Amane and Alaric fought. Amane tried hitting him with fire, but he summoned water and froze her in place.
They fought, Amane’s flames constantly getting hotter.
“Hey sun girl, match this heat!” Alaric said, before hitting her with a lightning strike while she was frozen.
Amane used her flames to try blocking it but to no avail. As Amane was losing, a bunch of Tabias were summoned.
“Need some help?” Tabia asked. “Who are you?” Alaric and Amane asked.
"The Trickster Nova, Tabia!” She responded, overwhelming Alaric with clones.
Lysander dropped from the ceiling and ran down the halls, looking for Ajesh.
Lysander found a cell where Ajesh was, and freed him. Ajesh was still unconscious, but Lysander picked him up and walked away. But then, as Lysander thought he was in the clear, Haru appeared, surrounded by flames.
“Corrupted Rhythm Activated.” Haru said, and Ajesh woke up, eyes red, aura black and red, and an out of sync beat playing.
“I’m not in the best shape, so Ajesh will fight you now.” Haru told Lysander.
“And you''re fighting me.” El said, revealing himself from behind Lysander.
“If it isn’t my mentor, welcome back to your home El.” Haru said arrogantly.
“Yeah yeah just get to scrapping.”.
Thea dropped from the jet with Kenji and met Sabrina, who was sitting on her throne, legs crossed and sharpening a sword.
“Hey mom!” Thea yelled. “Your daughter is here for revenge!”.
“What revenge? You can’t beat me! I am Sabrina, Queen of The Old Novas, and Nova of Hel.” Sabrina answered, her hubris clearly showing.
“You''re the queen because you''re the only girl here.” Kenji said, unbothered by the power his suit was detecting.
“Arrogant little child, FACE MY UNYIELDING WRATH.” Sabrina yelled, summoning hundreds of demons.
“God’s armor and manifest Spear of War.” Thea said, getting adorned in gold ghost-ish armor and changing her normal spear to the Spear of War. Kenji charged up blasts and shot the demons, while Thea started ripping them apart with her spear.
Finally there was Ethan, who jumped down, and saw a man with brown hair and a black cloak with jade highlights was standing there waiting.
“Hello Ethan, I’ve been expecting you. Care to sit?” The man asks.
“Cut the crap Emperor New Clothes, Jade Nova, whatever.” Ethan said, touching a pillar.
“Ruyi Jingu Bang. Manifest.” He uttered, causing the pillar to transform into Jingubang. “Contract.” Ethan ordered, shrinking the staff.
He held it out, and rushed towards him. As he got near, an army of golden beings surrounded him. “Boo.” Miguel said, ascending in the air.
“Get down here!” Ethan said, sweeping the golden beings.
He then pushed himself up with his staff “EXTEND.”.
Back at Amane and Tabia, they were fighting Alaric, catching up to his level. Amane was using a green sword and Tabia was slashing him with daggers.
Tabia’s clones overwhelmed him, and Amane stabbed him in the stomach. Alaric fell and they left to catch up with the others. Thea and Kenji were about to get overwhelmed, but then Thea used her God’s Armor ability.
A giant explosion occurred, causing the demons to die. “My God’s Armor saves up hits and causes an explosion of them.”
Sabrina scowled and went down, summoning 7 glowing green blades, and shot them at her.
Thea parried their spears, and Kenji charged a blast. Thea clashed her spear with Sabrina.
Thea was starting to lose, and then her Rhythm activated. She began to get the upper hand, and Kenji blasted Sabrina, sending her crashing into a wall.
She pinned Sabrina to the ground and told her “I’m sparing you because you''re my mother. Kenji, make sure she doesn’t escape.” Thea deactivated her Rhythm, and walked away, but just as she left the room, Sabrina transformed into a bird and escaped.
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Ajesh and Lysander were fighting. Ajesh wasn’t even trying, and Lysander was struggling.
He picked up a rod and manifested a stone club. Then he activated his god’s armor. Ajesh took a rod of his own and manifested the Trishul.
Ajesh threw his Trishul and it went through Lysander’s stomach and back to his hand. Lysander smashed his club into his head.
“Y’know the thing about Heracles is that he’s the master of all weapons.” Lysander said. He snatched the trident from Ajesh and stabbed him with it.
He dropped the club on him and stomped Ajesh on his head. Ajesh was knocked back unconscious.
Haru blasted El with fire and he went flying.
“Hurting an old man? That’s not what I remember.” El laughed. El’s left eye glowed blue, and he muttered something. “The Warrior.”.
El was able to summon Gungnir and fight with Haru.
