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Chapter 5 - THE ALL

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STAGE 29: BEYOND CONCEPT

Vahura speaks. "Granq... Let's continue our fight in the Baz. I don't need to say much, you can read my mind. Even though you know we're trying to trap you, no trap works as long as you possess nothingness, right? Besides, this emptiness, in a way, prevents nothingness. What do you say?" Don thinks, "I'm not surprised... We don't have many options right now. Vahura is the most knowledgeable and experienced among us, so I want to trust him. I'll probably die, but it doesn't matter. The title 'The Man Born Not to Die' only applies where I live. At least, I think so. If I die, I'll give my Eqia to Vahura. I'm sure that's the most logical option." Avrutus thinks, "Vahura is the most experienced among us; it would be selfish not to trust him. Besides, Abrakmat is waiting for us with his Tes of Moment. So we are numerically superior and also powerful. I'll give the Tes of Will to Don, and I'll absorb the Tes of Grudge. This way, we can use our Eqia powers. We'll see." Granq thinks, "What games are you playing in your head, Vahura... Anyway, I have nothing to lose. As he said, I possess nothingness; how can he defeat me? He can't." After a short silence, Granq replies, "Alright. Let's do it." Vahura smiles and says, "Let's go." and heads towards Baz. Avrutus opens the portal, they enter, and he gives the Tes of Will to Don. But Granq suddenly disappears. Vahura looks around, Don prepares his scythe, Avrutus senses the surroundings. "I found it!" says Avrutus. "To Jilid!" He says this and moves. Lasreju arrives at Jilid and sees Abrakmat knocking Granq to the ground. "Granq... I will bring you the fate you deserve..." Abrakmat says in a toneless voice. Granq can't even move, he can only lie motionless on the ground. Vahura starts to speak, but Abrakmat interrupts him. "Thank you, Vahura." he says, holding the Tes of Balance. Vahura smiles and says, "Always." Abrakmat absorbs the Tes of Balance and collapses to the ground. Granq gets up and everyone freezes. Granq's face is downcast, his calm demeanor instilling fear in everyone. He begins to speak, his voice unchanged. "A Tes is the complete embodiment of a specific concept, transformed into a power, a usable weapon... A certain amount of time passes, and a personality forms within it, this personality is called a Temseral... But others can also use these Tes... These users can, after some time, take the place of the Temseral, this is called awakening... Normally, a Temseral is born with an awakened Tes and cannot awaken their Tes..." Granq pauses for a moment, then raises his face and looks at Vahura's uneasy expression. "Vahura... I'm very impressed by you. You're so volatile... Killing you would be a pleasure for me..." he says. Vahura angrily replies, "What nonsense are you talking about, Granq?! What happened to Abrakmat?!" Granq continues, his expression unchanged. "Don't worry, Vahura... I didn't do this to him, you did... When the Tes of Moment is used with another Tes, neither Tes functions. The same thing happened to Deregerol. The Tes of Moment is inherently uncontrollable, and trying to regulate it with another Tes disrupts its nature. As a result, both Tes stop, and it also stops the user's body." Listening to Granq, Vahura turns to look at Don and Avrutus, prepares opaque capsules for them, places them both inside, and turns back to Granq. "Let's fight then, Granq. One-on-one." Seeing Vahura's serious, fearless face again, Granq says, "Let's do it, Vahura." Vahura stops time and recreates The Unique Weapon of Zo, inflicting a million cuts on Granq. The spear disappears, and time flows backward. Granq dodges each cut, and his right fist begins to glow. Time slows, and Granq takes a position to strike Vahura. "As I said, the Temserals cannot awaken their Tes. But there is a power beyond awakening..." he says, and with a single punch, he sends Vahura from Jilid to Sarlion. Vahura goes with such force that it shatters everything he touches. Finally, it slows down and stops after crashing into a star. Granq also lands on Sarlion and comes to the star where Vahura is. Vahura barely manages to stand and says, "Beyond awakening?" Granq continues. "I have awakened my Tes, Vahura. But this is a power beyond awakening. With your permission, I will give this power a name... 