Chapter 1321: The Grand General’s Mausoleum (19)
KWAAAAAAAK!!!!!
Nine Flame Flowers bloomed, coiling around the shattered sky of the Four Archangel Demonic Mirrors.
Flames, hundreds of meters in size, rotated counter-clockwise, casting the magnificent form of a lotus.
The Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance manifested, blooming across the vast field of ashes stretching to the horizon, its form swirling in all directions.
“…Impossible.”
The Mad Fortress’s expression twisted grotesquely before the Flame Flower.
“Not only does a mere mortal possess two Mind Imprints, but they can use Domains simultaneously…!!!!”
KUGUGUGUGUGUGU!!!!!!
Lennok stood at the center of the colossal nine petals, eyes closed, slowly separating his hands.
Scattering overflowing golden spiritual light, he relentlessly peered into the Severed Plane of Causality.
Seamless spell effect activated.
The perfected form of the Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance Domain, unfolded by using the Mana Core that constitutes the Crimson Star System as its petals.
A miracle allowed only now, as the last, Ninth Star is temporarily supplied as the Singularity Reactor’s core.
The deceased Grand General, who dominates the Four Archangel Demonic Mirrors.
The answer Lennok chose to fight the Level 9 Ascendant guarding the Imperial Palace was–
“No!!!! Not even the God of the Sea could do that!!!”
PAAAT!!!!
Before he could even sense the anomaly, the Grand General’s body moved instinctively.
He pulled out the blade of The Shredder that had pierced Lennok’s stomach, rotating it at the same time.
He simultaneously pulled up his Miniature Universe on the spot and swung it at tremendous speed, decapitating him.
Darkness exploded around the shattered blade of The Shredder, tearing through a hundreds-of-meters-tall cliff diagonally and bringing it down.
KWAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
“No matter how much the process was shortened, to openly use such a technique!! Are you trying to die!!!”
Amidst the crumbling cliff fragments with a roar, he seized Lennok’s corpse and slammed it down.
Below the collapsing cliff, he madly swung The Shredder, pummeling the body into a handful of mangled flesh.
BOOM!! DRRDRDRDRDK!!!
A single blow that pierced through all of Lennok’s defenses and magic, pronouncing death.
The Shredder’s grip and throw were capable of crushing space itself, inflicting instant death even on a high-level superhuman.
Yet, Lennok did not die, even after falling, completely covered in blood from that single strike.
Despite suffering fatal injuries—a broken neck and ruptured upper body muscles and internal organs—he did not lose consciousness.
The moment the overflowing nine Flame Flowers rotated counter-clockwise behind Lennok’s mangled body.
All the wounds and injuries etched on Lennok’s body were erased, restoring his physical form to its pristine state.
“…!!!”
HWAAK!!!
Golden causality overflowed along the Flame Flower of the Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance, drawing a beautiful melody.
At its center, Lennok rose, covered in blood, yet without a single scar on his body.
THWIP!!
“Nonsense. How in the world—!!!!”
Scattering crimson-black spiritual light, the fallen Grand General’s face was twisted with indescribable rage.
“You’ve achieved such perfection with just a Domain’s spell effect…!!!!”
“…Cough.”
“Even after abandoning everything to become human, do you still have such a miracle left within you!!!”
As all the petals of the Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance bloomed, Lennok’s body eradicated the very fact of having been injured.
The Grand General, holding The Shredder, flinched and stopped, while Lennok coughed on the spot.
Lennok, who had returned to his undamaged form at the center of the Flame Flower, panting, raised his gaze.
“It’s a battle against a Level 9 Grand General…”
Lennok, brushing back his sweat-soaked hair, spoke.
“I thought there might come a moment when a normal offense and defense wouldn’t hold up.”
“…”
“This new form of Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance, Nine Lotus Lantern Fire, is an ability devised to perform this kind of fight. If I can’t guarantee a decisive advantage in every exchange against Ascendants who have surpassed their limits…”
Lennok’s eyes, having spilled copious amounts of blood, blazed fiercely.
“…Then I intended to keep getting chances until I could.”
Nine Lotus Lantern Fire. Burning nine lotus flowers as lanterns.
