Chapter VIII
Vernizel, Eliana, Calabras, Haruka, and Stefania sat in a circle in the room, accompanied by sunlight from the window that displayed the beautiful scenery of Notton's southern ocean, which also showed a black dot: Orion Island.
As everyone was discussing the heroes' fight against the world kings and Orion, Vernizel suddenly interrupted, saying, "Life is not always as you imagine. Sometimes the beauty is evil, and the evil is beauty. Today, everything will be proven. Something big is about to happen. That is what Kaizo, as someone who knows a lot, will do everything for the sake of all good people."
"Hey, why are you saying that, you bastard!" Calabras snapped at Vernizel.
Eliana, Haruka, and Stefania watched the small argument, confused.
"Destiny will always lead to one thing. It cannot be changed. That is the way it is, Eliana. Next time, don't get too involved with him, he's weird," Calabras said, pointing at Vernizel, who smiled stiffly like an extra.
Deep underground, in the hidden depths of Orion Island, Kaizo, his body wrapped in chains, remained silent. He was waiting for someone. Maria entered the place by breaking through the earth and closing it back up as before—high-level earth control ability, making her much stronger than any other earth controller. Many people have the same power, but the levels are definitely different, and those different levels are regulated by destiny. Maria approached Kaizo, who gave a faint smile, his teeth slightly visible, a smirk. Her hand slowly touched Kaizo's chin, gradually lifting it, making them look into each other's eyes. Kaizo then said, "I will prove the impossible. I will not fail again, because I already know everything. Even Orion will submit to my power!"
"What are you actually talking about? Aren't our main targets only the three world kings?" Maria was slightly panicked.
"They are your target. Orion is my goal. Besides, after this is over, I will hand you over to Eliana to be imprisoned for life. Your service will not cover your sins," Kaizo retorted.
"Hah~, I see~ So you will discard me after all this? Don't worry, I will finish you off after you kill the world kings~"
"You will try, you will try...." Kaizo smiled, licking his upper lip.
Maria left, breaking through the ground, leaving Kaizo alone.
A terrifying-looking tower of darkness stood in the middle of the island. Orion sat, lost in thought at the top, contemplating his life, which was starting to feel wrong. Until he finally noticed the presence of the heroes who had just landed on the island's northern beach. Orion raised his index finger, which emitted a very bright light, piercing the sky and changing the calming blue color to a suffocating dark purple.
Seeing that, Fatih immediately signaled everyone to prepare. The holy sword shone in Fatih's hand, a dragon's roar came from Zen's shield, Bones's spirit burned with his axe, while Kirito's new magic staff reflected a glittering light from the gold on its horn.
After only a few steps, they were immediately blocked by the four current world kings. They were terrifying terrors who were formerly the protectors of the world. After submitting to Orion, they began to commit evil and spread cruelty.
Turamus, the controller of climate and water, an anomaly who mastered two high-level powers at once. His body was entirely humanoid, like a combination of a human with octopus skin and arms, two legs, and a head with a pyramid on top, each side of which had one eye and one mouth. His eyes were fiery red and always showed a serious expression. The ruler of the Bermuda continent, a strange, completely flat, triangle-shaped continent located southeast of Orion Island.
Bedjo, the bald one from the eastern continent, the founding emperor of the Capite Raso Empire, which means "shaved head." All residents of this Empire are completely bald. His face is decorated with a thick beard and mustache, as if the hair on his head had moved to his chin. A high-level wind controller, capable of knocking down an entire continent in a single move. Highly skilled in close combat and capable of moving as fast as a hurricane.
Frankos, a large, middle-aged man, almost three meters tall, wearing attributes similar to a Viking, but showing absolutely no aura of gallantry or a true sailor. Frankos is the true form of uncontrolled male lust, evil and very depraved. It's hard to believe he was once a protector of the world before meeting Orion. A high-level ice controller, he once froze the world to fight a giant centipede that was half the diameter of the Earth. Note that the Earth in this story has twice the diameter of our Earth.
Maria, the new world king, or more precisely called queen, because she is a woman. She has a normal appearance with wavy black hair and purplish-red eyes. A high-level earth controller, with an unclear background.
