[Proto Earth]
"A surprise attack, kuhehehe... "
As Axel stumbled back quite a few steps, Lilia then blinked in front of Kaido, as she stance herself to put her short sword infront of her, while keeping tab on Kaido who is secretly doing something on his blood.
"Suprise attack, Assassin... doesn't this remind you of something?" Laughed by Axel
"Doesn't ring a bell" snarled by Kaido
"... Melfina"
Hearing that name, Kaido remembered his elf companion that he had brought along who is really good at the assassin class. Upon realizing up to that point, such situation really does resemble how both him and Melfina act when protecting one another. At times when needed, he would take the lead and assist Melfina, but when his life is in danger, the elf herself would always try to intervene. She was really a dependable woman, however in comparison to his elf assassin companion, Lilia had already reached her level in terms of assassin skill.
This is taking note that Lilia is just starting to grow, so if given time, Lilia would greatly surpass Melfina in terms of assassination skills. That's just how talented Lilia is.
"Now that you say it, this does resemble that feeling, however I'm more surprised on you... I'm pretty sure Lilia left you with deep cuts, so how the hell are you fine with no sign of damage?"
"Isn't that obvious? Reality manipulation, anything I think, want or need, bends to my will... I'm practically a God in flesh"
"God's eh... I've met them before.... all i can say is, that they're petty"
"What?!?!"
"Now Lilia!!!"
As if waiting for that certain signal, Kaido sent out multiple earthen spear projectiles towards Axel, quickly catching him off guard and forcing him to actually avoid the attack by doing an instant teleportation. It seems like during the time when he was focused on Lilia, Kaido had actually changed the properties of his blood in between events and launched a surprise attack on him. As for Lilia who have sensitive senses, she must have caught on Kaido's intent and followed through his plan.
With that, the moment Axel moved in order to dodge Kaido's initial attack, she was then already waiting at the spot where he will escape from, by predicting his current thought process, and deliver a surprising blow.
Reacting just in time to catch her drift, Axel blocked her sword slash with a psychic barrier, which gave leeway for Kaido to move in from behind and prepare a devastating lighting spear strike.
In one thrust, a series of explosion sounded out, as Axel speedblitz through the storm of lighting barrage and make his way out into the clearing. However Lilia quickly made an overhead jump way above him, as she switched her hold unto her sword into a stabbing position and attack him with a falling down trust using momentum and gravity.
"Critical strike!"
In response to this, Axel snapped his finger to switch his and Lilia's position, causing her to miss her strike, and get countered by a ball of metal hitting her on the side and sending her flying away.
But the moment he did such thing, Kaido quickly grabbed and of his head, as he smashed it unto the ground, before giving him a pile of furious punch like a drill. However on his 25th combo, Axel eyes suddenly grew red, as she shot out a laser from his eyes and completely blew off Kaido's arm, causing him to be blown away.
Getting up from the ground and getting ready to attack Kaido with a laser sight, he then faced his direction begun attacking him with a tracking laser attack. Upon seeing that attack, Kaido quickly rolled to the side, as he quickly got up and went on a running spree. Of course due to this, Axel followed his trail without ever letting him out of his sight.
Unfortunately this gave way for Lilia to sneak in and quickly kicked his face, forcing his laser attack to cancel out, followed by a slash to his neck, causing it to spray a hugeamount of blood. However despite that, Axel was still conscious as he stood up as if nothing happened and instantly healed his wound on his neck, followed by coating his body with psychic barrier, which prevents Lilia from even injuring him in her follow up slashes.
Grabbing her sword with his right hand, he then inserted a pulse energy on his other left hand and intended to quick punch her the moment her sword get stuck. However his left arm instantly got sliced by Kaido wind blade which bypassed his thin psychic barrier, causing him to ache in pain.
But before he could scream put in pain and regenerate his arm, Kaido smacked him behind his head with her regenerated arm, followed by a knee kick from Lilia, who realized to rely on her brute strength to attack him, due to noticing that slashes were useless agsisnt his barrier.
Getting his head sling back due to the force of Lilia's knee kick, Kaido punched his spine, before kicking his knee to force him to bend a knee, and chain it with Lilia's triple knuckle strike to his chest, and knock him down with a swing to his face.
Falling on one knee, he then instantly regenerated his left arm, as he turned his whole body into a diamond, which caused Kaido's punch to not even affect him at all despite his enhanced strength. So after making Lilia fallbackand lose balance by attacking her legs, he then quickly grabbed grabbed a cemented rock, as he caught Kaido's fist, and smacked the rock unto his head, causing the latter to be slightly stunned and stumbled a few steps back.
