As the Thunder Piercing Key pierced through the space-time of the ancient eon, the sanctuary of the Thunder God’s Hall opened.
The eyes of lightning bloomed, illuminating and engulfing the surroundings in a pure white light.
The battlefield where the two stood was completely redefined with different properties and concepts.
Kugwagwagwagwagwa!!!!!
In an instant, Seonjong found himself facing Lenox on a path with no end in sight.
A majestic barrier of white, surging lightning. An endless crossroads leading somewhere.
All sorts of weapons of unknown origin and type were embedded in the barrier, emitting lightning.
They stood in a massive hall forged from lightning.
A contradiction of solitude, as if left alone in the world, and a sense of overwhelming fullness was felt simultaneously.
The moment he recognized that it was proof of overlapping thoughts existing in an ideal world beyond reality.
[He declared the space-time of the ancient eon as his sanctuary?]
Seonjong, realizing what Lenox had done, turned his gaze with a hardened expression.
[Impossible. This is the way of the Order. How could you, who doesn’t even have faith…!!!!]
Sanctuary Declaration.
A power that summons the ideal world of others or the dreams of outer gods into reality, not the caster’s own fundamental thoughts.
A miracle granted to priests belonging to primitive faiths, the highest-ranking priests of the Order, or apostles who are incarnations.
“The sanctuary of the Thunder God’s Hall cannot be entered without the causality of lightning, so it was impossible to drag or lure you in.”
Clank!!
Lenox, leaning against the lightning spear that was the center of the sanctuary, spoke.
“So, I summoned the Thunder God’s Hall into reality. This was the only way to bring a thought that wasn’t mine into reality.”
The Thunder God’s Hall, the sanctuary of lightning located at the deepest part of the Torburn Magic Tower.
The Thunder Emperor’s Key, the Thunder Piercing Key, which supports the center of the sanctuary of the Thunder God’s Hall.
However, even after obtaining the Thunder Piercing Key, Lenox had never used the key in the proper way.
The causality of lightning that transcends the world within the sanctuary of the Thunder God’s Hall.
However, Lenox was not yet ready to accept another lightning left behind by the pioneers within it.
Even the electric magic that Lenox himself wielded was barely beyond the limit of what he could control.
Adding more causality to the electric system would not yield much meaning or effectiveness.
However, now is different.
Pajik, pajijijik…!!!!!!
A vast sanctuary filled with pure white lightning.
Lightning bolts surging from all directions gathered towards the massive lightning spear embedded at the center.
All the lightning in the sanctuary fell to a single point, striking Lenox like a lightning rod through the Thunder Piercing Key.
Jjeojeojeojeojeong!!!!!!
It was as if all the lightning of the Thunder God’s Hall was being sucked into Lenox, who was staggering.
The mage’s new form, using the entire sanctuary as a vast power plant, receiving an infinite supply of power from within.
[You intend to use the lightning energy contained in the sanctuary as power for your spell!!!!]
“The transcendent ones who engraved the causality of lightning… it is a secret wish shared even beyond the world.”
Lenox, facing Malleon’s massive form, closed his eyes and spoke.
“The amount of lightning power contained within is so vast that no transcendent can handle it alone.”
[…!!!]
Pajijijijik!!!!
Lightning poured out, flowing down his skin and flesh.
Lightning flashed and accelerated through the blood vessels and nervous system of his body, which was rotting with poison.
The power of lightning, not his own, yet more familiar than anything else, filled his entire body.
=Endurance.
From the distant depths of the lightning, the consciousness of the Thunder Emperor residing in the Thunder Piercing Key whispered.
=I am supplying you with power through my spell, but your body will not be able to withstand it in this way.
“……”
=I can only help you once. After that, I won’t be able to maintain the sanctuary.
“It’s okay.”
Lenox closed his eyes and slowly began to calm his thoughts.
“Because it will all be over in one go.”
Now that he had taken the elixir and accepted death, he could not use the kaleidoscope that reflected the branching points of the future.
However, there was a reason why Lenox drew upon the power of the sanctuary even though he could not deploy the kaleidoscope.
Power with the properties of lightning is a powerful energy and pure power in itself.
Therefore, the power of the Thunder God’s Hall could be converted directly into the power of the Ouroboros [a symbol of cyclicality and infinity].
The point that Lenox was trying to reach by using the Ouroboros once again was-
“I will drop the spell to the very bottom of the hierarchy and stand at the end of the abyss.”
Lenox, with his hands clasped together, lowered his head.
“The distorted fundamental thought that I, who accepted death and failed, obtained.”
Even if he could not use the kaleidoscope, it did not mean that he could not use the domain at all.
