**Chapter 5: A Battle from Another World**
Thanks to the support of the inhabitants of the universe, Alice regains her strength and rushes towards Black's throne on the spaceship. As she approaches, she unleashes powerful magic that blows up the entire ship, but it was empty, with only Black inside, who was unharmed by the explosion.
Black, with his calm face hiding an unrivaled power, smiles serenely and says, "A wise man does not rush into battle, for he knows that time is the most precious thing he possesses. But since you're here, let's fight."
He raises his hand, and in an instant, he manipulates the fabric of the universe, distorting dimensions like they were rubber, some stretching, others shrinking, and forming them into spheres and spears of pure energy. "Six-Dimensional Strike!" Black yells as an aura of energy forms around him.
Alice, highly focused, narrowly dodges the attacks, feeling the weight of the air around her, as if the entire universe is conspiring against her. But she remains steadfast, observing every movement of Black, trying to exploit any opportunity to strike back.
Sensing her determination, Black transforms into a new form, easily avoiding her attack before ascending into the air, turning his hands into the shape of a dragon's head. "Dragon Head Strike, Third Edition!" He releases a massive laser beam from the dragon's head.
Alice moves with lightning speed, avoiding the beam, but Black, with a cunning smile, manipulates the laser's trajectory to chase Alice as if it were a living creature. Alice escapes skillfully, but finds herself trapped between the laser beam and a third arm that Black created, wrapping around her leg.
With quick thinking, Alice releases magic that destroys the arm and continues her escape, but she realizes that Black is not an ordinary opponent. She creates a transparent magical shield to protect herself from the tracking laser beam.
Knowing that brute strength alone won't be enough, Black retreats into a dark space, closing his single eye to blend in with the surrounding darkness, disappearing as if he were part of the space itself. Alice tries to find him, feeling that this battle will require everything she has.
She shouts defiantly, "The coward dies a thousand times. The weak threaten when they feel safe. Show yourself, Black, and let's finish this fight!"
In the surrounding space, Black's gigantic eye opens, glowing with immense anger, and he speaks in a calm yet ominous voice, "If the battle were equal... or if I were at full strength, you wouldn't exist now."
At that moment, his hand transforms into a giant fist, and Alice barely deflects the colossal blow. She looks toward the staff with the eye that Black holds, realizing it might be his weakness. She makes her decision quickly and charges toward the staff, but powerful magical waves obstruct her path.
Black, comparing the eye staff to the calm and turbulent sea, says, "To understand life, one must stand before the sea: once in its calmness, and another in its turmoil. The raging sea is the greatest madness of nature, unmatched by any other."
He changes his form again, releasing a thousand hands towards Alice, but with unwavering determination, she heads directly for the eye staff and destroys it with a crushing blow. Black begins to transform, his body cracking and turning white as if his life were peeling away from him.
With a voice filled with mockery and despair, Black laughs, saying, "The prophecy that has echoed for billions of years is now coming true. The time has come to destroy everything. Your destruction of the staff will trigger an explosion that will obliterate everything in this universe."
Black announces the "Blood Sacrifice" and begins gathering energy to unleash a massive explosion.
Despite the tension gripping her, Alice focuses her strength and says confidently, "I won't let you do that. I'll use the power given to me by all the inhabitants of the universe to turn back time to where this problem began before you gained this power. The storms of revolution will continue to shake the foundations of the universe until the dawn of justice breaks."
Black laughs harshly, "Will you sacrifice all that power? It's foolishness." But Alice, with unwavering resolve, unleashes a magical skill that rewinds time by billions of years, determined to save the universe from a dark fate.
But before she fades into time, she pauses for a moment and looks at Black, saying, "Sacrifice is not foolishness; it is the only choice to save everything worth fighting for."
And so, Alice disappears into the vortex of time, leaving behind a shattered Black and a world on the brink of collapse. The future is uncertain, but hope still remains.
**The End**