stefan3B blacked out for a moment. What was this power? What could she have ever done to her body? Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide. He instantly remembered why he was here and what he was fighting for. Hate. Kill. Restore.

  …

  Improvise… Adapt…

  …

  “Come back here, worm!” Iulia shouted with a manic expression as she dived after him. She tried to rush a strike with her left fist, but stefan3B quickly managed to parry away her arm, grabbing her and throwing her down, to the bottom of the Other Lands, which looked like eternally burning flames in which he was falling as well. stefan3B, terrified, braced himself for impact with the hellish fire. However, as he was supposed to burn to death, he just passed through the flames, crashing hard into a pitch black floor. He quickly opened his eyes and stood up, realizing the fire was an optical illusion created by hell energy. This was the bottom of Other Lands. A pitch black zone with nothing inside of it. Perfect to go all out in. Iulia caressed the back of her head as she stood up again, annoyed by the fall.

  “Ugh, I'm so fed up.” Iulia said to herself before turning around to see stefan3B.

  “Close quarters combat doesn't work, huh? No worries. I'll just use what your brother taught me.” Iulia said before summoning a stick out of hell energy.

  As she ran her hand on the stick, it grew longer and longer until a tip on its end appeared, proving to be a spear. The spearhead was wide and imposing, just the Ares made his spears. She began swinging her spear with much fervor, an intense excitement surging through her body. stefan3B tried approaching her, but he was kept on the edge by the nimble spear. She kept slashing him as he kept trying to approach her. Visible cuts on his body appeared from each slice and a small amount of blood gushed out each time. stefan3B was too lost in his hatred to realize that he was being butchered up slowly. Only after a good amount of hits his body shuddered up, calming him down and making him realize this approach doesn't bring any positive results. Iulia began chuckling.

  “Hahaha! I should've done this from the get go! Why was I such an idiot?!” Iulia exclaimed before grabbing the spear with both of her hands, preparing for a thrust attack.

  She pulled back the spear in order to execute a powerful thrust. stefan3B took advantage of this and quickly stepped on the tip of her spear before rushing up to her. Seeing that her spear was pinned to the ground and that he was approaching, she pulled her left arm back before throwing it forward to luckily land a strike. stefan3B barely dodged the fist with his face before delivering a mighty blow with his left fist into her face. The veil took the hit for her, making it shatter like glass around the zone that he punched. His fist was battered, his knuckles beginning to bleed. However, he knew that this was just the beginning. He let out a wild war cry before trying to punch her waist with his right fist, crashing into the veil as well. Despite the veil protecting her, Iulia could still feel the aftershocks of the energy coming from his punches that passed through the veil, making her shutter and stagger as if she was really hit. stefan3B let out one final cry as he kicked her right in her chest, making her slide back as she leaned down to put a hand on the ground for mobility. stefan3B proceeded to dropkick right into her head, knocking her back once more. He continued the assault with another left punch to her face which she tanked without a problem. She suddenly grabbed his left arm, trying to crush it,but clearly not having the strength to do so. She tried sucker punching him but he responded quicker with a flurry of punches into her chest and abdomen, making her cancel her strike as well as letting out a grunt. stefan3B jerked out of her grasp and launched another left punch to her face. He began panting like a tired animal, hyperventilating in hope of regaining energy quicker. Iulia extended her right arm forward, calling back her spear. stefan3B looked at her confused. Soon enough, the back of his head was struck by the handle of the spear, forcing him to bow down. Once Iulia grabbed the spear she quickly swung it, going for a horizontal slash. stefan3B, who was still down, noticed this. He rolled forward as the spear missed him. He then grabbed the pear in between his legs and snatched it out of Iulia’s hands, not before pushing himself back onto his feet, grabbing the spear and snapping it in half. The spear quickly vanishes afterwards. Iulia immediately tries to summon another spear, but stefan3B rushed her down and smacks her in the face with his left fist, splashing blood onto her veil from his punch. She staggers but quickly recovers this time. She launches a left punch as well but stefan3B bows down before landing a strike by spinning, attacking with his left heel right into her face. Iulia was annoyed by his performance.

  “Ugh! Fuck your acrobatics!” she yelled hysterically before continuing to rush him down.

  Iulia tried to launch herself at him with both of her arms. stefan3B kicked her chest, cancelling her momentum. He bounced off the ground before continuing his combination with a right fist to her face into the same blood stained shattered part of her veil. Iulia tries to swing her right arm into a hook strike, but stefan3B ducks and counterattacks with another left strike into her face. Her head gets swiped to the left, the impact forcing her to close her eyes momentarily. stefan3B takes advantage of her vulnerability and grapples her to the ground fiercely, slamming her down. Resting on top of her with his knee pressing on her veil, he grabbed her head and smashed it against the ground repeatedly, trying to get it to break. Slam. Slam. Slam. Slam. stefan3B began panting, his efforts seemingly leading nowhere.

