As Vale touched the barrier, it rippled outward like a droplet of water hitting a pond yet it was still solid. There was no reaction from Oz, his eyes were still closed. The strangest thing was that his mouth was still moving but from without his shell the words could not be heard.

The void energy that Jenso flew through quickly ate through his protective bubble. As it faded at different points across his body, the vacuum ate away at the flames that surrounded his body. The stone he aimed for cracked even further, but his drill stopped midway, unable to fully penetrate the wall. He made it just over 3 fourths of the way through before this, but his bubble was almost completely gone.

Vale continued to poke Oz's barrier curiously. "Ah.. So thick," he commented, walking around Oz slowly. "How long can he hold it, I wonder?" Vale's voice was blotted out as he spoke to himself.

"Foolish," Geode's voice echoed through the vacuum as if it overcame physical law, "I won't let you die, but to suffer? That doesn't affect my plan at all." Geode looked to Oz and chuckled to himself. "Of course, I already know the extent of your abilities, Jenso. I witnessed your fight with Prisma. Although, I did not imagine you to be this strong. It doesn't matter. In this Vacuum, you cannot win. I made sure of it. 4 meters of ultra-hard rock, the same material my body is made up of, a perfect vacuum created with the void itself as inspiration, and direct abuse of your fool-hearty nature. You cannot simply... Drill your way out of this one." Geode commanded his mist to continue after Jenso, surrounding the hole he'd created in the wall and growing outwards. "I fear nothing, not even your mockery of the Gaian's power."

Jenso frowned as the void energy ate away at his barrier, but he expected as much. After all, he probably wouldn't have been able to avoid it either way. Fortunately, his energy was limitless in this form, so he wasn't too concerned. Regardless, the vacuum and the void energy was still an issue. He focused the flames around the parts of his body that hadn't been revealed to the vacuum yet, and flew further back to fly out of range of most of the dark energy. He took aim with the palm of his left hand, and launched a focused beam of pure Ki at the crack in the wall. "If you think you've seen everything I can do, you're very wrong." He calmly replied.

"I doubt it," Geode grunted, clenching his fist. Suddenly, the void near the wall condensed into a thick bubble. As Jenso's Ki struck it, half of the orb was destroyed, but the beam was completely eliminated. Geode finally began to move, walking towards Jenso with his hand raised. He twist his fist and pointed his fingers forwards again, changing the remains of his sphere into a spearhead, and launching it at Jenso, while summoning more dark energy around his body, and sending it towards the giant hole in the wall.

Jenso narrowed his eyes at Geode, as he approached. He soared out of the way of the spearhead, and clapped his wings powerfully. Several quick-moving, focused smaller lasers made out of Ki were launched from them from different angles, aimed to strike Geode at several of the armoured joints on his body. Two of them were aimed to directly pierce the orb in Geode's right hand.

He soared towards the wall at top speeds at the same time, and clenched the palm of his right hand. A powerful shockwave of Ki erupted from his hand, aiming to knock the dark mist away from himself and the crack while hoping that Geode's concentration would be momentarily broken by his attack. He followed up immediately with his left hand, launching a sphere of condensed white flames at the crack in the wall. Jenso soared further away from the crack afterwards. If the sphere were to make contact with the crack, it would erupt in a large explosion of white flames.

As the lasers approached Geode, he rose his left hand up and opened it, revealing a black orb, similar to the gold orb in his right hand. Multiple cores, as expected. Or were they really cores? Something about him felt off. The cores he wielded were unlike golem cores. They didn't have an energy signature to them, nor did Geode himself. He had something that felt similar to Ki, but wasn't easy to detect. Something similar to what Vale had. Was it void energy?

"Black hole" The lasers that headed for Geode bent midair and met where his hand was, spinning into a small black vortex that sucked them into an abyss. Geode turned to Jenso afterwards and dropped his right hand, once against condensing the mist near the hole in the wall. The shockwave did nothing to it, and the fireball that fired up, after losing the flames the composed it in a split second, evaporated against the surface of the newly created sphere.