The two sides, heroes and world kings, faced each other, both ready to fight. However, Maria suddenly panicked and immediately ordered everyone to retreat very far, leaving an empty field between them, too far away, yet it all felt normal when seeing what they were about to witness.
All directions that were at least level enough to see the same sky as the sky over Orion Island would witness it: the ground exploded, and a giant burning blue light burst out from within the earth, penetrating the sky and momentarily clearing the dark purple haze from Orion Island.
Eliana, Stefania, and Haruka were shocked, amazed, and afraid, while Vernizel and Calabras remained calm as if they already knew. The world kings and the heroes were surprised, while Orion stared at the light with a wide smile, showing his molars.
Kaizo slowly emerged from the huge hole. His eyes glowed bright blue, while black lines under his eyes extending to his chin began to form a strange pattern.
Kaizo said, "You guys fight Orion. Leave the four of them to me."
The four heroes just nodded and ran towards the tower, forgetting the world kings who would now face Kaizo.
Kaizo smiled and pulled out his secret weapon: a gigantic iron sword, almost as wide as his chest and as long as his height.
The Ryuuken Sword, the secret sword of the Dantarona family. Its owner was Dantarona I, who was inaugurated as a hero of the Notton kingdom for defeating five dragons at once. Many thought the sword died with Dantarona I, but it turned out to be inherited down the generations. Kaizo's ability to parry all attacks is actually the power to eliminate threats from that sword, which is able to parry all kinds of dangers, both physical and non-physical. Equal or much higher existences will also be parried, because this sword is inhabited by Ryuuken, a sword spirit created by Vernizel.
Maria swallowed hard and looked at Kaizo, who was staring at her with a cynical and cruel gaze, as if saying, "Feel the consequences of thinking you could take advantage of me, the strongest one." Everyone was silent, but Frankos suddenly interrupted, saying, "Oh, it's just a bluff. I will kill you and take Eliana from you. I have long wanted to enjoy her body, which must be very nic—"
"Boom"
A bullet pierced Frankos's head right between his eyebrows, killing him instantly.
Here's the thing: Kaizo's power is 'Creative,' as he once said. This power is the ability to create and manipulate all elements that exist and have ever existed in any universe. This makes him able to create various deadly attacks, but this power is actually hated because it is dangerous and threatens world security. Therefore, its owners are hunted, and that is why no one remembers this power anymore, because there is no longer any historical evidence of its existence.
Realizing this was a big fight, Turamus immediately moved the four of them to Bermuda, so that Orion would have more room to maneuver.
As soon as they arrived in Bermuda, Kaizo immediately countered with his other power. His bright, shining eyes brought up strange black symbols. The world kings immediately bowed in fear, sweat flooding their bodies and leaving them silent for a moment.
Bedjo, feeling challenged, immediately darted forward and created a tornado the size of all of Bermuda. The sky became dark, accompanied by thunder. This was the continent-destroying power everyone was talking about. Turamus did not stay silent. A mighty lightning bolt, which could be clearly seen even by Eliana thousands of kilometers away, was witnessed by her.
Orion, who had just knocked down Bones, immediately showed off his subordinate's power to Fatih, who was still trying to stand up. Kirito, lying down, began to feel that he was too weak and useless.
Zen was still trying to get up, but his too-severe wounds had defeated him. Zen lost consciousness. Even the limit-breaking power could not help them fight Orion.
Fatih could fly, and so could Bones. Kirito turned out to be unable to break his limits, while Zen, who had reached supersonic speed, was still defeated. Up to this point, perhaps Orion's strength still could not be taken seriously until he met a worthy opponent.
From the swirling wind, Bedjo's head was thrown and rolled to a stop. Turamus and Maria were silent looking at it. The wind stopped, and the storm subsided. Kaizo appeared without mercy, plunging his sword into the ground, stepping on Bedjo's head with his right foot, and stretching out both arms, as if saying, "Look, I won!"
Maria wanted to pull a meteor from outer space, but she stopped her intention because Kaizo kept looking at her arrogantly. Maria spontaneously took a step back, as if her body believed this was truly dangerous for her. Unfortunately, Turamus did not want to lose. He immediately moved forward at an illogical speed and charged Kaizo repeatedly, but it was in vain; everything was parried.
