The space around Andrew flickered.
His purple colored jenna flooded out from the cracked markings in the white walls around him. Fire fumed and rampaged next, and the suffocating smoke came in full force to Andrew's nares.
"Ach-..kah .kah.. " Andrew gripped his throat and covered his nose.
He couldn't cough at ease since his opponent had started to walk around him.
"It's…" The strange man's voice became deeper and more husky. His eyes became darker and emanated an eerie aura of fear, pitch black containing rare glimpses of deep blue, and his vibes became more and more dangerous.
"Illogical…"
"Shut it." Andrew took pride in his cultivation and also the way he used his powers.
A sudden negative depiction of his battle style had unsettled him.
However, he took note of what his enemy said and immediately stopped talking. Staying completely silent wasn't perhaps what the man was implying in his advice but nevertheless Andrew decided to focus on proceeding to his next fighting plan.
"Aj, amplified." Surprisingly, the man spoke again. "A concentrated attack to increase the effects."
"Wha-!" Andrew was taken aback.
He indeed did amplify aj, using it exactly on the time flowing on the space occupied by the black haired hunk. And it visibly failed since the guy was still talking. However, Andrew was more shocked to hear the exact details of his own attack from the other side.
The space around Andrew again flickered.
The incoming fire fumed up on Andrew's body and started to char his skin.
"Goto!" Andrew instinctively spoke up and jumped away from the fire.
As his skin recovered, his opponent analyzed him with his permeating darkness.
The room in which Andrew was trapped rapidly heated up. The temperature started to skyrocket and Andrew felt his body slowly succumb to the extreme conditions.
"So that's all you can do? Stop my attacks and use fire?" Andrew amplified goto and prevented himself from dying.
"..." The man silently stared at Andrew. His face was unreadable. Simply expressionless.
"..." Andrew too looked back into his eyes with anger.
Enough was enough, Andrew fully opened up his Jenna circuits and let it all flow inside him violently.
Mon was still being used, but the stress of the fight started to push Andrew's own crumbling patience, so he also started to overuse his first technique.
"That is all…I need…" The enemy closed his eyes and breathed out. "To beat you…"
"Parshu Kal!" Andrew broke the flow of time and ran straight towards the future.
Exactly 15 seconds into the future.
Upon reaching the tall guy who still had his vision covered, Andrew jumped up to match his height and punched right at his face.
However, his punch was stopped with a big palm right before Andrew made contact.
"Parshu Kal!" Again Andrew broke time.
He dived down and threw an upper cut exactly 30 seconds in the future.
But this punch too was stopped perfectly by the strongman.
"Lomba Goto!" Frustrated, Andrew skidded around and kicked the man's legs from the side. Exactly 20 seconds in the past from when his uppercut was stopped.
And as usual, this kick was yet again stopped by that unbreakable shield of a hand.
"Not bad." The guy grabbed Andrew's foot.
He then raised his big fist and it instantly lit up in golden fire. "But this is the end."
"Never!" Andrew grabbed that man's hand and pulled himself closer to him.
"Lomba Goto again-?" The man began to speak but he was pulled back in time with Andrew.
Andrew pulled him back 1 minute in the past and kicked on his abdomen, and at that exact moment, he activated Parshu Kal on himself to jump 40 seconds in the future.
Upon landing from this martial stunt, Andrew saw that guy walking towards him slowly.
Unscathed, he was still holding his burning fist up.
"Why is nothing working…?" Andrew was appalled.
"Because he's a King." Someone answered. A very disturbing voice belonging to a killer girl.
Andrew was alarmed and triggered the moment he heard Anastasia's voice. But he quickly activated Kal on himself and sped up his own body.
He decided to fight straight on, and just end this before Anastasia got involved.
But the moment he began to run with his enhanced perception, he saw a lightning flash.
"Isn't that right, Ray?" Anastasia stood infront of Andrew, her back offering Andrew protection and not hostility.
Cling Clang Boom
And right then, Anastasia's chains of death made full contact with the black haired fireman's fist.
The space exploded instantly, and Andrew was forced to use Lomba Goto and he chose to return back to the time when he had kicked Ray to escape.
So in this alternate variation of the timeline, Andrew was still kicking Ray's abdomen.
Ray, though, simply turned his body and dodged the attack. And surprisingly, he let go of Andrew.
But his fist was still raised, and burning, a volatile golden colour.
Andrew hopped a few steps back and looked at exactly what was happening. He lost his train of thoughts the moment he saw Anastasia, and right now he was beyond confused.
What was weird was that Ray just had his aggressive hand flicker and burn and he showed no signs of moving towards Andrew.
Andrew looked into Ray's eyes and he saw that they were still closed. He wondered how he could overcome this but he smartly stayed still and silent to match his opponent's aura.
Nobody moved. For about 30 seconds, there was not a single movement. Only the fire raged on inside this suffocating white room.
And then, slowly the bearable temperatures started to rise like before and Ray started to walk towards Andrew with his fist.
Clink
"Oh my oh my. Who do we have here?"
Metallic chains jutted out from everywhere and the room turned into a prison of sharpness with nowhere to move without having oneself cut up.
"Isn't it Ella's crush and the Uncrowned King?" Anastasia entered the room slowly from thin air.
Her lolita dress was in full swing. And she was all smiles.
Booom
A loud explosion, like a bomb blast, engulfed the place where Ray was and all the chains disappeared at once. They were broken into tiny fragments of metal and Andrew was left in awe at the sight of it.
"Well that didn't work." Anastasia flashed and came right beside Andrew.
Andrew saw how Ray walked out of the fire, without even a single scratch.
"Want to work together to take him down?" She then looked at Andrew jovially.
Andrew was lost, for a fraction of a second.
"Kal." Andrew dashed backwards, alarmed by Anastasia's presence.
The moment he did so, a burning hand wrapped in chains zoomed past his face.
"Nevermind, it seems you're the unfriendly type." Anastasia's words echoed as she and Ray both disappeared.
At the next second, Ray reappeared and along with him, ten copies of the woman named Anastasia.
All ten of them furiously swung their sickle chains towards Ray.
In his super slowed sense of time, Andrew saw Ray make eye contact. He looked at him and slowly parted his lips.
Cling Clang Cling Clang
Then a storm of chains covered up Andrew's entire vision.