Perfect Avatar-Chapter 316: The Twilight Of The World: Chaos

"The real battle begins now!"

Seven blue flames ignited along the edge of the wheel, followed by the engine commencing its rotation. Mercy touched her nose, noticing that she was bleeding from both her nose and forehead.

Artesis, Solaria, and Nosfera were in similar condition, injured by an unknown attack.

"... When did he..."

"WATCH OUT!!!"

The piercing scream of Lilith startled all present, triggering the activation of multiple dimensional rifts throughout the area. The ground heaved as substantial sections of land were obliterated and infused with energy, resulting in the emergence of a new array of floating platforms, some of which were in motion, rotating, or erupting.

"You can lead them? Try to predict that one."

Dora spun his spear and threw it with a phenomenal power, the projectile swallowed the energy on its path to increase in speed and destruction potential.

(Move!)

At Dora’s command, they all moved, ensuring they steered clear of the rifts. The spear hurtled toward them with formidable force, only to vanish in an instant into one of the rifts.

"... He missed? Quick, attack him!" Vixen landed on one of the platform.

(.... Uh? Don’t stop moving!!!)

The tip of the spear appeared above her.

One of the blue flames on the wheel extinguished, and simultaneously, the maid’s scream echoed through the air.

"Vixen!!!"

The spear struck the earth, its surrounding force engulfing her. The maids hurried towards their companion, yet the sight before them halted their progress.

The spear on contact with the platform triggered a reaction, the platform shone, alongside the weapon.

Liliana used Angelo’s power to teleport Vixen away, just in time before the platform and the spear exploded.

The second and third flame extinguished.

Next to Liliana, Vixen was severely injured, her body burnt by the energy. Seeing her state, she decided to heal her immediately, but as her hand touched the maid, a shadow flew above her.

"Eh?!"

Dora’s foot show her the light, in an instant, she traversed a rift and appeared further away, falling from rift to rift.

In his location, Dora’s tension increased.

(... Dammit... Hope, create a healer! Quickly! The maids.... focus on the explosion!!!)

The maids were stunned by Dora’s command, they could execute the order, but there was an serious problem, the other Dora flew from rift to rift, with two swords in hands, how could they ignore him?

"Listen to him! Move!"

Solaria unleashed a powerful charge of Voracity, but Dora instantly hurled a sword at her from a distance.

(Sword on the left, Solaria, move!!!)

"Guh..."

She jumped above, taking a glance at her side, but the sword disappeared in another rift. The explosion on the platform hit by the spear kept growing, mixing shards and destruction particles.

Mercy tried to follow Dora’s movement, but the rifts were unpredictable and he kept appearing anywhere.

"... If this is like this, I’ll just slash everything!"

She lifted her scythe glowing red.

(Don’t!!! If you touch the rift your attacks will also be teleported! You could hit the others!)

"... T-then what are we supposed to do?!"

The sword grazed her right thigh, she barely had time to react, that a new wave of energy took her away.

Lucca ran on one of Marie’s platform behind, she was too far away from Dora’s construction, she was safe.

(W-what do I do? Everyone is in danger, D-dora, what do I do?!)

(Don’t go there, your size would play against you!)

"Then tell us what the fuck we should do! Why are you silent?!" Giudecca groaned.

Dora appeared above Freya, the sword swinging toward her face. The seventh flame extinguished, and the wheel ended its rotation.

A black flash struck Freya, Hope, Solaria, and Lucca, while a light orb enveloped Mercy, Liliana, and Vixen.

Those struck by the black flash coughed blood, those touched by the light were slightly healed.

Dora received both the impact, with more intensity. His armor breaking on his torso, revealing a burned chest. He stumbled, missing his attack on Freya, and at the same time, the flames ignited again.

The gravity reversed, everyone flew in the other direction, most trying to land on the pieces of land Dora had created, with different outcomes.

Some platform returned on themselves, sending them flying, others exploded, ignited, causing more damages.

Nosfera and Ratoncia made contact with a platform that immediately generated black spikes.

"Watch out!!"

Nosfera’s thigh was pierced; however, she transformed into a shadow just in the nick of time, but on the other hand, Ratoncia, without any mean of escape, suffered impalement in her thighs, stomach, and chest.

"Ratoncia!!!" The Nosfera and Artesis shouted.

Three flames ran out.

Solaria rushed to the maid in high speed, around them, the platforms rotated with increasing speed, and the shadow of Dora jumped from platform to platform, from rift to rift.