Only then did everyone realize when Kaizo hovered, his coat fluttering, and a bright blue ball of light appeared above him.
In front of Orion, Fatih said, "As long as hope lives, humanity will survive. That's what I know. I believe you will understand."
Orion was stunned and felt a strange feeling, but he clearly would not let Fatih hurt him, as he had to be in perfect condition when facing Kaizo.
Kaizo shouted, shaking Turamus's resolve and making Maria kneel in fear, "NUKE!!!!"
"Tsar Bomba Ultima!!!!"
A massive, devastating explosion appeared, destroying all of Bermuda, instantly changing the Earth's geography, accompanied by a mushroom cloud that repeatedly produced lightning and a terrifying rumbling sound.
Vernizel raised his finger to ward off the mighty shockwave, as did Orion, who created a very strong cosmic shield to protect everyone on Orion Island.
Maria woke up, realizing she had been tied up by Kaizo.
"You saved me?"
"Of course."
"Why?"
"Many things will change in the timeline after this. I want Earth, especially Eliana, to remain safe, so I have planned everything."
"Are your feelings that strong?"
"Shut up, or I'll kill you!"
"Yeah, whatever you want,"
Eliana came with Vernizel, immediately jumped, and hugged Kaizo. The two hugged tightly as if they had missed each other greatly after being separated for a very long time, while Vernizel fled, taking Maria back to Stefania's bar.
Eliana said, "You did it, Kaizo!"
"Not yet, Eliana. The world is safe from evil, but not safe from destruction. I will face Orion, after that—"
"After that, we will live happily and have a small, warm family?" Eliana was really excited, as if her dark days had vanished with Kaizo's destructive explosion.
"Sure, if that's what you want, we can,"
"Yes, I finally refute that destiny will torment me for life,"
"Eliana, we never know what our destiny is like, but what is clear is that everything will be better now," Kaizo said.
Fatih suddenly plunged, thrown far from Orion Island to where Eliana and Kaizo were. Eliana immediately tried to help Fatih stand up, but he was able to stand up straight despite his injuries looking very severe. Fatih had a mentality that could affect his physical strength.
Fatih then said, "Sorry to interrupt you both. I'm going to take care of Orion."
"Don't. Fighting Orion is my dream. You all have done your best. You'd better recover quickly. We don't know what possibilities will occur if I fight Orion. He can be considered my equal," Kaizo forbade Fatih from leaving. Fatih understood and immediately devised a new strategy to give himself and his friends room to rest and recover their strength while Kaizo and Orion fought. One wanted to protect the earth, and the other wanted to destroy it. This would be a legendary battle remembered in the history of the world.
Fatih opened a portal to a place on Orion Island, while several portals sucked up Zen, Bones, and Kirito. Orion realized that this was his moment to decide the path he had to choose. The result of this fight would determine his future.
The first revolution point was about to take place.
A moment that would change the entire plot.
Eliana returned to the bar with Fatih, watching Stefania and Haruka immediately treat Kirito, who would then be able to heal Zen, Bones, and Fatih, remembering that they had to be prepared for all possibilities.
Orion stared at the glowing blue light from a distance, from the top of the tower, seeing Kaizo preparing an attack.
A large ball of energy shot out, destroying the land and exploding right at Orion's tower.
Somehow, this was witnessed by the whole world, because without any broadcasting mechanism, Vernizel showed all of it so that the whole world would know this history directly.
Aydir immediately gathered his people to sit for a moment and pray together. Este, with the elves, began to perform a ritual of supplication by unifying their magic to make their sacred tree emit a golden light. The northern swordsmen, led by Zato, also began to light a giant bonfire and started dancing together, as they usually did when two people from their tribe would have a match in the coming-of-age ceremony. Every kingdom had its own way of putting hope in Kaizo. Everyone was confident that the world would return to normal after losing the figure of doom, Orion.
Orion was surprisingly still alive without a scratch, staring cynically at the sky where Kaizo slowly descended while throwing the same smile back at Orion.