The spearhead from earlier split into hundreds of smaller shards, scattering and surrounding Jenso from all sides as quickly as they could, aiming to home in and skewer him. the larger sphere of energy spread out again afterwards, covering the wall once more.

"If you're trying to distract me, give it up. My mind can process complex information quicker than you can solve a simple math problem. That is assuming, you can even do math. Here's a simple problem, as a test," Geode mocked, raising his right hand. "What's Zero divided by Zero?"

Jenso ignored Geode's question. 'Looks like he can absorb attacks with that black core of his...or at least, weaker Ki attacks. Anyways, I need to get his attention away from the crack in the wall..' He thought. He remembered that Geode did not have the black orb in his left hand when they first met in the Golem Citadel. What was going on? Regardless, he needed to focus now. As the shards flew at him, he soared further to the right, moving left and right as he weaved through the shards while moving away from the center where they had been aimed at. He tilted his body left and right as he moved, in order to avoid the shards better. He would turn to face them if he managed to escape the shard storm, and flap his wings powerfully.

Hundreds of small Ki spears would erupt from his wings, matching the amount of shards that had been aimed at him. They launched at the shards immediately, aiming to shatter them completely.

After this, Jenso flicked his left wrist, and the Ki spears would curve and head towards Geode. They seemed to lean more to crash into the right side of Geode's body this time, while some of them were aimed to strike the orb in Geode's right hand. Jenso didn't waste any time, flying past his spears at top speeds as he moved around Geode in a semi-circle past his left side, keeping a good distance away from his foe and the dark energy that covered him. He kneeled down and slammed his left fist into the ground. "Impact Punch!" He shouted, as large cracks and crevices spread out over the ground from the impact point. The cracks continued to spread out with great lengths, even cracking the ground a good distance further ahead and eventually stopping. They moved forwards and under Geode's feet from behind, in an attempt to knock Geode off-balance and possibly trap his feet within the crevices. This happened right before the hundreds of spears would reach Geode.

Suddenly, Jenso remained kneeling behind Geode, taking deep breaths as his Ki kept lowering, rising again, lowering once more, and then rising again. Did the quick succession of powerful techniques he'd used just now overclock his limits? Or did the void energy drain him far more than it seemed that it did? "I can't give up...I can't.." He muttered, charging up a lot of energy in the palm of his right hand.

Sending the Ki Spears through the dark shards was futile. As soon as they connected, the shards erupted in a flash of light and dark, cancelling the spears out, and reforming into smaller shards that continued to chase after Jenso. For the first time, it seemed that Jenso could not simply overpower Geode. He was stronger, and had the home-field advantage.

As the ground cracked beneath him, Geode simply stepped away from any cracks near him, keeping his balance rather easily with the aid of his aura. He looked as if he was floating on air as he walked. Geode turned to the weakened Jenso, and the hundreds of tiny shards struck his back, dispersing what little barrier he had left, leaving only a bubble around his head.

"You keep trying to overpower me. It won't work. It doesn't matter how strong you've become. My power is infinite, drawn upon from the void between worlds, and feeds on Ki. The more energy you throw at me, the more powerful the void becomes in my body." Geode's body flashed with more dark energies as the flames around Jenso continued to shrink. "There is nobody here to save you now. You are all alone. Your friend is too weak to interfere, just like all humans are." Geode walked next to Jenso and launched his foot towards his head casually.

Jenso looked up at Geode and glared at him as he grit his teeth in pain, as he clenched the palm of his right hand shut to conceal the energy within. He placed the palm of his left hand in a nearby crack on the ground to push himself up quickly and attempted to jump further back to avoid Geode's foot. His right fist coated with Ki as he charged at Geode. Geode could feel the immense power of Jenso's ki technique close in on him. "EAT THIS!!" He roared, launching an impact punch image made of pure Ki at Geode. However, something was off. It had the same power that his previous impact punch had when it struck the wall earlier. Regardless, Jenso flapped his wings powerfully at Geode, launching several lasers from his wings. Some of them ended up curving towards Geode's left side while the others curved towards his right. They were aimed to strike the orbs within his palms and strike his arms as well as he suddenly flicked his left wrist upwards.

