Chronos slightly glances on the falling two pieces of an inferiority, those eyes contain the clear scorn, after all, Gods and below godly level existences are the two far different creatures.
Chaos: "Seems like we've bet right."
Tartarus slightly waves his hand, recalling his sword into the hidden dimension while replying Chaos: "Send him to oblivion, totally."
Chaos has the same idea, they can't let Yujin have any chance to revive - Bak k'la.
*Whirr* - The massive fire ball is thrown straight to his split corpse as a strong hammer, crushing all the hope.
*Vroom* - Chronos slightly mobilizes the basic authority of gods - Space Manipulation. After a sound of space oscillation, the black orb has been firmly in his hand.
Chronos: "He hasn't reached that level."
As soon as finishing that action, he threw the orb to Chaos as a requirement to check by himself.
Chaos after touching the wall of the domain, he also agreed with Chronos.
Chaos: "This durability... is even worse than the weakest @*^%*..."
They all know what others are mentioning about, however the "Volition" doesn't want that secret to be revealed - seems like it's hiding something related to the "truth" of this gameplay.
Chronos: "Whatever, we've gotten it."
Chaos: "The gate has opened."
Without any cumbrous action, those three Primordial Outer Gods instantly teleport to the vestige, where Alyne is dominating the fight.
She also feels it; Alyne turns back, raising up her staff - Alyne: "Bazz - Tempe.."
*Vroom - Squish* - Her heart is instantly stabbed through, the warm blood is overflowing outside the deep hole.
While Luker isn't matching the situation, Ian suddenly comes out of nowhere, grabbing his hand and throwing Luker aside.
*Keng* - Ultimate move: Berserker - Sky Breaker.
A vertical slash is swung up to the sky above, perfectly blocking the flame sword of Tartarus; however he knows that he stands no chance beneath that divine force. Seems like The Hell Ruler just wants to play around instead of eliminating them all in one second.
Within just an arbitrary strike, both Ian's two arms are paralyzed absolutely, it was too reluctant to parry that slash.
"Rotation - Expanded version - Neverland." - Luker and Hobilion have mastered the Golden Sync in some weird ways, they can even mobilize that "Golden Synchronization Force" just in a moment.
The one-and-only use of Neverland is negating all the moving objects inside its range, the density of itself determines the efficiency.
To face the god level attack, Luker doesn't have the intention to be superficial. He maintains the range exactly at two-meter distance. This technique, if you want to call it in the right way, it should be an authority right now. Luker had even reached this level before he died at the final calamity, in the revealed players, he is the only one who could evolve his own ultimate move into the lesser authority.
*Clash* - He has successfully caught that sword with his hands. Nice try, but...
Chronos: "Where are you going?"
*Vroom* - Luker is sent flying away without any chance to struggle, so is Ian.
Chronos instantly appears at the gate leading to Aurorize border, as what they mentioned previously - they do not want to see any of them escape.
Clara: "Himeno, we've lost."
Her voice is low, showing all her despair. Observing that, Himeno also realizes they do not stand a chance beneath that entity.
Himeno: (What is the appellation: The Great Mage used for? When I don't even have the courage to grab the staff and face the enemy.)
Himeno: "Why does everything turn to this situation?"
Lucy isn't better, she is also trembling under that aura and pressure, genius?
Lucy: (What can a little genius do right now?)
Nothing, she can't do anything except trembling and diving deeper in despair.
The survival instinct of them is trying to move their body in order to run away, however, their legs can't even lift up themselves, let alone to escape under the god's vision.
Dino knows that feelings, he doesn't feel greater just because he can stand still, he sees his old self inside those trembling silhouettes.
Dino: (Yena...)
He grits his teeth, those eyes reflect the evidence of a shameful past.
Dino: (This time, I won't run away anymore.)
*Fab* - Another card is drawn - Loki the Trickster. Dino doesn't expect this situation, he has sealed the extra deck already.
Dino: "How?"
*Rrrrr* - The space surrounding him is absorbed, the dark purple aura even expands and decays everything in a ten-meter range.
Loki: *Haha* - "Finally, finally!"
Himeno (speechless): "Even two?"
Within a step, that green hair god has approached those three girls, his distorted smile surely shows that he has nothing else but a disgusting idea.
Loki: "How about.."
He hides his face behind his hand, as laughing, his voice rises up to two tones.
Loki: "We play a game?"
As soon as that hand is taken down, their faces are dyed in the color of despair, they sees Yujin's face on that entity.
Loki: *Haha* - "After all, this cutting ability is my favorite technique, I give you ten seconds, run as far as you can."
Chronos: "Don't waste time, Loki."
Loki: "Don't worry, they can't escape from me."
*Clap* - The signal has been sent, Clara, Himeno and Lucy, they both choose a direction and run as fast as they can. After all, no one wants to die, even if there is such a little hope, they still want to try. They know that if their legs stopped right now, their head would be cut down.
Clara starts crying, she can't hold back her tears. No need a chance to struggle, no need a chance to fight, she just wants to survive. Her red heart is beating more than two times a second, that pressure almost sent her to death.
Clara: (Please, anyone.)
Loki witnesses all and that's the reason why he's smiling, slowly suffocating the preys is his most satisfying hobby.
*Hah... hah... hah...* - The ragged breathing of Luker admits that he's still alive, however it's nothing but just a terrible situation. He is witnessing his impotence, the crimson sky and stars and the defeat of all of them.
Luker (murmuring): "Ian... are you still able to fight?" - "No." - another low voice replies.
That's Ian, he's lying miserably on a rock far from Luker two steps, they know that they aren't weak, the problem is the Outer Gods are too powerful.
Hobilion was also sent back to the extra deck after being defeated by Chronos. In the first second after taking the beyond spacetime strike of The Time Watcher, he even saw that green horse released all its power to shoot itself as a bullet into that God.
Even though that effort changed nothing, at least Hobilion could fight to the death, while he was knocked to lie on this floor full of dust and rocks.
Luker: "I want to fight, at least landing one more strike."
Ian: "Same, but we can't. My spine was broken into pieces, so were my ribs."
"Plaz" - Paragon dives straight to the vestige, aiming on Loki's head.
*Boom* - He instantly withdraws from the smoke, he knows that he is the only one here who can hold back the Outer Gods, however his HP is way less than their durability about 100 times - which means he is facing the situation that he needs to solo at least two Outer Gods with hardcore mode.
Paragon: "One main boss, one side boss at the same time, in this no-hit gameplay? Holy sh*t."
