Thunder didn't just crack—it screamed, tearing open the sky like something dying.
Ron appeared in front of Anthony with a snap of displaced air. No pause. No mercy. His fists slammed into Anthony over and over—meat hitting meat, bone splitting bone. Anthony's head jerked back, forward, sideways—he couldn't even inhale.
Thunder roared again, deeper this time. Like the sky was warning them.
Ron drew his right hand back, muscles coiling like a predator ready to kill—
—and drove his fist into Anthony's face.
Anthony's skull whiplashed violently. His body shot into the sky like a broken puppet, disappearing into the clouds.
Ron didn't watch him rise. He turned—
—and Rocky was already tearing across the battlefield like a living lightning bolt.
Rocky didn't run. He shredded the ground under his feet.
He struck William so fast the air itself detonated.
One punch.
Ten punches.
A hundred strikes in the span of a heartbeat.
But the moment Rocky's killing blow should have crushed William's skull—
Reality warped.
Rocky's body took the hit instead, his chest caving inward from his own fist. Blood sprayed from his mouth, dark and thick. He dropped into a guard stance, choking on iron.
He lunged again, teeth clenched, fist inches from William's face—
—and once more, the world twisted.
Ron took the hit.
Rocky's punch crashed into Ron's jaw with enough force to snap a mountain in half.
The shockwave blew apart the ground, ripping deep trenches through the earth.
Rocky froze.
Ron spat blood—then smiled, slow and cold.
Behind him, a voice snarled with poison
"DAAAMN YOU!"
Anthony roared from behind
[ BLADE OF VENGEANCE — ACTIVATED ]
Ron's flames didn't roar—they howled, igniting the ground beneath his feet. A massive flaming slash tore through the battlefield, carving the earth open as it swallowed Anthony whole.
For a heartbeat, Anthony vanished inside the inferno.
Then—
nothing.
The flame died like someone crushed it in their palm.
Anthony stepped out.
Unburned.
Unharmed.
Eyes hungry.
"What…? He absorbed that?" Ron's stomach tightened.
Anthony's fist smashed down toward him like a meteor. Ron caught it, but his bones screamed. The punch was heavier. Deadlier. Strength stolen from Ron's own attack.
"So that's it…" Ron thought through clenched teeth. "Absorption."
Anthony hovered above, smiling like a demon.
"Why the shock?"
Ron cracked his neck.
"I was testing a theory. Now I know. It's because of the Blood."
That word hit Anthony and William harder than any punch.
Their eyes went wide—real fear, not pretend.
"How do you know?" William's voice had lost its strength.
"The Blood is the highest secret in this world," Anthony growled, muscles twitching.
"Do you even know whose blood it is?" William asked.
Ron raised his head slowly.
"Yes. I know."
Anthony's throat tightened.
"He knows it's his blood…" he thought, panicking.
Ron delivered the line like a hammer
"It's the blood of Ricky Racon."
A dead silence fell.
William exhaled in shaky relief.
Anthony laughed—sharp, cracked, unstable.
Far away, in a dark chamber lit by a single green flame, the green-eyed man jerked upright.
"That name… no…"
Then he paused.
"…Ah. Ron is bluffing. For a second, even I felt a chill."
Back on the battlefield—
Anthony lunged.
Ron moved.
Ron's punch sank into Anthony's gut so deep it almost broke through his back.
The shockwave ripped across continents. Oceans trembled. Clouds split open.
Anthony's body shot across the world like a flaming corpse launched from a cannon.
Ron vanished in pursuit.
Rocky created many after images of himself so he could end William.
William was ready, Rocky didn't know my real ability.
But Rocky was not attacking. He was moving circles. All the after images ran in circles around William.
A lightning tornado surrounded William. The from every direction every millimeters, a surge of lightning came towards Williams. It was so fast William couldn't use his swap ability.
Boom.
The planet shook.
The planet shook again because Anthony was thrust into ground. Ron stared down at him.
"What are you?" Anthony said.
Ron Forward his right leg, like an asteroid falling, he kicked Anthony on the ground.
Ron punched him down, the shockwaves was felt across the world. The Planet shook.
In Ron's house
"I hope Ron and Rocky are doing well." Carter whispers to himself.
Phone rings
Caller ID: Jake Jacobs
"Bruce? Why is he calling?" Carter thought.
Carter accepted the call.
["THE SECRET TRANSCENDANT" IS LOOKING AT YOU]
A window pops up in front of Carter. It vanishes in a second.
"Carter?" Bruce voice brings him back.
"Are you okay?" Bruce asks
"Yes. You can tell me why you called?" Carter says.
"Oh, yes." Bruce says