[IC] A Hero Tale {Complete}

[Jensoman]

Jenso glared at Yzeira, taking deep breaths. He was a little surprised at Yzeira's words and the many things he said. "Wow, you certainly know how to give fancy speeches, don't ya?" He stated, clenching his fists. "You put yourself on a pedestal, claiming that you're the only one who has the right to determine what lives and dies. All because you have great power to back it up. And because you happen to have a lot of experience using it. Impressive, but it hardly means that you can play god and destroy whatever you want. It doesn't make you better than anyone. I do believe you're insane to a certain degree, but certainly no idiot. It's what makes you so dangerous, after all." He responded. "Though, the insults you throw at me make you seem petty." He said with a grin.

"And no, I don't know everything about the Void. I don't need to, nor would I be able too. There's no way that I could ever match your vast knowledge of the multiverse. The Void messes with people's minds, and I believe a cure for it would be great. I never admitted to being able to find one."

He glared fiercely at Yzeira. "Let me shoot your question back at you. All these worlds you've destroyed, and intend to destroy. Always believing that destroying them is a nessecity. Where does that end? Will it, ever?" He questioned. "I'll never believe that anything good ever came from destruction. Sometimes, I have to do it myself, but only if it's to protect something dear to me." He got in a combat stance. "I know you've faced plenty of people like me in the past. If I happen to constantly parrot any of their phrases, that only proves that so many agree with me in regards to your fancy Order. Perhaps, this is proof that they fought and spoke with true purpose, and you didn't. What you've been doing for so long may have indeed been pointless, all along."

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"I would not be so soon to assume the majority holds any sense of rationality, as you seem to be," Yzeira grunted, "Tell me - If one thousand people look at a rock, and claim it to be made of water, would that make them correct? If only one person could see the rock for what it is, a rock, does his solitude make him wrong?"

The orbs around Yzeira's body began to orbit him slowly.

"You liken my actions to that of a god, but you fail to see the irony in those words? Look at me, boy. I know more than anyone could ever hope to. Every day acts as an addition to my already overwhelming knowledge. I have the power to erase worlds and create titanic monsters with abilities similar to my own. Creation and destruction, omnipotence, tell me - What difference is there between me, and your apparent God?"

His orbs began to pick up speed as Yzeira continued to speak.

"My life has been a testament to the void. Ever since I'd become tainted so thoroughly, learning the intricacies of the darkness between worlds has consumed me. Still, even now, I aim to remedy this dreaded curse. But only in the wake of destruction, can I find what I seek. Or so I suspect. Hidden somewhere in the infinite expanse, there must lie a solution. But without every shred of knowledge, reality will continue to create complications. The souls that enter the void will continue to reform its very nature. When will this end? When will worlds cease their domino-like collapse? I'll tell you."

Yzeira took a step forward and his orbs stopped spinning at once.

"It stops when I know everything."

[Jensoman]

Jenso listened carefully to Yzeira's words. "I see." He calmly spoke. "You're actually making a lot of sense." He added. "You seek salvation through destruction."

Jenso's blue flames flared up briefly around his body.

"But that's not how I want to do things, and why I didn't join you. You wield the same weapon that Void uses, leaving suffering and pain in your wake. The order has killed too many to count, sometimes simply out of sheer amusement."

The blue flames around Jenso's hands sparked intensely with blue electricity for a moment.

"I believe there is a different way. A more peaceful way. If many work together and stick their minds to it, even the Void can be bested. If I could travel between dimensions like you can, that's what I would have done. Become the bridge between worlds, share information. But only if I could do that without the Void corrupting me. I'd want to keep a clear mind."

Jenso's pupils remained glowing with blue energy, despite the clear exhaustion that Jenso was showing.

"I do not believe it's right to look down on people, simply because they don't have the means to gather knowledge like you can."

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"That is exactly why you will die."

Without lifting a finger, two of Yzeira's orbs lengthened themselves into spears and shot towards Jenso, channeling a dense chaotic energy at their cores.

[Jensoman]

Jenso glared at the incoming spears, and another sphere of blue energy left his body which moved in between the spears. He dashed to the side to avoid the spears, moving in a wide arc around them while making sure to keep his distance, and clenched his left fist. The sphere exploded violently in a powerful explosion of blue flames, intended to consume and disperse the spears. He began to charge up energy within his right hand, keeping an eye on the result of the explosion to avoid being caught off-guard by them, or any energy that could lash out.

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The two spears were destroyed in the explosion, but consumed Jenso's energy in the same moment, not leaving even a puff of smoke behind. The man turned towards Jenso again and sent two more of his orbs towards the man, each spiraling around one another as they rushed towards him.

"I doubt you understand much..." He started.

[Jensoman]

Jenso glanced behind him as the orbs came at him. Yzeira's voice seemed different as he spoke this time. What was going on? He took aim with the palm of his left hand, creating a barrier around the two orbs while still moving away from them. Blue electricity lashed out at them from the inside as the barrier dispersed, aiming to destabilize and disperse them.

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The orbs quickly grew unstable upon being prodded, and exploded within the barrier, quickly breaking free and creating a dazzling display near the center of the battlefield. Yzeira sent two more orbs directly at Jenso, and his posture grew slightly tighter.

"...But you've come so far, regardless of your ignorance..." He continued, his voice getting slightly slower with each word.

[Jensoman]

Jenso glanced over at Yzeira as he fired off two more orbs, still strafing around his foe to avoid them while keeping his distance from the center of the field. He began to channel blue energy underground which moved under the orbs, and he flicked his hand upwards quickly. A blue geyser of flames erupted from below, aiming to disperse the two orbs. He kept breathing heavily as he did, and it seemed like he was having a hard time to avoid the attacks.

