"After that you were in one again." Xavier points at Amani, everyone in the room thinks about this information, Xavier told them everything bar the stuff about The Climber. "Hey Kazama, can we talk outside for a minute?" Xavier asks, Kazama comes outside with him.
They rest on the railing of the patio, seeing sprawling green hills as far as the eye can see, "Uh… Do you have any titles?" Xavier asks, Kazama brings up the screen that shows his stats.
[Natsuki Kazama Lv6. 250,000/1,250,700]
"Ooh I levelled up!"
[Heat -]
[Black {MAX}]
[Attributes -]
[Odin {MAX]
[Skardr {MAX}]
[Fyrn Draugr 200,000/1,250,000
[Transformation -]
[Jigenka N/A (Unmastered)]
[Signatures -]
[Hand to Hand Lv5. (Level Up!) (Level Up!) 530,000/2,000,000]
[Sword Lv4. 200,000/250,000]
[Titles -]
[Climber Lv 1. 5,000,000/55,000,000]
[Struggler Lv 1. (New!) 0/30,000,000]
[Description:The Struggler, the one who always seems to live even when the odds are stacked against him…]
[Strength Lv12. (Level Up!) (Level Up!) 700,000/1,000,000
[Strength Lv10. (Level Up!) 30,000/100,000]
[Keepsakes -]
[Sword of The Lonesome Lv2. (Level Up!) 3,000,000/100,000,000]
[Blood of The Ancients]
[Description:Flask of blood from an Ancient…]
"Woah! There's a couple of new things here." Kazama inspects what he's read, then says "Yeah, I do have a Title called Climber, why?"
Xavier then proceeds to explain all that Hale told him about the Climber, Kazama thinks about this for a second, sweat dripping down his face, "Fuck, another reason…" He says, "What?" Xavier asks, but before Kazama can respond they see a Blue Portal spawn.
"That's like what Bothu came out of…" Kazama says, gulping. What steps out of the portal is one massive being and one about half its size. The massive being is around 12 ft tall, very muscular, black hair done into braids, eyes darker than black. He's wearing very bulky armour, besides his chest which isn't covered at all. The other is around 6 ft tall, long flowing dark hair, a very curvy body, pale green skin, long flowing eyelashes. Her armour is nearly the same as her counterpart, very bulky, besides her chest which is completely exposed. She is holding a chain, and on the end is a naked human man, clearly malnourished, crawling on the floor.
"Are they… Human?" Kazama asks, "No they have to be from the Heat Realm, no human can be that large" Xavier adds, jumping over the railing to stand in front of them. "Vra'ka shivral, or'nash viir—" "Hello humans I am Gothno and she is Hamredesh" The big one speaks, Xavier and Kazama's head just automatically translate it somehow. "Xavier, did you also understand that?" "Yes… Must be some technique. What are you doing here, Gothno?"
"Well we aren't here on purpose, immense Gush-uk has come unto this Realm." Xavier remembers Gush-uk means Heat from Bothu Yoctìs, "Does that have something to do with the Climber coming?" "Yes, we suspect the Realm's are merging because of The Yokala." Xavier immediately pieces together what Hale meant, if the Realm's merge then a massive war will descend where humans are at a receiving end.
"I don't think you'll tell me much more info, based on that look on your face." Xavier says, "That's not necessarily true, since you're pretty I'll let you fight Hamradesh here, she will be holding back of course, if you win I might grace you with some more information."
"Get ready humans!" Hamradesh shouts, she gets into a battle stance, all this happened so fast Xavier or Kazama couldn't even process it properly. Hamradesh rushes at them, 'She's faster than Travis Mckinley… But I feel as if I can react to it!' Kazama thinks. He manages to get his arm up to block a kick that she delivers to his arm, it hurts severely, but not hard enough that he can't use his arm again. 'I'm not as strong as Travis… But I'll get there!' Kazama throws a punch with Black Heat which he recently unlocked, it connects to her chest sending her flying away.
She gets out of the ground, nearly unscathed, "Good blow human, I'm using around 10% of my power." She informs, "I'm happy with that!" Kazama says, proud of himself, but also shocked that beings this strong exist, these beings might even be stronger than Bothu, but that's a stretch.
Xavier gets into the action, placing a Mark on her. "Oh? We're using Attributes now? NULLIFICATION." The Mark instantly dissipates off of her face. Xavier is struck with fear as he realises that two things could be true, either one of her Attributes is to Nullify other Attributes, or being's that strong can just Nullify them.
"Kazama… We can't win." Xavier says, he looks at Kazama, who has a massive grin on his face. "Oh yes we can." Kazama says, Xavier could swear he sees a literal fire burning in Kazama's eyes.
'I can finally do that'
Kazama darts at Hamradesh, faster than before, he starts trading blows with her, and sure he's getting hit and hurt a lot more, but he's still doing decent enough damage to Hamradesh. "You think you can step up to our level, kid?" "I'm damn well trying. DUSK CLEAVER!" He uppercuts her with a fist coated in Black Heat, it causes her to bleed from her mouth and fall on her back.
'If Kazama can do it… So can I' Xavier thinks, he charges all his Heat into his leg and kicks her, "PUTSCH!" She skids along the floor, and Kazama and Xavier think the same thing,
'We're finally strong enough to fend ourselves against demons like disciples!'
Hamradesh gives up the fight, Gothno claps, "I thought you'd fight a lot more sloppily considering that it was very, very sudden." Kazama wipes the blood from his nose on his arm, "Don't underestimate me." Kazama says cockily, this seems to offend Gothno, "Ham show him a taste." Suddenly 57 cuts appeared on his body, but Hamradesh never moved, she moved that quickly he couldn't even see her.
After that they brought Gothno and Hamradesh inside, Amani is very confused but- "AHH!" it wasn't a scared scream, rather a perverted scream, as Tatsujin got excited at Hamradesh's chest being exposed.
"Basically, The Yokala's arrival has infused an insane amount of Gush-uk into this Realm. This causes the two Realm's to fuse together." Everyone, besides Tatsujin who is staring at Hamradesh's chest, is paying their full attention, "How does that work?" Amani asks, "Heat is attracted to itself, it acts as gravity sort of." "Is there any way to stop this?" Kazama asks, "Yes, if you somehow got rid of most of the sources of Gush-Uk in this Realm, I don't think this is possible since more Heat Realm Denizens besides us are in this Realm now." Gothno thinks for a couple of seconds, "Well, there is another way…" everyone pays attention "...If you kill the Abyssal King, but that's not possible. The Incendium Emperor is like a God to ants, which we are the ants, and the Abyss Walkers could get rid of the Emperor in one small attack, then the Abyssal King can dematerialise them by simply looking at them…"