"My na is Shinso Adam; youngest of the Shinso Family, and Young Lord of Minerva Village, the one loved and hated the most by this world. Co at ... KAGAMI RENJIROOOOO!!!"
Adam shouted as he declared his stance.
Alustus, on the other hand, wore an expression of clear annoyance, Adam’s declaration was a direct challenge to his dominance.
If he were still human, he would’ve just called him crazy and cringe.
But as a fellow monster, his blood boiled at the thought of soone imitating his race, stepping into his domain, and trying to kill his people, and most of all take away everything he has worked hard for.
Unforgivable.
With clenched fists and rising fury, Alustus unfolded his arms and proudly declared.
"Third King of the Sidhe, Inheritor of Force; Alustus Sidhe. And I will not be defeated."
Their power flared as both declarations ignited their monstrous essence.
King vs. Shinso.
Only one would leave this place as the stronger, more dominant monster.
RUMBLLLLE!!...
The earth shook beneath them as a massive tsunami surged behind Alustus.
He ascended into the air, flying backward into the incoming wall of water, bending the non-attributed Astrum itself, turning the sea into liquid starlight as he carved open a portal high above the rising wave.
Water beco Space, and Space beca water.
The water climbed for thousands of miles, reaching heights greater than any known mountain.
A pressure beyond comprehension built within the towering mass, an unimaginable force gathered, and all of it was aid straight at Adam.
He would have no choice but to take it head-on with the speed it was travelling.
And Alustus know this as well.
"Let’s see you take this then, you arrogant bastard."
Alustus sneered, his voice laced with pure hate for Adams entire existence.
Adam, however, didn’t move.
He simply stood there, calm, and unshaken, as the colossal, collapsing wave barreled toward him with apocalyptic speed.
And yet... he smiled.
His eyes opened fully, glowing with that usual nacing gold. His snake-like pupils thinned with anticipation, glowing as power surged behind his nacing glare.
The lineage of Force was a versatile one.
Monsters who shared this lineage, pure or diluted, held the right to command powers that revolved around one singular, absolute idea.
Force.
But what is force?
At its core, it is the rawest form of power, the battery that fuels all of existence.
Earth.
Water.
Wind.
Fire.
Even the intangible thing like concepts, nether, space, ti, authority, mory...all of it.
Every single thing that exists, from the lowest speck of dirt to the highest divine principle, is made real because Force breathes purpose into it.
If existence were a picture in a coloring book, Force is not the image, but the color that brings that image to life.
Force is the law behind the law.
The chanic behind how sothing works... or how it can be made to work.
To command Force is to control the nature behind all things, how they behave, how they react, how they serve their already established purpose... or how they can be rewritten to serve a different one entirely, but still centralized around the initial aning.
And Alustus.
He had begun to reach into those colors, one by one.
Using the innate power of his race, Water Affinity, Alustus tampered with the laws of nature themselves. Yet, even as those laws bent to his will, they still manifested in the form of water.
But this was no ordinary wave.
Within it swirled a violent distortion of space, so unstable, so dense, that the mont it even touched Adam, it would tear him apart at the atomic level.
Alustus was certain of it.
This wasn’t just a tsunami.
It was a continent-killer, a force of such overwhelming destruction that if it ever made landfall, it wouldn’t just flood a nation...
Oh no.
It would outright reduce the entire landmass to dust, obliterating everything and everyone unlucky enough to be standing on it when the attack landed.
And yet...
Despite that sheer scale...
The great tsunami of spatial distortion suddenly began to stop.
Not because of Alustus.
No!
But rather it was because of Adam.
His mind flashed back to mont not long ago. To that hellish zone of gravity.
’I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die. It hurts. It hurts...
The gravity crushed his lungs. Squeezed his body until it felt like his bones would burst.
He was left there, on his own, his fate his own for three months.
Not to die of course.
But to grow.
Pain after pain. Trial after trial.
So many failures. So many lessons.
But eventually
His body learned.
Already improving what he had, his body despite the imnse weight, open up hundreds of eyes all over his body, as the struggle to stay open.
But they fight either way.
’I must survive.’
’I will survive.’
’I refuse to die here.’
Those were the thoughts running through Adam’s mind at that mont, a mory from his torturous gravitational training under Minerva.
At first, his power could only petrify non-physical forces in the line of sight, but his body had learned how to do it omnidirectionally.
So, in desperation, he tried to petrify gravity itself around him to spare himself from this hell.
However...
It failed.
A flawed adaptation.
All it did was turn the gravity into jagged, useless stone, that crumble just as quick.
But even then, his body rembered what it felt like to touch empty space like that.
And now, facing down these massive waters...waters that was liquid spatial distortion itself.
And they ca at him strong.
They ca at him with oppressive force.
And still, despite this.
He felt no fear in this mont.
Only a creeping excitent.
Sure he was limited in the sense that he could only petrify what he saw within his line of sight, via any amount of eyes he can randomly make and open on different parts of his body.
But the closer this enormous wave ca, the more its range shrunk, giving him a narrower and more concentrated target.
