“This… This!”
“These signatures… They’re all emitting Level 4 super force activity!”
“One, two, t-three! Three level 4 signatures!”
What is happening right now? A woman with short black hair and icy blue eyes stared at the floating hologram of the city where three gigantic red dots presided could be clearly seen..
Even from this distance, with her sharp senses as a transformation-type Super, she could vaguely feel the waves of energy being emitted from up in the surface.
“WHAT?! There’s also Level 4 signatures in Ubra City?!”
“Wemba City is also requesting for backup! Their radars detected two Level 4 signatures!”
The ruckus grew as chaos seemed to fester rapidly. The woman, a powerful Demigod and a person of authority ordered loudly, “Calm down! Contact the regional base and request backup! Mobilize all Supers, arm all of the non-super troops with artifacts! Our number one priority is to evacuate all citizens away from the city and keep them safe!”
“Ma’am! Permission to use portals in the public eye?”
“Permission granted! I trust that you all will not betray humanity! Branch Head, I give you my full authority!” She declared with a loud voice, her eyes shining brightly with an icy blue light as scales formed on her skin.
“Yes, Ma’am Ri Haneul!”
Ri Hanuel arched her back as a pair of draconic wings erupted out of her skin. Gazing at the forming portal above her, she roared with draconian might and flew into the air, leaving the base behind.
Atop Jedo City, a half-dragon half-human woman appeared out of a portal hanging in the sky. She flapped her wings and stared at three different areas where the environment seemed to warp from a recent exposure to supernatural phenomena.
On the far north, a giant armored knight grasped an obsidian black blade and buckled an enormous black shield. A pair of dark red eyes shone bright like wailing souls, staring at the draconian woman.
On the southwest, a figure clad in billowing wisps of darkness sat in the air with crossed legs. He playfully rested his chin on his hand, staring at the draconian woman with malicious intent.
Lastly, in the southeast, a gray-furred feline woman, with cat ears and a cat tail, licked her lips and clenched her clawed fists.
“Regie, Knight of Apocalypse,” the armored knight declared, brandishing his obsidian blade. A terrifying archaic red energy suffused from his blade, transforming the buildings around him into desolate, broken constructs.
“Tyrel, Nuclear Void.” His grin widened as he raised his arm into the air, conjuring a spiraling orb of darkness that devoured the surrounding space. Within its center, a tiny point of light shone brightly with a nuclear glow that contrasted with the sphere’s overwhelming darkness.
“Shirley, Schrodinger’s Cat.” Her figure switched between illusory and real, existent and nonexistent.
“You three…” Ri Haneul recognized the three the moment they said their names as, for the first time in a long while, she felt utter terror.
She knew all too well the difficulty it takes to reach Level 4, with the precarious danger that came from reforming one’s crystal into an Authority Matrix. It takes a lot of courage, will, and skill to succeed in one’s ascension.
For one to ascend to Level 4, one must shatter one’s own crystal and use the infinite energy surging from the broken crystal to reconstruct it into an authority matrix. This process would attract the source of creation, the Primordial Chaos, and one would undergo a trial of rebirth.
There would be many forms of this trial, either by environmental phenomena or mental degradation, and succeeding alone is incredibly hard as one would have to utilize the incomplete power of their authority matrix to survive, but by succeeding, immense power is gained.
However… To have three different Demigods succeed so quickly in their ascension—this is just madness!
Braun was truly defying the natural order of heaven. He was an anomaly, a being who overthrows the rules of nature. He transcends what is considered normal and thrives in the domain of abnormality.
It’s nothing too strange though, because fundamentally speaking, the very reason why super crystals are even functioning was due to the existence of the Zenithral Force. It’s a multiversal source of evolution, growth, and transcendence. It oversees all that lies under the domain of Zenith, having full authority over it.
This whole universe that they live in, the heavenly structure of super crystals, from its nature to its effect on the countless beings that live within this reality, all of that relied on the existence of the Zenithral Force.
The Primordial Chaos is the same.
By shattering the crystal inside one’s metaphysical space, the infinite energy of the Zenithral Force would leak out and react with the fundamental laws of the universe, tapping into the source of creation known as the Primordial Chaos, and resulting in what is essentially a moment of transcendence.
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Although conflict is not necessary for growth, it might as well be with how effective it works as a sharpening tool. Using an immense level of pressure, far beyond what a Level 3 Super could possibly hope to survive, the faint connection the crystal established with the zenithral force would allow it to be remolded into an authority matrix.
With an authority matrix, the super would successfully be deemed as a Demigod, a being that has gained minute control over the Primordial Chaos, which is the universe’s fundamental layer. A simple flame can burn time, wind can usher destruction, and a blade of grass can spark rebirth.
They have gained the power of creation and are given the authority to rule over the dominions of reality.
Ri Haneul herself had already gained control over the domains of ice, dragon, spirit, mind, and body. She was considered a Five Domain Demigod, meaning she could use her ability to influence those five domains.
With her ice, she can freeze not just the physical world, but also the spiritual and mental world. That was how she could freeze other people’s thoughts and souls, giving her ice a mystical nature.
As a Five Domain Demigod, she was already considered quite strong in Level 4, and she planned on ascending to Level 5 once she comprehended some of the other domains she wished to gain control over.
