Strike The Core: The Iramasha's Bolt For The Kora A'ina [Black World Event]

How.. foolish. Having to deal with a bunch of kids struggling for their lives just to destroy that one core, it was truly funny on his perspective. Thinking all high and mighty that all would work out well if they work in a group, in a team, but they were truly wrong in one way; he wasn't simply a mere 'walking atomic bomb' just because of his ridiculous strength. For someone who is capable of fighting alone against multiple people at once, this was like a daily routine to him for someone who is a loner and basically, fights alone without friends, family or comrades to stay right beside him. For a typical villainous character like him, it was a fitting role for someone who ended the lives of many in a single blow of his fist. However, this was the reason he lived, and the true nature of the Nightmare who was born this way, to destroy and to kill, and nobody will stop him from achieving what he truly wants even if it means of fighting to the death. If they want to play it that way, then so be it, as this fight was just a war between a villain and a group of 'heroes' wanting to save the earth like they were some big shots that can do anything as they please, and it'll be his way to make them regret their choice of playing that role, the very role that his original self attempted to do so much and led him to his grave.

Trying to wrap him around with mere plants was futile, no, getting close to him was nothing more than yearning to die. Unless these plants contains a whole load of spiritual energy, the second these plants had tried to make a direct contact with his very body, what it would realize that it would be shred apart, like paper that shreds the existence of these plants so much that its entirety of existence, every atom and sub-atomic particles that allowed these plants to exist would evaporate. It wasn't a trick or anything, but the air around that screeched ever so loudly because of the ridiculous amount of pressure he exerted from his body even without the assistance of I.E.B.N, and clearly, monstrous enough to cause the air around him to whir like a chainsaw to cut anything that is weaker than him, especially those plants? It wasn't a defensive mechanism he had put up, it was natural for someone like him who contained nothing but power alone, to unleash an enough amount of pressure that caused his surroundings to just.. break apart the air and destroy everything that gets near him especially if that very thing does not have enough spiritual energy to contain 'itself'. If that method didn't work? Without moving an inch of his finger, all he needed was to tune up the percentage of his brain's capacity in the usage of his strength just by a little and reverse it back to its normal condition, to exert a sudden surge of pressure that would've exploded as if his body simply sliced the air around him like a cotton, and that is the result of the air particles that he messed around with using his strength, which is also a pretty common feat done by spiritual beings with high levels of spiritual energy.

When he proceeded to kick Aish's blast? One of the two scenarios he had to deal with, Cirno or the unknown individual who decided to step into the game and shoot a mere blast at him. For Cirno's case? Well, its hard to say that he was ever surprised since he had encountered it enough for him to stay on full alert on his surroundings, with any sudden appearances or surprise attacks that may prove fatal to his body since of course, his body is that of a mortal's, its just that he can tolerate damages that is unimaginable for a mortal's body to withstand, hence earning him the title of the 'Nightmare', thanks to his unforgiving tolerance to pain and how well tuned he is to his surroundings during combat in order to fit the circumstances especially when he was already prepared to fight multiple opponents at once on his own even if it was a clear disadvantage to fight against someone who has a dozen allies that can take him down if they fought on full force, but he won't go down as easily as they think he would be. However, for him? He only has two arms and two legs, and both attacks came around at the same time, making a rough decision for him to make, to be paralyzed or to be blasted, since he wants to keep the damages against his body to the minimum point in order to fight at his best. Only having very few moments for him to process his thoughts and decisive actions, nevertheless, he'll just make an attempt to deal with both of these pests all by himself.

After the destruction of the blast? Well, his left hand would reach out to the other approaching one, not to destroy it, but instead, to redirect the blast somewhere else. The blast itself was not as strong as he thought it may be, but it wasn't the time for him to waste his energy on pesky things like the blast. Of course, anything foreign that may in this blast? If it fused and only follows the blast's velocity, and only goes apart if the outer shell is broken? Well, it would be great news for him, catching the blast with his bare hand alone would only halt the movement of the blast, staying still before a second later, would be thrown right back at whoever that shot the blast back to where it was from. It wasn't really a hindrance to him, but the force was enough to make a dent to his palm and left quite the scratches considering the force of the blast was just meek. If asked how he had attempted it? Well, it was to use energy to cause vibrations across his hand by expelling energy equally to each muscle tissues for them to vibrate in synchronization, and that way, the second it made contact with his hand? The muscles that vibrated would respond to the information that crashed right into his hand, and almost instantaneously, the vibrations would tune into an opposite frequency to that of the blast's and just by the right amount, both of his own vibrations and the blast's force would be equally powerful, hence how he was able to halt the blast's movement from having a direct hit against him, and allowing him to unleash those vibrations in order to effectively throw the blast to the side for a good ol' explosion. If his theory was proven wrong? Well, considering how it made a dent to his hand, if there was anything within the blast? His bodily system would immediately alert his brain as that there are foreign objects that do not belong to the body's origin that there are unwanted things that are invading his bodily system and then? What happens? Well, something interesting does happen to his body, and it may seem new to those who once fought him before, but really, considering how he was able to manipulate his body's bio-electricity to manipulate electricity when he activates I.E.B.N, it is a clear indication that he has a full control of how his body can naturally generate electricity using the brain's power and his ability to control his strength, with that combined, it allows his body to naturally create its own defensive system to destroy harmful germs, viruses, bacterias, poisons, even acids that enters his body from the outside. And how does it react to it when it enters his body? Depending how dangerous the specified object or energy is to his body, his body would also react differently, and what is that defensive mechanism that his body creates on its own? Great question, and that answer is the 'discharge'.

