The air was heavy, as if saturated with the dust of shattered stars. The black fortress of Zarkhan rose before Neo like a giant corpse—its twisted towers like decaying bones, its broken windows peeping out like dead eyes. Each footstep on the cracked black stone echoed like the groan of trapped souls. The purple flames that followed on the walls radiated not heat, but a chill that froze the marrow.
"This isn't a drill… this is a cemetery," Neo whispered as he ran his fingers over a mysterious etching of a demonic face weeping golden blood. Severia's voice rattled in his skull like the sound of a distorted machine:
**"Level Three will open the gates of hell... Are you ready to see the truth of the Void?"**
Before he could answer, the castle's great door collapsed with a resounding clang, releasing a cloud of black dust that breathed runes into the air.
In the ruined throne room, the **Final Lord** awaited him. A massive body covered in black armor plate pulsing with purple arteries, his head surrounded by a halo of floating skulls, his eyes... little more than portals to a light-swallowing void. The chains that bound him oozed a foul-smelling black substance, as if feeding a hungry beast.
"Welcome, Saiyan of the world..." the beast roared, its voice a blend of the screeching of metal and the roar of galaxies. Neo grasped his trembling sword. "How do you know...?" The leader laughed, his ribs opening like dragon jaws, revealing a crystalline heart composed of millions of tortured faces. "I am the one who planted your genes... I am the one who ended your race!"
The leader broke free of his chains with an explosion that sent Neo into the wall. Each chain that fell transformed into a black snake, spewing clouds of void shards. Neo dodged by rolling as the Void Elemental fired small chasms that swallowed the serpentine heads.
The leader raised his hand, and the castle split in two. The upper half revealed a sky filled with black holes swallowing its own lights. Gravity reversed, and Neo found himself walking on the ceiling as debris fell "upwards"!
As the leader prepared to hunt Neo, the latter's eyes glowed a frightening golden hue. His movements became faster than he could comprehend, each step sending a golden shadow attacking from a different direction. The sword pierced the leader's armor... but the blood that sprang out was as golden as Neo's!
"What…?" Neo was confused as he staggered backward.
The leader laughed: "Every drop of you lives in me... I am your insatiable hunger!"
The battle has become a cosmic chaos: - **Environment**: Walls melt like wax, demonic arms grow from the ground, purple flames turn into flying creatures that attack.
- **Smells**: The smell of Neo's burnt flesh mixed with mineral oil from the leader's wound.
Neo ran out of energy. In a final act of desperation, he combined his Void Element and Darkness to form a black vortex resembling a miniature black hole:
"Collapse… and slide into nothingness!" he shouted as he drove the attack towards the leader's heart.
The final explosion tore the castle apart. Neo returned to his room, his body a tattered rag. On the system screen:
[Ding!]
[Level 2 Complete]
[Dark Element Ascends to ★★★☆☆]
[Warning: The leader survived... prepare for the real confrontation]
Severia appeared as a broken ghost: **"It was just a shadow... The real shadow is coming."
Neo stood on the edge of the cosmic abyss, his weary body glinting with the last sparks of Saiyan power. Before him, the true Void Emperor Caligor beat like the black heart of existence, his body formed of tiny black holes that swallowed the light around them.
"Finally… I am born again!" Caligor roared with a sound like a collapsing star.
The attack began with a deadly wave of silence. Caligor flicked a single finger, and the ground beneath Neo's feet opened into a bottomless chasm. Neo leaped away, his sword, Venzdnow, firing.
Three black holes devoured part of the enemy's body.
"Do you think your **ancestral holes** will save you?" Caligor sneered as he repaired his cosmic body.
Neo didn't answer. His eyes glowed golden, and his speed transcended time. His sword strokes wove a web of black light around the enemy, but...
Caligor raised a hand, the gaps transforming into screens displaying the Saiyan massacre. "This is what I did to your people... and this is what I will do to you!"
The golden flash in Neo's eyes became a volcano.
Element A exploded like a tornado of dead Saiyan ghosts, ferociously attacking Caligor. "You won't steal my memory either!" Neo shouted.
As Neo fell, bleeding from every pore, the system panel appeared as a final call:
"Death… is not the end!" Neo whispered as he stabbed his own heart with his sword. The black whirlwind that erupted from his body tore Caligor apart into tiny universes, each screaming out its own voice.
The void collapsed, and Neo returned to the academy to his room on a bed, his hair turned pure gold, but his crimson eyes staring at me. The last message on the system:
[Level 2 All items upgraded to ★★★☆☆]
[Ding!]
[Death Element:LV2★☆☆☆☆ ⇒ ★★★☆☆]
[Dark Element:LV2★☆☆☆☆ ⇒ ★★★☆☆]
[Space Element:LV2 ★☆☆☆☆ ⇒ ★★★☆☆]
[Luck :LV2 ★★★☆☆]
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