Battle for the Kills

As Bayonetta and Diana's battle tore through the atmosphere, the ground battlefield was engulfed in yellow light.

The air was enveloped by an energy matrix constructed by more than twenty Yellow Lantern Warrior. Hal Jordan hovered in the center of the Legion, his lantern ring emitting a blinding light like Nova.

"Manifest the planet-destroying cannon array!" Hal's roar echoed through the energy network, and twenty-four giant energy cannons took shape above Titan, their muzzles humming as they charged, shattering the air within a ten-mile radius.

"Heh, don't try to take it from me this time!" Saitama's bald head reflected the light as he slightly bent his knees—the rock beneath his feet instantly collapsed, creating a circular crater fifty meters in diameter, and his figure transformed into lightning as he rushed straight towards the artillery position.

"Consecutive Normal Punches."

The force of the punch unleashed a storm, and twelve energy cannons exploded in succession along the trajectory of the punch. The shockwave tore apart the shields of three Yellow Lantern Warrior, their bodies instantly shattered in mid-air.

Saitama pierced through the wreckage of the explosion, tearing apart two energy-manifested Titan mechs with his bare hands. Energy specks rained down on the surface of Titan like a meteor shower.

"Saitama- sensei! You're cheating!"

Kiana gave a coquettish cry and instantly flew into the air, her golden pupils reflecting the distorted spatial ripples.

She lightly clenched her right hand, and the space within three kilometers suddenly collapsed into a singularity, compressing the five Yellow Light Warrior into quantum particles.

The Subspace Spear shot out from the dimensional rift, piercing through seven layers of energy shields and pinning the other three Yellow Lantern Warrior to the earth's crust.

"I'm still the best~" Kiana proudly put her hands on her hips.

Just as Kiana stood there triumphantly with her hands on her hips, the sky suddenly darkened. A hundred-meter-long yellow energy hammer tore through the clouds, crashing down on her head with destructive force.

Kiana's white hair danced wildly in the air pressure, and as she tilted her head slightly, the shadow of the heavy hammer loomed over her entire body.

"Dimension Slash".

A cool, clear voice cut through the clamor, and a blue blade flashed like lightning, piercing the heavy hammer.

The giant hammer, powerful enough to shatter mountains, instantly disintegrated into countless particles of light. Vergil's figure emerged amidst the rain of light, the Yamato still maintaining its slashing trajectory.

He landed lightly on the floating pebbles beside Kiana, his trench coat billowing in the wind.

"Don't get distracted." He didn't even glance at the girl.

"I knew it all along!" Kiana puffed out her cheeks, but the Subspace Spear that had been gathering at her fingertips quietly dissipated.

Both men's eyes were simultaneously fixed on Hal Jordan high in the sky.

The Yellow Lantern's ring was emitting a dangerous light, clearly preparing for the next attack.

Kiana excitedly rubbed her hands together, but before she could leap up, Vergil had already transformed into a blue afterimage and rushed out.

"Uncle Vergil! You're cheating too!" The girl's protest was drowned out by the explosion.

Hal's pupils contracted sharply. He frantically conjured multiple energy shields, only to see Vergil suddenly disappear during his Charge.

The next second, the cold back of the blade gently patted the back of his neck.

"Too slow," whispered the demon's firstborn son from all directions.

Hal whirled around, his energy cannon sweeping across a fan-shaped area behind him—but only struck the afterimage left by Vergil.

"Above!" Just as a yellow-light Warrior issued a warning, dozens of blue sword energies rained down on Hal's head.

His hastily constructed defensive matrix was torn to shreds like paper, and Vergil's figure appeared and disappeared among the shattered energy fragments, each flash leaving a shallow wound on Hal.

"Damn it!" Hal manifested a 360-degree energy blade storm, instantly filling the entire airspace with golden blades.

Vergil danced on the swirling blades, each light touch of the Yamato precisely Destruction Energy structure.

When the storm subsided, people saw him sitting on the energy turret materialized by the Yellow Lantern Corps Warrior, his chin resting on one hand.

"Is that all you've got?" Vergil used the tip of his knife to lift Hal's chin, a humiliating act that enraged the Yellow Lantern.