Electric magic and innate abilities. Unique spells and conscious weapons.
A fleeting miracle he was trying to reach by discarding all the qualifications and abilities that Lenox had left.
Not the forcibly drawn Gwangramuhaegung [a technique or domain], but a new possibility allowed only at this moment.
The unique thing that Lenox, at the point of the corrupted branch, possessed-
“Self-Resonance Domain-”
Buaaaaaang!!!!!
The lightning power transmitted through the Thunder Piercing Key began to turn black in Lenox’s hands.
The black halo expanded to a larger size than ever before, rotating violently at the center of the sanctuary.
Uuuuuuuuuuu!!!!
The size of the halo was so vast that its resonance could not be heard to the end.
In the center of the pitch-black halo, Lenox’s body sank deeply and submerged.
The moment Seonjong realized that it was a process of sinking himself into an abyss with no end in sight, accepting the destruction that had descended upon Lenox’s body more deeply than ever before.
[Mage!!!!!]
Kwaaang!!!
Seonjong let out a terrifying roar and drew up his magic power.
The transcendent’s form, wrapped in intense starlight, rose explosively to nearly hundreds of meters.
[Do you think I’ll just let you be!!!!!]
The Sanctuary Declaration was a makeshift method to forcibly bring the Thunder God’s Hall into reality.
The ideological domain of the Galaxy Dragon Star Army was still spread over the ancient eon.
As Seonjong, standing at the center of the celestial sphere, reached out his hand, the entire ideological domain bent according to his will.
[It’s absurd. You’re going to obtain a new fundamental thought after coming all this way.]
Buaaaaaang!!!
The transcendent, with thousands of meteor showers falling from the sky behind him, roared.
[That’s not talent. It’s a possibility not allowed to a being born within a closed causality!!!]
Original Magic (原始魔法) : Star Union Eight Extremes Style (星聯捌極式) [a martial art or magic style]
No Seed (無種) – Outer Law (外法) [a concept of magic or power]
Creation Star Circulation (創星巡環) [a technique or spell]
[Ten Thousand Starry Heavens (萬羅星天)]
Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!!
Thousands of dragon star armies bent simultaneously, drawing a massive wave of light in the sky.
The moment all the stars that made up the ideological domain rapidly twisted in one direction and increased their speed.
At the same time, the ideological domain surrounding the ancient eon collapsed, and all the starlight from all directions began to gather towards Seonjong.
Kwaddeudeudeuk!!!!!
Following Seonjong’s gesture, thousands of starlight rays bent, scraping and collapsing the sky.
The red-tinged sunset was erased by the starlight, faintly revealing the dark sea beyond.
A powerful destruction that forcibly tore apart the space-time of the atmosphere where the ancient eon was falling and scattering flames.
Uuuuuuuung!!!!
Seonjong, accelerating at an incredible speed in the sky and gathering starlight, combined two souls and thoughts and swung his hand with all his might.
[I will erase your origin from the world along with the starlight of the universe!!!!!!]
Paat!!
A compressed sphere of massive starlight exploded at Seonjong’s fingertips, splitting into tens of thousands of rays.
The starlight that burst out in all directions was distorted towards Lenox at once, and then converged back into a single point.
Tens of thousands of starlight rays, bent from the end of the sky, spiraled and descended into reality.
[Outer Galaxy (外銀河) : Star Disintegration Cannon (星解砲)]
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
A single strike that gathers all the starlight of the ideological domain and swings it.
It concentrates dragon stars (龍星) [stars with dragon-like properties], each possessing power equal to the caster, thousands of times at a single coordinate.
A spell that draws in all the repulsive force that erupts at the end of the concentration of starlight beyond the limit and fires it.
This miracle, unfolded by consuming all of the Galaxy Dragon Star Army, becomes a bombardment that permanently alters the world.
Kugugugugugu!!!!
The starlight of the Star Disintegration Cannon bisected the red-tinged sky diagonally and accelerated downwards.
A power that changes providence and laws was fired solely to kill Lenox.
‘……’
However, Lenox was buried in the black halo, his eyes closed.
Converting the power of the Thunder God’s Hall directly into power for Lenox’s spell.
Amplifying and operating the power of the Ouroboros, which was more distorted than ever before.
From the center of the corrupted and distorted magic power, he buried himself deeply into the abyss of the bottomless pit.
He sank even his own origin and essence to the bottom in the overflowing darkness.
‘I knew it.’
The moment he took the elixir and reached the point of corruption, Lenox knew.
The moment he compressed the black lightning and naturally created the black line, he knew.
The fact that this sensation felt so familiar to him.
