Cyberknight: One Path

⁕ High Voltage (part 3)

Said Athena with confidence.

Jagger remained silent to avoid showing his unease, but Athena saw right through him. Both knew Jagger was far from as powerful as Mike despite possessing knowledge and access to his full arsenal of techniques. The two combatants stood facing each other, like in a Western face-off.

Suddenly, Jagger dashed and landed a punch against Athena, which sent her into the air. Following this, Jagger flew up and attempted to reach Athena before being ambushed by many of Athena's divine arms. As he fought off the row after row of endless appendages descending upon him, Jagger reached his hands forward and focused his eyes on Athena.

[Jagger] - "Echoing Verdict: Staff of the Monkey King! Echoing Verdict: Jigsaw of Pandemonium! "

It was a dual activation as Athena was abruptly slammed and pinned against the wall by the massive extending staff which manifested from Jagger's palm before being sliced by Jigsaw of Pandemonium. This time, a few bloody marks appeared on Athena's body but nothing more than surface skin damage by Jigsaw of Pandemonium. Upon seeing how his technique worked against Athena, Jagger smiled confidently before he was confronted with a smile from Athena.

[Athena] - "Guilt Extension: Champion of The Titanomachy! "

At that moment, Jagger realized that it was a trap all along. Athena allowed herself to be pinned and damaged not because she was helpless, but because she was channelling a counterattack by sacrificing elements of her defence. Instead of attacking Jagger, the divine hands grabbed Jagger's arms and legs before the flashes of blue lightning appeared all around Jagger from every angle.

Like a thunderstorm, the bolts of electricity rain down upon Jagger out of thin air without ever running out of ammo. As Jagger busied himself with defence, Athena abruptly kicked the staff pinning her down and instead sent Jagger crashing into the opposite wall before trapping him under his own technique. However, Jagger immediately developed a new technique by conjuring his own divine hands to battle Athena's army.

[Jagger] - "Don't think this is over! Mike's greatest asset is his adaptivity. No matter how strong you think you are, his ability can simply create something to counter it. "

Said Jagger as he created a shield around himself to protect against Athena's electric bolts.

[Athena] - "That is true but he often refused to do this. "

[Jagger] - "I'm not bound by honour, you filthy cunt! Mike might choose to fight like a knight but I have none of the obligation to do so! All that matters is the final victory! "

[Athena] - "What a beastly animal you are, you absolute filth! Mike refused to do this because copying an ability doesn't mean you can master it right away. "

Said Athena as she conjured more divine arms.

To his horror, Jagger watched as his own conjured hands quickly lost against the sheer number and ferocity of Athena's ability. Before long, one of Athena's hands pushed through the chaos and slammed against Jagger's chest before sending him crashing below. In a devastating blow, the hand crushed Jagger with such force that it broke through the barrier set by Jagger to block Jerry from earlier. Finally, with a ground-shaking boom, Jagger was firmly crushed under the hand against the ground below.

Meanwhile, on the ground floor, Kadyn jumped through the tall grass field while cutting down any soldier attempting to approach Athena's ship. However, their number was increasing as reinforcement arrived without stopping. Time slowed as Kadyn entered acceleration and slashed the throats of many men before they even realized that they were dead.

As Kadyn reached the maximum time of her acceleration, she immediately made her way back into the ship to rest and hydrate. However, despite her efforts, the number of soldiers and droids kept increasing as they fired shot after shot at the ship.