Chapter 7:

Maharaja, the Scarlet King

Syanic Earth 7: Dimensional War Arc


The exploding lava enveloped Amitonyx's body, enlarging him into a molten giant twice the size of Dosigma. Overseer Amitonyx took the form of Maharaja, the Scarlet King. The giant stomped onto the boiling sands, with his chest full of dark red eyes that seethed with anger. Amitonyx's head had many horns and a Sanskrit word for fire as an eye.

"Tigris Ifrit: Fists of Durga!" Amitonyx punched the condors and battle thrushes down with flaming fists.

"Retreat! Take them to safety!" Saitori ordered the Red Strix to take Calice and the Murhavs away from Amitonyx's wrath.

"I'll destroy this country if it means getting you back, Lifen!" The molten colossus breathed fire into the air. "Tigris Ifrit: Penultimate Ulka!"

The sky exploded, raining meteors into California. Saitori and the remaining Red Strix pulled their forces back from the burning beach, firing at the giant in vain. Dosigma rampaged through the lava with his heat-proof body, punching against Amitonyx's Fists of Durga.

"So, you're also made with fire?" The Overseer slapped Dosigma off like a fly. "Even so, you can't beat me!"

The heated giant stepped on Dosigma, but the Cubic boss pricked the foot with its antlers. Amitonyx roared in pain, grabbing Dosigma with his charred hand of igneous stone. The Scarlet King hissed at the boss, squeezing it until the condor ships fired their railguns to blast his arm off. Amitonyx howled and dropped Dosigma, regenerating his molten arm.

"Tigris Ifrit: Aditya's Fury!" Amitonyx clenched a fist to rain needles of igneous shards that crushed the condors.

Dosigma summoned a giant fireball, slamming it into the lava to make the beach explode. The catastrophe made Amitonyx trip, toppling him into the magma battlefield. Dosigma bellowed a war cry with fists pounding onto his chest like an angry gorilla.

"How curious a tiny mongrel like you is confident enough to challenge my anger!" The Scarlet King pricked Dosigma with his antlers. "Lifen! Nothing is the same without your love! You won't get away! I'll kill every American until you yield!"

Saitori and the remaining Red Strix desperately ran as the lava spilled towards them.

"Tigris Ifrit: Hellfire Dhatu!" Amitonyx summoned an enormous fire chain, whipping it at the UICA to incinerate them.

"We have no condors or thrushes left, General!" A commando cried. "Is there any way to fight back?"

'I-I don't know. I've never seen this form of Amitonyx before!" Saitori panicked as Amitonyx thrashed his burning chain at them.

"This ends now, Lifen! Do you yield?" Amitonyx kicked Dosigma out of his way. "If so, I might spare your UICA family."

Saitori looked at her remaining men with the injured Calice and Murhavs, who awoke to see the terrifying Scarlet King wielding its charred chain whip. The General sobbed, believing there was no way to beat her ex-husband's ultimate rage form. Not even Dosigma could fight Amitonyx alone.

"Well?" Amitonyx's chain whip coiled around Calice, Nashura, Rahim, and Naphthien. "Their lives are in your hands now."

The four screamed as the tightening chain boiled with fire. Calice tried to shock Amitonyx, but electricity didn't affect the Scarlet King.

I-I don't want to go back, but if I don't, everyone will die! Saitori sobbed.

"Don't listen to him, General!" Rahim screamed as Amitonyx slowly burned his skin.

"So, my sweet Lifen, what will it be?" Amitonyx grinned, clutching his chain whip on the four hostages.

The General knelt in devastation as the last Red Strix huddled with her in fear. "I-I can't make up my mind!"

"I'll give you five seconds before I fry the Murhavs and the lightning girl to a crisp! Five," Amitonyx yelled with impatience.

"Please stop!" Saitori begged as the hostages cried.

"Four. Do you want me to stop? Then return to me as my wife!"

"Saitori! It's not worth going back to this toxic piece of garbage!" Calice yelled until the flames burnt her jaw.

"Three. Shut up! Your time is ticking, Lifen."

The General sobbed with motionless blank eyes, unable to make a decision.

"You heard the social worker!" Nashura glared at the Scarlet King. "Can't a guy like you take a hint? Saitori wants nothing to do with you!"

