"Who are you?"
The man opposite Helios wore a long black cloak with a hoodie that covered his face from view. He brought up his hand and pointed a single finger towards Helios. A black ball of pure Karma gathered at the tip of the finger before it began to swirl around and grow in intensity.
"Basilius," he said.
BBBOOOOMMMMM!!!!!
Helios' eyes widened as he was consumed by the blast from the orb. The man brought his hand back down and waited to see if there would be any movement. He didn't expect anyone to survive this, but it never hurt to make sure. After a few moments without any signs of movement, he turned around to leave.
"Cough! Cough! That's a lot of smoke,"
The man turned back around in shock as the smoke cleared up to reveal Helios with one hand in his pocket and the other one waving around to clear the smoke from his face. He looked behind him and whistled as he saw the entire road was destroyed for close to a mile.
"You're going to have to pay to fix that, you know"
"I hit you," the man said
"Huh? What did you say?"
"I said I hit you! How are you still alive?"
"Oh," Helios laughed, "That's an easy one actually," he looked down his nose at the man with the most condescending look ever, "I'm just that much stronger than you"
The man's eyes widened and then he began to shake in anger.
"But don't take my word for it, come on" Helios waved him forward
"Basilius," the man said with grit teeth
"Huh?" Helios responded
"My name is Basilius. Remember it, it is the name of the man that'll kill you"
Helios looked at him for a long time before he suddenly began to chuckle, "Pwahaaha! Do people still do that!? I thought it died down three hundred years ago!"
"Shut up!" Basilius shouted
"Sorry sorry," Helios said while waving his hand back and forth, "I just didn't think you would do something like that.. but…"
There was a shift in the air, and then suddenly Helios was right in front of Basilius, "…If you want to do things the old fashioned way, then I'm all game. Mys name is Helios," his mouth split into a smile, "And I'm going to be your executioner today"
Basilius quickly jumped back to create some space between them. Helios ran forward again, but Basiius formed a ball of Karma on his right hand and shot it forward.
BOOMM!!
The blast took out the railing separating the road from the forest and Basilius' eyes narrowed when he didn't see Helios as the smoke cleared. His eyes darted around.
"Looking for me?"
"I have you now!" he turned around and slammed his hand into the ground. A blast of black energy tore through the ground where Helios was standing and he screamed in agony as it tore into him.
"I'm not done yet!" Basilius shouted as he ran forward with another black ball in his hand. He placed it on Helios' chest and detonated it.
BOOOMMM!!
Helios was sent flying back and slammed into the wall on the other side of the road. Basilius straightened once more and walked forward to make sure he was dead. Once he reached the body, his eyes widened as he saw only a shirt on the ground. He quickly turned around, but a hand latched onto his mouth and Helios' face leered down at his own.
"My turn"
For Basilius, the feeling wasn't very different from being out in the afternoon sun. It was hot, dry, and humid all at the same time. Only that this sun was a thousand times stronger.
Helios turned Basilius towards the forest, "Yellow Sun,"
BBOOOOMMM!!!
The blast of yellow fire tore through the ground and then into the forest and launched Basilius into the distance like a cannonball. He smacked into the ground, tearing through trees and dirt as he skipped across the ground like a rock across a river.
Helios brought his finger up and a yellow ball formed on it. He continued adding Karma into it, allowing the ball to grow denser and denser, till it was orange in color, "You think your technique measure up to the sun?" Helios said as he pointed the ball towards the distance, "Let me show you what a technique is"
"Explosion"
The night became day. A blat so intense that it turned trees to ash as it shot through the forest slammed into Basilius like a rail gun.
Helios whistled as he looked at the mile-wide canopy of flames, "Maybe a little less next time?"
He then looked down at himself and frowned at his shirtless body, "That guy is going to buy me a new shirt if he survives this"
Basilius coughed as he forced himself to his feet. His legs wobbled and his hand shook uncontrollably, "So this is the strongest Karma user," he said before coughing, "How scary"
His cloak was completely torn from the blast and only his tattered black inner shirt and trouser remained. His eyes and hair were pitch black and he wore a black earring on his right ear.
