msmithbooks Chapter 555
Chapter 555
He also needed to figure out a way to block the corruption of the Defiled Origin Nest.
If that thing had gone to such extraordinary lengths to target him, then it undoubtedly intended to corrupt him completely.
Although he currently showed almost no symptoms...
He absolutely could not let his guard down.
After that, he still needed to find a way to see Izparut.
There was also Kumironi’s situation to consider, perhaps even interfere with.
Then there was the issue of Balance.
And beyond that, he still had to contemplate the insight brought about by his new Talent—
「Law Fusion」
Somewhere deep inside, he felt that Talents themselves could perhaps be fused into an even higher realm.
A vague intuition told him that beyond God-Tier, there might exist an even greater pinnacle.
There were simply too many things to think about.
Whoosh—
Rei’s figure shot across the ocean’s surface.
Wherever he passed, a long, perfectly straight trench split open through the sea itself.
Lost in thought, Rei made no effort whatsoever to suppress his aura.
Nor was he traveling at his maximum speed.
Even so...
The streak of light that raced across the sea annihilated everything along its path.
If measured purely in terms of velocity using Earth’s units, Rei was already traveling at thousands of times the speed of light.
Without employing even the slightest space-related ability, relying solely upon raw movement speed, he was crossing hundreds of millions of kilometers every second.
Having reached the realm of a Level 7 Warrior...
The durability of Rei’s physical body had already become impossible to evaluate.
In terms of raw physical strength alone, he unquestionably surpassed even a Level 8 Warrior.
The only uncertainty was...
How much of a gap still existed between himself and a true Level 9 Warrior?
Suddenly, Rei stopped.
Boom!
In the very next instant, he transformed into a streak of light and plunged into the Abyssal Chasm.
One second later...
Hundreds of millions of kilometers away, a straight beam of light erupted upward from beneath the sea.
Rising into the heavens alongside it were tens of thousands of monster corpses, skewered together like meat on a gigantic skewer.
There were Fifth-Tier monsters.
Sixth-Tier monsters.
Seventh-Tier monsters.
Even Eighth-Tier monsters.
Every rank was represented.
"...I’m stuck again."
The battle had been absurdly brief.
From beginning to end, slaughtering those monsters had taken less than one-thousandth of a second.
Yet inside stopped time...
He had spent three full days and nights thinking.
Only after arriving at a conclusion that required verification in the real world did Rei finally release Time Stop.
Crack—
One moment, he had still been above the Moon Sea.
The next...
The landscape before him became endless mountain ranges.
Stretching out ahead was a vast plain shrouded in darkness.
Rei slowly raised his right hand.
A tiny sphere wrapped in lightning leaped from his fingertip as countless electric arcs danced across his body.
"Elements..."
"...are the foundation of magic."
"If I were Izparut..."
"How would I deny the Origin?"
"How would I reinterpret magic from the beginning?"
He murmured softly to himself.
The tiny spark of lightning at his fingertip gradually condensed an aura of destruction.
Boom!
Suddenly—
An enormous figure erupted upward from the dark plain below.
"Begone!"
Boom!!
Black mist exploded outward as an enraged roar carried countless souls, crashing directly through Rei’s body.
If that soul-devouring aura had struck an ordinary person, it would have ripped their soul from their body and shredded it together with the black torrent.
Yet after being engulfed by the black energy...
Rei remained standing exactly where he was.
"Just as I expected."
"It doesn’t work."
Whoosh—
Several masses of condensed darkness halted directly before Rei.
They could advance no farther.
Not even an inch.
[Divine Authority — Soul Obliteration]
All attacks that successfully strike their target directly eject the target’s complete soul and instantly shatter it.
A Divine Authority.
The Boundless Mountains contained numerous Forbidden Zones.
And the origins of the beings dwelling within them were anything but ordinary.
They were all fallen gods...
Just like Eltimis.
After ascending to godhood, they had either abandoned their Divine Kingdoms for various reasons or suffered catastrophic injuries that greatly reduced their power.
Yet they refused to relinquish divinity.
Nor were they willing to simply await death.
Thus, they carved out territories within the Boundless Mountains and sealed them away as independent Divine Kingdom Forbidden Zones.
The terrain of the Boundless Mountains was unique.
In truth, the region perfectly embodied its own name—
Boundless.
Its connection to the world itself was extraordinarily weak.
One could almost say it existed independently of reality.
The divine restrictions imposed upon gods were significantly weakened here.
That was precisely why the Boundless Mountains contained so many Forbidden Zones.
At last...
He had escaped that cursed place.
And finally...
He could use Future Simulation once again.
The dark figure stared in utter disbelief as its Divine Authority struck Rei...
Yet produced absolutely no effect.
The hostility emanating from Rei was completely undisguised.
He had descended directly above the Forbidden Zone.
His intentions could not have been clearer.
He had come to completely destroy this place.
"I bear you no grudge!"
"So why—?!"
Boom!!
Countless black souls surged toward the heavens.
Vengeful spirits rose into the sky, crystallizing into a gigantic cloud shaped like a towering black soul tree.
"No grudge, huh?"
"There is one."
"It’s just..."
"It’s in the future."
Fragments of the future reflected within Rei’s eyes.
At this point, he no longer cared about right or wrong.
The moment he emerged from the Moon Sea, he had already completed another Future Simulation.
He already knew...
This being would become his enemy in the future.
So without hesitation, Rei had immediately changed course.
He traveled directly from the Moon Sea to the Boundless Mountains.
And came straight here to kill it.
"...The future?"
"What nonsense are you babbling about?!"
"If you’re looking for death..."
"Then die!"
The dark figure slammed its hands together.
Rei, however, simply reached his right hand toward his own abdomen.
There—
A twisted black serpent was burrowing into his body.
Yet in the next instant...
Rei grabbed it.
Snap.
Its original intention had been to seize Rei’s soul directly and erase him from existence.
"So this is Divine Authority..."
"What an overbearing power."
If not for Immunity to All Laws, dealing with Divine Authority would have been incredibly troublesome.
He might very well have been forced into reincarnation once again.
But now...
The opponent’s Divine Authority had manifested as tangible substance.
Rei seized it firmly with his hand, relying upon the pure and overwhelming strength of a Warrior to hold it in place.
The moment the dark figure witnessed this...
Its entire body began trembling violently.
Then—
Crack—
A majestic and absolute force suddenly pierced through its entire existence.
Boom!!
An ancient golden sword shot straight through its body.
[Emperor Sword]
Rei’s body almost overlapped with his opponent’s.
The other’s body was diffuse like smoke.
The sword pierced directly through it, but that also meant Rei himself had become enveloped within its form.
And the moment one touched its body...
One would trigger:
[Divine Authority — Shared Soul of This Lifetime]
All living beings that come into contact with this body are transformed into this god’s own soul.
Divine Authority...
It truly was unreasonable.
No wonder Eltimis looked down upon Level 8 Class Advancers.
So what if someone reached Level 8?
The instant a god touched them...
Death was inevitable.
From everything Rei had seen so far, nearly every Divine Authority possessed an effect that amounted to certain death upon contact.
Some Divine Authorities were practically equivalent to unavoidable attacks.
Without a method to counter the Laws governing Divine Authority...
It was almost impossible to imagine surviving against beings like these.