At that moment Zerstörer felt as if he was falling. Was he truly soaring through the sky? Accelerating down to the ground, nearing his death.
Decay had taken over everything, flowers had wilted and died. The blessing of freedom was carried out. The flower of Breakage had been deactivated. The true essence of freedom is to put an end to everything to give something a new start.
Zerstörer rushed forward not realizing that his flower had been taken away. His punch landed right in my stomach. He grinned thinking that his acceleration would turn my body into dust. Realization hit him when I slammed both my hands right into his head, knocking him down onto the ground.
An angry grunt came from the ground as his knees scraped against the rubble. He spat out blood and wiped his face whilst staring intently at me.
He looked down at his chest and tapped it a few times with his hand. He then looked at me and saw that I didn't have the flower either.
A finger pointed towards me as Zerstörer demanded me to tell him what was going on.
"I have no obligation to tell you, but I am feeling pretty gregarious today so I will tell you."
His eyes followed my finger as I pointed down at the black pool under my feet.
"That's my flower."
"THIS IS OUTMOST FASCINATING! An acclimation that can nullify other Aeons! Put it simply an Aeon born killer."
"Devina… does that thing have range or sum…"
Sekito's worried expression grew further as her eyebrows furrowed towards Zyo who was still restrained with chains.
"What if Vivshi walks into range of us and our flowers become nullified?"
"That won't happen."
Devina threw a projectile infused with her aeonic powers towards Vivshi's direction. As the projectile neared Vivshi the roots on the object vanished.
"Around 250 meter radius."
Sekito let out a sigh of relief as Devina said that.
"So now what sis? Should we just wait for Vivshi and Zerstörer to finish?"
"Well our main objective is already finished, we have already saved Emovi but it seems Vivshi isn't really finished. There is one more thing he wants to do before the act concludes.
Zerstörer sucker punched me before uppercutting me. I kicked him right in the neck before kneeing his face in. It was no longer a battle of abilities, it was simply a test of endurance.
I felt every hit. The blood rushes through my arteries to fuel my muscles. The open wounds leaked blood making me lightheaded. My entire body ached and every punch Zerstörer landed made my body contort in agony.
Doing backflips I created some distance between us. I channelled everything into my core, focused on the pulsing element in me.
My body was covered in a blue-silver glow. I dashed back into the battle and gave Zerstörer a right hook to the jaw. His jaw twisted and the bone fractured into hundreds of pieces. To add to that, it started to turn into silver.
Zerstörer's eyes darted around trying to lock onto me. When it finally found me, the pupils glowed as he grabbed my face with his giant hand.
He then lifted my helpless tiny body into the air by my head. Then he started to run, he pressed my skull against the walls of his mansion and dragged it through all the bricks.
Everything was destroyed as he mutilated my body. He then leapt with his hand still on my face and shoved me into the ground. He glided across the rocks using my body as a surfboard until we reached some cliffs.
My back had been completely ripped open, my skin was practically falling off and almost all of my bones had been broken but the mutilation of my body didn't stop. He let go of my head and grabbed me by the leg instead. Zerstörer swung my body into the air before slamming it down into the solid cliffs.
The rocks started to shatter and rattle as my body lay motionless on it. Zerstörer with one final message.
"Leave, the embodiment of death, you have no place here."
His feet stomped down onto my stomach and I felt how blood spewed out of my mouth. I lay on the rocks as it descended down into the ocean below.
"I desire for recovery."
"Quit it Aylin, it won't work."
"I desire for recovery."
"Stop it."
"AUFWACHEN! I DESIRE FOR REVIVAL!"
Aylin's flower emerged on her cheek but the corners of her mouth lowered as she saw from a distance that none of it worked.
The pink mark dissipated from her cheek.
She fell onto her knees.
Devina sat there quietly, observing as usual.
"It's coming."
Aylin trembled, not because Vivshi was about to die. Not because she would lose someone really important to her. It was not only her but everyone in the vicinity. Zestörer who was heading back after dealing the finishing blow stopped dead in his tracks.
All the black ooze followed Vivshi down and covered him. A dark ominous aura exuded from Vivshi's body as the black ink shot up into the sky painting it dark as night. It was like a vortex of ink. Something only described in fantasy stories.
Devina tried to hold on as the wind blew her tiny body. It was as if there was a hurricane but it was completely pitch black. As everyone in Nautilus thought they would die from a catastrophe it exploded. For the first time in history the rain was painted black and it welcomed something that had always controlled us.
The god.
"Shatter."
Zerstörer's jaw exploded and his supportless tongue was dancing around on his face.
"You shouldn't talk in the presence of me."
From the rain walked down an entity that was no longer the Vivshi we know. But the true form of the Aeon of Freedom.
"You hold your head pretty high."
With a single movement from Freedom's hand erased Zerstörer's legs.
Zerstörer's muffled scream was drowned out by the sound of intense rain.
Freedom descended from the skies landing in front of the one who had just tried to destroy his vessel.
"Unlike that brat, death is death for me, I don't care how you die."
Zerstörer tried his best not to scream. He knew, that one wrong move would mean an agonising death. He was on his knees in front of this monstrosity.
Aylin grabbed Devina by the collar.
"HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN?"
Devina's eyes didn't react they turned towards the embodiment of Freedom and lighted up with a sense of excitement.
"You could have prevented all of this. You could have let Vivshi win without becoming this."
Aylin slapped Devina and sent her flying back. Rubbing her red cheek Devina stood up and started whispering with Sekito.
"You got 3 minutes. If you can survive for 3 minutes I will let you live."
Freedom's eyes glowed maniacally as laughter filled the air.
With another motion of his finger, Zerstörer's left arm flew off. It fell right next to him. Zerstörer screamed internally as he listened to his blood leak out of his veins. His body fell onto the ground shaking in pain.
"You gotta do better before you die."
His right arm was then cut off. And now the only thing left on the ground was Zerstörer's limbless body. He was still alive somehow.
"Impressive."
Freedom clapped his hands as he approached Zerstörer's body on the ground.
"I will give you the honor of experiencing freedom over and over again." His maniacal laugh was ingrained into Zerstörer's head as he felt his head being cut off. The next moment Zerstörer was back conscious with his head still attached.
Sekito turned her head from the scene as she saw how Freedom reattached Zerstörer's body parts before cutting them again. It repeated over and over… for 3 minutes.
"You win, congratulations, but I won't take an empty loss."
Freedom thrust his arm through Zerstörer's chest grabbing his still beating heart and biting down on it. Blood spurt from the beating heart. Freedom then reattached it back into Zerstörer's chest.
Laying on the cliffs drowning in ink was once Nautilus's most notorious and strongest.
"who's next now."
Right as Aylin tried to hit Devina again, she felt a deathly presence next to her. With his hands in his pockets, Freedom nonchalantly landed next to Aylin and Sekito.
Both of their flowers were instantly nullified. Zyo was unchained but remained motionless still.
Devina's head slowly turned towards Freedom.
"Who's that? A passerby said."
"IT'S A MONSTER!"
As the guy tried to run away his body vanished, as if it never existed in the first place.
"I still remember what you did you me, Dexterity."