The icy floor of Glacier trembled as Nigredo charged forward, her dark cloak flaring out behind her. In her hands materialized a pair of massive, gleaming black scissors, their blades humming with destructive energy. With a furious cry, she swung them down at Albedo, aiming to cleave her sister in two.
Albedo deftly sidestepped, her paladin sword coming up to deflect the attack with ease. Sparks flew as the blades met, but Albedo's expression remained calm, even bored, as she effortlessly countered Nigredo's frenzied assault.
"You've always been rash, Nigredo," Albedo taunted, her voice cold and measured. "Lashing out without thinking. These pitiful attacks won't break me."
Nigredo snarled, her eyes blazing with fury. She twisted the giant scissors in a wide arc, the blades whistling through the air as they closed in on Albedo. But Albedo blocked every strike, her movements precise and unhurried, as though she were merely toying with her sister.
"I'll cut that smug face of yours off!" Nigredo roared, the scissors glowing as she unleashed a barrage of magical blades that shot toward Albedo. Each one was sharp as steel, flying through the air with deadly precision.
Albedo raised her hand, casting a protective barrier with a mere flick of her wrist. The blades shattered harmlessly against the shield, falling to the ground in useless fragments. "You're wasting your strength, Nigredo. Is this really the best you can do?"
Nigredo growled, her frustration mounting. With a vicious snarl, she conjured more blades, black scissors materializing all around her, floating in the air like a storm of deadly weapons. With a sweep of her arm, she sent them all hurtling toward Albedo in a whirlwind of sharp edges.
Albedo sighed and swung her sword in a wide arc, sending a wave of energy that blasted through the storm of scissors, cutting through them like paper. Nigredo barely managed to leap back, her eyes wide with disbelief as Albedo advanced, completely unscathed.
"Is this it, Nigredo?" Albedo sneered, her voice dripping with disdain. "You're barely a challenge. Your strength pales in comparison to mine."
Nigredo's hands trembled as she gripped the scissors tighter, her eyes burning with desperation. She charged again, swinging wildly, but Albedo caught the blades between her fingers, halting the attack effortlessly.
"You've already lost," Albedo whispered, pushing Nigredo back with a flick of her wrist. Nigredo stumbled, her feet sliding across the ice as she struggled to regain her balance. Her scissors clattered to the ground as she fell to one knee, panting heavily, utterly defeated.
"How… how are you this strong?" Nigredo muttered through gritted teeth, her voice thick with disbelief.
Albedo gazed down at her with cold, unfeeling eyes. "Because I've accepted the truth, Nigredo. I'm not weighed down by blind loyalty or pointless emotions. You, on the other hand, are weak. And weakness has no place in Nazarick."
Nigredo's rage reached its breaking point, and the air around her seemed to crack and shatter as her transformation began. The darkness radiating from her intensified, and with a horrifying scream, her flesh began to melt away. Her skin disintegrated in burning waves, revealing raw, sinewy muscle and bone underneath. Only her long, black hair remained intact, flowing wildly as if caught in an eternal storm.
Fire erupted around her, the icy floor of Glacier hissing and melting as the flames engulfed everything in sight. The heat was so intense that the very air wavered with distortion, and the once-freezing landscape was now a scorched battlefield.
Albedo stepped back, her eyes widening in shock as Nigredo's burning form towered before her. Nigredo's entire body was now a grotesque display of muscle, bone, and fire. Her monstrous black scissors burned with the same searing energy, growing larger and more menacing by the second.
"You dare call me weak?" Nigredo's voice boomed, echoing through the Glacier floor. Her words were barely human, distorted by the raw power tearing her apart. "I'll incinerate you, Albedo!"
The flames around her roared higher, pillars of fire shooting up, setting the entire floor ablaze. The cold, oppressive fog that once filled the air was now replaced by searing heat, turning Glacier into a furnace.
Without warning, Nigredo charged, her flaming scissors slicing through the air with deadly speed. Albedo barely had time to raise her sword before the molten blades clashed with her own, sending a shockwave that cracked the ground beneath them.
"Feel my pain!" Nigredo screamed, her voice wild with fury. She swung her scissors again, faster, stronger, each blow shaking the battlefield. Albedo was forced on the defensive, parrying and dodging with all her strength. The heat was unbearable, and every strike from Nigredo's burning blades threatened to overwhelm her.
"You're not my sister anymore!" Nigredo shouted, her body burning brighter, fire erupting from her in torrents. "You're nothing but a traitor, and I'll destroy you for it!"
Albedo grunted as she blocked another devastating strike, her hands shaking from the impact. The firestorm around them intensified, and it was clear Nigredo had lost control, her fury turning her into a berserk force of destruction.
"You'll burn, Albedo," Nigredo roared, her skeletal face grinning with madness. "You'll burn just like this frozen wasteland!"
With a terrifying scream, Nigredo raised her fiery scissors, preparing to deliver a final, earth-shattering blow that would consume everything in flames.
