Chapter 61: Too many twisting points.
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The Cosmic battle between the Ancient One and the Titan are getting a bit too out of hand now that Theo joined the fray, forcing his army and the Ancient One army to fight near the two Ancient Beings.
"Theo! What are you doing? Come out and help me against this bastard!" The Titan, had lost his composure long ago, since going against Ancient One who doesn't seem to be bothered by his relentless attack. Theo naturally appear right behind Titan, but instead of attacking him during his tough time, he waited and stated "I'm only waiting for the perfect timing to attack."
The Titan sigh in disbelief, the Titan thought 'It's hard to get the Ancient One to let down his guard, even for a singular second...' So the Titan said to Theo "It's useless, the Ancient One is always like this. He cannot be taken down by you just waiting for him to let down his guard. You saw the fight earlier, I should've given you enough time to observe his pattern. He is tough to crack down."
Theo can only agree to Titan explanation. He has been watching not only to wait for any one of them to let down their guard, but he's also properly watching Ancient One movement because he's afraid that it might not be possible to defeat him with the tactic he thought of.
However, Theo still believes in the plan, even though the chance of it actually happening is nigh impossible...
Titan didn't waste too much time though, he had gotten enough rest to be fully prepared once again, but that is the same for the Ancient One. In fact, Ancient One had recovered fully way before the Titan recovered. Which is a testament to how tough he is.
'This is not good... I thought that killing the Ancient One would be simple enough because of the Titan... But that's not the case...' Theo's initial plan is to wait for the perfect timing and join the fight using his Cataclysm. That way, he had the upper hand against the Ancient One and swoop to kill him, before instantly turning to the Titan last second and murdering him too.
But now... He only focused solely on erasing the biggest hindrance to his plan, the Ancient One. With his army fighting to their death against the Ancient One's army... He too, are preparing himself to fight to the end...
Titan step up toward the Ancient One once again. But Theo stopped him by pulling him back by his shoulder and that caught Titan attention "Now you want to move?"
Albeit pissed off, the Titan was glad that Theo finally made his move because he needed him to go against the Ancient One so that he can attack the Ancient One from place he cannot see... 'That's too late for you to step up, but better late than never!' The Titan thought.
'Hmph! Don't get the wrong idea, Titan. I'm stepping up fully knowing that you're going to use me as a distraction... I just want to see for myself, whether it's possible for me to kill you through this fight against the Ancient One!'
If Theo can fare well against the Ancient One, then he has nothing to worry about when going against the Titan... But, if he do worse than the Titan, then he needed to sneakily betray him.
"A newbie like you, have no chance against me, Theo. You are simply, asking for a quicker and humiliating death if you really think you can defeat me in a duel like this. I can simply ignore that chaotic shithead and fully focus on you, erasing you for good." Stated the Ancient One.
Theo isn't one to shy away from verbal altercation, although he is careful, when he knows about things, he's not going to stay quiet. He's spitting everything out.
"I doubt you would kill me though. You still have to see whether your Gods can take me out. If you kill me yourself, wouldn't that mean your creation have no use? What use are trials if you're going to ignore that thing and reset the universe?" The Ancient One was silenced by Theo after he said that. Yet, Theo didn't stop. "From the get go, you can kill me when I'm just waiting. Yet, you humored Titan for some time and didn't even kill him. It's clear to me that you're only here to make sure that if your Creation cannot stop me, you can stop me."
The Ancient One goes "Hmph. Knowing the fact won't make me stop. I've gone too far to back out now. If I kill you right now, I will only give my Gods and Goddesses a chance to prove themselves. Which takes form of creating a brand new you and then see whether they can kill you or not."
That got Theo shivering a bit. He didn't expect that the Ancient One would go this route. He was sure that he would stop and back out a bit, that would give Theo a chance to slip behind his defense and using Titan distraction to create even bigger hole, he can focused his Cataclysm power and kill the Ancient One in one swoop...
'This is tough huh...' Theo thought, then he looked at Titan and he understand what Theo wanted...
Theo prepared his fists and then looked straight at the Ancient One.
"Well then, what you say is terrifying enough. But surely, Ancient One wouldn't kill a man with only a fist right?" Theo lies naturally as he breathes. Titan didn't notice that was a lie, neither does the Ancient One.
They didn't know the fact that Theo had something menacing prepared.
"QYBLITH! I command you to go all out right here, right now. Bloodshed is inevitable! As long as we got what we wanted, we win this battle!" Theo screamed toward the Qyblith and commanded them to sacrifice their life and take out everything they can.
The Qyblith blindly obliged and then they let out their most bloodthirsty form and goes ham against the Ancient One's Army.
But they're not sitting still either. They also followed that trend and started to go crazy without mercy...
At the same time, the Titan moved straight behind the Ancient One and then swing his sword mercilessly toward the back of the Ancient One.
Without even looking back, the Ancient One just parry the Titan's attack. Then, after that casual parry, he turn around and then swung that greatsword of his toward Titan's body. The aura around that greatsword is so intense that the Titan had no choice but to fully utilize his power to block it.
"That was close. If it were to hit me, I would be a goner for sure!"
"You might still be goner, Titan. Utilizing mere leverage won't stop my advance!"
The Ancient One still swung that sword of his and the sword of the Titan started to shiver intensely... The sword that he's holding is trembling because it couldn't hold the power of the Ancient One swing. Even though he used his whole body to support that sword...
But, Theo quickly came to his aide and then reverse the state of his sword constantly to the point that it cannot be broken by Ancient One swing.
"Titan, just focus on follow up attack. That's what you're good for. Don't go face first against him!"
"I know about that. So, you do what you're good at, you stupid God of Time!"
"I ain't gonna save you next time if you act like this." Although Theo knows that it was a waste of an opportunity, since he could let Titan Die. But if he did that, would he be able to stop the Ancient One alone?
'It's fine, One step at a time...'
Theo calmed himself down. But, that was a mistake. Because The Ancient One didn't let that moment slide. He moved so fast that Theo wasn't able to react. All he see right now is the Ancient One's sword going straight toward his chest...
'Oh motherfucker!!!'
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