It may sound weird, but its system is the same as a typical thunderstorm. Scientifically, it releases the charges through the usage of lightning by striking the earth to transfer excess charged particles from the clouds. By tuning that concept slightly, the discharge of electricity through the usage of his body's natural bio-electricity could 'remove' any unwanted objects in his body to be 'transferred' out of his body. How? If Aki's poison was able to get into his body, well, despite its size to be at the size that is of even smaller than an atom, estimated to be the size of either an electron or sub-atomic size. The second the poison entered his body, before it even had the chance to destroy any of his internal part, his body would proceed to unleash a surge of electricity from the infected part of his body, no survivors are spared in such. Once the brain was informed of such intruders, his body's nervous system would begin discharge a high voltage electricity from any affected part of the body by the said poison, and it functions by 'breaking down' the poison, that is if it is in a solid or liquid state of poison, it would be burnt down under its intensity of the electricity, even if it is smaller than an atom, as long as it has a 'physical or semi-physical existence', it will be evaporated into gas or even broken down into waves of 'energy', a matter or molecule that is no longer held together by a fixed state, and using the intensity of the electricity, everything that gave it to 'exist' in a solid state would be broken into waves of energy, and with that done, it would be guided out from his body by 'discharging'. If it were to be explained in a simplified form, it is basically breaking apart the physical existence of the poison to the point of becoming a 'wave' of poison, only to be further discharged from his body through electricity using its electromagnetic field. Which, the possibility of poisoning him would become very low, but possible against his defensive internal system if they can find a way to pass through the automated system his body provided against unwanted intruders, whether they are nano-machines or chemicals, anything deemed that are harmful to his body to the extent of destroying him internally would be burnt down into a 'wave-form', and discharged from his body through electricity.

With that settled? One thing to make sure, whether or not if they underestimated him, everyone in the world that knows his name knows damn well how much damage his body can pull through, and how tough it is. Knocking him out or even paralyzing his body with pressure? Now now, that is laughing stock. The second her fist landed coldly against the back of his neck, especially when she appeared from behind and how limited his movements were, the result? The Inverse Sou vomited blood right out of his mouth from the blunt force that went right against his neck, but not exactly the result that she wanted to achieve. For someone who can generate monstrous pressure from his body, having an unlimited access to his strength and had his body suffered enough to be able to withstand intense pressure exerted in a single force against his neck, which for most average shinigamis or even humans, their neck would generally either break or just knock them unconscious, but what Cirno was dealing is wasn't an ordinary human who is crazed with strength, but a physically-built body that can withstand things like this. The pressure that she tried to pinpoint his neck with force? His muscle would've sucked it some of the force into his body, immediately directing the force to his ribcage since he needed to tune down the force from Cirno's punch to allow him to redirect the rest of the available force to his left hand, to be compressed into the center of his palm, to be used for another attack that Cirno would attempt to shatter his spinal cord, a vital part of the human body. If asked how, well, considering how his muscle tissues are connected together, it is enough to be wired in order to absorb the remaining impact and spread across the back of his body, minimizing damage to the point of almost making just a small dent to his neck, and transfer that rest of the force in his muscle tissues to be compressed in his palm, very simple process.

For the frostbite effect? Again, the same concept applies. The body being his, the body develops its own defensive mechanism that would may proven harmful that can potentially damage him at a severe level or at worst cases, kill him. Depending on the danger of the frostbite that his brain can register with, without allowing the frostbite to spread anymore both internally and externally, so his brain would decide one of the two process it would do to eliminate the threat to which is the most effective. First method? Safer but there is a risk to take for it whether if it works or not. That? Using the compression of electricity on the area that is affected by the frostbite, was to use the friction between the layer of his flesh and the electricity that compresses on that area, and using the electromagnetic waves that the electricity emits by its charges and heat, just by compressing it and unleashing a weak blast of energy to create frictional heat, together with electrical charges to burn down any reishi that may cause the frostbite effect, and the heat to regulate the body temperature of the affected area. If it doesn't work, the second method kicks in. How does it work? Well, not as safe and the risk is much higher. That? When the frostbite effect invades his body, one way or another, whether it has reishi in the area or not, it would take the risk to either overload the reishi that resides in the frostbitten area, or produce its own patch of reishi to overload. If its his own energy to overload in contrast to the enemy's, one flaw, it would leave a burn to the frostbitten area if its overloading his own energy distributed through the vibrations of energy that his body naturally produces, and being apart of his own body, doing physical harm to it is possible and at worst cases, it would cause the flesh of that area to become swollen and explode. If its the Iramasha's reishi, it wouldn't be much of a problem than leaving a patch of burn marks to the frostbitten area and it would most likely heal just almost instantly. It overloads by sending waves of vibration across the frostbitten area, creating frictional heat to cause electric charges to the reishi surrounding the flesh that causes the frostbite to overload by the electromagnetic heat that it emits, hence it overloads when too much heat and energy collects on that specific frostbitten area and explode, making it riskier to take if its his own energy to work on it.


With that, instead of wasting his time to take the risk for a full 180 degree turn to face the Iramasha, all he did was shifting his body for a few degrees for a visible view of his own back, and without wasting time, he would attempt to catch Cirno's fist, and yes, you heard it, the Nightmare would attempt to catch it with his bare hand as quickly as possible. If it succeeded? Well, not as fortunate as it seems, considering how much force it packed in that one punch in an attempt to shatter his spine to disable him completely, it was the real deal, and not even a hesitation ever gone through his head and simply.. catch that one small fist of hers, with a force enough to wipe half a city apart right into his hand alone, but in all honesty, that isn't the feat that only she could do, especially who she is dealing with is someone of a caliber who has a rather destructive strength, with an 'unlimited access' made him different from most strength users, since he can seem to 'manipulate' his body and brain at will to know how much strength he preferred to use. In this case? Once he caught her fist, there was a single problem, and it was utilizing his strength to cancel all of that force. Despite his strength, it didn't mean he could cancel the strength of this level either without modifying the value of his brain's system to tap into a higher level of strength to take this one, so he had one attempt, and it was to use the compressed vibration and his own body to deal with it. With much ordeal he went through, he doubted that he would die so easily from this mere punch, afterall, the Inverse and the original Sou didn't earned the title of 'The Nightmare' so easily without putting up a fight against people like her.

