Astral's golden glare made Zero start laughing hilariously. "YOU DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE THOSE WHO YOU TRULY CARE FOR! YOU WILL REMAIN THE BIGGEST JOKE OF THEM ALL, YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION!" Zero summoned a light spear as Astral rushed in slashing several times. Zero deflected each and every slash with the spear as he was using the summoned invisible blades to distract Astral as he let them hit his skin and pierce his body.
Astral wanted to feel the pain of letting someone die for him, he never wanted this for anyone, let alone a clone who felt great honor for himself. Each slash that Zero landed on him, powered the scythe more. It's blade turned a bright red as the blood was flowing through it.
Astral flurried the scythe and blocked all the invisible slashes while he took off Zero's head, it instantly regenerated as the head rolled around on the ground. Astral landed a second hard slash with Muramasa on his chest plate as it shattered. "Tell me, is the enchanter alive? If so, we are taking him for ourselves." Astral would say nothing as he was far more focused feeling the wave of energy hit him from the ample power he lended to Hephaen to make and create like how he loved to.
Zero dashed backwards as he infused his two powerful techniques for the first time. Clapping Astral became surrounded with a set of suspended blades. Slicing at them did nothing. "Sorry to make you the test subject for my powers, but it's been fun." Astral tried with all his strength as the blades were armored with the same light from his spear as they all came down in one instant.
A white arm was extended from Astral's shoulder as a chunk of his eye was white, still sealed by the golden rim. It was detailed with a short sleeve and a shoulder long glove, wielding the universal glove as the hand held Beacon. The blades crashed down all around Astral on a shield of light from Beacon as it pointed Beacon forward, allowing for Astral to have full motion with his two arms.
'This is very new, has he been holding back?' Zero held still as he sent millions of light slashes at Astral as they bounced off the shield, he slowly walked forward through it all as Astral flashed past Zero, Muramasa lodged into Zero's ribcage as Zero laughed.
"Only one thing can kill a god, and unfortunately for you." Zero clapped as it pushed Astral away, and paralyzed the three arms that were extended. "The glove is of great power, but it has such a strong weakness, it corrupts the user with its use unless it has been attuned." Zero held his hand with the glove in front of Astral's face as a purple arm sliced the hand off and absorbed it back into Astral.
"Even if you took the thing that requires godly strength to even use, you will die before having that chance." Zero monologue more about random nonsense as Astral still acted paralyzed. Coming to his senses after thirty seconds. Zero realized his spell wasn't working anymore and swung a lightspear at Astral who cleaved through it with his scythe. His small wounds and scratches had the ground covered in a pool of blood as Zero ignored it.
The white arm vanished as Astral smiled there was enough to do it. Flicking his right wrist up the blood came soaring upward as it stained Zero, his face perplexed. "Blood pact, soul reaper. Each attack now targets the user of the soul of the caster and the target." Astral slashed Zeros right arm open as Zero backed up.
"Gods have soul protection, so all you can do is weaken mine." Zero laughed at the actions Astral took. 'But why do I feel like his soul is so much brighter?' Zero peered beyond the veil of reality as he looked at Astral's soul, the reality of it was a boundless chaos of energy. Zero was at a loss of words.
Astral sent a barrage of slashes with his scythe and Muramasa as Zero blocked them with his lightspear and the invisible slashes, Astral's attacks were breaking through as both constructs were slowly getting weaker, was he getting pushed back, no, he was set up to make it impossible to lose, he still had one trick up his sleeve, the controlling eyes.
Zero backed up and took off his helmet, his golden eyes shining brightly for the world to see, Astral caught a glimpse as it was too late, he saw them and it could be used to halt all of his momentum. "Kneel." Zero demanded as Astral fell to his knees in heavy resistance.
Zero slowly walked over to Astral as all his tricks had been used at this point. This was his last one and if this failed to give him the window to kill Astral, claim the enchanter and finish his army, he had no other way to win.
"Astral, you have fought well and made it a very close fight, making sure that each one of my abilities and weapons were countered and accounted for, the problem you have is still no way to kill me, no matter how hard you try, you can't win." Astral tried to speak as Zero grabbed his mouth.
"I WAITED MILLENIUMS TO ENTER THE BATTLE TOURNAMENT AND KILL THE ONES THE GODS HATED, BUT INSTEAD YOU TOOK THE LIMELIGHT!" Zero slashed open Astral's right shoulder as the soul vow wore off moments before. "IT WAS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE OUT THE HATED WINNERS OF THE TOURNAMENT, YOU TOOK THAT HONOR FROM ME AND KEPT ME FROM JOINING THE SEVENTEEN." Zero sliced the left shoulder of Astral open.
Astral had many more tricks up his sleeve, but he couldn't move one bit. 'I don't know who the white arm was, but do something!' He talked inside of himself.
'We can't, your eyes are the gateway we rely on and with them paralyzed, I can't kill him, I do have what we need.' A feminine voice spoke back to him inside of his soul as Astral just had to trust what was going to happen. 'Now, it is in action.'
Zero held a blade to Astral's neck, pulling it back he muttered. "Time for you to die you dirty bitch." Lone came in from above and sliced Zero's eyes open, the blood gushed from them all over Astral. Lone smacked the blade away with his claymore as Astral was unfrozen from the paralysis. In his hand was the blade Zero had originally. Dicing him to bits Zero died to what he brought to the fight as Astral entered the real world next to Jaimie out of breath.