A fury of death. Being trapped in the crossfire, with nowhere to escape, Andrew pushed his limits and began to use Lomba Goto and Parshu Kal simultaneously to erase his physical existence from the flow of time.
1 second in the past.
Cling clang
2 seconds in the future.
Clang Tang Kaboom
1 second in the past
Cling Clang Boom
2 seconds in the future
Boom Boom
Andrew ceased his own demise as he kept a thorough overview of the battlefield.
Monitoring every instance of time, grabbing every free fraction of second to survive, he rapidly began to run around to match Anastasia's pace.
A genius tactic. Something Andrew had figured out with just his fighting instincts.
"For a King, you do fight a lot!" One of the ten Anastasias maniacally laughed as she sliced the entire space into minutely fine pieces.
The other nine joined their leader too. One commanded chain missiles, another was in charge of quelling the fire, while a few were focused on restraining Ray.
"Unbelievable…" Andrew jumped on the timeline whimsically, but the way Ray fought left him in awe.
None of the chains, not even a single one managed to touch Ray.
Each time a sharp piece of metal managed to come close enough, the very space around Ray cracked like a mirror and interrupted Anastasia's attacks.
"I'll tell you why you're failing in your path." Ray suddenly appeared infront of Andrew.
His dark eyes spoke deeply to Andrew's mind.
"Hey! I'm still here!" Three Anastasias came straight at Ray.
Her chains formed an egg shaped jail that swiftly closed in on Ray and Andrew.
"Sorry bro, but I'll have to get even more serious now! Hahaha!" Anastasia hysterically laughed.
"Parshu Kal" Andrew zoomed out of the chain jail and landed ahead half a second into the future.
"Sorry, I didn't want to disrupt your powers so I did my best to focus on only him." One Anastasia hopped and stood a few metres away from Andrew.
As Andrew looked back to where Ray was, he saw the monster come out of the chains with a destroyed body.
His legs were torn and bent, arms non existent, all his blood vessels destroyed, tendons ruptured, face cut in half, multiple daggers and sickle chains embedded deep in his skin…
"Hah…" Ray breathed out without a hint of pain.
In an instant, as if nothing had happened, his body reverted back to its original state and all the foreign bodies burst out.
And just then, Andrew saw himself, a copy of his own body come out of thin air, and he witnessed himself punch Ray's face.
Ray, though, just stopped the punch with his palm.
Multiple copies of Anastasia blurred all around as they kept trying to attack Ray.
"But I think I've broken the flow of continuity here…hehehe…" Anastasia giggled.
"Anastasia. I'll cooperate." Andrew finally realized what a dangerous situation he was in.
"And after we're done." Andrew looked towards his right, where one of the ten Anastasias was. "I'm coming for you."
"With pleasure." Anastasia smiled.
"Now shall we begin?" She then looked towards Ray.
And so did Andrew.
"Yes, let's begin." Ray spoke emotionlessly out of the blue.
He warped out of vision and so did Anastasia standing on Andrew's right side.
And at the next moment, Anastasia's corpse reappeared on Andrew's left side.
"!!" Andrew acted supremely fast and jumped back in time.
He ran towards Ray before Ray could initiate his attack, and amplified Mon, Aj and Kal on himself.
Time slowed down so much, that even a millisecond felt like a decade…
In that brief period of time, Andrew saw Anastasia running with him towards Ray.
"When I was eight days old…" Ray spoke as he closed his eyes again.
Dark engravings, tattoos of varied sorts began to appear on his pale skin. The corners of his eyes cracked, and the darkness started to flood out of his eyes into all the adjacent veins. His black hair fluttered, and the deadly fire in the intolerable room began to turn into an ailment of dark absolution.
"Quick! Stop him before he completes his technique!" Anastasia commanded.
"Goto!!" Andrew gushed out a chunk of his remaining jenna on Ray, his Third Samay Art being far more refined than ever before.
"I had a seizure…" Ray extended his palm towards Anastasia.
All ten copies of Anastasia merged into one, and she launched her chain straight towards Ray's hand.
No sooner did the chain land on Ray's skin did it penetrate his skin. Wrapped tightly around his hand, it lit up in golden fire immediately.
Ray grabbed the sharp end of the sickle chain, even though it bloodied his palm, and he pulled Anastasia towards him.
"Uh oh, I didn't think he'd just catch it-" Anastasia was swung around the room and thrown towards Andrew.
"Lomba Goto, Parshu Kal!" Andrew let Anastasia fly straight through him.
He didn't stop in his tracks. He ran ahead, and focused Kal on his punch.
Andrew's punch, which was now strong enough to break the fabric of space-time in this room, raged towards Ray's abdomen.
But…just when it got close to the target, space bent, it curved like a crescent…
Andrew's punch was redirected to a different direction.
And due to inertia, Andrew lost balance a little, and he was pulled in the direction of his punch.
"Do you know what my father said then?" Ray grabbed Andrew's face instead.
Due to his taller height, Ray easily held Andrew up in the air.
"Ackkkk!!" Andrew felt the weight of the universe squeezing on his temples.
"Incompetent, Inefficient, Intolerable…"
"So what?" Anastasia came to Andrew's rescue.
Ray's hand was cut in half by Anastasia's chain and Andrew rapidly saved himself with Goto and Parshu kal.
As Andrew jumped and dashed away to Anastasia's side, who was standing behind Ray, he saw Ray pick up his own hand as if it was a prosthetic.
He had no signs of suffering, no expression of pain.
He simply reattached his limb and kept speaking.
"I still remember my mother crying, bathing me in cold water-"
"We need to concentrate our attacks on him more!" Andrew screamed.
"I agree!" Anastasia too shouted and vanished.
"Parshu Kal!" Andrew jumped in the future and attacked Ray.
He approached him extremely cautiously and kicked him. And then he saw his other self, a different Andrew from a different time, attacking Ray's other side.
But both attacks were stopped by Ray with just his palms.
"Parshu Kal! Lomba Goto! Parshu Kal!"
Andrew started to throw attacks every second, and combined with Anastasia's chains, the entire integral of time flow around Ray was consumed with deadly attacks focused solely on killing him.
Andrew amplified his Jenna further, pushing himself to his extreme.
His body grew fatigued, he ran out of breath, his entire existence started to hurt, but he still didn't stop attacking Ray.
However…
"But this is the end." Ray raised his fist.
His burning fiery fist of absolution..