This concept, referring to complete flawlessness and perfection, is one of the new forms of Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance that can only be activated when all nine petals are in full bloom.
Upon completing the Nine Lotus Lantern Fire, a special spell effect, Seamless, is activated within the Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance Domain.
It maintains Lennok’s existence and spellcraft within the spatio-temporal expanse of the Domain in a perfectly flawless state, regardless of external circumstances.
Like the proverb that clothes made by heavenly beings have no seams, it is a power that nullifies any damage to Lennok’s existence, rendering it void.
This is one of the attainment points Lennok was temporarily allowed, using the Singularity Reactor’s core as material.
A perpetual miracle possible only now, having acquired the Ninth Star and transcendent power.
“Then… shall we start again, from the beginning?”
WHOOSH-!
Lennok, rising with his entire body ablaze, unfurled magnificent wings of flame and raised his gaze.
“This time, it will be a little different.”
[Conjoined Flames]
[Crimson Linkage]
[Inflammatory Arrival]
[Crimson False Army]
[Jade Flame]
The moment he slowly inhaled and stepped forward, dozens of flame-heat magic spells unfolded and coiled around his right hand.
[Frost Piercing]
[Frigid Dominion]
[Glacier Binding]
[Flash White]
[Moon Zero Secret Silver]
As he extended his left hand in the opposite direction, chilling cold and ice coiled around it, forming ice magic spells.
KWAGWAWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWA!!!!!
No incantation or hand seal was needed.
Just by extending his will, the dance of ice and fire, fully preheated and ignited, began.
In a vast illusion where the entire world seemed to split in half, dyed red and blue, Lennok unhesitatingly pulled both hands forward.
KWAAAAAAAK-!!!
CRACKLECRACKLECRACKLE…!!!
The raging inferno of flame-heat magic swirling in his right hand painted half of the horizon red.
The dazzling white coldness coiling around his left hand rotated sharply, freezing the opposing landscape.
Wings of fire and ice unfurled on both sides, rapidly accelerating towards each other.
Flame-heat and ice magic.
At this moment, holding two perfectly opposing attributes in his hands and forcibly ‘fusing’ them simultaneously.
Despite acquiring the power of the dead Outer God, the Cold Comet, he had never once attempted such a forced unification of flame-heat and ice magic.
Operating dozens of flame-heat and ice magic spells simultaneously, just as he was about to compress the two spellcrafts into one towards the Grand General.
“STOP-!!!!”
Instinctively sensing danger, the Grand General swung The Shredder with all his might, interrupting Lennok’s incantation.
The moment two opposing attributes with immense output merged into one.
That spellcraft must not be allowed to complete.
The Grand General’s nature, steeped in madness, accelerated even before his innate martial intuition and experience could make a judgment.
He intervened before Lennok at tremendous speed to block the incantation, simultaneously burying the blade diagonally into Lennok’s shoulder.
“Attribute fusion and reality alteration based on reversal. Are you still being so complacent in front of me!!!”
“Complacent?”
CRUNCH!!!
Lennok’s body, impaled by The Shredder’s blade, shattered and scattered on the spot.
Lennok’s body exploded in all directions, shattering into cold shards of ice.
Beyond the surging waves of fire and ice, he instantly sculpted a new body and stood up.
“The Seamless spell effect is the power to maintain my existence in a perfectly flawless state at any moment. This ability isn’t limited to mere physical damage.”
KWAAAAAAK!!!
Lennok, who had restored his body by sculpting half with fire and half with ice, took a step.
“While the Nine Lotus Lantern Fire is active, all my magic and spellcraft are free from any overload or recoil. That means, in other words—”
CRACK-!!!!
With just a glance from Lennok, the blazing Demonic Realm froze solid, instantly exuding an eerie chill.
At its center, the Grand General was suddenly trapped within a colossal block of ice, his entire body frozen alive.
“It means even large-scale Decasing encompassing the entire battlefield can be done instantly, without any restrictions or recoil.”
“…!!!”
KWAH-AAANG!!!!
The house-sized ice prison shattered, and the Grand General, roaring like a beast, burst out from within.
