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Chapter 20 - Announcement

I'm going to do the driving knowledge test tomorrow, that's why certainly I can't upload the new chapter. Excuse me. Thanks for waiting.

Here for the apologize, I'll drop a part of the new chapter:

*Note: Okay never mind, it's postponed for 7 more days. Yippe. 20th chapter is coming.

|WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!|

|Due to the incident that will come during your quest, it'll be changed.|

|All the limits are erased.|

The system board instantly pops up and turns red. It madly overwrites everything into his vision about the new opponent. 

*Vroom* - White room and a throne, Loki is sitting there without a smile, so unusual.

"Here we go again." - He sighs.

"Loki? Where am I?" - Her instantly wonders, everything was just all up of sudden. 

"Fixer, he has come."

"Fixer?" - What is that? The questions are murmured both physically and mentally. 

The Trickster only crosses his legs and takes out a Joker card, "There's no time to waste, it'll be able to save your life once, but only ONCE."

"Okay, fine then. Tell me about that Fixer, I need some information to counter him." - Har still tries at the last moment.

"None."

"Huh?" - Har opened his eyes wide, did he just mishear it? 

Loki gives Har three cards, which stand for his future, "Open them, the order is up to you."

*Tch* - "Why are you all pretending to be mysterious?"

Besides the blaming, his fingers slowly touch the middle one and flip it - Death.

*Swish* - Har instantly approaches Aliny and Maiya with his maximum output power. Just for throwing, he bursts the Aura outside and sends them both flying to his companion's side - Cryinas'.

At the same time, cutting through his old position, a deep and seemingly forever long valley is split from the earth below - leaving nothing but an absolute destruction behind the antagonist. 

That guy still approaches him with the slow movements, yet, the attacks even reach his skin before the two eyes are able to catch up with them.

*Splash* - It wasn't the issue of the slowerness of his Aura protection - Guard, but the issue of special power of those attacks. Consequently, Har is split into hundreds of meat scraps.

Shadow Gates: Fusion - Old trick but in the better version, within a second, all of his wounds are covered by the shadow essence as if there wasn't anything occurring.

"Am I honored to know your name?" - Har tries to do some tips and tricks.

*Splash* - His body is cut into half with a vertical slash, perfectly being split into two different but equal pieces.

"No you aren't." - The cold voice declares the death sentence, this is the end. 

"You are so mean." - A high kick drives straight to that head but got cut to scraps before the intention was able to be clear. 

*Tch* - His pissed off face has been made by the expression. Har feels like all of his movements are predicted and foreseen inside those two eyes - so dangerous for his life.

*Splash* - Another time, his body is split into half for each piece without any chance to counter or react.

System! Show me the information about his ability. He screams in his mind.

Yet, the silence is all the reply, nothing but silence, deadly he gets killed. Without any joy to remain this unholy entity, Yuiz points his fingers straight toward that guy. And again, that sound one more time clangs around, "Cleave."

Cutting through the earth below him, that slice divides that whole zone into two separated parts, also dividing Har for the fourth time.

And within that strike, Har also determines that he has no capability to catch up with that attack speed and also the range is perhaps limitless.

Aight, bet. It's been a while since the last time he could stand over everyone in the fight.

|Don…|

|Just do it. Kill him.|

|Challenge: The Survivor of the Pre-Recession Era is changed to Challenge: The Last Aberration.|

|Description: Survive beneath the hunt of the Fixer - Yuiz (0/1).|

He seals his hands, the normal gesture to summon his companion - RampThica.

*Grekk* - It screams and crawls through the shadow gate behind Har as a snake with four muscle arms.

"Dear…" - It murmurs.

"Long time no see." - Har replies, without any consideration.

Another gesture, but this time he activates the shadow essence to form three chimeras: a muscle eagle, a big bull and a gorilla. Respectively he names them, Lamti, Hamung and Gala.

*Grah* - A powerful growling roar follows the wind bursting strike, directly landing on that guy. But different from other times, Yuiz rapidly catches that muscle arm of Gala and throws it away as a ragdoll.

