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"What about Trevor? And Wren?" I asked as I dodged more of his strikes. I noticed his energy was significantly lower than before now. I could've reverted to normal in his condition and still would have been more powerful than him.
"They are my children—gods created by a god. They are clean. Untainted."
I rolled my eyes as I swatted one of his weakening strikes away. He was so engrossed in his fractured mind's epiphany that he hadn't noticed he was draining his physical and spiritual stamina. "You've lost it. Seeing a human surpass you, and another human has resisted you, you tried to destroy the world but failed...it's broken something inside you."
My goal was to keep pushing him to exhaustion without actually hitting him. He must've noticed my lack of initiative, which, of course, only made him angrier.
"Fight back!" he yelled, finally noticing he'd fallen from his hybrid form at some point and was nearly out of energy.
"At this point, it wouldn't be fair if I did," I remarked, as his subsequent strike was so weak that it slid off me, unable to break my skin. Avarice stumbled past me, clutching his chest as he could no longer keep the hole in it clogged with his energy. He fell to his knees, unable to move as he started to bleed out.
As he bled out, I walked closer and gathered energy around my fist for a final strike.
"You...you didn't strike me...at me once," he coughed up blood, "how could you...fight so pathetically? Just to...tire me out...to land a...fatal blow?"
"You're wrong."
"...W-what?"
"I didn't want to be the one to defeat you," I declared as I looked down at my fist. "Don't mistaken what's happening; it's the wound Tymon gave you that sapped your strength so fast and has put you in the state you're in now. Tymon is the one who defeated you."
Avarice showed his blood-covered teeth and pressed a button from his holo-bracelet.
"I see. I've been...defeated. But I haven't lost.... My contingency plan will take care of the rest.... I'll resurrect...and hunt each of them down...then deliver their heads to you..."
"You may resurrect, but you won't be going anywhere. My connection with you all isn't just physical. You'll spend a long time trapped alone, experiencing a constant state of nothingness," I informed him as I cocked back my Destructive Fist. "But for now, this is for all the trouble you've caused us."
I released my punch, hitting him directly in the face. The impact sent out a powerful shockwave that rippled through the area behind Avarice as if a hurricane was focused only on that space. Avarice was flung away; his body crashed through objects and bent unnaturally until he eventually came to a stop miles away.
When I arrived at his body, I saw his eyes were rolled into the back of his head, and blood trickled from them and his mouth. He was dead. For now.
I sighed as a slight twinge of guilt hit me. I knew he'd come back, but killing him still felt wrong. I looked up at the sky to see the sun fully rising, bringing in a day.
I glanced back down at Avarice and saw his holo-bracelet blinking.
It is not over yet, Viraa stated.
Unfortunately not, I responded, but first: Tymon, can you hear me...?
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