MY 10,000× DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM

Assemble IV

Vazar tried to scream but failed miserably.

That last attack had blown through his defenses like a wrecking ball through a wall. His arms were utterly destroyed along with his armor, and his chest had been blown open, revealing his shattered ribs and destroyed lungs. The only reason his heart was still intact was due to the strange rules shimmering around it, which prevented it from taking damage.

Still, at this rate, he'd die even with his heart intact.

Sadly, Kim and Silver intended to do just that.

With unreasonable speed, Kim was upon him. Space shifted as she started teleporting around him so fast that there seemed to be clones of her around him.

He couldn't track her, which ultimately led to her exploiting an opening.

Suddenly, she was in his blind spot, and her fist struck under his armpit. The moment the collision occurred, an explosion of electricity occurred at the point of impact.

But she wasn't done.

In the next moment, she was unleashing a devastating combo that pushed Vazar back with every hit. His arms hadn't regenerated, and the electricity she had unleashed just then had caused his body to go haywire, and he was finding it difficult to mobilize his Mana.

Kim punched both fists into his chest cavity and blew him into one of the many large ice chunks that had been uprooted from the ground at some point during the battle.

He smashed into it and the force caused that side to shatter. But again, Kim wasn't done.

She entered a stance and teleported to him. Her fists opened for her to use her claws as she slashed him silly.

She even swapped to her legs at some point as she unleashed some devastating kicks, each one being infused with lightning that continuously interfered with Vazar's bodily coordination.

'His vitality is surprisingly high.' Kim noted as she backed up a bit. By now, she had accumulated quite a bit of kinetic energy.

She pressed her fist against her palm, or it looked like she did. But in reality, her fist didn't touch her palm, and there was a small gap between the two.

What Kim lacked in raw strength, she made up for in speed. However, that didn't mean she didn't have methods to increase her attack power. These methods came in the form of her various affinities and the ways she made use of them, like right now.

As she tried to press her fist into her palm, she made use of her space and kinetic attributes to cause the kinetic energy in her fist to bounce and multiply the more she pushed forward.

The moment barely lasted a blink, yet the energy she had accumulated in that short amount of time was staggering. How staggering?

Well, once she judged the accumulation to be enough, she took a step and rocked Vazar in his chest once more, but this time, the impact was far more horrendous than before.

Whatever flesh or organs remained in his chest cavity we utterly destroyed as the force Kim unleashed was unlike anything she'd released throughout the battle.

Vazar felt his brain nearly shut off just from the initial impact, but what followed was much worse.

As her fist was still in his chest cavity, space collapsed, a collapse which was added by Aether, which was then supplemented by lightning, and then the damage being inflicted was taken up a notch as Kik accelerated the deterioration of Vazar's body.

'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!' Vazar desperately wanted to scream, but even if his lungs were intact, the lightning would have made it impossible.

Vazar felt his vision starting to darken fast.

'I... Elixir... Gah!' His mind was a jumbled mess as he wanted nothing more than to drink the elixir given to him by his clan, but forget reaching for it, where his spatial ring was at the moment was simply a mystery as it had been blown away during one of the many attacks.

Then, through the pain and anguish, Vazar felt angry. No, not angry, he was thoroughly enraged.

Who was he? A proud Scion, someone that had been exalted by not just his clan, but dozens of lesser clans. His talent was something some people could only spend their entire lives trying to get a percentage of.

He was beyond conventional scaling. He was beyond conventional comparisons. He had few equals in this world.

He could stomach losing to an Arbiter. Something like that was simply expected due to the nature of the being he was fighting. But to lose to these no-names... no, he couldn't allow it. He WOULDN'T!

Suddenly, the runes surrounding his heart flickered, and a moment later, they shattered.

The instant that happened, Kim's body reacted on its own. The clock in her eye suddenly halted and the surrounding area lost all color as time ceased.

Kim blinked as she pulled her fist back. In front of her, energy suddenly started to fill every cell of Vazar's body, the source being his heart.

Her arm was just inches away from being touched by this energy, and she'd be lying if she said she didn't feel a bit of unease when she looked at it.

She turned back and saw Silver who was ready to unleash another devastating attack. Despite time being stopped, the wolf was still moving, albeit slowly.

This is because her tike abilities only worked well when she was either much stronger than her opponent or swamp them with her energy capacity. She and Silver possessed similar strength and had the same energy source, so it didn't affect him as well.

What was concerning though, was that Vazar was also moving slowly.

Despite the concerning development, Kik didn't feel as concerned as she thought she would. To be clear, the concern WAS there, but that wasn't all.

She could feel her heart racing, but in a good way.

'Ah, I see. I'm getting excited.' A smile grew on her face subconsciously.

Kim hadn't felt particularly threatened by anyone outside the Primordial Expanse for a long time, not even by that Djinn she fought. She was used to fighting Christopher and her colleagues, and while the fights were fun, there were no real stakes, so there was a lack of a certain thrill.

But this was different. Right now, her opponent was going to do everything in his power to kill her. That was a terrifying thought, yet she couldn't deny how... endearing it felt, knowing that she wouldn't be able to just take things easy anymore.

Kim teleported to Silver and let time flow normally. The moment she did, a beam of pure corruption erupted from Vazar's body and shot into the sky.

Wherever this beam passed, everything got corrupted. The runes belonging to the different elements were corrupted along with space before vanishing.

"Well, that can't be good," Kim said, but her tails were swaying with what seemed to be excitement.

"Probably not, but it was getting boring." Silver shrugged, but just like Kim, there was an excited gleam in his eyes.

Soon, the beam subsided revealing a vast crevice in space that grew as the corruption spread.

In its stead, there was a being.

It was Vazar, but he looked noticeably different. His body seemed to have vanished and was instead replaced with pure, unfiltered corruption. Where his eyes were meant to be were two holes of corruption that were a deeper shade than the rest. Despite lacking pupils, the pure madness that filled them was simply startling.

His very existence corrupted the reality around him as the snow beneath his feet started to turn a sickly grey and be reduced into grey ash.

He threw his head back and a horrid, distorted scream of rage and what seemed to be pain left him. The power from the scream alone shattering the space around them even more.

The clock in Kim's eye activated once more, but instead of the hand moving, another clock appeared and overlapped with it. But now, the hands in this clock were slightly ahead of the hands in the original clock.

"Here he comes, protect yourself with Mana properly." She said and stepped to the side.

At that moment, Vazqr blasted forward with speed that far surpassed anything he'd displayed so far as he went straight for Silver.

Silver crossed his arms just as Vazar threw a punch and the clash resulted resulted a devastating explosion.

***

'Seems like things are getting even more heated than before.' Christopher noted as he watched the battle progress, then he turned his attention back to Pruina.

'I've decided to take him into the Primordial Expanse, but that curse of his might be an issue. Even if I use my authority to stop it from interfering with how my people interact with him, there's still a chance that the being who placed it on him can track his whereabouts through him. I don't like that.' Christopher mused for a bit before sighing.

Then he put a hand on his mask and took it off.