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The geyser only served to weaken the spheres slightly. They shrunk as they approached Jenso, but picked up in speed and stopped near either side of his head before exploding violently. Yzeira took a step forward and flourished his remaining four orbs.

"...Here you are, looking at me like you have even the slightest chance of victory. Killing my thralls, left and right..."

[Jensoman]

Jenso formed a barrier around his head and upper area at the last moment as the orbs exploded. Despite stopping part of the explosion, Jenso still staggered back. He paced back and forth. The energy had weakened him more. He glanced at Yzeira, charging up more blue energy in his right hand as he advanced towards him. But he didn't run at full speed, to make himself look more exhausted than he truly was while also giving him more response time to deal with Yzeira's attacks.

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"Faced with an insurmountable power, and yet..." Yzeira's final orbs began to rotated around his body before flying upwards, and then re-positioning themselves in front of him. They spun in a circle, creating a circular charge of energy, much wider than Jenso, large enough to cover his approach. Suddenly, the man's hair flashed, and went completely red. His aura, usually concealed, released itself in an explosion of energy that engulfed the entire tower from top to bottom. A massive beam swept across the field, heading towards Jenso without any sign of weakness. It was raw unbridled power.

"Why won't you run!?"

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~ End Of Chapter 211 ~

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~ Chapter 212 ~

_{...As if I'd run!!!}

[Jensoman]

Jenso glared at Yzeira, advancing as the energy around his body seemed to respond to Yzeira's beam. Flames erupted from his left side like a missile, allowing him to dash and strafe around the beam towards the right, far quicker than his first charge towards Yzeira. He seemed like a blur. 'Lightning Dash...' As he did, blue electrical particles were left on the ground, spazzing around erratically. He felt the blue energy bubble from deep within, burning like lava. It was the result of his sheer anger, and the result of the courage that was needed to defeat this incredible foe. It was just as Nexus had said, when Jenso met him after he died in Feraldia.

His intense emotions truly were what fueled Jenso's power. And Yzeira's own emotions would lead to the Chaos leader's demise.

"I WILL NEVER RUN!!!"

He roared, advancing towards Yzeira from behind. He moved with incredible speeds, and launched a mighty rocket punch at Yzeira with his right with the energy he'd charged earlier. There was a great deal of force and speed behind it. But as he punched, the blue energy around his fist began to spin around in circles rapidly, and it began to change form. A drill appeared on his fist, aimed directly for the Red man's back. He shifted the palm of his left hand towards the blue electricity to make it surround Yzeira momentarily to keep him in place for his strike to land, and to try to destabilize the barrier surrounding him.

"Inferno Drill!"

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Red and blue energy crackled and clashed against each other across the entire battlefield until it was completely obscured from view. The light beamed out into the void that surrounded Yzeira's tower, so brightly that it could be seen from the surface of the planet. The beam of energy swept around to follow Jenso's approach as he launched his first punch, which struck with so much force that the barrier nearly split in half. Cracks shot out from the impact point as Yzeira spun around. When Jenso's drill hit his barrier, the cracks shattered, leaving him open despite deflecting Jenso's initial attack. That's when the beam consumed him...

[Jensoman]

Jenso's eyes flared up violently in that one moment. It was as if time froze. One of those situations where one felt as if their life was at an end. If he didn't move, the beam would surely injure him. But if he kept playing it safe, he'd never land a hit on Yzeira.

He lunged forward immediately towards Yzeira who was still nearby. He aimed to grab the man's side tightly with his right hand. He followed up immediately, aiming to launch a Dragon Punch directly into Yzeira's stomach with his left while holding him firmly in place with his right. He tried to brace for the incoming beam afterwards, lacking the time to dodge after his attack.

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Jenso's hand met another layer of energy that shielded Yzeira's body like some kind of near-skin coat, but his hand was just large enough to grasp it despite it burning through his skin. Yzeira took a step back and aimed the beam right as Jenso's fist, but as the force of his attack come forth, it split the beam in two and struck him right in the chest. Crackles of Ki and Arcane energy shot outwards from the point of impact, and Yzeira was launched across the tower's roof. He rolled several times, stopping near the other side. But Jenso had taken the full force of his beam as well, and was launched to the opposite side of the makeshift arena.

[Jensoman]

Jenso rolled across the battlefield, with severe injuries all over his body. As his body came to a stop, he lay motionless for a moment. But something spoke up within him. Was it just adrenaline, or courage? 'Don't quit. Don't ever give up.' It said. Jenso stood up slowly, gritting his teeth in pain. He was just about to reach his limit. He glared furiously at Yzeira, and pulled his left arm back. It began to get surrounded with blue energy, which kept getting thicker and thicker.

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Yzeira rose from the ground slowly, clutching the center of his chest with one hand, and barely supporting his body with the other. His breaths were heavy. Each rasp found itself blocked off by a wave of blood that rose up from the bottom of the monstrous man's throat. He looked up at the golden hero that, only after an unbelievable series of struggles, towered over him. He felt it deep within his soul. Every one of his retainers faded away, one by one. He was alone again, without anybody to protect him, or to protect. Energy still overflowed from his body, but he couldn't bring himself to shape it. The tear in the sky above them continued to grow as the tower drifted towards it. Yzeira was lost for words.

[Jensoman]

Jenso advanced slowly towards Yzeira. His forehead was bleeding, his stomach and chest area were severely burned, and his left knee was bleeding. He had bruises all over his body, and he had difficulity walking as if he could fall over at any moment. But he forced his body to keep pushing onwards. His vision was getting blurry as well. He glared down at Yzeira, and launched a rocket punch at Yzeira's face with his left fist.