95'What...just happen?' Joesph questions blankly in his head while unfolding his six wings after blocking his own attack. 'How did...he managed to turn my own attack against me? He asked himself in confusion while looking at the spear in the elder's hands.
'I am sure that his Schrift the Navigator only gives him the ability to locate and shot home-targeting bullets that can evade obstacles. So something like that shouldn't be possible...' He then glared at him in frustration. 'Does he have...another Schrift?'
'If you are wondering why I was able to turn your attacks against you with this lance. Know that my Spear: The spear of destiny is only a mere extension to my Schrift, nothing more' Robert explained while twirling the spear around himself with his left hand. 'But If you wish to know further, then you will have to figure that other part out yourself'
Joesph then sneered while reading his sword. 'Very well then I will just cut you down along with that twig in your hands!' he declared furiously, before slashing his sword to the right and began drawing and forming a solar flaming circle in front of him with his blade and then pointed the weapon at his hated enemy.
'Dance of the writhing serpent!' he shouted out and dozens of great multi colored flaming balls of light emerged from the floating solar flare cycle and in less than a second later all of them launched themselves at Robert, at the speed of light.
Yet despite their tremendous power and god-like speed, The Elder Quincy reacted and followed their movement and struck each of them with his spear one at a time in a magnificent agile dance. shifting their movements away from himself and all back to Joesph who was forced to dodge out of the way of his attacks much to his bafflement and confusion.
'Even trying to overwhelm him is useless!' He screamed in his head in a panic. 'Is that thing in his hands just an extension to his Schrift!?' He then looked at the burning holes in the chamber where his flaming light hit. 'Wait...none of my attacks were following my movements, which means...' He then stretched out his wings. 'I can use it to my advantage'
Joesph then stretched out his arms and enlarged the flaming circle to the point that it eclipsed his whole body and then stretched out his left hand in the center of it.
'Maul of the dragon...' he uttered and then the solar flames of the fire circle swirled around at its center and changed into the color of brilliant of gold before forming itself into a massive head of a dragon with shining white eyes.
'You have done well in turning my strength against me Robert' Joseph complimented while sporting a sadistic smirk. 'But how will you deal with this!' He roared out in glee and then mentally command the Dragon head to breathe out a huge burst of white light from its jaws which seemed to fill the entire left side of the chamber.
But Robert merely struck his spear at the blast and divided it in half like all the other attacks before. However right before could launch it back at his foe, Joesph was out of his sight...
And reappeared right behind Robert with his sword at the ready.
'Predictable...' Joesph mused in thought as his sadistic grin winded. 'I Knew the very moment I realized you couldn't get my attacks track me down. That you would left yourself vulnerable and by using that attack to distract you. I was able to move inside your guard while you were busy trying to redirect it!'
The leader of the abyssal knights then raised up his flaming blade above Robert's head to split him in two.
'IT'S OVER!' He roared out while the human side of his helmet twisted menacing grin to his teeth in blood-lusted glee.
Yet at the very moment, the sword was about to hit Robert's skull... The Quincy nimbly dodged the blow by shifting his body to the side, much to Joesph's utter disbelief and in the same moment and before he could react Robert turned his Spear around and redirected his Maul of the Dragon right back at Joesph at point blank range.
Engulfing the Abyss knight's Leader in the blazing beam of light that melted through his armor, scoured his wings off his back, and burned apart his uniform and cape. Leaving Joesph bared-chested, heavily wounded, and carrying a barely intact scorch Sword of Judgment that he used to stab into the ruined floor to keep himself from collapsing.
'How...' he spoke harshly to himself. 'There was no way...you could be fast enough to dodge and counter my blow...when I moved at the speed of light and when none of the attacks you deflected could track me'
Robert then looked at Joesph. 'True, despite decades of training my Spear of Destiny it is still far from perfect, for I have yet to fully integrate the full power of my Schrift into it considering that it involves manipulating foreign energies that are not my own...However, that doesn't mean I couldn't track your movements and foresee your scheme to end me, Joesph...Given you can only travel at the speed of light in short bursts and cannot fight at that level of speed'
Joseph then began to shake his body in fury and frustration but then smiled. 'You may have beaten me heathen, but my fellow knights will soon be able to defeat yours!' he boasted smugly, but Robert merely raised an eyebrow.
'Is that what you think?' the aged man said and Joesph in confusion then decided to sense out the spiritual signatures of his men throughout Geshua...and winded his eyes in shock, disbelief and dread.
Within other parts of the dungeon, the battles between the forces of the abyssal knights and the Holy Kingdom came to a close.
