There was a reason Kazreth felt that sothing was deeply wrong with the boy standing before him.
Max was no longer the sa.
His body had transford completely, no longer resembling flesh, bone, or even energy in any familiar sense. Instead, it looked like a vast sea of twinkling stars condensed into a humanoid form. Countless points of light shimred within him, each one glowing softly yet carrying an unfathomable depth, as though entire galaxies were contained within his being.
It was as if the cosmos itself had taken shape.
Behind his head, a strange divine symbol appeared.
It glowed with a deep blue radiance that was both calm and overwhelming. At tis, it seed to form a perfect triangle. In the next mont, it shifted into a circle, then into shapes that defied clear definition. Its form could not be fixed, and its brilliance made it almost impossible to comprehend.
Max stood there, motionless for a brief mont, as he tried to understand what had just happened.
"What is this power?" he muttered under his breath, genuine shock flashing across his consciousness. Only monts ago, he had felt himself slipping into death, his awareness fading into nothingness. Then, without warning, a warm and boundless current had surged through him, pulling him back.
Not just back to life.
But beyond it.
Before he could fully grasp it, Kazreth moved.
"What happened to you kid? Anyway this is futile efforts before ," Kazreth said, his tone calm but firm as he raised his hand.
Around him, countless golden swords ford instantly.
Each one radiated imnse power, far beyond the attacks he had used before. They humd with destructive energy, sharp enough to sever reality itself, and in the next mont, they shot forward toward Max in a relentless storm.
Max instinctively prepared to respond.
Yet sothing unexpected occurred.
The mont those golden swords entered a certain distance from him, they began to change.
Their radiant forms destabilized.
The sharp edges dissolved, their structure breaking apart as though they had lost the very concept that allowed them to exist. Within a heartbeat, the swords turned into countless golden particles that scattered into the air and vanished completely.
They never reached him.
Kazreth's eyes narrowed.
Without hesitation, he attacked again.
This ti, the golden ring above his head flared with unprecedented intensity. Waves of destructive light surged outward, carrying enough power to erase entire regions of space. He unleashed beam after beam, each one sharper and more devastating than the last.
They all t the sa fate.
As they approached Max, they unraveled.
The beams lost their form, their energy dissipating into nothingness as though sothing fundantal about them had been erased. It was not a defense. It was not a barrier. It was sothing far more absolute.
Kazreth's expression finally changed.
He stepped forward, his aura rising sharply as he released even greater power. Space around him twisted violently as he pushed his strength further, forming constructs of golden light that took the shape of massive blades, chains, and collapsing spheres of destruction.
He launched them all at once.
The battlefield shook under the sheer magnitude of the attack.
Yet as they neared Max, every single construct broke apart.
Kazreth stood rooted in place, unable to move.
For the first ti since he had appeared in this universe, the calm and composed expression he had maintained shattered completely. Shock spread across his face without restraint, and his golden eyes, which had always carried an air of superiority, now reflected sothing far more uncertain.
"You…" he began slowly, his voice no longer steady as a deep frown ford on his face. His gaze remained fixed on Max, searching for an answer that did not exist. "How can you possess such power? What exactly has happened to you?"
Max did not respond imdiately.
He looked down at his own hand, as though sensing the boundless force flowing through his being, and a faint smile appeared on his face. It was not a smile of arrogance, nor one of triumph, but sothing quieter, as if he himself had yet to fully comprehend what he had beco.
"Sothing extraordinary, that much is certain," he said calmly.
Then he raised his hand toward Kazreth.
The mont that motion was made, the atmosphere changed.
Kazreth felt it instantly.
It was not a wave of energy, nor a surge of pressure. It was sothing far more subtle and far more terrifying. A disturbance that seed to bypass all known forms of power and strike directly at the essence of existence itself.
His instincts reacted before his thoughts could catch up as he turned his gaze toward his own body.
His right arm was beginning to disappear.
It was not being burned away.
It was not being torn apart.
It was not even dissolving in any recognizable manner.
It was turning into dust.
Kazreth's eyes widened as disbelief overwheld him.
"NO… this is impossible!" he roared, his voice echoing across the battlefield with a mixture of fury and fear. "I am a chaos being. Even if this body is rely a clone, it is still an extension of my eternal existence. It cannot be erased like this!"
He looked back at Max, and for the first ti, there was a trace of fear in his gaze.
Yet Max did not stop.
The process continued as though it had already been decided.
The disintegration spread.
Kazreth's arm vanished completely, and the effect moved further across his body. His torso began to break apart, his form crumbling into fine particles that drifted away into the air.
There was no resistance.
There was no way to counter it.
It was not an attack that could be blocked or deflected.
It was sothing that simply erased.
"How… can you erase sothing that is eternal?" Kazreth's voice grew lower, the disbelief within it deepening as the truth settled in.
He could feel his existence being stripped away piece by piece, without any possibility of return.
Those were his final words.
Within monts, the rest of his body disintegrated completely, turning into dust that scattered into nothingness. His presence vanished entirely, leaving behind no trace that he had ever existed in that place.
His clone had not been destroyed.
It had been erased.
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