*Smack* - A swift hip movement to parry the strike and - *Thud* - for a reply into the chest of RampThica.

*Plop* - Har instantly expands her shadow, opens the shadow gate and directly jumps out of it as a bunny. With the high kick, he drives it all at once on Yuiz's chin.

*Splash* - Being cut to scraps of meat, yet, he doesn't worry that much while the big bull, Hamung, is right behind the Fixer.

*Clash* - Even though the Aura covering it is huge enough to compare to Maiya's physical strike, Hamung can't even shake that existence for a centimeter.

Yuiz just leisurely grabs that head, slowly and heavily crushes it into nothing. Shadow Essence is the projection of shadow elements presented by the Aura structure of the user, as known as Har. Which means others can directly destroy that essence, or manifested objects like those chimeras, one and forever by devastating the structure of Har's Aura until it's no longer able to link each other in the order.

Observing that, no one but Har is aware of most of his future, in other words, he is cooked. He slowly seals his hands again to rebuild that bull, meanwhile, their eyes are staring.

Old strategy, Har approaches with the right gauntlet ready on the same arm, while the gorilla chimera jumps ahead for a strike. Taking their time, Lamti also bursts itself for a bullet shot, also the left side is covered by another goring.

Dodging to the right side, Yuiz leisurely and softly lowers himself to move smoothly through the strike from Har. Yet, despicable schemes and dirty tricks aren't lacking from his side, emerging through the shadow gate in his shadow, where Yuiz is really close to, RampThica swiftly tears the gate apart with a strong strike toward the Fixer.

Almost, so close, but he dodges it already, without any wound left on his face. At the same time, Har rotates himself for another strike with the gauntlet. Not even close this time, dodging RampThica attack range, Yuiz also spins around after performing a high jump - absolutely staying out of their zone.

*Swish* - Lamti only waits for this chance, it bursts itself twice to accelerate thrice. With that speed, it can confidently determine to take away at least one of Yuiz's arms.

*Crack* - Within one more strike during the full rotation, half of its body is wiped out as an ink pattern in the air.

*Swish* - One more time, there's something approaching with the speed of mach 70.

*Splash* - It is the bull, it seems like Gala just launched Hamung toward Yuiz. However, that effort exchanges nothing but really nothing, it was destroyed within one strike, normally useless.

*Vroom* - Har instantly appears inside of the mixture of the remaining two chimeras in the air. Inside his left palm is the anomaly function - The Gate of Anomalies: Aberration is already activated.

First, starting with the Shadow Essence made RampThica and switching his true body with a puppet controlled by the Spirit inside the shadow gate. For each chimera, he carved into them the shadow gates for the optional uses. And then, he is right here after 3.5 seconds of preparation - the twisted orb is already right above Yuiz.

"Merry Christmas."

*Vroom* - Witnessing his own slashes being twisted and removed after going through that abnormal orb, Yuiz instantly gave up his intention and changed the plan. Within that scarce moment, he swiftly applied Guard on himself with the maximum output.

*Crack* - The space structure was reached and broken into pieces among the 3D main space. Even though it's not the official way, he just reached that level - Space Breaker.

Space Breaker allows a user to bypass everything, even the protection, Guard, by breaking the whole space in direction. For another perspective, the targets are drawn on a paper, Space Breakers is a hand crumbling all of it. So no matter how many protections that we drew around the targets, the wrinkles are still there, can't be prevented.

In other words, it causes "true damage" in games.

*Crack - Bang* - The space is broken and Yuiz is sent flying downward, forming a big deep hole and the dense dust within. As predicted, the cost for that strike is his right arm, Har withouts as fast as he can while recovering himself.

*Splash* - Within one slash, all of his body is chopped to scraps.

*Whirr* - The Aura behind him is too overwhelming, surely, it is Yuiz.

"That third function–" He wipes all the dust out of his shirt.

"Seems like you've awakened."

