"YOU BASTARD!" came a familiar voice from nowhere as I got out of the crater I was in with a hint of surprise showing on my face.
"The man?" I muttered as I saw a pillar of golden light and ghastly black in the distance, and yep, it was the man.
[Ohoho, can you handle him Rintarou?] asked Ddraig full of interest in the current events.
"I don't know Ddraig," with a groan, I started to fly up towards the sky as I saw the man looking vastly different from before.
With golden-white and ghastly black hair, a surprisingly muscular physique, new eyes with the left one being golden-white and the other having the color of blue-soul fire, and finally, a katana has appeared on his waist inside its sheathe.
"Oh, the man is still alive, and it seems like you got a powerup, a typical shonen anime trope. Becoming more powerful with the power of friendship and love, but at the cost of their deaths," with a clap of my hands, I decided to level the playing field a bit.
"[BALANCE BREAKER: MECHANICAL RED DRAGON EMPEROR!]" with that shout, a new set of armor went to don on my body and vastly different from the last time I used this form while rampaging in outer space.
Now it was leaner, less bulky, and there were more improvements like higher durability, higher strength enhancement, less weight, etc. that brought this armor to another level when Ddraig went to absorb my latest Mechanical God suit which took me a few days to make, unlike the one I used the last time against the harem rangers today.
"YOU! WHAT HAVE WE EVER DONE TO YOU!" shouted the ma as a group of Death Knights appeared behind him with their energy levels being vastly superior compared to the one made by the lich girl.
"I don't know, I just felt like doing a little bit of mischief today," with a cynical laugh, multiple floating cannons got discharged from my back as they started to charge up dangerous red energy.
"AAAA! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" with enraged eyes, a gigantic red magic circle appeared in front of his arms along with multiple light constructs surrounding me like light chains and light cages.
And in less than a second, a hellish pillar of flames got sent out from the red magic circle, and even from far away I felt the heat which shows how powerful the man became.
But it was simply not enough to kill me because, with a simple teleport, I appeared far away from the pillar of flames and light chains while my cannons went to retaliate by shooting dangerous red beams of light that he blocked with a simple light barrier and it didn't even seem to bother him which is a bit terrifying but everything is still under my control.
"it's time to get serious," I muttered under my breath as a gigantic magic circle went to appear on the ground below me as I went to create a complex equation that controls the moon's water element empowered by the natural earth around us and by adding multiple runes such as dragon, durable, scales, ice, resistance, etc.
And with a drain of my mana, out came a gigantic eastern dragon from the ground as it let out a monstrous roar.
But the man responded back to my spell by transforming into a western dragon that rivals the size of my ice dragon.
"GAO!" shouted the golden-white and ghastly black dragon as he swipes his claws enhanced with magic toward my ice dragon who dodge the claw by swaying to the left and using it as an opportunity to coil around the man's body.
And as crystal-blue ice started to cover the man's body, he let out a roar and an explosion of golden light erupted from him as the epicenter and destroying nearly half of my ice dragon's body, which in turn made me expend more of my mana to rebuild most of its body.
With a flick of my arm, the ice dragon's mouth opened wide, and out came a beam of freezing cold ice that brought the surrounding temperature to sub-zero while the man simply responded by also shooting a beam of mana and as they collided, a loud boom was produced by the two beams who went into a battle of attrition on who first will lose enough energy that the other can destroy the loser.
And unfortunately, the man has drastically more mana than me as my Ice Dragon run out of mana that finally allowed the beam to pierce through, destroying my construct while half of my mana was gone which is ridiculous because I could have destroyed a country with that mana if I wanted to which shows how strong the man became.
"HA!" I shouted as the thrusters in my back went out full throttle and with a sonic boom, I appeared right in front of the man's head and sent out a punch to the eyes and kill him just like the loli dragon last time but with surprising speed, he turned around and bash his head towards my small body sending me flying far away into the wall once more.
[Holy shit! How strong is he! Didn't you tell me these walls could endure nuclear warheads!]
"He's more powerful than me by a landslide right now, but I could probably defeat him by attrition if I jus-" shit, as the man roared in his dragon body, multiple death knights appeared behind him riding on undead mounts such as horses and more which makes me severely outnumbered.
I guess I need to kill him fast or else I will lose.
"HA!" I shouted and out came more blasters from my body as I rapidly shot out multiple red beams destroying most of his army from far away while rapidly recovering my mana but the man roared and out came multiple magic circles which I quickly dispelled with multiple runes.
"GAO!" shouted the man and before I could process what happened, his body somehow appeared right in front of me and with a tail whip, I was flung once more away into the sky as I let out a cough of blood inside the armor.
But most of the damage was quickly healed due to my cancer cells.
"DIE!" shouted the man as he shot out another beam from his mouth towards my still stunned body and felt my whole lower half getting destroyed as I quickly felt teleported away to rebuild my body which quickly got covered once more by the balance breaker.
[How are you going to defeat him?! He's overwhelming you right now!]
