Supreme Couple In Apocalypse: Undead King & Demonic Queen

Ragna's challenge seemed like a major boast, but when he made a move, even Erix's pupils shrank.

Five golden-black lightning spears suddenly registered on everyone's radar and they were already right in front of them.

Everyone unleashed a skill to counter, but all of them were struck powerfully as they failed to dodge completely.

Erix wasn't hit as a black glassy orb blocked it, but the spear had actually penetrated the orb halfway!

Of course, he was already gone from the location with teleport, so even though it exploded into a terrifying lighting blast, he wasn't hurt.

However, Ragna already appeared behind Rin with his right hand manifesting raging black gold lightning claws with shining blue lightning patterns.

Rin's eyes flashed, and her Chronace Field activated fully as instantly used Mind Zone to modify it.

Ragna's arm slowed down considerably, giving Rin a chance to escape as she appeared a hundred meters away.

However, Ragna's eyes flashed before lightning struck down from the sky, right onto Rin.

"Argh," Rin grunted, but she was more shocked. 'Why is his lightning damaging me?!'

A jolt passed through her soul as she felt pain.

Of course, Ragna was immediately attacked by Lilith, Nira, Korin, and Erix the moment he attacked.

However, Ragna instantly arrived in the sky as a lightning bolt struck and a golden cloud appeared crackling with black and gold lightning.

"Not good enough to hit me yet," Ragna stood with his arms crossed. In the next second, he vanished again as tens of terrifying purple spikes with black and silver patterns appeared in his location from space.

'How?' Erix's eyes narrowed at his failed attack. He had aimed it right inside Ragna's body space. His attacks he thought unavoidable by any were just avoided.

"Not fast enough," Ragna shook his head.

Everyone floated at different locations as their expression turned somber.

In the next second, colorful lights flashed in the sky as everyone attacked and moved to kill Ragna, but he still avoided them while five lightning bolts instantly struck them from the sky with no way of dodging.

Everyone was injured as they failed to dodge or defend themselves since his attacks struck them unexpectedly fast and piercingly while they were attacking him, though they also recovered fast. Still, the amount of power and potency in the attacks caused their recovery to consume a great deal.

'Use the Vitalum Innate Talent,' Erix quickly relayed to others before disappearing and appearing behind Ragna while his fist empowered by a powerful gauntlet and skill was already touching his skin.

[Vitalum Stainlux]

|_Type: Innate Talent.

|_Passive Effect: Healing Factor and Stamina recovery is increased by 100%.

|_Active Effect: Increase your reaction time and physical parameters by 50% for 1 minute when infusing 1000 Chakra in the Vitalum Stainlux core.—> 10 minutes of cooldown period before you can activate Vitalum Stainlux again.

This Erix's attack caused a surprise to flicker in Ragna's eyes, but not panic.

Meanwhile, Erix's eyes widened in shock as he felt the sensation of Ragna's skin and presence vanishing right when he struck him!

Ragna appeared 100 meters above him, his arms crossed, "That was impressive. How did your speed and reaction get this kind of boost?"

'He already got close to Battle Matrix…' Ragna thought with a strange feeling. 'He won't figure it out…I think.'

*Crackle!*

Suddenly, his eyes flickered again before a terrifying slash that tore space open formed right at his position, which he narrowly avoided again.

"Damn it," Rin cursed, but her figure was glowing, and physical exertion was to the extreme. "We need to be faster."

'Speed…'

Her Speed Concept Gear's gem on the Supreme Throne shone before she vanished and started the barrage of her myriad blade attacks on Ragna.

"That's more like it," Ragna grinned while narrowly avoiding Rin's attacks. 'Her speed is close to breaking through to the matrix.'

Lilight's eyes shone dark red as she also aimed a debuff on Ragna after activating her Combat Domain to improvise and upgrade the skill, but in the second, she was shocked to see him avoiding even that.

'He is avoiding the energy patterns themselves right as they manifest. How?!'

[Erix: There's something wrong. I touched him, but he still vanished and avoided.]

Erix relayed to others and started supporting Rin by popping out his exotic attacks right from space through Ragna to keep him on the toe and pressured.

[Korin: I don't know what kind of power he is using to avoid our attacks.]

[Lilith: Combat domain is useless since he is still avoiding attacks. Let's not use domains to waste energy for now.]

Meanwhile, Nira's expression was gravest as she knew what Ragna was doing. She also didn't make any move as she knew she would only waste her energy.

[Nira: He is using Battle Matrix. A realm of combat that only those with a perfect balance and control between Aethir, Soul, Body, and Magic can achieve. As a reincarnator from a higher dimension realm, it's not strange he can access Battle Matrix.]

She continued and explained how Battle Matrix worked to others.

[Nira: Battle Matrix is a state of one's self and the world around them—a zone in which your mind can easily and swiftly feel any energy fluctuation. He knows you are going to attack before you attack. There's no way to hit him unless we are faster and more reactive than him.]

But Speed was also Ragna's forte as they saw it. Even Rin who had the speed concept gear and Erix who had no notion or limit of speed in general due to Space and Void couldn't touch strike.

'Even if I can fight, it won't change the result, and lingering longer might get us killed,' Nira frowned.

'If they can access Battle Matrix, things would become easy, but can they do it?'

Nira clenched her fists and sighed. 'The best course of action is to escape and prepare. With Erix, we can still escape easily.'

Suddenly, Erix's voice rang in everyone's head.

[Erix: My punch touched him, but he still managed to avoid the attack. If I can touch him, we should be able to land an attack.]

[Nira: Erix, although your attacks are instantaneous, it's no use if he senses them and knows they are coming beforehand.]

[Erix: My punch touched him, though.]

[Nira: Yes, because you reacted perfectly and reached fast enough to touch him, but since he already knew you were coming, he was also prepared to avoid it, so you only managed to touch him instead of hurting him and this will continue to happen because the speed gap isn't big enough for you to land an attack.]

[Lilith: is there any way for us to hurt him then? Because my soul attack was also avoided.]

[Nira: Soul-attributed mixed skills are easy to avoid since he can sense them and despite being targeted, they are slow, so they can be avoided easily due to their slowness. Of course, it is slow only for those who can access Battle Matrix.]

Nira sighed and continued.

[Lilith: Then what should we do?]

[Nira: Avoiding Erix's and Rin's onslaught is not consuming as much energy as Erix and Rin are spending to attack him.]

[Nira: The longer we stay, the more dangerous it will get for us. He can basically predict and prepare while we can only react and do our best while consuming more energy. Erix, let's escape before he goes offensive form and we lose one of us from this game.]n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om