The Power of Destruction

Hannah sighed in relief as they vanished. "Awakening my powers again… it's reignited something in me. This battle lust—it’s hard to suppress. But now that they’re gone… I can cut loose."

Her eyes glowed dark purple as her kantar exploded outward, distorting the air around her.

"Your destruction will be beautiful," she said, grinning fiendishly as the Kaiju recovered.

This Kaiju was different. Towering and humanoid, it had the horns of a bull, the teeth of a lion, and the muscular body of a colossus. It stood confidently with its hands locked in a strange formation.

"Your power... I’ve never felt anything like it," the Kaiju said. "It’s intense, malicious, chaotic. You’re strong, but not strong enough to stop me."

Hannah scoffed. "Why don’t you mess around and find out?"

She dashed forward, but the moment she accelerated, her body felt strangely light and she lost her footing.

Realizing what had happened, she muttered, "Your mastery over your innate technique is amazing. Even the demon lords don't control their techniques like this... Let’s see what happens when that’s negated."

She formed a kantar barrier around herself, then transmuted it into her innate technique of destruction.

The Kaiju, oblivious to her maneuver, smirked. "A kantar barrier? You think that’ll save you? You’re facing the full force of my technique now—you’re doomed."

Reducing the gravity on his own body, the Kaiju surged forward faster than light and struck Hannah. The blow launched her backward—but pain exploded in his arm.

His knuckles had turned to ash.

"What the hell did you do to my arm?!" he roared.

Hannah, masked and silent, smirked beneath the purple skull mask and charged. The Kaiju attempted to manipulate gravity again—but nothing happened.

She landed a punch to his face, and the area she touched crumbled to ash.

"How dare you make a fool of me!" he yelled.

He formed a kantar dome around them, laughing maniacally. "Now I’ll make you suffer."

Gravity intensified to the point a black hole formed. It began consuming the terrain, and Hannah struggled to stay upright.

As the black hole drew in her kantar, she let it.

Then she used the absorbed kantar to activate her technique.

The black hole imploded.

Landing back on her feet, she glared. "Did you really think that would stop me? You must really underestimate me."

She burst through the kantar dome using her destruction technique and launched a punch—but the Kaiju dodged.

"You’re strong," he admitted, "but I will never lose to a lowly human."

Hannah smirked. "A lowly human, huh? Never thought I’d be called that again."

She charged up a massive sphere of destruction and hurled it. The Kaiju blocked with thick layers of kantar—but she used that brief moment to strike his exposed left side, turning half his body to ash.

He regenerated instantly, laughing. "That caught me off guard! This is the best fight I’ve had in ages!"

Both combatants clashed again, engaged in brutal close-quarters combat.

For two hours they exchanged blows, but Hannah’s energy began to fade. Her attacks weakened as she struggled to maintain her form and barrier.

The Kaiju began overpowering her.

He pummeled her, laughing. "I knew it—only a matter of time before you ran out of steam. You’re just a weak, pathetic human."

Her bones cracked, pain overwhelming her senses, and finally, she collapsed, barely conscious, her transformation undone.

The Kaiju loomed over her and stomped on her head. "Grovel beneath me!"

From beneath his foot, Hannah smiled.

"You imbecile... You’ve aided in your own undoing."

She gathered the last of her kantar at the point of impact and whispered, "Destruction technique... Finishing skill: Erasure."

The Kaiju screamed as cracks of light split across its body.

Then it vanished—erased from existence.

Hannah, barely holding on, smiled faintly. "I did the best I could... It’s up to you now, Hanz. Protect my precious boy... I’m... done."

She passed out, a serene smile lingering on her face.