Control

A change that shook the world colored the skies. Ryu stood laughing in the skies as two Sovereigns clashed beneath him.

He didn't seem to care about their actions at all. They might as well have just been pieces on his chessboard.

His vision was much further, much grander than it had been in the past. It was as though he could feel the path beneath his feet, well and truly, for the first time.

Who cared how difficult the road ahead would be? Who cared how far he still had to go?

All he had to do was put one foot in front of the other, and when the time came… he would soar to the highest limits and even beyond.

BOOM!

Qi soared and fissures lanced their way through the air. Reality seemed as though it was bending and warping, and Ryu could tell with a glance that the Fiend Sovereign had done it on purpose.