'Beyond Concept'! The Tes of Mind has evolved into 'Beyond Mind'! This power is equivalent to a Tes of Energy!" Granq says. As Vahura listens helplessly to Granq, three different energies are felt in the distance. Granq turns around and calmly watches as all three energies enter Sarlion. "Your friends have arrived, Vahura. They're a little different, though..." Granq says, stepping aside so Vahura can see. There are three figures in the distance: one red, one white, and one blue. Vahura says, "Avrutus... Abrakmat... Don..." Granq looks at Vahura and says, "Rest, Vahura... I'll finish them off and continue our fight from where we left off." Although Vahura wants to object, Granq moves and attacks Lasreju. Avrutus creates small needles and throws them at Granq. Granq dodges them, but they pursue him. Don, meanwhile, tears a long bone from his blue body, transforming it into a blue scythe, and uses it alongside his black scythe to distract Granq. Granq evades, but his eyes fall on Abrakmat, who is transitioning from white to black. He returns to his old position, becoming the target of both Avrutus' needles and Don's blue scythe. His grudge and will diminish, and he opens the seal of shape, saying, "The Seal of Shape: The Power of Velaxux, Ancestor of All Shapes." Avrutus opens the seal of grudge, Don the seal of will, and Abrakmat, transforming into his white form, opens the seal of balance on Granq; the battle evolves into a four-sided seal battle. Avrutus transforms into a ball of red blood, and Don into a ball of blue light. They all enter Abrakmat's seal, and the scales appear. Abrakmat begins to speak; his voice is Naine's. "Let's do this, Abrakmat!" she says, and the battle between Lasreju and Granq continues until Avrutus and Don's energy disappears. "Did they get lost in those spheres? Strange." Granq says. Abrakmat then tells Naine, "I think it happened because they were trying to open the Tes of Energy seal as Eqia users. It's an intruder situation. Although, I've never seen Monfel use a seal... Anyway, we're one-on-one now, Naine. Be careful and please act as I taught you." Naine jokingly replies, "It makes me happy to see you care about me." Abrakmat seriously says, "I care about you, but that's not why I said it. If we lose this battle..." but Naine interrupts him, smiling, "I know, Abrakmat. And I care about you too." Just as Abrakmat is about to reply, Granq says, laughing, "Aren't we going to fight, lovebirds?" Abrakmat, however, seriously says, "Let's do it then, Naine." and starts the fight. (...)

STAGE 30: PLEASURE AND PAIN

Using the seal, Don finds himself walking through a pristine white castle. He asks himself, "A castle? Where am I?" After a long search, he concludes that this castle has an infinite number of rooms. After some time, he finds the throne room and feels somewhat relieved to see a new room. He walks towards the throne and remembers his past, his time in the kingdom. Even if it's not a good memory, remembering the past makes him emotional. He comes to the throne and stops, but doesn't sit. He wants to sit, to sit on that throne, just once, as if he were a king, a ruler; he cannot. The only thought in his mind, the desire to be king, is shattered by the realization that royalty is nothing but nonsense. Don turns around and sees a blue figure; someone with a long crown, a long cloak, and a gleaming body. Don says, "Every castle must have a king, of course. What is your name?" The man steps forward and stands before Don. "May I pass?" he says softly. Don, startled, steps aside and makes way for the king. The king sits on his throne and says, "Although you are of royal lineage, you don't seem to love royalty too much, just like my first user..." Don replies, "Your first user? So you are..." but is interrupted by the king. "Yes. I am the Temseral of Will. My name is Monfel. And your name is..." he continues. "Don." Don says. "Don... You don't seem worthy. But I will give you a chance to prove yourself. What do you say?" Monfel asks. Don asks, "Worthy? Worthy of what?" Monfel replies, "Hearing it won't satisfy you..." and extending his hand, says, "Let's experience this, prince." Don, seriously, says, "If that Granq guy is going to die, I'm in. He's making me so mad." and shakes Monfel's hand...