It was also true he had never petrified anything this massive before.
But now?
He had to try.
Alustus possessed imnse power. And quality-wise, his abilities were more mature than even Adams own natrual abilities.
The Sidhe race matured in under nine months, rapidly evolving to adapt to their own monstrous energy as they age towards adulthood.
Their biology mutating under the pressure of their power.
But even then.
Quality ant nothing before overwhelming Quantity.
And Adam?
His Monster Energy erupted like wildfire behind his glare, as he had infinite amounts of it to rely on.
It surged outward, raw, and relentless.
And the wave.
That was world-ending, spatial-warping tsunami stretching thousands upon thousands of miles.
Ca to Stopped.
Because the liquid space.
The roaring, collapsing wall of watery destruction, began to turn to stone.
More and more, Adam’s tahuman abilities spread.
By all logical standards, if he were following the typical laws of power output, his energy reserves should have been drained long ago trying to stop this attack.
And yet...he endured.
Because he was his own power source.
His Monster Energy fed endlessly off his infinite Shinso Human energy, converting that bottomless well into the fuel needed to make the impossible real.
And before he even realized it.
The entire tsunami, thousands of miles wide, and long, and rising into the heavens like a vertical continent.
had beco a statue.
A monunt of frozen destruction, from his eyes as result of being a Gordon Type tahuman as well.
This level of power shouldn’t even by possible for soone at stage one but his Shinso Status contradict all limitations for stage levels and possibilities.
In a way, among tahuman’s he was blatant anomaly.
But despite his triumph...blood burst from Adam’s eyes as he struggled to keep them open.
He had the power...
But not the precise control to limit how much is flesh can take.
That was always his greatest weakness.
The sheer amount of energy he had to force through his still-unconditioned body caused a violent backlash.
His muscles strained. His bones ached. His vision blurred.
Still... Despite all of this.
Even as blood poured down his cheeks, he forced his eyes open.
And stared directly at Alustus.
The King of the Sidhe stood frozen midair, his mouth slightly open, disbelief painted across his face.
"How the bloody fuck did you do that?"
He asked, stunned.
Genuinely baffled.
After all, the sheer nonsense of the sight before him left him speechless.
Watching his water, and power of distorted tsunami of space, just randomly turned to stone was the last thing he ever expected to witness.
But Adam didn’t waste ti.
The mont he saw the king’s stunned expression, he moved, capitalizing on the opening freely given to him.
A flash of green light flared as his power activated, and in an instant, he teleported behind Alustus.
His body, small, lean, compact, and sa size as him.
Genetically, he resembled a Sidhe.
And in so twisted way, he was one.
But far from normal.
Compressing his flesh to this degree gave him an edge, one the King likely didn’t possess.
He wasn’t just strong.
He was fucking physically monstrous.
And now, compressed to this form?
He was at least seven tis stronger.
Alustus barely had ti to react before Adam appeared behind him, seemingly out of nowhere.
His hand now transford, wrapped in a jagged bone gauntlet, like a hardened exoskeleton fused from his own flesh.
Without hesitation, Adam raised both arms above his head into combined hamred fist.
And slamd them down with brutal force
The impact connected squarely with the back of Alustus’s skull.
And the mont Adam hit him this brutally, was the mont he felt it.
A jolt through his arms.
A satisfying crack.
And then... the taste of sweet blood splattered across his skin as bone t flesh.
But it wasn’t clean hit, this attack should have popped his skull like bubble.
And he soon realize why.
Beneath the surface, sothing dense stopped most of the force.
Like punching water from high altitude, only for it to suddenly turn stone-solid.
Even so...
It was enough.
The sheer power behind the blow launched Alustus like a missile, breaking the sound barrier as he went flying.
He crashed into the massive stone wave, shattering a chunk of it as he hit, and finally slamd into the ground below, kicking up dust and fragnts as he carved into the surface.
From the crater, his muffled voice rose, sharp and pissed.
"Motherfucker... that was a cheap hit, you bastard!"
"Not my problem bud."
Said as he goes for another hit, teleporting right before him, this ti Adam punch him in the gut.
And like before he felt that weird sensation, little sage despite the force traveled through Alustus.
However he didn’t flew like first rather he stood his ground taking the force of the attack, and turned it into liquid and to Adam surprised.
Around his fist that force now bubbled his fist, it glowed even more as Alustus feed this punch quickly monster energy.
And before Adam could even react, and hard and echoing ok punch could be heard.
This should have punch Adam head right off his shoulder rather, the attack was stopped.
Right before it ca directly in contact with his face, Adam summon fort his bone helt.
The sturdy Skelton armor cracked a little, but that was mostly because it was poorly made, and right on the spot at that.
Right after, Adam teleported from in front of Alustus, and this ti above him, as Alustus quickly sense him and looked up once and said.
"That teleportation power of yours is really annoying."
Adam chuckled as he replied back.
"The sa goes for that weird inner body armor of yours, my phsycial attacks aren’t hurting you at all."
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