinding Light

Before he fires, large amounts of element zero fly around and turn into magnesium powder. A small spark is enough for it to burn with oxygen, illuminating the entire battlefield with blinding light.

Disoriented and unable to see, he holds back the fissions and doesn't fire them, like holding the hammer of a gun backwards to stop it from firing but in its own complicated way. He sends the fissions somewhere away from him and continues to teleport very far away and high in the air, just to be extra safe, as he has no idea what Xzina might be planning.

The bright light continues to shine and soon subsides. Mere seconds are all it buys, but mere seconds are all she needs.

Before him stands a . . . he doesn't know how to describe it.

He is shocked, having never seen such a thing coming. It is a large orbital mess— a conglomeration of different solids along with water, all being held together by element zero and all of Xzina's tails like pillars spread out in all directions, helping hold everything together. It continues to grow more and more, forcing Kayn to keep going further back.

"Sheesh, the amount of energy she must have used to pull this off, not to mention maintaining it. I don't think I've ever seen the Fifth Physics Technique implemented on such a scale. One could confuse it for my perfect forces. She's still adding more stuff too. Hmm . . . released a sequence of physics and chemistry techniques simultaneously on such a scale. Interesting," Kayn observes from afar.

I must reach the Alpha . . . aaaaaahhhhhh!!!

She pushes further, and the sphere begins to release the same poisonous gas she used to trap Kayn, along with a highly flammable gas. The giant orb starts to roll toward the Nexus, building upon itself. Instinctively, Kayn fires all four of his fissions in the opposite direction of its motion, hoping to at least slow it down, if not destroy it.

She launces large projectiles from the orb, igniting the gas she released. The four nuclear explosions occur some distance away from the sphere, but it emerges through, continuing to push, making a dent that quickly recovers and keeps building. There are copious amounts of water almost everywhere to cool down the temperature, and materials with high melting points and very hard solids through and through, preventing him from teleporting inside.

"I can try and use discrete and continuous on it, but teleporting closer to the sphere means inhaling the gas she keeps releasing all around for near-instant death. I could maybe cover my mouth, but what about the highly flammable gas? Hmm, I could maybe teleport near a liquid and head straight insi—"

He stops short, noticing something else, "She mixed highly acidic fluor antimonic acid from that rain . . . in there,"

"Should I stack perfect forces before I go in then? But if I do all that, could I break that whole thing apart before she reacts?"

"Fusion and antimatter are overkill. Fission on a large scale is overkill, and the little ones can't break through—"

Before he can finish contemplating, projectiles and extensions start getting thrown from the sphere in all directions. Solids, liquid acids—whatever she can throw. It is a desperate attempt at attacking that Kayn pities as he dodges everything with extreme ease, teleporting.

"Well, I guess it's the best option. Let's hope I did enough to pull it off," he sighs as all five gems go into overdrive in preparation.

"Calamity, bare witness the fruits of resolve! and learn. The world bends to my decree." proclaims Kayn.