Chapter 16 - A Way To Win!

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

[Group Chat]

[[Grave Warnings]]

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(Third POV:)

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Sukuna laughed as if he were watching the world burn. Around him were dozens of buildings cut into pieces, with the rubble falling from the sky and slowly falling to the ground.

'This brat might actually be able to teach me more about holy energy! Even at my strongest, I wasn't truly able to grasp holy energy due to focusing on negative/cursed energy.

Even though I am weakened massively and only at ten fingers, this could be my chance to see everything!' Sukuna thought as he jumped through the building he was walking in as it fell from the sky.

As he jumped through the building, he turned around mid-air to see a golden blur barreling toward him.

The smile he was holding on his face grew wider. The blur was upon him in an instant!

Ereikiel pulled his swordspear back as he began thrusting it toward Sukuna's throat! The second the weapon was about to touch Sukuna's neck, a small mouth opened up on his neck and bit down on the tip of the weapon.

Both adversaries were sent barreling forward due to the previous momentum.

Sukuna wrapped the mouth on his neck in massive amounts of negative energy and shattered the projection weapon.

*CRASH*

Both Sukuna and Ereikiel crashed through another window before Sukuna tried to grab Ereikiel.

Breaking the hold on him immediately, Ereikiel threw a punch toward Sukuna's head, only for Sukuna to duck the punch and put his palm on Ereikiel's chest.

*dismantle* *dismantle* *dismantle* *dismantle* *dismantle* *dismantle* *dismantle* *dismantle* *dismantle*

Invisible dismantles tried to press themselves into Ereikiel's body, only to be blocked by a layer of holy energy. Sukuna's palm couldn't make contact with Ereikiel's flesh, and it almost seemed as if he had a similar ability to infinity.

Not trying to get caught in an attack, Sukuna immediately did a double backflip into a mid-air spin, only to throw a massive dismantle at Ereikiel.

*SLASH*

The massive dismantle cut through the building while also hitting Ereikiel and blasting him backward and through another building.

Sukuna began to run forward, only for his eyes to widen as he saw a bright yellow light coming from where he had sent Ereikiel flying.

Instantly, Sukuna jumped, spread his wings, and flew as fast as he could to the right.

*BWWWWMMMMM*

A massive blast of yellow dragon breath flew into Sukuna's previous position. The attack began melting all the buildings around, with Ereikiel being unveiled in the massive pool of melted materials.

Ereikiel's mouth morphed and widened to an impossible degree as a dragon's mouth appeared on his face. The yellow dragon blast slowly began morphing into a thinner and thinner fire.

The breath started to make noise as the attack turned into a thin beam. Ereikiel's eye instantly locked onto Sukuna's location, and his head raised in the direction Sukuna was.

*FFFFFFVVVVMMMM*

The beam cut through everything as Ereikiel moved his head. Sukuna flew around like a fly, running away from the swatter.

Sukuna did a flip in the air, narrowly avoiding the beam, before speeding up even further.

Ereikiel's mouth snapped shut as his arms closed in a self-hug. On his two wings, multiple mouths opened up.

Twelve beams came from those mouths and quickly began to follow Sukuna's position. It was a mixture of holy energy and draconic fire—an insanely bright beam that could change directions.

Sukuna suddenly stopped his momentum as he began flying full speed toward the beams.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Show me more! Show me everything you have to offer, Ereikiel!" Sukuna screamed as he dodged the first beam before throwing dismantles at the other beams flying his way.

The beams split and fractured; however, the gathered energy remained and began chasing after Sukuna again!

Flying through the hell-storm as the area around them melted, Sukuna's face looked as if he were going insane.

*Clap*

Suddenly, Ereikiel's position was switched.

*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap*

Sukuna clapped as fast as he could, and the position of everything began changing. In the blink of an eye, Sukuna was flying through the air with his wings retracted, yet he was flying parallel to Ereikiel.

Neither was moving, but due to the previous momentum of the objects they had traded places with, both Ereikiel and Sukuna were having a stare-down.

*𝓓𝓘𝓝𝓖*

They both crashed into the ground and into an underground train station. Sukuna immediately began throwing punches.

Ereikiel wasn't prepared and got hit with a right hook, followed by two body shots. Sukuna stepped on Ereikiel's chest after his punches and did another spinning backflip into the air.