With vibration compressed to his palm, the second Cirno's fist lands against his palm? It won't be directly right into his flesh and shatter him apart. Imagine the vibrations like a cushion to his body, that as the moment it lands, the existing vibrations in his hand would begin to shake as the fist lands right against his fist, creating a strong reaction within the vibrations and? If Cirno's reaction was precise enough, her hand would be in for a quick burn, electricity would begin to spark right out of his palm, and if she didn't retreat? Flames would combust right against the knuckles that smashed right into his palm, before expanding further into her hand to roast it off into a second-degree burn by the intensity of the heat from the combustion of flames. It happened for a simple fact, the force from her fist disturbed the stabilization of the vibrations in his palm, and by intentionally allowing these vibrations to be thrown off balance by making use of the force from Cirno's punch, the disturbance would create heavy friction within the strings of muscle tissues in his hand, creating enough charge to overload the muscles filled with electrical energy that is forced right out of his hand, as happened, electricity would first spark out with enough shock to rival a common taser, and creating combustion by using the small gap between his palm and Cirno's fist, which would brought enough heat for the lack of air to force itself out into a combustion of flames as it shot out like bullets in a blink of an eye when it happened. Hence, it happened. However, despite all of that, sure, this way, he could reduce the impact force in almost to a quarter or half of its original power that the Iramasha may have intended to smash right into his body, and the rest of that imminent force? He took it, literally by his body, and to her eyes, the Inverse would be shot miles away from her by how much force that it packed behind the small fist of hers, flying and eventually, would crash into an obstacles that may stop his body from continuing its flight away from her and causing the very obstacle that he may have crashed into the collapse onto his body.

However, that didn't stop him that easily. Breaking right out from the rubbles almost immediately after his feet was down, he was quite.. damaged in some way. Blood dripping out from his mouth from the previous hit, his head would have a visible sight of blood flowing down from his forehead. It wasn't all that serious to his physical body, but his arm that caught that force? It went through serious damage, but still being able to function, despite so, the damage to his left arm was significant compared to the rest of his body as if it was just that very limb alone that took the brunt of assault from the entire battle. Flesh being ripped apart, bleeding profusely, burn across his left hand as if it was darken by coal, it was just unbelievable and gruesome it was to even look at how damaged his left arm went through, yet, it was clear that he was able to clench the hand of the damaged arm, even move around for a bit, but seeing its condition, it is clear that this arm won't last any longer if it took more damage than needed. Haven't fought at his best yet, it was hilarious that how he was easily overpowered by the strength of a mere child-sized girl. Embarrassing enough for himself, it didn't well stop him from doing what he was originally made in this world of Inverse, that it won't end without the settlement whether or not if the core will live through under his protection as long as he lives, and even if he did die, he will overcome death with his own will and seek to replace his weak self, the original who died from tragic death for being weak, and letting his guard down at worst times.

With all of those brunt assaults that he had to tank against all on his own accord, stress was easily visible to take toll onto him considering how much he has to take into consideration to ensure his survival in this battlefield between the Inverse and the 'real' people of this realm, but he was as prepared to deal with any incoming attacks when the Iramasha came at him with six blasts of light, which he, the Nightmare, considered was nothing more than a simple attack attempted to 'end' him at his current state, but it wasn't as simple as that, as his mind wasn't prepared for 'this' kind of assault, this.. purification of sorts? He didn't know what effect it may bestow upon him, but who cares? Attempting to catch two of the six blasts with his bare hands to halt its movement, and has his body take it from the rest of the blast of light which he very much considered to be an offensive move without knowing what holds when all of that force only pushed him back farther a bit. Not knowing whether or not it was meant for destruction against the likes of him. Whether or not if it succeeded in cutting off the flow of spiritual energy in his body with her attempts against the likes of the Nightmare, one thing it was clear that it was.. well, typically useless. Other than serving as a type of 'healing' for his Vindeca in chi energy-wise, his spiritual energy was little-to-none when it comes to volume and how much 'power' it has in comparison to his physical strength, that uses none of that bullshit energy to prove himself as a formidable human who didn't need to rely on supernatural powers to advance his own goals. But his mind? The effect that the Iramasha may be aiming for might had an effect on him, but it wasn't quick to come into mind to show the effects afterall.

Standing up from the blasts, only left was a one-piece human that stood strong against the assault that they had to offer against him. His eyes would only sought to meet an army of soldiers gathering around him, and the drop in temperature that would otherwise affect his calculations and overall combat which makes it difficult for a 'crippled' individual like him, so changes are going to rough in his journey, but that won't stop him with messed up calculations. With the empowered plants, this would be a tough one to deal with considering how many soldiers there are in this area, yet.. it doesn't seem to affect his mentality at all to even consider how one-sided this battle was in terms of numbers and allies, for these soldiers and allies to go against one man, it would be laughable to even having to think about it. Confidently standing against the Elite Guards, the freezing of his body that the Iramasha sought to have an effect on him would more or less likely be of a useless attempt against his body, for something that has experienced paralysis, to continuously living in a body that has nerves severed from his control to only have a machine support his life, impaled in the head, crushed by a train, all sorts of situations, he named it, has never stopped him from moving even a finger, not until his death reaches out at him and reap his soul away. Having to experience the numbness of his body from various circumstances, a mere freezing of his body or even energy won't stop him so easily, that such things would only look stupid and inferior against his strength of his body and mind to push him so far into situations unimaginable for a human like him to achieve without the availability of any powers that can name him a 'superhuman'. With that, he seeks to cripple all of these guards and make sure that they experience the same numbness that he has to go through ever since the Australia War, by destroying what's left of their existence, and that, was to take things to the next step.