Upon breaking the seal, Avrutus finds himself walking in a pitch-black field. He asks himself, "What happened? Where am I?" After a long search, he concludes that this field stretches on endlessly. After some time, he sees a red line of dust on the ground, and the feeling of a different presence disturbs him. Despite his unease, he approaches the red line and follows its lead. As he progresses, questions arise in his mind, and his anxiety grows even greater. Finally, he stops and thinks, "What is my purpose here? Why am I following this line?" He kicks the line, destroying it. Then waits to see what happens, but nothing happens. So he bypasses the line and creates his own route. He walks on and on and on... until the line is no longer visible. At the end of his long walk, Avrutus sees the red line again, facing him just as he first saw it, and becomes increasingly uneasy. "What the hell is this?!" he exclaims, but he understands that following the line is the only way. He reaches the end of the line but can't decide whether to go or not. Finally, he has to move. He moves forward and forward, but this time he finds the end of the red line. Hesitantly, he runs to the end. The moment he steps onto the edge of the line, his balance is disrupted, and he begins to fall. After a while, the pressure decreases, and Avrutus begins to glide; he's not falling. Finally, he falls into a sea; he holds his breath. Then he realizes he can breathe and looks around. He can't understand what's happening... At that moment, he sees a light in the distance. The light grows, blinding Avrutus and causing him to turn around. Turning around, Avrutus sees a mirror-like entity reflecting himself. He hears a terrifying voice; more than terrifying. "To the light..." the voice says. In fear, Avrutus swims quickly towards the light, and after a while, he looks back... The light grows, revealing the speaking, terrifying entity... Avrutus is so terrified by what he sees that he can't stand normally; The being's body is large, flat segmented, and multi-legged, with two legs in each segment, its length seemingly endless. Its long body narrows towards its head, becoming a hairy head that made room for its two digging forelegs. Its head, like the rest of its body, resembling that of an insect; it had antennae, mirrored eyes, and a chewing mouth... It begins to speak in a terrifying voice. "Are you afraid, invader? Why would a coward join the fight? Or do I have some privilege? Speak." Avrutus composes himself and asks seriously, "Who are you and where am I?" The being replies, "Normally I wouldn't give information to an invader, but since this is my place... I am Geudzei, the Temseral of Grudge. This is where the subconscious of the user and the Temseral rarely merges for communication. The purpose isn't to speak, but it's the only thing that can be done in this space." Avrutus relaxes somewhat and begins to introduce himself. "My name is Avrutus. As you know, I'm not someone who could possess a Tes because I'm not from around here. And I'm not afraid of you. I was afraid at first, I admit. But not anymore. I've seen much war and I'm not easily frightened..." he says. Geudzei replies, "Whatever... Tell me your purpose." Avrutus is surprised by the answer, but hides it and says, "My purpose is to kill Granq, the Temseral of Mind. I used the seal of the Tes of Grudge for this, but I was dragged here. I just want a chance, Geudzei. After killing him, I will return to my homeland and leave you alone, don't worry." Geudzei says, "You want a chance? Why don't you earn it yourself?" Avrutus becomes uneasy and says, "What do you mean?" Geudzei extends his giant claws and says, "After you shake my hand, I will be the one to go outside in your place. Until you leave, I will do whatever I want outside. Until you leave..." (...)