Kaizo took off his coat. He was ready for a serious fight. The two began to exchange blows and kicks. Orion threw a straight punch to the face. Kaizo parried it and countered with an elbow to Orion's temple. Orion countered with a kick that instantly knocked Kaizo far away. Kaizo rushed forward again and kicked. Orion was thrown back even though he was in a defensive stance. Annoyed, he then moved forward and began to deliver a very fast series of punches. He punched continuously until the space around him began to undulate and distort. Everyone was amazed to see Kaizo giving a resigned smile while standing firm, accepting all of Orion's punches, dropping his guard and allowing himself to be hit repeatedly.
Maria cheered, "That's my boy!!!!" making everyone immediately shake their heads, feeling sorry and considering her to be going crazy.
Orion kept punching without knowing that Kaizo had activated his Void Body. Until finally Kaizo wanted to fight back, he kicked Orion, making both of them bounce back.
Kaizo created a pulsar star bullet, while Orion created a black hole bullet. The two collided, creating a very large explosion that blinded anyone who saw it. Orion moved forward and kicked Kaizo very hard, so hard that Kaizo was thrown into outer space. Orion immediately flew up, chasing him. The fight continued into space.
The scene of punching continued, now both delivering an endless series of brutal blows, continuously and repeatedly. "Standing here, I realize you are just like me, trying to make history. But who has the right to judge right and wrong? When our guard is down, I guess we will agree that violence breeds violence, but in the end, it has to be this way."
Returning to the supernatural fight, Kaizo summoned his sword, which began to blaze blue, bringing forth a gigantic creature the size of the moon, whose entire body was blue fire. It looked like a samurai in full armor, from the helmet to its body, which only appeared halfway. Its right hand was the Ryuuken sword, and it was very clear that this figure was the visualization of Ryuuken. Orion brought up a thread of light, pulling it very hard, making Saturn spin very fast like a top, ready to split the earth. Kaizo moved his hand as if he were slicing. Ryuuken easily sliced Saturn. Orion then leaped up, his hand enlarging to the size of the sun. Orion punched Ryuuken, making it disappear. Ryuuken returned into the sword. Kaizo then parried the giant punch. The two of them returned to exchanging attacks.
Stars, meteors, black holes, dimension-splitting slashes, supernova rays, tongues of fire, all objects in the universe collided and exploded. A battle full of tremors that made the sky flicker.
Orion pulled space like cloth, throwing Kaizo using a dimensional wave that tossed him very far. Orion immediately launched repeated, successive attacks. A speed that transcended everything, one hundred and fifty thousand slashes, punches, and kicks in less than half a second, and Orion did it for almost three minutes. Kaizo continued to defend by parrying everything. An extraordinary reaction speed met an equally great attack speed. Truly a balanced fight.
Kaizo released a massive explosion, momentarily stopping Orion with a tremor. A moment was more than enough for Kaizo to make his fist equivalent to a supernova, and Kaizo launched a very fatal attack on Orion. A huge explosion was created in the sky, making day very bright and night scorching. All inhabitants of the earth watched intently. The two fought with martial arts, each attack strengthened with formidable power. Orion, a being from another planet who had the strongest power in the entire universe, namely Cosmic power and Toon force. While Kaizo, who had a god-level power, namely Creative, and had many varied combat abilities, all useful with a limited amount of mana due to absorbing the holy totem and having an almost zero energy expenditure after mastering the power of Ryuuken perfectly.
Kaizo again threw a supernova punch, but Orion easily dodged it. However, the impact of the parry had eliminated billions of stars around them. Fortunately, Vernizel was on Earth, keeping the entire solar system safe from the effects of the fight.
Orion then gathered all his strength and made his right hand transform into the universe itself, giving him infinite punching power, and finally, that punch slammed into Kaizo. So hard that it terrified everyone on Earth. Kaizo was thrown so far away that he was no longer visible.
Everyone panicked, losing hope, except for Aydir, who believed in God's help, and Fatih, who remained steadfast no matter what happened. Meanwhile, Eliana, who had full faith in Kaizo, began to waver, seeing Kaizo had disappeared. In a truly short time, Kaizo had pierced through billions of light-years and exited the universe, arriving in another universe.