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  Iulia suddenly grabs his neck with her left hand, followed up by a sucker punch from her right hand, knocking him off of her. stefan3B flipped backwards on his hands then back onto his feet. Iulia stands up as well.

  “Do you know why your favorite world gets engulfed into warfare so often?! Do you know about the secret of the Other Lands?!” Iulia said out loud.

  stefan3B panted, using this moment to recover more energy.

  “This entire world! Everything that you see here is pure, raw energy from The Champion! That's why I was able to corrupt it in the first place! This world isn't real, it's just a stain in the vast space-!”

  stefan3B suddenly snapped at her.

  “Then how did people make families here?! How did people survive?! If it's just a stain of power to you, why would you care about it so much?!”

  Iulia scoffed.

  “Because of Champion Energy, of course! You think anyone would miss out on such precious goods?! All I need to do after I demolish all of you is to call back your father, and then I'll have enough time to decipher Champion Energy for all of eternity in my happy ending!”

  stefan3B was suddenly confused.

  “Father…? But Ares told me that he saw him die!”

  Iulia crossed her arms beneath her breasts.

  “That's because… the other one was my boyfriend. I cheated on your biological father with him… they looked the same, okay?! You can't blame me!”

  “And what does that have to do with this situation?!”

  Iulia spreads her arms out open.

  “After I'll have absolute power over this dimension, I will be able to call him back! From wherever he is, he will hear my call!”

  “And you think he will want to come back to a cheater?!”

  “Of course he will! My actions were understandable back then, you just don't want to admit it! You all hate me for your selfish reasons! When he sees how much power I have, he will want to join me on his own!”

  “And if he doesn't?! Will you kill him just like the rest of us?!”

  “He will want to! It's impossible that he'd miss out on this opportunity!”

  stefan3B’s mouth was left agape upon hearing her statement. His mouth creeped up into a smile.

  “Ha… haha…”

  Iulia clenched her fist and growled upon seeing him make fun of her.

  “You dare look down on me?! I'll make you pay!” Iulia yelled before throwing her right arm forward, releasing a disintegration storm.

  stefan3B’s smile quickly faded as he braced himself for impact. He tackled through the storm, advancing towards her. Iulia saw him approaching and she began charging more disintegration storms in her hands.

  “Fuck all of this! Fuck all of this energy! I just want you dead!” she said before launching storm after storm, a barrage of wasted energy slammed into her own son.

  stefan3B braced himself for the next storm, but then the next one came, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one.

  “Hahahaha! How do you like that?!” Iulia laughed with a manic grin and widened eyes.

  Suddenly, her power got cut off.

  . . .

  The world lost its hellish red aura once again. Radu looked up to the sky.

  “Whatever is going on there… Stefan… Please… Win this…”

  . . .

  The entire area was covered in hell energy and disintegration energy spores. stefan3B’s front side was fully bruised, his arms beginning to bleed. Struggling to stand up, he spat blood from his mouth. Iulia began to pant. Once she saw him struggling, her panting stopped before raising a cheeky smirk on her face again. She walked up to him with her right hand on her swaying hips.

  “What's wrong-”

  Suddenly, a spark of determination lit up inside of stefan3B’s eyes as he punched her face with his right fist. The veil began to crumble, plastering itself against her face as if it were dough.

  stefan3B let out a wild cry before throwing his left fist as well, which was unfortunately caught by her right hand. The veil was pushed in between his fist her palm, seemingly weakened. His entire arm was trembling as he kept pushing against her.

  “My, my… you're still… you still got some fight in you…!” Iulia said as she clearly struggled to hold his fist.

  stefan3B was staring right into her eyes, his eyes wide and bloodshot, his teeth visibly clenched. His breath was heavy, his chest visibly puffing up before exhaling. He pushed harder against her hand. She had no choice but to sway it to the left. She tried to punch him once more, but he struck her abdomen first with his right hand. The blow was stopped by her veil for a split second.

  “Hah. Got you.” Iulia said in her mind.

  Suddenly, the veil shattered into pieces.

  “WHAT?!” she continued to herself.

  Before she could react to it, stefan3B’s hand was digging into her stomach. With another loud cry, he pushed her away with the strike, leaving a visible mark on her belly. Iulia was stunned by the blow as she fell on her back, sliding a few meters. She quickly tried to get back up, but her entire torso felt like it got struck by a steel beam at mach 1. She choked on air as she realized she couldn't stand up properly anymore.

  “Gah-, ah! F-fuck, no! Where's my healing… where is my healing?!” Iulia kept muttering to herself as her body felt emptier than ever. Hell energy was no longer inside her body.

  stefan3B fell down to his knees as well, his aura beginning to disappear slowly, barely remaining on his body.

  “No… I'm out of energy… not now…” stefan3B said to himself while panting.

  They were at a stalemate..

  stefan3B couldn't fight on and Iulia couldn't finish him off.