However, he doubted that he would be given any chance to execute any of his assaults before an avalanche of energized blasts began to storm through the battlefield in the attempt to obliterate his body and soul out of existence, but if they think that would be simple enough to halt his movements, then they would be wrong. With a tap against the earth, he would sought to close the distance between himself and each and every one of the guards at fast pace. How? Each tap of his foot equals to one guard that he would try and take out in a single breath, all in total, with twelve taps of his foot to take all of them out within a blink of an eye wouldn't be questionable. He would attempt to put a small strain to his legs by moving at hyperspeed using his strength, somewhere a few times faster than sound that would leave a sonic boom for every step he takes to the destruction of his surroundings, and that can be achieved by propelling himself by playing around with the reishi that the Iramasha kindly put up for his sake of freezing his body. That? Whether or not that these reishi are in the state of solid particle or air alone, one tap would close the space between his foot and the ground, and making use of that enclosed space, a weak compression of air would occur and that, to compress and force the air around him to suck into the enclosed space as if a vacuum just formed beneath his feet in order to create a powerful compressing effect that would force the reishi around him to compress where he wanted since it was convenient enough that they reside in his surroundings, making it an easy task to deal with. With that, using a simple trick of overloading the energy by forcefully compressing it too much into a single point, would cause it to become unstable and 'break apart' in the form of an explosions, hence why there was such a collateral damage within a few meters of his surroundings when he moves in hyperspeed, and the Nightmare would repeat this process exactly 12 times for each tap he does, to match the total number of twelve guards in this area of battlefield, and what exactly is he attempting to do in those process? Well, simple, he'll knock 'em hard and dry to make sure that they aren't eligible for the battle anymore. Not eradication of their existence, but the knock to their consciousness.


Vanishing within a blink of an eye, even with an extraordinary reaction speed and capability that these guards has for their 'elite' title, one flaw that they had in the preparation of this battlefield, is the power to make sure that they are on par against the Nightmare. His ability to adapt and make use of his surroundings via calculations is what gave him the title of the 'Nightmare' and why he was considered as a huge threat to the point where the entire world considered him as an enemy. Devil's luck for not dying in his journey, but his experiences was enough to make up for his Inverse's ability to fight effectively and sufficiently to make sure that these so-called 'Elite Guards' weren't up his match. To start his spree, he would swing his hand upward to unleash a strong vibration in order to cleanly split a path between the waves of energized blast for him to pass through with ease. Not needing to waste his time clearing out all of it, it would be less of a hassle to have these guards taken out instead of taking wave after wave of blasts that he has to deal with later on which may make his combat hard to deal with it. So, 12 steps and 10 seconds to finish up the business against the likes of these Iramashas that aren't even fit for the battlefield to deal with him.

First step to close his distance against one of the elite guards, without any chances to retaliate, would he simply catch his or her's face, and attempt to dig the head right into the earth with enough force to force the earth beneath the two to split in half for a few meters, with another tap to the 2nd guard, would only need a strong kick right against the gut, enough force to shatter his or her's ribcage with enough force packed behind the very leg of his, even with anything reinforced behind the clothing or abilities to protect him or her from the force, it would most likely knock the lights out of guard with vibrations extending all the way to his limbs to leave his muscles numb from any sort of movements. 3rd tap to vanish right against the likes of the third guard, would he proceed to shatter the skull with a punch enough to break even a reinforced metal into pieces, creating a sonic boom of recoil behind his fist when the Nightmare smashed right into the head of the guard and most likely would have enough damage to cripple one of the guard's motor function if such force is not weakened or redirected. 4th tap, an uppercut to one of the Elite Guard in an attempt to dislocate his or her's jaw which is basic enough where the dislocation of a jaw, unless they have a way to counter the pain and the paralyzing effect for dislocating it, the guard may be most likely be paralyzed and have cracks in the bone structure of the skull. 5th tap would make it more interesting for him to stand in front of the fifth Elite Guard that is closest to him and halt his movements a bit, and one of the two scenario would happen, and that is if he or she attacked him? Before the guard has the chance to leave a scratch on him, an upward kick would send the Elite Guard flying miles off to the air and most likely fall from the sky like a meteor once the guard stops flying off, and if he or she runs away? A downward kick would dig the entire stature, big or small, of the guard into the earth several feet down and hopefully, it doesn't kill the guard so easily. Sixth tap, moving at sonic speed to the 6th of the Elite Guards, from one location to another, the guard would realize that he/she would suddenly be pushed back with force, and that is him, the Nightmare, smashing his crutch right into the chest of the guard, and don't underestimate the Prototype Annihilator, where even without the Inverse Sou's strength, the weapon itself alone is wired and fused with his own chi energy to hold enough strength from his own origin to be able to hold the force that can sweep a mountain clean off of its surface without a trace of it, and all of that force that goes right against the chest of the Elite Guard can be dangerous enough to be shot off like a baseball, and leave damaging effects to the Guard's ventilation system and crush the bones in his or her chest. 7th tap and 8th tap, where both targeted Elite Guards would find themselves, well, hugging each other in a way where one of the guard would suddenly be forced by something, or someone, pushing his/her body at unimaginable speed only to found him/herself to be smashed right into the body of another guard's, like a ragdoll being thrown right at someone, and crushed right into the earth onto the body of another person with a force as if a building fell right upon the body of the two guards, one from the force of his throw, and the other was the velocity of the body which he threw down at the likes of the guard, saving his time to deal with them one by one, a 'double kill', it seemed.