El tripped Haru and stabbed him in the liver. “
The Wise.” he uttered. “Yeah, you’re down. Now Ethan and Sanzang gotta be good.” and as El was walking away he saw a mechanical prosthetic arm. He picks it up and attaches it to himself
Ethan was clashing with Miguel, and he got launched to the wall. “Alright I’m tired of this.” Ethan said, taking off his hoodie and tying it around his waist. Ethan expanded his staff, to the diameter of a house and the length of a mansion, sending Miguel flying.
Miguel summoned golden flaming spears and launched them all at once. Ethan shrunk the staff but was slashed all over.
“It’s over. Then Elias will kill Sanzang-” Miguel tried explaining but then Ethan suddenly experienced a surge of Chaos Soul.
He wiped the blood off his face, and his scars started flaming black and red. His body was enveloped in this energy, as if he was in flames, he grew a monkey tail and white eyes, and two long feather-like horns that blew in the wind came from his head as a crown formed.
Suddenly he experienced an Overload.
Miguel saw this and suddenly saw a vision. He felt the fear as if he was someone else. “The Jade Emperor…is…afraid?”.
Ethan seemingly teleported to Miguel and slammed him with his staff into the ground. He jumped up 100 feet in the air.
“JINGUBANG. EXPAND AND EXTEND.” He said in a distorted voice.
Jingubang grew in size and length and crushed Miguel.
He shrunk the staff and landed, and started to beat him with his staff. But every hit a bit of gold formed on his head. And after a while a golden headband formed.
Miguel created a portal and escaped while Ethan came out of his Overload.
A golden headband started shrinking on his head, and gave him a headache.
“Sanzang…just do your job properly. For once in your life…”.
Sanzang, after an hour of running around, found Elias, wearing a cheap shirt and pants, sitting in a large field on a rock.
“So, Sanzang, you retrieved your brother. I’m impressed. Your tune is out of whack yet you find yourself strong. Care to explain?”
He asks him. Sanzang ignored the question and asked his own, one that had him confused for a week. “Why Ajesh?”.
“That I cannot answer.” Elias replied. Sanzang went for a kick to the head, imbued with golden wind and Divine Soul, but Elias pushed him away.
Every attack Sanzang attempted, he was just pushed away by a force.
He even grabbed a reed, manifested Gada, and tried but to no avail.
"Here’s one strike for arrogance.” Elias said, opening his hand and motioning his arm, causing Sanzang to get hit with lightning.
“Here’s one for foolishness.” he said, striking Sanzang with lightning, causing the Gada to de-manifest.
“And one for insanity.” he said, landing the final thunder strike on him.
Sanzang got up, shirt almost completely ripped and pants jammed up.
He tried using his god’s armor but he was struck again.
Sanzang kept getting up and getting struck.
“YOU ARE NOTHING. JUST A FOOLISH NOVA WHO STEPS OVER HIS LEVEL. I BET AJESH WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED TO SEE YOU LIKE THIS.” Elias yelled, hitting him with the biggest one yet, but Sanzang got up and stopped it with his hand.
He threw the bolt to the ground and went into his God Stance.
His eyes glowed Yellow and Crimson, and he looked ready to fight.
He kept on dashing, kicking him from all directions.
Elias was knocked around and looked at him. “So Zeus was right. You have reincarnated.”
Elias said. “Damn right I have. But I am the Trinexus of this world. I am Sanzang, but I also am the Guardian of Freedom, the Lord of Havoc, and the God of Fighting.” Sanzang said.
His body began to be engulfed in red and gold flames, and formed armor. A black monk-like shirt and pants that had metal on them, a red belt, and gauntlets with golden bracelets on them.
“Varinzik.” Elias said, but the voice of Zeus was also heard.
They clashed, teleporting from place to place, Sanzang striking with his legs and fists, and Elias responding with a fist full of thunder.
“Getting tired Old Thunder?” Sanzang said to him while attacking constantly.
Then when they teleported back where they started, Sanzang got into a position ready to kick the ground.
As he imbued his leg with Chaos and Divine Soul, he said something.
“Consider this attack, my formal declaration of war to the Old Novas.” Sanzang told him, kicking the ground and sending a gigantic shockwave of energy in Elias’s direction, causing him to lose his power.
As Sanzang walked up to him, a portal formed under him and took Elias away.
Everyone was bruised and saw Sanzang there.
“Oh hey guys!” Sanzang said, but somehow they could tell it wasn’t him.
Sanzang was about to say something more, but fell to the ground in exhaustion and his armor burnt away.
“Alright, let''s just go back to Korea.” Amane said.
“Agreed. I have a massive headache from the fight with Emperor''s New Clothes.” Ethan said.