His frozen skin was torn and ripped, revealing damaged and severed muscles, a demonic visage.
But Lennok did not recoil even when the Grand General landed right in front of him.
CRUNCH!!
Applying an enormous level of physical enhancement that would rupture every muscle and bone in his body to its limit.
He simply grabbed the charging Grand General’s face with one hand and slammed him down head-on.
KWAH-AAANG!!!!
“Let’s continue, Grand General.”
Lennok released his hand from the Grand General’s massive body, which was slammed into the frozen ground, and stood up.
“I need to confirm right here, right now, if my current self can truly reach the level of past Ascendants.”
“WIZARD!!!!!”
GRIT!!
There was no answer.
The Shredder, fallen beside the Grand General, spun and impaled Lennok’s side, sending his body flying.
It simply slammed him through the frozen strata at supersonic speed, breaking through multiple layers, continuously crushing and burying him.
KWAGWAGWAGWAGWANG!!!!!
Amidst giant glacial fragments dozens of meters in diameter, the figures of the two Transcendent beings accelerated madly, striking down.
Lennok’s form flickered, changing between ice and fire hundreds of times per second, plunging into the Grand General’s body.
Each time, the Grand General, never missing a single one of Lennok’s movements, relentlessly plunged The Shredder into him.
KWAGWAGWAGWANG!!!!!
Lennok gathered fire and ice to sculpt his body and unleashed magic explosively.
The Grand General used gravity to pull back his severed flesh, reattaching it, and detonated his Miniature Universe.
They clashed and rebounded, scattering shockwaves of fire and ice, with no room to distinguish between sky and earth.
Perhaps this is what it would feel like if supersonic fighter jets collided everywhere, exploding into fragments, and regenerating.
A hotbed of destruction, where each ignored the other’s defenses, inflicting infinite, near-fatal blows, grinding down the entire Demonic Realm.
As ice and fire intertwined madly, burning and melting at the center, even time seemed to slow down to an agonizing crawl.
‘This is—’
Beyond consciousness accelerating to its limit, time burned and space froze.
The colossal concepts forming the two axes of the Material Realm rotated simultaneously in Lennok’s hands, flickering as if they could be grasped at any moment.
An inspiration so intense it was explosive, arising at the end of a fierce struggle between monsters who had surpassed their limits.
A sense of déjà vu that constantly stimulated and blossomed Lennok’s intuition, using the Corrupted Golden Rule, guiding him to a higher state.
Not for sorcerers who seek truth and pursue the path of magic, but for warriors who fight for their lives—
BOOM!!
Accepting the Grand General’s furious slash with The Shredder, using ice fragments as a shield, Lennok rotated his body.
At the same time, he transformed the ice fragments into fire, detonating them, and used the recoil as acceleration to penetrate the gap.
Wielding Built Fire from flame-heat magic and Frost Piercing from ice magic in both hands, operating them at full power simultaneously.
He parried The Shredder, which swung at supersonic speeds from all directions, narrowing the distance slightly.
PWAAHAAAK!!
THUMP THUMP THUMP!!!!
In time that had slowed to an extreme, he detonated Built Fire to push back The Shredder, and plunged Frost Piercing into his side.
Simultaneously, he reversed the Built Fire and Frost Piercing in both hands. Freezing The Shredder, he simultaneously detonated and burned the Grand General’s side.
BOOOMMM!!!!!
“Kuh, haaak…!!!”
In a fleeting moment, thousands of exchanges took place.
The Grand General’s abdomen exploded, and his remaining internal organs vanished at the end of that perilous battle.
The immense power, where nearly half of his body was lost the moment Built Fire directly struck him.
Yet, even amidst that, the Mad Fortress kept his eyes on Lennok’s movements until the very end, wary of the moment ice and fire would ‘unify’.
Even this mad Transcendent instinctively knew which technique must be stopped, regardless of the cost and consumption.
If that’s the case—
CLANG!!!
At the edge of the frozen horizon, Lennok and the Mad Fortress’s shadows crossed simultaneously.
