Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 122 - The Alley of Time
He drew out his hand and let out a beam of the dark energy BWOOM. Apollo and Devan barely managed to dodge the attack. Apollo glared at the entity, trying his best to figure out any way he could possibly damage it ,"Shit." Apollo thought quickly ,"This art you found uses a lot of ki really frickin fast, we have to swap out who's the bait while the others swap out each time the other gets out of Transcendence." Cias, Noah and Devan all nodded together. Noah spoke up first ,"I'll take him on." The rest didn't deliberate on the matter, they just exited their kind of advanced "Superposition".
Noah looked at the monster in front of him ,"All I have to do is dodge this asshole then." Theo let out a sound that could only be described as the sound of the universe, bellowing at frequencies that were both high and low at the same time. Theo dashed towards Noah, Noah dodged the thrust. Already having lost a hand to this thing in front of him, he already knew how powerful this existence in front of him really was. Theo's body convulsed as he let out beams of the strange energy all around him. Noah soared through the air maneuvering through the beyond. Theo's body convulsed again and locked onto Noah's body, reaching out to grab him but Noah summoned his gauntlets and used those to block the touch, reeling his hand and stump back at just the right moment so that he could remain alive. Second by second, Theo's body was dissipating, becoming thinner and thinner. Noah returned to regular time and having had the conversation before, Devan went in next.
Devan immediately was swarmed by tons of the energy lingering from the previous battle. It had actually become harder to dodge the blows because there was so much of the energy around him. The dark essence collapsed on him but he slipped through the tiny hoop to get out of the collapse of the energy as fast as he could. He summoned his Assimilation weapon as fast as he could and threw it in a random direction, the vibrations signaling the monster to swarm in on its locations. A man who turned into nothing more than a beast grabbed the beatbox, starting to rip it apart. Devan deconstructed the weapon and reconstructed it in his hands once more and threw it but instead of Theo locking in on the weapon, he locked in on Devan, at the last moment Devan dodged and deactivated Trancend.
Cias was next in the pecking order, when he went to the space he summoned onyx and unbeknownst to him, Onyx had transformed into an ascended form of a praying mantis, well partly. Onyx had transformed into the most efficient form for ki, a humanoid animal form appeared. Green hair, gold and brown garments, green skin to compliment his hair as well and mandibles around his mouth. Onyx turned to Cias ,"Hello master." Cias was stunned but all he could do was focus on the enemy in front of him. Onyx let out a SCREEEEECH, which signalled the voided human to go in his direction. Onyx dodged out of the way almost mechanically but while also flowing, also flying around the energy in the environment. Cias screamed ,"Over here!" The beast located his direction and jumped in his direction. Cias maneuvered around him and formed a barrier in front of himself and the beast, almost immediately just from the aura of Theo, disappeared. Cias was about to get pounced on but at that moment he disappeared.
Apollo entered the realm beyond time, pulling out Akarui, however, something weird was happening. His sword was absorbing the energy that was previously expunged around him. When Theo sensed Apollo's presence he dashed, but when Apollo saw that he sent out an Art: ??? Wave. The weird energy flicked off of his blade and entered the beast, slashing at him ever so slightly. He didn't even know what to call it, but he felt it, it was like despair given form. Although he could wield the energy, it greatly degraded his weapon. Apollo's eyes narrowed as he shifted slightly to dodge the attack and then ducked under another swipe effortlessly. He backed away, looking at the horrifying figure in front of him, his skin, muscles and bones were being eaten away. Nearly dead, the thing still lived, what once was Theo was nothing more than a husk of a person.