The air vibrated with overwhelming force as Zeroth descended, now unbound by clones or distractions. His final form pulsed with the accumulated deaths of every world he had consumed. With each passing second, his strength multiplied.
Lian stood before him, cloaked in a radiant aura of golden energy. His Coin God Mode surged—his vehicle had transformed into a blazing war chariot drawn by spectral beasts forged from wealth itself, their hooves stomping against reality with thunderous cracks.
> [COIN GOD MODE – Time Remaining: 4 minutes 39 seconds.]
"Your system runs on value," Zeroth growled. "Let's see if your soul is worth the price."
Then he moved.
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Round One: Deicide
Zeroth launched first—his wings cutting the sky, creating massive void crescents. Lian raised a wall of golden coins, each representing a talent, an ally, a moment lived. The blades shattered them, but Lian had already vanished.
Reappearing behind Zeroth, Lian struck with his Fate Diver talent activated to its highest limit. Time bent. Causality screamed. The coin chariot crashed into Zeroth's back, forcing him into the earth.
> [Critical Hit: "Alternate Destiny Engaged."]
Zeroth stood from the crater. Bleeding light, he grinned.
"Good hit."
Then the world shattered around them.
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Phase Shift: Worldbreaker's Domain
Zeroth activated his domain ability: "Eternal Erosion." The sky turned red. Mountains crumbled. Time loops collapsed. The battlefield became a decaying graveyard of failed realities, with forgotten versions of every hero watching them fight.
> [All healing reduced by 90%. Revivals blocked.]
[Morale penalty: -50% unless Resilience exceeds 100.]
Jayce, Ria, Kuro, and Demist fought the urge to collapse.
"We can't... even breathe in this world," Ria muttered, barely standing.
Kuro wiped blood from his face. "Screw that. I'll make this dead world laugh if I have to beat it to death with a rubber chicken."
He hurled a glitched coin that triggered a joke-talent fusion: "Punchline Paradox."
A tidal wave of corrupted clown-faced energy slammed into Zeroth, disrupting the domain for 3 seconds. Lian used that moment to strike again.
> [COIN GOD MODE – 3 minutes left.]
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Zeroth Evolves
"You all cling to hope like maggots to rot," Zeroth hissed. His form warped, his voice multiplied.
Zeroth became three.
> [New Ability: Fracture Echo - Splits into parallel selves from three dead timelines.]
[Each form now wields a Myth-Tier talent.]
The battlefield turned into a symphony of destruction.
One Zeroth rained black flames that burned souls.
Another altered memories in real-time.
The last twisted gravity, dragging vehicles and bodies into black holes of despair.
Lian, splitting his chariot into spectral avatars, engaged all three, burning coins faster than ever.
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The Team Fights Back
Jayce rammed his truck—now fused with glitch spirits—into the gravity Zeroth, sealing it in a recursive loop of failed loading screens.
Demist sacrificed his axe's core to awaken his dormant weapon spirit: a dragon forged in war. It bit through the flame Zeroth's skull.
Ria unleashed a forbidden system glitch: Talent Fragmentation—allowing her to copy Zeroth's own technique for 10 seconds. She turned into a shadow of herself... and stabbed memory-Zeroth in the chest with a memory of her dead brother.
> [Fracture Echo Zeroth #1, #2: Eliminated.]
But the true Zeroth remained.
He stabbed Lian through the heart.
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Final Minutes
> [COIN GOD MODE – 59 seconds.]
"Lian!" Jayce screamed.
Lian's blood poured onto the golden coins. His system flickered. Zeroth stepped forward, body smoking, wings shattered, yet still standing.
"It ends now."
But then...
Lian smiled.
"I still have one coin left."
He flipped it.
The battlefield went silent.
> [Final Coin: "Decide the Fate of the World." Heads or Tails.]
It landed… on its side.
> [System Error. Talent Fusion Triggered: FATE COIN: CHAOS MODE.]
[New Skill: World Gamble – Results Unstable.]
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To Be Continued…