The battlefield of Sutha Loka began to groan under the weight of god-tier energies. The sky, once a pale grey, was now a swirling vortex of black lightning and shattered dimensions.
The Avian Gods vs. The Void
Sai, seeing his brother Rudra being butchered and his nephew fallen, finally unleashed his ultimate transformation.
Sai's Transformation: Black Thunder God Form 8. * Appearance: Eight massive wings made of jagged, obsidian electricity sprouted from his back. He moved with such speed that he existed in three places at once, trailing sonic booms that shattered the nearby rock.
Jaswanth's Strategy: While Sai provided the thunderous distraction, Jaswanth faded into a spectral silence, launching a "Silent Attack" from the blind spots of reality itself.
Despite the combined might of a God-form and a Master Assassin, Karna didn't even flinch. Their dominance was non-existent; they were like waves breaking against an iron cliff.
Karna looked at them, his eyes devoid of any human emotion. "Is this the limit of the old generation? Fine. Let us see if you can survive the weight of the universe."
Karna's Power Shift: Level 2
Minimum Output: 15%
Consequence: Space and Time begin to fracture. The ground beneath Karna turned to glass, and the air itself screamed as the laws of physics were rewritten.
Karna released a single arrow. It didn't fly—it warped. It bypassed Sai and Jaswanth entirely, cutting through the fabric of time and heading straight for Isha, his own mother.
Rudra's Fury vs. The Demon's Maw
On the other side of the crater, Rudra was a mask of blood and rage. Even as the Demon's claws carved deep furrows into his chest, Rudra's eyes remained locked on the smirking Shakuni.
"Shakuni!" Rudra roared, his voice thick with blood. "How dare you... how dare you steal my child from me! I will drag you to the deepest pit of Naraka for this!"
He tried to lung forward, but the Demon slammed a heavy, spiked fist into his ribs, pinning him to the earth.
"Focus, little king," the Demon growled, its breath smelling of rot. "Focus on me. You won't live long enough to see Shakuni die. I will peel the skin from your bones before you can take another step."
The Clash of Will
Back at the center of the chaos, the dark arrow was inches from Isha's heart. But Sai, powered by the desperation of his God Form, pushed his speed beyond the limit. With a roar of agony, Sai caught the arrow in his bare hands.
The black electricity of his form clashed with the void energy of the arrow, skin melting from his palms. He looked at Karna, his eyes burning with a righteous fury.
"I have stayed my hand because you are blood," Sai hissed, the 15% Level 2 energy vibrating through his entire skeleton. "But you shot at your mother. For that, I do not forgive you. I will not stop until you are neutralized."
With a burst of Black Thunder, Sai charged. The real fight
had only just begun.The battlefield was no longer a place of earth and stone; it had become a swirling vortex of divine light and abyssal shadow.
The Speed of Light
Jaswanth, seeing Sai struggling against the Level 2 energy, closed his eyes and whispered the ancient mantra:
"Amtham kanti lone valugu." (The light within the darkness.)
Suddenly, Jaswanth's physical form dissolved. He became pure, blinding radiance—a being of light that moved faster than the human eye or even Karna's divine perception could track. To Karna, Jaswanth had simply vanished.
Karna roared, frustrated by the flickering light. He began firing arrows in every direction—a rain of dark bolts that struck everything in sight. Warriors fell, the ground erupted, and the shockwaves pushed Sai and the others to their absolute limits.
The Breaking of the World: 95% Output
Karna's eyes glowed with a terrifying, cold fire. "You think light can hide you from the void?"
Karna's Power Surge: Level 2
Maximum Output: 95%
Effect: Reality Broken. The sky cracked like a mirror. Gravity ceased to exist. In this fractured space, Karna was God. But as he prepared to fire a final, world-ending shot, a shadow moved within his own shadow.
Isha, his mother, appeared behind him. She didn't use a bow or a spell. She pulled the Bhairav Dagger, a weapon forged in the fires of destruction. With a single, silent stroke, she cut Karna in half.
Blood sprayed across the broken reality. But Karna's upper half didn't fall. Even as his body was severed, his severed torso remained floating, his fingers still locked on the drawstring of his bow. He released an arrow that tore through Sai's eighth wing, pinning the Thunder God to the earth.
The Monster of the Wind: Rudra & Karthik
On the far side of the field, Rudra was drowning in his own blood under the Demon's assault. In a moment of pure desperation, he screamed a name that shook the heavens: "Karthik!"
A pillar of gold light descended. Rudra's loyal companion, Karthik, arrived not as a helper, but as a part of him.
The Union: Rudra and Karthik merged.
Form: Massive Golden Eagle Wings sprouted from Rudra's back, while Karthik's essence transformed into a localized Hurricane.
They became "True Monsters" of the battlefield. Rudra, now a whirlwind of gold and steel, began to tear through the Demon with the same savagery he had just endured. However, the cost was total. To maintain this form, Rudra was burning through his Kashya Energy at a suicidal rate.
The Arrival of Alalakshmi
As Karna's lower half began to regenerate with unnatural, dark sinews, a sudden chill washed over everyone. The goddess Alalakshmi materialized in the center of the carnage.
"Karna," she said, her voice a calm bell in the middle of a storm. "Stop."
The word acted like a physical weight. Karna, still half-formed and dripping with dark ichor, looked at her. For the first time, the void in his eyes cracked. Tears began to stream down his face, carving tracks through the blood and soot. The 95% output flickered and died. The broken reality began to knit
itself back together.