Chapter 98: What was going on?

Aaron let the pink wings fade away as he began to float while curling up his body. Yoshiki and Elise were confused about what was going on, as what Aaron was doing was strange. Hell, what they've been going through today certainly wasn't normal. A pink aura began to surround Aaron, causing curiosity to well up within Yoshiki. He walked closer to see what the pink light was. Aaron let out a psychotic smile as he lifted his head for everyone to see. His eyes had begun to glow a shining white, but only for a second. He closed them, and the pink aura shot outwards, sending everyone flying backwards. The castle broke into thousands of tiny pieces while the pink sphere of energy expanded outwards, forcing everything it touched to move in the opposite direction.

Aaron opened his eyes as he watched the castle he had transformed shatter into thousands of pieces, but he wasn't sad. It was his own choice to do this, and it let him fight outside, which gave him much more room to unleash his more creative attacks. Ray went flying, and with no way to protect himself, he had prepared himself for the scenario of him dying upon impact with the ground. A few seconds before he hit the ground, he felt a force stop him from falling. This also went for Yoshiki and Elise, as neither of them had a way to break their momentum, so Aaron had caught them all using his Boundless Telekinesis, preventing them from hitting the ground.

Aaron deposited them on the ground as he floated down towards them, almost like an omnipotent being. In his origin form, he essentially was able to do anything, and if he got a Boundless Ability that allowed him to do anything, he would be. "What...? Aaron...? Why did you save us?" Ray asked, trying to piece together the situation in his mind. Aaron wanted them dead, yet he still saved them from dying? How did that make any sense?

"Well, Ray, there's only one reason for why I saved you," Aaron responded as he finally landed on the ground with a smile on his face. "I don't want the fun to end too quickly, do I?"

"You are one sick bastard, aren't you?" Ray asked with a scowl on his face. This just caused Aaron to laugh at him. "Oh, I never said I wasn't, Ray. I want to enjoy my time here, as it's not fun being the ruler over a planet if I can't enjoy myself while I do so." Aaron replied with his almost always-present smile plastered to his face.

"You know, I meant it when I said you shouldn't underestimate the power of a spirit." Yoshiki ominously whispered as he stood behind Aaron, holding his Blade of Ice, Toshinori, in both hands. He swung it down, prepared to split Aaron in half once again. Aaron disappeared and appeared right behind him. "You know, you really shouldn't announce your position to your opponent until you've hit them first or have them stunned." Aaron pointed out as he delivered a devastating blow to Yoshiki's head. Yoshiki was sent flying into the ground about ten metres away.

Elise rushed up towards Aaron, holding a sword in each hand. She had absolutely no practice dual-wielding swords, as she was used to firing them from a distance, but she had Ray to do that job with his electricity. Aaron jumped backwards as a sword appeared in his hand. It was the sword the system had created for him, Baned Buster. Aaron wielded it in two hands and waited for Elise to rush up towards him. When she reached him, she tried to stab forward with one of the swords while also slashing at him with the other. Both attacks were pitifully weak, so Aaron just lifted his sword at an angle, blocking both attacks simultaneously.

He kicked Elise away as he lifted the sword into the air, as he began to activate the special ability of Baned Buster. He slammed the sword into the ground, yelling out a specific word. "Earthquake!" Aaron yelled as black beams of light began to shoot out of the earth. Ray saw one of the beams of light go through the top of his left arm and began to feel an intense burning in his arm. He couldn't understand what was going on, but he pulled his arm away, causing the beam of black light to shred through his arm like it was paper.

Ray's arm lay destroyed on the ground, looking like a piece of paper cut up by a child with scissors. Ray didn't know what was going on, but he saw his arm get destroyed. He couldn't help but scream out in pain as no blood spilt from his arm. The wound had been sealed up by the beam of light, meaning that it no longer could bleed from there.

Yoshiki rushed up towards Aaron, dodging the beams of light. He needed to land a proper hit on Aaron so that all of this would end. If it didn't, more people would die. The only reason Yoshiki knew of what Aaron had done was that he had access to Crystet's memories. If he didn't have those, he probably would have joined Aaron in fighting Ray and Elise, and that wouldn't have been fair at all.

Aaron delivered a backhanded blow towards Yoshiki's face, as the earth began to shake under the force of something other than Aaron. He didn't know what was happening, so he decided to see if the system could tell him.

'System! What the fuck is going on?'

[Let me check!]

[...]

[Well, there's some bad news for you. You won't be able to rule over this planet if you win this fight, Aaron. Something has messed with the core. Something...made of...ice?]

Now, you remember how Crystet threw that spear of ice? Well, it was apparently cold enough to reach the centre of the earth, and make it self combust.

Well, isn't this an issue?