In her berserk form, Nigredo was an unstoppable force of fire and destruction. The Glacier floor, once an endless expanse of ice, was now a battlefield of chaos. With every swing of her burning obsidian scissors, the ground beneath them cracked and buckled, massive fissures forming as molten lava began to rise from the depths. Earthquakes rippled through the floor, shaking the very foundation of Nazarick.
Flaming scissors rained from the sky like fiery comets, embedding themselves deep into the ground, causing more ice to shatter and steam to fill the air. Nigredo's fiery aura radiated so intensely that the ground sizzled under her feet, the once-frozen wasteland reduced to boiling chaos.
Albedo stood her ground, her shield raised high as she blocked another onslaught of burning blades. The impact sent shockwaves through her entire body, but her formidable tank abilities held firm. Her armor, glowing red-hot from the relentless flames, shielded her from the devastation as the world around them crumbled. The ground beneath her feet fractured, but she remained unwavering.
"You can destroy everything if you want, Nigredo!" Albedo yelled, her voice sharp amidst the roaring destruction. "But that won't change your weakness!"
Nigredo let out a monstrous scream, her skeletal grin glowing with the intensity of the inferno surrounding her. "I'll bury you in this molten grave, Albedo!" she bellowed, her voice shaking the entire floor. With a violent thrust of her hand, more flaming obsidian scissors erupted from the ground like volcanic shards, cutting through the air with terrifying speed.
The Glacier floor was breaking apart beneath them, entire chunks of ice falling away into the magma-filled abyss. Earthquakes rattled the battlefield, causing towering pillars of ice to crumble into the fiery pits below.
Albedo gritted her teeth as she parried another of Nigredo's burning blades, the impact causing the ground to tremble beneath her. "You're tearing everything apart!" she shouted, her voice barely audible over the deafening cracks of the earth splitting open.
"Good!" Nigredo screamed in return, her burning form towering over the destruction. "I want this place to burn! I want everything to fall!"
Nigredo's rage knew no limits as her destructive scissors rained down, causing the ground to fracture further. Massive earthquakes shook the entire floor, making it feel as if the world itself was collapsing. But Albedo, despite the chaos, stood unyielding, her shield and armor absorbing the relentless attacks.
"You can destroy the ground, the sky, and everything between," Albedo growled, slashing through a torrent of flaming blades. "But I will not fall, Nigredo."
As the ground beneath them cracked and shattered, turning into a molten wasteland, Nigredo unleashed one final, devastating attack. With a monstrous roar, she hurled every flaming scissor in her arsenal toward Albedo, the earth shaking violently as the burning blades tore through the air.
Albedo braced herself, her shield glowing from the heat, as she prepared for the final clash.
While the fierce battle between Albedo and Nigredo raged on, Hiro found himself in a desperate struggle of his own. The Glacier floor was collapsing into a fiery wasteland, chunks of ice and debris raining down as the two sisters clashed with earth-shattering force. He darted between falling debris, slicing through massive blocks of ice with precise sword strikes, protecting the Foresight members from the destruction.
"Stay close to me!" Hiro shouted as he slashed a boulder in two, the molten shards narrowly missing Imina and Roberdyck.
Termite, the team leader, could barely keep up, his eyes wide with shock as the ground beneath them fractured and trembled. "How is this possible?" he muttered, his voice shaky. "This is... beyond anything we've ever seen."
Imina, the half-elf archer, clutched her bow tightly, her knuckles white. "They're not just strong, they're tearing the entire floor apart!"
Roberdyck, the priest, looked around in awe and fear. "These aren't normal beings. This power... it's godlike."
As they huddled together, Hiro stood in front of them, his dark armor glowing faintly with energy as he deflected another barrage of debris. "Focus on surviving!" he yelled. "We're not out of this yet!"
Every time Nigredo's fiery scissors collided with Albedo's shield, the shockwaves sent deadly shards of ice and rock flying across the battlefield. Hiro's movements were a blur, his blade slicing through the chaos, protecting the workers from certain death.
Amidst the chaos and destruction, Roberdyck's eyes widened as he spotted something in the distance. A massive figure was approaching through the thickening mist, its outline barely visible through the swirling fog. The air around them seemed to grow colder, and an unsettling silence followed the figure, even as the ground quaked from Albedo and Nigredo's battle.
"Look!" Roberdyck shouted, pointing into the distance. "Something's coming... something huge!"
The Foresight members turned, their expressions filled with confusion and fear as they squinted into the thick mist. Imina, gripping her bow tightly, tried to peer through the haze, but all she could make out was a towering silhouette slowly advancing towards them.
"I can't see anything!" she muttered, her voice tense. "What is that?"
Termite's face grew pale, his instincts kicking in as the fog continued to roll in with the massive figure. "It's... too large. Whatever it is, it's not human."
Hiro, standing guard over them, narrowed his eyes as he too focused on the looming figure in the distance. "Stay close," he ordered, his voice low but firm. "We don't know what's coming."
The thick fog around the figure seemed to move with it, obscuring the battlefield even further.
"He's here..." Hiro mumbled.
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