In reality, Jenso had channeled the Ki energy that he had charged within his right hand towards his left, and channeled the energy into the crevice nearby him as he stood up. The Ki had traveled underground, hidden from plain sight, through the crevices that Jenso had made, and Jenso had charged forwards at Geode at the same time at the surface, making it seem like the energy that Geode could sense was still within Jenso's right hand. It was aimed to move right under Geode at great speeds, and as Jenso flicked his wrist upwards, a massive, powerfully focused Ki beam, stronger and faster then before, erupted from the crevices further ahead and aimed to crash through the dark mist with extreme force in order to smash powerfully through the crack in the wall.

Geode's leg stomped down, missing Jenso. He closed his hands and took Jenso's strike head on, which launched him back several yards. In the time this allotted, he opened his left hand again and used his black hole technique to absorb all of Jenso's lasers before they has a chance to strike him.

The dark mist around the wall hardened once again, taking the force of Jenso's beam head on. It shrank slowly over the few seconds that it took for the beam to expire, leaving a crumbling effigy in its place. However, Jenso's attack was not successful. It did not break through the wall. The vacuum was still air-tight.

Geode lowered his hand and shook his head. "Clever for a rodent. But it remains that my defence was superior. Perhaps if you'd struck my main body with something like that- Not that you could," Geode mocked further. Where Geode stood before, a phantom of mist remained, encompassing Jenso's head and popping what remained of his bubble. The vacuum quickly snuffed out any flames that remained on his body, leaving him with only wings of pure Ki. "In the estimated 32.4 seconds it will take you to pass out, I will simply prevent any further damage from your attacks to my wall." Geode rose his hand, and the remaining void around the hole in the wall expanded once again. "And you will be captured, processed, and turned into an infinity core."

The shell around Oz was no longer possible to see through. Energy built up on the inside making it brighter and impossible to see the form within. Oz was thinking it over inside the bubble. He knew they were fighting a god. A being that could have very well been behind the creation of the laws of the world. Any force attack Oz used would only make for a distraction as Geode quickly processed how to counter it. After that it would likely no longer be useful. That's what this buildup of energy was for. Oz needed absolute precision for this to work and he needed Jenso conscious.

The energy shield broke inward as he concentrated it into the form of large gloves. Arcane characters ran along the violet surface: Oz's enchanted gauntlets. These would focus his form and his power. At the very least until Geode's void mists reached him. Oz lifted his palms to the air. Globes of energy blossomed from his hands and released a multitude of smaller motes of energy that began spreading across the room. It would be a beautiful sight under normal circumstances. For now they were hopefully a confusing sight for his enemies. On contact with foreign entities they would explode with non-lethal force. They already began popping, making strange muffled noises in the vacuum as they struck the ceiling overhead.

Oz promptly swatted his left hand at the creeper that'd been staring at him the whole time, sending a force-wave through the air to get him away. He began charging a large amount of energy into his right hand. "I've got something for you to process right here, Geode.".

Vale's eyes slammed shut and he rose his hands reactively. But he was still sent flying across the room, until he crashed into Gol-Ira's broken body. Geode turned towards the new influx of energy as the spheres of light rose.

"Ah, I'd forgotten that you were there. Are you going to try and power your way through me as well, boy?"

"No, not through you."

There was a sneaking suspicion that even destroying Geode's body would not mean death. After all his body itself was a construct. Oz seemed to think that the orbs in his hands were nothing more than channels to help him use his already existing power. It would be worthless to try targeting him until their imminent defeat because of their own mortal need for air was solved.

Oz raised his right hand, a buildup of visible motion spinning above his palm. With his left hand he made a sweeping motion, sending the prone Jenso skidding across the room. Then he held that hand forward, trapping Jenso in place where he fell so he wouldn't be swept up in the trick. The right hand was pushed forward, projecting a torrent of motion through the room. It became a vortex of force, drawing everything not tied down, Vale, the shroud of shadows, the motes of energy, the broken wall pieces, toward Geode in the middle. Oz prayed it would work because if it did it would only work once.