Loki: "Weirdo."
"Cleave" - A slash has been thrown straight to Paragon, without any cumbrous movement, he takes out Glacias and does the same thing to negate the flying slash.
Loki is attracted by that action, he doesn't expect these inferiorities too much, even Yujin can't survive beneath their power, so why does he need to care about others?
However,...
Loki (smiling): "Seems like I'm wrong."
Paragon (confused): "What are you suddenly on?"
"Nothing* - His face is grabbed by Loki's right hand, is it too similar? Yes it is - "Split."
*Splash* - Not even his arm, but the right leg and half of his body on the same side have been cut into a bunch of red blood and meat in the air.
Perfect Counter - Paragon sacrificed his next precious minute to survive through that fast strike.
He instantly moves back ten steps, that's also the safe distance for him to react in time with the invisible slashes from Loki.
Keeping distance from mobs or bosses is the basic technique of RPG game players, however, in Loki's vision, it's not a basic movement.
He sees it clearly, the zone 4.5 meters around him is dominated just by his pressure - Paragon even gives Loki a feeling of facing Indra - The God of Thunder.
Loki: "Your technique is good, now it's mine."
Loki leisurely approaches Paragon without any action showing that he's ready to counter or block the possibly up-coming strikes from The Strongest Player.
Eight meters left, Paragon changes the position, he is aiming for the fast strike to end this match immediately. He knows that if there isn't a requirement of help, those Gods won't interrupt each other in their fights.
The experience of games doesn't lie to him, at the start and up to now, no one joined and helped Loki kill him. However,... six meters left.
Paragon: (Why am I feeling my defeat...?)
Five meters left, he's going to step in Paragon's zone.
Four point five meters left - "Doom-Crash* - the strike beyond space and time has been thrown straight to Loki.
Even Chronos is attracted by that fist, he doesn't expect that a below god-level creature can reach that power.
Chronos: (However, it's just a cheap thing.)
*Vroom* - The god aura has been released at the three meter distance between a god and a human.
Paragon: *Gasp*
He just realized that he's cooked, totally and absolutely. That aura isn't a prank or joke, it's the true pressure from a god. It's the absolute barrier between God and the beings below.
Paragon (heedless): (Im...possible.)
*Thud* - His pair of knees has been downed in the unconsciousness, the cold sweats slowly but obviously go down the drain drop by drop. His hands are non-stop shaking, this is the fear, the instinct of any kind of creature when they face death.
Loki The Trickster only stays on the higher position, slightly glancing on the broken mind inferiority below his eye level.
Loki: "You, is that all you got?"
No reply, his eyes stretch out as they're going to explode like fireworks. The pressure is too stimulating, there's something. There is something...
Loki doesn't see the fighting spirit inside those eyes, he also gives up - Loki: "Cleave."
*Whirr - Whirr* - Nothing happened, that fact surprised The Trickster. Loki can't determine what just occurred to stop his slashes.
Loki (confused): (Yujin? Impossible, or even him? That insect?)
Denying that conjecture, he raises his hand again, drawing a thin line in the air - Cleave - a sharp slash is shot straight to Paragon.
*Whirr - Whirr* - It happens again, the slash keeps evaporating just like that, without any reason.
Loki: "What the f..."
*Splash* - They were both cut a deep slice in their bodies, however, Loki couldn't even reflex in time.
He only witnessed a blurry silhouette appear after Paragon had evaporated previously, in his unconsciousness, Loki countered it unreasonably. This is the side effect of coercively existing in physical beings, the overwhelming mind sometimes messes up with the delay of ability to transmit information.
Whatever, Loki has realized that Paragon unlocked something, this is so cheating.
Paragon had some terrible mental disorders, they gave him nothing but an overwhelming fear of death. He had fought for all his life to just escape that feeling, by eliminating all the potential enemies in his way, he has been chilling for almost a century.
And now it's back, no, they are back! The fear was stirred up by them, deep inside his mind, the pressure had reached the top. That's the reason for his weird actions right now.
He doesn't do anything, either running or blocking. Paragon is only grabbing Glacias inside his two hands. No trembling, no shaking, neither running nor moving, he is waiting.
Loki (calm): (So this is the automatic countering system?)
The distorted mind doesn't let Loki think clearly, he only smiles and shows the intention to kill Paragon as floridly as possible.
Chronos: "How long are you going to finish that brat?"
The Time Watcher suddenly interrupted the mood, it isn't fun at all, however Loki can not do anything, Chronos is stronger than him.
Loki: "None of your business."
Chronos: "I don't care about your fun, however we have a lack of time."
*Tch* - With a scowling face, The Trickster has to end it fast without his joy.
*Cleave - Clash* - Within a delicate movement, the sound of clashing echoes around at the cyan crystal blade - he has successfully parried it, the invisible slash.
Loki (shocked): "The f?"
Tartarus: "If you can't, just leave him to me."
Loki: *Tch* - "Say less old corpse, I can handle him myself."
As getting outraged, Loki shifts himself straight to Paragon's rear, holding tightly his fist, a strong punch has been released.
*Clash* - Paragon has parried it again, his eyes are widely opened, the cold sweats drop slowly upon the crystal blade. His fear of death even makes himself ridiculously stronger, that power doesn't come from the System, neither his potential nor unsure force. He only gets stronger just because of the fear and pressure, it can't even be explained in any way in others' visions.
At the edge of the vestige, Chaos is holding the black orb leisurely, he hasn't released The Outer Gods yet. It's different from the way you all consider the bonds between those entities, according to the myth, they're actually related. However, this is the chessboard of "them", all the objects trapped inside it do not have the permission to jump out the set inner rules.
The nature of those Outer Gods is greed, arrogance and madness. The Outer Gods are separated into three levels:
+ The New Gods: They are the gods who can access the lesser realms with the least limits.
+ The Old Gods: The previous generation of godly beings, they are bound in isolation, waiting for the turning point to be released.
+ The Primordial Gods: As same level as Chaos, Tartarus and Chronos. They are the beginning of everything, and the reason why they're called "Outer Gods" is they do not belong to this universe.
Outer Gods came from the different dimensions, where they dominated the world by themselves, and assembled at this chessboard by that "Volition."
As I said, there're rules for gameplay, they need to accumulate the specific energy to break the limits by themselves in order to escape the cage.