The Grand General’s pale corpse, holding The Shredder with both hands raised, and Lennok’s back, where immense magic erupted as he lowered one hand, pulling it back.
Vast Heavenly World: Myriad Draws of Failure
Mindscape Technique activated
Creation Magic: Alchemy Application
Triple Alchemy
KIIIIIIING—
Almost simultaneously, the Extreme Art, where their mental images erupted, activated and violently clashed in the air.
[Asura’s False Annihilation]
[Flame Void = False Freezing Star]
KWAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!!!
A slash that twisted and pulled space, and an asteroid enveloped in ice and fire, collided head-on and warped.
The landscape of the Demonic Realm split and fractured diagonally, and through the cracks, red and blue heat and cold vigorously overflowed.
At its center, two Transcendent beings, taking the enormous recoil head-on, unhesitatingly closed the distance.
“Ku, g-guk…”
His belly torn open, he moved his crushed body using gravity, creakingly pushing forward.
“G-guk, ahhhhk…!!!”
Even with his mangled body, only his maddened instincts and senses remained, forcing his damaged body to move.
As he reached out amidst the storm of twisting heat and cold, and activated his Miniature Universe to gather gravity, at that moment.
[Attraction]
KWOOOOOSH—
The output of Lennok’s False Freezing Star, which he detonated, warped as if being sucked into the Grand General’s Miniature Universe.
The Grand General, having swallowed the entire spellcraft, kicked Lennok’s chest at tremendous speed, sending him flying.
BANG!!!
THUDUDUDU!!!!
“Hahahahak!!! Hahahahat!!!!”
He burst into a roaring, mad laugh, grabbing Lennok’s form and wildly slamming him down.
Ignoring The Shredder, which was said to have brought down satellites and had never weakened in long wars, he focused on killing the wizard before him.
“I acknowledge you!!! Here, this Mad Fortress will declare it himself!!!!!!”
He grabbed the broken blade with his bare hands, impaling it into Lennok’s shoulder and slamming it down.
He tore through surging flesh and flames, devouring the bursting ice, and roared.
“More than anyone I faced in the Unification War, it is you!!!! Were you the standard the Imperial Palace awaited!!!!”
CRUNCH-DRRDRDRDK!!
CRACKLECRACKLECRACKLE!!!!
He carved through flesh and split bone and muscle. He tore internal organs and ripped out marrow, crushing it.
Plunging endlessly into the frozen glacier, at this moment, he pulverized the falling wizard’s form in a frenzy.
“I—!!!!!!”
Amidst the shattered blade of The Shredder, the Mad Fortress’s slash, enveloped in darkness, finally plunged down onto Lennok’s head.
Just then, an encroaching chill from nearby froze and stopped the Grand General’s arm and axe at tremendous speed.
CRACK-AAAAANG!!!
“—?!”
The pristine white frozen petals coiled around the Grand General’s blackened arm, hardening firmly.
The flames that had relentlessly surged beneath his feet now shimmered with a vivid blue, holding a cold light.
The field of ashes, unfolded simultaneously with the activation of Black Sun’s Fall. Above it, a sea of fire erupted, blooming with nine Flame Flowers.
The infernal heat that had burned the Four Archangel Demonic Mirrors had, at some point, transformed into a frigid inferno, freezing white to the edge of the visible world.
CRACKLECRACKLECRACKLE…!!!!!
Ice cliffs hundreds of meters tall bowed their heads from all directions towards Lennok and the Mad Fortress.
Colossal ice pillars, towering everywhere, tilted with the howling wind, emitting a roar.
The form of an Ice Flower with nine petals had, at some point, enveloped the entire battlefield where the two stood.
KUWOOOOHHHH!!!!!
Decasing the Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance Domain, instantly transforming all the fire and heat of the battlefield into ice and cold.
As the Grand General momentarily raised his gaze at the incomprehensibly overwhelming spectacle of Decasing.
“I knew from the beginning which spellcraft to use.”
Lennok, fallen at the center of the frozen flower, said in a low voice.
“I also suspected you would be wary of this technique.”
“You…!!!!!”
“All I had to do was… expand its scale enough that even an Ascendant like you couldn’t perceive it.”
