The Insurrection of the Inept Hero

Nero had fled the battlefield with Ravyn, leaving Omen to face Katrina who had just arrived on the field.

"Well, well, well, look who it is. I'm kind of stupid for not realizing that someone else would come to save Nero at such an unfortunate time. I was just about to kill him too and I was so close, but then you two just had to show up. First Ravyn, now you. Just when will one of you know your place? I'm not here to play around with women."

Katrina was unphased by Omen's insults. She only stared at Omen with no life signal coming from her presence.

The feeling almost made Omen think twice.

'This aura… it's almost as if she's dead. Maybe… maybe I'm just thinking too hard.'

Omen pinched his cheek before getting into a fighting stance, smirking as he accumulated energy into his hands.

"Whatever your trick is, it's not gonna work!"

He dashed towards her and quickly went for her head.

Though he was about to deliver a death-dealing blow to her, she didn't flinch. It was almost as if she was really dead.

Even at this time, Omen was still figuring out what was wrong with her. His ability to manipulate time only gave him a few seconds to do so but that was everything he needed.

'Maybe she's really just a corpse. Well, that makes it easier for me I guess.'

A creepy smile appears on his face as time resumes normally and his fist instantly flew by Katrina's head.

"Huh?"

He faltered and nearly fell face-first into the ground but managed to catch himself. He looked over his shoulder at Katrina who had never made a single move.

'Did I miss? I swore I hit her.'

He clenched his fist and ran towards her again, swinging at her head to try and deliver a fatal blow. However, all his attacks didn't work. It looked as if all his attacks were phasing through her body.

'Strange, why can't I hit her? She's standing right in front of me.'

Omen closely watched Katrina's every move. Sadly, she made none that irritated Omen. How was she able to dodge his attacks even though she wasn't moving?

'Could it be… a clone of some sort?'

Omen had the feeling as clones give off a different presence than the real one. Though he wasn't quite sure, it could be a possibility. However, he has never heard of a clone with no aura.

That's when it struck Omen.

"It's an-!"

"Illusion yes."

Omen looked down to see a golden energy sphere charged over his chest before it exploded, causing Omen to be blown away.

He was launched into the ocean water, slowly descending to the ocean floor. As he opened his eyes, he put his hand over his chest. It stung, the same feeling he felt when he had been blasted by Ravyn's Heavenly Blackness Thunderclap Hammer.

'An illusion. How dumb could I be? Well, in my defense, I haven't seen many people use an illusion against me. That or I'm just getting rusty.'

As he landed at the bottom of the ocean, his chest had healed and he was just about to fly out of the ocean until Katrina herself appeared directly in front of Omen with another golden sphere in her hand and a mysterious sword in the other. It was made of metal properties but the guard was made of black and white feathers. In the middle of the guard was some kind of tiny yellow and white rift which gave off a mystical aura.

Omen's time to admire the sword was quickly interrupted as he ate a golden sphere to the face. As his face experienced pain, he felt a sword stab through his solar plexus.

He spat blood out but it didn't stop there. After that, he felt a rush of excruciating pain run through his body. His body glowed from the inside and his entire vision was covered in light.

He tried to fight back, attempting to snatch Katrina but the moment he tried, she had vanished. Once his vision was cleared and his body stopped glowing, he unleashed countless waves of distorted attacks in all directions.

'Where is she!?'

By the time he stopped, the area around him was voided of water. Though he cleared out the area around him, Katrina was nowhere to be found.

He raised his guard, knowing dropping it would be his biggest mistake but it was useless as Katrina appeared again, this time she was in a different form. It was like her Altima but with a few modifications. She had grown another set of wings, giving her two sets of wings. They were larger than before and were outlined in black feathers. Her head was sharper and her eyes glowed brighter. Her form looked more beastly and that could be noticed by multiple changes, one being that her feet were talons.

Seeing this form, Omen started to laugh.

"Well now, this is interesting. Is it me, or is your Altima form different than the form my Katrina took on in my timeline?"

"This is not the Altima form. It is the completed form."

"Oh? And does it have a name?"

"The Ultima."

Omen snickered as he looked up. It was a clear blue sky filled with white clouds. He eventually stopped snickering and returned his attention back to Katrina.

"So that is the completed form of the Altima. Ultima… couldn't have made up a better name huh? I wonder, how did you achieve this?"

Omen said this in an attempt to have Katrina answer it in her thoughts and say nothing but as Omen tried to read her mind, it was empty.

'Hmph. Guess that won't do.'

He attempted and continued to ask her questions that could get her to answer him. Soon, he eventually stopped trying to force an answer out of her and so he decided to recall how the Altima is achieved.

He recalled that to get the Altima, one needed an Altima sword and an exceptional ability to manipulate divine energy. He then recalled the time when Ravyn spoke to Nero.