STAGE 31: DEATH OF CONCEPT

After the Tes of Energy leaves Abrakmat and Granq alone, the battle between the two begins. Half of Abrakmat transforms into his negative form and patiently waits for Granq's move, but time suddenly stops. Granq creates Avrutus's thorns and throws dozens at Abrakmat, restoring time, but not a single one hits him. Abrakmat uses the Tes of Moment to deliver a powerful punch to Granq, but Granq remains unshaken and counterattacks, but Abrakmat has already returned to his own side. "I can't focus..." he thinks to himself. Granq replies, "Of course you can't focus. You dare to control the Tes of Moment when you don't even know its full power. Don't you know you can't control the Tes of Moment, Abrakmat?" Abrakmat says, "Nobody's talking to you, Granq. Stop trying to find answers to my thoughts." Granq replies with a simple, "Sure thing." and stops time again, but this time he thinks, "Even if I stop time, my chance of inflicting physical damage on him is 0.000012. So using the Tes of Shape won't be very effective. It's not even worth trying... Avrutus and Don are outside right now. Vahura is also in no condition to fight... Using the power of the nothingness within the Boluk is also very dangerous. Although the Tes of Mind saw the beyond, it's currently useless because I can't read Abrakmat's mind... But I'm a man of plans, I have an idea..." and he turns time back to its original state. "The rest is not up to me... I've already done my best. Good luck, fools." he says, and his whole body turns black. Abrakmat, bewildered, thinks, "Did he sacrifice himself for his goal?! Using nothingness within Boluk is nothing short of suicide! Did his purpose change? Or was his purpose destroying everything from the beginning? He was working for the devil, not the devil for him! We overestimated Granq and didn't consider the real danger...! Or couldn't consider it..." and he speaks. "Naine! I leave the rest to you! Even if I touch him in this moment, it will still affect me. I'm not on the same level as you! The rest is up to you!" Naine says, "Okay!" and Abrakmat's body completely transforms into Naine's body. But with the sudden breaking of the seal, the air relaxes and tenses... The battle ends before it even begins; then starts a new battle. Abrakmat speaks, "There should have been more time... Someone broke the seal." Naine looks behind her and sees him; his white silhouette, despite its simple appearance, has a terrifying stance; she sees the person the concept has created and embraced... Granq turns to him, clearing his own face of nothingness, and says, "Your return took a long time, Solezma. I can't say for sure whether you were truly dealing with the power of nothingness, or whether you were hiding inside in fear..." Naine, turning to Granq, says to Abrakmat, "Didn't nothingness destroy him? He deceived us! Could this be the power of the Beyond? Could it be going beyond nothingness?!" Abrakmat replies, "In this case, anything is possible, Naine. I don't know what we'll do..." Solezma begins to speak angrily. "The genocide ends here, Granq. I would never have entered a war because my reason for existence wasn't to fight, but what you've done, what you continue to do, and what you will continue to do, surpasses even me! If I don't stop you now, I don't know what you'll do with that power in your hands. Therefore..." he says, and appears beside Granq, punching him in the chest. "I, The Solezma of Concept, will bury you in that nothingness!" he says. Although the fist doesn't move Granq even a little, it temporarily shuts down his consciousness and disables nothingness. "I touched it...?" Solezma says, pulling back his fist and opening his hand. "Of course... A coward like you couldn't possibly use nothingness within the Boluk. But you can create a similar being with the Tes of Shape!" he says to Granq's face. He throws the Tes of Shape towards Naine and says, "I have no use for this, you can keep it." Granq, regaining his composure, takes a long step back and says, "Do you really think I'll lose to you, Solezma? You're just a concept... You have no personality, no emotions! All