Creation Of All Things-Chapter 43: Adam And Selene 4

The instant the monstrous shadow beast charged, the battlefield twisted under its sheer presence. The air grew heavy, suffocating, as if reality itself was straining to contain Selene's power.

Adam flickered out of sight before reappearing a few feet away, watching with sharp eyes. Alice, still smirking, felt her body tense against an unseen force.

And then—

Boom!

The beast moved faster than it should. A blur of darkness, its claw shot forward, a massive, jagged limb of pure void aiming straight for Alice.

She warped—

But something was off.

Her teleportation staggered, like space itself resisted her control. She only managed to shift a few feet before the beast's attack connected.

Crack!

The force sent her flying, smashing through the floating wreckage of a car. She barely caught herself mid-air, twisting to land on an invisible plane of warped gravity.

"What the hell—" Alice barely had time to register before another attack came.

Selene grinned, standing back with her arms crossed, eyes glowing gold. "Something wrong?"

The beast was already on Alice.

It lashed out again, its entire form rippling like an abyss come to life.

Alice moved, warping in bursts—but her control wasn't the same.

Selene had done something.

Space around her felt distorted, sluggish. It wasn't that Alice couldn't teleport—it was that her warps were being overridden.

The beast was right there.

Too close.

A massive tendril slammed into her gut, and the impact sent a shockwave through the air.

Alice choked, the wind knocked out of her as she shot backward, slamming into a floating streetlamp. The metal bent and shattered, sparks flying as she tumbled through the air.

Her body ached. Even her organs felt like they had been crushed for a moment.

Selene exhaled. "That's 10 percent."

Alice wiped blood from her lip, her expression darkening. "Bitch."

Adam, unfazed, finally moved.

He appeared behind the beast in an instant.

No delay. No hesitation.

His golden circuits flared.

Crack!

A single blow to the creature's head sent a ripple through its entire form, its body flickering like a broken signal.

Selene narrowed her eyes. "Huh. Not bad."

The beast turned, regenerating instantly, and swung at Adam with brutal force.

He didn't dodge.

He phased.

The attack passed through him as his form glitched, pixels scattering before he reappeared behind the creature.

He exhaled, flexing his fingers. "This thing's annoying."

Selene tilted her head. "You're not struggling. Why?"

Adam shrugged. "You're strong. But not against me."

Selene smirked. "We'll see."

The beast roared and lunged again.

This time, Adam met it head-on.

A burst of raw power exploded between them, shaking the battlefield. Adam's body flickered, moving at speeds beyond human sight, landing strike after strike on the shadowy monstrosity. Each hit sent violent ripples through its form, but it kept regenerating, adapting, shifting.

Alice, catching her breath, analyzed the fight.

Selene wasn't controlling the beast like a puppet.

She was the beast.

Her power was flowing through it directly.

And that meant—

Alice grinned. "Alright. Screw it."

She warped.

Not away.

Straight at Selene.

Selene's grin widened.

Alice reappeared inches from her face, fist cocked back—

But Selene didn't flinch.

A shadow tendril burst from her back and impaled Alice straight through the stomach.

Silence.

Alice's eyes widened, blood dripping from her lips.

Selene leaned in, voice a whisper. "Too predictable."

Then, she flung Alice off the tendril like a ragdoll.

Alice crashed hard, rolling across the ground, barely able to move. Her body refused to respond. The pain was real.

Selene cracked her neck. "One down."

Adam stopped.

His golden circuits flared brighter, his gaze unreadable.

Selene chuckled. "What? Mad?"

Adam didn't answer.

But the air around him shifted.

Selene's smirk faltered.

Something had changed.

Adam exhaled.

And then—

He moved.

Faster than before.

Faster than even Selene could react.

Her eyes barely registered his form before—

Crack!

Her entire world spun.

His fist connected with her stomach, and the impact warped the space around them. The ground beneath them cratered, the force blasting apart everything in a hundred-meter radius.

Selene coughed, her body instinctively reinforcing itself with shadows.

She tried to retaliate—

But Adam was already gone.

Not teleporting.

Not glitching.

Just moving.

A blur of golden circuits.

Selene barely blocked his next attack. But the force still sent her skidding, her boots carving trenches into the pavement.

Her fingers twitched.

Her body ached.

She let out a slow breath.

