The shockwave from their punch spread out, hitting the walls of the LT, making cracks to appear on them. Though not obvious, Zayden had a slight edge, due to the fact that Ronald was injured, and couldn't show most of his powers.
Feeling that he was on the back foot, Ronald jumped back to gain some space, his legs forming craters on the ground where he landed.
But there was there was no way Zayden could give him the chance. He followed Ronald like a shadow, appearing in front of him immediately, swinging his sword down on the chest of Ronald as if trying to increase the depth of the injury that he gave Ronald previously.
With eyes dilated in surprise, Ronald managed to dodge the attack by awkwardly moving back a few feet. But Zayden didn't let up, and continued swinging his sword while slowly moving forward, the darkness law on his sword making Ronald apprehensive.
He just covered his hand with the same golden energy that covered his body, and tried his best to parry the attack, but with every attack that he touched, the darkness law was eating away at his golden energy, and in scarse cases, it would latch unto the energy and eat away at it even when Zayden was no longer attacking.
Before long, the two of them had already exchanged no less than fifty moves, every contact producing a clang sound that resounded in the LT hall.
It was like the main battle, used to end a season in an anime series, the light shows were epic, the perfect depiction of good against evil, but reversed, with Zayden being good and having dark energy while Ronald was evil with golden energy.
"Enough"
Ronald roared, his aura towering, as a shockwave spread out, pushing Zayden away. He was supposed to be the main character, but Zayden was beating him, and he couldn't have that.
He swung out his hand, releasing an arc of golden energy, going towards Zayden at alarming speeds.
Before Zayden new what was happening, the arc of golden energy had already appeared in front of him, some king of sealing aura coming off it.
Zayden knew that he couldn't let that attack touch him, so without wasting anytime, he pointed his sword at the golden arc of energy and quickly activated his umbral blast.
"Crack"
It was subtle, to the point that only Zayden could hear it, a slight crack at the base of the blade near the hilt.
'There is something wrong with my sword'
It was like anytime he tried to channel cosmic energy though the weapon, the weapon gives out, as if unable to handle the cosmic energy going through it, and if he forces it, it would explode.
But Zayden didn't allow his thought show on his face, as a blast of black flames left his sword, flying towards the golden arc of energy that was coming towards him.
As soon as the two energies made contact, one could feel the clash of laws in the surrounding.
The darkness law was trying to corrode the sealing law, while the sealing law was trying to seal the darkness law.
And for some reason, none of the laws were able to gain the upper hand. Then an explosion suddenly occurred sending Zayden and Ronald flying.
With twenty years battle experience in his head, Zayden managed to stabilize himself mid air and managed to land on his legs, and without as much as exhaling, he dashed at Ronald, his body breaking the sound barrier of the planet.
"Boom!"
A few seconds later, the explosion caused by the breaking of the sound barrier caught up with Zayden who was already in front of Ronald.
"What the---"
Ronald's eyes dilated, and without even thinking, the aura around him increased, an for a split moment, he was unable to hold back the darkness energy, allowing it to spread a few centimeters.
But that was acceptable because he needed all the energy he could produce to block this sudden attack.
He quickly raise up his pair of golden hands to block the attack and even thought the sword was cutting it like a blunt knife through raw meat, creating an unbearable sound, it was still cutting through it.
His originally towering aura towered once again as another pair of golden hands held unto the sword, finally managing to block the attack.
"You're going to pay for this"
Roaring, Ronald pushed Zayden back, two pairs of arms on his body, standing like a real buddha.
But seeing this, Zayden just snickered .
"He is so stupid"
Zayden muttered, arching the hand that was holding his sword back to the limit. And in one swift motion, he through out the sword.
"Boom!"
The sword broke through the sound barrier of the planet, flying towards Ronald at an alarming speed, going for his head.
Ronald's eyebrows creased as he focused on the attack going towards his head, unknowingly loosing sight of Zayden.
He brought up both sets of arms to block his face, but as the sword made contact with his hand, it exploded into a rain of shrapnel to the shock of Ronald.
There was shock on the face of Ronald as he realized that Zayden was no longer in his field of vision.
Before he knew what was happening, he felt a shiver run down his spine. He didn't even wait for Zayden to appear, he was already putting up defenses, but it was too late.
He felt a cold sensation on his chest, where his previous injury was as he finally saw Zayden. His cold indifferent eyes staring at him. He saw a small orb of concentrated darkness energy pressed against his injury.
He could feel fear from the depths of his heart. He didn't want to die now, he had not created his legend yet.
He wanted to say anything, beg, anything, but Zayden's cold eyes starred back at him, making him unable to speak.
"Umbral Beam"
There was stillness for a just a second and then...
"BOOOOOM!!!"
A beam of darkness left Zayden's hand, about three feet in height and two in breath. It was so strong that even after evaporating Ronald, it kept going, bursting a hole through the podium of the LT.
A few seconds later, the attack died down, and only a pair of legs remained of Ronald.
Everyone was quiet, even the people watching the battle from afar were silent. Zayden had just killed somebody, not a mindless null, a human being with emotions and feelings and goal, even though not pure, they were goals still.
Even after twenty years, Zayden had never gotten used to the feeling of killing. Just as vivid as a second ago, he could still see the pleading look on the face of Ronald before he died, but Zayden knew that if he didn't kill Ronald, Ronald was going to do something worse.
So for the life of others, he didn't mind taking the guilt of taking a human life.
Zayden's gaze suddenly became vacant as he found himself sucked into a memory. In this memory, he was like a spectral, watching Ronald's life from a third person's POV
Ronald's childhood could be said to be the basic backstory with an abusive father, a man that ran just on s*x and alcohol, Ronald seeing this as a five year old child thought of it as normal.
He didn't feel sympathy for his mum like a normal five year old, instead, he like the prospect of forcing women into submission.
But as he left the confines of his father's house, he learnt that that wasn't really normal, so he had to hide his real nature, only indulging in it in secret.
He wore the mask so perfectly that he managed to become the DC chairman, the person supposed to uphold rules. But being in a position of power made his 'cravings' escalate, so using his powers, he managed to force girls into submission, supressing them with hi powers as the DC Chairman.
But then the apocalypse hit, and there was no need to hide. He took the flowers of young girls, by posing as the good guy and making them unable to escape.
Things became worse when a constellation noticed him, and formed a contract with him, making it such that all the atrocities he committed would cause an increase in his power.
He did this for a week straight taking essence of inoncent girls, but thing went awry when Zayden appeared and this happened.
It took just a few seconds, and Zayden was back to his senses. Watching Ronald's life unfold in front of his eyes, Zayden didn't even feel sorry, instead, he thought that the death was justified.
With this thought taking root in his mind, Zayden didn't know when a flash of deep red like the color of blood appeared in his eyes for a moment.
The seed had been planted, taking root in his mind. The seed for his second law.
Zayden finally turned around, looking at everyone staring at him with weird expressions. He just indifferently turned to look back at them, not ready to give any explanation.
"Lets prepare to leave the college"