Chapter 12: Core's Fury
The guardian's core split with a crack like earth rending, unleashing its full domain a maelstrom of plasma thunder that warped the nexus into a storm-vortex, air ionizing in crackling bursts that tasted of metal on Tobi's tongue, heat waves slamming like tidal forces.
Walls melted in rivulets of glowing slag, the scent of vaporized stone choking breaths, lightning chains fractalizing across the cavern in patterns that defied physics, regeneration with endless regeneration loops.
Tobi's domains maxed iron transforming his body to living steel, clanging under bolt impacts that rang like gongs in his skull, courage amplifying to god-speed, his movements a blur that trailed afterimages, each step cracking ground.
"You wan end me? Taste your own storm!"
he roared, threads evolving: iron-courage fusion birthing plasma-lances that hummed with captured lightning, sensory overload vibrations shaking his core, heat blistering exposed skin, ozone burning nostrils.
Yusuf's beast, wounded but fierce, channeled Zarina aura into a golden barrier, claws slashing thunder tendrils in explosions that showered sparks like rain, fur singed black.
Nneka's gauntlets overloaded, uli code hacking the domain's flow, redirecting bolts in feedback loops that sizzled her arms with electric burns, her screams echoing amid the chaos.
Zara, collapsing against a wall, curse at peak
"Core's weak spot center pulse, now!"
Her body seized, blood streaming, visions a torrent that left her convulsing, tragedy raw as her strength ebbed.
The guardian countered with domain pinnacle thunder clones spawning in flashes, each a mini-storm slashing with bolt-whips that outpaced in raw speed, plasma orbs exploding like Cleave in confined space.
Tobi weaned through hell, threads forming a vortex-net, iron hardening to unbreakable weave, courage fueling a leap through a bolt-gap heart pounding, lungs screaming, sweat evaporating mid-fall.
He pierced the core, threads stealing the domain in a cataclysmic rush plasma flooding him like liquid fire, tattooing fractal lightning across his body, the power mind-blowing, veins alight with thunder's roar.
The guardian imploded in a supernova, shockwave hurling debris in a hail of molten rock, the cavern quaking like an earthquake's fury, dust choking vision.
Victory's price Zara's coma deepened, visions silent, but the Zuciya Kishi core pulsed louder in the distance.