Sukuna's right hand extended outward to the angel. A rapid fire of dismantles landed on Ereikiel, rubble flew into the air, and slash marks were left in the pit that was forming under the angel.

*FFWWOSH*

Ereikiel grabbed Sukuna by the face and blasted upward through the underground train station and into the sky.

By the time Sukuna had broken the hold Ereikiel had on him, both of the fighters had smashed through the side of an overhead airplane.

The second Sukuna's body entered the aircraft, he spun mid-air and landed his feet on the side of the aircraft.

He punched Ereikiel in the face, sending him flying into the cockpit. The door blasted open to reveal two pilots with wide eyes, with the aircraft covered in blood and guts.

Ereikiel shot forward and back at Sukuna, who had his hands in his pockets. Sukuna jumped into the air as Ereikiel threw two punches, which were both blocked by the bottom of his shoe.

Sukuna's hands touched the top of the plane as it began falling from the sky. Using his hands to give him momentum, Sukuna brought his leg up high before trying to drop it down right on Ereikiel's head.

Ereikiel tried to block it, only for the plane's floor to bend and break. Ereikiel was sent flying downward, and as he began falling, Sukuna sent down dismantles that cut through the plane and hit him.

*BOOM*

The plane blew up as Sukuna jumped out of it! Ereikiel raised his head only to see Sukuna directly in front of him! Sukuna grabbed him by his arm and began dragging him downward.

Spinning rapidly, Sukuna threw Ereikiel into the ground; the angel's backside smashed into the concrete, and before it could come to a stop, Sukuna hit him with a barrage of dismantles, sending him down the street!

As Ereikiel slowed down, his eyes caught sight of hundreds of people. They were sent far away from their original area and are now in a new location.

'Why are there so many people here?' Ereikiel thought as he turned to face where Sukuna was coming from.

Sukuna was already in front of him! Ereikiel threw two punches, which were blocked only for his wrists to be grabbed!

Sukuna spread his arms wide while still holding onto Ereikiel, only to land a drop kick straight to his face the second his arms were opened!

Flipping off his face, Sukuna's smile grew. His face was parallel to Ereikiel, and he began mouthing words.

'Don't try and save them; you can't!' Sukuna mouthed as Ereikiel's eyes widened.

Darkness formed around Sukuna's body as shrill screams from his numerous newly formed mouths sounded out!

He was back in his eldritch form! All the mouths on his body instantly stopped screaming at once and held a massive smile.

The orange eyes on Sukuna's body turned pure black as he held his palms together. Time seemingly slowed as Sukuna's index, pinky, and thumbs pushed together while his middle and ring fingers pressed together while fully extended.

"Domain expansion!!!"

Sukuna was instantly eaten by a misshapen, large black mouth. The teeth were sharpened to look as if it were death to be eaten.

The mouth disappeared into a black void that looked as if it were a two-dimensional square.

Eyes orange in color appeared around Ereikiel, and around the black shape, they looked in every direction.

Only to instantly disappear as the mouth that ate Sukuna burst from the darkness that it had receded into. As it rose, a black liquid dripped off of it.

The mouth opened its jagged white teeth to reveal an eldritch Sukuna. As soon as the mouth opened, three other jagged mouths appeared, along with a shrine.

The shrine had hands sticking out of the black ceiling, with blood red being the main color.

Skulls began forming as if they were steps up the shrine. Once the skulls finished forming, fully complete skeletons formed on top of them and looked posed as if they were fighting before death.

A skeleton of a massive lizard with a weird head, a statue made of bone, and a larger humanoid skeleton with a disproportionate body were in a three-way battle.

On the other side was a bone statue of a humanoid with what seemed to be flower petals on the sides of its body. Facing that creature was another humanoid bone statue with its finger pointed at the creature.

Climbing up to the shrine was the statue of a being with a broken bone crown.

Sukuna's main mouth split into two as his smile split his face.

"Malevolent Shrine!"

"丂卄尺丨ᙁ乇 ██ Եɧȝ ██丨几ᗪ Տ██"

Sukuna's domain was in the sky, floating right in front of Ereikiel's face. Reality seemed to distort as Sukuna's body flashed over and over again but moved with every flash.

The flashing stopped when Sukuna's face was right in front of Ereikiel. Somehow Sukuna had left after images(?) or clones right behind himself until one of them was in front of Ereikiel.

