"Khawwrrrkkkk!!!"
Blood ca out of his mouth, his bones scread, but his eyes did not.
This ti, he fought back.
Bright Golden Light erupted from his Body, filling the entire dinsion, at the sa ti, Darkness spread beneath it—
The Light burned away the Chaos Energy.
The Darkness hid Nux's presence inside it.
Together, they ford a strange battlefield where Zylarith's senses should have been blinded and confused and Nux should have vanished inside it.
But—
"You do not get it, do you?
Even Light and Darkness themselves are no different—
They too, have a certain order, a certain structure to them—
And that allows to ruin them."
Zylarith smiled and the next instant, the blinding Light suddenly betrayed Nux, it no longer blinded Zylarith, instead, it showed him everything.
Nux's position, his breathing, his wounds, everything.
The Darkness was no different, what was hiding him suddenly swallowed every other space Nux could have hidden in, leaving only one clear shadow behind and…
Nux's body was pushed out of that Shadow.
He was completely out in the open, with a broken body and Zylarith?
He was already waiting with a violet spear that directly pierced through Nux's stomach.
Pierce
"Guhh…"
Nux grunted in pain, he grabbed the spear to pull it out, but the spear turned into a chain that bit his palm.
"Fuckk!"
Nux cursed out loud as he crushed the chain through sheer pressure, he punched towards Zylarith in desperation, this ti, from a distance.
The force travelled in a shockwave embarrassingly slowly, Zylarith watched it with interest and—
"Trying to buy ti?
You didn't have to.
Just fall on your knees and ask for it, I'll grant you an hour to recover."
He mocked as his body simply scattered, making the punch basically useless.
Or at least—
That was what Zylarith thought would happen.
But this ti—
The shockwave didn't just contain pure physical force, this ti, it carried the black, vile Energy of Death, an Energy Zylarith didn't notice until it was too late.
His scattered Soul Form moved away, but the Death Energy grazed one single fragnt.
Yes, only one out of countless fragnts Zylarith's body had scattered into, the effect should have been small, almost negligible.
But the mont Zylarith reford his body and his senses returned to him—
Zylarith flinched, his face changed, his eyes widened for a fraction of a second as he felt an agonizing pain enough to make most beings break down that very instant.
But Zylarith didn't.
He didn't even let out a sound, or at least, he tried not to, but in the end—
"Hap!"
A short, sharp breath escaped his mouth, sothing most warriors would have ignored.
But not Nux.
He noticed and the mont he did, that sa bloodied grin appeared on his face again—
"Just as I thought."
He comnted.
Zylarith's expression beca cold, but Nux didn't stop.
"Your Soul Form is just that… your Soul.
That ans your body is currently thousands of tis more sensitive than normal, the pain you feel is thousands of tis worse than normal…"
Nux understood, his golden eyes shined with a cruel, ruthless, predatory look on his face.
"You should have hidden it."
He grinned, relishing how one mistake was going to cost Zylarith the battle, but—
"You took this long to 'discover' sothing so obvious.
Don't look proud of yourself, that is embarrassing."
Zylarith looked disgusted.
Nux didn't care, he just laughed as Death, Space and Ti gathered around him.
"What you think doesn't matter.
All that matters is…
I now know where to hit."
Saying those words, Nux disappeared and appeared behind Zylarith again, punching his back with a fist covered with Death Energy.
Zylarith's Soul scattered again, Nux used Space to seal the area, the scattered fragnts stopped for a mont, ti wrapped around them, slowing their escape. Nux used that ti to plunge the fragnts into Death Energy—
For the first ti, Nux had built an attack that could actually hurt Zylarith enough for him to be on all fours.
But Zylarith was still Zylarith—
His eyes flashed.
Chaos struck the three Laws at once.
Space forgot what it was supposed to seal, Ti forgot what it was supposed to slow, Death forgot what it was supposed to end.
And just like that—
Zylarith reford his body with next to no damage.
"You didn't think that would work because it did before, did you?
That little victory of yours only happened because I allowed it to happen."
