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Speed Villain
Chapter 12: The Race of Titans
The world had never seen destruction at this speed before.
The city was a ghost town—silent, lifeless, abandoned.
Humans had fled for their lives, escaping the unstoppable force that was Kael-X.
They had seen him fight. They had witnessed his inhuman speed, his earth-shattering strength. They knew this was a battle they could never survive.
> The world belongs to the fast now.
Kael-X stood in the middle of an empty intersection, his silver hair covering his eyes, his body still humming with the unstable energy of Compound-X. His fists clenched as he faced the only opponent who had ever matched his speed—The Speed Phantom.
A figure just as fast.
Maybe faster.
The Speed Phantom cracked his neck, a grin forming on his face.
"You thought you were fast," he said. "But you've only been racing against humans. You've never faced a true speedster before."
Kael-X's muscles tensed. This wasn't arrogance. This was the truth.
For the first time, he had been hit first.
For the first time, he wasn't sure if he was the fastest.
And that pissed him off.
Kael-X exhaled slowly. "I don't care who you are," he said, voice low and dangerous. "I only care about who's left standing at the end."
The Speed Phantom's grin widened. "Then let's find out."
And in the next instant—
They vanished.
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Speed Beyond Sight
The world froze.
No—time itself struggled to keep up.
Kael-X and the Speed Phantom moved at speeds that bent reality, leaving behind afterimages that flickered in and out of existence.
Buildings shattered as they raced past. The wind itself screamed.
Each punch was a shockwave, each step left craters in the earth.
Kael-X ducked under a strike, spun mid-air, and slammed his fist into the Speed Phantom's chest.
BOOM!
The shockwave ripped through six skyscrapers behind them, sending debris flying into the sky like meteor showers.
But the Speed Phantom barely flinched.
Instead, he smirked.
> He's playing with me?!
Kael-X disappeared again, his speed tearing apart the asphalt beneath him. He rewrote his own movements, bending time so he appeared behind the Speed Phantom in an instant—
But the Speed Phantom was already waiting.
CRACK!
A knee to the gut sent Kael-X soaring backward, crashing through an abandoned subway station. The entire structure collapsed around him.
Dust filled the air.
For a moment, everything was still.
Then—
A burst of blue lightning exploded from the rubble.
Kael-X stood up.
His breathing was heavy. His body ached.
> He's not just fast. He's precise. He's calculating my movements before I even make them.
Kael-X wiped blood from his lip.
If this guy thought he was going to win—
He was dead wrong.
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The Unleashing of Compound-X
Kael-X took a deep breath.
His body was adapting.
His cells were absorbing every moment of battle, every hit he had taken.
And they were evolving.
The energy of Compound-X surged within him, sparking around his body in arcs of electric-blue lightning.
Kael-X's heart slammed against his ribs.
His blood felt like pure fire.
The Speed Phantom tilted his head. "What's this?"
Kael-X smirked.
"Your worst nightmare."
And then—
He vanished.
> Not forward. Not backward. Not sideways.
> Kael-X moved in a direction the Speed Phantom had never seen before.
For the first time, Speed Phantom's face twisted in shock.
Kael-X reappeared behind him, his fist already in motion.
The punch landed.
BOOOOOOOM!
The impact was like a nuclear detonation.
The entire city block exploded, sending shockwaves that shattered every window for miles.
The Speed Phantom went flying, his body bouncing off skyscrapers like a ragdoll, before finally crashing into the remains of a fallen building.
The dust settled.
And Kael-X stood tall.
His hair still covered his eyes.
His body still crackled with power.
For the first time in his life, he had used Compound-X at full power.
And it felt insane.
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To Be Continued…
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