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"If I am not his home... THEN I SHALL BE HIS GRAVE!!"

The sea boiled beneath him. Storm clouds spiraled unnaturally above.

From his maw, darkness surged. Light-devouring, form-destroying. Not shadow. Not night. Something before those things.

His Kraken form began to glitch, flickering uncontrollably between the monstrous sea creature and the legendary beast, Lembuswana. Then, with a final surge of power, the transformation stabilized.

He emerged fully as Lembuswana.

Towering and formidable, his body was cloaked in dark, dense fur that seemed to absorb the light around him. Vast wings, shadowy and powerful, spread wide behind him like the omen of a coming storm. His eyes glowed an ominous red, burning with an unnatural intensity that struck fear into all who dared meet his gaze.

His face was a terrifying fusion of a demonic lion and a savage wolf, primal and unyielding, with two large, gnarled horns curling from his skull. Razor-sharp claws gleamed with deadly promise, and a long, tail-like snake lashed behind him, coiled with raw, untamed energy.

This was no longer Lembuswana, this was a harbinger of destruction.

Alice screamed as Basukhi dipped violently to avoid a pulse of obliteration that tore through the sky.

Lembuswana growled softly, standing between Alice and the incoming force.

And then-

*Flash*

Aksara stepped forward, the wind slicing past him. His Ninjato was drawn, gleaming with the subtle radiance of SwordMagic: Light Form.

He didn't speak at first. He didn't look at Alice, his father, his family, or the towering god-beast.

Just closed his eyes for a brief moment.

Then.

"Whatever you were," Aksara said, voice cold but steady, "you're not Lembu anymore, and we don't need another Lembuswana"

The Original screamed, a sound like shattering glass and unraveling time, wings expanding wide, then launched forward with terrifying speed.

Aksara blurred.

*CLANG!*

Blade met Claw in midair. The sky cracked with the impact.

"You attack my sister," Aksara said, pushing back, "you go through me first"

Lembuswana snarled, claws raking the air, creating rifts that bled raw light.

Aksara ducked under a swipe, then shot upward with a burst of swordlight, slashing across the beast's scaled shoulder. Sparks flew.

The Ninjato hummed.

'Light Form: Thousand Petals!'

A flurry of strikes rained out like blooming light blades, each one searing into the Original's ethereal form, trying to carve away the chaos, but the beast didn't slow.

He, The original Lembuswana let out another roar. Then...

The sky trembled.

A terrible, cosmic echo, and the air folded in on itself. Gravity twisted like a writhing serpent. The sea below buckled, rising into jagged spirals of water, suspended in impossible arcs.

Then came Void, not darkness, but absence.

Entire chunks of sky simply vanished, consumed by gravitational singularities orbiting the monster's body like black halos.

Aksara struggled to stay upright in midair, space itself warping around him.

Aksara glanced toward his father, but Taufik remained still, his expression unreadable. He made no move to intervene, only conjuring a barrier to shield the rest of their family. That was all.

Aksara drew a steady breath.

His father's silence wasn't abandonment. It was trust.

Taufik believed in him. Believed he could handle this on his own.

Aksara turned his gaze back to the creature before him, no longer just the Original Lembuswana, but something far worse.

A being twisted into the Harbinger of Destruction... A fate that would have befallen Lembuswana if Taufik had not intervened.

Now, that nightmare stood before him, fully realized.

He clenched his fists, feeling the weight of the moment press against his chest.

"This isn't Earth… I can't unleash my full power here," He thought, his brow furrowed. "But… That doesn't mean I can't fight"

Aksara exhaled slowly, closing his eyes.

Silence.

Then, his eyes snapped open.

No longer did they reflect hesitation. Instead, they held galaxies. Swirling stars, nebulae, and the cold vastness of space burned within them, eyes that now mirrored the cosmos itself.

He raised his Ninjato, its edge shimmering with stardust, and whispered, his voice echoing with celestial might:

"SwordMagic: Cosmic Form"

In that instant, energy surged around him like the birth of a new star, space folding and crackling at his feet.

Stars blinked to life along his blade.

A cosmic aura erupted from his body, his hair flowing upward like he was standing before the edge of space.

His Ninjato lengthened slightly, etching celestial runes along its edge. His feet no longer touched anything, he stood upon gravity-defying rings of starlight.

He became a fixed point in a collapsing sky.

"Your world bends," Aksara muttered, "but mine expands"

The Original lunged.

Void surged forward, a crushing tide of nothingness.