Some platform exploded, creating a cloud of destruction, mixing with others cloud and when they made contact with the rifts, they spread in all the battlefield.

Screams of pain filled the air, the scorching clouds forbade them to open their eyes, the pain forbade them to think, their bodies suffered numerous injuries and the pain kept increasing.

Dora was speechless, the tables had turned so easily.

(...)

He didn’t know what kind of direction to give, his plan was countered in the most unexpected way, and he was the main cause.

(... Chaos... He’s using chaos to keep... me from intervening...)

Like Dora created millions though in the other Dora’s mind to keep him from thinking, the other Dora used it at his advantage to get the same result.

Previously, his plans were too simple, he created a sword to give a slash, with a defined power, Dora would just warn the others to move on specific places to avoid the damage, plus his power were getting reduced so the damages were always low, but now he had stopped thinking, or rather, he focused on random thoughts popping in his head, anything but never his next move.

In addition, Dora suffered a time manipulation on him, so he always reacted too late, but once he understood that, he countered it with a new pattern.

(He is not directly attacking, he use the law on the impact to create a permanent damage growing over time... the rifts and the platforms make it impossible to anticipate his moves, even him doesn’t know where the rifts will take him.... His attacks are purely random!!)

The fighters who managed to stay aware trembled at this revelation. To fight him, they used Dora to predict his moves, but if his attack were a gamble, it was impossible.

In opposite, as they waited for instructions, they were becoming easy targets, and as he thought about it, Dora didn’t realize that he had committed a terrible mistake.

".... Hehe..." The other Dora laughed.

For the first time, the other Dora formed a clear sentence in his mind, a direct message for his alter ego.

"I’m not lagging anymore? So you’re the one using time manip on me..."

(...)

The seventh flame extinguished.

The karma struck again seven fighters, Giudecca, Marie, Lucca, Nosfera, Solaria, and Freya, suffered the black flash, Ratoncia the healing orb.

Those hit by the bad karma fell on the ground, before being pushed by the gravity reversing to the ground.

Ratoncia, slightly healed still had a hole in her stomach, she opened her eyes and found herself in Solaria’s arms.

"... P... Prin...cess..."

Around her, Solaria maintained a sphere of gluttony activated, reducing the damages received and not strong enough to erase the maid, but the attacks were getting stronger and she suffered severely.

"... Princess... Your... You’re bleeding..."

"... Yeah, and you’re dying. This is why I told you to wait for me!"

She put her hand over her to apply healing, the maid was covered in green light.

Karma

A black flash struck the Princess once more, causing her to stagger back, wounded and scorched, as the wave of devastation swept over her and Ratoncia.

Six flames extinguished, and the karma struck again. Ratoncia and Solaria suffered another black flash, while Vixen, Marie, Artesis, Liliana, and Mercy were healed.

The wheel resumed its rotation, and the cloud increased in power.

Without a body, Dora felt a shiver running his spine.

The pain was getting unbearable for the fighter, no one could hear him anymore.

He was shared between thinking of a solution and understanding the concept of Karma Wheel first.

The power of the cloud kept increasing, the damages were superior to the healing of Karma Wheel, no one listened to him, all suffering the Karma.

Solaria was lying down, her blood flying above. Everyone was on the ground, Lucca and Iris alone where safely on the ground, watching the horror in despair.

Two flames extinguished.

Dora trembled, his eyes shone, the other Dora suffered another time slow, his body suffered an abnormal amount of damage, but he was still alive, he alone kept flying in this apocalypse.

He was stronger, he could handle the damage better than the others, he was sure to stay alive the last, this was the perfect plan.

A shadow loomed over the princess, Solaria, eyes closed, felt a presence over her.

For a brief instant, the presence came closer to her ear, and she could hear a murmur.

"Forgive me for this, princess."

She scowled, yearning to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt like they were on fire, and suddenly, a searing sensation hit her shoulder.

Ratoncia bit her on the shoulder to the blood, her mouth glowing red. Solaria bit her lips, struggling to contain a scream, but the pain didn’t last long.

The maid stood in the apocalypse, her mouth releasing orange steam.

Her blood were covering her from the stomach to the feet, she opened her eyes, and in the chaos, they glowed orange.

"I’ll borrow your power quickly...."