That thing is called "Faithforce" - the faith-based energy allows them to descend into Aurorize. The population is limited, so is faithforce. There are over 500 Outer Gods existing in this chessboard, and the faithforce to allow them to descend totally isn't cheap at all.
And now, Chaos wants to make some profits from this chance, he knows that Primordial Gods will be sealed again until "that event", he is trying to break the fate as soon as possible. However his intention is acceptable due to the rules, so even DoD, Karma or that "Volition" won't be able to stop him without a reason.
Chaos: "50%."
Osiris: "Shut up, brat. I don't give a sh*t about that idiot deal."
Ra: "Chaos, don't forget the main goal."
*Haha* - He laughs in their helplessness, the chaotic aura is released unconsciously. Chaos threatens all of them without any hesitation.
Chaos: "Yujin has been eliminated, and we are going to kill all the Players. Why do I still need to obey the contract?"
*Crackle* - The golden flame of creation is burnt up, Ra has been provoked by that arrogant action. The flame instantly turns to the golden war armor, the cape is weaved by the destructive threads, even in a fast glance, Chaos can really realize that Ra is mobilizing all the power he can.
Chaos: "Don't be fooled, Ra. You all can't even break this domain by yourselves, and now. Do you really think that you can do it individually? Beneath my power?"
Apophis: "So how about me?"
*Crack - Crack* - The black barrier has been shaken so close to the destruction - within the full power of two Primordial Gods, they can even force the strongest Outer God to the balanced confrontation.
Chaos signs - "I told you not to be fooled."
*Vwumm* - The spacetime is distorted absolutely beneath their auras and the overwhelming pressure.
Odin: "Zeus."
They come up with a plan, even Zeus, Poseidon or Hades are targeted by Chaos. Should you act without mercy, blame me not for casting aside my honor.
They both release all the divine weapons, Zeus is holding his lightning rod in his hand, showing no mercy. Gungnir is also called out by Odin, so there's no reason for others not to bring out all their power.
Trident of Ocean - Poseidon; Spear of Hell - Hades; Bow of Light - Apollo; Sword of Death - Anubis; Mjolnir - Thor; The Scale of Justice - Themis; Shield of Wisdom - Athena; Sword of Destruction - Ares,... and others' divine weapons.
They are all willing to destroy this dead end.
Chaos: "Idiots! If you all use that power, none of you will be able to descend at the middle era."
Ra: "Who even cares about that? Neither you nor us, no one will be able to meet the demand."
Chaos (yelling): "IDIOTS!!!"
*Crack - Crack - Crack* - The barrier is going to be collapsed beneath the pressure, "One swallow does not make a summer", Neither does Chaos.
Chaos: "Stop! You son of b*!"
Ra releases all his power via the golden flame, so does Apophis with his chaotic aura, so do all the other outer gods.
*Crack* - They have successfully broken the barrier, the space is switched immediately back to the forsaken dimension.
Zeus: "Now it's our turn."
"Whose turn?" - A wraith unbound, forever lingering, there's always a soul that refuses to fade away before this plan is completed by himself.
*Vroom* - It isn't only those Outer Gods, even the far away entities such as Chronos, Loki and Tartarus are dragged into the new scene.
Everything turned to nothingness, the galaxies, stars and planets are all erased out of their vision.
At the rear of all, there is a familiar silhouette waiting for them, his shiny white hair reflects the inevitable attraction. His two eyes are hidden by the willingness to kill all of these kinds of creatures, there's no prank or joke.
There is no longer a doubt about it, he is Yujin - The God Slayer.
Yujin: "Thanks, Chaos. Thank you for showing me that slash."
God Beheading Slash - Yujin slightly weaves a thin line, it lies beyond space and time, he has been waiting for this moment since they broke the gate.
He can't accumulate all this power in the main dimension, they will realize it immediately. That's why he divided his own domain into two different parts, one is used to trap all of them - which he has used until a few seconds ago.
The second one is used right now, the absolute blank; by non-stop concentrating the unlimited slashes into one and only one slash at the end. His energy output is boosted to the much higher level - which is enough to send them all to death.
Yujin: "Die."
*Vroom - Crack* - That dimension is instantly broken into pieces, they slowly evaporate themselves into the surrounding space.
*Vroom* - He instantly teleports to the gate, so does Chronos. Any oscillation in space fits perfectly in his hand, in this way or that way, it's just a cheap trick to him.
Yujin: "Authority of Amexk."
"It's a trap!" - Too late, when Chronos realized it, it was too late for him to escape. He instantly realizes that Yujin doesn't even need to chant: "Domain Expansion" to extend his domain at all.
Chronos: "Is this even your plan?"
No reply, three slashes are sent to cut The Time Watcher to pieces - negating all the chance to escape.
*Thud* - As soon as his back hits the ground, the barrier is built up in order to isolate the vestige from outer space.
Virel: "Sup, why are you so miserable dude?"
Yujin: "Say less, cultivator. I chose the hardcore way to win this match."
Virel: "Why did you do that? Is there something you are looking for based on the rules?"
Yujin: "That which is written in the stars is never meant to be told."
*Boom* - A massive explosion occurs beyond the vestige, it was a thunderous strike from Zeus. He yells straight to the bloody and dirty guy lying on the floor with all his wrath and rage.
The shockwave can not go through the shield protecting the vestige, but it's still able to tremble the realm inside.
Clara, Lucy and Himeno can't even match the current situation, obviously two seconds ago they were in a stalemate. Loki didn't face Paragon fairly, he had duplicated himself thrice - which meant he faced Paragon while other Loki(s) were chasing both Clara, Lucy and Himeno.
While they were in shock, the trembling vestige woke them up from the dismay.
Himeno rapidly transports her voice into the specific acoustic wave, sending it to Lucy and Clara.
Himeno: (What is going on?)
Clara: (How do I know!?)
Lucy: (Ruler! I think Ruler really knows something.)
The idea bloomed in her mind, she believes in the Ruler. However when her fingers touch the cold liquid on the ground without consciousness, her eyes stretch out with the brand new shock trembling her brain.
That roadkill is Adaman, who is known as the fateful enemy of the traitor, but now his dead body is lying on the unknown rock, dying without closing his two eyes.
Lucy: "Even you...?"
"Don't show that ridiculous face, girl."
He instantly appears behind her without any sound as a ghost, his hand silently touching her shoulder. It's heavy as a signal of death, but she feels nothing. When her eyes open again, not only Lucy, but both Clara, Himeno, Dino and others are all here. And the one who is sitting on top of a crystal pillar, Lucy can see the reflected shiny starlight in that platinum white hair.
