The anger on the face of Tyrel was palpable, and Lucas could sense that he was irate. There was horror on his face. He knew that if nothing happened, he was going to die.
The DC Chairman, whose name was Ronald, had an amused expression on his face as he saw Lucas's reaction to Tyrel's shout.
'He is more of a wimp than I thought. How the hell did he become so strong?'
His thought lingered on Lucas for a few minutes before turning to Zayden. He had a feeling that Zayden was the most dangerous person here.
"I told you"
Tyrel said to Zayden, the fury on his face not abating in the slightest.
"I told you we should've killed him, he will be a problem, but you didn't want to, now, I'm gonna kill him, and you don't have a say in it"
Tyrel didn't turn to look at Zayden again after he finished what he was saying. His voice wasn't hushed, and everyone could hear what he had just said.
And Lucas, the recipient of this anger, had a pale expression on his face.
"If you wanna touch him, you have to go through me first"
Ronald said, stepping in front of Lucas. Even though Lucas wasn't strong, Lucas was the kind of underling that Ronal wanted, not strong enough to stand up to him, and too fearful to do anything.
He was going to raise Lucas to be his perfect right-hand man, and if Lucas died here, it would be a big loss to him.
"Gladly"
Amara appeared right in front of Ronald, her hand arched back, death energy coiling around it as her necrotic touch was activated.
With the breaking of air, her hand swung out, aimed at the ribs of the DC Chairman. The eyes of Ronald flashed for an instant, and in the blink of an eye, his hand turned golden.
He caught Amara's hand, cancelling out the strike, and to Amara's surprise, her necrotic touch failed to do anything.
It was like there was some sort of energy blocking the energy of her necrotic touch, and it was more powerful than hers by a few degrees.
"Crack!!"
Amara grimaced as some bones on he hand broke, but she didn't let a sound escape her mouth.
Using her hand, Ronald raised Amara, lifting her legs off the ground, a lewd smile on his face as he brought his face close to that of Amara's.
"You're beautiful, and I like beautiful girls, so why don't you spend just one night with me?"
Without wasting any time, he was already bringing his face close to kiss Amara on the cheek when an icicle slammed into his head, making him release Amara.
But for some reason, Amara was unable to find her strength, and it was obvious that she was out of the fight.
In the blink of an eye, multiple icicles, amounting to about one hundred, slammed into the body of Ronald, kicking up dust and debris everywhere.
But as the dust slowly cleared, they saw something that made their eyes widen. Ronald's body was golden, like his skin had turned golden.
"You're feisty, I think I like you more"
Ronald's voice rang out, his lustful gaze landing on Isara.
Isara was about to jump and fight him when she was stopped by Zayden.
"You can't beat him. You and Amara, go help the girls, get them out of here and Tyrel, contain Lucas. If he doesn't respond or if he fights back, you have permission to kill him"
Isara and Amara nodded and went to do what was asked of them.
Tyrel frowned, but he could understand what Zayden was saying. He was giving him a chance to at least kill Lucas if necessary.
'I hope you fight back'
Tyrel's gaze landed on Lucas. With the eyes of a predator, he charged at Lucas when Ronald appeared in front of him, his hand swinging down to slam into Tyrel's head.
"I told you that you can't do that"
His fist was about to land on the head of Tyrel when a sword blocked the attack. The clang of metal meeting metal resounded in the LT, shocking most who were there.
After all, Zayden's sword was a sword that was already at the Rare rank, and for it not to be able to cut through Ronald's hand showed how strong Ronald was, or at least how strong his physical body was.
Meanwhile, Ronald looked at his hand with a pleasantly surprised expression. On his golden fist was a dent, like a metal dented by another metal.
'That was unexpected'
Ronald looked at Zayden as if ingraining his face into his mind.
But Zayden had no time to waste; without a change in expression, he swung his sword at Ronald.
Ronald replied by parrying with his golden fist, and the clang sound echoed. And before long, they started exchanging multiple strikes. Clangs resounding every second.
"You contracted one of Buddha's Apostles"
Zayden said while striking out. Ronald's gaze wavered, making him too late to block the attack. The attack landed on his neck, causing a small chip of gold to be removed while drawing some blood.
"How do you know that?"
He should be the only one who knew about Buddha and his apostles, but Zayden just gave him information that he shouldn't have. He had to die.
Ignoring the question that Ronald asked, Zayden continued talking while striking out once again.
"And I'm pretty sure this golden body isn't a skill... then it must be a blessing"
A shocked expression appeared on the face of Ronald, not expecting Zayden to know this much.
As for how Zayden knew this, that was because he knew the future, and unfortunately, due to his powers from an apostle of the Buddah Constellation, "The Buddah of Seven Sins", Ronald became well known, well known to the point that he had taken over one country in North America.
Now Zayden had a way to cut his future short and stop all the suffering from happening, so of course, he would do it.
Even though Ronald would be a very powerful force in the future and his strength would make surviving the second apocalypse easier, leaving him alive would do more harm than good. And he couldn't allow that.
"You need to die"
The aura around Ronald increased; he was ready to kill Zayden. But Zayden just smirked because his plan had worked.
If Ronald wanted to gather that much power, he needed some time, and this wasn't Power Rangers; Zayden didn't have to wait for Ronald to finish gathering the power.
The point at which he was gathering that power was the point at which Ronald was most vulnerable, and Zayden was going to take advantage of that.
Almost immediately, Ronald started gathering power, and Zayden activated his umbral blast. He was very close to Ronald, so there was no way for Ronald to block the attack; after all, he was occupied with absorbing cosmic energy.
He swung out his sword, releasing an arc of furious oblivion flux with large amounts of darkness laws in it at Ronald.
Ronald's pupils dilated as he felt the power behind the attack, and he quickly brought his hands in front of his face to block the attack.
But to his dismay, he wasn't fast enough.
The attack landed on his chest, sending him crashing into the large podium, releasing dust and debris everywhere.
Almost immediately, a golden energy shot out from the dust as Ronald had managed to increase his strength.
A few seconds later, a bare-chested, golden-skinned, four-armed Ronald walked out of the dust like the main villain in a Marvel comic, ready to cause some carnage.
But this difference was that he wasn't unscathed; there was a large gash going diagonally from his right shoulder down to his left rib cage.
The gash did not bleed; there was a large dark energy in the injury that seemed to want to spread around Ronald's body, but due to the golden energy holding it back, it couldn't.
But from the fury on the face of Ronald, it was obvious that holding the energy back was taking a toll on him.
"I'm gonna kill you!!"
Ronald roared in anger, dashing at Zayden. Whereas Zayden just smiled.
He had the upper hand now, as Ronald needed some concentration to hold back the darkness energy and couldn't focus solely on the battle.
"This is going to be easy"
Zayden remarked as he raised his sword to block the attack of Ronald.
Both attacks collided, creating a shockwave that shook the LT building, small cracks forming on the walls.