Then—

She laughed.

Low. Amused.

Excited.

She wiped her lip, golden blood smeared across her knuckles.

"Well," she exhaled, eyes blazing. "Finally."

Her aura spiked.

The battlefield trembled.

The monster she had summoned collapsed back into her body, its form merging with her own.

The shadows wrapped around her, shifting, evolving.

Her fingers curled.

She had only been playing before.

But now—

Selene grinned.

The moment Selene grinned, the ground beneath her cracked. Shadow tendrils surged around her, twisting and writhing like living things. Her body pulsed with power—dark mist rolling off her shoulders, her golden eyes burning brighter.

Adam's circuits flared in response. The air around him shimmered, warping with his sheer presence. He didn't speak. He just moved.

Boom!

He was in front of her in an instant, fist already coming down.

Selene smirked. Her body shifted, melting into the shadows just before impact. Adam's strike shattered the ground where she had been, sending a shockwave rippling through the battlefield. Chunks of debris exploded upward, twisting midair from the force.

Then—

A clawed hand shot out of the darkness behind him.

Adam twisted, dodging by a hair. But another tendril came from the side. And another from above.

Selene was everywhere.

Adam phased, his form flickering like static, avoiding each strike by the smallest margins. He darted through the incoming attacks, his body blurring in and out of reality.

Selene's smirk widened. "Not bad."

Then, she moved.

A blur of black.

One second she was in the shadows. The next—

She was right in front of him.

Crack!

Her knee slammed into his ribs.

The force sent Adam flying. He crashed through a floating bus, metal twisting and shattering around him before he flipped midair and landed on an invisible platform of energy.

He exhaled, flexing his fingers. "Alright."

Selene was already on him.

She came from above this time, her fist coated in pure void. Adam dodged—only for the very air around him to twist unnaturally, dragging him back into the attack's path.

Boom!

The impact sent a shockwave through the entire battlefield. The force of the hit crushed the space beneath them, distorting everything for miles. Buildings in the distance trembled. The sky itself seemed to shudder.

Adam hit the ground hard, skidding across the battlefield before flipping back onto his feet. A small trickle of blood dripped from his lip.

Selene cracked her knuckles. "What's wrong? You looked faster before."

Adam rolled his neck. "You talk too much."

Then he vanished.

Selene barely had time to blink before—

Boom!

A golden fist crashed into her jaw.

Her head snapped to the side, but before she could recover—

Crack!

Adam's foot slammed into her ribs, sending her flying.

She twisted midair, tendrils shooting out to catch herself, but Adam was already there.

Another punch.

Then another.

Each strike landed clean, each hit sending ripples through her body. The shadows around her tried to regenerate, but Adam wasn't giving her a chance. He was relentless. Every attack was precise, brutal, overwhelming.

Then, he moved again.

Faster than she could see.

Boom!

His elbow crashed down on her, sending her plummeting.

The ground cracked on impact, the entire battlefield shaking as dust exploded into the air.

Silence.

For a moment, nothing moved.

Then—

Selene's laugh echoed through the dust.

Slow. Low. Amused.

The shadows around her churned violently.

Then they exploded outward.

The entire battlefield darkened.

Selene stood, golden blood dripping from her lips, but her grin was wider than ever.

Her body pulsed.

The shadows around her condensed, folding into her skin, merging with her. Her golden eyes burned even brighter, the air itself twisting under her presence.

Her power spiked.

And then—

She disappeared.

Adam barely tilted his head before—

Boom!

Her fist connected with his stomach.

A split second later—

Crack!

A backhand sent him flying.

He barely recovered before—

Boom!

A shadow tendril wrapped around his leg and slammed him into the ground.

Hard.

The impact left a crater.

Selene appeared above him, her foot already coming down.

Adam's circuits flared.

He phased.

She stomped down—

And went straight through him.

Her eyes widened.

Then—

Boom!

A golden fist met her face again.

Selene skidded back, but her grin never faded. If anything, it grew.

She wiped her lip, her golden blood glistening under the ruined sky.

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Then she raised her hand.

The entire battlefield responded.

Darkness surged.

The shadows beneath them expanded unnaturally, swallowing everything in their path. The air turned heavy, vibrating with raw, uncontrollable energy.

Adam watched.

Unfazed.

Selene's grin turned sharp.

"Round two?"