Neila stretched his arms, as he began descending by walking down a staircase made purely of air, he walked towards Tartarus as he cocked back a pistol.

  “I’ll finish you off, Yuki release half the energy into me, I can handle it no prob”.

  Yuki sighed as she extended her hands out, the burden on Neila’s back began to lessen.

  A darkness crawled up Neila’s arm, trying to swallow him whole like a creature, his left side of his body turned black, his left eye turned blood red.

  Yuki smirked.

  “You’re so edgy, what are you? A teenager”?

  Neila began to skate across the floor like it was made of ice.

  Tartarus laid down in a broken down tower made of pure flames, blood dripped down his lips as he stared into the ceiling.

  He stood up as his legs wobbled, he grabbed his own back as his spine began to heal, the bone began to reconstruct itself.

  “Finally, someone who knows how to talk properly with manners”.

  His golden chain began to wrap around his hands and his neck.

  Tartarus dusted off the small pieces of concrete from his suit.

  “I can’t have myself looking too bad”.

  Neila began to walk towards Tartarus as their eyes met one another.

  A chain flew towards Neila at extremely high speeds.

  A woman with long black hair and a cap threw a playing that wedged itself in the hole of the chain, as the chain’s momentum began to slow down and eventually stop.

  Her eyes shone an emerald green, her face tan yet slightly attractive, all she wore was a tank top and jeans with a hat.

  The top 3 adventurer in China, Xing Xing.

  She thought to herself, her hands were locked trying to keep the chains from moving forwards.

  [Go on kid, whoever you are]

  “Queen, Stop”.

  The world froze in an instant, the fire stopped crackling as the lava stopped bubbling. The entire world became silent as Neila walked towards Tartarus, shoving the barrel of his gun into the God’s chin.

  Neila pulled the trigger, but the moment the steel bullet hit Tartarus’s skin, the bullet fell apart.

  “What is he? A wall”?

  Neila’s hand went through his chest with one fell swoop, coming out the other side as blood covered his arm.

  “At least I can use brute force”.

  Neila pointed his finger towards his head, a white energy began to glow from his fingertips as it shot straight through Tartarus’s skull.

  “I wonder what will make him go down for good, he can regenerate without changing reality or time and he isn’t a concept, he must have some kind of weakness I can exploit, some core from where he regenerates out of”.

  After Kronos had left Neila’s body, the duration in which he could control time had decreased, the Khaos energy inside him had managed to maintain some bit of Kronos’s power allowing him to use a lesser version of his power,[Queen]

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  Extending the duration of his power for too long would lead to severe brain damage and nausea.

  Neila looked down at his own hand as his nose began to drip blood.

  “Shit, Queen resume this world”.

  Tartarus felt his chest blow apart, a hole in his chest that went straight through and another hole in his brain.

  His body flew back straight into a wall.

  “How scary of you, even someone like me didn’t see you move yet you don’t have enough power to eliminate me whole, you have Kronos’s power don’t you”?

  He put his palm on his own injuries as they began to heal in an instant.

  “You must have one hell of a soul to trap him in your body, especially how unwilling he is”.

  Neila sighed as he walked towards Tartarus, he kept his mouth completely sealed.

  Athena began to rapidly run around the entire netherworld with her bare foot, she was swift, gliding across the terrain like ice.

  Her eyes surveyed across the area like an eagle looking for anything out of place.

  “It can’t be that tower can it? He wouldn’t be so stupid to place his core right there, it must be somewhere inconspicuous”.

  Thoughts flooded through her mind as the heat began to bother her, her stamina began to run out and her head began to ache.

  “I have to find it quick, before I drop”.

  “It can’t be in the corners, that’s way too obvious too, where would the Lord of Hell hide his weakness”?

  [His core is sensitive, so somewhere buried with dirt won’t be possible, somewhere claustrophobic would also tire him out quicker, somewhere free, somewhere with lots of space]

  Souls began to crawl towards her feet, in the corner of her eyes, one of the souls began to squirm in pain and slowly fade from existence.

  Athena held her chin, ignoring all the souls that crawled beneath her like a sea.

  “I’ve figured it out”.

  Neila phased his fingers through the walls of a building, gripping it as his fingers locked in place, he lifted it up into the sky as a chain pierced straight through Neila before he could even react.

  Blood spurted out of his chest, as he felt a sharp object go straight through his soul, his eyes began to shake, as he felt his innards being torn apart.

  “How disappointing”.

  Tartarus mumbled under his breath as he began to walk towards Neila’s frozen body, as he began to caress his face.