"Don't worry, I guess it's time to use plan B!" I shouted and from the ground, 6 Mechanical Gods appeared, and with a command with my AI chip, the 6 powered up as their eyes lit up with yellow light.
"GAO!" shouted the man as he sent out a beam of mana towards the 6 robots, but they quickly went to move at fast speeds though it was below the speed of sound but just fast enough to evade the beams while also summoning weapons from their bodies with each of them wielding different weapons.
The one with the sword went to appear right above the dragon and with one slash, the dragon's eye was stabbed with the sword while the one with the spear went to do the same with the other eye.
Then the other 4 went to shoot beams at the open mouth of the dragon while the thrusters on my back powered up and with a single sonic boom, I appeared right in front of the open mouth of the man and flew right inside his insides destroying most of his inner organs from his heart to his stomach, I destroyed them all while shooting out from his stomach coated in blood.
[Whew, you finally did it!] exclaimed Ddraig as I landed on the ground and heard the loud thud as the man's body dropped down to the ground creating a large crater.
"Yeah, it was a success!" I shouted in glee as I let out a groan from my mouth, and as I was about to dispel the Boosted Gear, I suddenly felt danger hastily approaching my body and teleported away in the nick of time as a gigantic beam went to envelop the previous place I was standing at.
"You think that was my end!" shouted a distorted voice high above in the air as I saw the man in a new form with angelic wings behind him along with the other half being ghastly black similar to those of the devils.
And not only that, his hair was now longer with the same color scheme running through his whole body which was golden-white and ghastly black while his energy levels were off the charts!
[Holy fuck! He also has a phase 2?!]
"Shit!" I shouted as multiple beams of light rapidly went to shoot towards me while I teleported from one place to another in rapid succession desperately running away from each beam which left giant craters on the ground.
"Shit, my mana is less than 10%!" holy shit, I'm about to lose here!
With a blue magic circle appearing on my hand, multiple chains of ice appear beside the man enveloping his whole body in an icy cage but he simply melted the ice away like it was nothing and in response, a new death knight appears right beside me who quickly sent out a punch flinging me far away towards the walls once more.
And once I was there, multiple beams of light went to shoot towards me as each of my limbs was severed off along with the armor nearly being destroyed.
[Rintarou! Do you have any other plan!]
Tsk, yeah!
I have another plan, but this one is untested!
[I thought you had everything under control! At this rate, we might actually die!]
Don't worry Ddraig, even though it is untested, I'm confident in my ability to save ourselves.
With a quick teleport, I appeared high in the sky at the opposite end of the arena from the man as I cleared my throat.
"To be honest, you did impress me. To think you will reach this level of power real quick, it even shocked me for a bit, but I think it's enough playing arou-" but I was cut off by another beam of light which I dodged in the nick of time.
"Oh, a bit rude. Oh well, it's time to end this!" I shouted and before the man could know what I was doing, I decided to finally do something I'd been putting in the back of my mind due to the constant fear I felt from doing it, but there's no holding back now!
Without me moving a muscle, a dangerous aura suddenly exploded from me as the center while the armor I was wearing started to slowly change in color from small runes of pure white and void black enveloping the armor whole.
[Rintarou! What is happening right now!] shouted Ddraig as he felt a weird feeling from the strange markings on his body but he got no response from Rintarou.
[Rintarou? Rintarou! Are you there?!] but no response was received while he started to feel Rintarou's body which in turn is also his body connecting with countless mana sources that appeared from nowhere as what he must think was infinite energy started to surround their body.
And as Ddraig watches Rintarou point a single finger toward the man, he started to feel a monstrous amount of mana start to funnel towards the tip of his finger.
"Bear witness," muttered Rintarou, and as a single point of light gathered at the tip of his finger, Rintarou let go of his control on his mana, and out came a beam of pure mana that shot towards the man, and without obstruction, the beam of mana pierces through the man's barriers and protection and just like that, the beam went to envelop the man's body whole along with the arena behind him as a hole in space was made sucking in the air out of the arena and leaving everything inside it stranded in the void of space within a split second.
[What was that Rintarou?!]
My secret technique, Parallel Realities Connection.
AN: This is 2080 words, you're welcome.
Just imagine Ether Cannon by Zelretch, and no, I won't go to the Nasuverse because fuck that, there is already a traverser called Zelretch in that set of universes and it will bring too much problems for the plot so maybe a Fate-Something hybrid where it does have the power system of fate just set in another anime world, so we can still get servants and Nasuverse magic in the future, but no Nasuverse because it will contradict previous world building like how a planet has consciousness which is bad bad, like very bad for me. And also because I don't plan to watch Fate anytime soon so that's that.
The Sword of Damocles hangs above each and everyone one of you with its ever present threat of despair, so send me some power stones with your power of friendship and save the thousands perhaps even millions to come who will read this masterpiece immortalized in the tunnels of time.
(May 4, 2022 – 161st day of writing)