Having a few guards left, tapping his feet for the 9th time, one of the remaining guard would find him or herself jabbed in the chest, not with force, but vibrations surging throughout the physical body that would seem to have a crippling effect to leave minor damage externally, but internally? These vibrations hold 'information' and force that would force the muscles of the Elite Guard to shrink down, and using what is in his photographic memory, the attempts of cutting off his energy source by the Iramasha? He applies that source of information that he was able to calculation for just a moment, and solve that puzzle by applying some of his own methods in temporarily crippling the chaos energy supply that the Elite Guard has that connects to their limbs to paralyze their movements, and these vibrations are the ones restricting those energy that flows in the Guard's body by compressing the reishi provided in his surroundings from Cirno's energy that freezes the air around him, into the compression of air in his fingertips and jabbing right against the guard's chest would force that energy to vibrate along with the vibrations, effectively 'injecting' that reishi and just from altering the 'information' he has in the vibrations, he can make use of the reishi around him, even in very little volumes, it was enough to cripple the Elite Guard from both movements and the usage of energy for a temporary time, that even using any methods of healing such as the phoenix's tears that one of the Iramasha has won't cut for it, because even if it cleanses the reishi that he used, the vibrations and muscles that holds nothing that can be considered 'foreign' in energy or physical means to negate the effect, making healing hard for this guard. With the 10th tap to one of the Elite Guards, same method is applied to what he did previously, but this one is more interesting, where all that energy doesn't cripple his/her energy, but creating a concentrated force where this time, he jabs right into the forehead of the 10th Elite Guard, puncturing right into the skull of the guard, making use of vibrations and the reishi, if still existent, around him, that punctures right through his/her skull and into the brain, would induce some unsatisfying effects for a few minutes to a few hours depending on the guard's state, would have his/her ability to use chaos energy to either dull or become completely unusable under the guard's control, and that is because the part of the brain where it governs calculative abilities is temporarily shut off from the functions of which the guard can utilize it, and even if he/she can use it, it would become unstable and would most likely not follow its bidding, and the ability to use speech/language would most likely be impacted considering the frontal part of the brain is affected from his attempts to cripple the individual for temporary amount of time where the guard would not be able to speak or even understand the words of those around him or her. For the 11th tap, this is fairly simple, and that is smashing the tip of his crutch into the guts of the Elite Guard, twist it and smashing right against the gut for the 2nd time, would unleash a blast of vibration that goes together with it would most likely cause him/her to vomit blood and cause breathing difficulties that may otherwise affect the combat ability of the guard. Finally, the last Elite Guard on the line with his 12th tap, with specially-prepared assault for the final guard, creating vibrations to his knuckles, once his fist smashes right into the face of the individual, the last Elite Guard that may be standing in the battlefield, would experience something special, the freezing of his/her head. How? Once his fist crashes right into the face of the Elite Guard, a compression would occur because of the quick enclosure of the space between his fist and the Guard, and once the victim falls back and creates an open space again between his fist and the Guard, would force a quick compression of air which if there is still reishi around him, would make use of the effect that it was created for, and compressing it would make the compressed area colder than his surroundings into a ball of ice cold air, and? The force that his fist unleashes would blast the ice cold air into a form of blast in the pressurized air that his fist unleashed together with a force of vibration, leaving a cold, icy effect to the last of the Elite Guard's head into a statue that won't kill the individual, but leave him/her scarred permanently at this point. No mercy in this state, because its a matter of life and death when it comes to dealing with someone who wants to destroy the core, and he won't allow it if it means to kill these weaklings who thinks they can win him with numbers without sufficient firepower to deal against him. What laughter, just having 12 of them and firepower of a Vice Captain would have them think that it can overwhelm him that quickly. Well, not as easy as they think now, that if he slowly drop their numbers to 0 within the time limit, it won't be that formidable now.

However, his legs weren't doing as well. Considering that he is moving beyond his own limits using his own strength, it had scratches and wounds across his legs, flesh wide open and visible for sight, while seemingly tremble a little bit to show that his legs was stressing out from the feats he had done. Even for a human like him, stress can take toll to his physical body and he was no exception from those drawbacks for moving a few times the speed of sound in a body like his. Spitting blood from his previous wounds, he couldn't help but to mock what's left in this battlefield, how reliant she was in her allies to overwhelm him. Leadership? Not dying? Pathetic, full of words but a load of bullshit. Laughing manically across the land, how much he couldn't hold back only to sprout his own sentences from his words in her.. 'attempts'. "AHAHAHAHA! Pathetic! Shitheads like you, to have me cripple them that i don't even know if they can even be functional the next day. Ahhhh! Whatever. I'll just kill you and that's the end of it today, kid. Don't try to involve what you can't even protect, especially when you're just facing the Nightmare himself. Now then, TIME TO END THIS N-.."

Only to about to finish his sentence, he suddenly.. screamed? What happened? Well, while she is setting up the barrier against him, the Inverse stopped his sentence from promptly finishing, and why? Because the blast of lights that he took earlier ago, which she tried to purge his negativity and chaotic nature was somehow.. effective? But its effects seem to rush in after awhile considering how mentally reinforced he was against his original self. Yes, despite his 'original' being dead, his remains do still live on, which means his consciousness is still somewhat alive, and in extreme cases, only the remains of his persona would emerge. The purification that the Iramasha has done left a huge mental strain to the Inverse's mind, being 'raided' by the original's mind was enough to begin driving him insane. The 'light' that the original once seeked, an open path would only allow that mind to flow right into the Inverse's consciousness when he existed. Even if his soul is destroyed, not the consciousness of his remains that still makes the Nightmare, 'him'. What makes him so different from the rest of the Inverse is because he didn't care his 'people', only carrying out his duties and existence to protect the 'core' because that is what makes him 'alive', and if the core lives, he can replace his original self whom died of being killed by the Beast. It was driving him insane, his mind suddenly filled with anger as if he was mentally attacked, and this is where things just suddenly went south. Mentally fighting against the consciousness of the original, would leave the Inverse to the state where he becomes mentally and emotionally unstable. This is the symptoms of a 'mental takeover', seemingly theorized where his original self, whom died, seem to try to temporarily take over the persona and consciousness of his Inverse, which makes him slightly different from the rest as his originator died, and the only way he can be 'alive' is to access through a living vessel that is completely identical to his as long as his 'energy' still lives somewhere on Earth. And it.. happened. Considering that his 'essence' is still presumably alive, his will does still continue on, of when he could interrupt the thoughts of his Inverse and seemingly, enough to deal a mental damage against the Inverse. This was the 'light' of the Nightmare, to destroy what isn't 'him', and that, the Iramasha, opened up the path to it.