Vernizel then walked to the screen, showing himself full of enthusiasm, saying, "If you want Kaizo to win, come follow me, both in movement and speech."
The whole world watched him and began to close in on Vernizel.
While Kaizo was still unconscious and floating in another universe, everyone began to follow Kaizo's movements. Ryuuken tried to help its master through Vernizel.
"Even though we are separated so far, until we meet no more,"
Everyone danced as if following the music of an Idol.
"Then, don't forget—"
Everyone watched Kaizo wake up, his eyes shining. A black and blue flaming robe blazed fiercely, worn on his body.
"The bond, the smiles we have forged,"
"Everyone cheer and sing!!!!!" Vernizel shouted. Eliana began to cry.
"COME ON KAIZO!!!!!!!"
Stars
Shine on the galaxy
For once more
To protect you....
"Haaaaaaaaaa-aaa-aaaa-aaaa" everyone cheered, seeing Kaizo rise with his new form wearing the blazing blue robe.
Combat Mode, Reactor Mode, Activated.
Kaizo sped up after exploding everything at his feet, creating a thrust equivalent to the Big Bang. Kaizo broke all laws of nature, moving billions of times faster than light, even far exceeding the normal limits of cosmic beings, crossing an almost infinite distance even before time could dilate.
Orion realized the danger, but it was too late. Within two seconds, Kaizo returned to the fight.
Rays and light glittered along with Kaizo's arrival, as if the entire universe supported him. The potential energy was enough to equal 10^{10^{10}} of the energy released by all stars in the universe from their creation until now.
Not forgetting that, in the time before everything, Kaizo created an anti-matter zone called Void Domain, a large area that had no space, so the impact of the explosion would not destroy any universe, and at the same time, it would prevent Orion from using space to shelter because there was no space to pull.
"BOOOM"
A colossal explosion created a beautiful light show witnessed by the whole world.
Orion had been defeated.
Orion fell, weak and helpless, coughing up blood repeatedly. "Why? Where did my secret weapon go?"
Kaizo arrived, crossing his arms right in front of Orion. "I won, haha."
Suddenly, a black spear shot out very fast. Orion, realizing the power, immediately pushed Kaizo to fall so he wouldn't be hit by the spear. Kaizo was surprised to see the attack that came out of nowhere. Orion stood up with difficulty to state that the attack should have been created from the cosmic armor that Orion made with the energy he stole from the earth, but somehow he couldn't summon it to fight Kaizo. Kaizo realized the other attack and immediately swapped bodies with Orion using the power of his eyes. Unfortunately, the spear stabbed right into Kaizo's chest. Blood splattered onto Orion's surprised and terrified face.
The tragic scene was witnessed by the entire world.
Orion repeatedly tried to wake Kaizo, who was motionless. "Hey, I was supposed to kill you. Why did you protect me!!? You idiot, what's wrong with you, hey, wake up or I'll hit you!!!"
Kaizo, with his last strength, handed over Ryuuken, gesturing that Eliana must have the sword. He also whispered something: "Be good, be a naughty child who defies the world, remember who you really are, and say whatever you think can calm Eliana." Kaizo remained standing while Orion just gaped in confusion. Without realizing it, he was crying.
Fatih, without thinking, although the whole world was grieving, Eliana fell crying, as did his friends, Stefania, Haruka, even Maria, all in tears. Fatih opened a portal, saved Orion, and brought him back. Fatih did not cry, nor was he afraid. He was sad, but he never showed anything that displayed weakness. On the contrary, his gaze was fiery, full of anger and hatred. Kaizo was not defeated by a supervillain; he was defeated by a traitor, who betrayed Orion and stole the power he had collected for ten years on earth.
Kirito woke up and threw off his mask, revealing a face that was not like an elf's, without long, pointed ears, without empty, shining white eyes. His eyes had pupils. Not only that, their color was a glowing green, exactly like Yggdrasil's.
Kirito created a magic portal, while his magic staff began to evolve, covering Kirito's body in a very beautiful and intimidating golden dragon armor. Golden dragon wings appeared on his back. Kirito flew into the portal and immediately faced whoever was behind the cosmic armor.
Eliana still couldn't believe what happened. Kaizo was dead.