Chapter 2349: Your Universe values you more than I thought. |
"That is quite commendable.
Also quite foolish."
Nux narrowed his eyes, Zylarith, on the other hand, just grinned.
"Allow me to show you how."
He spoke as he raised his hand and just then—
Reality itself screamed.
The dimension began to twist, the void trembled violently, his surroundings now covered with dense Chaos Energy, ready to pounce on him and devour him whole.
Nux stood in the middle of it all, his golden eyes fixed on Zylarith, who was still smiling at him.
"Don’t die."
His body froze.
Zylarith didn’t stop time, neither did he trap him inside space, he did not have that power, what he had however, was far worse.
Something inside Nux’s body began to... go wrong.
His bones trembled, then they shifted, for one instant, his skeleton forgot its own shape, his spine bent in a direction it should not have been able to bend. His ribs moved apart as if they had never been connected. His arm twisted because the very meaning of "arm" was disturbed.
Nux’s body shivered in agony, but never once did Nux let that pain come out of him in the form of a scream. He suppressed it all, and even as his face turned pale, he continued to glare at Zylarith, while at the same time, trying to understand what was happening to him.
"Heh."
Zylarith grinned.
He knew Nux was in pain, he knew he was suppressing it, to not give him the satisfaction of seeing him scream.
So he accepted the challenge.
"Let’s see how long it takes me to make you scream."
He waved his hand again and—
Nux’s left leg bent wrongly, the bone inside it snapped, twisted, and tried to tear away from the rest of his body, but Nux, with his eyes still on Zylarith—
CRACK
He forced it straight with another crack, then, he took another step.
Zylarith tried to reverse his blood again, Nux used sheer force to pump his heart and set the flow straight again, even if it meant bursting some of his veins.
Just like that, Nux, forcing himself through all that pain and his eyes still on Zylarith—
Forced his body straight.
"You didn’t scream."
He admitted.
"That went beyond my expectation.
Your Universe values you more than I thought."
Nux, without saying anything, wiped the blood from his lips with the back of his hand.
His skin was still being torn apart, his body was still being attacked from within, but his eyes never left Zylarith, glaring at him as he forced his broken legs to balance his weight.
"That body is not merely strong. It is not even a body in the normal sense."
Zylarith commented, studying Nux like he was a test subject.
Nux couldn’t care less, he just moved and this time, he did not rely on Space or Time, he pushed his body forward through sheer Might, his speed tore through the distorted reality and he appeared right in front of Zylarith, surprising even him.
Zylarith tried to break the concept of direction again, forward became backward, left became below, near became impossibly far, but to Nux and his physical strength, none of it mattered—
He pushed through it all, cracking the space around him through sheer force, forcing the distorted direction to accept him and—
BOOOOOOOOM
He punched.
The ridiculously strong force scattered Zylarith’s body into dust, that would have been the end of the battle but—
Zylarith’s Soul Form scattered like smoke, the enormous force passed through him, ripping through the empty space behind Zylarith.
"Interesting..."
Zylarith commented.
Then, the sheer force that Nux had released, that was travelling in the form of a shockwave, turned back, Chaos in the void had caught it and changed its shape into black-violet spears.
Nux’s expression changed as those spears dashed towards him, he tried to move away, but the Space around him was distorted, Time Flow was a mess, and his body... it couldn’t move as quickly.
Pierce Pierce Pierce Pierce
The spears struck his chest, shoulders, stomach, and legs, piercing into his flesh. Nux was pushed back three steps.
"Ughh..."
He groaned in pain as direct Chaos made an even stronger mess inside his body, he looked down at the spears buried in him, gritted his teeth from pain and then—
He clenched his muscles and...
Shatter
The spears shattered.
Zylarith reformed above the battlefield as if nothing had happened and that encounter alone was enough for Nux to realize it—
Physical Force did not work on him.
He noted it down.
Zylarith was doing the same, his eyes were studying Nux with even greater interest—
"To be able to keep advancing even when movement itself rejects you."
Again, Nux did not react—
He disappeared.
Zylarith frowned, not expecting him to move right this instant, his eons of experience told him that even the strongest of warriors needed some time to gather themselves after suffering through such agonizing pain.
But Nux didn’t.
This time, he used Space and Time together. The dark battlefield folded, Nux reached Zylarith instantly.
Or at least...
He should have.
But the next instant, Zylarith raised one finger and—
"Sequence."
Time broke.
Nux arrived before he moved, then he moved after he arrived, then the arrival itself lost its place.
The Space opened in ten different directions, and Nux’s body was dragged into all of them at once.
His right arm appeared above Zylarith.
His left leg appeared behind him.
His torso remained below.
His head flickered between three positions.
For an instant, Nux was scattered all across broken space. .
And Zylarith—
His eyes watched it all with the same cold interest.
"Position."
He commented as the Space collapsed.
All the separated parts of Nux’s body were forced back together violently—
"Khawwrrrkkkk!!!"
Blood came out of his mouth.
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