Chapter 659: Stella Instantly Kills Kurogane Ikki! Source of Myriad Realms Fragment!
[Stella: "So... so exaggerated."]
Creating a thousand universes.
Seeing this unfold in the live stream, Stella Vermillion let out a soft, disenchanted sigh. The battle of Blazers taking place before her eyes suddenly felt incredibly uninteresting.
She stood in the center of the arena, the cheers of the students of Hagun Academy washing over her like meaningless white noise.
Her opponent was a male student.
He seemed very special, possessing an aura of quiet determination that defied his low rank.
Stella had noticed this person, Kurogane Ikki, long before this match.
Even though his Blazer rank was only F-Class, the lowest of the low, known as the "Worst One."
Yet, he seemed to possess superb swordsmanship that transcended the limitations of magical power. He had honed his physical capabilities to the absolute limit.
And he also possessed a unique Blazer skill—Ittou Shura—that could forcibly overdraft his magical power to instantly unleash powerful abilities for a minute.
He held the title of the Uncrowned Sword King. Under normal circumstances, he would be a rival worthy of her respect, perhaps even a challenge that would make her blood boil.
But even so, he couldn't catch Stella's eye now.
Her standards had been irrevocably altered. She had seen the summit of true power.
If it weren't for the Director of the Academy, Kurono Shinguuji, insisting that this was a necessary preliminary test before the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival, she really wouldn't have come.
Now, it was highly probable that no one in this world could catch her eye.
She was quite proud originally, the Crimson Princess who stood at the pinnacle of A-Rank Blazers.
But especially after seeing the enemy Ren faced—a cosmic horror capable of devouring galaxies—and witnessing his exaggerated actions of creating and destroying universes like toys...
She instantly felt that her pride as a Blazer had no meaning at all.
What was the point of swinging a sword or conjuring fire when someone else could pinch a star into dust?
Level 6?
1v6 was still too weak.
"Battle start!"
The referee's voice cut through her thoughts.
With a sound of steel shifting, Kurogane Ikki's stance dropped.
His gaze sharpened instantly, his focus narrowing down to a singular point. He was about to make a move, likely preparing to activate his trump card, Ittou Shura, to close the gap in their magical power.
But his body hadn't moved yet.
He didn't get the chance.
Brilliant, scorching light bloomed before his eyes, blinding and absolute.
He only saw Stella raise her hand with an indifferent expression. There was no chant, no buildup, just a casual wave as if swatting a fly.
"Disappear."
Then, endless flames engulfed him.
"!!!"
The students watching outside the arena were startled by the sudden surge of explosive flames. The heat wave washed over the stands, forcing them to shield their faces.
Kurono Shinguuji, watching from the VIP box, felt her eyebrows twitch even more.
In that instant, she couldn't see through Stella's magic power depth at all. It wasn't just high; it was as bottomless as an abyss. It felt less like magic and more like a natural disaster contained within human skin.
But... how was this possible?
She was once the world's third-ranked Blazer, and for her to encounter magic power she couldn't see through... she couldn't imagine it.
The flames subsided as quickly as they had appeared.
Stella turned and left the arena without looking back, her red twin-tails swaying behind her.
After the flames dissipated, Kurogane Ikki lay unconscious in the center of the scorched arena. His Device, Intetsu, had dissipated, and steam rose from his uniform.
An instant kill!
Though it was also an instant kill, Stella knew deep down that she was far inferior to Ren.
She merely instantly killed a weakling in a schoolyard brawl.
Whereas Ren, with a raise of his hand, was forcibly compressing cosmic space itself.
What was being compressed was nothing else.
It was the large mass of flesh before him—the subordinate of the Destroyer King.
From the perspective of Chito, Esdeath, and those watching the live stream in the Chat Group, the scene was mind-bending.
They only saw that boundless mass of flesh, which was destroying the universe moments ago, rapidly shrinking at a visible speed.
It was like watching a video in reverse playback, but with terrifying gravitational forces at play.
From a size surpassing countless galaxies, spanning light-years of void, it rapidly shrunk to the size of a nebula.
Then a star system.
Then a single celestial body...
Until it slowly floated into his hand as a marble with swirling starlight!
"Eh? That monster..."
Chito looked at the marble held between Ren's thumb and forefinger. It glowed with a chaotic, nebular light, swirling with trapped energy.
Ren's eyes peered through the marble's outer shell—which was actually the event horizon of the compressed universes—at the furiously howling mass of flesh inside.
He smiled slightly, his tone casual. "That monster has been imprisoned by me in a cage constructed from multiple layers of cosmic space. I compressed the dimensions to trap it."
He bent his finger and flicked it gently.
The marble flew out, shattering tens of millions of stars in a single streak of light. It punched a hole through the void before returning like a boomerang.
Then, like a shooting star, it flew back into his hand.
[Ren: "All members, does anyone want this marble? I can send it to you as a Red Packet."]
[Tatsumaki: "A mar... marble?!"]