you do is do what you're supposed to do, just like inanimate objects! Come on then, Solezma... Here's the best seat for you to watch me finish you off!" and he lunges. Solezma catches him by the throat and prepares for another punch. Granq says, "You should know how clever I am, Solezma..." and Solezma loses his balance, his thinking becomes difficult. Granq breaks free from Solezma's grip and continues speaking. "Besides being intelligent, I'm also strong, you know. But what if I told you that I surpass you in both intelligence and strength? Or that none of you stand a chance against me...?" Immediately afterward, Naine lunges at Granq, joining his hands and punching him in the stomach, but is dodged. Granq begins to speak, turning to Naine. "The Eqia of Contrast, I see... The power to transform any physical attack into its opposite power. Abrakmat, you always get the best powers... You even got a girlfriend on top of that... Well, in a way." Naine, horrified, shouts, "How...? What did he do? When did he do it?! Abrakmat!" Abrakmat replies, "We both share the same mind, Naine. If you don't know, then I don't know either." Granq, even though he could see what Naine was thinking, only gave her a pitying look and turned back to Solezma. "I don't advise you to fight, Solezma. You won't be able to defeat me anyway, just look at yourself! You're already knocked to the ground!" he says, and backs out of Jilid. At that moment, Solezma quickly lunges at Granq, who takes cover, but Solezma bypasses him and hurries towards Sarlion. Granq says, "I'll give you a short time to do whatever you're going to do!" and waits for a while before starting to follow Solezma. Solezma advances, but Granq catches up to her. Solezma sees Vahura and advances towards him at full speed, while Granq grabs Solezma by the feet and begins to absorb him... Solezma slows down, stretches, but doesn't give up and continues to advance. He gets very close to Vahura's body and finally manages to touch hin. Solezma vanishes, and Granq, astonished, says, "Vahura absorbed him... But why did it happen so suddenly? Because Solezma is Solezma? Anyway... If I can't find the answer, then there's no answer to that question." He raises his fist to kill Vahura, but a blue light rises from Jilid. Granq turns around and sees a king in blues... (...)

STAGE 32: BIRTH OF ENERGY

Granq, forgetting Vahura for the sake of the king, approaches him. "So, the Tes of Will... You've changed, Don!" he says. The king then pulls out Don's Eqia, which begins to glow, turning blue and transforming into a staff. "I'm sorry, Don, I've made big changes to your little toy. I don't particularly like inflicting physical harm." he says. Granq stops and asks, "Who are you?" in a serious voice. The king replies, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Monfel, I am the Temseral of Will." Granq is momentarily surprised but regains his seriousness, saying, "Well, I don't think you're on my side, Monfel. Fighting you will be a bit difficult..." Monfel lunges forward, but Granq dodges, creating a planet and hurling it at Monfel. Monfel opens a portal, entering the planet from one side and exiting from the other. Granq appears behind Monfel, touching his back and creating a column that stretches across the entire Sarlion from end to end, but Monfel creates a portal around himself, transforming into a vortex and disappearing. As the column shatters everything in its path, Monfel reappears to Granq's right, a short distance away, saying, "Try a little, will you?" Granq swings the column at him, but it only destroys universes; Monfel makes himself untouchable, and the column passes through him. Granq destroys the column and lunges at Monfel. Monfel spreads his arms, waiting for Granq to pass through him; Granq passes through, losing his balance, but instantly regains it and delivers a swift strike, sending Monfel flying away. Monfel slows, stops, grins, and looks at Granq, saying, "He shouldn't have been able to hit me... I guess I need to be like Geudzei and never underestimate anyone." Granq lunges, but Monfel changes his plan and counterattacks. The moment