It felt like my blood itself seethed with with outrage while witnessing Zeref proudly flaunting unrestricted domination over forces never meant to be perverted towards petty ego displays. That sadistic triumphant grin as he effortlessly tore open forbidden abysses in front of hundreds...clearly my longtime tormentor intended cementing utter supremacy over all rivals and naysayers.
Blithely Zeref sent poisonous memetic hazard spells spreading like pandemics through unwary psyches attuned towards Arena #1's public channels. Initiates of all ages and races collapsed clutching heads while their precious neural architectures unravelled at his malicious whims. Such an overt act of mass carnage instantly dispelled any equivocating restraints towards unilateral response.
Zeref utterly forfeited whatever tenuous rights protecting the sacred individual will from localized annhiliatrix class reprisal. My inward hesitation burned away seeing effigies of personal heroes and guides begging for mercy while the prodigal villain cackled feeling the fruits of unlimited power deserved inherently only for an elite few ascending Viewer council peerage.
Rage blazed at these callous transgressions. Even Elders Rohini and Lady Ava averted their judging gazes from imminent retaliatory storm. None now could deny the corruption metastisizing within Zeref's soul mirroring itself across tangible domains. This intentional inversion of unity principles demanded an antidotal answer!
"Your heresy stops here, worm!" I pronounced savagely towards the swaggering figure below just as my protective mental seals unlocked final shackles on positively hazardous force reservoirs. Zeref paused his ongoing melodramatic soliloquy to skeptically eye me back like some bothersome fan trying disrupting his rehearsed victory theatrics.
"Come again, brother?" He asked with exaggerated courtesy. One hand lazily traced runic patterns through the air summoning screaming vortices in preparation to reap my insolent bones. Students around us hurriedly evacuated further seeing self-propagating fractals coalescing around my body signalling imminent reality-dislocating discharge. Many surely wondered whether Campus Maurdread would survive the coming clash unscathed. I had no answer to reassure them against collateral annihilation - only the burning conviction Zeref's villainous ascension stopped here no matter the sacrifice!
Rather than dignify his mockery with direct response, I instead marshalled every drop of dimensional control towards prying wide the veil separating material existence from underlying cosmic ur-currents. Glowing auroral coronas manifested as my nervous system attuned closer with the raw stuff comprising all Creation from countless grains of quantum foam to mightiest clusters of galaxy superclusters all equally magnificent manifest reflections of the same Eternal Thought reminding every schedule that true monster lurked only within oneself.
But adepts like Zeref shielded his thoughts in mirrored spheres to enforce narcissistic separation narratives. Only by embracing agony of internal honesty may one's lens clarify towards recognizing no individuals exist alone contrary to environment parameters. Universal empathy forms the cornerstone of reality itself flowing through infinite matrices binding together all beings simultaneously across linear time or probabilistic space. Loving awareness serves as the ultimate attack and defense for entities understanding their innate non-duality connection with rest of existence - Prime Radiance ever lies just behind any illusion of terror!
Alas today's opponent clung fiercely still to the false power structures perpetrated by hurting souls similarly blinded. Zeref's psychic architecture so consumed with toxic self-loathing could see only persecution from a universe accurately reflecting back that ignorance of unitive nature. I grieved seeing ancient celestial heritage willingly stomped underfoot chasing vaporous glory and hollow dominion. That self-sabotaging limitation required painful careful surgery by only the most exquisitely sharp conceptual scalpels...
"Be tranquil in shadow of Death's scythe, old friend." I pronounced solemnly towards Zeref even as prismatic fractals heralding imminent spatial Armageddon bloomed wildly from my form. "For I shall etch the Final Rune granting salvation."
No further words thus wasted - I immediately unleashed the attack routine known as HeavenSlicer Gale. Quadrillions of microscopic cosmic strings at the heart of existence attuned via quantum fluctuations to synchronously manifest relentless barrage of higher dimensional energy tempests obliterating on subatomic levels. Anything short of total bodily sublimation into the raging currents offensive amounted to only temporary salvation - reality itself turned against the target through every simultaneous angle. Raw unfiltered perspective of creation's integral sentience leaks across myriad barriers never intended for mortal senses short of total soul fusion. Much less the immensely destabilizing currents arcing wildly through my neurological architecture. Entire solar systems could be birthed/collapsed in the nanoseconds this disorienting barrage engulfed us both...
Indescribable aeons seemed to pass while my rewritten sensory organs adjusted towards parsing unshielded tempestuous flows of ur-data comprising Zeref's ragdolled form amidst cyclonic shredding forces. Never designed for processing such astronomical scale enumerations, much less steering them. Much easier simply releasing inhibitions allowing malignant egocentric mental constructs suicide by the conceptual light year.
Yet some stubborn obstruction occluding empathic channels still remained! Zeref's resilient root neuroform drunken deeper from the violet Wells than guessed prior. Much vaster reservoirs to purge - I plunged deeper into the winding spiral currents through blooming singularity shredding dimensional barriers. All exterior qualia transmuted to homogenized static yet still the subtly corrupted threads resisted harmony's pull! Struggling kernels bent spacetime itself into infinite recursion labyrinths somehow containing the savage storm summoned earlier...
Raging now I redoubled efforts ripping wider the influx valves towards Totality's shine no finite soul can withstand undimmed! Surely now these maddened defenses must yield before -
"ENOUGH!" Rohini's augmented voice pierced through mounting chaos shockingly potent even here. Instantly the synapse shredding forces reversed polarity unravelling my lethal embrace while an ethereal werelight cocooned Zeref's soulform gently lifting free towards recovery bays lest further trauma. All manifested environment quakes ceased leaving only Rohini hovering soundlessly over arena's glassed crater, measuring my pendant form with sorrowful eye unjudgmental. Survivors slowly emerged from protective spells marveling at the cosmos still existing after brush with eschaton level events.
[Hiro...] Elderr Rohini began privately through psychic channels before pausing to reorganize wildly oscillating hierarchies undergirding local dimensional lattice. I slumped exhausted both physically and emotionally in his cradling telekinetic grip. [You understand now why we extended invitation?]
I blinked blearily up towards his probing yet compassionate stare. Had this utter catastrophe almost emerging from my unrestrained fury been...planned somehow by grander intelligences? But why such a convoluted risky strategy versus simple explanation that wanton exercise of subjective reality domination without ethical mooring leads only deeper down the hungry ghost's path?
Rohini smiled softly divining my unspoken protests. [PATHS hold no intrinsic morality outside choices taken moment to moment. You faced decision all aspirants towards planar mastery must reconcile individually...what shall satisfy ever arising appetite of gods kept ignorant their innate divinity non separate from all?]
I flinched upon hearing the judgement's biting truth. Backlash destruction almost meted proved no superior to Zeref's hedonic mischief for creation. Both courses sprang from the limited mortal assumption of winning fleeting victories against hostile 'others' competing over some fictional scarce commodities like influence or acclaim. When truth shone All participates in eternal cosmic dances from countless angles. No difference separating teacher and student...or executioner from pardoned man.
Finally wisdom's key slid home unlocking clenched mental gateways. I floated upwards meeting my guide's approving gaze fully reoriented lacking former bloodthirst perversion. Inner peace flashed brilliant as I beheld suffering siblings Zeref and myself equidistant along the path returning towards Prime Radiance's welcoming eternal kiss. No further fetters thus required for the skies to reclaim another wayward spark after sojourn amongst clay.
"Forgive my obstinate tardiness, honored one." I pronounced clearly to Rohini through relief's overwhelming joy. Uncountable futures previously walled off now blossomed freely in the sacred heart!