As if he had known it for a long time, as if he had finally remembered it now.
There was not joy or elation, but a sense of relief that he had finally regained it.
That someday, Lenox himself ‘might have reached’ this point.
What is Lenox?
Perhaps, was he ever something?
The remnants of corruption that certainly existed beyond the past, present, and future.
He completely inhaled the possibility that he had not been aware of or remembered from the bottom of the abyss.
He might have already known it even before taking the elixir.
He might have remembered it from the moment he saw the black lightning that interfered with Malleon during the promotion ceremony.
Perhaps, even before Lenox opened his eyes in this world-
“……Ah.”
The words flowed naturally from within.
He already knew what to do.
Just as he had buried his whole body in the darkness of the outer sea to ascend to the ancient eon.
It was enough to savor everything within this great and lowly law.
The moment he wished, he had already arrived.
Even if he did not understand, it was already in Lenox’s hands.
All things in the universe, all matter and laws, were turned upside down and distorted.
Everything was out of sync, collapsing, and twisted in the wrong direction.
The point of destruction reached by reversing all the answers and structures that Lenox had built up.
The lowest point of possibility located at the extreme of that branching point.
Yes, even if this was not the right and wrong path.
At this moment-
This was Lenox’s answer.
[Domain Expansion ■■■■■.]
The moment he opened his eyes, a gloomy and stained transcendence exploded from within Lenox.
Even without opening his mouth, his will was engraved on reality more clearly than ever before.
Calling out a name that even Lenox himself could not understand or remember.
[Open.]
He grabbed the chaos that had accumulated within and ‘turned’ it haphazardly.
Kkiiiiiik-
The pitch-black lines spread left and right in front of Lenox’s eyes.
The fallen point of arrival that Lenox would obtain, or might have already obtained.
The incomprehensible branching point that he might have reached someday in a different way.
The moment he turned it as he remembered, even though he did not understand it.
Kigigigigigi-
A pitch-black and massive [Door] opened in front of Lenox’s eyes.
A rectangular black crack created by drawing black lines haphazardly.
Immediately after that, which contained only a void where nothing could be seen, appeared in front of him.
Kwaddeudeudeuk!!!!
The transcendent’s spell, which was tearing apart and collapsing the space-time of the world, fell diagonally.
Huuk-
The starlight of the Outer Galaxy Star Disintegration Cannon disappeared silently beyond the [Door].
[-Ah.]
Seonjong, who was watching the scene, let out an unclear cry for the first time.
The Star Disintegration Cannon’s spell, which had disappeared without a trace, as if a vast dark crack had swallowed the light.
The essence of the outer law, which was fired to erase Lenox’s existence by consuming the ideological domain.
The miracle that transcended the 9th level, which had drawn and poured out Malleon’s and Seonjong’s talents and future.
The concentrated body of starlight, which was accelerating to alter the world, vanished before his eyes.
[Impossible……]
Seonjong’s gloomy transcendence trembled so much that it began to echo dozens of times.
[This, this kind of thing can’t be possible. How could this…!!!!!!]
“From the beginning, there was no need to avoid or block it.”
Lenox, who slowly opened his eyes, muttered as he looked at the door that had appeared before his eyes.
“Opening the door itself was the form of my domain.”
The corrupted spell obtained on the premise of destruction.
The Self-Resonance Domain of the failed and corrupted branching point that Lenox might have reached someday.
The ability of the Self-Resonance Domain, which was so broken that it could not even be pronounced, was the power to open the [Door].
It did not contain the mysteries of transcendence or the omens of destruction that would destroy everything.
The supreme authority to cut off the connection of causality, sending all the concepts and laws that were attacking him through the [Door] to ‘somewhere’.
Lenox had opened his domain and sent the Star Disintegration Cannon fired by Seonjong beyond the [Door].
[Don’t be ridiculous-!!!!!!!]
Only then did Seonjong let out a transcendence that seemed to burst his eardrums.
As if he had only thought of denying it after hearing the fact from Lenox’s mouth.
As if he could not even dare to think of it with his own mind until then.
[Don’t tell me that such a thing is possible!!!!! How dare you tell such an absurd lie!!!!!]
“……”
[A living being opened a [Door] on their own! You connected the facets of causality…!!!!!]
Seonjong, glaring at the silent Lenox, trembled madly.
As if unable to control his rage, he even fumbled with the transcendence that resonated with magic power, glaring at Lenox as if he would tear him to pieces.
[Is it possible for a mortal to achieve a miracle that uses the death of a transcendent as fertilizer!!! It can’t be. It can’t be…!!!!!]