Geode's eyes spun slowly as Oz began to conjure his technique.

"Eh?"

The swirling torrent pulled every last one of the deactivated golems towards Geode and began to strike him one after another. He held his ground, directing his mist towards Oz quickly. But it was pulled by his vortex, back towards him. Geode struggled to life his left arm, but conjured his black hole as quickly as he could manage, pulling the incoming debris inwards as he achored himself to the ground. The channeled ability kept him safe, but he was unable to maneuver his mist with the sudden rise in G-force.

"This is not wind!" Geode grunted angrily, "What magic??"

Jenso's eyes widened as he was thrown back by Oz's technique and held in place. He still had trouble breathing as he reached his limit, but he didn't intend to lose consciousness here. He focused his energy to avoid Pij from dissipating for now and to maintain his fused form. He stared at all that occured before him in shock. He couldn't help but smile despite his current predicament. 'Oz...you came through..' He thought gratefully.

Inwardly Oz celebrated that the trick worked. It would surely only take Geode a moment to counter it but it gave him a precious opportunity. Geode was focused on him and his skills were too slow to be able to crack that wall before Geode would counter but Jenso still had a chance to finish his work, he just needed the time to do it before unconsciousness took him.

Oz shifted his right hand, clenching it downward and tightening the vortex around Geode. With his left hand he motioned the energy around Jenso toward the wall, giving him a head start. Now he just needed to give Geode a reason to defend himself with everything he had. Oz let go of all concentration, releasing the vortex and Jenso. He turned tail and ran toward the wall of the chamber. At the last moment he phased a momentum gate behind himself and jumped off of the wall into it. "Because the little people of this world could not defend themselves I opted to give everything I had! I am the Fist of Kario!" He bellowed as he flew through the air. He prepared his left hand with a projected shield to defend himself against the inevitable void energies and reeled his right gauntlet back, which thrummed with brilliant power, to deliver a blow directly against Geode. At best he expected this bout to go blow for blow. His goal was to engage Geode long enough for Jenso to finish his job.

Geode felt the energies around his body tighten against the G-force despite his attempts to push it out as a mist. As Oz directed himself towards the large golem like a projectile, he had no choice but to muster what little energy remained around his body into a shield of his own. As the two collided against one another, the momentum from Oz's shield pressed against his with tremendous force. The void energy shilled away and chipped into pieces against Oz's blow, but Geode held his ground, albeit with a tremendous amount of effort put into defending against Oz's long-charged attack. He struggled to raise his black-sphere above his waist, unable to counter right away.

Jenso was moving towards the crack in the wall by Oz's technique, and realised what he needed to do. Oz was keeping Geode busy, and he certainly didn't intend to stand there despite the lack of oxygen. He wasn't going to let Oz's efforts be in vain. He dashed towards the crack in the wall at top speeds, aided by Oz's technique to increase the speed of his momentum. He coated his left fist with Ki as he punched at the crack in the wall. 'This...is...it..!' He thought. He launched an impact punch into the cracks, aiming to smash a hole in the wall.

Oz did his best to follow through. He dropped his shield from his left hand and took a wide step to the right around Geode, moving into a spinning backfist with his right hand followed by a quick straight punch with his other hand. A good ol' one-two combo enhanced by the gauntlets around his hands!

Jenso's fist crashed against the deepest part of the hole in the wall, allowing him to plow through the obsidian stone and crashing it out onto the metal petals that surrounding the giant structure. But the followup was disastrous.

Geode couldn't turn immediately, allowing Oz to strike him twice in a row, cracking the foundation of his midsection, and sending him skidding a few feet away. But, as Jenso broke the vacuum, the entire building immediately imploded, sending chunks of rock crashing towards Oz and Geode from all directions. Vale was caught in the impact as well, leaving a massive pile of condensed rubble in the center of the platform. Jenso fortunately escaped, into the citadel exterior where there was plenty of breathable air, but behind him lay an explosive result. Could Oz and Geode have survived?