The sky over the Southern Sector was no longer blue; it was a bruised purple, pulsing with stolen electricity. Techyon, Alya, and Neweland touched down on the outskirts, the air smelling of ozone and burnt metal.
Deep within the humming pylons, Rax was coiled around the Master Core. He wasn't growing larger or more muscular. Instead, the energy he was draining was being funneled into a single point in the air—a tear in reality that bled pure darkness.
"Just a little bit more, my Lord," Rax hissed, his bone-scales vibrating with the sheer volume of power. "I will be the one who sees your return first. I will be the one you reward when this world burns."
"The only thing burning today is you, Rax!" Techyon and Alya skidded into the sector, their feet kicking up sparks. Alya's hands were already glowing, her Hydro Refresh ready to serve as Techyon's coolant.
Rax turned his massive head, his eyes glowing with the stolen blue light of the city. "You insects again? You survived the harbor, but you won't survive the birth of a New Era. I will kill all of you."
"You aren't going to survive this time," Techyon countered, his White-Blue aura flaring so bright it pushed back the darkness of the portal.
"Me? Not survive?" Rax let out a mocking roar. "And who will stop me? You? Or this little girl clinging to your back?"
Without warning, Rax slammed his tail into the Master Core. He didn't fire a blast; he redirected the entire sector's output into a Gigavolt Shockwave. A wall of raw, chaotic electricity surged toward them, moving faster than the eye could follow.
Techyon didn't dodge. He didn't flinch.
He manifested his twin daggers, the Electric White edges humming at a frequency that surpassed sound. In a blur of 0.10ms motion, he stepped forward and swung.
SHING!
The shockwave didn't explode—it split. Techyon literally cut the lightning in half, the two halves of the massive energy wall passing harmlessly around Alya and himself, shattering the buildings behind them instead.
Rax's eyes widened as his shockwave was sliced like silk. A low, guttural growl vibrated in his chest. "Fine... if lightning won't kill you, let's see how you handle the core of a star!"
Rax unhinged his jaw, and a beam of concentrated, bone-purple Dragon Breath erupted. The heat was so intense it turned the concrete floor into glass instantly.
In their last fight, this heat would have turned Techyon to ash. He raised his daggers, the white-blue metal beginning to glow red from the sheer friction. But he didn't retreat.
"Hydro Refresh!" Alya screamed, her voice echoing through the sector.
A mantle of freezing, mystical water wrapped around Techyon's arms like a divine second skin. Every time the dragon breath tried to sear his flesh, Alya's mana instantly cooled it back to absolute zero.
Protected by the "Cooling Heart," Techyon dove straight through the fire. He sliced the beam in two, the heat parting around him like a curtain, and launched himself into the air.
He didn't use a dagger for the final strike. He pulled his leg back, his White-Blue aura concentrating entirely into his right heel.
"Sovereign Cracker!"
The kick landed directly on Rax's armored skull. For a millisecond, there was total silence. Then, the world exploded.
A shockwave of pure kinetic energy rippled outward from the point of impact. It tore through the Energy Sector, shattered the clouds above the Hydro City, and raced across the ocean. Thousands of kilometers away, mountains trembled. People in far-off kingdoms felt the earth beneath them heave.
Techyon hadn't just hit a dragon; he had struck the planet itself.
Rax wiped a streak of dark blood from his maw, his eyes burning with a sadistic violet light. "A kick that shakes the earth... impressive for a worm. But you are still just a weakling playing at being a God!"
The air around the dragon began to distort. "If you love the ground so much," Rax roared, "then burn with it! BLAST BURN!"
Rax slammed his head down, exhaling a supernova of concentrated fire directly into the earth. The energy didn't just spread; it caused the very tectonic plates to erupt. The entire surface of the Energy Sector turned into a sea of white-hot magma and exploding stone. There was nowhere to stand, nowhere to run.
But Techyon wasn't on the ground.
High above the chaos, a single silver Kunai spun through the air, glinting in the light of the fires below.
"Energy Exchange."
In a flash of White-Blue lightning, Techyon's body vanished from the path of the Blast Burn and reappeared exactly where the Kunai was, hundreds of meters in the air.
"I'm not done yet!" Techyon screamed.
Using the massive downward momentum of the "Sovereign Swap," he summoned every ounce of his mana. A giant, humming Light Shuriken materialized in his hands, its edges vibrating so fast they cut the air itself.
Techyon began to spin, becoming a lethal cyclone of Azure energy.
"FALLING BOLT!"
He descended like a guillotine from the heavens. The giant Shuriken slammed into Rax's back just as the dragon was recovering from his own attack. The sound wasn't an explosion—it was the sound of a god-slaying blade meeting indestructible scales.