Lucy: "Yujin?"
His eyes reflect the unrivaled aura. First of all, power is the key to controlling a big number of beings, even though it isn't the best way, but it still works. At least in this moment, Yujin has blown away all the intentions of the opposition.
Yujin: "Don't worry. I'm here to explain every question that you all desire to know."
Then he looks at Alyne, the girl who even got mad when his clone just died in the plan, and signals her to be the first one.
However, she only looks back at him and smiles, her smile blooms beautifully on her face, she doesn't want to ask anything.
Fine, he looks at Aranta, who is basically standing nearest to him on the left side.
Observing that action, he also starts to think about what he should ask.
Aranta: (Vestige? Purpose? Plan? Uh....)
Aranta: "Can you just make a summary about this meaningless war?"
Yujin: "Of course, however it isn't nonsense as you think."
He waves his hand, materializing a virtual 3D model of this dimension, easy as pie.
Yujin: "I will show you the vision of chess players."
He starts with the event that he met DoD at the absolute white realm - his morale dimension. Only seeing that DoD gave him an orb before shifting them both to the vestige, Aranta instantly realizes the reason why Yujin was a betrayer.
Yujin: "Aranta, now you see what I meant."
Aranta: "I see."
Then the model instantly changes to the whole picture, all 1500 points sparkling in the small rock stand for outsiders. Surrounding them are other 12 pentagons, standing for twelve runic pillars, and the red hexagon in the center of the map is what Aranta touched before.
Aranta: "So what is the point?"
Yujin: "Hold up."
A slight wave, all of them are bound by the red strings, he leisurely makes a speech.
Yujin: "Those red lines are a mechanism activating the gate leading to another dimension."
*Snap* - He flicks his fingers, starting at the center pillar and ending at the little circle lying beyond the great galaxy - The Gate.
Yujin: "When the betrayers touch the center pillar after activating all the twelve columns surrounding it, the gate will open."
"So all you did was let Aranta, a normal outsider. touched it, in order to not activate the gate?" - Suddenly a low voice interrupts him.
It was Dino, his chest is still bleeding; it seems like taking all his life force to just extend that voice.
Yujin: "Forgot."
*Snap* - Not only Dino, even Clara, Lucy, Himeno, Luker, Ian and all the injured outsiders participating in the war are healed instantly.
Dino: "Okay, appreciate. So not to open the gate, you broke the mechanism by activating it with the wrong condition, didn't you?"
Yujin: "You have sharp eyes."
*Snap* - The screen is changed one more time, it shows two silhouettes, they stand in the starlight, floating over the sky.
They are Yujin and Xenosis, all the dialogue is replayed thoroughly, directly explaining to all the purpose:
1. Yujin was forced to be the final betrayer.
2. Xenosis is the final boss of this drama.
3. X is controlled by DoD
4. The final goal is releasing Outer Gods.
Those things are what Yujin wants to let them know, of course it's fake as evidence, they didn't do that dialogue, especially for specific purposes like that. However, all that information isn't fake, they are the truth, all he's aiming to achieve is controlling data sources of outsiders about this event.
Yujin is strong, of course, however he isn't strong enough to kill all his enemies right now. Having lack of information, the enemies are too strong even though they're sealed, the "chess players" are hiding in the darkness. Yujin can not clutch this gameplay without any teammate or companion. So his intention is persuading them all to be on his side, at least determining that they won't join the Outer Gods' one.
Whatever, Yujin needs some chessmen to place on the chess board, he doesn't know about the future, but at least Yujin is aware of his power right now. Via observing, Luker, Ian, Aranta, Paragon, Yune and Yan are possible to be his companions. Furthermore, he has other options as Dino, Clara, Lucy, Himeno, Hazen (revived) and 32 other guys.
Nevertheless, Himeno, Lucy and Clara are staying at the same level, three of them can't even beat Dino in a fight, so the problem is they are too weak. Dino is supposed to be the first priority, however, his suspicious deck is related to The Outer Gods and other mysterious forces aren't belonging to the lower dimension.
Yujin: (Which means he is led by mysterious forces from Aurorize, or even other dimensions at the same level as Aurorize.)
However, one more time, there are three guys that surprised Yujin via their power, but they hid away, it seems like they don't like to be stood out. Observing that, Yujin slightly put them all in the second priority - considering list.
Yujin: "If there is no question, I'll move on."
Luker: "I think I have one."
Yujin leisurely signs him to go on with his intention, Luker unleashes all his power in his blood, throwing the Spear of Calamity straight to Yujin's face without any hesitation.
*Clash* - Luker: "What is your purpose? There had been no reason for you to start many fights while that period of time."
Yujin slightly catches the spear, throwing it back to Luker, leaving a thin crimson line on his left cheek.
Yujin: "I want to examine how strong you all are. We are not standing on the same perspective, got it?"
Ian: "What do you mean?"
*Snap* - It's predictable; Yujin flicked his fingers again, changing the model surrounding them to the event that he had faced the Outer Gods.
Yujin: "As you can see, they even targeted me instead of you all."
*Snap* - One more time, the screen is switched. It's no doubt that Yujin was mentioned as their fateful enemy; Ian slightly nods, he got what Yujin was on.
He claps his hands, switching the screen to show up Primordial Outer Gods, this is the most important part. Even Yujin has a lack of information about this kind of being, however he needs to let them know everything first.
He noticed that the number of outsiders were stopped at 800, then Tartarus instantly stopped slaughtering them - which means the rule is saving 800 outsiders for DoD.
The following action was the death of the ruler, 799 remained, however Yujin instantly filled it up by reviving Hazen - which means he is obeying the game rules.
All he can do right now is observe all the demands, demeanor, actions and small details of those 799 outsiders. He wants to label them and figure out how many guys he will need to "take care of" in the future.
Yujin: "All eyes on me."
Obviously his unleashed pressure is despair enough to force everyone to look at him instantly. Whoever goes against his action right now will be put on the third list - death list. Yujin doesn't want to deal with those idiots who might break his plan.
On the other hand, he still wants those three mysterious guys to reveal their power, his quotation is really simple: "More power, more bias."
23 - Twenty three guys reflect the red light in his sight, via the Ascension Force, Yujin can see through the emotions. Nothing can lie to him right now, he silently marks that 23 guys are frustrated, other colors do not matter at the present time, he doesn't care about that.
Yujin (disappointed): (Quite patient.)
