what if I'm an undead! then so what?-Chapter 59: Elias vs Kaien (3) limitless and removing limiters

Chapter 59: Elias vs Kaien (3) limitless and removing limiters

"You’re thinking too hard," he said flatly. "But I’ll play along. Let’s see what that body of yours can really do."

Kaien’s artificial irises contracted. Combaing, Elias twisted inside the choke and headbutted Kaien hard enough to make his sensors buzz.

Kaien was forced back. He rolled across the synthetic grass and recovered into a crouch.

Elias was catching his breath not noticeable but he was feeling exhausted a bit since Kaine refused to fight at full power then he himself would fight without primordial energy which made up more than ninety percent of his strength. So currently fighting at this level was bound to tire him, chest subtly rising and falling.

Kaien’s next attack was sharper.

Twin blades extended from both wrists. One vibrated with sonic frequency, the other superheated to plasma. He dashed in again.

Clang. Sparks flew. Elias blocked the sonic blade with his forearm, grunting as he took a shallow cut to the side.

Blood trickled. Elias hissed softly.

"You finally managed to injure me, you should be proud."

Kaien didn’t waste momentum. He ducked low and kicked Elias’s legs out. Elias caught the ground with one palm and twisted mid-air, narrowly avoiding a downward blade slash.

He backflipped and landed with a skid, one hand on his side. The cut was thin but stung.

"You’re severely weaker than before, did that attack make you weaker, your current accesmemt has been reduced to island level" Kaien muttered.

Kaien launched a drone swarm from his shoulder ports—two dozen black orbs spiraling with tracking capability. They hummed like bees and honed in on Elias with surgical aim.

Elias moved—not teleporting, not vanishing, just fast. His feet carried him in arcs around the field. He vaulted off invisible anchors, redirecting mid-run to avoid every projectile.

He clapped his hands. A burst of kinetic energy pushed the drones off-course.

Then he grabbed one.

And flung it at Kaien.

The drone exploded near Kaien’s feet, sending him staggering back.

Kaien switched gears.

He fired a pulse from his core—a concentrated wave of thermal and sonic pressure meant to disorient.

Elias took it full on.

He stumbled, knees buckling, but didn’t fall.

Kaien appeared in front of him with a knee strike to the jaw—clean hit.

Elias flew back, skidding across the terrain. He rolled to a stop, blood in his mouth.

He spit.

"Damn. That actually hurt."

Kaien’s body split.

Two clones emerged from either side—lesser processing power but equally combat-efficient. They converged in a pincer movement.

Elias exhaled slowly. His body shimmered faintly—an aura, not visible light, but pressure.

The clones reached him.

He dodged one, shoulder-checked the other, then drove a fist into the real Kaien’s abdomen. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

The android buckled, servos screaming.

Elias flipped backward and landed a heel strike on Kaien’s exposed shoulder, sending him crashing into the dirt.

He raised a foot.

And stomped.

The impact cratered the terrain beneath Kaien’s back, shattering part of the dimension’s foundation.

Kaien’s systems blinked erratically.

Warning: Core Integrity – 12%. Shutdown Imminent.

The domain around them began to flicker. The fake space was failing.

Elias stood tall, bruised but composed.

Kaien looked up one last time.

"It seems I’ve used up too much energy in our fight, maintaining this particular virtual world for ten minutes consumes enough energy to power the sun for ten days and given minutes." Kaien said as his voice glitched periodically.

"That’s your problem, I guess we wouldn’t be able to get my assessment done at this rate!" Elias sighed but inwardly happy, fighting at this level without primordial energy was something that had consumed his physical and mental strength, right now he’d kill a thousand people just to get a wisp of primordial energy to flow through his veins, but alas his pride was on the line.

"Says who, I clearly stated that I can reset my system with my Synthetic Chrono-Core, although I’ve used it earlier but by removing my limiter would refresh it’s cool down time and also unlock another of my useful feature, that was why I was saving it for later, atleast you’ve passed the initial assessment, I can proudly say you’ve pushed me to my limit, now I’ll just have to remove my limits!" Kaien said with a cold calculated voice which made black lines appear on Elias’s face.

How dare this robot try to act cool I’m front of him, what does he take him for, trying to release iconic lines on his head, the thought of that made Elais’s blood boil.

