Slingshotting himself toward Zina, Thane spun around for more force in his swing of the Death Scythe.

Zina: Hiya!

Generating some type of field, Zina lifts her arm, blocking Thane's scythe with an invisible shield. And with his momentum gone, Thane began to fall down the hole.

Zina: Take this!

She swings her arms as if she was holding a sword.

Thane: Take what-

(Splat)

Thane:!

A gash, as if he was slashed with a blade, appears across his chest.

Thane: Oh you meant that...

Thrusting his Scythe, Thane made it extend out and hit the wall of the hole to push himself across the hole.

Thane:(mind) Invisible weapon using, pointy ear worm slurper!! That hurt!

He hooks his scythe into the wall, and slingshots himself upwards, as Zina runs across towards him, whilst moving her arms as if she was drawing a bow.

Thane:(mind) She made some kind of field... I need to get out of it and the hotpot of souls...

(SHUNK)

Thane:!?

Feeling something pierce his leg, Thane gets pinned to the wall.

Thane:(mind) I think I just felt my last shred of mercy for that bitch die...

(Battle theme)

Decaying his leg, Thane fell with the feeling of his soul getting pulled at. As Zina pulled the string of her invisible bow, Thane was slightly pulled in her direction.

(SLAM)

Landing on an invisible floor, Thane quickly got up and spun his scythe blocking whatever Zina shot at him, yet the force of the impact did knock him back off of the invisible platform.

Thane:(snap)

With the snap of his fingers, Thane had his scythe stretch out and hit both sides of the tunnel walls, giving himself a tightrope to stand on.

Thane:(climbs onto scythe)

Zina leaps down and lands Thane's scythe, only to immediately pounce toward the Champion of Death with her hands gripped around an invisible weapon.

But by leaping onto the elastic weapon, Zina created a wave that tossed Thane over her head.

Zina: Get over here!!

Her exclamation of violence triggered Thane into decaying his body for whatever she had planned to attack him with. And as he decayed himself, the Champion was struck in the back, knocking him towards Zina.

The Guardian swung her weapon, but missed, as whatever invisible force struck Thane, he stuck to it, as it retracted.

Zina:?

Through the feeling of his soul getting tugged on, Thane began to piece together what Zina was doing.

Thane landed on his scythe and glared at Zina.

Thane: Don't tell me, you're manipulating the amalgamation of souls for this fight...

Zina: I don't know what you're talking about.

Thane: Your invisible weapons and constructs. They aren't just made of air. You're using the souls trapped around your city.

Zina: It's magic. Nothing more, nothing less.

Thane: It's magic?

Thane: No shit. Even I can tell that. But your weapons are more than Magic!

Thane: I understand that you might not be capable of seeing it. But this whole city is covered in the souls of people who've died.

Thane: And they've fused into one disgusting mess of pain.

Thane: Imagine yourself a cup of water that's been dumped into a lake.

Thane: You'll never be able to find the drops that made you, you.

Thane: Everyone in this city, when they die, is doomed to be part of this cluster of souls.

Thane: You need the Goddess of Death.

Zina:...(slowly shakes head)

Zina: Let's say you are telling the truth.

Zina: It doesn't matter. The Gods tried wiping each race that lives below us.

Zina: They'll finish us off if they learn of us.

Zina: O-Bliss must stand! No matter the cost! So we may harbor the next race that is cast aside.

Thane: So you're fine with souls of your people, fuse and suffer for all eternity.

Zina: We are concerned with living! What happens after, is of no importance.

Thane: As the Champion of Death... What happens to the souls of the departed, is my concern.

Thane: Even if I wasn't her champion... I don't think I could let this slide!

Zina: Fight hard. Fight smart. Be lucky. It won't matter in the end.

Thane: Guardian of this atrocity. Prepare to pay the price!

Getting a running start, Thane leaps over Zina, with the help of his bouncy scythe. He dashes over to the blade and stands on it. Making a spin gesture with his hand, Thane has the blade begin to elongate.

The blade hugged the walls, following the diameter of the hole, as it spiraled upward with Thane surfing atop it.

Running straight up the hole, leaping over the blade when it got in her way, Zina tried to cut Thane off, but when she noticed the blade picking up speed, she created an invisible platform and launched herself further up.

Zina:(mind) I won't let you get out of range of my field of influence!

She fired at Thane with invisible arrows. Decaying his body threatened to leave Thane momentarily stunned, thus, tactically, he opted to simply dodge to the best of his power.

Several shots grazed him.

Zina: You can't escape me! I'll do whatever it takes to stop you!

Zina holds both her hands out, preparing for some type of powerful attack. However, as she turns her body to follow the moving blade and Thane, they stop as her momentum continues to carry her.