*Whirr* - Ascension Force instantly burns up itself without any intention from Yujin, it surprises him with that action.
*Crack* - The barrier instantly got broken from outside, it's no doubt that all of them were the gift from The Outer Gods.
Yujin: "Isn't it supposed to be permanent?"
*Bling~* - A high-pitched sound rings throughout the unknown dimension, isn't he so familiar? Yes he is, who else can be there... except... him?
"Using the first Decree of Supremacy to interrupt him? Isn't it a waste?"
"You better shut up *&%@, if %*@# wasn't there to maintain the balance, I would kill you immediately in a strike."
The frustrated voice echoes through the darkness, his dark amethyst hair is immersed in starlight and nebula. His eyes reflect the unlimited authority of a Deity, that pressure even shakes the chess board as if it's going to be broken in a second.
He is DoD - The Deity of Darkness who met Yujin before - his demeanor shows out all his dissatisfaction, obviously no one wants to waste their scarce authority to stop an inferiority like that. However Yujin has gone so far, revealing the truth of the vestige, no problem, showing the existence of Outer Gods, no problem. But mentioning the Primordial Outer Gods at this moment, that's out of boundary.
DoD: (Yurusanai.)
Yujin: "Next, Game Rules, there must be a cost for them to break other rules."
Leaving the last sentence, Yujin flies straight to The Outer Gods without any explanation, he knows that remaining only himself just makes no sense at all. At least, facing them and saving as many guys as possible is the best choice right now, at least he still has a chance to survive.
Even Yujin can't know how far he can reach with this power, potential is still potential, he needs to survive first.
Yujin: "Do you really think..."
While Apollo is approaching the gate in the vestige, Yujin instantly appears at his rear, aiming for a strike.
Yujin: "I will give you that chance?"
*Thud - Crack* - A strong strike sent him to heaven - Domain Expansion.
Oh, this time is Domain Encroachment, he can't hold back anymore, otherwise he will be a roadkill within a strike.
Seems like what DoD did wasn't only breaking the barrier, it also allowed The Outer Gods to use their Divine Weapons at 10% its own power - that's why Yujin needs to be careful right now.
Yujin: "Seems like DoD has paid a lot, hasn't he?"
Thor: "Say less, this is your death."
Yujin: "Oh, is that so?"
*Zzt!* - It doesn't even take him a second to grab the Mjolnir and appear behind Yujin, aiming for a strike, obviously.
Split! - The close range slashes cut straight to the hammer, knocking it back for a second, following that action three bloody lines stretch directly on The God of Thunder's chest - Cleave.
It takes Yujin a while to accumulate enough power to cut through Thor in a slice - The New Outer God II - which means The New Outer Gods I as Zeus or Hades even take him more time to damage. Let alone to mention Chaos, Tartarus and Chronos, the slash in the domain was accumulated for a long time, and it even stopped them for several seconds. What a dead end.\
When the battle has started for 2.13 seconds totally, Gungnir, Mjolnir, Thunder Rod of Zeus - Apólytos and Magical Ring of Loki - Dólos have been thrown straight to Yujin, a human.
Yujin: "Wow..."
Because they are in his domain, Yujin can easily change the trajectory of those Divine Weapons via the guaranteed attacks. However he built no barrier for the domain, which means...
"Behold." - Another domain has been brought to reality, directly clashing with the domain of Yujin.
Poseidon: "I call it Under the Ocean."
Suddenly, everything is immersed in the water, deeply inside the out of nowhere water - Runic Ocean.
Poseidon (smirking): "Not only you can expand the domain."
Because the features of each domain don't directly eliminate each other, so they are maintained at the same time. However, they are not balanced after all, Yujin can't directly clash his domain, the pressure of Divine Power of Poseidon is beyond the limit of the non-barrier domain.
Thor: "Nice construction."
Mjolnir is raised up to the sky, his arms expand as if they're going to explode in a second, the sound of thunder is too obvious.
Thor: "Mkalias." - (Unleash)
He throws it straight to Yujin, who is dealing with the worst condition, without any hesitation.
*Tch* - "Cleave."
A slash cut through the spacetime, he didn't aim on any Outer God outside his domain, neither the Mjolnir nor Gungnir which are being thrown straight to him currently.
Yujin: "Time to fight."
His hand withdraws something out off the dimensional rift, it's fast enough to just remain at the red light. His eyes reflect the unstoppable determination, this is the best time for Yujin to use this trump card.
Yujin: "Amagon." - *Shing* - the red light is reflected straight to those Outer Gods, it shows out all the willingness to kill any idiots intending to step ahead. He raises the blade to the height of his head, holding the handle, putting the blade upward and lying the blade spine on his upward left hand.
This is the fast strike that Yujin always used to eliminate enemies in one step, and now, it is presented in front of their eyes.
Yujin: "Bring it all on."
"Bring it all on." - The sound echoes throughout the galaxy filled up by starlight and small nebulae, that's... too ridiculous.
*Hah* - Loki (laughing): *Hahahaha*
His face is even distorted to a disgusting shape, that was the funniest declaration Loki has heard for his entire life.
He slightly points to Amagon, the blade that Yujin is holding by his right hand, the edges of his mouth even reach the ears, as a bloody crescent moon.
Among the stars, suddenly a dim light went through his side, inadvertently revealing the truth behind the mist of mystery.
*Shing* - That blade also resonates with it, however, the Amagon that Yujin is holding by his hand is no longer its old self.
Yes, it was broken in the fight with Loreng in the old dimension. Yujin notices that he knows it thoroughly, however it isn't the reason for him to throw his companion away.
"Bound by the limit of the universe."
*Trembling* - The space and time are trembling, harder and harder with each passing second.
"Reflecting neither you nor me, but our desire."
*Trembling* - *Vroom* - Even the Divine Weapon of Chronos can't take control of this realm.
"Shatter the Sky! Break the Earth, even the World!"
This action even stuns all of The Outer Gods, neither its feature or its power. All the pressure comes from who is holding the broken blade, that dark crimson killing intention dyes an angle of universe into the red light - as a bloody ocean.
"Kill the cosmos, kill this heart, kill both me and you, even the gods. Kill them, kill them all. Kill them all!"
*Crack* - After a sword swing, the invisible waves spread out as the signal of destruction. They resonate with the space, they weave into the time and they break them at once.
The two domains, the Divine Weapons and all The Outer Gods are sent to the death, by Amagon.
*Anomaly sound* - One more time, it echoes again, the signal of an anomaly event has been occurred.