However, those wishes of reaching Level 5 could only be considered if she was alive. Those hopes could only remain alive if she was alive, and against three Demigods that were clearly out here to target her…
“To think we would get revived with all of our abilities intact,” Nuclear Void Tyrel mumbled with a wicked grin. The sphere of the nuclear void above his palm radiated with intense light, ready to explode at any given moment.
“Indeed, even I wouldn’t have expected this,” Knight of Apocalypse muttered and prepared to deliver a powerful blow with his blade.
“Enough chit-chat, we have a revenge story to fulfill!” Schrodinger’s Cat Shirley willed and her body splintered into numerous clones. Each clone was both her and not her at the same time, but they held greater power nonetheless.
Nuclear Void Tyrel grinned and concentrated the power of all of his three domains, Explosion, Void, and Nuclear into the sphere above his head, launching it forward towards Ice Dragon Ri Haneul.
Knight of Apocalypse Regie swung his blade covered in desolate dark red energy, enveloping the sky in a red hue that held the power of the domains of destruction.
Schrodinger’s Cat Shirley willed the power of quantum probability to her whim. The numerous Shirley in the sky waved their arms and countless destructive beams of light, beams that could destabilize the quantum stability of whatever it touched, flew out of their hands.
Ice Dragon Ri Haneul exerted the overwhelming might of the domain of dragon, oppressing all other domains in the process, weakening them to a significant degree. As long as she had more domains than them, the might of her draconian existence would suppress their authority!
A wave of ice erupted out of her body, freezing all of the incoming beams of light as if they were solid matter. The layer of frost rapidly traveled upward, and reached the countless clones in the sky, freezing a huge majority of them in the process.
The nuclear void bomb arrived right in front of her with its overbearing might, but as she hurriedly constructed a wall of ice, an explosion of nuclear energy covered the entire sky.
The desolate dark red energy came last which cut through all of the scattered shards of ice and nuclear energy left in the area, arriving right before Ri Haneul in the blink of an eye.
Her figure rapidly transformed into a gigantic dragon as she resisted the remnant nuclear void energy in the area. Opening her mouth wide, she released a horrendous beam of ice energy which collided with Regie’s attack.
In just one wave of attacks, Ri Haneul already felt herself slightly exhausted. Luckily, her decades of experience kept her calm and she utilized the power of her domains to freeze her mind, soul, and body’s exhaustion.
Then, using the domain of dragon along with the domain of ice, she released a beam of ice into the sky, enveloping the entire city in her territory.
Draconian Territory—Field of Ice!
“Hahaha, the high and mighty dragon is finally oppressed!” Nuclear Explosion Tyrel laughed maniacally and felt the euphoria of finally getting back at the woman who killed him.
“We need to be quick, there’s no telling how fast Aegis would send its backups! Although we’ve managed to catch them by surprise, for now, we mustn’t forget their thousands of years-long foundation!” Knight of Apocalypse Regie reminded them.
“Wait…!” Shirley widened her eyes as if she sensed something. With her transformed physiology as a quantum existence, she could vaguely tell that something was quickly approaching them.
“They’re here!”
The space from above warped and three figures arrived.
Two of them emitted a powerful aura, and the last of them revealed something more shocking.
Level 5!
…
Braun escaped the broken boundaries of his pocket dimension and arrived in the middle of Insea City, between the two cities.
Less than a second later, Christopher arrived, bathed by white light. He furiously swung his hand and a gargantuan blade of space tens of meters long flew towards Braun. It traveled through space in an instant and was right in front of Braun in the blink of an eye.
Braun laughed heartily as he let the blade hit him from the middle, cutting his torso from his legs.
I’ve long escaped the restriction of food, and my body has long reached the boundaries of Level 4 in terms of raw stats. With you as my sharpening tool, I would just simply continue to grow! Even without attacking me, just you being here is causing my body to react proactively!
Braun’s eyes glowed with green flames and his body reattached to itself just as it was cut in half. He then pointed at the two islands below him, and said, “Are you sure you should be focusing on me? Two Demigods have just been born over there.”
Countless flowers bloomed into colossal vines on the Left Isle, crushing numerous citizens into meat paste. Blood covered the ground as red and green mixed. All of the flowers that Laura had spread across the city became an extension of her limbs, absorbing the nutrient-rich blood to fuel her growth.
On the Right Isle, a spiral of wind, fire, water, and earth connected with the sky, and a lone figure was standing in the middle of the vortex of four elements. Heaven and earth itself seemed to twist as the spiral of the elements continued to turn increasingly rowdy, destroying the area in the process.
Both Laura and Poppy gazed into the sky, with an apparition of Christopher appearing before them.
Christopher’s eyes were lit ablaze with white light as he fully unleashed the powers of all the domains he had comprehended these past four months.
Gravity, Electromagnetism, Weak Nuclear Force, Strong Nuclear Force, Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Metal, Light, Shadow, Ice, Snow, Space, Time…
Damn… Braun, having already gathered data from his avatars, finally knew the secrets behind the realm of Level 4, so he easily recognized what those domains were being unraveled before him.
A power that can encompass all, a power that controls the very foundation of all superpowers, Super Force Manipulation!
Damn, this bastard really is overpowered as fuck! Braun gazed deeply at Christopher as countless motes of colorful lights gathered behind him, each holding the power of a different domain.
Both Laura and Poppy wore grim expressions, but nevertheless, they weren’t going down without a fight.
“Come, you chosen son of destiny!” The three of them shouted at the same time, unleashing their full strength as they were enveloped in green flames.