The two beings were calmly looking at each other. The pressure by both their visions matching one another deprived the area of any gaseous substance that would allow living beings to live. Walkure could not be categorized as alive nor dead and Amadeus was an artificial anomaly, so this event did not affect them in the slightest.
Then, one of them decided to perform the first move.
"!!!"
An explosion.
That was the result of Amadeus' attack, a right-handed punch, which Wakure barely perceived.The sound of a massive boom could be heard across the planet. The attack was too fast for Wakure to properly counter, so she only had time to block it.
This explosion was so powerful it made a massive kilometer-wide crater in which all of its contents had been destroyed on the sub-atomic level. This wasn't a special ability or anything like it. He was just that strong. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that even his weakest punch would rival the power of 10^120 nuclear bombs.
"Tch."
Walkure waved her sword and cleared the dust around her. But right after that, Amadeus was already behind Walkure's back, something that she was unable to predict or detect.
He delivered another punch, this time from his left hand. It had hit Walkure's left shoulder, immediately breaking it. At last, an accursed one that could rival her power...no, this was not it.
Walkure had managed to partially dodge the thrust of that punch. She did not receive the full momentum of it. Yet, her shoulder almost flew off. Even after she dodged, the aftermath of his punch created massive shockwaves that still caused the ethernal to lose balance.
Afterward, from the very place Amadeus was standing, he punched the space in front of him, releasing concentrated shockwaves in Walkure's direction.
She readied her sword and with it, she pierced through all the waves thrown at her. However, with each wave being pierced through, she felt as if her sword would be broken at any second. It was like trying to split a tsunami with a wooden stick. Staggering power.
"You shouldn't get too ahead of yourself."
She says while performing numerous slashes in the air, sending quadrillions of piercing waves in the accursed's direction. Each and every one of these slashes would be able to split the slightest quark and sub-quark. This wasn't a special ability or anything similar. It was the result of her proficiency with the art of the sword.
"I'm simply doing my job."
The accursed answered while reading his fists and quickly punching through all shockwaves directed at him. Furthermore, each punch dealt would also create a wave of destruction that would wipe out all the other slashes behind, which overall made this fairly easy for him.
Not a single slash was able to reach him. Logically, each slash would have been able to destroy any kind of material or substance, no matter how hard it was. But it seems logic did not apply to this man. Not in front of his sheer, pure and untainted power.
How could skill help in front of overwhelming strength?
Then, to show off his power even more. He aimed his arm downward and punched the ground, turning the planet into pieces, including its core.
Now there was just Amadeus and Walkure, standing in the vacuum of space.
"I believe we can fight more freely without these obstacles in the way."
Shortly after he said that, his fists were then covered in a yellow spiraling aura.
"This is Apoptosis. Your doom."
She understood the second she saw it.
He is too strong. Way stronger than me.
Indeed. Such was the might of the son of the wanderers' Commander. And if this was the case, how powerful would the actual commander be? Walkure couldn't help but think. It was unlikely that she could match him even at full strength.
While lost in her thoughts, Amadeus quickly closed the gap between him and the ethernal. From Walkure's perspective, it was in the blink of an eye.
"!!!"
He performed a right-handed hook, aiming at Walkure's head. Walkure, however, was starting to adapt to the current situation, and thus she was able to predict its trajectory and dodge it smoothly. Next, she took the opportunity of this and slashed Amadeus' body with Viktoria once. However, this slash was accompanied by a law of causality, that would thus create consecutive invisible slashes of the same magnitude, but a trillion more times, and simultaneously....But it was all for naught.
"What?!"
Both sword and the extra slashes were unable to pierce his body. She felt like how humans felt when they tried to punch solid steel barehanded. An impenetrable fortress.
Amadeus then performed an uppercut aiming at Walkure's head. This sure would be enough to blow her head off and perhaps even atomize her upper body. Walkure perceives the attack and dodges with minimal movement. However, the shockwaves from the punch were too powerful, and as such, she was blown away like a leaf in a hurricane.
Shortly after, she regained her balance and landed nicely.
Amadeus then quickly approached the ethernal from her left side. He delivered a well-charged punch, which Wakure tried to counter with Viktoria.
However...
"!!!"
The sound of something breaking apart.The blade, which had neatly clashed with Amadeus' first, broke into pieces. A feat that not even a thousand Big Bangs would be able to perform.
Worse, the punch had not yet lost momentum, targeting Walkure in her abdomen, destroying her insides while causing great damage, and blowing her away. Such was the might of this attack, that space and time were split open, causing numerous cracks in reality.
"Garrgh!"
Most of her arsenal could not be used since the accursed ones were impervious to those. And physical attacks did not matter. However, she still had her growth, which could turn the tides in her favor.
She regains her balance and looks at the accursed one while cleaning blood from her mouth.
"I see. You are indeed a tough one. But this also means I'll become tougher."
She jumped towards the accursed.
The strategy was simple. Experience his pattern, and supersede him in strength and speed.
The next clash only lasted a few seconds. They exchanged blows, with Walkure barely being able to dodge them while countering with her own attacks herself, although without causing any damage. Not to mention, Amadeus was proficient in martial arts as well, namely boxing and kickboxing, arts that were long ago lost in history. Very problematic. In addition, numerous of the aftermath of his punches destroyed several faraway stars and galaxies like nobody's business.
As they kept going, Walkure noticed something.
This was strange. She should be able to at least be able to leave scratches on his body. Her growth was absurd, so to think she couldn't yet reach him was even more absurd. Even her speed was still the same. Was his power limitless?
No, this was not the reason.
This time faster than ever before, Amadeus approached her left side and delivered a right-handed punch. No...this was not quite it. This punch was accompanied by several other invisible punches, all containing the same strength.
Walkure was directly hit by those, all at the same time, destroying the entirety of her left arm and tossing her into the horizon, hitting a planet 20000 light years away in an instant. The impact was strong enough to wipe out the entire surface of the planet they were in, and eject decillion kilograms of debris into outer space. In addition, her regeneration has been hindered, for his punches carried this effect. Nothing that he punched would be able to be easily reformed. It would remain broken.
What is happening?
Walkure couldn't help but think. She should already have surpassed him in all physical aspects. Yet, her body was almost wiped out from a single punch. And his speed was still far superior.
"You seem to be under some misunderstanding."
The accursed one spoke after quickly landing on the same planet she had been tossed into.
"I'm well aware of your perks as an ethernal. Father told me about your species. A sudden growth that adapts to the opponent, was it? Unfortunately, this will not work on me."
The nature of Amadeus was to be able to punch anything and everything in existence. There was nothing he couldn't punch. Ectoplasm, spirits, laws, truths, probabilities...all suffered the same result. Needless to say, he punched away the very growth out of Walkure's body. His fists carried the very essence of destruction. A power that defied comprehension.
She could not use supernatural powers directly.
She could not use strength or speed.
She could not adapt to him.
How can I win?
Walkure was at a dead end.