Level-Up Apocalypse: Surviving With The Assimilation System
Chapter 166: Emergence of The Strongest

"Yo! Are you done playing chicken in the sky and ready to fight like a man?"

The words of provocation came with a smile from the man in casual clothes, bringing his fists together as his hair changed to a glowing, flaming state with burning tattoos across his body.

["Dao of Eternal Fire"]

In the form of flames, he dashed towards the God of Heroes with blazing speed, immediately unleashing a flurry of strikes. Each punch sent with it a burst of fire, forcing Sirius to quickly move to avoid the heat.

Amidst the fiery assault, Polaris found the divine figure counter attacking with blades forged of lightning, filling his view with the erratic glow–

["Transcendent Reflexes"]

As the sharpened element approached his face, Polaris leaned back, flipping his body around as the other blade swept just past his legs. For the man clad in mystical fire, any attack sent his way triggered his reflexes instantly, causing his perception to accelerate in response. It manifested through the diamond-shaped glow embedded in his irises.

For Sirius, it was a sensation he wasn't adjusted to; each swipe of his elemental blades, every flicker of lightning–none of it seemed to come close to grazing the human before him.

'This man–he's the closest to godhood. No, I'd say he's already there. I can sense it, somewhere deep inside of him–a well of divine strength. How exciting,' Sirius acknowledged.

It was amidst the God of Heroes' thrill that he found the flame-wielding fighter slipping through his next two slashes of lightning, stepping within striking distance in that moment faster than the blink of an eye.

Polaris clenched his fist, bringing it to his side as fire swirled around it. This was noticed by the deity clad in living armor, however–

["Almighty Fist Intent"]

Before the motion for a punch could be made, an impact slammed against Sirius' body as though the fist of a colossus had collided with his body. It was enough force to slide the divine figure back, bringing a moment of recoil before a bright-orange glow called Sirius' attention.

Before the God of Heroes could adjust, Polaris was already in the air, weaving the majestic flames into mythical proportions.

"Come on, mighty god! Don't make this boring! I came all this way!" Polaris shouted with an excited smirk, pushing his hands out.

The fire took the form of twin dragons, flying through the air with blazing forms as they encircled the god. In response to the challenge, Sirius couldn't help but expel laughter as the sky rumbled, bringing both of his hands out as they exuded charge.

As the flaming dragons closed in on him, Sirius brought forth their kin in the form of lightning, bringing the ethereal beasts to clash in the air. With the collision of both elements, Polaris approached the God of Heroes without wasting a moment.

The Xianxia System wielder's fist became utterly infused with fire, bringing it into an uppercut driven right against Sirius' abdomen from a lowered stance.

["Ascending Fist of a Fleeting Star"]

The initial impact was only the start; Polaris' fist drove into his foe's gut, bringing with it an ignition of flames that were woven into a spiral, lifting Sirius with a rising pillar of wildfire.

It was like a drill, spinning with extraordinary heat as the God of Heroes found himself brought high, having to fight against the torque of the heat. The spiraling flame failed to pierce through the armor, bruning against it, however–

Polaris didn't let up; amidst the pillar of fire he sent with an uppercut, he rose into the air as a flickering flames, bringing himself directly above Sirius. Amidst embers and sparks, the man who stood at the pinnacle of humanity spun around into a devastating wheel kick, delivering the flaming strike to the god's exposed back.

The resulting impact ignited an explosion of flames, bringing forth its bright-orange glow to fill the battlefield at the fading world's summit. It was a sight that caught the eyes of the others that fought with everything they had; a beautiful array of fireworks that brought hope to the outcome of the battle.

However, amidst the cloud of flames–

An emergence of lightning cast it all away as Sirius stood on the sky; burns marked his living armor, left smoking and exuding steam.

For a brief moment, a small took to Polaris' lips before that delighted expression was intercepted by the arrival of the God of Heroes. It was faster than he could've ever perceived, not expecting such an ascendance in speed as like a flicker of light, Sirius' grabbed Polaris by the face.

[//This is what godhood looks like.//]

Transmitted directly into his soul, those words are what Polaris felt without them being spoken by the one who had grabbed hold of him. Before any action could be taken, the man found himself dragged across the sky at an incomprehensible speed.

The sheer intensity of the flight challenged his body to stay together; jarring shifts in direction, bolting from one continent to the next in a single breath brought Polaris' body to ache.

'It feels like…my body is caught in a vortex–I can't control my limbs at all, every muscle is tensing up without my control,' Polaris thought.

From a land drowned in snow, a lifeless landscape of dried land bathed in fire, a war-torn meadow, back to the skies, down to the sea; across mere seconds, the fading world was traversed.

Ultimately, Polaris found his limbs snapping from the astronomical forces of speed before it all came to a sudden halt. He found himself tossed away, facing down at a vast sea, looking down at the God of Heroes who stood on the stretch of blue.

As his broken limbs waved, he drew in a breath without worry, siphoning the air itself as life force–

["Benevolence of The Sky"]

Through his calm breathing, his shattered bones reconnected, exhaling all of the wounds he had incurred from the inhuman travel.

"I felt my life teetering on the edge for a moment there. My heart is beating a million times a second right now–what a rush!" Polaris laughed, staying above the sea as his flaming hair was brushed by the ocean winds.

There was a laugh of relief from Siris below, "You're a hard one to break. Let's see how long that lasts."

"You might be the one breaking first, O'mighty God!" Polaris confidently claimed, merging a sphere of fire between his palms.

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["Blazing Intent of The Fist"]

The orb of flames extended itself over his arms, bringing him to command colossal apparitions of fire-born limbs, casting them down with volatile punches. As each of the massive fists collided with the surface of the sea, clouds of vapor rose.

Mountains of steam rose from each downfall of the flame-born knuckles, though through it, Polaris found electricity rising. Across the seemingly boundless length of the sea, it was shocked by the supercharged god before hundreds of shattering projectiles launched from Sirius' command.

It brought a vicious smile on Polaris' lips as he found the parade of lightning marching upward. The sky was filled with a magenta glow with each passing bolt, bringing Polaris to fly upon flames beneath his feet as one projectile grazed his cheek.

A flurry of flaming strikes were unleashed in response, igniting a race across the sea as he followed the god who sprinted as a bolt of lightning across the surface of water.

"This world is already on its last legs, so I'm going to treat it a little roughly…!" Polaris claimed, flipping around between rising strikes of electricity.

Oxygen was sucked into his lungs, exhaled as fire as he brought his hands to the air. Above him, the colossal limbs of fire followed, gathering a blazing sphere that mimicked the might of the Sun.

["Aspect of The Collapsing Season"]

All of the fire that burned within Polaris' body was siphoned into the mountainous sphere before being brought down upon the sea. From below, Sirius could only see a blinding void of shining orange coming down.

'Now would you look at that–he's showing me up,' Sirius thought in delighted bewilderment.

As the great sphere touched down upon the sea, it collapsed into a magnificent explosion, expanding into such a scale that it reached into the heights of the sky.

The sublime heat brought a nation of vapor clouds, encircling the parted sea as the land that dwelled beneath the ocean was left bare.

Polaris descended upon the gap left in the sea of his own creation, replaceing the God of Heroes waiting as well. A proud smile laid on his lips as he landed where clams and starfish dried out, surrounded by colossal walls of water that were pushed back by the residual heat.

"Hope you don't mind," Polaris said with a smirk, bringing his fists together. "This world isn't going to be around much longer anyway, so I thought I'd change things up."

["Dao of Unbreakable Earth"]