BLEEEEERRRRRGGGGGGGHH!
Blood burst out of Achylles’ lips, raining down upon Ryuk’s face.
He slowly turned his gaze away from his sword to look at his own chest, and there it was.
The enormous sword had pierced exactly through his chest, skewering even his heart, and a Void vortex could be seen, responsible for directing the sword through him.
"Ho...how?"
"You... sho...uld... have... never... bee... see..." he said, collapsing to one knee before Ryuk.
"Even though you morphed yourself into a true shadow, making all attacks, physical or energy, phase through you since technically you’re a shadow..."
"Your own weapon was kept solid so you could attack me," Ryuk said, grinning with mockery.
"And talking of me being blind, of course, I can’t see. But..."
"Have you forgotten that within you is something of mine?" he asked, watching as Achylles’ eyes widened in realization.
"You might not know, but my parts call to me, even in the deepest darkness; they’re roaring to break free and return to me."
"That makes your position as clear as daylight."
"Your Shadow Domain is almost invincible. A crippling darkness that swallows and a body where nothing physical, no matter how powerful, could touch, you could finish off even the most powerful opponents in seconds."
"But... you faced the one who gave you that power in the first place." He whispered, knowingly, and in the next moment, the darkness dispersed and Achylles collapsed onto his belly.
Ryuk’s own severed arms and legs immediately came flying back, merging with him as he rose to his feet.
Achylles’ body morphed back to physical form, but with his heart gone and his chest skewered through, he was deader than dead.
Along with his death, his remaining army also dispersed into the shadows.
Ryuk looked at the body, and it occurred to him:
This was the Fourth Calamity, Achylles, the one who controlled Shadows.
The only thing of his that could be controlled by Ryuk was his circulatory system.
While Ryuk might have his heart, he had no veins.
He had relied on that of Uncle Bob to cultivate, and this Calamity was the one who possessed his arteries and veins.
As if to confirm Ryuk’s words, he watched as Achylles faded into shadows that dissolved into the air, leaving just one thing behind,
A ball.
A ball of pitch-dark liquid.
Ryuk bent down, picked it up, and looked at it.
Within this patch of black blood were tiny strands, and the sight of them brought a small smirk to his face.
In the next moment, the ball of liquid faded away.
"Ahhhhhhh..."
A deep exhale left Ryuk’s lips.
He felt weak.
Weak and weary in both body and soul.
Two powerful calamities in a row, and he was greatly exhausted.
Yet before he could try to quell his exhaustion.
SHATTTTER!!!
The knullic sky was crushed asunder as Ryuk jerked his head upward.
The scene was that of glass shattering into pieces, and from within the depths, something crawled out.
An abomination of the highest order!
Ryuk looked up at it, and his eyes widened to their max.
It was the gigantic silhouette of a head with a single piercing crimson eye on its forehead, locking directly upon Ryuk.
Its face was like glass, with only the eye intact, and yet, the aura from that eye.
A petrifyingly dark aura, the most evil Ryuk had ever come across.
The world under the effect of that aura felt...different.
Ryuk turned to the far end, and there he saw the Knulls, but they were unmoving.
They hung in space in whatever action they were previously in.
He turned to the left, and the same was true.
All of the Knulls there also hung in space, unmoving.
The world had fallen silent, and time itself had been paused,
A feat even the current Ryuk could never achieve.
And all of this had happened from the mere presence of the being above him.
"Ryukkkk....Knulllll."
The word came out almost like a sigh as Ryuk slowly hovered off the ground, ascending into the air.
But it wasn’t by his will.
The control of his own body had been shut down, unable to muster any resistance against the sudden force that descended upon him and was now lifting him.
But then, Ryuk felt the deeper source.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t move his body; rather, it felt as if his connection to it had been severed.
Almost as if whatever had attacked him had gone into the deepest part of his soul and severed the chain that bonded both body and soul together.
"Magnam cladem inter tuos ipse seruisti."
You have sown great destruction amongst your own people.
The voice echoed out, and it never occurred to Ryuk that it was different at all.
Instead, he was caught in the scene of the Knullic sky being further torn apart.
A gigantic hand, hundreds of thousands of times bigger than he was, pressed out of the space, reaching for him.
"Hoc statim desinere oportet."
This must stop at once.
The voice spoke again.
When the hands reached a kilometer away from grabbing Ryuk:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
An incredibly thunderous explosion resounded, cracks spreading through one of the three fingers the hand possessed.
Ryuk was forcefully blasted away, slamming into the ground and opening an abyss.
But the world was only silent for a moment before a lacerated single hand appeared out of the abyss.
It was none other than Ryuk, crouched on both feet.
His left hand was gone, and his entire nano-body was covered in cracks, cracks that refused to heal.
Ryuk couldn’t remain on his legs, hence collapsed onto one knee in the next moment, his eyes dimming in pain as dark blood freely flowed out from them.
"Partem animae tuae iam imperfectae detonasti ut solum imperium effugeres?!"
You detonated a part of your incomplete soul just to escape control!?
The words echoed out as Ryuk forced his head up toward the eye, and his lips moved.
"What... is... your... name!?"
He asked, as the eye stared silently at his figure for a long while before responding,
"Knull."
The answer made Ryuk pause for a moment, his eyes flashing in disbelief even as blood poured from them.
’No wonder,’ he mused to himself, before forcing himself up to his feet.
Turning to the figure, his words echoed out loud, heard only by both:
"I promise to end you... soon"
He said, as the figure’s hand immediately began moving again, stretching toward Ryuk.
It was so big there was nowhere to run, and the voice followed,
"Voluntas tua vindictiva clarior est quam patris tui."
Your will for revenge burns far brighter than that of your father.
"Periculosum est. Nunc te perdam."
It is dangerous. Now I will destroy you.
It said as it grabbed at Ryuk, who rose to both feet, taunting.
"I’d like to see you try,"
The enormous hand was incredibly fast, just inches from Ryuk’s face in an instant, but then it suddenly recoiled away.
It was too late,
KAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!