Standing at the center of the circle of devastation were 2 men – Zabibu Koroma and Etibar Aurel-Terran.
At this moment, Zabibu Koroma's mind was screaming in disbelief. This was because Terran had just blocked his strongest move.
He had just materialized a mountain!
This was an ultimate technique that could only be performed by warriors who were the strongest experts among the BEST Earth Rank 4th Grade warriors.
This was the true power of Divine Mountain Grade.
However, Koroma had unleashed the devastating attack only for Terran who was just at the 2nd Grade to actually successfully block it!
'Madness!'
He could not believe it. He could not even form a complete sentence as he looked at Terran in shock and horror while constantly stammering, "Impossible…"
[Paradox Oblige]
This was the technique Terran used. Paradox Oblige was a technique that utilized [Paradox Force] and had the ability to contain and express two opposite facts. It was the embodiment of self-contradiction and absurdity.
Like the "Uncertainty Principle" where a particle can be in two places at once, Terran used Paradox Oblige to 'hook' onto Zabibu Koroma's mountain divine power. Through this method, Terran managed to replicate a power opposite of Koroma's mountain like a mirror's reflection.
When the two opposite powers collided, everything in the vicinity was decimated.
With Paradox Oblige, even a mountain could be pulled out from thin air without the necessary martial arts level.
"Swish swish-"
"Magic Synchrony + Magnetic Shadow."
This combination served as fuel for Terran's next sword move.
"Falling Leaf Sword Technique: 12th Move – Nightjar Deification."
Zabibu Koroma, who was still shocked and disoriented from his utter failure before Terran, was caught unprepared by this attack.
The technique combination blasted him into the distance, far out of sight.
After knocking away Koroma, the first thing Terran did was look for Manemane. This evildoer's father had acted extremely fast and when Terran first began his battle against the elders; Koroma had actually sent Manemane away from the battlefield.
Further, during the entire time when the fighting was going on with the hundred mercenaries, the seven deadly sins, and the three elders, Manemane's father had actually taken time to tend to his wounds to the best of his abilities. At least the poison had been suppressed temporarily and his two legs had been haphazardly reattached - soldered back onto the bone.
At this moment, Manemane was lying somewhere below a tree in the Giza forest a distance away from the circular battle zone. He was yet to find out the fate of the elders but when he saw the mountains summoned in the sky, he had thought that both mountains and the resulting collision were his father's work.
'Hahaha, that bastard is for sure dead!' Manemane thought with a gleeful look on his mangled face.
However, what happened next almost made him jump out of his skin in pure fright.
"What did you do to my father back then?"
The voice came from right beside him leaving Manemane shivering. He didn't even see how Terran got there.
Terran's tone was calm, but his pitch-black alienoid eyes were deep and terrifying. Meeting his gaze, Zabibu Manemane felt as if he had entered hell.
However, he did not seem to know that the Grim Reaper had quietly arrived. He was still had the thought of provoking Terran.
"Why? Is this all for revenge? Don't you know that I actually took care of your father personally? I only used one move, and all the tendons and veins in his body were ruptured." Manemane was just bragging; stretching the truth. The real facts of the matter were that it was the elders who had done all the work while he only stepped in to torture Terran's father.
In this moment, rather than beg for mercy, Manemane's strategy was to break Terran's mind and launch a sneak attack when the latter was in despair. After all, despite all his injuries, he was still a genuine Earth Rank warrior. Any of his random attacks had the power to shake heaven and earth and if the opponent was caught off-guard, it would be curtains for them.
"You were probably not told what happened, huh?" Zabibu Manemane said while revealing a creepy smile, wanting to see Terran's pained face. "I just watched your father crawl on the floor like a maggot and then stomped his spine to pieces. I have to say, although you aliens are trash, your father is quite something, ha ha. But I bet his last days were torture."
Manemane's wild laughter filled the air as he taunted Terran.
He had gotten even bolder when he saw his father in the distance flying towards them. Since he had been knocked away by Terran's sword move, Zabibu Koroma was injured and his speed was greatly reduced. However, even after incurring somewhat heavy injuries, Koroma's speed easily broke the sound barrier. A distance of several kilometers from the opposite edge of the battlefield would be covered in a matter of seconds.
"And your fiancée, he he he…" It seemed as if Manemane's mouth could not shut up once he started speaking. As he taunted Terran, Manemane's one remaining eye was keenly trained on Terran's facial expression wanting to see him reveal pain, anguish, self-reproach, and weakness.