"AGHHHHHH! STOP MESSING MY BRAINS AROUND. YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD! AGH! FUCKING BRAT. I'LL KILL YOU UNTIL YOU DON'T EVEN EXIST ANYMORE. AGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"


While on a mental assault, the pressure around him seems to ominously fluctuate for no apparent reason, with killing intent seemingly going on and off like a broken switch, however, it was known enough to understand that within the fluctuating pressure, a third party is involved, right here, and right now. Losing control over the pressure he emits for its fluctuation, the pressure his body unleashes can be considered chaotic in many ways, to the point where fires seems to randomly spark here and there, sometimes combusting into a huge volumes of flames before extinguishing almost instantly in random places, and that is the frictional force caused by the pressure his body was unleashing. Even the individual named Ophelia, whom Inverse that is previously unaffected by his pressure, would suddenly experience the crushing gravity that befalls upon her body, most likely hyperventilating and would be thrown off of her thoughts. The reasons are unknown, but it is simple enough to say that the nature of his pressure seems to be changing drastically, not human, not a demon, not an angel, not magic, none of it. The pressure he emits was nothing of any nature that can be known, and it may the effects of his mental state that causes the pressure to run wild and begin to alter its own 'information', but how it was able to do so is still unknown as it seems to function by his own will. However, it is clear that the pressure his body unleashes was just.. chaotic, so powerful to the point where his surroundings seems to become heavily distorted and the view around him becomes twisted of light. It is clear that his mind is battling it out, and it isn't an easy task. From this point, small black wings seems to sprout from his body, causing the chi energy within him to suddenly spike and explode into shockwaves that would ultimately destroy his surroundings into an explosive force, and running rampant from this point forward. Undergoing sudden changes in temper and combat style, he is basically like a berserker that differs greatly from his usual calm self in this fight a few seconds ago. He currently now is more of a threat than he was before, and being mentally unstable, he is a real threat to deal with as the mental fight he has to go through with willpower against the mind of his originator.

However, his body is in the verge between awakening and his base state, for his pressure and chi energy to fluctuate uncontrollably, turning his body into that of a special case's, a body that is in the state of half-awakening, which normally, chi humans have two states, one is awakening and the last stage is full awakening, but in his case, he is in the process of going through the first stage, the awakening, however, the fluctuation of energy and the unstability of his mental state caused his body to become unsure of whether or not it should go through the process of awakening or stick to his base state, causing it to go through halfway and hence, the incomplete or half-awakening that his body decides to fluctuate between his base state and normal awakening. This may be the reason why the pressure that his body emits seems to be odd, with a third party involved and the state he is going through which caused such special effects to his pressure, to the point where even the previously unaffected individual such as the Inverse Ophelia to be influenced under the effects of his own pressure. But it won't be long for the barrier to hold him back any longer, with his fluctuating pressure to be exploding with an overwhelming power that can go as much as forcing cracks to the barrier that she set up with such hardwork, but it ends here. With his bare hands extending towards the barrier, the Inverse intends to attempt to rip apart the barrier into two, his unstable mental condition which fueled his entire being with nothing but anger and the undeciding emotion between anger and the 'light', he didn't know whether he wanted to kill or not, leaving him no choice but to drop down all of his rational thoughts of his own survival and begin his own fight within his mind while leaving his physical and mental condition, currently, into rampage. Screeching with his voice going through anger, would only have him to try and use all of his might to splitting open the entire barrier, yes, ripping the entire 100 foot perimeter wide barrier into two, and all with his attempts to use his bare hands and strength alone. If that failed? With just a punch, he can unleash force enough to wipe out one of Australia's city with that amount of force he unleashed to completely turn the barrier into pieces of its remains.

He wasn't sure what he was doing anymore from here on out, but one thing, what they are dealing with is the threat. Yes, the 'purification' that Cirno used against him did succeed but the results is different from what she may have imagined, where the only cause was destruction and forcing his mind to break down into an array of confusion and battle between the Inverse and his originator of who's in control of the body. Which it came to the point where it was a bad idea when Aish approached him with her fist covered with blue flames in an attempt to crush his skull. His unstable mental state and the pressure he was emitting was enough to tell everyone that he is bad news starting from here when the purification took its desired effect and heavily affected his mental state. Catching her fist with his right hand, he didn't care whether or not it burns away his hand or not, leaving the damage and pain for him to bear, all his current mind desires is the destruction of these shitheads that picked him as their opponent, and without even a second for Aish to even time her chaos warp away from him, he would proceed to grip his hand tighter against the fiery fist and creates a huge BOOM of vibrations which would not only crush the bones in her entire arm, it has a high chance to completely extinguishing the blue flames that she is capable of summoning and shut away her ability to use it for awhile, and that is thanks to his altered method of cutting away energy supply that the body has when he obtained a small portion of the information when it was used against him. But with his mental state, the calculations were all messed up, having his body to rely on instinct to have her energy supply cut off. First, if her flames allowed her to phase through his body and hit him internally at the same time, why didn't it phase through? Simple, and that is creating a wall of chi energy before his palm, and when her fist runs across the air and against his fist, the chi energy would distribute into a wall of energy, where the fist would go right past it, which electrical charges no longer seem to matter to him any longer, using the wall of chi energy to lock as a barrier against the blue flames and made alterations to the surroundings around his hand to suit the wavelength that the energy locked into, allowing him to catch it without the worries of it phasing through his hand by matching the energy wavelength between the surroundings of his hand and the blue flames to create a 'solid interaction' between his hand and the fist of hers.