“……”
[That’s not human. That’s not a life form!!!! Even the gods of that sea-]
Seonjong, who was shouting madly, stopped talking when he saw Lenox, who was silently looking up at him.
The moment he faced the dark void in the mage’s eyes, he already knew the answer.
He tried to deny it, but he could not.
He had already doubted it the moment he tried not to doubt it.
That the mage had already passed the possibility he had wanted through Kaise’s body.
That even though he had it from the beginning, he was only now facing it.
“I don’t know how to open it.”
Lenox said in a hollow voice.
“But I certainly knew that I could reach it someday……”
Lenox whispered, looking at Malleon’s body, which was scattered with broken darkness.
“If so, I can do it right now.”
Kiiiiiiik…!!!!
The world creaked and the declaration of opening the door echoed once again.
However, that cracking sound was no longer heard in front of Lenox.
The moment Lenox’s hand, raised from the darkness, pointed at the transcendent’s body.
Another [Door] was opening from within the silver dragon that had been completed as a transcendent.
[Aaaaaaaak-!!!!!!]
Seonjong, realizing this, roared madly and drew up his magic power.
Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!
The transcendent’s body, wrapped in intense starlight, accelerated into the sky at an incredible speed.
Malleon’s massive form, which had increased its speed by burning magic power, turned into a pure white light and rampaged.
But the next moment, Seonjong was facing Lenox again on an endless dark horizon.
[Heok-!!!!]
Jjeok, jjeojeok…!!!!
The sound of a door opening echoed from within Seonjong.
Black lines spread out from his chest, enveloping his form like a massive black cube.
The moment he realized that it was a sign that a [Door] was opening within him.
[No-!!!!!!]
Seonjong let out a terrifying roar and struggled violently.
[Where are you trying to send me!!!!]
“……”
[I’m not going anywhere!!!! I will remain in this world until the end and obtain an eternal opportunity…!!!]
The [Door] itself is not a concept with any special destructive power or strength.
It is merely a term that refers to the phenomenon of connecting space-time, encompassing the world and the outer sea.
Any concept that passes through the door will surely arrive somewhere in its complete form.
However, Lenox was trying to send not only Seonjong’s spell but also Seonjong’s existence beyond the door.
What exactly exists beyond that, that he was trying to settle things in this way.
[The infinite opportunity that even my dead self could not obtain-!!!!]
“What I obtained through the corrupted thought that presupposes destruction is the power to open the [Door].”
Lenox said quietly.
“Therefore, what exists beyond the [Door] is not the space-time of this world, but my fundamental thought.”
[……That’s.]
“The other side of the ending where the meaning of next has disappeared.”
Lenox, slowly reaching out his hand, said.
“The place I’m trying to send you is the future of destruction where failure has come and the end has arrived.”
Lenox’s kaleidoscope is a power that reflects the branching points of infinite possibilities that do not presuppose failure and corruption.
However, there is another ending that only Lenox, who has accepted death and destruction, can reach.
The fundamental thought of the future where Lenox himself failed, became corrupted, and reached destruction.
The Self-Resonance Domain of the branching point that fell to the bottom with a distorted answer at the end of corruption.
This power, which brings the possibility of the ‘future’ in a way completely opposite to the kaleidoscope, is-
The failed future where the end has come. The power to guide the target to a fixed timeline where everything has been destroyed.
Kkiririririk-
From the black cube that had trapped Seonjong, a void filled with the sound of a door opening.
As if filling the space beyond the space isolated by black lines with the darkness beyond the door.
He turned the massive dragon species’ body into the [Door] itself.
Jjeojeojeok…!!!
Consciousness and soul were sucked in completely beyond the door created within.
A void with no end in sight. A future of destruction that has not yet arrived.
He was moving towards the other side of the future timeline where the next does not exist.
A closed world. A door of destruction that leads to a future of annihilation where cause and effect are cut off.
[You were the one who opened the door……]
Seonjong, staring blankly at the void beyond the [Door], muttered.
[That can’t be……]
Seonjong’s voice trembled and gradually began to fade.
[You, you couldn’t have been that person…… That defies the providence of time-]
“Maybe so.”
Lenox smiled.
“Until the end of the world, I want to be myself. I will never become someone else.”
[……]
“But if the end of this world is only endlessly circulating within a closed causality-”
Lenox, pointing at Seonjong with one hand, slowly tilted his head.
“I intend to handle even that failed ending with my own will.”
Paat-
Seonjong’s answer could not continue any further.
The [Door] that had opened within him rotated in a circle, scattering and spreading a massive void.
The moment the expanded black door flickered, completely staining the horizon with black light.
A dark star rotated, sending Seonjong’s consciousness and soul to a distant future of destruction.