'Heavenly energy… was it?'

Heavenly energy was the stronger version of divine energy. It was the same as satanic energy which was the stronger version of dark energy.

"Did you perhaps utilize and master the control of Heavenly energy?" Omen asked Katrina, causing her to flinch slightly. That was all Omen needed.

"So that's how you obtained that form and that power. What? Did you think I wouldn't be able to find out? Mastering the use of Heavenly energy... Now that I know how it's done, the rest should be simple..."

He postured himself and a pillar of dark energy shot into the sky, clouding the sky with darkness.

"I just need to focus my energy into the same point where I was stabbed with my Altima sword and then stab it with that same sword. And since I can't access Heavenly energy for this, I'll just use Satanic energy. After all, it's the reason how I was able to obtain my Altima form. If not for Satanic, I'd be dead."

He raised his sword into the air and the energy that had been shot into the sky was absorbed into his hand. Katrina darted forward in an attempt to stop him but as she tried to get close, she was hit by an unseeable force and knocked back. At that time, all the energy had been accumulated in Omen's body.

"Hehehehe... hahahaha..."

Omen snickered as his body was encased in black slime. In the process, he was last seen piercing himself with his blade. The slime covered his body fully and then it solidified, forming a cocoon. Katrina quickly got back on her feet and dashed towards it, mustering all her strength as she cut the cocoon in half.

Overwhelming power spilled out from the cocoon, sweeping Katrina away from the sudden force. Katrina fled from the area and was back on the surface.

The energy eventually faded away and by the time it did, Katrina immediately started scanning her surroundings.

What Omen had done moments ago was exactly how she had obtained her Ultima form. It was a simple yet tricky process. Simple being it was easy once you have the requirements and tricky meaning how you will get that requirement. Obtaining Heavenly energy was hard enough for her to achieve and mastering was even harder. She considered herself lucky that she even managed to master its use in a year. With Heavenly energy, she not only obtained the Ultima but mastered the use of Stellar as well. That was how she managed to be on equal footing with Omen, or so that's what it looked like in Nero's eyes.

A snicker was heard from behind. Katrina quickly spun around and the end of a blade had appeared in her face. She quickly ducked, dodging the blade, and flipped away.

As she positioned herself to perform her attack, Divine Illusion, the floor beneath her started to crumble. In a matter of seconds, several pillars of dark energy emerged from the ground.

Katrina managed to escape from the surprise attack, though not before getting lightly scathed. She wiped the blood that had bled from her cheek and focused her attention at the figure that emerged from the pillars.

"Hehehe, well isn't this a wonder? Who knew that I was still able to grow? Here I thought killing Sephirot was going to give me some drawbacks but I guess I was just worrying too much."

Omen swiped the air, causing the smoke to move out of his way. He was different. His head had more horns and was much more refined with sharper edges and more savage-like. His body was bulked up a bit in addition to the skeletal armor which closely represented Osiris infused into his body. He had two arm-mounted blades which emitted sporadic bolts of electric purple and blue energy. Two sets of dark wings folded down like a coat, two fleshy curved appendages that emerged from the back of his shoulders, and a giant gear that acted as his spine which spun in random intervals. Lastly, the giant large fleshy, bony, spine-like sword that he wielded in his hands.

"This form... it's not suited for a name like the Ultima. It needs something more fitting."

The flesh on his sword and body looked as if they were moving. Though he couldn't make the facial expression, he was smirking.

"Why don't I call this... the Majin? Yes, it's a perfect counterpart to the Ultima."

In an instant, Omen appeared in front of Katrina with the tip of his sword positioned to her neck.

"With this form, I could kill you in an instant. You may have become 10 times or 20 times, maybe even 50 times more powerful in that state, but I... I have become at least 100 times stronger! You don't stand a chance."

Katrina felt her legs become weak as his presence started to overwhelm her. This caused her thoughts to emerge and she was now weakened. She had been forced out of her Stellar state but the power Omen had given off. Omen smirked as he raised his sword, ready to cut down Katrina.

"Now then, say goodbye!"

Clang!

He swung his sword but it was deflected. In a mere second, his arms had been sliced off.

Katrina stared at the mysterious figure in front of her but that figure vanished in a flash, and so did Omen. The only thing that remained of Omen was his arms but those disintegrated in seconds.

"Wh-what happened?" She asked herself but she didn't have the energy left to support herself. Luckily she had been caught by Ravyn and Nero.

"What happened? Where did he go?" Nero asked but Katrina had no idea herself. She was clueless. He was just in front of her, ready to kill her a moment ago but what happened after that was too fast for her to comprehend.

"Well, whatever that was, at least he's gone." Ravyn pointed out and Nero nodded.

"Yeah. Let's... get out of here."

The two agreed and the trio began to head back to Paragon.

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