*Haha* - "What do you mean? And who even are you dude?" Har slowly but surely crawls away from that entity.

"You don't need to know it when your death is coming." - He chants one incantation and points his right fingers toward the Unholy Entity trying to escape.

"Cleave." - The whole place, even the hill on the line, is crushed and blown away, nothing remains.

*Smack* - Suddenly from behind, Hamung bursts all its Aura to crash itself into Yuiz, the unshakable mountain. As I said, he is an unshakable mountain, there's even no chance for it to damage him.

*Whirr* - As the last effort, it bursts more and more Aura to strengthen itself in hopelessness.

*Splash* - Half of the bull is wiped out beneath one hit, miserably hopeless.

*Swish* - Lamti instantly assaults him from behind with a silent movement, Veil, applied. As I said, it allows the user to hide away their Aura to another layer of general space. But I also mentioned the Aura made items can't damage other creatures while being hidden like that. But yet, one more time, let's overcomplicate everything. By controlling the Aura to flow silently enough to not only be invisible in visuality, but also in sensory. 

Flying with the reduced speed at mach 50 without any mistake in adjusting the flows around itself, Lamti has already crashed straight to Yuiz's head.

Yet, again, the only damage it causes is its broken self. However, all of them were all two baits, the true attack is the Rage fist of the right gauntlet. Har swiftly jumps out of the shadow gate inside Lamti for a direct attack.

*Clash* - Directly, the Fixer uses his left elbow to block that destructive punch. The shockwave bypasses them with the tenfold delayed explosion, and the impact even blows away the whole field behind Yuiz.

Nevertheless, that Fixer still stands here, with the emotionless face he grabs that arm and knocks Har down to the ground with the iron claws.

It was fast enough to cancel the on going movement of Har and gave him a short time of dizziness. But somehow, he is still able to hear that guy chanting something.

"Divi:num" - Those fingers point straight toward Har, the dizzy one. (Division)

"Blahma Methel" - He chants the second one. (Blazing Meteors).

*Clash* - Maiya instantly comes back with a longsword made of ice on hands, swiftly deflecting the up-coming strike by knocking out Yuiz's right hand.

Fast as thunder, he instantly catches her wrist and throws Maiya to his rear.

*Thud* - Crytinas got disturbed while casting fire bombs and they all got some explosions around. Consequently, the dust follows them and blocks all the sight of the third guy - Aliny.

Yet, she has already covered her eyes in Sight and is able to catch up with everything by sensing the Aura flows behind the Veil.

"Right here!" - *Whirr* - But yet, the Aura object she witnessed before is just a bunch of energy formed to the human-like shape, surely, it's a bait.

Yuiz instantly grabs her nape from behind, then he throws her away as a ragdoll.

"Old man."

He calls once, but nothing happens.

"Oh, so don't be mad at me when all of them are killed."

*Vsh* - This time, he has successfully called out the watcher sitting beyond this dimension, the patriarch of the Phoenix Clan - Lazal.

"Fixer, don't go beyond the limit."

"Oh, I haven't, also won't. Just keep your little phoenixes away from this place." - He orders.

"Fine, but I want a deal." - Lazal takes out an orb, it seems like a preparation for a contract of equilibrium.

Yuiz looks at him, "It's out of the question." 

But Lazal also looks at him, "You disturbed the Royal Duels, you tried to kill my daughter's companion and right now denying the fee? I don't want to mess up with you, but you feel the same thing, right?"

Not a requirement, it is an order and a threat that he declared to Yuiz.

"Tell me the price." - He compromises.

"Use your eyes, tell me the future, as far as you can."

"Deny. It's a provoking act to the Rulers." - The Fixer glances at the patriarch without any consideration. 

"You know our situation already. I can't rule the whole clan without 4 votes of the Supreme Council, I need practical benefits to persuade them." - Lazal announces.

"I don't care. Disobeying this organization might be your greatest regret." 

*Sigh* - "Seems like our profits just mess up each other's." 