His ring erupted with an unprecedentedly bright light, and countless metals were extracted from the ruins of Titan, coalescing in the sky into a ten-thousand-meter-long interstellar warship.

Vergil finally smiled for the first time that night. He leaped gracefully backward, the Yamato spinning three times in his palm before coming to a sudden stop.

When the warship's main cannon reached its critical charge, he gently swung his sword, and countless blades of light sliced across the warship, across the air, and across the node between Hal's Ring and the energy creation.

"What?!" Hal watched as the warship collapsed like a sandcastle, a torrent of metal forming a spectacular waterfall behind Vergil.

The demon's eldest son stepped closer, treading on the falling metal blocks, until the two were only three meters apart.

Vergil's voice rang out again. "Is that all? If so, your pota is too weak."

Hal's pupils contracted sharply, and the light from the Yellow Lantern Ring was as dazzling as a Nova explosion.

His entire right arm was enveloped in violent energy, with veins bulging beneath his skin like earthworms.

"You have no idea of the power of fear!" he roared, and the torrent of energy surging from the ring instantly engulfed half the sky, even blowing the surface of Titan several kilometers away.

Vergil's trench coat fluttered in the energy storm, and he didn't even change his stance while holding the knife.

When the destructive light wave was only three meters away from him, the Yamato was finally drawn—not as a slash, but as a horizontal cut.

"Dimension Slash - Ultimate"

Along the path the Blade traversed, clear cracks appeared in the space, like glass.

The energy wave from Hal was neatly split in two the instant it came into contact with the crack, like a torrent of light being dissected.

The spatial rift traveled upstream along the energy wave and spread to the Yellow Lantern Ring itself in the blink of an eye.

"No... this is impossible..." Hal looked at the crack that had suddenly appeared on the ring. He tried to pull his arm back, but found that his entire right arm was fixed in place by some kind of spatial force.

As Vergil sheathed his sword with a metallic scraping sound, Hal's ring suddenly shattered into countless fragments.

The fragments decomposed into the most basic energy particles in the air, like a golden snowfall.

Having lost his ring, Hal plummeted from the sky, Vergil merely watched indifferently until Kiana caught the falling Yellow Lantern with the Subspace Spear.

"Uncle Vergil!" Kiana glared at him angrily, "How dare you steal my opponent too?"

Vergil vanished and reappeared beside Chen Tian, leaving only one sentence in Kiana's ears. "The weak are not worthy of being called opponents."

"Ugh!! I'm so angry!!!"

Kiana's scream caused the floating pebbles to fall from the sky.

She whirled around, her wings of light unleashing dazzling bursts of light, Subspace Spear condensed into a circular sword array around her—only to find that the Yellow Lantern Matrix above her head had already shattered, with only five incomplete Yellow Lantern Warrior being chased by Saitama's fist winds and fleeing in panic.

"Boom boom boom!"

Three seemingly ordinary straight punches created a vacuum vortex, and the shields of the last two Yellow Lantern Warrior burst like soap bubbles.

One of them hastily conjured an escape pod, but was thrown dozens of times in the air by the aftershock of the punch, crashing heavily into the spatial rift that Vergil had previously created.

"Teacher Saitama!"

Kiana's stomp caused a spatial quake that turned the last Yellow Lantern Warrior into pixelated cubes.

The girl angrily appeared in front of the bald man, her Subspace Spear almost poking his nose. "Didn't you say you'd leave two for me?!"

Saitama, still in his post-punch stance, blinked slowly, "But... they're standing right in the path of my punch..."

Half a yellow lamp-shaped toilet seat was still stuck to the hem of his cloak—clearly a ridiculous weapon hastily made by some Warrior.

The sudden explosion broke the standoff.

A kilometer away, a forgotten Yellow Lantern Warrior rose shakily from the ruins, his body wreathed in unstable energy. Kiana's golden eyes instantly shone like searchlights. "This is mine!!!"

A sharp, cold glint flashed.

The Yamato pierced the unfortunate man's ring with pinpoint accuracy, Vergil's image slowly emerged from the hilt. "Distracted in battle, foolish."