Another thing, how is he able to cancel out the flames and lock away her capability to use for temporary period of time? Knowing how annoying the phoenix can be, the boom of vibration he made to crush her arm was to target her soul directly, and using what he had learnt from Cirno through his photographic memory, a little alteration was he able to induce sealing effects that prevents her from being able to use her blue flames again. That, which hopefully it could throw out her focus by having her experience the pain of having her entire arm crushed into pieces by its bones, and have her soul being assaulted by having his chi energy to blast right into her soul, and through the usage of injection, her powers would mostly be momentarily sealed away from being usable for a set amount of time. Annoyance to the phoenix, he had added a short countermeasure as long as it lasts, is that healing her would be proven a hassle, even the phoenix tears, would only further her pain if they intend to purge the seal to use her powers again, and that would be adding the feeling of being burned alive to those who tries to purify, heal or even try to remove the effects which he used against her. It reacts in such a way which any outside energy or healing that occurs, within that layer of flesh or skin which healing occurs, like a virus, using the chi energy that is locked against her soul, would rush to that area and distribute something similar to an allergy reaction, which the chi energy on the area that the healing occurs would create a barrier of energy, and alter its state to turn into the opposite wavelength of the surrounding energy that attempts to heal or purify her body, rejecting the said energy and have her experience pain through the burns of the specific area as the wall of barrier whirs like a chainsaw due having to react with the opposite wavelength as an effect. Interesting, isn't it?

With that done, he didn't hesitate to proceed his assault against Cirno on his currently unstable mental state. Nothing to talk about, all he wanted was to destroy. Not to forget to mention, even at his current empowered state, it doesn't mean that the stress he had earlier ago when he was stable didn't take toll to his body as it is still there, which is enough to tell that if they strike in the right places at the right time, it can leave some strong effect on him physically and probably, stop all of this, but one thing; it won't be that easy. This time, however, he will be much faster than they may think. Without having his chi energy play the role, his strength was enough for him to maneuver like a fighter jet, with a stomp, was enough to break apart his surroundings and form a crater beneath his feet before appearing before the likes of Cirno as if he just.. teleported? But that is just the distortion of light around him, and his stomp creates pressure that further distorts the light to have him appear as if he just vanished, but its just that he moves.. ridiculously fast by using the air pressure he creates with his strength.

Hoping to catch Cirno's face with his bare hand, a huge burst of electricity would explode from his hand, relentlessly attempting to shock her with voltage higher to that of a lightning, far surpassing to the voltage that a lightning can unleash, it was enough for his hand to tell it to her face that he wasn't joking around at this point. Having a mental fight against the consciousness of his originator, and a fist-to-fist fight against them? He wasn't tolerating any of that at all, and throwing a fit of insanity that runs in his mind, destruction serves up the plate. With voltage of such an extent, it wouldn't kill her right off the bat, but leaving damages to her entire body, both internally and externally, as the electricity surging across her body, especially her head would leave some damaging effects to her ability to be able to think rationally and leave a temporary impact to her powers as long as it can last for the time being. But the main focus of why he released so much electricity was to damage her to the point of not being able to move any longer, to numb out the muscles of her body to weaken her strength, temporarily overloading her body's nerves and causing a paralysis effect to her physical body, and ultimately force some parts of her body to split open wounds that may somewhat be either minor to severe. All of that power, in exchange, his entire arm would go through some serious effect. On its already-damaged state which considered is very severe considering how burnt-out it was, to be pushed further to an extent caused his entire left arm to explode into a splash of blood, painting the ground full of his own blood that spilled as it exploded into nothing but blood after forcing the limits of his arm that went through too much damages.

If such attempts failed? Well, not only his arm would be spared from the hassle of having blood spilled, since if anything went wrong, the voltage that he unleashed would be thrown off the focus, and causing the electricity to weaken down to an extent. Despite his mental breakdown and all of the rage flowing through his head, it didn't stop at nothing to make sure his body takes as little damage as possible. His fists, however, doesn't have to take the spotlight all of the time. Tapping his feet to move at fast speed to close the possible shorten distances between himself and Cirno, he would strike his crutch downward against the head of the Iramasha from above, and not with just the strength of the weapon itself, but with his muscles to cover the entirety of the crutch with vibrations of his strength, all of that force that collapses against the Iramasha's body would have a relentless force with force of a full-brunt assault with the force enough for him to rival against a meteor explosion, and even so, that wasn't even the full extent of his strength that he can unleash but it has a huge strain of his left arm, which that is if his attempts to shock her with high voltage fails, would be crippled from the recoil of his strength, and if he had lost his left arm, his right arm which is still at a healthy state can take all of the recoil that it can take from his strength, but leaving quite the strain to his muscles and would most likely find his punches weaker than usual, but still packs more punches than they think. Now, how the Iramasha fares off with his assault depends on how she deals with it, whether she lives or dies falls to how she acts.

With the rest of the people? Making use of what his incomplete awakening can do, he didn't want to waste so much time, than compressing the air above him to obliterate everything that stands in his way. Yes, still being mentally unstable, the compression itself was unstable too, compressing and breaking apart at the same time, blasts of plasma energy would unleash upon the plants, and even its creator, Aki Iramasha, and that blast alone was already sufficient enough. Using the unstable compressed state of the plasma, it meant that the chi energy within the plasma wasn't doing well either, and by firing a plasma, he would be able to throw off the balance that allowed the compression of the plasma, forcing it to overload within the blast, breaking the 'energy' within the plasma apart on a sub-atomic level, and somehow, reconverting its existence into another source of energy, and that, using the unstable matter that the chi energy is going through within the blast, allowed him to create nuclear energy when the particles of chi energy grew unstable and out of sync as it is meddled with, into a lump of nuclear energy that would only make the blast even more powerful, itself having enough firepower on a singular blast to rip apart anything within its vicinity, having enough firepower that can stand right between a Gran Rey Cero and Cero Oscuras fired by an Espada, alone can destroy the likes of the Iramasha at some point. However, you don't think that there is no price in creating such massive firepower from his powers, especially when the side effects of undergoing a half-awakening state is his physical body breaking apart, and having a mental fight with the originator would only sometimes null a few of his actions and weaken his attacks at some point. Being greatly drained from creating such blast, it didn't take long for him to recover on his feet and continue his final brunt of assault against Ophelia, and that? It was a surprise in store for them.