Once Kaido was a bit stunned, he then got shot by a laser coming out from Axel's eyes, as he saw him revert to his normal state.
As Kaido got shot back by the laser eyes, a chain then wrapped itself along his neck, as Lilia finally used his chain blade, and pulled his head back by using brute force and forcing his laser to stop in pain.
"You annoying insect!!!"
Just as he was about to do something to deal with Lilia, Kaido launched an attack without a moments rest, as he kicked his knee to make him fall down once more, before choking him in a neck hold from behind.
Upon seeing this opportunity to finish Axel off, Lilia then proceeded to mount on Axel's shoulders, as she used her own finger to attempt to dig out Axel's eyes.
Seeing the graveness of this situation, Axel cannot let this go on any longer, as he quickly stopped the whole fight in just a single word which froze the whole world.
"Enough!!!"
The moment Axel shouted this word, the whole world suddenly stopped into a standstill, as everything had apparently stopped moving under his own will. Of course as the one who caused time to stop itself, Axel was the only person who could move in this frozen world, as he let his guard down and faced both Kaido and Lilia.
In order for him to get their attention, Axel then only allowed Lilia and Kaido's consciousness to unfreeze themselves, while maintaining his control on their time restrained physical bodies. At the same time, while Axel was catching his breath, a notification popped out infeont of Lilia, as it warned her of the danger in this current situation.
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Warning! System detected an unknown variable messing with the laws of the world. Enemy is using [Time Manipulation]
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Rate of survival against enemy : below 10%
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Advising host to retreat immediately
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Time Manipulation (sometimes called Chronokinesis) is a formidable power that allows an individual to manipulate the rate at which time flows, either slowing it down, speeding it up, or even making it move backwards. This power can be used to freeze time in place, allowing for moments of respite, or to accelerate the flow of time to speed up processes or gain the advantage in a battle. Additionally, time manipulation can also be used to manipulate the age of objects or living being, potentially allowing the user to turn anything into a younger or older version of itself.
Time manipulation is a power that can be possessed by a variety of beings, from gods and deities, to otherworldly beings and supernatural creatures. Some may possess this power inherently, while others may have acquired it through knowledge, training, or even through the usage of magical artifacts or spells. In this sense for a human, one can only achieve such feat if he or she has the ability to rewrite reality.
As time stopped, Axel then begun to speak his mind.
"You guys really did a number on me, if my esper ability isn't reality manipulation, I wouldn't have survived both of you... that's just how strong the two of you are... but that isn't enough"
Afterwards he then faced Kaido as he came in closer.
"I'm not the only one who chased you here, there are others too... among them, one of them can also rewrite reality, through his imaginations... Basically his ability is almost the same as mine, in fact I'm just here in order to ensure whether you could handle fighting a reality manipulation who is serious about hunting you down"
"If you have been weakened, you would have died in that bastards arms, however I can't allow that, so I tested you and believe it or not, you have truly exceeded my expectations, your still as strong as ever, alongside it you've found yourself a strong companion"
"But you cant be lax, they are not as merciful as I am Kaido, my mission here is to bring the people hunting you right at your doorsteps... however their mission is to kill you..."
"I can't have that number 99, I'm the only one who can kill you, so I want you to kill them yourselves"
Afterwards, Axel pulled back his whole body, as he looked around and glanced at Kaido.
"Well this destruction was indeed due to the two of us getting carried away, but don't worry, as a gift... I'll fix it for you"
With that everything turned white, when they suddenly heard the buzzing sound in a busy street, causing Kaido and Lilia to slowly open their eyes. The moment they did such a thing, everything that was around them had been reverted back into their original forms, as the signs of destruction, had apparently disappeared.
Alongside it, everyone who got caught in the fight and had ďied, had apparently return to life, it was truly a miracle in front of Lilia's eyes. On the otherhand, Kaido tried as hardd as he can to figure out how Axel was able to recreate buldings and the lost lives.
"Is it perhaps space manipulation?"
Space manipulation is the ability to manipulate the very essence of space, allowing someone to create, move, bend, stretch, or reshape space according to their will. This power extends to manipulating both the physical and metaphysical aspects of space, such as manipulating physical distances between objects, creating or negating space itself, and even manipulating the pathways through which objects might move, such as through wormholes or folding of space itself.
However no matter how much he rocked his brain, such feat of returning everything back to the time before their fight get out of hand, Kaido still has no idea on just how he did such a thing.
In that moment, Axel then glanced at Kaido and said.
"I could atleast fix all the mess, now I'll leave everything up to your discretion... I hope you survive this ambush"
With that, Axel then walked away, as he mixed into the crowd, before completely disappearing from site. Once Axel left, both Lilia and Kaido begun to move, as the whole world itself was the resumed its activities.