He spoke arrogantly.
Then, he waved his hand again and Chaos around Nux ca at him from every side in the form of blades, hands, mouths, storms, even Laws that Nux couldn't na—
All of these tore into Nux, the Light Energy around him shattered, Darkness scattered, Space collapsed, Ti cracked, Death was pushed back—
"THIS IS NOT OVER!!"
Nux scread in pain, Life Energy burst out to heal him, but Zylarith just shrugged.
"You just don't get it, do you?"
This ti, he didn't even explain it. The Life Energy inside Nux's body twisted, the wounds it touched opened wider, the broken bones it tried to nd split apart again, the torn flesh it tried to close was torn apart even further.
Nux clenched his fists in agony, the sheer thing holding him down was his will to not scream.
The more Life Energy he used, the more it tornted him, in the end, he had no choice but to stop using it and let his body bleed openly.
That was when Zylarith appeared right in front of his broken body, his smoky hand reached toward Nux's face and—
"You are powerful."
He spoke in a low, amused voice.
"You are durable."
His fingers touched Nux's forehead.
"You are… strange."
A burst of Chaos exploded point-blank.
BOOOOOOM
Nux's body was thrown down and collided with a nearby asteroid, shattering it in an instant.
Zylarith floated above him and—
"But you fight like a child who has found many sharp tools and believes holding more of them makes him a master."
Nux tried to regain control over his body but—
Slap
Zylarith ford a simple hand with Energy of Chaos and—
He slapped him in the most humiliating way.
And Nux…
He could only take it.
Slap
Slap
Slap
Slap
A series of slaps echoed throughout the dinsion, it didn't hurt Nux, they were not ant to, they were only ant to… humiliate him.
To show him his place.
To make him understand how foolish of a move challenging an Infinity, that too, the strongest Infinity, was.
"And now, because of your mistake—
This is what's going to happen."
Zylarith began after he grabbed Nux's head and forced him to look at him.
"I will not kill you."
He shook his head.
"I will use you to get to your Universe, I will capture your wives who you swore to protect, who you claim to love, who claim to love you—
And I will do to their bodies what I did to yours."
Nux's expression changed.
For the first ti since the battle began, his eyes reflected… fear.
And that made Zylarith smile.
"Your Universe strengthens your body, correct?
Let's see how long they would last."
He grinned.
"And don't worry, I will not kill them.
In fact, I plan to let them live a good life if they so desire it.
The only thing they would need to do for the pain to stop tornting them would be to kneel in front of , place their heads right beneath my feet, allowing to step on them, step on their pride, then lick my feet with earnest looks on their faces."
Zylarith's grin beca demonic.
"I would like to see what their faces look like when they do that."
Nux's body trembled in rage he had never experienced before.
BOOOOOOOOOOM
In a single instant, ALL of his Laws were activated—
Space.
Ti.
Light.
Darkness.
Life.
Death.
Creation.
Destruction.
Balance.
Chaos.
—combining with each other for a final, life-threatening explosion.
But—
With one wave of Zylarith's hand—
All the Laws cracked, twisted and bent under Chaos.
Zylarith closed his fist and the Energies disappeared, only the Chaos remained and that Chaos—
It was no longer Nux's.
It was Zylarith's.
It moved right inside Nux's body and began to tear through his body.
"KKhawwwrrkkkk!!!"
Nux coughed out blood again, but Zylarith didn't even let him do that, he tightened his hold on his face, then, he moved closer.
"Get this into your head, Nux Leander.
You may have all the Primordial Laws, but that doesn't make you the strongest.
You, of all people, can never defeat , even if I am at my weakest."
He spoke, his voice becoming more and more terrifying.
"You cannot out-understand .
You cannot out-control .
And if you ever try to use Chaos against again—
I will make you scream with your own power.
Just like I will do right now."
He spoke, as a large amount of Chaos Energy moved towards Nux, ready to tear him into pieces, to make him scream in agony he had never experienced before in his life, to… break him apart, piece by piece.
But then—
Just as Zylarith was sure of his victory—
It happened.
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