Chap 145: ultimate clash
"Ten!" Another black flash exploded out from Takumi's fist.
Ichika staggered back a step, eyes narrowed through the lens of his helmet. This would mark the third time Takumi was able to activate it.
When time moves forward again, the strength from clashing that was held back when time was frozen is released, destroying the island in a blinding flash.
The explosion ripped through rock and soil, hurling waves and fire into the air. The once-solid land cracked down the middle, splintering like shattered glass. Chunks of earth rose and fell, swallowed by boiling seawater. When the smoke thinned, the island was no longer whole. Split in two, jagged cliffs face each other across a steaming gulf.
On one half, Takumi stood amid burning trees and broken stone, on the other, Ichika crouched on some rubble, breathing hard.
Both were silhouettes against the chaos, the sea surging between them as if the world itself had trouble holding itself together in their battle.
Sporting a mad grin, Takumi's look was terrible, he lost one eye a dozen times by now. Half of his face, and several places on his body, were exposing his bones and even his guts and organs.
It was healing, albeit not as quickly, but he didn't care; his curse energy was building up to almost full. His gaze remains glued to the man in front of him right now.
Ichika, even when not showing it, was smiling as well, matching the vibes of Takumi. His craziness and Ichika's own burning resolve.
'He knew by now, my power can't be adapted so easily.' If it can be adapted, then he wouldn't have suffered so many wounds being inflicted on him.
'But just to be sure, I should end this quickly.'
"You know what, all this time I've been focused on too many things at once, but just for this one day. I think I'll be focusing on only one thing." With an almost mental smile, he said.
"Mission? Quest? Enemies? Right now, I only have one thing to say....." Both of his hands are grasping together, making a hand sign to Ichika's shock and awe.
'Just imagine, Takumi, the image of your soul, no hesitation, just do it.' His eyes open up, conjuring the image of his dream.
From the understanding of what his soul looks like, he was shown something great, and now, he will bring it into reality.
"DOMAIN EXPANSION!!" Takumi shouted at the top of his lungs, laughing like crazy as he did.
Bringing his arm up to the sky, darkness itself spews forth like a wellspring from where he stands.
Going so high as the cloud, then the darkness unfurls to make a dome. It encased them all, the two ultras fighting, the rider in the water, Ichika stared at Takumi who stood in the middle of this.
In his rare, uncontrollable, and beautiful state right now. It was the undeniable proof that he, as a sorcerer, had, for a moment, reached his final potential.
"Hey, let me tell you something...this is what true Jujutsu looks like!"
The moment the domain unfolds, the ground darkens into an endless pool of ink-like shadows spreading in all directions. The air thickens with cursed energy so dense it hums and trembles, warping the light around it.
Within this enclosed world, there is no sky—only a massive black void above, shifting and rippling as if alive, echoing with distant animal roars and the sound of unseen wings.
Ichika collapsed to his knees, the effect was taken immediately. He can't see, and neither can the others. In this realm, only Takumi can be the one to have vision, not even the clones can tell where they are if they're not linked with him.
"You feel it right? The darkness is vast, and I control most of it, it's not a complete domain just yet, so I don't think I can use the sure hit attacks."
There are a few cracks in the dark sky, and his curse energy is burning up the more time he spends in here.
'I can manage it' he thought, his Shikigami is already out, he wasn't ready to let them out before because he was afraid to lose them, now? It's a different story.
Nexus, for his power, is dealing with several max elephants and a piercing ox just as big as him. And even more Shikigami that are attacking Ichika right now.
Shooting the Shikigami proved to be useless, the dark creature reforms itself every time it destroys one. His body is weak, fatigue grows on him, and his strength is fading.
'This place is weakening me.' Normally, someone like him will never be struck down so much. "You think this is enough!"
[Final form ride: Hibiki]
He tries to get off the ground, turning one of his summon riders into a bird, but he attempts it with no sense of direction, and he can't do much but shoot blindly.
*zap*
A shadow Nue strikes him from behind.
"Damn bird!" He blast that bird out of the air then slid another card in.
[Final form ride: Faiz]
This time, armed with a huge laser gun, he pulls the trigger, illuminating the entire domain in red crimson light.
He swipes his gun around, shining the red beam of destruction at all the Shikigami clones. He caught a person in his ray, it catapulted through the red stream of energy, taking no damage, and swiped at him.
*Klang* the hit was hard, right on the chest where his heart is, exploding sparks came out instead of blood. By a dark Blade. Ichika's body hit the dark mud and skidded across it. Spinning fast with his gun hand, he blasted through a horde of Shikigami just quick enough not to get mauled.
Warped around Takumi's hand, the sword of extermination glowed with a pure positive energy. He turns his sight down, poised to dive down at Ichika.
"Yeah...okay I must admit, you're pretty strong. But if the dark is what you're using then." He rises up, Takumi can feel something entering his domain.
*!?*
Lights, golden white, shining and purifying, they are clashing with Takumi's own domain.
"What!? H-how!?" He looked to the skies, a pillar made out of light was making this.
"It's called a meta field." Ultraman Nexus, raising an arm while still battling his giant Shikigami was using this. "A pocket dimension made out of light, your worst opponent."
"Stop him!" All the attention was on that red giant.
All the Shikigami to bury him in their numbers, getting close to him was like trying to fight the sun. When they tried to get close, their form would be unstable then break apart.
Takumi's Ultraman body got up his color timer was at its limit. Charging up his spacium beam with all the power he had, his arm formed an L-position and shot out a concentrated white stream of light.
Nexus did the same, arm crossing downward in an X. Then raising up to parallel with his chest with blue thundering sparking, conducting electricity between his two braces. Finally, he crossed his arms and released a similar ray of energy made from white and blue.