The heat from SHATTERX's scorched sandals hissed into the freezing air of the canyon, leaving thin wisps of black smoke trailing off his purple hakama trousers. His crimson eye narrowed as he balanced his weight perfectly over the fractured bedrock.
"You managed to push me back three paces," SHATTERX muttered, his voice cold and flat like stone grinding against stone. "An impressive display of coordinated attacks, But a that's not enough to defeat me."
"Shut your mouth, tree-face!" JJ barked, He was pushing himself up from the rubble of the ruined pillar, his uniform smoking where the vest had detonated.
The blue lightning plasma from his slot machine's temporary fourth roll was beginning to sputter unevenly across his forearms, the evolith began to disappear. "We're just getting warmed up. Trust me we haven't used the full extent of our powers!"
"JJ is right we've being holding back," Captain Torin kez said as he smiled.
High up on the rocky ridge, Vice-Captain Alina Icter gasped for air, her fingers trembling violently as she tried to maintain her focus.
The false night sky of her *Star-Fall Curse* had entirely dissolved, leaving nothing, Her consciousness was wavering, a thick fog of exhaustion settling behind her eyes.
SHATTERX's vertical eye snapped upward, locking onto her position with absolute precision.
*The illusionist on the high ground I must eliminate her first* SHATTERX evaluated internally, his right hand gripping the wrapped hilt of his katana once more.
*BOOM.*
Without another word, SHATTERX vanished from the canyon floorboards. The speed of his acceleration was so intense that it created a localized vacuum pocket, shattering the gravel beneath his feet into fine gray dust.
"Alina, move!" Torin screamed, lunging forward desperately, but his heavy, beast-fused arm lagged behind the sheer, speed of the enemy.
SHATTERX materialized directly on the ridge in front of Alina, his orange robe billowing like a sheet of flame.
He didn't draw the blade yet; instead, he raised his left hand, his pale, bark-like fingers crackling with a high-density fragmentation aura aimed directly at her throat.
Alina stared up, completely paralyzed by the sheer physical pressure, unable to even lift her arms.
Before SHATTERX's palm could connect, a figure stepped into the pale light.
It was Renji, his face was set in absolute, unwavering focus.
Renji's eyes, normally standard, suddenly underwent a horrific transformation.
The pupils expanded, breaking apart into brilliant, shimmering stellar constellations that whirled within his irises like miniature galaxies.
The Star Eyes had awakened.
Renji unlocked the **Fourth Edge: Nightmare Eyes.**
"Look into my eyes," Renji commanded, his voice dropping into a deep, layered resonance that seemed to vibrate directly inside the structural framework of the brain.
SHATTERX's single, vertical crimson eye involuntarily snapped toward the sudden surge of energy. The moment his gaze locked onto Renji's swirling, stellar irises, the world around the child of Malkor completely broke.
To the outside world, SHATTERX simply froze mid-strike, his bark-textured hand stopping a mere inch from Alina's throat. But inside his own mind, the canyon vanished.
SHATTERX found himself standing in an absolute, infinite void of pure, suffocating darkness.
The ground beneath his sandals wasn't stone, but a shifting sea of pale, skeletal hands that reached upward, wrapping tightly around his ankles and pulling him down into the muck.
"What is this ?" SHATTERX hissed, trying to flex his muscles, But nothing happened.
From the darkness above, a colossal, shifting silhouette resembling Lord Malkor materialized, looking down at him with eyes full of absolute disgust. *"You are weak,"* the entity's voice boomed, crushing SHATTERX's psychological core. *"shattrex you have failed me."*
"No... I am a child of Malkor!" SHATTERX roared, his mind fracturing as the nightmare forced him into an endless loop of his deepest, most primal fears of failure and erasure. He was entirely locked away, his consciousness trapped inside mental prison where seconds felt like centuries.
Back to the real world
Renji stepped forward taking he's blades and slashing SHATTERX head.
SLASH
The head fell to the ground and shattrex was dead.
Torin kez, Lenny d mic ,JJ and Alina where shocked
"That was fast, who is he ?," JJ asked, looking shocked,Torin kez stepped forward" I recognise those eyes from anywhere, he's from the star eyes clan , he's name is renji"
"Yh I saw him once he's from the 10th division I can't believe he's this strong" Lenny d mic said as he smiled "drakye you really know how to pick a team".
Meanwhile,
deep within the **Infinite Seal**, the universe was entirely silent.
This was the largest black hole in existence—a cosmic anomaly a hundred times larger than the original largest supermassive black hole discovered by humanity.
It was a place where light went to die, and where the laws of physics were violently crushed into nothingness.
At the absolute center of this abyss, within the terminal boundary of the singularity, Zane was suspended in mid-air.
He was completely motionless. The immense gravitational forces hadn't just crushed his surroundings; they had broken the flow of time itself.
He couldn't lift a finger; he couldn't twitch an eye. The very concept of movement had been stripped from his body.
*Damn it... I can't move,* Zane thought, his consciousness the only thing still functioning inside the temporal lock. His mind was screaming, fighting against the absolute pressure that pressed against his soul. *I have to get back. I have to get to Tyson and Elias. I promised them... I have to...*
The weight was unimaginable. Every single atom of his physical form felt like it was being pulled in opposite directions simultaneously, stretched across the infinite geometry of the singularity.
The gravitational shear was trying to rip his cellular structure apart, yet the temporal stasis kept him perfectly whole, trapping him in a state of eternal, agonizing suspension.
*It feels like I'm pulling apart...* Zane's thoughts echoed into the dark, silent vo
id of the black hole. *Is this where it ends?*