A trip to knowledge

Gary backed down taking several steps backwards before charging forward with a delightful punch to the huge praying mantis whose hands were already itching to punch the hell out of Gary, another punch came at him, but he immediately ducked before grabbing the arm and swinging it straight out of the ship, the ship seemed to be repairing itself immediately it was damaged. Vincent wasn't really much of a fighter but he had the accumulated skills to survive through this, besides he was a better castor than Gary, he could only indulge in wide range magical attacks, while Gary in the other hand made use of both wide and close ranged attacks.

"Old man's such a jerk!" Gary released a wave of azura aura before launching into the sky; he spun around before conjuring a sword from azura energy and like a blistering force of nature he descended ferociously on the attackers with such spinning speed that only after images could be seen. Green ooze splattered out of their necks and this form of attack continued till none were aboard. Vincent heaved a sigh of relief before resting on a wooden platform, Gary came to an abrupt stop and with a smile on his face he accessed the ocean and said after assuring that there were no more of them.

"They were really entertaining."

Old man came out of the cabin with a sign of approval on his face, he yawned in a rude manner; both hands behind him.

"You guys did well… I think..."

"You think?! We did our fucking best and we did well?!" Gary snapped gritting his teeth.

Vincent didn't join in their conversation, and frankly, he didn't really like talking all that much unlike Gary who was outspoken, the two were truly opposites whose fate crossed paths.

"Wait old man, if we're truly in space, then why are there no planets or anything, I mean, we are at the river of worlds?" Vincent asked.

Old man raised an eye brow he was more eager to answer any question that Vincent would throw at him since he really valued the knowledge that this young lad held.

"Great question, figures you'll be the one to ask me that."

"Hey!!..." Gary snapped once again "…Wait you're right dork face."

"I look exactly like you, so that just means we are both dork faces you bozo." Vincent fired back.

"Who you calling…." Gary was about to give an effective reply backed up with physical applications when Old man's loud voice interrupted him.

"This place we're at right now isn't what you normally know as the river of worlds, but it really is, and you can't see them because you didn't peer into the abyss. "

"What does he mean…?" Gary's eyes caught something a miniature detail, but something really large in his head, his eyes widened planets enveloped in planets, worlds within worlds, his eyes couldn't explain what he was seeing but his mind could. Vincent also noticed his hair uniformly stood up in excitement, he looked around his crimson eyes widened.

Knowing that they had already understood, Old man went back to what he was previously doing. Several minutes and another path swap they had arrived at their location the two lads weren't aware that they were there not until old man came out wearing his metal farmer hat and a rough and dirty bag by his side.

"Where you headed jumbo?"

"What do you mean? We are here, THE LAND CALLED KNOWLEDGE"

"We are?"

Jaztu slammed his fist onto the wooden table, their plan had already swung left and Z'aheer was still healing from the fight between him and Niyah, and everything they built could only be seen crumbling, he didn't understand why Z'aheer would want to go toe-to-toe with a monarch…

Two days ago after the fight with Emmax

Niyah rode on his white unicorn along with three hefty men, his intention wasn't to head back to the machinery but now that Emmax had stopped his plans, he had to head back since he didn't feel the slightest that Gary would slip away from him since the night of the eight moon of resurrection, he knew where he was, every single movement he was making.

'Acquiring the knowledge of the cosmos wouldn't save you, and plus I can't let that happen.' Niyah had a smile on his face, fantasizing how he would utilize the Optisiar to his own will.

A loud explosion took everything around it's 3 miles radius airborne, the unicorn tumbled and so did the horses, Niyah stood up with elegance, and a smile still on his face, the unicorn had already vanished. The dusts were already starting to clear up, and now Niyah could see who launched the attack. Z'aheer, Jaztu and Varilence stood together, their leader walked forward smiling.

"Ah..Ah…Z'aheer, real fan of your family." Niyah said with a grin.

"Sure you are, why not. We are one of the greatest after all." He said walking forward slowly, armed and at anytime could strike.

"Don't regard that as a compliment directed to you, besides of all creatures from your bloodline, you are by far the weakest." Z'aheer's smile was wiped off and now replaced with the aura of anger.

"That aside, I assume you know why I'm here oh monarch of destiny."

"Sure I do, and I don't mind spilling a blood or two before heading back t0 the machinery." A bizarre event took place before his eyes, a great amount of magical energy drove itself out of his body and that energy later transformed into a younger version of him.

"Would want to kill you myself but I want it to at least have a bit of fairness."

Z'aheer let out a cry before charging at Niyah but his younger version immediately intercepted the attack and sent him flying back, a loud roar from Z'aheer which released an ultrasonic wave in attempt to knock his enemy off balance but the opposite seemed to be the case as young Niyah walked through the attack like it was never there which didn't seem to surprise Z'aheer who just let out a low chuckle. Varilence and Jatzu had also begun their own battle standing their ground against the guards who seemed to be no match for them. Varilence roared before striking down his axe shredding the guard into two halves whilst Jatzu just burned up his opponent in purple flames.

Niyah was about to mount his unicorn and leave when he was immediately confronted by the duo who wasted no moment in attacking him, Niyah became pure light within seconds before unlashing an Omni-directional spiky attack which pierced through their skins, their blood staining the light energy. Z'aheer swung backwards before dropping several nether arrows to which young Niyah dodged effortlessly whilst preparing to launch a counter attack he formed up a shield made of light energy but the nether pierced through them and to his skin they went, he coughed out blood but that would only be the beginning as Z'aheer launched down at him at full speed before slicing up his neck with a nether blade.

Niyah eyes widened in shock as he walked slowly towards Z'aheer who had anger written all over his face, Niyah sped towards him at light's speed before yelling the words:

"Eyes of the universe: Ultimate declaration." Everything immediately went blank and nothing could be seen at all…