Eastern Sector, City of Heroes —The ground still trembles with echoes of the titanic battle between Leviathan and the Dragon of Ruin.The sky, tainted with shadows and chaotic lightning, bears witness to the return of a nightmare.
Rudius, on his knees, watches in stunned silence.His Leviathan was gone. His strength tested and broken.But what he sees now renders him speechless.
Silas, cloak torn and eyes locked on Inavy, clenches his jaw.
Silas:— "You've changed… But it doesn't matter.— I am the embodiment of the End. The Prelude to Ruin!"
Inavy (voice steady and cold):— "And I am what comes after the end. The Rebirth."
The Blade of Chaos — now a katana pulsing with warping energy — hums in his grip.The air around it bends. Reality flickers.Every step Inavy takes scratches at existence itself.
Silas:— "Hah! Come on then!"[He charges with a storm of shadow blades, energy blasts, and dimensional ruptures.]
But Inavy doesn't flinch.He sidesteps each attack with chilling precision — as if he already knew where they'd strike.
Rudius (in awe, thinking):— "He's... dancing between time fissures? What is this aura…?"
Silas (screaming, unhinged):— "Fight me for real, damn you!!"
Inavy vanishes. Reappears behind Silas.A single cut.Silas is hurled through the air, slamming through a concrete wall and crashing through the ruins of a building.
Inavy (emotionless):— "See, Silas...?— Chaos isn't mindless destruction.— It's balance within the rupture.— Clarity within the unpredictable.— You toy with darkness...— I am the bearer of the Void."
Silas roars, summoning spears of darkness, dimensional tendrils, and a new skeletal dragon.He charges with everything.
Rudius (thinking):— "He's going to be swallowed whole…!"
But Inavy raises his katana — slowly.The energy around him condenses.A dark aura envelops the blade… tinged with violet and crimson.Space begins to tear.
The wind stops.Light flickers.Sound bends.
Inavy (deep voice, echoing from within existence itself):— "Voidrend Slash... Corte da Ruptura do Vazio."
He strikes.
The blade leaves a rippling scar in the air — a living fissure in spacetime.Reality screams.
Upon contact with the ground, the technique detonates into a chaotic wave of void energy, consuming light, folding sound, and tearing everything in its path.The world goes silent.
Faint whispers from other dimensions echo from the unstable rift left behind.Murmurs without meaning.Voices that don't belong.
Silas, caught at the center, is violently hurled backward.His dragon vanishes.His armor disintegrates into particles.
Rudius (wide-eyed, whispering):— "He... he's a god…"
Silence.Ash drifts through the air.The battlefield lies in ruins.
Inavy slowly sheaths his katana across his back, never looking behind him.
Inavy (soft smile):— "Try again in your next life, Silas."
The villain lies unconscious.Defeated. Without a chance to react.
Narrator:The Blade of Chaos has revealed its true might.And before the Void… even Ruin falls silent.
[To be continued in Chapter 64 — "Dawn of Tomorrow"]