CRACKLECRACKLECRACKLE…!!!!!
The Ice Flower of the Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance, which enveloped the entire Demonic Realm, slowly closed as it froze pristine white.
The frozen flower, rewinding the landscape unfolded by its nine petals, enveloped Lennok and the Grand General.
Soon, it became an ice prison that froze and sealed spacetime itself, completely trapping the two.
“I never intended to hit you directly with the fusion technique of flame-heat and ice magic from the start.”
Lennok said, raising his gaze.
“What I wanted was a collision that was… even more colossal and unrealistic.”
“—What?”
KUGUGUGU…!!!!
At that moment, the blackened sky where Black Sun’s Fall was deployed violently churned.
The black sky, as if in a total solar eclipse, slowly approached, growing hotter.
A colossal black solar sphere, impossible to gauge in size, burning and enveloped in black flames.
The black sun, wreathed in somberly burning Black Flame, was falling from beyond the frozen sky, ablaze.
KWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWA!!!!!!!
“That… is…!!”
Just by looking up at the sky, an eerie heat scorched and vaporized the Grand General of Brilliance’s Spiritual Presence.
A black flame star, more powerful than any flame the Grand General had ever faced, imbued with an eternal will to incinerate.
That’s why he understood the moment he faced it.
That wasn’t some miracle that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
The Ninth Star of the Crimson Star System, temporarily created using the Singularity Reactor’s core as material.
The Demon Subjugation flame of the Ninth Star, which the Grand General himself had struck into the sky using his Will-Thought Alteration.
Falling from beyond the Black Sun’s Fall sky, having reached extreme heat—
It descended to the ground once more as the flames of Heavenly Linked Fall.
“CHEONBEON-!!!!!”
Only then realizing the situation, the Grand General spasmodically swung The Shredder towards Lennok.
From the beginning, Lennok had no intention of hitting the Grand General with a fused flame-heat and ice magic spell.
Black Sun’s Fall and Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance. Two Domains occupying the battlefield of the Four Archangel Demonic Mirrors.
He intended to detonate the miracle of reality alteration based on Root Mindscapes by reversing their attributes against each other.
“Do you know what you are trying to do!!!!!”
It was a collision of Domains encompassing the entire Four Archangel Demonic Mirrors battlefield.
There was no avoiding it, no blocking it, no escaping it; everything would simply be swept away beneath the collapse of this colossal law.
KUGUGUGUGUGUGUGU!!!!!!
The black sun falling from the edge of the sky rotated, plunging towards the frozen ground.
The colossal Ice Flower, frozen and surged to the horizon’s end, bloomed towards the burning sky.
The attainment point of the Ninth Flame, created by condensing the Crimson Star System.
The colossal bud, formed by Decasing and entirely freezing the Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance.
At this moment, two attainment points of extreme, opposing attributes were forcibly clashed and detonated in a single spacetime.
“Can the answer I envision reach the ends of this universe?”
At the center of the frozen Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance, Lennok, who had been looking up at the falling black sun, turned his gaze.
“After reaching the very end, will I still be myself? Since my past self failed, it’s ultimately unknowable.”
“You have no right to say that!!! You will not become the next!!!!!!”
“But even if I gain nothing… I still believe there is meaning in this journey.”
Lennok closed his eyes.
“To know that, I must see it through to the very end.”
“BANGUNG-!!!!!!!”
Creation Magic
Manifestation of Transcendental Unique Magic
Divine Technique of Ascending Pierce
KWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWA!!!!!!!
Heavenly Flower Myriad Fragrance and Black Sun’s Fall.
Two Domains that had reached the apex of flame-heat magic, reversed in their attributes, collided at the boundary between sky and earth.
The bud of an Ice Flower bloomed at the center of the frozen Four Archangel Demonic Mirrors.
The black sun, falling backward from the edge of the sky, plunged towards the Ice Flower.
Two streams of Will-Thought Alteration, having reached the extreme of flame-heat and ice magic, clashed and warped at the intersection where heaven and earth met.
Will-Thought Alteration
Non-Existence
Dyeing the entire world black and white, it washed away and erased everything.