"Your strength as an Emissary is impressive."
White called out to Emissary Exorus.
"Even more impressive is your comprehension of the Time Concept, and the most impressive is, of course, the katana you hold in your hand."
"There’s immense power within it, and judging by the runes hidden deep within its core, you’ve yet to tap into even a fraction of its true potential."
"I’ll earn it... after you die."
He said it as though it were but a casual thing, but there was no laughter ringing from the Emissary this time.
Not when every inch of the cells in his body recoiled in fear at the monstrous wave of aura before him.
White turned his gaze away, settling it upon the twelve beings that were still standing.
The Alphanomalous Creatures.
The beings mostly responsible for the destruction that had been wrought upon this world, even before he was born.
These were beings he had been made to fear. That all on their own, their unity would bring forth a power that was impossible to resist.
A power that could bring the entirety of Humanity to its knees.
"Show me..."
He said calmly, his voice echoing throughout Earth and into the ears of each and every one of them, irrespective of the distance between them.
"Show me the so-called unrivaled power of your unity."
"COME NOW!"
Emissary Exorus roared downward, and in an instant,
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
...
The air parted as a total of twelve pillars of energy rushed into the sky, all of them coalescing into twelve beings standing beside Emissary Exorus and opposite White.
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Down in a building on Earth...
"They’ve really come together... All twelve Alphanomalous."
The words, tinged with fear, echoed throughout the hall where hundreds of arrays had been set up, runic lines floating all around the room, all just to make the pressure undulating through it slightly more bearable.
About twenty-one people were in the room, all members of Humanity Ascension, and before them was a hologram revealing the two opposing groups in the sky.
"Vampire Lord Damon."
It was a being who seemed nothing like a normal vampire.
A gigantic monster over ten meters tall, with seemingly burnt skin, legs angled like those of a beast and claws taller than the average Human.
Blood dripped ceaselessly from its massive maw, sending a rain of crimson splattering onto Earth as it screeched at White, hovering in the air with the aid of its massive pitch-black bat-like wings that originated from its elongated arms instead of its back.
"Berserker King Sysilu."
He was gigantic humanoid whose body seemed stitched together entirely from swollen crimson muscles, wearing an armor of bones.
Every heartbeat caused veins thicker than tree trunks to bulge violently beneath its flesh as countless broken horns protruded from its skull.
It held two massive axes, seemingly crafted from some sort of ashen metal, in its claws, crimson blood eternally flowing through the cracks running across the weapons.
"The Primordial Werewolf Fruga."
A colossal lupine beast standing over twelve meters tall, possessing pitch-black fur that was, without doubt, harder than steel from glance alone.
Even then, it could not hide the monstrously bulging veins beneath, while not two, not three, but four crimson eyes glared from its elongated wolf-like face directly at White.
"The Banshee Queen Screecha."
A pale skeletal woman wrapped in countless strands of flowing white hair that stretched for hundreds of meters around her, every movement causing the air itself to scream instead of merely whistling past her.
"The Elder Wendigo Asalt."
It was a towering, emaciated monster whose exposed ribs resembled a cage of black ivory, its deer-like skull crowned with antlers that twisted endlessly upward while an endless darkness leaked from the hollow sockets where eyes should have been.
"The Original Titan Lomen."
A gargantuan giant nearly 20 meters in height, its body resembling living obsidian layered with mountain-like plates of armor.
Every movement of his caused the atmosphere itself to tremble beneath its immense weight
"The Shadow King Ifrig."
A Shadow Walker, a being whose body possessed no true physical form, appearing instead as a mass of living darkness where countless crimson eyes continuously opened and closed before vanishing again into the abyss.
"The Primordial Chimera Vorak."
It was a creature that was a monstrous fusion of countless apex predators, possessing the scaled body of a dragon, the forequarters of a lion, a serpent-covered tail, and dozens of shifting eyes scattered across its flesh that watched every direction simultaneously.