The Tornado of Terror stared at her screen, her hands trembling slightly.
Have you ever seen a marble that can instantly crush countless stars?
And you also said, didn't you, that it contains a monster that can destroy the universe? Can this just be casually given away like a souvenir?!
If the thing inside got out, wouldn't the universe be doomed instantly?
[Bronya: "Ren, stop joking. Even if you really sent it, we wouldn't dare to accept it. The containment protocols required for such an object exceed human capability."]
[Shiroyasha: "Tsk, if I could control the thing inside to disgust the gods, it would certainly be interesting. But the risk is too high even for me."]
[Ren: "Although I can guarantee this thing is extremely safe and I really want to give it to you to play with, controlling it is impossible."]
Although it lacked intelligence, it was indeed a living creature of a higher dimension.
He had also tried to dominate it at the first opportunity using his abilities.
But its essence was connected to a power he couldn't comprehend—a law that superseded standard domination.
Even with infinite dominance, he couldn't change it.
If he had to describe it.
It was most likely the source of its power, the Destroyer King's power. It was an avatar of destruction itself.
Thus, it made perfect sense that it couldn't be tamed.
"Never mind, let me see if eliminating it can resolve the Extinction Doomsday."
He exerted force with his fingers.
Crack!
The sound was soft, like an eggshell breaking, but the implications were cataclysmic.
The marble in his hand shattered, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into an illusory mist and dispersed into the void.
To prevent any accidents or leakage of the destructive energy.
Ren did not erase the multiple universes stacked above Chito's original world universe immediately. He let the explosion contain itself within the pocket dimensions he had created.
Fortunately, there were no accidents. The containment held.
Instead, the Chat Group's notification appeared first, flashing across his vision.
[Ding! Detected that the Destroyer King's subordinate has been erased from existence by Chat Group Administrator Ren. The Destroyer King's gaze has been blocked, and the Extinction Doomsday has ended!]
"Block the Destroyer King's gaze?"
Ren was surprised.
The Doomsday Chat Group could even block the attention of such an existence? The Destroyer King was a candidate for the Lord of Myriad Worlds, a being of immense power.
Hiss, the Doomsday Chat Group had become even more mysterious and powerful in his eyes. Its capabilities were far beyond a simple communication tool.
This wasn't over yet. The rewards were tallying.
[Ding! Detected that Ren is the provider of Doomsday Points for the Myriad Realms Unification, the terminator of the Extinction Doomsday, and the representative of the main world. You have obtained a Source of Myriad Realms Fragment and 10 billion Doomsday Points!]
[Ding! Chito and Esdeath have received 100 million Doomsday Points!]
"Source of Myriad Realms Fragment?"
Ren immediately noticed the unfamiliar term and the unfamiliar reward.
His heart stirred, and he sensed a strange spherical core inside him, floating outside the Infinite Tree within his soul. It radiated a profound, ancient energy.
But now didn't seem to be the time to think about that thing.
Because the universe was changing.
He casually erased the universes he had superimposed, removing the cage now that the beast was dead.
His gaze fell upon the edge of the universe, where anomalies were occurring.
The first sensation was a tremor, not of the ground, but of reality itself. It felt as if the world had crashed into something massive.
"My body... is being pulled."
Esdeath frowned, planting her feet firmly on the shattered ground of Chito's planet.
She felt as if her body was being pulled from side to side by something invisible, a gravitational shear that tugged at her very existence.
Apart from Ren, Chito and Esdeath also experienced this sensation.
Ren didn't speak.
Because he sensed a familiar aura, one belonging to his own world. The frequency of the mana, the vibration of the atoms... it was home.
He had expected a dramatic or shocking scene when the worlds merged. Explosions, light shows, the tearing of the sky.
But it seemed... a little too simple.
The pulling sensation that Esdeath and Chito felt only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing completely.
"Hm?"
Esdeath looked up, her ice-blue eyes scanning the horizon.
Confused.
There seemed to be no change in what she saw—the same ruins, the same snow—yet it also felt as if the entire universe was different. The stars felt closer, the laws of physics slightly shifted.
"Ren-nii..."
Chito's eyes flickered, wanting to speak but hesitating. She looked around at the desolate landscape of her world.
Ren nodded, his smile reassuring. "You're not wrong; we're back."
"Indeed!"
Chito had already sensed Yuuri's aura; this was no longer that isolated, dying universe. She could feel the connection to her partner.
The matter was not as simple as a mere transfer of people.
Instead, their original universe had gained a new cosmic space, integrated into the laws of the universe.
He led the two back to Chito's post-apocalyptic planet surface.
But from their perspective, looking out beyond the atmosphere, they didn't see the endless, empty void they were used to.
They saw a vibrant blue... Earth.
This planet—Ren's world—had appeared in the Solar System.
And there were no adverse effects; it was perfectly natural. The gravitational orbits had adjusted instantly, the tides stabilized.
It was as if the Solar System had naturally gained new stars, and the universe had naturally gained new cosmic regions. Two worlds had become one.
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