Chaos: "It was a dead strike."
Yujin: "Seems like it was your authority instead of DoD's."
Tartarus: "Sharp eyes, nice guess, however..."
Chronos: "There's no reward for you."
*Clash* - Amagon is moved to the left side, perfectly blocking the blade of Runic Scythe swung from Chronos. Another invisible slash instantly stops the flame sword of Tartarus.
Yujin: "Let's dance."
"Together..."
*Shing* - A delicate sound clangs around the battlefield, do you see that? The rhythm inside those slashes - *Clash* - within a simple swing, Thor is instantly knocked back a far distance.
Nevertheless, Yujin always knows the behavior of Tartarus, so it isn't a wise choice to default. His swordsmanship style is directly facing others. Even more than any Outer God, Tartarus the Hell Ruler is who really wants to stab enemies from behind.
*Splash* - A deep wound instantly appears on his chest, non-stop, another slash has split that flame covered skull into five pieces.
*Clash* - Another time Yujin has read them all as books. *Vroom* - Time stops! Chronos rapidly grabs the blazing sword, swinging it directly toward Yujin.
*Clang* - The echoes of two blades colliding keep clanging around and around themselves.
Even with the 10% power of that flame sword, or even the maximum output energy from Tartarus, none of them can concuss the crimson broken blade for an inch.
Chronos: "Chaos!" - "Caz-"
Without any hesitation or confusion, surely Yujin didn't fall for that basic trick. When the red light shone up was when his head was taken down, easy as pie.
"-zur." - The Beheading God Slash is thrown directly to Yujin by Chaos.
Chaos: *Tch*
Neither blocking nor dodging, that silhouette is still there, without any movement, the slash seemed like being forced to evaporate in the air.
Chaos: (Authority of Amexk?)
*Clash* - It was a sharp attack, wasn't it?
Yujin: "I thought you guys just hated Chaos, didn't you?"
*Crackle* - The mouth of the golden phoenix head opens widely, at the closest distance, Yujin is who certainly can feel the heat from his left side the most clearly.
*Zizz* - The familiar sound of the average snake, Apophis even locked up him by itself, before Yujin can realize that action by himself.
There's a specific difference between Outer Gods, based on the Godly Realm they are bound into and the roles they were given.
Apophis stands for the darkness, destruction and chaos of Duatra. This kind of Outer Gods is known as "Behmothya" - which means The Outer Gods based on Beast Form. They aren't allowed to have Divine Weapons, and they aren't allowed to use any of them - which means they always fight by their pure body. On the contrary, they do not need Divine Weapons to unleash all of their own power, further more, the authority of their roles aren't supposed to be bound by Divine Weapons.
In short, Divine Weapons allow Outer Gods to unleash the authority which their roles stand for. However they also play the role of a seal, limiting Outer Gods (right now), but don't worry, everything is created in balance and equality. Divine Weapons even contain more secrets than which I told you all.
So what is the point at this moment?
*Boom - Vroom* - The fire beam blows away everything in its way, the incredible heat even melts all the unfortunate planets and realms - approximately over millions celestial creations were deleted in the universe.
*Crackle* - The "echoes" of that beam even repeat frequently among the stars, that's tuff. It even blew away half of Yujin.
*Crackle* - Ra: (Wait, no.)
*Boom* - *Arghhhhhh* - The scream even echoes harder than the beam before.
Flame of Rage - The crimson flame silently burns in his hand, Yujin slightly dusts off his body. He isn't the same as others, he doesn't need to practice to be better, at least just for now, all he really needs is fighting. By always dancing on the boundary, he can reach closer and closer to his unknown limit.
All the miserable actions before were the consequence of using his unlimited power without any experience or strategy. "Cleave" and "Split", none of them could release a bit of his full power, the problem is the energy output.
Yes, indeed, Yujin is non-stop increasing his energy output by each second passing away. The moment that he touched Amagon, he knew that he needed to calm down just for a little bit, for examining himself and his own power.
Complex or florid skills aren't the best choices, "always start the simplest actions." - Yujin silently reminds himself. Perhaps he can't swing the sword as fast as he can while doing "Cleave", nevertheless, he can eliminate everything within a slash.
Holding tightly Amagon in his two hands, as if he just stepped back to the bygone days in his memories, when those hands never left the precious sword of determination.
Losing everything in one time, he realized the cost.
Getting them back via the efforts of the other echo of Yujin, he knew that he couldn't lose it anymore.
By actually losing and regaining all his precious treasures, Yujin is totally aware of what he does and what he's going to do, certainly.
"Why do you want to swing the sword?" - An echo from the past drags him back to the bygone days that he won't be able to reach.
"To achieve power." - Before his eyes shimmered the faint image of a young swordman, his heart alighted the ambition of an ambitious teenager, as he lifted his sword up to the firmament.
"To become stronger." - Sparkling in the memories of himself, how can he be mistaken about himself?
"To eliminate all the injustice." - His smile even shone like the sun on the sky above.
"To kill them all." - In the bloody realm, covered by the crimson void and filled by the undead. It's disgusting, but it's also the precious period of time in his life - where his dream started.
"To survive." - His smile was gone, leaving there just a cold heart and unchanged face.
"To achieve the peak of this damn creation." - His sword even changed itself, deep inside the ocean of blood, karma and madness. One guy with a sword, he rose it up to the sky, in hell bound his life.
"To rewind everything." - The journey to the promised Etherail.
"To protect them." - The first time in his life, that blade was swung not for killing, but saving others.
"To surpass fate."
"To find out the truth."
"To..."
"What else didn't I fight for...?" - His mind is covered by the unknown skepticism and the blurry hesitation.
"Ah, clearly, for myself." - As he realizes something, a light appears at the end of the unknown path.
"Ye, why not?" - His smile blooms again, obviously, he hasn't fought for himself since his hand built up the hope for the pure realm, Etherail, with other two guys.
A slash splits both the soul and physical existence, it has no name, because it won't be a specific skill. It is his basic technique already.
No sound, no signal and no chance to struggle, that slash is actually invisible, generally.
Ra, Chaos, Apophis, Thor, Loki, Osiris, Tartarus and Chronos, all of them both evaporate among the starlight - putting an end for this fight.
"You will find the reason for your existence." - Another echo from the past reaches his volition.
Yes...
Yujin: "I found it."
His smile blooms as the flower in the cold Autumn, when the sunlight weaves into the mist in the morning. All the unsure inside him is erased, as a book, he turns to another paper - the pure blank.