Thane: Escape....?

Thane: Ma'am. I wasn't running... Or creating distance...

After turning 360°, Zina saw the tip of the blade. But found Thane had leaped into the air and was now above her.

Thane: I WAS SETTING UP YOUR EXECUTION!!!

(Snap)

The shaft of the Scythe retracted to its base size, as the blade, which was a spiral up the hole, shrunk. Its coil-like shape retracted into the center, where it became wrapped around Zina.

Like a rope trap, where when you pull on the rope, the leg of the prey gets trapped. But Thane got more than the leg, he had the whole body.

Of course, Zina tried to create a construct to push the blade away, but it cut through it.

Zina felt the blade tighten around her like a snake.

Thane then fell past her.

Thane: Tell me... What's it it like to feel fear?

Zina:!?!

He grabbed the staff of the Scythe, dragging Zina down the hole.

Thane: Tell me! Are you concerned about dying now!? What happens to you after death!?

Zina: Y-YOU BASTAAAARD!!!

Thane: Let me clue you in on what's about to happen to you!

Thane: What I'm about to do to you... Is a mercy compared to what your city will do after!

Holding his scythe sideways, with his left hand near the blade and right away. He pushes with one arm. and pulls with the other.

(SPLAT)

Down at the bottom, where the rest of the Champions and Guardians were about to fight at full power. Both sides noticed something strange.

A stream of blood was getting sucked into Eve's monster case. But the blood came from the sky.

Clover: Is it raining blood?

Perfectly horizontally sliced chunks of a body splat across the battlefield.

Eve: Z-Z-Z....?!

The clothing, and the limbs, did not take long at all for the Guardians to realize, it was their friend, Zina.

Borod: ZINA!!!

Dok:!!

Tora: Wh-What...? H-How?!

During their shock and horror, the Champion wasted no time in putting the Guardians down.

Lilly swung her spear like a bat, breaking Dok's skull open.

Henrietta chopped a leg off of Tora and slammed her through a building.

Clover simply shot Evin.

As Sky launched Eve and Borad across the city.

Scott arrived, and no worse for wear.

Scott: Hm. Seems like I didn't need to concern myself with helping you all...

Clover: This perfectly sliced corpse fell from the sky... Is this the new blood's doing?

Sky: Why is he up there?

Henrietta: Whatever the reason, he gave us an opening to finish things quickly.

Lilly: Tch. Don't give him too much credit...

Lilly: These punks have never seen a real fight against someone stronger than them, before.

Lilly: They were all bark, no bite. Especially if he could beat one.

Sky:(looks around) J.J is still missing.

Lilly:(sigh)... Let's find her and get out.

Lilly: Unless anyone knows how to talk to the gods from here...

....

....

....

Lilly: Finding the Mute it is...

After an hour of climbing, Thane finally was out of the range of the soul cluster, though, he was still in the hole.

"Thane? Can you hear me?"

Thane:(sigh of relief)

Shoving the blade into the wall of the hole, Thane sat on his scythe. Decaying his body, to sees a projection of Azrei.

Thane: I can, my lady.

"What's going on? Have you figured out where the other Champions are?"

Thane: Oh..  I found them... Along with a city filled with these creatures called "Qwarfs",  "Elvis", and "Faunta".

"Dwarves? Elves? And Fauna?"

Thane: Yeah...

Thane: Claimed you gods tried to wipe them out.

"That would be because we did..."

Thane: Oh.

Thane: Well there's also this other thing. While I was down there, they confused me for the "Champion of Chaos".

Thane: And well... Could it be possible that the one who contacted me on my last mission was the God of Chao-

A sudden pain throbbed in his head, as his surroundings shifted to a hill of corpses, surrounded by an ocean of blood.

"What are you doing?"

"I had this big reveal planned-"

"Hehehe... Planned... Hah!"

Before the force was invisible, now there was the silhouette of red. As if, before, with no idea of this god, he couldn't perceive him. Now with some, Thane could.

"Just putting it all on the table, eh?"

"I like it!"

"How about you come die, for me?"

"Don't you mean work?"

"Hehehehehe...!"

The red figure approaches Thane who blankly stares at it, as the purple silhouette gets in between the two.

"Cardsha...."

"This can't be... You're supposed to be trapped."

"Oh! Please!"

"I. AM. CHAOS, BA-BY!!!"

"What's possible does not apply to me."

"Besides... It doesn't matter how deep the hole is if you don't shut the lid."

"Isn't that why mortals bury the dead?"

"So..."

The two gods turn to Thane.

"Is that burying thing true?"

To be continued....

(Ending Theme)