When the dust finally settled, Anthony lay completely still.
Then, against all logic, he rose to his feet. His body was drenched in blood, wounds carved deep across his torso, and it was painfully clear he did not have much time left.
"I might as well go out doing some damage," Anthony muttered.
He teleported directly in front of the ultimate being and unleashed a METEOR PUNCH at point-blank range. The being raised its arm to block, but the sheer force forced it to slide backward across the shattered floor, cracks splintering beneath its feet. For the first time, faint damage appeared along its arm.
Anthony did not stop. Teleporting repeatedly in flashes of distortion, he unleashed a relentless METEOR PUNCH barrage, thousands of flaming strikes raining down from every direction. Even the perfected being could not evade every blow as explosions detonated across the chamber, carving massive craters into the ground and driving it further back. The assault left visible fractures across its body, pieces of fused clone flesh tearing apart under the sustained impact.
With the last of his strength, Anthony appeared above it and delivered a devastating METEOR KICK. The strike connected cleanly and launched the ultimate being through multiple reinforced walls, sending debris cascading like a collapsing mountain.
But that was everything he had.
The next moment, Anthony collapsed onto the broken floor, his body hitting the ground with a hollow finality. He did not rise again.
Before the being could recover fully, Adrian teleported in front of it, rage burning in his eyes. Another person close to him had fallen.
He launched a furious barrage of punches and kicks, each strike wild yet powerful, fueled by grief and anger rather than strategy. The ultimate being absorbed the assault for a brief moment before retaliating with a single crushing kick to Adrian's midsection. The impact blasted him back into the inner section once more, shattering walls as he crashed through them.
The being calmly lifted its hand.
Suddenly, hundreds of skeleton soldiers clawed their way out of the fractured ground, rusted swords in hand—likely an ability inherited from a past Light of Justice.
The skeletal army charged Adrian all at once, blades flashing from every angle. Adrian twisted and weaved between them, teleporting in short bursts while crushing skulls and shattering bones with precise counterattacks. Though he destroyed most of them, their numbers and relentless strikes left fresh wounds across his already battered body.
Meanwhile, Luca attempted to slash the ultimate being from behind. It sidestepped effortlessly.
Realizing conventional attacks would not work, Luca activated his ultimate skill.
"World of Illusions."
In an instant, the battlefield dissolved into a blank white void. The ultimate being stood in an endless expanse of nothingness, facing thousands of identical Lucas scattered in every direction.
Without hesitation, it charged, cutting down one Luca after another with blinding slashes, crushing others with kicks and gravitational bursts. Each one it destroyed vanished into mist, yet thousands more remained, surrounding it in an endless sea of copies. The being unleashed every technique at its disposal, but the numbers never thinned.
Then, without warning, every Luca clone formed a spear.
They charged simultaneously. Thousands of spears pierced through the ultimate being's body from every angle, driving deep into its flesh and pinning it in place within the white void.
The illusion shattered.
Back in the real world, the being stood frozen—thousands of spears still embedded in its body, blood dripping steadily onto the ruined floor.
But this was no ordinary creature. It was perfection. A fusion of countless clones engineered by Lucius.
Despite the catastrophic damage, the being forced itself to move.
It lunged at Luca, who was trembling and barely conscious from the immense toll of his ultimate skill. With a brutal kick, it sent him flying across the chamber, slamming him into the far wall and knocking him out cold.
Now only Adrian remained, having just finished crushing the last of the skeleton soldiers.
Before he could even turn fully toward the threat, the ultimate being appeared in front of him and seized him by the throat. It slammed him into the ground and infused its hand with Ren's gravitational power, multiplying the pressure until Adrian was pinned helplessly against the floor, barely able to breathe as the force crushed down on him.
"Amazing! Excellent! Fabulous! Truly perfection itself!" Lucius shouted, scratching his hair aggressively as his grin stretched wider and wider.
"It truly is my lucky day!" he laughed uncontrollably.
But what happened next wiped the smile clean off his face.