Chapter 77 — The Shattered Hour
Thunder screamed across the dark skies of San Juan.
The air itself bent and warped as something monstrous tore through the heavens — Kuzak had awakened.
His aura was no longer human — a storm of crimson-black energy laced with blinding gold veins. The clouds twisted around him like they were bowing to an unseen god. His eyes burned with fury, his voice rumbling through the air like thunder itself.
> "REVO!!!"
The sound of his roar shattered nearby skyscrapers. Birds froze mid-flight. The ground cracked open as the Indestructible Diversion activated — six Kuzak copies emerged beside him, each pulsing with equal strength, each carrying his power, each thinking and feeling as one.
Lightning spiraled around their bodies as they hovered in perfect formation.
> "No more running… no more loops. Time ends tonight."
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Inside the Chronos Citadel, the world was in chaos.
Gears screamed, time fragments exploded, and the very foundation of the citadel trembled under the weight of too many timelines colliding.
Moro, his aura flickering with blue flames, stood in the heart of the storm.
His breath was heavy, but his spirit burned stronger than ever.
> "We're not dying here!"
He slammed his palms together — the Ultra Fusion 2 ignited.
Waves of azure and silver light blasted through the citadel, tearing through Revo's time cages like paper.
One by one, his trapped allies — Herbet, Kaya, Kiro, Wolf Hunter, and Yaya — fell free from their golden prisons, gasping for breath.
Wolf Hunter grunted as his claws sparked back to life.
> "Good move, kid. Now let's kill this machine before it kills us."
Yaya, though bruised and battered, crawled toward the central console — the massive Chronos Engine that powered the citadel.
Her trembling fingers danced across its runes. Sparks flew.
Wolf Hunter leapt beside her, ripping through the wires that pulsed with time energy.
Together, they overloaded it — and the Chronos Machine shrieked as its core melted from within.
> "It's shutting down!" Yaya cried.
"Then move! This whole place is going down!" Wolf Hunter shouted back.
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A sudden blast of pressure struck them all backward — the sky split open.
Kuzak's aura had arrived.
He descended through the roof like a meteor, tearing through layers of machinery and clockwork barriers. The impact blasted everyone off their feet, vaporizing half the chamber.
Revo stood firm amid the explosion, his cloak fluttering in the storm.
His eyes turned pure silver — no emotion, no humanity, only purpose.
> "So… you've come to die, Kuzak."
Kuzak's six copies surrounded him, their auras crackling with deadly precision.
> "No… I've come to erase you."
The moment their eyes met — time froze.
Then, everything exploded.
The first clash ripped the sound from the world.
Revo's Chronos Blades collided with Kuzak's Indestructible Fists, creating a shockwave so powerful it split the clouds above San Juan.
Each of Kuzak's diversions moved with equal fury — striking, dodging, countering. Revo's form blurred, slipping between seconds, reappearing behind them, landing precise slashes that echoed through the air.
But Kuzak wasn't holding back.
He unleashed Divergent Pulse, his aura multiplying the impact of every strike — one punch became six, one kick became twelve. Revo was forced back, his perfect control of time beginning to flicker.
> "Impossible…" Revo muttered, blocking a flurry of blows. "He's disrupting temporal balance itself…"
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Meanwhile, chaos reigned below.
Kiro was coughing blood, his leg shattered. Kaya rushed to him, dragging his limp body away from falling debris.
> "Stay with me, Kiro!" she shouted, tears streaking her face.
"I… can't feel my legs…" he murmured weakly.
"Don't talk like that! You're not dying here!"
Herbet and Moro looked up, eyes wide as the titans above ripped through reality itself.
> "Who do we even fight now?" Herbet muttered.
"No one," Moro replied grimly. "We save who we can."
They sprinted through the collapsing citadel, shielding civilians and captured souls trapped by Revo's experiments. Each explosion shook the structure more violently than the last.
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Above them, Revo and Kuzak were now beyond sight.
They moved faster than lightning, clashing in dimensions that broke and rebuilt with each strike.
Revo extended both hands, summoning Temporal Rings that sliced through the air — but Kuzak's diversions absorbed the attack, redirecting it back in synchronized retaliation.
> "How does it feel?" Kuzak roared. "When time itself bends to your enemy?"
Revo gritted his teeth, his perfect calm finally cracking.
> "You think this power makes you divine?"
"No," Kuzak snarled. "It makes me unstoppable."
Their final clash tore the Chronos Citadel apart.
The massive floating fortress shattered into fragments, gears and energy raining down over San Juan like falling stars. The explosion illuminated the entire horizon — a blue-gold inferno marking the end of the Chronos Domain.
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From far below, Moro, Kaya, Herbet, and the others watched as the sky split open, wind screaming past their faces.
They barely escaped the collapsing ruins, covered in dust and blood, as the once-proud citadel disintegrated into the sea of time.
Kiro, barely conscious, whispered as he looked up.
> "Did… did we win?"
Moro clenched his fists, staring into the glowing horizon.
> "No. Not yet. The real war just began."
And somewhere in the void, amidst the falling fragments of the citadel, Scaro's voice echoed faintly, calm and calculated.
> "Beautiful. Let chaos crown the new kings of time."
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