The shimmering halo of ancient text floating around Elias's arms flared with a blinding gold intensity. Below his feet, the smooth crater carved by the void energy began to crack under the sudden, immense pressure radiating from Elias.
Nihil didn't hesitate. Sensing the massive spike in evo-energy, the vortex of purple and pink light that formed his face spun violently.
He vanished from his hovering position, tearing through the air and appearing directly in front of Elias. His bandaged right hand shot forward in a straight, blinding punch aimed directly at Elias's chest. The fist was completely coated in a dense layer of black void energy, designed to erase anything it touched.
Elias snapped his left palm up, intercepting the punch.
BOOM!
The collision generated a heavy shockwave that tore through the valley floor, sending a massive cloud of dust rolling outward. Nihil's void energy hissed aggressively against Elias's obsidian grey skin, attempting to dissolve his flesh into nothingness. But the ancient golden text on Elias's halo shifted rapidly, rewriting itself in a split second. The void energy failed to erase him; instead, it slid off his skin like water.
Nihil's geometric eye sigil flashed in surprise. Before he could pull his hand back, Elias drove a brutal, short-range right hook straight into Nihil's ribs.
The punch landed with a deafening crack. The raw physical force sent the Elite rocketing backward across the crater. Nihil skimmed the ground for fifty meters, his boots carving deep trenches into the stone before he violently flipped himself upright, digging his fingers into the earth to halt his momentum.
"Fascinating," Nihil's distorted voice echoed, a dark chuckle rattling from his empty face. He stood up slowly, dusting off his shoulders. "Your body is actively resisting the deletion process. You've changed the structural rules of your own biology. But don't think a simple parlor trick will save you.."
Nihil threw his arms outward. The air around him warped as he unleashed one of his signature moves: Void WEB. The space between him and Elias instantly fractured into a dozen jagged, pitch-black lines. These fissures raced across the ground, swallowing the rocks and the very air, moving toward Elias like a pack of hunting predators.
Elias didn't retreat. He sprinted forward, his golden flame hair trailing behind him like a comet. As the first void fissure snapped at his feet, Elias pivoted his weight onto his left heel, executing a flawless, tight spin that cleared the dark rift by a hair's breadth. Another fissure tore upward right beneath his chin, but Elias threw his upper body backward, performing a fluid backflip.
While mid-air, Elias saw Nihil closing the distance, his bandaged fists already cocked back for a dual strike.
Nihil executed a rapid-fire sequence of high-speed martial arts strikes. He threw a ferocious left jab, followed by a spinning back-fist, and concluded with a devastating crescent kick aimed at Elias's neck. Each strike was perfectly calculated,
Elias blocked the left jab with his forearm, but the sheer force of the spinning back-fist caught him squarely across the cheek. Elias's head snapped sideways, a drop of blood flying from his lip.
Before he could stabilize his balance, Nihil's crescent kick connected heavily with his ribs, sending Elias crashing hard into the side of the crater wall.
"I am one of Malkor's Elites!" Nihil roared, his voice expanding across the valley like thunder as he pursued Elias into the rubble. "We are the strongest forces in the Galaxy and you can't stop us".
Nihil appeared right above the fallen Elias, driving
his knee downward in a crushing drop. Elias rolled violently to the right, the knee shattering the bedrock where his head had been just a microsecond prior. Elias scrambled to his feet, instantly entering a tight defensive stance as Nihil launched another relentless barrage.
Nihil's fists became an absolute blur of neon pink and dark purple light. He drove a heavy punch to Elias's solar plexus, followed by a swift uppercut that lifted Elias off his feet. Elias managed to cross his arms to block a follow-up hammer fist, but the weight of the blow drove him deep into the dirt.
Nihil was winning. His experience, his relentless speed, and his mastery of hand-to-hand combat were systematically breaking through Elias's defenses.
But as Elias took another heavy blow to the shoulder, the ancient text on his floating golden halo began to spin at a manic pace. The radiant gold text glowed brighter, and they began to change.
With every passing second, Elias's physical movements were changing. His muscle fibers were realigning; his reaction time was compressing. His body was actively learning the exact rhythm, velocity, and trajectory of Nihil's fighting style.
Nihil threw a devastating straight right punch, aiming at Elias's face.
Elias didn't just block it this time. He raised his left hand and caught Nihil's fist firmly in his palm. The impact created a sharp sonic pop, but Elias's arm didn't move back a single inch.
Nihil's sigil widened. "What?!"
Elias raised his head, his radiant gold eyes locked onto the Elite. The gold flames on his head flared to twice their original size. "My turn," Elias whispered.
With his right hand, Elias delivered a lightning-fast palm strike directly to the center of Nihil's chest. sending a massive shockwave straight through his torso and blasting him into the air.
Elias didn't let him fly away. He vanished, reappearing directly above Nihil in the sky. Elias coiled his body and delivered a ferocious axe kick straight down onto Nihil's shoulder. Nihil managed to raise both arms in a cross-block, but the sheer, evolved weight of Elias's kick crushed his guard, sending the Elite rocketing downward like a meteor.
CRASH!
Nihil slammed into the valley floor, creating a brand new crater that sent shock waves traveling all the way up to the mountain castle.
Before the dust could even rise, Elias descended like a lightning bolt, landing right on top of Nihil. He grabbed the Elite by the collar of his suit and began delivering a brutal, unrelenting sequence of ground-and-pound strikes. Left, right, left, right—Elias's fists were moving so fast they created a continuous, deafening roar of sonic booms that echoed across the mountains.
Nihil, completely trapped beneath the onslaught, threw his hands up and unleashed his final, most desperate move.
A massive, localized shockwave of absolute negative space exploded outward from his body, attempting to force Elias off him.
But Elias's evolution had already completed its adaptation to the void. As the blast hit him nothing happened.
Elias didn't move an inch. He raised his right fist high into the air, "I'm sorry you brought this upon yourself, look at how many planets you've taken,
How many lives have been lost, why why did you do it, don't you feel sorry"
Nihil laughed "why would I feel sorry"
Elias face became cold
"ZERO POINT "
A massive burst of energy surrounded Elias fist then ,Elias drove his fist straight down into the center of Nihil's void face.
BOOM