But he was bound to be disappointed.
Terran's expression did not change. The way he looked at Manemane was no different from a dead person.
"Very good." Terran only said 2 words.
Then he attacked, [Serer Flames] "Flame Dragon Breath!"
Plop!
In the next second, Manemane, who was still laughing loudly, rolled around on the ground. Even though his legs had just been reattached at the knees, he was moving as if they were brand new. But this was not as a result of getting better; instead it was due to the excruciating pain.
Due to intense pain, Manenmane let out a furious roar. His already mangled facial features distorted even more due to the pain as he screamed out his lungs.
"Myrtleeeee! Terran STOOOOOOOOP!" Zabibu Koroma screamed.
Although he was still a distance away, Manemane still clearly saw his son's face when Terran breathed his flames onto him. However, screaming was of no use. If you are already moving beyond the speed of sound, how can your voice possibly reach somewhere before your body gets there? Obviously Zabibu Koroma's screaming was pointless.
At this moment, Koroma wished he was not injured. He wished he could go faster.
His son had literally turned into a burning man and he could do nothing about it!
A giant fire with mostly pink, yellow, and purple tongues of flames engulfed Manemane burning into his flesh. His skin was burned to coal and all the fluids in his body started boiling.
Kkak! Ktak! Pop!
It was the sound of flesh cracking, bones splintering, and Manemane's remaining eyeball exploding into mush!
At this point, even Manemane's anguished screams had turned into hoarse grunts and wheezing sounds as his throat was strangled by the flames that entered through his wide open mouth and nose.
The Serer Flames were also called the flames of love. This was a power that Terran had mastered when he was only 15 or so years old. The Serer Flames would gently embrace the opponent and 'lovingly' burn through their bodies, melting their skin, squeezing out the fat, searing the flesh, boiling the blood, roasting the bones, and sautéing the organs – a slow yet beautiful death.
Due to the 'love' of the Serer Flames, Zabibu Manemane's body had the feeling that he was gnawed by countless insects. The power of the flames flowed through his entire body spreading even to the smallest organs.
"Noooooooo! My son!" Zabibu Koroma had finally arrived but what met him was a sight that no father, no parent would ever want to see.
It was an extremely tragic sight.
"Terraaaaaaaan! I will kill you!" After a momentary pause, Koroma leaped towards Terran who still seemed unperturbed by the events in front of him.
Stomp!
When Koroma was just 10 or so meters away from him, Terran heavily stomped on the earth. Terran's leg sunk into the earth as a trail of broken earth and rock emerged heading towards Koroma. Before Koroma could dodge, lava sprouted out of the ground along the line formed by Terran's stomp!
[Lava Coffin]
Zabibu Koroma did not even have a chance to dodge as an eruption of molten lava swallowed his body. This was not the end, after swallowing Koroma, the lava wrapped around his body in a form that looked like the opposite of a blooming flower. This created a twisting sphere of molten magma that had the ability to burn and grind opponents to ash.
Koroma's body was assaulted with endless heat and pain as his clothes and skin were ground and melted by the rapidly twisting lava. In a few seconds, he had already become a red 'muscle man' with all his skin gone!
Manemane who was still burning in the Serer Flames was also not spared this fate. Another stomp and another Lava Coffin emerged wrapping around Manemane's already broken and abused body.
"Don't worry. I won't kill you," Terran did not know if the two of them could hear him from within the two lava coffins but he still spoke his mind, "I will let you father and son enjoy some quality time together."
With a punch to the ground, the two lava coffins followed along Terran's actions and sank deep into the earth beneath the Giza forest, lost forever, never to be found!
With Zabibu Koroma and Zabibu Manemane's Earth Rank vitality, they would not die until their core was irreversibly damaged. It would take years of torture, maybe decades before they could succumb to their wounds.
The punishment Terran gave them was a fate worse than death!
Sigh.
It was only when these two father and son were vanquished that Terran exhaled with a sigh.
"Has the weight in your heart lessened after revenge?" A voice entered Terran's ear from right beside him.
However, Terran was not surprised. It was Udona.
"No." Terran answered.
In the beginning Terran had thought that revenge could fill the hole left in his heart but he was wrong. He still felt empty. His father was gone forever and his fiancée might be next. Revenge could not change this.