The ruins of the abyssal fortress crumbled around them. The air was thick with the scent of burning shadows, remnants of the monstrous entity they had just defeated. Ravihiro stood still, his blade humming faintly. Krishima, battered but alive, exhaled, wiping the blood from his lips.
🔥 "We did it," Krishima said, staring at the destruction before them.
But Ravihiro didn't move. His grip on his sword tightened. His piercing gaze locked onto Krishima. The silence between them was deafening.
🔥 "How much longer are you going to pretend?"
Krishima blinked, tilting his head. "What?"
🔥 "I asked," Ravihiro took a step forward, his aura flaring, "How much longer are you going to keep up this act, 'Krishima'?"
A sharp tension filled the air.
Krishima's expression didn't falter, but his eyes narrowed. "You're not making any sense, Ravihiro."
🔥 "Aren't I?"
Without another word, Ravihiro lunged.
His blade moved faster than sound, coated in Hellfire and Gravity Force, aiming straight for Krishima's throat. The force alone cracked the ground beneath them.
🔥 CLANK.
The blade stopped.
Krishima had caught it with just two fingers.
🔥 "When did you realize?" Krishima asked, his voice eerily calm.
Ravihiro didn't smirk, didn't even blink. His eyes burned with cold fury.
🔥 "I never trusted myself," he said, pressing against his blade, trying to force it forward. "How do you expect me to believe in you?"
Krishima's fingers tightened around the sword.
🔥 "A person with no past records… with insane strength… appearing conveniently right when I arrived on Earth?"
The pressure of Ravihiro's blade caused sparks to fly, but Krishima remained unmoved.
🔥 "Tell me, Krishima…" Ravihiro's voice lowered to a whisper. "Or should I say—Viroshis King?"
Silence.
Then, Krishima smirked.
🔥 "Heh… Not bad, Ravihiro. Not bad at all."
While Ravihiro and Krishima stood face-to-face in the ruined abyssal fortress, tension thickening between them, the battle outside was nothing short of a warzone.
The sea surrounding the Bermuda Triangle churned violently, its waves thrashing like furious beasts. The Sky Demon Sect's warship hovered above, watching the battle unfold.
🔥 Kalki vs. Leviathan – The Sea Titan's Wrath
Kalki stood on the water's surface, his every step freezing the raging sea beneath him.
Before him, the massive Leviathan, a serpent so large it could coil around an entire city, let out an ear-splitting roar. Its emerald-green scales shimmered, reflecting the lightning cracking across the sky.
🔥 "You call yourself a sea god?" Kalki scoffed, raising his massive spear. "I see nothing but an overgrown snake!"
With a mighty lunge, Leviathan sent a tsunami-sized wave crashing toward him.
Kalki twirled his spear, forming a golden sigil beneath him.
🔥 "Divine Frost Annihilation!"
A pillar of ice erupted, freezing the entire wave mid-air before it could reach him. Leviathan lunged, but Kalki dodged, twisting mid-air and driving his spear into its eye, causing the beast to thrash in agony.
🔥 Huo Tang vs. Viroshis General – The Blazing Executioner
Huo Tang stood amid flames, surrounded by a dozen Viroshis elites.
Her opponent? A monstrous Viroshis general covered in crimson armor, wielding dual flaming axes.
🔥 "I don't care who you are." Huo Tang cracked her knuckles, her flames burning blue-hot. "You're in my way, and I HATE THAT."
The general swung his axes, sending a crescent of fire.
Huo Tang smirked and kicked the air, launching herself forward.
🔥 "Blazing Phoenix Strike!"
Her body became a streak of blue fire, colliding head-on with the attack and bursting through it. She appeared behind the general, her flaming fist already buried into his gut.
🔥 BOOM.
The impact shattered the ground beneath them, sending a shockwave of pure heat into the battlefield. The general vomited blood, his armor cracking.
🔥 "H-HOW?!" he gasped.
Huo Tang wiped the blood from her cheek. "You're too slow, dumbass."