Winston stood atop the train, cane in hand. His cold eyes looked up to meet the gaze of a white haired beauty.
There, as she stood in the air as if sitting atop her throne, her eyes narrowed. Slowly, she muttered his name.
"Winston Heath." She smirked.
"Arie Adori Jahad." Winston's words reverberated into the air, reaching her ears.
"You really went all out for me. Honestly, I'm flattered." He held a hand to his chest and bowed. "After all, who else can boast about being targeted by the Supreme Commander herself?"
"I wouldn't be so relaxed." Adori spoke, her lips still curled into that smug smirk.
Winston sighed.
His voice reached every person present in the air.
The tension was palpable. Sweat hung on every commander's temple.
Then, Winston held his face and swipped on it.
Instantly, his face was enveloped in a white paint. His eyes were covered in shades of red and yellow and he looked unmistakably like a clown.
"Let's get this over with."
And chaos began.
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The air was caught in stillness. Silence permeates the darkness in all corners, the world seemed to hold it's breath.
There was darkness.
And then, a malevolent red light emerged.
The darkness began to recede and the landscape, marred with ambient shinsu whirling in chaos, crooked mountains and rivers grew visible.
From the red light, the man with the red hair and the white trenchcoat walked out with slouched shoulders. His eyes were serene as he spoke with a smile.
"He's already marked the avatars has he? Makes my job a lot easier."
With that said, he extended his hands and proclaimed with a clear voice, "Semi-immortals always tend to grow cocky."
And a wave escaped his hands.
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Visionary Adam was seated atop a throne made out of light as he looked upon the sealed space of the 44th floor.
In fact, it was not only the 44th floor.
Every floor in the tower had been cut off from the other. No doubt also by the administrators' permission.
Adam's expression was neutral as he looked upon the bright red barrier. His power to sense people had been purposefully getting weaker. It was akin to the suppression offered by beyonders of a higher Sequence.
He had failed time and time again to figure out the perpetrator. Now, it seemed that they were revealing themselves.
He had an idea about who it might be. But he did not know it to be true. Now, the opportunity had been revealed to confirm the fact.
"To seal a space even I cannot break with door pathway abilities... it seems to be a seal at least on the level of a king of angels."
To the side, The Sun, The Tyrant, The Hanged Man and the White Tower emerged one by one.
Moving within the same floor was still possible it seemed.
"It's a pity the administrators have simply played along." The Sun spoke, his form radiant and powerful.
"Doesn't matter in the end, does it?" The White Tower chimed, brass eyes shimmering around him.
The Hanged Man spoke in a garbled tongue, but everyone understood what it said.
"Now now, let's not get ahead of ourselves, Hanged Man. We have yet to ascend to Seqyence 2. Only then can we think of parasitizing a God like an administrator." The Sun replied.
Tyrant, with his electric form that appeared significantly larger than the others and far more dominant went ahead and touched the barrier.
Hundreds of doors seemed to appear on the red barrier as the shinsu turned chaotic. Electricity blazed and the barrier seemed to falter momentarily.
The Tyrant raised an eyebrow.
This was not what he had expected.
"We might be able to break forth if we all use our ability at the same time."
Just then, the barrier broke forth, sweeping them all up in a wave!
They were not the only ones this was happening to.
All over the tower, red patches of shinsu appeared everywhere that there was an avatar of Winston of.
Darkness and Mother too stood before the barrier before they were swept up.
The avatars on the floor of death were swallowed by a rising sea of blood.
Random people on the roads, inside buildings, in the jahad army ships, inside of various motherships of the great families, they were all swept away by a daunting wave!
Black Emperor, Death, Justiciar, Twilight Giant, Red Priest, Demoness, Moon, Hermit, Paragon and everyone else was similarly enveloped by the red colour.
In just a few moments, hundreds of thousands of avatars all over the tower had been rounded up!
In just a few moments, they had all been cornered!
The crimson bloomed again before the man, swelling up like a balloon.
All of them, encased in shinsu and beaming with spirituality began to rise one by one from the red wave, appearing before the man with the red hair and the white trench coat.
Their intuition screamed at them as they stabilized themselves in an instant.
Simultaneously, they all looked at the man before them and smiled.
They knew who this was.
"Enryu."
They collectively spoke.
The man with the red hair smiled.
And then spread open his arms.
"The beginning of the end shall commence!"
Enryu's declaration stirred the darkness around them.
And everything began to turn red.
The Red Tower had made his appearance.
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On the top of the Hell Train, Winston who was about to move and fight suddenly paused.
He seemed to look into the void and clicked his tongue in annoyance.
Having sensed the state of his avatars, a sense of foreboding began to bloom inside his chest. Just then, various visions began to overlap before his eyes.
He saw himself standing before Adori Jahad, a machine as large as a mountain and Theolis with his hair dyed red.
His eyes pierced through the air and looked beyond the horizon.
There, he caught the figure of a walking machine, heading towards them.
He sighed.
Everyone tensed seeing him move.
Massaging his neck, he felt a bit exasperated.
"It just had to be Enryu... so Theolis is one of 'His' descendants and so, was possessed by him? I was completely oblivious to it."
Shaking his head off these thoughts, he focused on the current situation.
It would seem I'm in a tough situation. Thinking that, he clicked his neck and began to walk forward.
Mirage like after images began to appear around him, and they too made their own after images!
Winston Heath had turned into 25 Winstons!
"Maximum effort."
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A/N: This was a VERY short chapter.
But you know, you gotta do what you gotta do to get that juicy cliffhanger.
Anyways, you gotta wait for another chapter. Hehe. I can't say when it shall be released as well.
Hehehe.
Cheers~