Yuiz erases one seal on his left arm, "Honestly it isn't that hard. You just need to–"

"Get your ass away." - He drives one punch toward the patriarch without any mercy.

That's heavy as hell, but those two hands have already caught that arm, aiming to throw Yuiz away. Fast as lightning, he moves his hips swiftly to free his left arm out of those claws while lowering the knees, preparing for a bounce.

*Smack* - He drives one uppercut to that chin by raising the height of himself totally. 

*Smack* - A headbutt, they both move backward twice with a crimson flow dripping through their noses.

"Everything hasn't come to an end, how about considering it again?" - Lazal sneezes out the blood drops from the nose.

Same thing on the opposite side, "No thanks, destroying your whole clan is still easier than fighting back those immortal entities." 

*Tch* - "Stubborn."

He gestures to all the participants of these Royal Duels withdrawing, "Why does everything all come like this?"

"You should ask yourself first. Everything must come to an end, preventing the destiny is the dumbest sh*t you can do in your life." - The Fixer declares.

"Nothing is impossible, destiny is bound to me, not to their authority." - Lazal throws away his cloak and takes out a war axe.

"Hey, let me join too duh." - He casts it again.

Domain Expansion: Abyssal Gluttony/Blazing Graveyard of Phoenix Souls/The Eye of God.

Gesture of Har's domain is a single hand signal with the fore and middle fingers pointing upward, while closing other ones. Lazal's gesture requires him to ensure the fingertips are in order while leaving the space between two palms.

Yuiz's one is the most complicated among theirs, he opens his left hand widely and grabs its wrist by the four right fingers with the thumbs-up gesture.

It's just a side information, contributing nothing to their fight by the way.

*Vroom* - For the first time, Har witnesses the cruel fact that he can't compare himself to them. In the first phase, he has already kicked out of that domain clash, it's nothing but a slap knocking him away.

"Sh*t." - He smiles while those two domains still clash into each other as if they are going to tremble all the land around like an earthquake.

*Vroom* - One domain has already won, the barrier expands until it reaches the reach of fifty meters without no weak spot to invade.

"Har!" - Crytinas runs toward him with the worriness ahead, she keeps calling his name.

"Don't worry, I'm still alive."

Maiya jumps in, "What is exactly going on?"

"Who knows bruh, I was randomly targeted with the title The Unholy Entity. And now I'm here with a bunch of wounds." - Har slightly laughs, what a day!

"Yllinas has already done the fight with Harba."

"I don't think so, his heart is still beating. You guys should support her." - Har suggests.

"F… Fine, now go with us." - Crytinas almost orders him, the ants are in her pants. 

"Don't worry, I know exactly my limit. I'll stay here until I have what I want." - Har sits down and admires the structure of those barriers.

"Har!" - Crytinas shouts his name.

"Hmm?"

"Why are you always doing everything by yourself? Let me participate too." - She holds his hands.

*H… Haha* - He strokes her head, "Don't be stubborn, I can revive, but you can't. Don't mess with that monster."

"Why are you laughing? I'm strong, I'm strong enough to–"

She is dragged by Maiya back to the other battlefield.

"Maiya!" - She struggles.

"Crytin." - Har calls.

He looks at her, "I don't know why, but the first time we met, I realized that you gave me special feelings. I can't explain them thoroughly, but I'm sure that I can't let you die."

"But don't worry, we will see each other again." - Har smiles.

"I promise." - He declares.

They all leave without any trouble and Har is still here, with the dagger in his right hand. He grins, "Everything is going to be fun, isn't it?"

|Why don't you just run away? If you go out of this dimension, the quest will be finished and you can choose to continue the old one or go back to the…|

"You don't get what he wants, System." - Har smiles.

|...|

"There's no reason for him to send me back 1000 years of the current time line without any purpose. Even giving me the Joker card for saving my life once. And now you tell me that I can go back if I want, it's even clearer for me to determine that I must continue this risky part of the game." - He takes out the Cube of Detonation.

