Syanic Earth 7: Dimensional War Arc

Chapter 7: Maharaja, the Scarlet King

The exploding lava enveloped Amitonyx's body, enlarging him into a molten giant twice the size of Dosigma. Overseer Amitonyx took the form of Maharaja, the Scarlet King. The giant stomped onto the boiling sands, with his chest full of dark red eyes that seethed with anger. Amitonyx's head had many horns and a Sanskrit word for fire as an eye.

"Tigris Ifrit: Fists of Durga!" Amitonyx punched the condors and battle thrushes down with flaming fists.

"Retreat! Take them to safety!" Saitori ordered the Red Strix to take Calice and the Murhavs away from Amitonyx's wrath.

"I'll destroy this country if it means getting you back, Lifen!" The molten colossus breathed fire into the air. "Tigris Ifrit: Penultimate Ulka!"

The sky exploded, raining meteors into California. Saitori and the remaining Red Strix pulled their forces back from the burning beach, firing at the giant in vain. Dosigma rampaged through the lava with his heat-proof body, punching against Amitonyx's Fists of Durga.

"So, you're also made with fire?" The Overseer slapped Dosigma off like a fly. "Even so, you can't beat me!"

The heated giant stepped on Dosigma, but the Cubic boss pricked the foot with its antlers. Amitonyx roared in pain, grabbing Dosigma with his charred hand of igneous stone. The Scarlet King hissed at the boss, squeezing it until the condor ships fired their railguns to blast his arm off. Amitonyx howled and dropped Dosigma, regenerating his molten arm.

"Tigris Ifrit: Aditya's Fury!" Amitonyx clenched a fist to rain needles of igneous shards that crushed the condors.

Dosigma summoned a giant fireball, slamming it into the lava to make the beach explode. The catastrophe made Amitonyx trip, toppling him into the magma battlefield. Dosigma bellowed a war cry with fists pounding onto his chest like an angry gorilla.

"How curious a tiny mongrel like you is confident enough to challenge my anger!" The Scarlet King pricked Dosigma with his antlers. "Lifen! Nothing is the same without your love! You won't get away! I'll kill every American until you yield!"

Saitori and the remaining Red Strix desperately ran as the lava spilled towards them.

"Tigris Ifrit: Hellfire Dhatu!" Amitonyx summoned an enormous fire chain, whipping it at the UICA to incinerate them.

"We have no condors or thrushes left, General!" A commando cried. "Is there any way to fight back?"

'I-I don't know. I've never seen this form of Amitonyx before!" Saitori panicked as Amitonyx thrashed his burning chain at them.

"This ends now, Lifen! Do you yield?" Amitonyx kicked Dosigma out of his way. "If so, I might spare your UICA family."

Saitori looked at her remaining men with the injured Calice and Murhavs, who awoke to see the terrifying Scarlet King wielding its charred chain whip. The General sobbed, believing there was no way to beat her ex-husband's ultimate rage form. Not even Dosigma could fight Amitonyx alone.

"Well?" Amitonyx's chain whip coiled around Calice, Nashura, Rahim, and Naphthien. "Their lives are in your hands now."

The four screamed as the tightening chain boiled with fire. Calice tried to shock Amitonyx, but electricity didn't affect the Scarlet King.

I-I don't want to go back, but if I don't, everyone will die! Saitori sobbed.

"Don't listen to him, General!" Rahim screamed as Amitonyx slowly burned his skin.

"So, my sweet Lifen, what will it be?" Amitonyx grinned, clutching his chain whip on the four hostages.

The General knelt in devastation as the last Red Strix huddled with her in fear. "I-I can't make up my mind!"