2,245 counil of Despair the cursed sword fell down its inescapable blade shining in the blinding light Sunny was kneeling in front of anvil looking up his black mask was bearing its fangs in a fearsome snarl but beneath it he was pale and terrified in his eyes the thin edge of Anvil's sword seemed as vast as the sky obscuring the whole wo GLD he was gruesomely wounded and weak his hands trembling fear consuming his dazed mind he could not move he could not breathe there was no Escape there was no point in trying to escape anyway
he was defeated and so all he could de was surrender he wanted to surrender ah had he not struggled enough every step he had taken was an arduous struggle every battle he had won was a torous trial he was tired terrified and in pain just like he had always been it had all been so hard so painful so lonesome he was erased from the world and forgotten by everyone he was lost there was no salvation from Anvil's blade but the blade itself offered salvation a sad and somber kind of salvation but Salvation nonetheless an end
to all his pain and all his fear as well as everything else Sunny had no hope left let's letun give up Sunny he looked at the falling sword meekly ready to accept his end and then he raised his hand and caught the cursed blade stopping a short distance away from his neck Sunny's hand trembled the sword trembled as well and as Anvil pushed it down down the steel blade easily cut the Onyx Gauntlet mangling the flesh beneath and becoming smeared in blood the sharp tip Drew closer to Sunny's throat but it still failed to pierce
it for now the two of them wrestled for control of the sword Anvil was pushing it forward with his physical might and aspect Powers while Sunny fought to hold it in place with all his strength desperation and sheer unwillingness to give up giving up sounded wonderful but there was one problem if he gave up he would not be able to kill Anvil and that was not something Sunny was willing to compromise on the cursed sword traveled a bit more and a bit more of its length became painted by Sunny's blood it was mere centimeters away
from his throat now not good pale as a ghost Sunny gritted his teeth behind Weaver's mask and looked at Anvil with murderous Darkness burning in his eyes he had not saved himself from Death really he had merely postponed it and not by long at that he was managing to hold the cursed sword back for now but Anvil would overpower him soon the smallest of actions would break his concentration and allow the sword to plunge into his neck as well so what was sunny supposed to do think think he could sense Anvil's Shadow he could feel
Anvil's tyrannical while giving shape to his killing intent and empowering the Fatal inevitability of his sword summoning death upon Sunny the will the sword what came first what was the true weapon no was there even a distinction between the two or were they Inseparable were they one and the same as Sunny drowned and Power powerlessness and pain as he was being consumed by a singular and overwhelming desire a hint of a vague understanding suddenly dawned upon him his eyes narrowed slowly far away Nephi was hopelessly outmatched in the battle against the colossal vessel of the
Queen the Titanic creature was too vast to be hurt by her Flames the burns they left on its flesh were too small to deal any lasting damage and the cuts were too shallow to do any real harm even these shallow Cuts healed in mere moments leaving no Trace behind at the same time she was deeply infected by the Queen's power nephie could heal herself while kiong could aggravate any wound their powers had been locked in a stalemate before but by now nephie was too outmatched too grievously injured and so her soul continued to rot and
crumble a little faster than it was being cleansed and repaired her suffering was unbearable and her defeat was inevitable deep in her heart nephie knew that she could not survive it was impossible she was thinking of assuming her full trans form but there was no point even if Nephi Unleashed herself she would not be able to harm the Colossal vessel terribly enough to destroy it and it was dangerous for her as well there was a reason why Nephi only ever used her partial transformation and it was that she was afraid of losing herself forever in
the furious flames of her true form of never being able to become human again she would have still done it of course if she saw that there was a chance if that could have helped her survive ah the Colossal creature moved irrationally fast for its prodigious size there was both something regel and something besal about her ferocious Onslaught the Queen's Titanic hand reached toward nephie creating a hurricane with the pressure of its passing nephie evaded the immense talents this time but she could not avoid them forever sooner or later she would be caught crushed and
extinguished there was nowhere for her Escape all she could do was fall no no she refused her soul continued to crumble and mend itself Contin to rot and be cleansed by the Searing Flames neph wanted to scream but she had no voice her vision was turning blurry far away the Lord of Shadows was pierced by Anvil's sword and fell to his knees the king raised his cursed blade ready to strike down no the great armies were drowning in the flood of Abominations her soldiers were dying the Flames of their brittle hopes disappearing in the sea
of encroaching Darkness they long to survive but were met with the cold Embrace of death instead no overcome by pain neph felt ready to succumb to despair it was then that her radiant gaze turned to the dark sky she hesitated for a moment and then her figure blazed with blinding Radiance abandoning her feudal attempts to wound the queen Nephi flew up Up and Up up past the Towering figure of the Queen's vessel into the darkness of the rustling swords and Beyond it Rising high above the battlefield Nephi left the veil of Shadows and escaped into
