Mako was stunned.

"Those insignificant heirs managed to stop it?"

"And you're about to lose to another one," Sehki claimed, sticking his Camo Soul's tongue on Mako's swords. The Peacock StellArts user attempted a faster, frail gatling barrage of blades but Sehki pushed through all of the spells, crashing into him with a Serpent Break.

Proxim looked up in surprise at the destruction of their plan, laughing.

"I'll just have to finish you off myself," putting their arms together and replicating Lumin's light magic to created a giant grenade-esque explosion chasing Sehki even as he retreated into the shadows. He summoned the beast upwards, but the others gave him a heads up.

"Xia, you ready?"

Ainsley, Rigal, and Taylor widened her back.

"Let's show him why we're the divine heirs!"

The three of them sent her diving at max speed, pouring most of her energy into a twin fireball from both of her hands. Sehki helped her hand, having the flying serpent eat them and cover the fireball with its fangs.

"Asterism Art: Serpent Meteor!"

Proxim gathered the metal from half of the ship to turn themself into a metallic golem. The two of them rammed the giant sphere at him, neither side refusing to back down. But with a final push, the bully-bullied pair ripped through the defense and armor.

Inside was a face none of them expected. Sehki blinked.

"Dad?"

The figure morphed from Sehki's father, to his mother, to Sehki himself, Qian, and worse, Flint. Afterwards, it acquired the likeness of Professor Tychonis, Jia, Jun, and Xia.

"What on Terra?"

They heard Proxim's voice from the armor itself.

"Do you remember the Void you supposedly killed that night when you rescued Xia?"

"I erased it!"

"And I kept remnants of its existence to make a replica while the Celestial Siege took place with enough data."

The slime merged with the fake Xia, stretching past the real one to cover and reach into Sehki's soul, draining him of his magic.

"Your StellArts is ours!"

"I won't let you!"

Xia pushed the slime's arms to her, draining her while she burnt it off Sehki. He attempted to erase the Void but Xia howled out in pain: the entire constellation's power accumulated over years was yanked out of her.

It melded with the Void, transforming the fake into a more complete form with a black body in place of gray. She repelled Proxim's remaining armor off her, forcibly attaching it to Mako, grunting as his weakened will was taken over.

"For now, Fenghunag and the Rising Twelve are under my control. Mako, your role in this is over!"

Sehki punched the Dark Xia, who shrugged it off, while the real one barely mustered out a flame, searching deep inside to see the stars that made her constellation be reduced to one.

'She stole my whole supply! This is...all I have now?

"Void Xia, Via? Nineteen years of her magic tank gone? How did you do that?"

"Wrong target. Don't worry, your siblings played your role well. Now, the world will see who will be the only survivor! Bye," flying off.

Proxim-Mako sliced them down. Sehki had Xia jacket on his back as he took the metal striking his body numerous times, leaving him barely able to stand.

The other heirs were clearing the sky and Wali was busy with the twins letting out their frustration on him, creating a lava tornado to stop them for good.

Xia's eyes frantically searched for a solution, looking below, hasp.

"Take my shadow! That's what the merge thing is," taking a hit for him.

Realizing it made sense, he replicated and merged hers with his body, molding into a new Onyx Merge, blocking Proxim-Mako.

"Onyx Merge, Phoenix Soul!"

Black wings spread across his body, channeling the fire magic in him to set their wings on fire. Blocking Mako's strikes with its wings, he flipped Xia on his back to lead them.

With her instructions and her transferring what flames she could monster, he made a holster to forge a fire blade. The two slashed and jousted at Proxim Mako, following her commands to fly, kick, spin, and smash him with a heel dive, breaking the ship further.

"Tenshia," Xia yelled, seeing her about to fall into the water. She got him to fly down to catch her, who muttered unconsciously creating a shield.

Proxim-Mako jumped after them but Xia used the shield to stop his blade.

"Now!"

Sehki smacked the sword out Mako's hands, spinning and piledriving him through the ship until smashing into the water. He tried to lift him up by his shadow but ran out of magic. Xia let Tenshia go, catching him instead to climb up into what remained of the ship.

She navigated them to the command deck, activating the Antila blast underneath the water meant to rescue people, but Mako's body didn't surface.

"Is he?"

"There must've been a portal underneath. The armor's tanked water damage before."

They got to the main deck: Wali held the unconscious twins while the heirs joined them, disappointed by the news She fell to her knees.

"My magic pool's wasted, our siblings are still missing. We did this for nothing?"

Sehkis shook his head. "We got Tenshia back. We'll get your power back. And," gasping, we know Proxim's identity. Who and where is everyone Via turned into?"

"Mother: school, Father; Imprisoned, your parents: dead, Siblings: gone. That leaves-"

"Professor Lyncis' attacker and Proxim's host: Professor Tychonis!"

Ainsley gasped. "All majors take gym, with access to everyone's grades-recruiting failures with Switches in the Society!"

Xia lambasted her limited magic to fight him, but Ainsley, Taylor, and Rigal hugged her.

"No one messes with our sister."

Wali nodded. "Failure's the next step to success, if we accept it."

Sehki shrugged. Ainsley shook the deck to make him join them. Calypsa smiled as Solomon sent out several world leaders regarding her fate.

"Well you-we stopped the Astrovid Shower together, now let's fix the craters."