"Hurry up and kill him already," shouted Sodom.
"Triple what you owe me," said the Phantom.
While they talked, Rectos looked frustrated, on the verge of letting loose. He decided to try something new for the first time in years. He started to generate a small amount of electricity in his body. Then before the Phantom realised what was happening, he shot out the electricity from all over his body.
It was weak but it was just enough.
The Phantom was shot back while Rectos jumped forward to put distance between them. Rectos started to laugh at both the Phantom and Sodom.
"You should have killed me when you had the chance," Rectos said. "You're both dead now I swear!"
The Phantom quickly turned to Sodom. "Can you use your divine power."
"No…not right now." he replied.
"Interesting." Phantom said.
Lightning crawled over Rectos' skin as he stomped, ripping stone from the earth. Throwing a kick at the rocks, they flew towards the Phantom. He swiftly dodged some the rocks and jumped over the remaining ones. However, Rectos came in behind the rocks and came in with an uppercut. The Phantom parried the strike with his knife, then as soon as he landed on the ground blocked a kick aimed at his abdomen. Rectos threw more kicks aimed all over the Phantom's body. The Phantom managed to block all the blows once again while Rectos jumped back.
Sodom looked at the Phantom body. Though he had managed to block every attack Rectos had thrown at him, his limbs seemed stuck almost frozen.
"You finally realising, every time I hit you your limbs slowly become paralysed. Do you see your life is over! You've lost!"
The Phantom's face was covered so Sodom couldn't see what he could be thinking but he could sense that the Phantom didn't seem to be worried in the slightest.
Rectos screaming with excitement lunged again at the Phantom.
"Didn't want to do this…what a pain" muttered the Phantom.
The Phantom activated his divine power, A mirage appeared behind him. She stood in the dim space like a figure carved from shadow and stone, tall and wrapped in dark, layered garments that hung heavy as burial cloth. Her pale face was calm and unreadable, and her eyes were deep and still, holding the quiet certainty of an ending already decided. The light around her seemed to fade rather than vanish, and the air pressed down gently, making it clear, without threat or movement, that nothing here was meant to leave unchanged.
Pointing at Rectos the Phantom activated his divine power.
Rectos kept charging forward uncaring about the Phantom's ability. He believed that the Phantom could not move anymore, that victory was his to take.
A mark was burned on Recto's forehead. Afterwards The Phantom immediately pulled Rectos towards himself at a speed too quick for Sodom to track. All he saw was Rectos charging at the Phantom one minute. In the next he was impaled on the Phantom's knife.
Rectos started to cough up blood immediately, the mirage behind rectos started to disappear slowly.
"My pay" the Phantom turned to Sodom. "Triple it or I let him live".
"Whatever you want, just end him now." Sodom responded.
The Phantom pulled out another knife he had kept hidden this whole time. Though his arms felt heavy he drove another knife into Rectos' chest.
Rectos spluttered again, blood pouring out of his mouth. He fell backwards crashing into the ground.
"This can't be…I lost…" whispered Rectos. "Chairman's going to come for your head and when he does…"
Rectos couldn't finish his sentence. A crackle of dying electricity filled the air.
A brief silence followed.
"Make sure to send the money by tomorrow. If I don't receive it, I'll come back and kill you," the Phantom said.
Sodom hesitated then nodded and the Phantom walked away.