the brilliant light of the cruel Sky the Eternal veil of radiant clouds was just above her spreading her wings nephie continued to rise the clo ODS welcomed her like a lost daughter 2,246 children of War Far Below on the ground Sunny was slowly losing the struggle against Anvil the tip of the blooded sword was already pressed against his neck piercing the skin the blood was slowly flowing up the blade trying to return to its source however his trembling hand was too mangled to contain it his grip was still crushing though preventing the cursed sword from
moving any further in that moment tormented by desperation and pain Sunny suddenly saw it clearly the will and the way the King of Swords wielded it the vague shape of the path to Supremacy disjointed pieces of knowledge and the things he had observed all came together falling into place and suddenly it all made sense his eyes narrowed it all made sense but Sunny still did not know what he had to do what he gained was not a map but rather all the necessary tools he needed to draw the map and then chart a course to
his destinations across it if only he had time but there was no time he was going to be killed in mere seconds Sunny gritted his teeth desperate and refusing to give up no no no and just then a miracle happened far above the clouds of God grave parted and Rays of annihilating light poured down from the white abyss of the incandescent Sky the fragment of the Shadow realm endured them with cold indifference remaining as dark and lightless as it had always been but sunny and Anvil were currently devoid of its protection sensing the clouds breaking
above them the King of Swords looked down at Sunny with cold contempt and pushed her sword forward with tyrannical Force he must have hoped to finish the job before the light reached them but Sunny refused to be killed the sword did not move however the annihilating light did not reach them either high in the sky the storm of rustling swords shifted and both of them were suddenly drowned in Shadows shifting his gaze up Sunny saw the Flying Swords forming a vast impenetrable shield above them the enchanted blades were pressed tightly against each other so that
no Gap was left between them and therefore no light reached the ground below of course the sky of God grave was not forgiving enough to be stopped by a barrier of mere steel Enchanted or not already there were AES of angry red glow spreading across the surface of the celestial Shield glowing drops fell down and soon molten metal rained from the sky the swords were being annihilated but there were so many of them that for now the barrier held it was not going to last long though Sunny lowered his gaze and looked at Anvil feeling
the cursed blade scrape against the bones of his hand and sink deeper into his neck he was drawing the map feverishly and then he saw it he finally understood how to attain Supremacy far above Nephi was drifting in the harrowing white Abyss o the Godless Sky there was no wind here no hope and no salvation only silence and blinding Radiance that went beyond Beyond fire Beyond light Beyond heat that Radiance was destruction incarnate it was destruction itself a force from Before Time existed that was capable of erasing entire worlds from existence of erasing existence itself
Nephi was burning her body was made of flame but even that flame was being destroyed her soul was turning to Ash and the ashes of her soul were turning into nothingness there in that merciless white Abyss Nephi lost her body her mind her soul her very self was stripped bare and cleansed of everything until nothing but her naked Spirit remained her spirit began to crumble e as well but she still had the will her will had been born from pain from flame from conviction from longing and so she willed herself into existence she willed herself
to be reborn from the fire to be blessed by the fire she spoke the true name of Destruction warding herself from being destroyed even as Nephi burned she healed herself and burned again maintaining a tenuous state of equilibrium neither dead nor alive she continued to exist for now she knew that she would not be able to prevent herself from dissolving into white Radiance with her sheer will for long her will was not inexhaustible after all it was not absolute but in that moment between life and death neph finally saw the path to Supremacy she knew
what she had to do and what her will had to become I have to survive I have to die that was his answer it was so simple but Sunny had had remained blind to it for so long Anvil's blade sank deeper into his neck molten metal rained from the sky and far above the barrier of Swords was falling apart rays of light were already falling on the surface of the ancient bone Sunny had to die but he could not allow himself to be killed there was a trick to it all at least there was for
him he was going to cheat his way to Supremacy that was his act of defiance still death was cruel and terrifying even for someone who had died as many times as Sunny had he had cheated death on Plenty of occasions always finding a way to stay alive but this time was different it had to be this time he had to die in Earnest with no deception or trickery involved only truth it was so absurd that he wanted to laugh he would have if not for the few centimeters of Cold Steel current luu piercing his neck
still sunny smiled crookedly behind Weaver's mask he opened his mouth and asked in aoar voice straining to make himself heard hey King of Swords do you wish to kill me Anvil looked at him coldly I do I will Sunny couldn't help it after all and let out a stifled Sinister laugh the cursed blade cut him and he grimaced a dark murderous Fury Rose like a py in his heart Sunny spat listen you wret you can't kill me you are not worthy enough to kill me he mustered what little remained of his strength arduously pushing Anvil
sword a few centimeters back for a moment a man worthy of killing me has not been born in this world yet kneeling bleeding utterly broken Sunny looked up at Anvil and laugh AA in and never will be I am the heir of death you fool did you really think that you could kill death the only thing that could kill death was death itself as brilliant light illuminated them forcing Anvil to freeze Sunny raised serpent with his free hand the black ODI rippled turning into a ghostly stiletto and just as his arm started to crumble into
Ash grinned turned the blade of the Stiletto against himself and plunged it into his own heart