This is where he starts his new journey - Aurorize.
*Clap* - An unknown applause echoes throughout the dimension of isolation.
*Clap - Clap* - It keeps echoing around and around as a discordant piece of a perfect rhythm of Yujin's performance.
Yujin: "Who are you?"
"No one and nobody." - He leisurely approaches Yujin without any defensiveness, no fear, no hesitation and even no emotion as if he is the strongest one already. His smile even looks the same as a blurry silhouette hiding deeply inside Yujin's memory.
The God Slayer carefully raises the broken sword toward that mysterious guy, there's something deeply inside his instinct warning him about this entity. That pressure is even more overwhelming than any Godly Power of those Outer Gods.
"Don't need to react like that, Yujin."
As soon as that sentence is totally extended, that guy has already puts his hand on Yujin's left shoulder.
Instinct! His sword is swung horizontally, aiming to cut the intruder into half.
*Shing* - That delicate sound still clangs around, however, the broken blade has been stopped beneath the pressure of his two fingers, leisurely and deliberately.
"Spilt" - Yujin slightly chants his familiar incantation, the thousands of slashes are instantly thrown straight to that stranger, showing no mercy at all.
However nothing is cut through, his slashes can't cut through the basic protection of that guy, clearly can not.
"I told you not to be like that, dude." - *Smack* - A heavy knee attack strikes Yujin's belly. It's strong enough to blow away a big part of his body, leaving here an emptiness inside him - actually a big hole in his chest.
A fishy liquid consequently overflows his throat, raising up to his mouth and over the lips. He instantly spits it away, grabbing Amagon and rushing straight to that guy again.
*Shing* - Another time, that blade stopped beneath those two fingers.
Yujin: "If you are here to just play around, get lost."
*Haha* - "You always behave like that."
Finally, Yujin remains no doubt about this problem anymore, with all the actions before, he can determine that this guy used to play an important role in his memory. However, he can't remember those specific pieces.
Seems like there's something preventing him from those forsaken pieces, as a curiosity or even the ego inside his soul - Yujin wants to know everything, about the truth and himself. Even about the purpose of his existence, Yujin desires to eliminate the veil and go beyond the boundary.
Whatever...
Yujin: (I just need to be stronger, don't I?)
*Clack* - His two hands grab the handle tightly, as the resonance inside their volitions, that broken crimson blade also unleashes its bloodlust.
Far away from him, the stranger silently smiles, as if he's just here to hop around, not even caring about those efforts of The God Slayer.
But Yujin doesn't feel offended just because of those actions, he isn't a newbie, no longer a teenager, his ego has already lied beyond that small cage. All his determination is shown up in his eyes, they slowly but surely change themselves into a pair of transparent rubies.
Suddenly, space and time seems to be stopped in a second - this is the signal, they both know what they are supposed to do right now.
*Whirr* - Sword in the wind, approaching his neck as fast as a meteor from another galaxy when the light even feels hard to keep up with that movement.
*Clash* - The stranger instantly moves his fist to directly block the blade, non-stop, his other hand rapidly blows straight to Yujin's face in the close distance.
Ghost Parry! - *Smack* - It's no use anymore, however Yujin still opens his domain one more time after getting canceled.
*Thud* - A heavy strike is blown straight to his neck, the blood overflows his mouth and eyes, that's seriously hurt.
After those experiments are used for determining whether that guy is immune to domain or he's just too fast. At the second try, Yujin observed that the spacetime was dominated and replaced already, but that man was still able to move as normal.
Yujin: (If I can...)
*Clash* - He swung his sword thrice in a second to block just a simple strike from that man, it already shows the difference among them. Seems like Yujin has reached the limit.
Yujin: "Not yet. Bring it on!"
That smile blooms as a reply, the stranger approaches him almost immediately while holding a heavy strike on his hand. Obviously Yujin has prepared for this situation for a century, and a fast sword swing is immediately thrown into the stranger.
*Smack - Crack* - His blade reached the opponent, however his energy output wasn't enough to break the shield. On the contrary, that guy's fist successfully landed straight to Yujin's face, it was a heavy and unstoppable strike.
The God Slayer strongly leaps back two steps, entering his defensive position while holding the broken blade in his hand, ready for the next attack. He knows that at this level, he can't intentionally attack that stranger and try to parry at the same time, it's impossible at the beginning.
However, he only needs to sacrifice the chance to move, as an opportunity cost for a clear possibility to block, parry or even counter this unshakable entity. If he can't do them all in once, just do it separately and accurately.
*Smack* - One more strike landed on Yujin's face, however, this time he can read the trajectory of that movement - he has an idea.
*Whirr* - That stranger starts moving straight to him as an unstoppable meteor, with this close distance, it's no doubt that Yujin will take it directly again.
*Crack* - His skull just got cracked - Yujin: (One more.)
*Crack* - While his hands were moving the blade up, that fist already landed on the same target, the crunchy sound echoed all and all around.
Yujin rapidly leaps back and wipes all the overflowing blood aside, "One more."
In the scarce moment, that blade was close to the heavy strike, however, close is still only close - *Crack* - The God Slayer is knocked back miserably as a torn rag doll.
*Whirr* - The last strike! That guy rushes straight to Yujin, who is falling back, raising that fist again, ready for the final blow.
*Clash* - "Got it." - A claim came out of nowhere in his unconsciousness, while he's still alive after that strike.
Those two transparent ruby eyes finally reflect the signal of paean, Yujin has entered the new level.
He put the blade back to the sheath, all the aura is recalled instantly. But it doesn't mean that he just gives up, on the contrary, he is the only one here who wants to face that impossible challenge the most.
Yujin: "Come here, show me all you got." - Yes, he has already evolved himself and parried the previous strike.
*Haha* - "I knew it, I knew that you would turn out like this."
No reply, Yujin still keeps his position, without moving even a little bit, he is determining the weak spot of the shield covering that stranger. He also throws away his domain, it just makes no sense to trap an entity that can't be trapped.
Cleaves are the far to close range slashes that can cut through the space, they can be adjusted via energy output of the user. Split are the close range slashes with the adjustable damage like Cleave, however it's usually stronger than that far range attack due to its core mechanism. In other words, Spilt allows the user to cut the space as Cleave, but everything always comes up with the equality - Spilt can't be released too far away from Yujin, but it allows him to negate all the reduction.
