The tip of Shan's shadow-draped dagger pressed directly against the back of Ninten's neck. Down on Team Thunder's bench, Gic, Fi, and Dent stood alongside Mark and Thunder, the atmosphere turning ice-cold among the six protagonists. Gic crossed his arms tightly, Fi's eyes narrowed into sharp slits of concentration, and Dent braced his hands against the barricade as Mark's visor flickered with chaotic tactical data. Thunder remained silent, watching the stage with sharp, unblinking eyes.
Shan lowered his head, his cold voice cutting through the heavy silence of the ring. "It's over."
With a single, blinding thrust, Shan drove the blade clean into Ninten's neck.
THWIP!
Blood sprayed across the shattered metallic floor plates. A quiet gasp rippled through the stadium crowd as Ninten's body went completely limp. The automated system's warning light flickered green, preparing to register a total knockout.
Then, the sky above the arena turned pitch black.
FOOM!
A violent surge of energy erupted from Ninten's fallen form, blasting Shan back several meters. From Ninten's shoulder blades, two pristine, simple white feathered wings burst outward, unfurling cleanly against the heavy air.
Ninten's eyes snapped open, glowing with a terrifying crimson light. Tapping into the ultimate ability of Argus from Mobile Legends, Ninten entered his Fallen Angel Form and triggered Eternal Evil. A dark aura of total invulnerability enveloped his entire body, completely freezing his health bar and rendering him immortal.
"WHAT?!" Shan's eyes narrowed as he landed smoothly on his feet, re-adjusting his grip on his dual daggers.
"You really thought a neck stab was enough to take me out?" Ninten's voice echoed with a double-layered resonance as he stood up, floating slightly above the shattered stage floor on his white wings.
Knowing that Shan's Astrager Abha could potentially disrupt or bypass spatial barriers if given enough time, Ninten didn't waste a single second. He immediately channeled a massive, combined restoration code—merging the ultimate healing matrices of Floryn, Rafaela, and Estes alongside high-tier potion mechanics from standard RPG interfaces.
A blinding pillar of green light crashed down onto Ninten. The dark Abha residue left in his wounds was forcibly purged and overwritten by the sheer volume of incoming healing data. Within two seconds, Ninten was fully restored to peak physical condition while remaining completely immortal.
"I knew a sneaky assassin like you would try a total execution blow the moment I showed an opening," Ninten grinned, his white wings holding steady. "So I set up my immortal trigger in advance. Now... take your loss!"
Shan didn't hesitate. Recognizing the threat, he blurred into motion, his body splitting into dozens of dark illusions.
"SHADOW OF OBSCURITY: DEFINING PIECES!" Shan shouted, his shadow clones executing a simultaneous cross-slashing barrage that completely shredded the space where Ninten stood.
SLASH!
The strikes hit solid air—Ninten's figure dissolved into glowing pixels.
"A clone?!" Shan's eyes snapped upward.
"Behind you!" Ninten's voice roared from directly above.
Having substituted himself at the last microsecond, Ninten materialized right behind Shan, channeling a high-yield area-of-effect ability straight from the Pokémon framework—Explosion.
BOOOOOOM!
A massive, blinding fireball erupted in the center of the arena, tearing through the stage containment field and sending shockwaves rolling into the spectator stands. The catastrophic heat and force dealt enormous, crushing damage to Shan, blasting him across the stage while his armor cracked under the thermal shockwave. Ninten, locked inside his immortal Fallen Angel Form, absorbed zero damage from his own kamikaze blast.
As the smoke cleared, Shan was coughing blood, using his daggers to keep himself upright on the cracked floor.
"Not done yet!" Ninten's voice echoed with chaotic, rubbery energy.
Invoking the absolute reality-warping mechanics of Gear 5 from Grand Piece Online, Ninten's body ballooned into a giant, cartoonish white form, blending his Fallen Angel state with Gear 5. His hair turned into flowing clouds of pure steam, and his laughter rang out across the entire citadel.
"AHAHAHAHA!" Ninten grabbed the very fabric of the arena floor, pulling it up like a rug and bouncing Shan into the air. Transforming his fist into a giant, haki-infused boxing glove, Ninten flattened Shan with a series of ridiculous, high-velocity cartoon strikes, slamming him back and forth across the platform in an overwhelming display of chaotic power.
"This is my domain now!" Giant Ninten laughed, raising two massive fists to finish the fight once and for all.
Suddenly, the laughter stopped.
Shan, battered and covered in deep burns, forced his eyes open. His dark daggers began to glow with a dense, terrifyingly concentrated concentration of Astrager Abha—a level of energy output far beyond what he had displayed before.
ZIP!
Moving faster than the speed of light, Shan bypassed the giant fist, stepping directly inside Ninten's massive hurtbox. Without a sound, Shan leaped upward, driving both Abha-infused daggers deep into the center of Giant Ninten's chest, piercing through both the Fallen Angel barrier and the Gear 5 transformation simultaneously.
THWIP!
Ninten's giant immortal form froze in mid-air. The crimson light in his eyes flickered violently as the dense Astrager Abha began eating away at his core energy from the inside out.