they collide, millions of universes surrounding their own are destroyed, but Monfel is the one who loses the collision and is ejected from the universe due to its magnitude. Granq follows him, strikes another blow, Monfel takes cover with his staff, but this cover only strengthens Granq, causing Monfel's staff to break and sending him to another universe. Monfel opens portals in the direction he went and behind Granq, colliding with Granq and disrupting his balance; regaining his own balance. Granq regains his balance and extends his arms forward to prepare an attack, but both of his arms gets cut... Granq is shocked and simultaneously sees an arm impaled in his chest, then looks behind him. He sees Abrakmat and speaks. "I will not be defeated by you...!" he says. Monfel, though surprised, seizes the opportunity, lifting his arms to his sides, illuminating his entire body and creating a deadly beam, but just as he is about to strike, time stops; all of Boluk, including Jilid, lose their mobility. Solezma somehow stops time and returns... He approaches Granq and says, "The Unique Weapon of Zo..." and creates The Unique Weapon of Zo. But at that moment, Granq begins to speak in a calm voice. "Stopping time? The Unique Weapon of Zo? You didn't play your role well, Vahura." Vahura, seeing Granq able to move in the frozen time, lunges forward and swings his spear, but slows down and finally freezes. Granq continues. "The Seal of Shape: Null and Void Matter: The Opposite of Matter." he says, and millions of tiny, colorless balls, yet containing every color, begin to form around him. The balls envelop the entire Sarlion, and with Granq's word "Zero." time flows back again; all the balls explode, shattering the Sarlion into pieces. Vahura's Solezma form returns to his original form, Monfel completely loses consciousness, Granq grabs Abrakmat and drags him to the seal along with himself, and everything remaining in the Sarlion, including them, is shattered. Granq reverses his own time, returning to his form before Abrakmat's attack, and indirectly heals himself. Although Monfel, Abrakmat, and Vahura's bodies are only torn into a few pieces due to their energy levels, they are still unconscious. But there is a change in Monfel... His staff repairs itself, floats down, touches his body, and restores him to his former state, awakening Monfel. "So it's over... It was all part of the plan, wasn't it? Still, thank you, Monfel... for leaving your throne to me. Now I know what I must be worthy of!" Don continues... He rises, takes the staff, turns it back into a scythe, swings it, and unleashes a harsh energy that envelops all of Boluk. As he swings the scythe, it strikes a random piece of stone floating in the air, turning Sarlion back to its original form. He begins to speak with a huge grin on his face and a harsh aura. "My Eqia. The Eqia of Regression. The power to restore a desired being to a desired past. I know what you are, Granq... Explaining my powers won't change anything, you already know!" he says and lunges forward quickly, but Granq creates a shield around him without even changing his expression. Don, however, shouts, "A SHIELD WON'T STOP ME!" and accelerates even more to break through the shield. Whether it was the thrill of the moment, or because these were his last moments... As if the reason were unimportant, Don returns to the castle. He moves unconsciously and reaches the throne room. His consciousness returns, and emotionlessly, he says, "Now I know what I deserve..." and sits on the throne... "I am a king... A king whose word no one will keep." The moment he swiftly touches the shield on the battlefield, his Eqia of Regression turns to dust, before he can react, Granq hits him three more times and the Tes of Will leaves Don's body. Don doesn't understand what happened, but he shouts, "I WILL NOT DIE!" and lunges with his last strength, but with a single touch from Granq, he turns to dust... The Tes of Will continues to float alone. Granq throws Abrakmat away and reaches for the Tes of Will, but a terrible grudge rises from Jilid... "Avrutus...!" Granq says, turning to Jilid. (...)