Kiana's Subspace Spear snapped into particles of light with a 'crack'. A cross-shaped vein bulged on the girl's fair forehead, and her long white hair stood on end. "You old men--!" Spiderweb-like cracks suddenly appeared in the atmosphere of the entire Titan.

"Hey, the ceiling's about to collapse..." Chen Tian's helpless voice came through the window. "Kiana, hold back, we're still here."

The girl landed angrily, her boot heel crushing the half of Vergil's broken lamp ring into gold dust.

"Commander--!" Before the spatial ripples caused by Kiana's teleportation had even dissipated, she was already clinging to Chen Tian's arm like a koala.

The girl buried her face in his shoulder, a few strands of her silver hair sticking up. "They stole my monster! They stole it for three whole rounds!"

Chen Tian stumbled as he was pulled, the sound of tearing fabric coming from his sleeve. He sighed, and just as his hand touched the top of the girl's head, Kiana suddenly smiled slyly and tightened her grip on his arm.

Chen Tian flicked his finger on the girl's smooth forehead, then looked up at the shattered sky. "Look at the sky."

The moment Kiana turned around, rubbing her forehead, the remaining atmosphere of Titan suddenly boiled.

Hundreds of beams of yellow light pierced through the clouds, like an inverted galaxy cascading down.

Sinestro hovered at the very front of the Legion, slowly raising his right fist. The resonance of over four hundred lamp rings caused the planet's gravitational field to begin to distort.

"Hal Jordan." Sinestro's voice, amplified by the energy field, sent shards of rock levitating from the ground. "You've truly disgraced the Legion."

The former Lantern Spirit, pinned to the rock face by the Subspace Spear, struggled to raise his head, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. "Sinestro... you wouldn't understand... these monsters..."

The Yellow Lantern leader sneered and waved his hand, and three Warrior immediately used energy chains to pull Hal into their ranks. Sinestro's ring erupted with materialized fear energy, condensing behind him into a sky-covering Korugar totem. "Now, I will show you the true manifestation of fear—"

Before Sinestro could finish his declaration, Chen Tian suddenly reached out and poked Kiana's lower back. "Look, your deluxe meal has arrived."

"Huh? Where? Where?" The girl's golden eyes instantly lit up like two small suns.

When she saw the overwhelming Yellow Lantern Corps, she jumped up as if electrocuted. "The strongest Valkyrie has arrived!" Her wings of light unfurled with a roar, creating a shockwave, but were cut off by a red afterimage just as she was about to soar into the sky.

--Dante's motorcycle wheel rim grazed Kiana's nose as it rolled through the air. The demon hunter, gripping the Rebellion in one hand, whistled as he rode the motorcycle. "Ha, little one, I'll take this opponent."

"Wait! I saw that first!" Kiana remained frozen in place, her Subspace Spear creaking in her hand.

Chen Tian casually patted the girl's pert buttocks. "If you keep spacing out, you won't even get to fight the grunts." The touch on his fingertips was unexpectedly soft and bouncy. He nonchalantly pointed to the advance team of yellow-lighted soldiers starting to dive in the distance. "Look, there are more over there."

"Commander, you—!" Kiana's ears turned bright red instantly, and she was about to explode when she heard Dante's strange cry from the sky, "Wow! The Legion Commander's fear energy smells like expired pizza!"

"How dare you underestimate the power of the yellow light!!!" Sinestro was furious at Dante's nonchalant attitude.

His ring emitted a blinding yellow light, turning the entire sky of Titan a sickly dark yellow.

He raised his hand, and countless materialized entities of terror crawled out of the Void —twisted spiked spears, a gigantic guillotine dripping with blood, chains binding wailing souls, and even a materialized version of ' Dante's childhood nightmare'—a burning demon castle in which Vergil's phantom flickered.

"Wow, that's interesting!" Dante whistled, slung the Rebellion over his shoulder, and wore a playful smile.

Sinestro sneered, "Enjoy your fear."

The next second, countless terrifying weapons rained down like a storm!

Dante's figure was instantly swallowed up, but then—

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and a bullet precisely shattered the phantom core of the Castle of Fear.

Dante leaped out, stepping on the spinning guillotine blade, his Ebony and Ivory firing alternately, each bullet precisely hitting the energy node of the fear weapon.