Dora was falling from above, without any way to control his landing. Ratoncia’s body glowed with the intensity of gluttony, on his part, Dora realised what she was about to do.

(Mouse?! Hey, can you hear me??)

"... I can... I always could... It’s just too painful... To talk."

(Listen then, what you did to Solaria, you have the Queen’s last skill, right? You have Gluttony.)

".... Yes.... I borrowed.... some... I’m gonna... Erase him... Please... Make sure... everyone is..."

(Don’t do this!)

The other Dora recovered his momentum, he noticed Ratoncia and took his spear.

"I’m sorry... I don’t... have time... please... prot..."

(THE WHEEL!!!!)

The maid flinched, on the wheel, one flame remained.

(If you use this on him, the karma will activate on you and six people, you will suffer an equivalent rebound, it will kill you for sure!)

"... I know... but if it’s what it take to defeat him..."

(It won’t! He will suffer 2 karma, so he will also be healed! You will die for nothing!)

Dora spun his spear, ready to throw it, his moves were slow, almost frozen in time, but the incoming attack would be a disaster.

"... Mister Dora... There’s no time... I need to take a decision..."

(The Wheel!!!! Attack the wheel!!!! Jump on the left and use it on the wheel and the particles!!!)

The maids’s mind went blank, she waited for a path for so long and it finally came to her.

She jumped on the direction suggested, her clothes and skin shared the fate of the cloud of destruction, she then spun on herself and roarer.

"GLUTTONY"

An orange beam fire in direction of the wheel, on its path, it entered in contact with the rifts, spreading everywhere, erasing them instantly.

Dora forced himself on his half to infuse the spear with one last Law, before he threw it.

The space distorted on its path, swallowing many platform, it met the beam of Gluttony, and a new phenom occurred.

- Law: turn the destruction energy particles into healing

The spear struck the platform and exploded, spreading a wave of healing mixing with the destruction cloud.

At the same time, the beam of Gluttony reached the Wheel before the last flame run out.

The wheel erupted in a dazzling display of orange fireworks, spiraling around it in a breathtaking spectacle. Simultaneously, the chaotic cloud transformed into a vibrant green sea, enveloping the warriors in a wave of healing energy.

Karma

But nothing happened. The operation was a success.

Soon, the pain ceased, everyone could raise their head, the eyes could be opened.

Ratoncia fell on her knees in relief, the healing particles spreading to her, but her body stopped responding. She closed her eyes and fell in a world of darkness.

She fell in the void, but a shadow caught her on time. Mercy was holding her.

Everyone exchanged surprised looks, no one expected that the wind of salvation would come from the most fearful of maids, but here she was.

Solaria, Artesis, and Nosfera joined Mercy, watching their comrade with sorrow.

Mercy lowered her head, with a smile on the lips, Ratoncia had died.

She bowed her head, steering clear of Solaria’s eyes, yet the princess remained unresponsive. With utmost care, she lifted Ratoncia, leaving the maids behind her in stunned silence.

It was a sad moment, a little window of rest allowed thanks to the sacrifice of one of them, but only temporary.

Everyone else stopped paying attention to them when an aura began to rise, filled with rage, hate, infuriating.

"... I’m getting tired of this."

The healing reached Dora too, but with the law, the effect were reversed. His body was burning, burning with an unimaginable pain, but he couldn’t care less.

"You know... For sometime I really though that I was giving you a favor. Everyone has lost something in this world, a friend, a dream, a person... Everyone is looking for a solution, for a way to save the world, but no one has a solution. All you can do is question, hope, fail, fight, kill, despair, and repeat. Everyone, without an exception, but guess what? I found out that if I could kill someone, they would reincarnate in a true paradise, where their dream will come true. Not an illusion, not a dream, a real world, with the very same person who had died, with their memory."

His aura erupted, mixing black and white.

"I came with the only solution we have, I possess the only outcome where everyone wins, but you... you’re trying so hard to stop me... for what? What are you hoping for exactly?! In the other world the players have destroyed everything! You think it will be a good place to leave there? You think you will find a world standing? How stupid of you!"

The aura spread on his sides, everyone let their jaw fall face to the worst outcome.

"I wanted to create a perfect world for us, a world where we would get back everything we’ve been stolen... but since you hate the idea so much... I will defeat you, one by one, and I’ll create a way to make you immortal."

Around him, five shadow emerged from the burst of energy.

"I will destroy the world, and let you spend the eternity in this nothingness. ASYLUM"