"Limit or not, I’ll crush you! unlike you who have limits my power is limitless!" Elias said brushing his hair backwards with his hand flaunting his unparalleled charm as golden energy swelled around him causing the virtual world to shake while his eyes remained fixated in Kaien.

[Removing limiter, Rewind system status. Limiter unlocked. Zero-Point Energy Reactor automatically unlocked. Your threat level is now Country, do you want to use your final transformation the ’Synthetic God Protocol – Omega Simulacra?’] The aura around him increased by several folds, the ground beneath him began to crumble as the force of his reactor was causing the gravity to increase by several folds.

"Refrain from using the ultimate transformation, I don’t intent to kill him!" Kaien mutter making Elias who heard it frown, was this robot looking down at him, if that’s the case then he’ll teach it a lesson his system could never forget, even before he had hold back against the robot, however now he planned to out right humiliate him using the full power of his primordial energy which he had simply used to enhance himself before.

The air vibrated as Kaien’s photonic optics focused sharply on Elias, his synthetic mind already running calculations on this unpredictable human.

Kaien launched the first strike—a concentrated zero-point energy blast, a sphere crackling with raw force, hurtling straight toward Elias’s chest. The blast shimmered with unnatural blue light, capable of leveling a city block if fully unleashed.

Elias barely flicked a glance. Raising a single hand, his palm pulsed faintly with a deep cosmic glow. The sphere slowed to a crawl mere inches from him, as if trapped in an invisible grip—then dissolved like mist.

Kaien’s voice, cold and mechanical, cut through the charged atmosphere.

"How did you do that? that attack had the ability to destroy an entire city "

Elias smirked, stepping forward with a casual gait. "I did mention that Primordial energy can be used to alter the laws of the universe and even alter reality. Primordial energy lets me manipulate space itself. Now that I don’t intent to hold back Stopping a moving object? Child’s play."

Kaien noted this down: Reality warping and spatial manipulation confirmed. It seemed he had truly underestimated the human in front of him.

Kaien countered swiftly, deploying twin hardlight daggers, slashing at Elias’s arms. Elias dodged effortlessly, his movements a blur, weaving through the strikes with fluid grace.

A light tap from Elias’s fingertips sent a subtle shockwave, shattering the daggers before they could connect. "You’re not bad," Elias teased, "but I’m just warming up. So it’d be better for you to transform into a Synthetic war god or whatever. Or I’ll overwhelm you completely! Accept it my hax is just too great." Elias chuckled landing an iconic pose.

Kaien’s next strike came swift and clean, a blur of motion honed through endless replication and calculation. His fist sliced through the air, aiming straight for Elias’s jaw, calibrated to test reaction speed and durability.

Elias didn’t flinch. Instead, his body rippled with a golden shimmer—the faintest trace of primordial energy coalescing around his skin, like molten sunlight trapped beneath a thin veil. Time seemed to pulse and bend at the edge of perception. The air thickened, slowing Kaien’s punch in an instant.

With a casual smirk, Elias stepped forward—no rush, no wasted motion—and caught Kaien’s fist midair.

"Predictable," Elias said softly, voice laced with amusement. His grip tightened. The impact wasn’t just physical; the primordial energy surged through his muscles, enhancing raw strength far beyond human limits. The synthetic reinforced frame beneath Kaien’s skin creaked audibly, a barely concealed warning.

Kaien’s eyes flickered, recalculating. Elias’s strength alone was unlike anything he’d cataloged. Then came the subtle, maddening control—this wasn’t just a contest of power, but precision and timing.

Elias twisted his wrist, sending Kaien stumbling sideways, unbalanced. Before Kaien could recover, Elias’s other hand shot out—palm open, fingers spread wide. A faint ripple of warped space-time radiated from the strike, distorting the immediate area.

Kaien’s body staggered again, slowed as if wading through thick molasses. He barely managed to block the follow-up strike with a forearm reinforced by his own internal servos.

"You rely on your hardware," Elias said, stepping forward like a predator closing in, "with that I don’t even need to be fast, only faster than you expect."

Kaien lunged again, but his movements no longer carried the same precision. The energy that flowed from Elias warped Kaien’s senses subtly—milliseconds off in calculation can mean the difference between victory and collapse.