Helios landed a few meters away from him, "I see you're still alive. Not bad for a little devil"
Basilius' eyes widened, "How -"
"Oh, you didn't think I would recognize you? The Hades faction is full of people like you. If your hair and eyes didn't give it away, then your technique surely would. You're so full of yourself when all you can do is destroy," Helios laughed, "How disgusting"
Basilus' face contorted in fury, "Fuck you!" he rushed Helios, and a black orb formed on his hand. Helios stretched out his own hand and received the bast.
BOOM!!!
"I thought you would have learned that this doesn't work on me by now," he turned around and quickly grabbed Basilius' leg. He swung him in an arc and tossed him into the sky, "You better not forget it a second time."
Helios stretched his hand over his head.
"Yellow sun! Overdrive!"
A large typhoon of flames sprung up around him. It stretched out into a wide arc and then shot into the sky, blowing Basilius even higher up.
"Huh?" Helios said as he brought his hand down slowly. He looked at the flames surrounding the forest and noticed how weak they were, "I see"
Basilius fell to the ground a few meters away from Helios and the flames around Helios began to move away from him and into Basilius.
"Hehehe! You fool! To think that making the strongest Karma user let down his guard would be this easy! I've already taken everything from you!"
"So that is your technique," Helios said as the last of his flames surged away from him and flew towards Basilius, "You are an emitter type"
"My technique allows me to absorb all the Karma in the surrounding, including the one being used by my enemy," Basilius said with a vindictive smile, "There will be no escape now that you have no Karma to use!"
He brought his hand forward and a huge black ball formed in front of it, "DIE!!!"
BOOOOMMM!!!!
Helios held his hand up to cover his face as the blast blew him clear of the area and into the air. He slammed into a tree and grunted.
"To think they told me t be wary of you! You're nothing but a giant blowtorch!"
Basilius jumped from his position and landed on the ground in front of Helios, he reared his hand back and a spinning black orb appeared in front of it, "I am stronger than you will ever be!!"
BOOOMMM!
The blast broke the tree Helios had been leaning on and threw him back. He landed in a shallow pool of water and rolled a bit before coming to a stop. Basilius landed in the pool as well, standing some distance away from him.
"All it took was a few minutes," Basilius said, "At least now Zina will take me more seriously."
"Fool,"
Basilius looked back at Helios and suddenly saw him on his feet again. His eyes widened, "H-how?"
"You think you are the strongest…?"
A yellow flame flickered to life around Helios and Basilius immediately activated his technique, absorbing all the Karma in the surrounding, "You won't be getting any Karma. I'll take it all!"
Helios chuckled, "Fool,"
The yellow flame flickered again and then began to grow into a wave of fire. Helios planted his foot on the floor and straightened, he raised his head and yellow eyes stared down at Basilius, "You think I need Karma from the air to destroy you?"
"T-this isn't possible," Basilus said as he took a step back, "He shouldn't even be standing"
Helios' hand twitched and he pointed it towards Basilius, a pommel formed in his palm, a red one with an intricate design of intertwining yellow ribbons. From the pummel sprouted a silver tip of a sword that stretched out till it formed a whole katana.
"You gave me everything you had, so it's only fair that you receive all I have in return. Witness greatness yourself and realize that yours is no power in this world."
At the tip of the sword, a yellow ball appeared. It then began to grow, the sheer power inside of it making the water slosh around as the winds around it blew erratically, not stopping until the ball had grown to the size of a boulder. Flames began to float around the ball, giving it the appearance of a miniature sun and the ground beneath Helios' feet cracked and tore. Basilius fell on his behind, looking at the miniature sun with dread.
Helios pointed the sword towards him, "You can run, but it will catch you. You can hide, but it will find you. There is no escape when the entire world is against you," the ball floated into the sky and stopped above both their heads, making the night sky look like midday.
'Oh,' Basilius thought as he looked into the sky, feeling how truly small he was when compared to Helios, 'So this is what they warned me about,'
He closed his eyes, 'How scary'
Helios smiled.
"Supernova"
The world exploded.
BOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!