Chapter 98 Dungeon Break [7] - The Final Push

"Ever since I created this Terraigne, the look in your eyes changed. I saw the determination to kill me within your eyes. I recognized it, because I've seen it in myself before." Lloyd narrowed his eyes as a certain memory that he had been trying to forget for the past few years flashed before his eyes.

"..." Veronica stayed silent as she wanted to buy herself enough time to break free from his seemingly telekinetic grasp.

Turning around and facing his back to Veronica, Lloyd placed his hands behind his back and looked upwards into the Lightning World's sky, his jacket flapping behind his as the winds increased in speed and intensity.

"You know, you are right about many things. The humans would never accept me the way I currently am. But you are also right about other things. I am a void walker. I am different. I am superior to these apes. I always have been. It just took a little time for me to realize that... For me to realize my true potential." Lloyd smiled while slowly turning back, his eyes glowing bright violet while staring into Veronica's blood-red eyes.

"Look at my creation. The abilty to bring the void into the real world as a half-step first commandment. The ability to manipulate the very fabric of space and time. I can bend reality around my finger tips!" Lloyd chuckled with a hint of insanity within each chuckle. Looking down at his right hand, he clenched it into a fist and watched as power coursed through it.

*Shatter*

Lloyd's expression instantly returned to a calm and neutral one.

Glancing at Veronica from the sides of his eyes, Lloyd furrowed his brows for a moment when he saw Veronica shooting toward him with the speed of a bullet. However, in the state she was in, she was no match for his infinite power.

With a single glance, Lloyd froze his in place again, yet instead of keeping her there so she could listen to his short monologues on how he is better than everyone, he shot her into the distance with a flick of his finger.

She shot through hundreds of trees in an instant, yet just like most of her wounds, she also healed instantly.

Veronica was at her last portion of energy. She had healed too many times. She had used way too much energy at the start of the battle. She thought killing a random half-step first commandment would be easy.

How wrong she was.

However, she could see something Lloyd couldn't. The power was getting to his head. It would have gotten to anyone's head, yet it took a while for it to take over Lloyd's personality. Maybe his resolve was too strong, or maybe his rage burned too brightly.

Her spear had been shattered into dust at this point, and her armor had been disintegrated. She was on her last leg, and her life force was burning like a tiny ember in the middle of a stormy tundra.

Her hair was disheveled, and strands were entering her mouth every time she inhaled, yet to her, it barely mattered. At that moment, not even survival mattered.

A bright light caused her to look into the night sky, somehow completely void of clouds despite this being the Lightning World. However, what caught her attention wasn't lightning, they were hundreds of tiny violet stars shining far above them, all of them getting larger by the second. At the same time, a very small amount disappeared into the night sky to never be seen again.

"The starts are going out... And once they do... Silence-." A new flame burned within her life force as her determination burned stronger and brighter than ever before.

Her life force had burned so violently that one could see with their very eyes that it had engulfed her body whole. The red aura burned through her clothes and coated her from head to toe with blood-red armor, yet instead of it being made of blood, it had been created from the essence of her very life force.

"Silence will fall, and I, The blood knight-" Her power grew several folds of what she had emitted at her peak as she began burning years off her life, using her very life force as a fuel source for her newly gained power.

*SNAP*

[Void Walker Style]

[Violet Sky Fall]

At the snap of Lloyd's fingers, it felt like the night sky had dropped as the stars turned into snipe bullets that shot out of the sky like shooting stars being lasered at the planet; however, instead of aiming for the planet's core, they were aiming for Veronica.

Veronica's crimson eyes burned with a newfound determination. Her spear was engulfed in blood-red flames before she turned it toward the sky and pointed at the incoming barrage of stars.

"Final Spell..."

Her power surged through her arm and entered her spear, and without a second's delay-

[Spear of Justice]

*BOOM*

A black and crimson pillar of energy shot out of her spear and pierced the skies within an instant. The sheer power coming out of the spear shook the entire realm, yet since the Lightning World was vast, it only seemed that way for a mere moment.

Seeing the pillar shoot toward his stars, Lloyd snapped his fingers, instantly merging all the stars together to create one massive beam of violet energy.

The violet beam and the crimson pillar clashed, sending waves upon destructive waves that spanned throughout the entire realm.

However, the power behind Lloyd's beam was not enough. The sheer energy and will behind Veronica's [Final Spell] was overwhelming.

[Final Spells], known to most as being a form of forbidden magic to all those with a class capable of manipulating an element or mana in general. However, while it is forbidden, it is nearly impossible for anyone to have the ability to use it. Most people don't see a [Final Spell] in their lifetimes, but those who do are not considered lucky.

A [Final Spell] is formed from the very essence of one's life. In a moment of desperation, they will see the light, and those with the strongest wills will grab onto it.

In a moment of desperation where it feels like nothing can be done, and all hope is lost, they will find a light that will guide them to unmeasurable power, whether their intentions are good or bad, selfish or selfless.

Tina unlocked this power through hard work and the desire to save everyone from Veronica. Veronica gained hers from the desire to save the universe from Lloyd.

While most die if the spell is complete, some continue to live with damaged life forces, which weakens them indefinitely and reduces their lifespan depending on how damaged their life force is.

Seeing that his beam was being pushed back, Lloyd void stepped behind his beam of energy before raising his hand and releasing a surge of energy that entered his beam.

While he began pushing Veronica's pillar back a little, it was only temporary, as Veronica easily regained her advantage with a roar of rage.

Lloyd was quickly forced to use both hands to at least slow her attack, but it was barely working.

He could feel the power of [Void Channel] fading by the second as he had clearly been using it for too long and using its energy too much. Creating a Terraign was already strenuous enough, and if he were to move out of the way of Veronica's attack, it would surely destroy the Terraign that was already weakening.

As his [Void Channel] energy faded, so did the energy left to keep his Terraign running. While he was basically all-powerful inside it and capable of fighting Veronica with extreme ease, even with [Void Channel], he would not be able to do the same in the outside world since he had no proper mastery of all the powers he gains when he is in the form.

His limbs were also slowly weakening, worsening the situation even more than before.

Lloyd's eyes glowed like two suns as dozens of clones came out of Lloyd's body and increased his beam's power.

Veronica was already on one knee from all the life force that was suddenly consumed by her pillar of energy, yet the pillar did not lose in power; it only seemed to gain it.

The constant barrage of their clash's shockwaves began to crack the realm they were in. Cracks spread like cobwebs throughout the sky, and despite noticing this, Lloyd had too much on his hands to do anything about it.

They both roared while increasing their energy output. Blood oozed from every one of Veronica's orifices, while cracks spread throughout Lloyd's skin in a similar fashion to how his terraign was slowly shattering.

And then... It happened.

*Shatter*

Lloyd's energy output fell dramatically, while the cursed chains of the terraign that held Veronica down in every aspect, from her physical strength to her magical one, disappeared, allowing her to immediately release her newfound power at her will, swallowing most of Lloyd's beam with her own.

However, she felt like something was wrong.

Lloyd was intelligent. The entire point of clashing with her was to protect the realm from shattering, yet he let it be destroyed so easily...

As the terraign shattered, its shards paused mid-air before shooting toward Lloyd and circulating around the palm of his hand.

And at that moment, it was as if time had stopped, with the only thing anyone could hear was the snap that followed the infinite silence.

[Void Walker Style]

[Black Hole Eclipse]

Color faded out of the world, and their area began to stretch infinitely, as a void overtook it, and an overwhelming darkness took control... A dark void that filled the sun setting in the west, making an abyss set upon the dungeon for the last time.