Yuchi standing above a fallen John whole holding a broken arm. Whose crimson armor was completely crushed by the entire darkness of the chamber. Completely breaking his bones and organs until he finally succumbed to unconsciousness.
While in the other chamber, Quilge had all of his wings stabbed by orange clockwork-looking arrows with moving mechanisms, his head, chest and arms horribly bruised, while the moving eye rings that covered them were shattered. Exposing his shocked and knocked-out face. While Yokochini now a middle-aged man looked on at his defeated foe and sighed in relief, before reverting to normal.
'It...can't be' Joseph spoke and then to add to his distress he also sensed that all of the other Quincy Soldats managed to defeat and close off all the other fire chambers. With only a fifth of them activated in Gehenna.
'You have lost Black' Robert announced while pointing his gun at his fallen foe's head. 'The Abyssal Knights have been defeated and your scheme has been stopped. Surrender now and face justice or I will end your life this instant'
Joesph's body then began to tremble as he began to realize that all of his plans and ambitions were truly about to come to an end and he no longer has the means to even clear the game board to start over.
If he surrendered, he would most likely face execution. Then his family name would not only lose whatever power and privilege they had left, but the public's opinion of the nobility would also go from scorn to full-on hatred that would last for countless generations to come. Forever stripping his people the respect and power that they deserves let alone acknowledgment of their divine right.
Yet worse of all was that the common folk, the peasants, and the impure would fully take over the soul society and leave him, family and fellow nobles completely powerless to do anything about and that is assuming they wouldn't get wiped out by those animals.
No. He refuses to allow that future to happen...even if he must put his very soul at stake.
Using his remaining bits of power, Joesph rushed at Robert who immediately dodged and shot him with the gun, but the former ignored the bullet the was embedded in his shoulder and ram himself into the indigo fire generator but to Roberts's confusion instead of vaporizing his body and soul the indigo flames merged with Joesph.
Then without pause he proceeding to move to the next generator...
Meanwhile...
Berenice then sensed Joesph's movement and then sighed. 'So he has finally become that desperate huh?' he mused while Keigo looked at him in puzzled, but dared not ask another question.
But then the overwhelming questions inside his head stopped.
'You can speak freely if you want Asano, I have disabled my power and I will not activate it again' Bernice assured, and while Keigo felt uneasy about his words his gut told that his gut told him that that his supposed enemy was telling the truth.
'Just what the hell is your angle?' the young angry question and Berenice gave him a sorrowful look.
'To put an end to this madness once and for all' he then pulled something out from his coat a sheathed dagger and handed it out to Keigo. 'Consider this my surrender and your means of saving the city.
Later with Ichigo and Bazzard.
'Damn...' Bazzard said as he slowly pulled Zangestsu out of the last of the Abyssal nights, with the rest of them either cut open, seared beyond recognition or reduced to little more than piles of ass. Before dropping to his knees spent. 'I didn't which would give out first. Me getting overrun by those bastards, or that sword of yours nearly blowing my arm off by how much spiritual energy and reishi it was pumping into me'
Ichiro looked at Bazzard and smirked while standing shirtless and breathing heavy over his own dead pile of abyssal knights. 'Zangestsu isn't one to hold ones hand, especially when it comes to using his power. 'He then looked to all of their fallen foes. 'And thankfully that power was enough'
'Yeah well...' Bazzard said as he then gave Ichigo' back his other blade who gently took. 'I'd rather use my own blades the next time we do shit like this' he spoke drily while Ichigo gave him a short laugh.
'Are we close to the exist?' Kurosaki asked and Bazz-B nodded.
'Yeah, it should only be a few feet from here come on' he urged and quickly run up the hallway with Ichigo trailing behind and after a few seconds they came upon a huge metal door which then slide open after Bazzard touched.
Which revealed the location of his father's hidden camera room under his ruined mansion.
'So your old man has been using this base to spy on everyone?' Ichigo question and Bazz-B sighed.
'Uh huh,' he confirmed sorely. 'He first created it in order to give himself convenience to travel from Tartarus and to the Silver City, to keep an eye on things...and to send in assassins to those that he deemed as a threat' Bazzard then took in a deep breath and closed his eyes before opening and looking up towards the ceiling. 'Anyway since we are in the upper district the Palace of Governance shouldn't be too far ahe-'
Suddenly both Bazzard and Ichigo' felt the earth Shake and accompanying that was a massive surge of spiritual power, that rivaled that of the upper Tier Espada...In their Segunda Etapa.
But for Bazzard the most disturbing thing was that he recognized that tremendous spiritual power.
'Father?'
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