"How cliché!" Dante laughed, performing a backflip in mid-air as his Rebellion cleaved through three incoming spiked spears. "Fear? I've already danced the tango with these things!"

Sinestro's eyes darkened, and the ring's light intensified.

"Materialization – Nightmare Legion"

The sky split open, and countless clones of the Yellow Lantern Warrior poured out, each bearing a face familiar to Dante —his fallen comrades and the civilians he could not save... They twisted and howled as they lunged at Dante.

Dante's smile froze for a moment.

"Ha..." He looked down, his bangs obscuring his eyes, "Playing mind games?"

When he looked up again, his pupils had turned a demonic crimson.

The phantom of Dante emerged from behind him, the Rebellion igniting with Hellfire. He no longer dodged, but charged headlong into the Nightmare Legion!

"Since we're going to play—" He shattered three phantoms with a single sword strike, and blew another one off its head with Ebony, "Then let's go big!"

Sinestro frowned, and the ring flashed again.

"Manifestation: Abyss Devourer"

The earth split open, and a gigantic maw made of pure fear energy rose from the ground, its sharp teeth writhing with the screams of countless dead souls. It swallowed Dante whole, its closing jaws emitting a chilling grinding sound.

Silence.

Sinestro sneered, "Nothing special."

"BANG!"

The giant mouth suddenly expanded, and then--

"Jackpot!"

With Dante's signature victory declaration, the Beast of Terror explodes from within! Dante wields twin pistols, four Phantom Sword hovering behind him, and the Rebellion is planted before Sinestro's materialized throne.

"My turn!" Dante grinned and snapped his the Snap.

Four Phantom Sword simultaneously thrust towards Sinestro. The Yellow Lantern leader hastily erected a shield, only to see Dante suddenly switch weapons—

"Cavaliere!" (Heavy Cavalry)

The heavy motorcycle-shaped magical artifact slammed into Sinestro's head, blasting him into the ground. Dante, riding the motorcycle, drifted through the air, the wheels crushing the Yellow Lantern Warrior's clones and causing a series of explosions.

Sinestro rose from the smoke, his ring glowing hot from the overload. He gritted his teeth, materializing his ultimate fear—

"Conjure the Yellow Lantern Golem!"

A colossal demon god, composed of pure fear energy, rises from the ground, its face constantly changing, reflecting the deepest fear in the viewer's heart every second.

Dante whistled, "Wow, that big guy's kind of handsome!"

He put away his motorcycle, gripped the Rebellion with both hands, and gathered power in the blade.

"But—" he grinned, "I prefer taking toys apart myself!"

Dante transformed into a red lightning bolt and charged straight at the Yellow Lantern Golem!

Sinestro roared, "You cannot overcome fear itself!"

"Who said we were going to win?" Dante laughed, his Rebellion cleaving through the golem's arm. "I'm here to enjoy the party!"

The golem threw a punch, Dante leaped up, stepping on its arm, to switch weapons in mid-air.

"Ebony & Ivory!"

Dante fired his twin pistols in rapid succession, the bullets striking the golem precisely in the eyes. The golem roared, Dante had already dodged behind its head, and the Rebellion plunged viciously into the back of its neck!

"Bang--!"

The Yellow Lantern Golem exploded into a shower of light particles, and Sinestro was thrown away by the shockwave. Dante landed lightly, the demonic phantom dissipated, and the Rebellion was slung back over his shoulder.

"Want to play some more?" He tilted his head, a bright smile on his face. "I haven't finished using up my arsenal yet."

Sinestro's ring gleamed, and as he stared at Dante, he finally realized—

This man's fear is something he cannot materialize.

Because Dante Sparda had been dancing with his own fears for many years.

Sinestro's ring suddenly emitted a piercing buzz, and the yellow light energy leaked out uncontrollably.

"Since that's the case..." He abruptly ripped off the ring, and the phantom of the Yellow Lantern Central Power Battery appeared behind him, "Taste the terror of the universe!"

The ring dissolved into liquid terror, twisting in the air into the form of a multi-segmented insect. As the Parallax opened its compound eyes, the entire atmosphere of Titan began to crystallize. Its hundreds of limbs wriggled simultaneously, each segment of its body displaying scenes of the destruction of different civilizations.

