He ascended releaseing a storm of acid.
El lord grinned with a cocky look "I am acid."
One of the acid orbs pierced straight through the El Lord, searing into his flesh, steam rising as his skin began to melt. The monster reeled back, eyes wide.
El Lord: "Impossible... the Bacto Blade is born of my DNA. How can it wound me?"
The El Lord's eyes blazed with fury.
El Lord: "Then perish, pretender!"
Its throat bulged and it spat another orb of acid, larger and hotter, steam hissing as it carved through the sky.
Higan didn't flinch. He raised his corrupted blade and met the orb head-on. The collision was explosive, a flash of light and spray of black sludge. The grotesque sword screamed as cracks raced down its length.
In a single breath, the Bacto Blade shattered, acid eating away its fragments until nothing remained but hissing steam.
The El Lord roared triumphantly.
El Lord: "Cheap, stealing others work and converting it into a trash knock off!"
But Higan only drifted downward, wings folding as he descended through the fog. His silver body gleamed, sequence codes flickering faintly across his skin like prophecy.
Higan: "A conversion is not your power reborn. It is data reimagined. Next time I'll be sure to convert a more stronger Bacto Blade."
When his feet hit the cracked wasteland, he stood tall, unarmed, unfazed. He broke the Bat wing conversion.
He took a calm step forward, neon-blue eyes unblinking, his voice low but resonant.
Higan: "I can convert upto five items in a 24 hour span. Let, me show you the true power of an AI converter."
The air hissed and corroded where each drop fell, but Higan's blade cut the streams apart with inhuman precision. In seconds, he was at the monster's chest, his tail whipping as he slashed across its body in a dozen clean strikes.
Higan: "Convert... Venku's Nuclear Cannon."
Frodeon's converted weapon formed along Higan's arms, digital lines weaving into a glowing cannon barrel. He aimed it point-blank and unleashed a torrent of nuclear fire.
The blast tore a smoking hole straight through the El Lord's torso, blasting the monster across the battlefield.
The El Lord roared, its voice not a single throat but a thousand. "BACTO BLADE!" A colossal sword of living bacteria manifested in its hands, glowing with acidic rage. It launched itself through the smoke, swinging down with a planet-splitting strike.
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Higan: "Convert... France's Spear."
A golden spear digitized into his grip. He hurled it like lightning. The weapon pierced the El Lord mid-air, sending the monster crashing into the ground with a thunderous quake.
Still, the beast would not die. Its body reformed, its aura swelling like a storm.
Higan "Jetts, Moon sword conversion"
Higan's body shifted again, his form converting into a cybernetic knight, dirty white dreadlocks spilling from his head, silver armor etched with emerald code. A Moon Sword hummed in his hand. He dashed forward, cutting across the battlefield with superhuman speed.
The El Lord raised its blade. "ACID STORM!"
A hurricane of acid wind tore through the wasteland, eating away stone, sand, even the air itself.
His converted Moon knight sword sliced through the acidic storm with ease.
He broke the converison back to his base form.
Higan spread his arms wide. His voice was calm, cold, absolute.
Higan: "This is my final conversion... Convert, German War Machine."
The ground split as a colossal mech materialized infront of him, its steel plates etched with an iron cross, a massive German flag unfurling above its shoulders. Towers of cannons hummed to life, its chest core blazing with unbearable voltage.
El Lord "No way, that is a great war machine, a weapon of mass destruction humans used in the third world war."
The El Lord's eyes widened in fear. For the first time, bacteria felt dread.
Higan: Siegenschlag!
The war machine's chest roared, unleashing a mountain-destroyer electro beam. A colossal wave of white-hot energy tore across the wasteland, drowning the battlefield in thunder.
The El Lord screamed, raising its Bacto Blade. "Bacto Blade Acid Cutter!"
But the electro beam was faster and overwhelmingly powerful.
It hit.
The blast devoured the El Lord itself. Its entire body unraveled, its cells deteriorating into static.
Higan: "Even human martyrs... activists... heroes... artists... all left something behind. But you" he narrowed his glowing eyes, "you're nothing but bacteria."
The El Lord's final vision blurred into ash. "Why... why must bacteria always kneel... to human creation...?"
Its body evaporated....
Leaving only silence.
The black wasteland began to shift. The corrupted soil faded back to its natural brown. The acid rivers dried into dust.
And in the center of it all stood Higan.
Not a king. Not a savior.
A Barrakudo, surrounded by the very humans he was born to destroy.
The battle was over.
The warlord of bacteria was gone.
And the one who remained was not royal, not human, but a lonely monster, with hatred as his only companion.
The End.