The weight was absolute. Under the 500x crushing force of Gravity Anchor: Collapse, the stone floor of the Coliseum didn't just crack—it pulverized, turning into a fine white powder. Rook's metallic frame shrieked as the iron in his body was forced toward the planet's core. Elias lay beneath Magals' boot, the demonic scales all cracked due to the Pressure.
The Captains in the spire were silhouettes of agony; renjis father slammed his fists against the black barrier, his face a mask of tears and fury, watching his son Renji being pressed into the dirt like an insect.
Then, the silence of the vacuum was broken by a sound of a struggle.
Renji didn't scream. He didn't roar. He simply focused every remaining drop of his human spirit into his ocular nerves. His pupils didn't just glow; they expanded, a third ring of starlight manifesting within the silver iris.
"Star eyes :third edge."
For Renji, the 500x gravity didn't vanish, but the world slowed. He wasn't seeing time; he was seeing the intent of reality. He saw ghost-images of where Magals was about to step, where his tail would flick, and where he's gonna strike.
With a sickening sound of snapping tendons, Renji forced his body to rise. His bones groaned, but his "Star Eyes" gave him the blueprint of the gravity's weak points. He stood up in the center of the slaughterhouse, blood leaking from his eyes.
"Get... off... him!"
Renji blurred. Even under the gravity, his movement was a jagged streak of light. He delivered a spinning heel kick aimed directly at Magals' head. Magals, surprised by the sudden attack, raised an arm to parry, but Renji was already gone—he had seen the parry before it happened. Renji dropped low, sweeping Magals' lead leg.
At that exact moment, a spatial rift opened. Nyx appeared, her eyes bloodshot, her teeth bared in a snarl. She had used the distraction to bypass the gravity's lock on her atoms.
"Round 4," she wheezed. "You're not... the only god here."
The battle turned into a high-speed nightmare of hand-to-hand combat that defied physics itself.
Magals lunged at Renji with a Space Breach punch. Renji's Third Edge saw the spatial rift opening behind his ear three milliseconds before it manifested. Renji tilted his head by a fraction of an inch. The punch whistled past his temple, the wind pressure alone cutting a line across his cheek.
Renji countered instantly. He stepped into Magals' guard, delivering a rapid-fire "Six-Star Palm" strike. Each blow landed on a pressure point he had identified with his X-ray vision.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud.
Magals growled, his Inviolability humming. He tried reverse, but Nyx was there. She teleported between them, her hands glowing with violet spatial energy. She punched into the back of Magals' head.
Magals stumbled forward. It was the first time his regal posture had been broken.
"Insects!" Magals roared. He spun in a 360-degree arc, his bladed tail whipping through the air like a scythe.
Renji saw the arc. He grabbed Nyx's waist and slammed his foot into the ground, jumping over the tail while Nyx simultaneously teleported them both higher into the air. From the sky, Nyx began teleporting renji through out the ring
To the Captains watching from the outside, it looked like there were twelve Renjis attacking at once. He and NYX teleported behind Magals, landed a blow, and disappeared before Magals could retaliate.
Magals began to lose his legendary calm. He threw a flurry of light-speed strikes—straight leads, hooks, and palm thrusts. Each one was capable of leveling a skyscraper. But Renji was dancing on the edge of the future. He parried a punch with his forearm, felt the bone hairline-fracture, and used the momentum to transition into a shoulder throw.
Magals countered the throw by firing an Energy Beam from his eyes. Renji saw the pupils glow and ducked, the beam vaporizing the top of his hair. As he ducked, Nyx appeared beneath him, her legs locked around Magals' waist. She used a spatial twist to try and snap the Commander's spine.
Magals' body didn't break, but he was forced to drop his Gravity Anchor to 100x just to focus on the two gnats buzzing around his head.
"You... actually... think... you can win?" Magals hissed. He grabbed Nyx by her throat, his fingers tightening.
"I don't think," Nyx gasped, a terrifying smile on her face. "I've already won... this second."
She teleported herself out of his grip, leaving a live plasma grenade from Mikasa's stash in his hand. BOOM. The explosion went off in Magals' face.
Through the smoke, Renji appeared. He had focused all his Evo-energy into his fist. He saw the week spot in Magals' chest—the violet light of the core.
"First Edge: Point Strike!"
Renji's fist slammed into the crack. The impact sent a shockwave through the entire Void Shell. , . Magals gasped, a spray of violet blood erupting from his mouth.
The victory lasted a second., magals regenerated ,
Magals' face, change for the first in centuries he was been pushed back,His pink eyes turned a dark, bruised purple. He grabbed Renji's arm before the boy could retreat.
"You have seen the future, boy," Magals whispered, his voice like grinding tectonic plates. "But can you survive the present?"
Magals didn't use a technique. He used raw, unmeasurable strength. He swung Renji like a ragdoll, slamming him into the stone floor with such force that Renji's Third Edge shattered. The starlight in his eyes winked out.
Nyx tried to teleport to save him, but her body finally gave up. The bones, crack and muscle torn, she's been moving under 500x gravity.
She fell to the ground five feet away, her skin pale, her body reached It's limit. Every time she tried to blink, she stayed in the same spot.
Renji lay in the center of a deep crater, his breathing shallow and ragged. His "Star Eyes" flickered as he was bleeding from he's eyes, he had pushed his human biology to the point of permanent damage just to give the team a chance.
Magals stood over them, his magenta robes was stained,he gave a creepy predatory smile.
The 500x gravity returned with a vengeance.
Renji and Nyx were pinned down once more, their bodies at the absolute limit. They couldn't move a finger. They couldn't even speak. They had given everything—every second of the future and every inch of the void—and Magals was still there.
Magals looked down at them, his foot once again hovering over the fallen. "A valiant effort for snacks," he said, his voice cold and final. "But the future you saw... ends here."
High above, renjis father fell to his knees against the void, his hands bloody from trying to break the unbreakable. He watched as his son closed his eyes, waiting for the end.
TO BE CONTINUED...