If we try to understand via Paragon's perspective, Cleave are far range slashes causing physical and bleed damage, while Split are close range slashes that cause both the physical and bleed damage with the special passive allowing it to not be weakened.
So Yujin comes up with two options:
1. That stranger can eliminate all the slashes from Yujin.
Or...
2. Yujin hasn't cut that guy via his Cleave and Split yet.
*Clash - Clash* - Two fast strikes are released corresponding to that stranger's two heavy strikes, absolutely cancelling each other.
Yujin: (Whatever, I still need to be stronger.)
*Clash - Clack* - That guy uses his two fists to push them forward, so does Yujin - he grabs the broken sword and uses his two hands to push it against the opponent. The sound of space distortion clangs throughout this realm of isolation, waking up an unlimited pair of eyes in other dimensions.
"Should we help him?" - In the nothingness, an unknown voice clangs even beyond space and time.
"No sh*t, do you want to die?" - Another voice instantly stops that guy from doing something stupid.
"But if he dies, we will die too." - That guy keeps persuading, seems like he contains no brain inside via the other's vision.
"Don't forget what *^&@ told us before." - The third unknown voice reminds me of the first one.
*Tch* - "But he's almost sent to death." - That guy angrily argues with those two "idiots."
"If #$%^ wants to kill him, he has died for a century."
*Clap* - A discordant clap echoes around, it stands for the demand of other guys not to hear this dumb conversation anymore.
"Stop lamenting, don't you forget how many guys there can observe us in silence? If you want to f* up his plan, just interrupt them. However,..." - That guy instantly takes out a bloody distorted Uchigatana.
This is the declaration that if he really has the courage to do it by himself, arbitrarily, this mad guy will send him to death immediately - no need to wait until Yujin's death.
*Tch* - "Stubborn, without us, he can't do it again. The previous loop has proved it."
"How dare you say that, Ul******? Are you doubting his volition?" - *Shing* - The sharpness of that sword is even shown via the echo.
*Tch* - "On that day, I'll do it myself. Keep dying here with that decayed promise." - He quits instantly after finishing that declaration, leaving there other ten silhouettes in the mist.
"Do you think it's possible this time?" - A strange voice clangs around, I'd like to call him The Fourth Guy.
"Not really, #$%^ is unpredictable, there's no reason for that very soon claim." - "I see."
The dialogue ends while leaving there another puzzle: "what is actually going on in this reality?"
Outer Gods; Eleven Silhouettes in the Mist; The Stranger and Players, up to the present time, there are four forces that have been revealed. However, the problem is how many forces are left there are.
"Sounds like fun, doesn't it?" - The stranger discloses all the dialogue of those silhouettes in the mist to Yujin - he wants to see the emotion given back. However, that face is still as cold as ice.
"Boring."
He rushes forward Yujin, unleashing another higher level of power in his fist.
*Thud* - A heavy strike lands straight on his two lungs, the stranger is surprisingly knocked back in a strike from The God Slayer.
Non-stop, Yujin also does the same thing on that guy - he rushes toward him with the broken blade in his hand, swinging it forward, horizontally.
*Clash* - The stranger instantly blocks it close to his neck with his two fingers, that smile blooms again, the desire has been met.
*Clash - Bang* - Sword and fist in the wind, clashing with each other and collapsing the spacetime around.
They are both sent back two steps, no matter, they both rush to each other as two maniacs. *Clash - Smack* - This time the stranger takes more advantage than Yujin, he has successfully landed a strike on his ribs, heavily.
A crimson blood overflows his mouth, consequently, that force is enough to send him flying back an extremely far distance.
*Boom - Boom - Boom - Boom* - Yujin has been sent flying through four different star systems, crushing all the planets in his way and leaving there a lot of massive rocks and lava.
*Whirr* - Instead of teleporting, that guy chose to leap toward Yujin, who is flying as fast as a meteor, with only his two bare feet. This match has been upgraded to another higher level, even the up-coming strike left behind the void in this dimension, covering it by the massive river of shattered pieces of spacetime.
*Trembling* - As soon as that kick is thrown straight to Yujin's head, he instantly dodge it with the most delicate movement.
Ghost Parry! However, this time he doesn't open his domain - *Splash* - a crimson line immediately appears on that guy's neck, the red blood overflowing as an evidence for that achievement.
Yujin has also brought himself to another higher level in order to match with this fight, his eyes shine with unstoppable determination - he's willing to use everything he has.
*Haha* - "Unbelievable, you can even reach to this level by yourself without *^%^."
Yujin doesn't get that, as if there's an unknown force limiting his ability to access some truth, nevertheless, it doesn't matter right now.
Yujin: "Come here."
"As you wish."
For the next scene, take it clearly.
*Crack* - The space is broken via the pressure of their normal attacks, a fist of that stranger can cause a trembling throughout any galaxy and a slash of Yujin can divide everything into dust, furthermore, they can even release thousands of that kind of attacks per second.
Yujin takes the pace this time, he rushes toward his opponent, holding tightly the blade and swinging it continuously - weaving a dense net of slashes forward.
*Crack - Bang* - Ignoring all the intention to block or parry, that guy always punches to just destroy all the efforts of Yujin, he doesn't even mind about hundred wounds on his body at all.
Speed up! They move across many star systems, slashing and punching then colliding, causing extreme destruction throughout the unfortunate galaxy.
*Trembling - Trembling* - The stars tremble as they're afraid, the spacetime distorts itself as an effort of trying to hold on this match.
*Bang - Bang* - The shockwave spread out the galaxy, even though there's a fact that they're at the center of it, however all the celestial creations in their range are all destroyed to dust within a punch or a slash, no matter if they're at the edge or not.
The time is limited, so that guy doesn't want to waste it at all.
"Let's fight, let's die!" - Yujin: "Disgusting."
*Crack - Bang* - Their last strikes even broke all the weak edges trying to form this dimension - sending them both to another place filled by darkness.
Yujin: (No, this is nothingness.)
"Welcome, Yujin, it's time for the truth."
Yujin: "Which one?"
"The truth that you're willing to know."
Without letting him a chance to struggle, that stranger instantly approaches him, pointing straight to his head.
Yujin: "What are you do...."
*Anomaly sound* - "Good luck, The Challenger."
Yujin: (Challenger? He... wait!)
Yujin: "You! Chess Player!?"
He evaporates in the void, leaving Yujin there - in the nothingness, without any explanation or guidance.
"Why are you here?" - In the blurry void ahead, a voice echoes toward him.