*𝓓𝓘𝓝𝓖*

*BANG!!*

Ereikiel exploded in a cloud of holy energy. The buildings and people around the shrine immediately exploded as well!

The ground seemed to raise itself into the sky, along with buildings, only to explode into debris and dust.

Everything within a kilometer was being turned into rubble. Ereikiel wasn't able to withstand the attack and almost died.

The only reason he was currently alive was that his dragon heart hadn't stopped beating even after his body was turned into holy light particles from his protective layer failing!

Quickly, the heart began beating faster as holy energy tried to enter it. The body of Ereikiel began reforming in the middle of all the chaos.

It barely had a chance to reform, as every time it tried to regenerate, it would be cut down by an amount of dismantling that could only be referred to as a magnitude instead of a number.

Even when the body dies, the stone-scaled heart of the dragon continues to beat! The heart began beating faster as the energy it was generating had nowhere to go!

If the energy of the heart continued to increase at the rate it was going, soon a reaction would occur that would cause an explosion of unforeseen magnitude!

Sukuna's body momentarily paused while he was still in the mouth of his shrine. A confident smile grew on his face as he raised both his hands.

"Fuga (█Open)"

The rubble around Sukuna began melting as his hands turned a bright white. The buildings in the area, the blood, and the metal all began having their atoms scorched.

The white fire spread as Sukuna closed his hands together and began molding the fire in his hands.

*𝓓𝓘𝓝𝓖*

The fire instantly turned black as Sukuna pulled on it, forming a bow and arrow.

The heart beat rapidly in response to the fire as a pillar of holy energy formed. Even with the heat, as the concrete burned away, grass began to grow.

Trees grew from the ground and burned away, only to grow again.

Ereikiel's body reformed from nothing, only to be hit by a magnitude of dismantles and cleaves.

The bow Sukuna had was made of black fire, and the arrow looked to be made of pure white fire.

But, how was Sukuna able to do this? His hidden ability had only been used previously against Omni Gojo! 尺ヨ丹し工卞と 冊丹几工尸凵し丹卞工回几...

As Ereikiel turned to look at Sukuna, all that was seen was fire. With nothing left to lose, Ereikiel flew as fast as he could!

As Ereikiel flew away, grass grew and burned behind him! Running was cowardly, and his dragon side wouldn't do that, so why was he running?

The answer was... he wasn't running.

"King of Heroes, Gilgamesh, I shall perform this final blow as my greatest gift to you!"

Ereikiel's dragon heart burned as holy energy was expelled from his body at an unprecedented rate.

As he flew past the destroyed areas while being hit by Malevolent Shrine, the holy energy left behind would cause the surrounding area to experience new life, only for it to burn away.

The holy energy that was leaking followed Ereikiel as he continued flying.

"I will tell you of the beginning!" Ereikiel began chanting rapidly at a high speed.

The previously left-behind holy energy spun around him as if he were generating a new-born star.

"Heaven and the Abyss split, nothingness congratulated creation, my Sword of Ruptured Light brightened the world!"

The holy energy began condensing and constructing a weapon. Ereikiel grabbed the hilt of the weapon.

The guard and handle were a mixture of golden and black, and the blade was in the shape of a cylindrical, drill-shaped pillar made up of three independently rotating segments.

The segments had black rune-like lines in them. The blade instantly blared to life and began rotating as more holy energy rushed into it.

"Light of the universe, heaven's abyss is the eve of creation's celebration!"

Ereikiel raised the weapon high in his right hand. He knew Sukuna was waiting for his attack; otherwise, he would have been dead before he could finish saying a word.

"Evil, you shall die and be silent..."

Red lightning bolts began falling from the sky and launching towards the weapon! The sword instantly ate all of the red lightning it came into contact with and began spinning faster!

"My gift to the world!" Ereikiel screamed out as he pointed the blade at Sukuna. The life he spread burned, yet he willed onward to continue!

Sukuna let go of the flame arrow he had been holding with a smile on his face. The arrow instantly shot forward and burned everything it went past!

"Enuma Elish!"

*DDDMMMMM-BBBBVMMMMMMM*

A massive reddish-golden and black beam blasted out of the tip of the weapon! 

*BOOM*

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(A/N: Let me know what you thought about this chapter. I'm going to be writing the next chapter of Minecraft Kaisen! Sukuna vs Mahoraga and I'm going to try and go all out with the fighting!)