  “All that talk for nothing”.

  Neila’s body laid limp a with a chain stuck within his chest, his eyes rolled into the back of his head as he collapsed to the floor.

  Tartarus kicked his head, pressing his foot onto Neila’s head as the ground beneath them crumbled.

  His hand grabbed onto Tartarus’s legs as Neila fingers dug into his skin, blood gushed out as Neila stared up straight into Tartarus’s eyes.

  His eyes lit up like a flame

  “How in the world did you survive an injury to the soul? What kind of abomination are you”?

  Neila raised his hand towards Tartarus’s head.

  From the tip of his fingers lit up a beam of light firing towards Tartarus’s face.

  In an instant the God moved out of the way dodging it.

  A entire deck of cards pierced into Tartarus’s back, stopping his movement entirely as a spear pierced into his arm, his arm began to bulge as a curse from the spear began to flood into his body.

  “Damn you humans sure are entertaining”.

  His body began to split in half as his very own chain split him straight through the center of his body.

  The cursed side of his body began to completely disintegrate while the other began to heal.

  “Queen Stop”.

  Half of Tartarus’s body stopped midway through its healing process.

  Neila’s body began to rapidly sweat as he was exerting all his force into keeping Tartarus’s time stopped. Yet everyone was still moving, Neila created a bubble of time as thin as a layer of paper around Tartarus.

  “Y’all do something quickly before it runs out”.

  Neila collapsed to his knees as he extended his hand out towards Tartarus.

  “Light your body into flame”.

  Hestia immediately stepped forwards, fire burned on her hands as she lit Tartarus’s body aflame.

  Nerissa began to crawl towards Hestia.

  “No! Don’t”!!

  The hot flames burned at the temperature of the inner core of the sun as the flames coated Tartarus in flames.

  “Ahahaha, your divine flames healed me back to new”.

  Tartarus stood up from the flame, completely brand new as Neila collapsed to the ground, blood dripped down his eyes, his knees scraped against the rough floor.

  Hestia’s pupils looked surprised, her eyes began to get larger.

  “I’m exasperated, how did you manage to rejuvenate from that”?!

  “Your flames give life to me, even the flames of the deepest realm of the underworld cannot burn me”.

  Tartarus’s hands began to light up with a white energy as his fingers started to light aflame.

  “Furnace, lit aflame”.

  From the sky came down a flaming meteor as large as a city.

  As the meteor came crashing down, a barrier surrounded everyone like a dome, as the meteor came crashing down slightly shaking the barrier as it crumbled like glass.

  “Neila! Send me towards him”!

  Neila stood up, pressing his palm onto her back as he sent her flying towards Tartarus.

  brass knuckles appeared directly on her hands, as she slammed her fists into Tartarus’s face.

  Her fists began to rapidly strike him like a river repeatedly scraping away at the rocks beside it.

  Tartarus couldn’t anything but take the punches head on, trying his best to block every single attack.

  [Her punches are getting faster and stronger every single second, without my full abilities I won’t be able to catch up with her speed soon enough, I have to knock her out quick]

  A chain flew straight through her chest as she was cast aside, her body dropping to the ground as blood dripped out of her chest.

  Neila’s pupils dilated as he rushed over towards her, he ran as fast as possible, time reversed on his own body as all his blood began to flow back into his own body.

  He sat beside Yuki’s frozen body, his hands shaking as he held her neck, she was still breathing even with an attack that hit her soul.

  “You fool stop making me so terrified all the time”.

  Neila held her body in his hands as he rushed over towards the healers, they grasped onto her body as green energy glowed from their fingertips as the hole in her chest began to heal.

  “You okay”?

  Neila stared down at her with a soft expression.

  Yuki gritted her teeth as she stared back.

  “Yeah, I’m fine, I managed to move my soul out of the way of his attack, but his chains, I couldn’t stop them even with my telekinesis, my mother Athena will probably think of something, she’s already looking around the environment”.

  Neila pat her head as he smiled at her.

  “Stay down, I already have trauma from losing someone”.

  Yuki sighed as she leaned against the wall, the healers beginning to heal her injury.

  “Fine fine, you don’t have to tell me that”.

  Tartarus stared up into the sky, from within the corner of his eyes

  Athena rushed into battle with her spear and shield facing Tartarus.

  “Your regeneration isn’t really regeneration is it? It’s the transferring of injuries to the souls of the underworld, you can’t come back if I totally destroy you whole”.

  Tartarus smiled.

  “Athena, Goddess of wisdom, you really live up to your title”.