"Kaido!" Called out by Lilia when she saw Kaido stumbling on one knee.
As Lilia was trying to assist Kaido, unknown to them, Axel actually also reversed the time of the whole world aside from the three of them. Meaning under Axel's will, he had made everything that had ever happened seemed like it didn't happen at all.
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3 hours later on a dark alley, Axel currently is walking alone after breaking away from the crowd of people, as he bypassed numerous turns before turning towards the direction which seemed to be heading to the city's park. Of course when he got here, there was not a single soul present, as the current time is exactly 11:45 pm deep into the night.
While walking along the trail in the park, a hooded figure suddenly appeared before him, causing Axel to squint his eyes and seemed annoyed by the hooded person's presence.
In that moment as he passed by the hooded person, he suddenly felt a cold chill passing through his neck, as his whole world turned upside down, the moment his head got decapitated from his body.
For a moment, Axel was quite shock by this, as he didn't expect such a surprise attack coming out of nowhere. However since the only person here aside from him is the hooded person, then possibly that person himself is the one responsible for this attack. Unfortunately before he could figure out the identity of the hooded figure, his whole body burned to crisp, as he turned into ash and drop dead unto the ground.
Seeing this, the hooded figure looked at the burned corpse for a few seconds, before it dusted itself off and walked away. However before it could even take a single step forward, it suddenly realized that it got caught into a trap as his neck was surrounded by a finely sharp string, which could instantly kill anyone if they dared to move on their spot.
The moment the hooded figure got caught, Axel's voice suddenly rung out from behind, as he walked in front of the hooded figure and somewhat amused on how easy it is for him to kill someone who is powerful as him.
"What the hell are you doing? Janus"
"So you recognized me?"
"How can I not recognize you, but that aside, what's the meaning of this?"
"This? Isn't that pretty obvious?"<
"Care to tell"
"The time had been messed with and based on what we know so far, you are the only one who could abuse time itself"
"Me? How can you be so sure, you can't even prove to me that I'm the one who distrub the flow of time"
"I may not have any proof on me right now, but I'm sure your the one who reversed the time... however the biggest question why did you reverse the time"
"Goodluck finding proof"
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At the same time on another place which is located at Lilia's room, Lilia then took out a tray of cotton and alcohol. Based on the stuff that was laid around, Kaido then immediately realized that Lilia was trying to stitch him up in case any wound arises.
"I don't think I need that" said by Kaido
"What do you mean you don't need this? Your riddled with injuries, we need to quickly disinfect all them"
The moment Lilia removed Kaido's clothes, she realized that Kaido's body were well proportioned as if it was molded into perfection. Alongside it, he is now having a hard time talking through the earpiece, since he was not accustomed to such method of communication.
As Lilia check out Kaido's body, she then realized just how much willing will the people be, the moment he or she had themselves sold their body parts. Any person he can find to fine, had already been taken care off, the moment they tried to approach anyone near them.
In that many amidst such event, Aileen suddenly appeared by Lilia's window, as she opened up the window on her own using mana, and begun asking her shot.
"What the hell happened? I thoughts your planning to fight them? Don't tell me your not planning to fight Axel now"
"... its not the matter of I won't Aileen, it's a matter of already did"
"Already did? What do you mean?"
"Two words, Time reversal"
Time reversal, in physics, mathematical operation of replacing the expression for time with its negative in formulas or equations so that they describe an event in which time runs backward or all the motions are reversed. In this case the sequence of events are the battle between him and Lilia against Axel. By removing that event while Turing back the clock, Axel had managed to create an alternate timeline on which the world's fate had followed. Basically Axel had unknowingly brought the whole world into a parallel existence.
"Wait! So your telling me, the world had already been messed with and time had actually reversed?"
"Yep!"
"How can that happen? I don't understand, i thought being a Calamity class, we would be immune to such effect regarding laws"
"Correction! Gain resistance, not immune"
"Bah! Same thing, small difference"
"Suite yourself"
"If time were reversed, then how did you know time actually reversed?"
"Because Axel had actually excluded me, Lilia, and him from the time reversal, apparently due to trying to master reality manipulation, he was able to achieve such control... he have grown considerably stronger"
"Really? Looks like, you really did push him so much to be this strong"
"Maybe so...."
"So what did you learn from him?" Asked by Aileen
"Well I did learn something after making him blabber so much, that is the mercenary group that attacked me in our original world had even followed me here"
Hearing that Aileen cocked her head by surprise, as she didn't realize in time that humans with such resolve would actually try something unknown them.
"Wait! Your telling me that they followed you here?"
"Most likely, but don't worry, this time...I'll make sure that this world will be their grave"