Aksara moved, not through speed, but bending space itself. He vanished and reappeared above the beast.

"SwordMagic: Cosmic Form - Event Horizon!"

He slashed downward. The cut didn't touch the creature, yet reality tore open across its back, splitting hide and fur with a shriek of unraveling atoms.

Lembuswana countered instantly.

Gravity compressed, a force so intense it turned the air into liquid. Aksara gasped as his ribs creaked. Blood trickled from his nose.

'So this is... Power unchained'

Aksara thought, eyes burning with pain, and something else.

Resolve.

The stars along his sword flared.

'Cosmic Form - Stellar Collapse!'

He drove his blade forward.

Lembuswana raised a claw, but too late. The sword struck its chest, and suddenly, an implosion. Space twisted around the impact point, dragging the beast's own Void field inward.

Aksara's voice rang out like a dying star:

"You can't do anything to my Family... Not while I'm still breathing"

The beast howled, void energy thrashing wildly as its own gravitational halos faltered. Aksara hovered, breath ragged, maintaining Cosmic form while not on Earth takes a heavy toll on his body.

The implosion had torn through layers of Lembuswana's corrupted essence, but it wasn't enough.

Not yet.

From within Lembuswana's wound, something pulsed. A red, jagged core. Beating. Writhing.

Living.

Aksara's eyes narrowed.

"That's it… That was the fragment, the source of the corruption"

Suddenly, a shockwave. The Original Lembuswana's wings beat once, and space folded violently outward.

Aksara was thrown back, stars peeling off his aura like ash in a supernova.

The sky turned crimson. Time warped. For a second, it rained upward.

The beast moved faster now, its form shedding all pretense of biology. Segments of its body twisted like broken code, pieces of the Kraken, pieces of Lembuswana, fragments of something else entirely.

"He's destabilizing further," Aksara thought, reorienting midair. "I can't let this drag out"

Lembuswana lunged again, mouth stretching wide, not with teeth, but with a vortex. A singularity compressed into a scream, aimed directly at Aksara.

"SwordMagic: Cosmic Form - Superposition Step!"

In the blink of an eye, Aksara split... Four copies of himself across parallel timelines, all converging on the beast at once.

The vortex consumed three.

The fourth, the true Aksara, reappeared at the base of the creature's skull, blade ready.

"... I'll end it here"

"SwordMagic: Cosmic Form - NOVA DRIVE!!"

He plunged the blade into the beast's wound, straight into the fragment.

It didn't slice.

It expanded.

Stars exploded outward from the impact point in a spiral, tearing through the Original Lembuswana's corrupted form.

Reality twisted violently, space and time thrashing like dying beasts as the explosion folded in on itself... Until... Silence.

No scream. No roar.

Just… Silence.

The original Lembuswana's body shattered into stardust, dispersed like mist in the wind.

Its gravitational singularities collapsed, and the holes in the sky slowly mended.

Aksara landed, feet touching the scorched air like it was solid ground.

He fell to one knee, the glow in his eyes fading. His Ninjato returned to its regular form. Cracked. Nearly broken.

Basukhi circled overhead once, then slowed. A gentle rain began to fall, not water, but light.

Standing atop Basukhi's broad back, Taufik raised his hands, his eyes focused as energy shimmered around him. With a single command, he activated his skill: Force Teleportation.

In the blink of an eye, the world around them shifted, sky and sea folding into light.

A moment later, they stood once more on solid ground, a solitary island surrounded by the endless expanse of ocean.

From a distance, Alice's voice rang out as she ran toward him, her steps quick and worried. Aksara's other siblings followed close behind, their faces filled with concern. Gaia, his mother, approached with wide, anxious eyes, and beside her walked Erelythe, silent and watchful.

But Aksara didn't move.

He stood still in the aftermath of power, his body trembling slightly, not from exhaustion, but from everything that moment had meant.

Then, slowly, he lifted his gaze.

His eyes met his father's, Taufik, who had remained silent through it all, observing without interference, wrapped in unshaken calm.

Aksara's voice barely rose above a whisper, but it carried everything.

"How was it…? How was it, Father?"

Taufik smiled, just slightly, but it held the warmth of a thousand unspoken words.

He didn't rush forward, didn't speak loudly. He simply stood there, pride glowing faintly in his eyes as he looked at his son.

'At least now,' He thought, 'if I ever vanish again… I know someone will be there'

Someone strong.

Someone steady.

Someone he could trust with everything.

His eldest son.

The protector of their family.

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