Terran coughed up a mouthful of blood and then wiped it away with an arm. He looked at Grey with red eyes as he landed on the ground once again. The disbelief hidden behind his eyes was clear enough.
It wasn’t even a week ago that Grey was entirely beneath his notice. What was this?
He growled, his grip on his spear tightening as he raised it. Holy Energy swirled around him, solidifying into a barrier that Grey had seen again and again. But somehow, it felt different this time.
Terran took a step forward, the echoes of Grey’s roars still vibrating the membrane of his eardrum. If Grey wanted a battle, he would give him one.
BANG.
Grey shot forward and Terran met him in kind. As though taking a page out of Terran’s book, Grey brought out a bent spear suddenly, flexing it back into a straight with the momentum of his slash.
BOOM.
Terran barely managed to block, sliding back. But the golden skin around him pulsed and then released a wave of energy. He shot forward even faster than before, slashing down to meet Grey.
Their spears crossed, the air whining between them.
Grey’s wrists nearly bent on impact, the power flooding back against him almost double what it had just been.
Terran’s golden skin pulsed again as he pulled back once more. He quickly followed up sweeping at Grey’s side.
Grey blocked, but his spear nearly flew out of his hands, his fat rolls decompressing and deforming as he was sent flying off his feet to his side.
Despite his size, Grey deftly spun through the air, landing on his feet only for Terran’s wild fury to follow right after him, a thrust that looked almost as though the Holy Energy had formed golden wings appearing right in front of him.
Grey sensed another Ability activate as the wings solidified. He wanted to block, but warning signals roared in his mind. If he was foolish enough to face off against a Vector Class spear buffed by that Ability, he would be ripped to shreds.
Shadows erupted from Grey’s feet and he vanished from where he stood.
Chi.
Terran’s spear came to a sudden stop in space, but the blade light continued, slicing apart everything in its path.
Chi. Chi. Chi.
Three pillars were cut in two in quick succession, slipping in relation to their halves as the weight of the ceiling crashed down.
"A heretic’s treasures." Terran growled. "You deserve death."
WHOOSH.
A sphere of gold erupted from him. Swords that should have been ornaments on the walls around them rattled and ripped themselves free, rising into the air in tendrils of gold and white wispy fog.
Chi.
They shot forward, sizzling through the air almost like rotating blades.
Grey’s expression became gloomy. He took a step forward, his spear swaying through the air, rotating in an odd semi-circle almost as though to set a rhythm before he erupted.
His blade blurred and he thrust out in an endless rain of blurring spears.
DENG. DENG. DENG.
He deflected them, turning his attention to Terran, but the latter didn’t need to be found. He was already in front of him.
Grey’s pupils constricted as a spear ripped through his gut, his seemingly impervious flesh no less vulnerable in this moment.
Terran ripped his spear out and thrust again, but this time Grey had already recovered, blocking. But that left an opening for a blade to thrust into his back.
Grey roared and activated his Helion Resonance, a wave of magnetic impulses stripping the swords of their energy and sending them deflecting away so fast they embedded themselves hilt deep into the walls and the floor.
The light of Grey’s cargo pants pulled on his Intelligence, draining them dry of energy in that single instant, but it was more than worth it.
Terran struggled to keep his own spear in his possession, just managing to grip it in place. But that threw off the timing of his next attack and left an opening for Grey to thrust his own spear.
Chi.
Heat raged on the tip of the spear, the reddish gold of a tempered blade superheating the air around it. And there was nothing it wanted to be quenched with more than Terran’s blood.
BANG.
Unfortunately, it didn’t get the chance.
Terran was sent flying, a necklace around his neck shattering as he blocked the blow.
The walls almost seemed to deform before Terran even reached them, the booming force he landed with blasting away what remained of the enormous mansion’s windows, a sparkling rain falling to add to the destruction outside.
Blood fell from Grey’s wounds, but as the sun spilled in from the outside and he ate away at another 1000 Energy Units, Solar Regeneration worked almost faster than the naked eye could keep up with.
Grey’s body began to glow, every fat cell in his body erupting with a light even more golden than Holy Energy.
Solar Energy.
"You’re not the only one with Abilities, you piece of shit. GET UP!"
Grey stomped a foot and it felt like the entire mansion’s foundation shifted.
Terran climbed out from the rubble, his own Holy Frame erupting. Illusory wings appeared behind him, the helm and golden armor of a warrior knight sliding into place on him.
Nine swords manifested from his spatial item, arranging themselves behind him almost like an arching halo. When he gripped his spear this time, its length felt like it was infinite and undefinable.
Sunlight flooded in and illuminated the hidden magnetic field around Grey. In that moment, they almost looked like wings around him, pulsing and radiating in fluctuations that shook the world around him.
His Helion Body greedily swallowed up every ray of gold it could find, saturating his body so much he truly did look like a statue of Buddha in that very moment... even right down to the lines of white that etched into his forehead.
When he moved, he wasn’t just a blur, he was a force of nature.
BOOM.
His spear crossed with Terran’s, the mansion collapsing around them.