Another compression between the Inverse Ophelia and the real one, yes, an orb of energy, but there is something different about it. Since his calculations are heavily thrown off of the map in his current state, all he could do was to create another unstable ball of plasma? No, it wasn't plasma any longer, but a ball of energy that contained.. various of otherworldly things that isn't of this origin of the dimension that all of them live in, and that's because the 'function' it had was undecided, which went the way he wanted it to destroy them. Making use of the otherworldly energy in the compressed orb since in his half-awakening state, he has the ability to create Imaginary Plasma, an energy that he can create and assign it into any function he wanted to have, and with wonders that if he didn't assign anything to its imaginary state of his unstable mind, what will happen, and this was the result of it. Creating from another dimension of sorts was its contained energy that nothing can ever explain, together with its unstable state, it would keep converting the energy within into another random state of energy, whether if it is a universal energy, nuclear energy, kinetic energy, any energy that it can convert into in a random state of conversion, would begin to have the orb 'collapse', by compressing even more and more until it reaches the state of singularity, a point of 'it' being one thing, and nothing else than 'itself', and by then, it unleashes an explosion of various energy, wiping out anything within several miles from where it exploded, while the rest of the people within the battlefield will be left with minor injuries, he created it where it is the closest to the Inverse Ophelia and the real one, where they will be receive the full power of an explosion of different energies created from an unstable singularity that is capable of wiping out existence of the spiritually-weak within several miles, while the rest that is close to the explosion will be severely wounded with shattered ribcage, losing a limb or two and enough to burn them into crisp where they would either be temporarily or permanently crippled mentally or physically, making this explosion one of the most dangerous ones he had made that is created in an unstable state. It can be much more powerful, but his current mental state made it impossible to do all of the proper calculations to make it even powerful, so he has to go with it with something weaker.

Stepping away from all of the opponents in the battlefield, fatigue and pain all came rushing in as he kneeled down against the ground with his hands held against his head, knowing that all of the stress, pain and fatigue that he used his energy to deal against all of them in a single shot was.. well, a horrible idea to how his mind is going through right now. Becoming heavily vulnerable to attacks currently for a moment before he regains his composure and continue fighting with only insanity covering his mind that is battling the originator from taking over his consciousness, it was easy to tell that he was not doing well mentally, and all of the physical strains to his body made it worse than it should be at this point. BUT! Again, even at his currently weakened state both physically and mentally, it is better to put up a guard against him, even at his weakest, it doesn't mean that he won't be able to defend himself, considering that if he can fight when he is crippled, this is enough to tell the tale that he can fight even if he runs out of stamina, mentally strained or even physically exhausted. In all honesty, just about nothing in this world can stop the Nightmare for fighting, so its better to put up guard against him, especially despite being heavily worn out, his black wings seems to be going strong, his body continued to emit ominous pressure that continuously fluctuates, and in his current state of exhaustion, he can still emit overwhelming level of pressure and seemingly contain almost terrifying levels of chi energy within his incomplete awakening state. This is what happens when you pushed one's mind too far into the corner after 'purifying' him, and things would seem to jump-start when the wrong button is pushed. Groaning from wave after wave of pain going through his head, with his wounded body, and damages from previous attacks taking toll against his physical state, he can still fight, like a tank that can soak things up like a sponge and still going strong. Up and away, his crimson red eyes would stare right at each and every opponent of his, to tell them that he means business if they dare to get close to him at times like this because on the other side of the coin, he wouldn't want to harm them with the pathetic sight he is in right now. The 'light' seems to open up for the Inverse, but the dark persona of the originator didn't want such hindrance to be affecting his combat abilities so much, to be able to do so much without needing to worry about 'human feelings', would ensure his survival at the fullest in the battlefield. So, why? Why does a human, his originator, who died, can still fight against him even after death for control of the Inverse. Just simply, why? How? Does human will that powerful against him? Agh!

Earth seems to shake, crack as rubbles and pebbles rose from the earth by the distorting light that surrounds him. Full of insanity, driven by the gears of unknown, doubt and disbelief of human will, in what way is he inferior to his original self? Cackling of electricity begin surging outward from his body, as this human, no, this.. being, is just almost becoming more and more mysterious the way he is right now. Panting heavily from all the stress he has to endure in this hell of a mental battle between individuals whether or not if either of them has the control over the flesh and bone of this living vessel for two people, the Inverse and the original Sou. It was just typically insane, and if any of them had the guts to attack him at this state? All they would have to meet is energy that seems to sap the chi energy from his very being to construct energy blasts to either destroy hostile beings, or barriers against incoming attack, akin to as if the atmosphere that surrounds him grew mind of its own to defend its host like a passive defensive field that protects its user. With how unstable his mental state grew, strange things seems to happen around him even more. Either way, this defensive field won't be up for long once the Inverse snaps back into reality when he regains his own composure, only just that time is needed to hold himself back together to continue this battle. He can't waste his time any longer to fight them.

"You little shits.. I don't know what you brats did to me to have this shithead invade what's rightfully mine, but what i know that i'll kill all of you when i'm done with this. AGHHHH! I'll make sure to send all of you back to where you came from, and you bet that for sure!"

Once he regains his composure a few moments later? He would stand up again, however, still having an unstable state of mind, the pressure his body unleashes still runs wild and strong, an indication to tell them that he isn't easily done in yet and is prepared to take in blows against his insanity. Well, it is a matter of time before a conclusion is drawn in this battlefield, but he'll definitely make sure to 'take care' of them through destruction and have his own personal business dealt with in this battle. The Nightmare doesn't go down that easily!