STAGE 33: THE TRUE ENDING

"I'll shake your hand, Geudzei... But before that, I want you to tell me everything. What is your power, who are you, what is your past...? We will fight together until one side is ultimately defeated, after all." Hearing Avrutus's final request, Geudzei said, "You're right, actually. As for the answer to your first question, my power is my complete control over grudge. I shape grudge, manipulate it as I wish, and use it as a multi-faceted mechanism. As for the answer to your second question, I am a Temseral. Temserals are powerful beings born from the awakening of a Tes. They possess the power to control the given concept. The situation with the Tes of Energy is a little different, of course... The Tes of Energy are born beyond awakening, superior to other Tes; they possess the power of the void beyond the Baz, and thus can transcend the Baz they inhabit. As for my past... I was born in a terrible place. My first owner, Garu, was a reclusive person; so reclusive that he had even forgotten how to speak. Everyone feared him and spread various rumors. After I was born, Zars, the lord of Tenerasl where we were, sensed Garu's existence and tried to unleash his potential by torturing him. When that failed, he ripped out the Tes of Grudge and threw Garu aside. Then I came back to life in another person's body; his name was Yuuta. Then he started introducing himself as Fumetsu. Fumetsu had a separate Tes from me. A Tes of Probability! Without getting along very well with it, he figured out how to use me, defeated tons of people, and became Zars' most trusted collaborator. He found two brothers named Abrakmat and Deregerol, defeated them in a battle, and took them to his side, forming an organization they called Kangekaelsus. By betraying Zars, he absorbed the Tes of Darkness, allowing me to see nothingness for the first time. Then, in his fight with Jamz, he foolishly used the power of the void, but was destroyed by the power of the void before he could finish off his opponent. Then Monfel, or rather Lu Bu, took me under his wing and told me everything about himself and what lay beyond Baz. You know the rest already..." he explains at length and extends his hand again. "Avrutus... I hate every being around Jilid. No one deserves love. Shake my hand and let's eliminate the source of all grudge." The moment the handshake occurs, the ball of blood shatters, Geudzei, twice the size of Jilid, emerges from Sarlion and surrounds Jilid... "MAN OF HATRED. YOUR GRUDGE DESTROYING YOU IS A MATTER OF TIME." he says, creating millions of giant, red spears filled with the power of the Eqia of Atom and hurling them at Sarlion. As Sarlion shatters into pieces, Granq somehow slips away and begins spinning around Jilid at an unrecorded speed. "Not being able to obtain the Tes of Will won't change anything... I'm enough for myself!" he shouts, slamming into Geudzei at that speed, shattering his head, but the flying fragments of Geudzei converge, holding Granq and dragging him along Baz's invisible walls, inflicting incredible damage. Granq has taken far more damage because his grudge has diminished due to the prolonged contact with Geudzei. After floating in Boluk for a while, Granq regains consciousness and the first thing he sees is Geudzei lunging at him. Although Granq takes cover, he cannot withstand Geudzei's sheer power, and both crashes into the Baz, due to the Tes of Grudge's power, the Baz breaks; the battle moves beyond Baz, into the holy void. Geudzei wraps his arms around the broken Baz, and Granq regains consciousnes, activating nothingness, and lunges, saying, "I don't think I have much time. I must be quick." seeing nothingness once again, Geudzei, though afraid because of his past experiences, becomes even more enraged and counterattacks Granq's attack, but his body suddenly shrinks, and Avrutus emerges, attempting to strike Granq by dodging the nothingness... But he is cut off by it and, unable to land the blow, crashes to a random Baz at full speed. "Well, Geudzei... It was going to happen either way, wasn't it...? Vahura... You said I wouldn't die...! Anyways... I leave the rest to you, Vahura... I trust you... And thank you, Geudzei... It was... A pleasure..." he says and disappears with Kin Tes... Granq turns his face to Baz, who had come from there, and takes a deep breath, disabling the nothingness. "I can't continue with this..." he says. After a while, Granq sees a familiar face emerging from Baz, and an object approaching. He grabs the object and examines what it is. "The Tes of Will?" he says to himself. The figure gets closer and closer, and finally speaks. "Come on, absorb it. Your goal... isn't it to become the strongest, defeat God, and transform Heaven and Hell into your personal realms?" the figure says. Granq instantly activates the nothingness, saying, "I