"Wow!" Dante's pupils suddenly contracted. "This is way cooler than my brother's Demon Form!" He casually shoved the Rebellion into the ground, put his hands in his pockets, and walked towards the Lantern Beast. "Mind taking a picture with it?"

The Parallax emitted a shriek powerful enough to extinguish stars, and wherever the ripples of fear swept through, even space itself began to decay.

Dante's skin cracks as the darkest fragments of his memory are forcibly extracted—the flames of his mother's death, Vergil's fall into the demon realm, and countless unsaved souls...

"Oh dear..." Dante looked down at his disintegrating arm and suddenly laughed, "So you all like digging up other people's embarrassing pasts?" Red demonic flames suddenly erupted from the cracks, instantly engulfing the fear energy that was eroding him.

Dante, now in his Devil Trigger, spread his bat wings, his horns piercing the solidified atmosphere. He reached out and grasped, and the Rebellion flew back into his hand automatically, its blade wreathed in demonic power even more ancient than that of the Parallax.

"You know what?" the demon's voice echoed three times, "When I dance with these big guys—"

"Hey! Dante-- "

Kiana's voice suddenly shattered the frozen battlefield.

As Dante unfurled his Demon Form, a blinding white light descended from the sky— the Herrscher of the Void's wings were fully extended, and Kiana hovered in the higher sky, her hands clasped in front of her chest.

Her pupils had completely turned into a dazzling gold, and countless Subspace Spear spun around her, each one wrapped with Honkai Energy enough to tear dimensions apart.

"This big guy—" she grinned, revealing her fangs, "Is mine now!"

The next second, her figure vanished abruptly.

Before the Parallax could even react, Kiana had already teleported above it and slammed her hands down—

"Imaginary Number Collapse - The Final Moment!"

The entire space collapsed instantly!

Parallax's body was squeezed and twisted by an invisible force, its shriek was abruptly cut off, and its fear energy disintegrated inch by inch under the erosion of Honkai Energy.

Kiana's golden eyes were cold and ruthless. She made a fist with one hand, and Parallax's compound eyes exploded one after another, forcibly extracting the yellow light energy, which dissipated into countless points of light.

"No--!!" Sinestro roared, but his ring had already completely dimmed.

Kiana landed lightly, her wings of light slowly retracting. She turned back and winked at Dante: "Uncle, you'd better hurry up and steal the kill!"

Dante, frozen in his Demon Form, the Rebellion still raised in mid-air, paused for two seconds, then suddenly deactivated the transformation, scratching his head. "... Well, these young people these days really have no sportsmanship."

"Hehe~" Kiana gave a smug V-sign, then suddenly seemed to remember something and turned to Chen Tian: "Commander! Aren't I handsome!"

Kiana was proudly flashing a V-sign, her ahoge (a single strand of hair sticking up) practically reaching the sky. Just then—

"Watch out!" Dante's voice suddenly rang out.

A sinister glint flashed in Sinestro's eyes. He raised his hand, and the remaining energy from the ring condensed into a sharp, yellow spear, aimed straight at Kiana's back!

"Clang--!"

The Rebellion slashed down, shattering the yellow spear in its wake. Dante flicked the blade and chuckled lazily, "Hey, hey, ambushing a little girl isn't very gentlemanly."

Kiana then realized what was happening, turned around abruptly, and exclaimed with wide eyes, "Wow! This guy has no sportsmanship!"

Chen Tian sighed and rubbed his temples. "Kiana, don't be so careless." He pointed to the sky. "It's not over yet."

Everyone looked up and saw Saitama weaving through the Yellow Lantern Corps at astonishing speed, each punch landing precisely on a Lantern Ring Warrior. The fading of the Lantern Beasts had greatly reduced the power of the Yellow Lantern Ring, allowing Saitama to kill enemies with even greater efficiency.

His actions were simple and brutal; the yellow-light Warrior exploded one after another like fireworks, turning into countless fragments.

"Let's deal with these small fry first." Chen Tian stood up, dusted off his clothes, and spoke in a casual tone, as if discussing what to have for dinner.

Then, his gaze turned to Sinestro, and his eyes suddenly turned cold.

"Don't keep this one either."