Flicking it again and again, he declares, "Loki doesn't need an abject servant, right?

|Arrogant, human.|

*Silent* - Nothing happens, and then…

|But I like your madness.| 

Smile? I don't think so, just look at Har right now. His "smile" corners even reach the edge of the face, that's creepy as hell.

|New Quest: Conquer The New Path.|

After three minutes, the barriers are broken apart with both sides damaged. 

Lazal grabs his almost-cut left arm and puts it in the place where it belongs to, and recovers everything by using Aura in the Amplification element. Well, actually Amplification can also heal the users if they control it well by "calm" Ignite or through the contract of equilibrium. 

On the contrary, Yuiz stands there without any wound, as if he was just chilling around.

"I have no joy to deal with a kind of lingering undead like you." - Yuiz chants his incantation while dodging a kick from Har.

"Blahma Methel" - He grabs that cute ankle and throws the third party away.

*Smack* - Taking that chance, Lazal approaches him with another strike at head. Even though he has blocked it, the opportunity to finish the incantation has been evaporated.

He moves backward twice, "Cop–"

*Smack* - Lazal drives one high kick to his wrists, deflecting his two hands away.

Unfortunately, at the third chant, he must direct the attack himself. On the other side, he must sacrifice the opportunity to activate normal slashes or other abilities.

Risking his life one more time, Har again dives straight toward him with the speed of mach 80 (around 27.44 kilometers/second) via Aura Shifting.

With the massive power on the left foot, he performs a falcon drop into Yuiz's head.

"Good grief."

He grabs that ankle and throws Har to the left side. Passing through him, Lazal approaches with one kick ahead. Swiftly, he dodges it and splits that leg into pieces.

Even bypassing the Guard? Lazal frowns.

*Zrrt* - Healed by Ignite, he stops a bit and boosts himself again.

*Smack* - Lamti distracts Yuiz once and Hamung just attacks his back as usual.

He instantly gives up the old strategy and starts the new one. Jumping through stepping on Hamung's head while grabbing Lamti on its neck. The right hand grabs Har's ankle and lets all his leg lying on those shoulders, behind the nape. After a rotation, he throws the Unholy Entity to the ground, bonusing an eagle covered by his Aura. Even if Har disables his shadow essence, that Aura coming from Yuiz still is able to cause damage. 

*Plop* - But he forgot that Har could open the gate to jump into his own dimension. Gala approaches him with a heavy strike. Within a slap, it's wiped out half, of course, Har again jumps out of that corpse of shadow essence with the right gauntlet ready to launch a strike.

*Thud* - A heavy strike thrusting straight toward Har's belly without any restriction applied.

*Splash* - All of his body is split into pieces.

"Get out of here, I'll kill you later." - He murmurs and throws Har away as a ragdoll again.

And then, his eyes glance straight at Lazal, "Withdraw? Or die?"

"After all, death is coming. It makes no sense for me right now." - The patriarch doesn't even hesitate. 

"The Age of Ancient Creatures was gone billions of years ago. Struggling to change the destiny being crushed at the end of the nature loop, all of nonsense." - Yuiz touches his right eye, revealing the azure twin lights lingering inside that pupil.

"If I was set to die…" - He stands up.

"I would try one last time to keep my daughter alive, at least."

The patriarch takes out a runic fabric and wraps it around his left fist, "Aren't you fighting for something?"

"Of course I am. But no excuse for you to keep that guy alive." - Yuiz threatens.

"From the Eye of Stars, the guidelines were made years ago. And all of them lead straight to him." - Lingering inside his two eyes, a determination shines. 

*Sigh* - He sighs, he laments.

"Always fate, always destiny. All of this nonsense." - He jumps out of the shadow gate interwoven in the air.

"Let's throw all of them away." - He makes a hand gesture, also Yuiz and Lazal. They all cast their domains almost at the same time.

Domain Expansion:  Abyssal Gluttony/The Eye of God/Blazing Graveyard of Phoenix Souls.

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