The Veilwalker

"..."

Trohan gritted his teeth in frustration. He was supposed to be stronger than Alexander, so then why? He couldn't make heads or tails about anything.

'Tsk! This all started with that white radiance!' The hulmite felt like crying. 'I can't do anything to his body directly without making contact, and my domain is practically useless!'

Sure, he could stretch space, lock space or even use his surrounding space as a weapon against Alex. But the bastard always found a workaround. It frustrated Trohan to no end and he even felt that Alex was using him as a learning dummy to improve his prowess!

"So what's it going to be?" Alex asked with his confident smirk, knowing he was in control despite the situation. "Do we continue or will you give up?"

"I'll be damned if I let you go." Trohan snarled with blazing dark eyes. "Even if I have to keep you here forever, then that's what I'll do!"

"Come on, man." Alex sighed. "Don't you have any other agenda? More universes to devour and grow stronger?" At this point, Alex was just taunting the poor soul.

Trohan would have smitten Alex out of existence if he could. If he couldn't kill Alex in here, then he might as well forget it. Who knew if there was another god like Alex out there?

The hulmite was desperate to find a way to defeat Alex. Only then would he have the confidence to explore the multiverse fearlessly. The confidence he had in his newfound powers wasn't doing so well.

'Fucking hell…This Alexander fella is no ordinary god!'

The hulmite hated to admit it but he had to. He began to second guess all his plans of attack. Various scenarios on how Alex could use his attacks against him gnaw at the back of his mind.

A few seconds passed as the two combatants faced off.

Alex realized the hulmite was losing his confidence in facing him. A soft chuckle escaped his lips. He couldn't blame the guy for going down that path.

He had no problem fighting the hulmite for as long as it took--he could afford it. But what he feared was the boredom that would eventually set in.

With his core transforming his void energy into white radiance, he had all the power he needed to counter the abomination's black essence. It just wasn't potent enough in this environment.

'We would just be going round in circles…' Alex thought. 'The only thing I can do is use this as a learning moment.' He sighed and his figure flickered once more.

"!"

Trohan's stomach churned the instant he saw the flicker around Alexander. Just as he feared, Alex surged forward, leaving a glowing white trail in his wake.

Reaching the halfway point in a blink, Alex hurled a massive arc blade toward the hulmite.

Without a second thought, Trohan sprang back, but he had no intention of letting that blade reach him. His right hand shot forward, and with a swift command, he condensed the surrounding space.

Space grew dense, forcefully dragging down the blade's momentum — and Alex's.

'This again?'

Alex eyed his surrounding space as his speed came to a slow halt. He could see the laws around him change in real-time but had no way of interacting with them.

His mind went into overdrive, trying to see if there was a way he could manipulate the mutated and changing laws without burning through them. But time was not on his side.

The hulmite closed in on him a split second later, bypassing the arc blade and reaching Alex in a flash. Alex would have missed him if he wasn't paying attention.

The hulmite was trying to force a head-on clash, desiring to create the cracks he inflicted in their first collision. Perhaps, inflicting more of those damages would do the trick.

'Hah…'

Alex released a soft sigh as he willed his radiance to flare outward, burning through the laws trying to lock his existence down. He immediately bent backwards as the blow from the hulmite went over his head.

BOOM…!!!

The destructive power was still the same--extremely powerful, but not enough to rip space apart without a collision. Without delay, Alex manoeuvred around the hulmite, but Trohan reacted just as fast.

BOOM…!!!

Alex crossed his arms above his head, taking the full force of Trohan's descending high kick with peerless steeze. A subtle groan escaped Alex's lips but was otherwise uninjured.

Trohan swiftly sprang back when he noticed Alex pull back his right hand. A radiant white sphere condensed in Alex's palm before he unleashed it at the hulmite.

But just as he observed with his other attacks, the sphere lost most of its potency when it left his hand. It allowed the hulmite steer out of the way just in time.

Trohan took a page out of Alexander's book and swung his right hand at Alex. A dark and ominous arc blade whipped through the void as it closed in on Alex.

"Tsk!" Alex yelled in frustration. "This is getting nowhere!"

With swift and agile movements, Alexander somersaulted as the blade zoomed past him and into the distance. He exploited the momentum of his acrobatic move to close in on the hulmite, his hand clenched into a fist--just like Trohan wanted.

BOOM…!!!

For the second time in their short encounter, black and white met in a galactic-level explosion that tore space apart. The shockwaves from the collision flung both fighters back without mercy.

Alex took the brunt of the shock, being hurled through the void at immeasurable speeds. Similar cracks to what appeared before reappeared all over his body, even in his robes.

He managed to regain a semblance of control over his body. Unfortunately for him, the hulmite had learnt his lesson. Trohan got Alex right where he wanted and would be damned if he allowed Alex to recover.

"!"

A cold shiver ran down Alex's spine when he spun around just in time to see Trohan come from above. The hulmite had both hands clasped together, launching them at Alex.

The hands cut through space, radiating dark destructive intent. With an unstoppable momentum, the hands struck true.

BOOM…!!!