"Two. You women dare lecture me?"

"You big fat king that's so desperate for a wife?" Calice spat. "And you call yourself a king? Pathetic! Shien, Enshiron, and Ritom are way better men than you!"

"One! What was that, little girl? Your time's up, Lifen. Say goodbye to your UICA friends!"

Suddenly, a white portal opened, releasing Emphynixyion that hit Amitonyx's eye with its Orbital Crescendo form. The Scarlet King dropped his four hostages and covered his Sanskrit eye, hollering in pain. Inveticus rode Des Manthesia and flew to rescue the hostages and reunite them with Saitori. Master Seniel jumped off the portal with the Vulpi, healing the wounded UICA. Enshiron and Elysia hugged Nashura and Calice in tears.

"Everyone!" Saitori hugged Rahim and Naphthien as Dosigma and Emphynixyion battled the Scarlet King. "I'm so sorry I couldn't choose in time."

"Don't be! Now everyone's here to knock the Federation down!" Rahim pat the General's back.

"Please rest!" Inveticus ordered the UICA and told the tired Vulpi apprentices to protect them. "Leave the rest to the us, Masters!"

Oreic, Yanshi, Inveticus, Fermato, and Seniel rode on their creatures to help Dosigma and Emphynixyion battle Amitonyx. The two-headed Levian Exedra slithered its cooling aqueous body to neutralize the lava while Des Manthesia launched razor icicles at the Scarlet King with its scythe arms.

"You pesky fox freaks, getting in my way of the woman I love!" Amitonyx swatted Emphynixyion away with his chain whip.

Levian Exedra breathed waterspouts into the Scarlet King.

"Tigris Ifrit: Hand of Tvashtr!" Amitonyx blocked with a burning palm.

"It's not enough to just fire water at him!" Fermato rode on Echelus beside Dosigma and Macadion Firma.

"I know!" Yanshi instructed. "Push him into the Pacific!"

"Makiyu, guide us!"

Macadion Firma and Echelus stomped onto the beach, summoning hordes of stone pillars to strike the Scarlet King. Enbu Fenix and Des Manthesia helped Emphynixyion circle Amitonyx's head. As the Scarlet King whipped the air with his chain, Dosigma helped Macadion Firma and Echelus hold onto the giant's legs and push him.

"What do you think you're doing, fox devils?" Amitonyx struggled to raise his feet, trying to resist their pushing force.

He looked behind them to realize their plan. "No! Don't you dare!"

Amitonyx squealed when the DJ boss plucked its eye off.

"I'll kill all of you! Lifen will be mine! Tigris Ifrit: Sword of Agni!" The Scarlet King morphed his chain into an igneous sword to strike Dosigma, Macadion Firma, and Echelus down.

"She doesn't belong to you, cruel man!" Seniel commanded Levian Exedra to coil into a drilling whirlpool that shattered through the magma blade into his chest.

The Scarlet King roared when Des Manthesia slashed his arms off. Inveticus summoned crystal butterflies that solidified on Amitonyx's torn arms, preventing regeneration. Seniel commanded Levian Exedra to wrap around Amitonyx's legs in a tight coil, helping Dosigma, Macadion Firma, and Echelus push the Scarlet King toward the Pacific.

"Stop tormenting me!" Amitonyx breathed fire into the sky as he toppled on his back. "Tigris Ifirt: Penultimate Ulka!"

A meteor shower rained over the masters. Oreic ordered his phoenix to shield everyone while Des Manthesia and Emphynixyion yanked Amitonyx by the horns. The Scarlet King tossed and squirmed as the creatures dunked Amitonyx's head into the Pacific Ocean, letting him steam and crack with dense smoke.

"It hurts! Stop, please!" Amitonyx wailed in pain. "Save me, Lifen! Tell them to spare me!"

"Goodbye, Sapphiro," Saitori huffed.

The Syanic Earth bosses and Vultau creatures dunked the Scarlet King's body in the water, leaving him to steam and crumble into rusted stone. The UICA and Vulpi jumped for joy as Seniel healed them, for Overseer Sapphiro Amitonyx, the King of the Shin-Kaminari, was slain.