"The Bone Monarch Karzeth."
A towering skeletal entity clad in black bone armor that seemed grown rather than forged, with thousands of ivory spikes constantly extending and retracting across its body while green soul-fire burned within its empty eye sockets.
"The Leviathan King Noxul."
A serpentine sea monstrosity, resembling a fusion of a human and a kraken, with octopus-like limbs stretching over twenty meters each.
Its abyssal scales bore ancient runic markings, while rows of luminous eyes lined both sides of its enormous body, every one of them staring in a different direction.
"The Infernal Behemoth Molgrath."
A quadrupedal monstrosity resembling a demonic bull, its body covered in volcanic-black armor plates split apart by rivers of molten crimson light, with enormous horns that dipped through the skies, wiping them out with its hot temperature.
And worst of all...
"Fallen Angel Azrael."
The being’s features could barely be seen through the celestial light covering its entire body.
Yet peeking through that light, one could make out six colossal wings that appeared to be woven not from light, but from pitch-black feathers and writhing darkness.
It was the creature most feared by Humanity Ascension, as it was the only one of its races.
There were no other Fallen Angels among the Supernaturals.
Only once had it attacked, and those who witnessed it never lived long enough to tell its tale, managing only to warn others of its existence before succumbing to their injuries.
And now, all twelve of these monstrosities, accompanied by a man who wielded a sword that controlled both Destruction and Time, stood before a single robed being.
White’s aura upon his descent had seemed almost invisible, but standing before monsters of this level, it created fear and doubt within the mind of Ultimate Err, whose hand had quietly gripped the armrest of the chair he sat upon, his eyes locked onto the footage.
’All of these creatures combined possess a power beyond imagination. Will you be able to pull it off, White?’
’To reveal a power beyond imagination.’
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"You might have been able to negate your death at my hands by hiding cowardly behind a clone."
Emissary Exorus said, pointing his sword at White.
"But your fate still would not change. Earth will be your burial ground, White... Pfffffft!"
The words were never completed, when, pitch-black blood suddenly burst from his mouth and he instantly froze.
His eyes looked forward, and horror flashed within his dark irises.
Right now, there were not one, but a total of twelve Whites, each of them a phantom image left behind by what seemed like a speed that had surpassed reality itself.
And the last White, standing inches away from him, currently had his hand pierced right through his body.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOAR!"
A deafening roar blasted out from the side as a massive pitch-black claw slammed toward White with both devastating speed and power.
Yet,
BAAAAAANG!
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A heavy collision followed, the air exploding violently as a hulking figure was swatted away like a fly, crashing through three skyscrapers and pulverizing them into dust before ultimately smashing into the ground and disappearing into the abyss.
Emissary Exorus’ eyes rippled with disbelief as they locked onto White’s ringed white eyes.
The Primordial Werewolf, who arguably possessed some of the most devastating brute strength among them, had been sent flying away by a mere slap from White’s hand.
White had not even turned toward him.
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The air rippled all around him as the surrounding Alphanomalous Creatures immediately retreated, leaving only White and Emissary Exorus.
Seemingly unperturbed, White grabbed the Emissary by the shoulder with one hand before,
RIIIIIIIIIIIIP!
He ripped his other hand back out, bringing with it a pitch-black heart.
The sight made Emissary Exorus cry tears of black blood.
GUUURGLE!
He tried to say something, but all that could be heard was blood gargling within his throat.
He had already been drained of every last vestige of energy he possessed from fighting White’s clone, making him the weakest one among them.
White had wasted no time ending him first.
"You really should have answered what side you were on, like I asked at the beginning."
White whispered, his hand reaching out and taking the Sword of Destruction from the Emissary’s grasp.
"Maybe...just maybe then, I could have spared your life."
"But now...It doesn’t matter anymore."
He released his hand, and all watched as the Emissary plummeted from the sky, crashing into the earth with enough force to tear open a colossal abyss.