don't know how you figured it out, but... you have the vibe of someone who knows everything... Vahura!" Vahura's appearance is changed; his skin has turned white, his hair is slightly long and black, and he wears dark green armor and a long, dark green scarf. "I know you've worked hard for this goal, Granq. But unfortunately, this is as far as it goes." Granq calmly asks, "I can't read your mind, Vahura. What did you do?" Vahura says, "After absorbing Solezma and then fainting again, I spoke to a voiceless voice. It told me who I was... And now I'm here: facing you." Granq, enraged, shouts, "Don't play dumb, Vahura! I'm asking how you escaped Geudzei's attack! How could you have survived that Tenerasl-destroying attack!" Vahura, surprised, says, "So that's what you're asking..." and Abrakmat appears behind Granq, wrapping his arms around him. Using the Tes of Shape, he conjures long, sticky substances from his body, attaching them to the few surrounding Baz inseparably, fixing himself and Granq in place. The sticky substance hardens, and Abrakmat speaks one last time, "You should have killed me in the beginning, Granq..." and closes his eyes. Granq speaks, "So Abrakmat saved you! Whatever! You can't defeat me with such a cheap trick!" but the nothingness begins to strike from within. "Is my time up?! I can't deactivate nothingsness! I can't even move!" he thinks to himself. Vahura, without even flinching, says, "Do you remember what Derihio said, Granq? 'You will be defeated by someone you least expect.' Do you understand now?" Granq becomes angry and shouts, "Nonsense! I am the one who controls nothingness! You cannot disobey me, nothingness!" but it's no use. Vahura begins to speak. "Perfection was never about being perfect. As someone born in Baz, my fate is to be born imperfect and live imperfect; therefore, we can never be perfect. None of us. My name is Velaxux Dereleaous. For short, Vx. I am the only surviving counterpart of Jamz Dereleaous. His only twin from other verses. My name sounds familiar too, doesn't it?" Granq, though astonished, says his last words, just to prove Vahura's words futile. "At least I tried... I regret nothing!" Abrakmat, meanwhile, speaks to himself in his own mind. "I can't see. I've become numb. Am I finally dying? It was bound to happen eventually, of course..." He pauses for a moment, seeing that the person he's embracing is no longer Granq, but Naine. "I'm sorry, Naine. You dying before me... You being a shield for me... I should have done these things. Even though I am not fine with love, I can say that I found myself in you..." and waits a little longer. "Are you with me, Naine? Are you there...? Naine?" he says. As Granq's last words were told, Vahura says, "I see..." as he sees nothingness completely enveloping both Granq and Abrakmat. "It's been a long time, Vahura." it says. Vahura replies, "You're pretty good for a debris with no sense of time, Larrdanorr..." (...)

STAGE 34: DEBRIS

Larrdanorr, the Devil of the Nothingness, joins the battle one last time. "I know I won't stay long. I've come to give you some information. You won't be able to enter Heaven anytime soon. My minions are everywhere, in almost every Baz. You won't be finished until you kill them." it continues. Vahura, maintaining his serious expression, says, "I understand." Larrdanorr says, "As someone who saw beyond, you're quite calm... Granq was never like that." But Vahura doesn't listen further, saying, "Beyond Shape: The Seal of Perfection." A sword forms in his hand; a sword camouflaged in the void when it moves in front of it, and has the colors of the void. Larrdanorr continues, "Straight to the point, I see... Whatever, I want you to know that you won't be able to escape me until the time comes for you to enter Heaven. Farewell until next time, Velaxux." It is then cut and destroyed by Vahura. After a short wait, Vahura returns to Baz and enters Jilid. Using the power of the concept, Masruri enters Solezma's private chamber and unleashes the concept's power. He begins to speak to himself. "Even if Solezma dies, another Solezma will be born in his place and continue his mission. These were Solezma's last words to me. Anyway... Only the Beyond Shape remained in my possession. I gave all the remaining Tes and Eqias to Abrakmat to bring him back to his feet. Unfortunately, the nothingness absorbed them too... Why am I even talking to myself?" he says, and first emerges from Jilid, then from Baz; repairing Baz with a single flick of his hand, he looks at it one last time and says, "It was a long journey. I am grateful to each and every one of you... You were all wonderful." And now he sets off to cleanse the nothingness of Larrdanorr. The Only Body of Perfection, setting out to cleanse the debris. Farewell Vahura...

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