The human-shaped avatar of the great monster, which was the enemy of mankind, engaged in a fierce battle with the avatar of the giant monster.
“Wait, are those guys not on the same side?!”
“Well, even though humans are of the same race as the empire dwellers or border folk, there can be classifications that make it hard to be friendly.”
From the perspective of the allied forces, it felt like they had died and come back to life.
“Amplification is your weakness, huh? Then let me show you the result of walking down a path even further than the former emperor did.”
The Forbidden Magic’s strength-all-in of the 157th round multiplied its extending tentacles even further, causing those cells to perish.
Before the knowledge of Forbidden Magic, the tentacles that had been rising like a storm were losing power and fading away.
However, in the ensuing second offense, some tentacles were affected by [Amplification of Annihilation] yet continued to spread strong without crumbling.
“That one, it filled the tentacles with [Special Skill]!”
The strength-all-in of the immortal resurrection of the 229th round threw its entire body to block the attack aimed at the 157th round.
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[Damage Amplification] + [Pain Transfer] + [Agony Shift] + [Self-Destruction] + [Reflection] + [Revival]
Unique Ability [Self-Destruction Cheat]
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Using the characteristic of being able to resurrect even after dying to amplify the pain of death further, this self-destruct type technique deals a tremendous blow to the enemy’s mind and soul.
The special skill tentacles, meanwhile, were twisting and glowing, ignoring even the basic skill [Pain Block].
“Do you know why the mana cost of meteor magic is so high? Because you have to collect the coordinates of the meteors floating in space, calculate their trajectories and dropping directions, and then open a dimensional gate to slam them down to the ground. But what if you already know the coordinates and trajectories?”
Just like this.
As the strength-all-in of the 332nd round utilized the coordinates acquired from space exploration, dozens of decisive magic meteors rose up simultaneously in the air.
The strength-all-in of the forbidden magic of the 157th round stared in disbelief at that sight.
“Just what kind of strength-all-in monsters are these?!”
“Don’t get me wrong. I only excel in magic related to space; I can only use up to the 6th level of conventional magic.”
Derived from the strength-all-in, the various builds became a meteor shower and battered the giant monster’s main body.
The massive form of the giant monster staggered back, sat down, and fell over.
The allied forces had to crouch on the ground, wrapping their arms around their heads, trembling without even being able to cheer.
Ku-gugugugu…!
As a massive dust cloud rose from the impact of the battle, the howls of the giant monster echoed chillingly through the obscured mist.
“This is insane…”
“This…This isn’t even a human battle anymore.”
“Did Oknodie send alien beings to help us with summoning magic just like the chairman of the foundation did?”
“There might be a betrayer inside the foundation.”
“Whatever it is… This might be a battlefield beyond our control now.”
With earthquakes, tsunamis, dimensional barriers, dark mana blasts, and dust clouds from meteor showers swirling together, this battlefield was a sign that a mana disaster due to massive mana collisions was about to occur.
Mana raised enormous torrents, pouring down fire and drawing nearby objects into dimensional rifts.
“Fall back as a fleet!”
“If we stay here, we’ll all be killed!”
“Let’s retreat to a safe sea area!”
Even the advancing tentacle entities were swept away, dying in the chaos.
The allied forces had to step back to survive.
Once they retreated into the open sea, the situation on the battlefield became clearer to them.
“To be able to play with the body of a giant monster like that, which isn’t even my own…”
The giant monster was now trapped in a massive prison-like form of its own making, having adjusted its regeneration at will.
The Earth Magician Sandkooker was struck by a mental shock.
No wizard from the yellow magic tower could cast magic to turn someone else’s body into a prison.
“How many self-destructs is this now?”
Each self-destruct annihilated the tentacles filled with special skills, making the infinite self-destruct render the giant monster’s counterattacks ineffective over and over.
Unless it concentrated great strength, it would have no chance to retaliate before the tentacles crumbled, but if it concentrated, it would send out self-destruct special skill tentacles, leaving only the opening right after the self-destruction as a chance.
Even Duke Andersen, who had been trained through all sorts of crazy things, stared at the scene with a blank expression.
“How can meteor magic keep pouring out like that? Is that avatar a [Magic All-in Infinite Barrage Mage] or something?”
“Uh-huh. Sadly, I couldn’t sense any causal connections with that avatar from here. But if given the opportunity, I might just see it.”
“Ah, thank you, elder. But who are you to know such things…?”
As Irene, who had been standing nearby, was struck with a puzzled expression by the comment, she was taken aback by realizing the grandfather she had seen moments ago had vanished right in front of her eyes.
Naturally, the one enjoying the chaos atop the wary fleet, knowing there might be an enemy spy, was the Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne.
“What astonishing avatars we have here, but the time given to you is running out. Former emperor, ‘that’ will soon begin to move, and will the young hero be able to shoulder all the burdens?”
What Okashii-ne observed as the turning point of the battlefield was, of course, the Director First Wahyhiemhai, who had taken a step back from all this chaos and was observing from afar.
The war of attrition ended in defeat.
That did not necessarily mean Wahyhiemhai had lost.
“How remarkable. I am only now realizing the power of my daughter’s gift. To think such a perfectly cautious plan would collapse so thoroughly.”
The visage of the chairman’s face emerged from a part of the giant monster’s body.
Thinking it was just a petty scheme, the former emperor had overlooked it.
Amid the downpour of self-destructs and meteor showers, could something as insignificant as this hold up?
Crackle-crackle
However, this time it was different.
Not just the facial form but its neck, shoulders, chest, and upper body rose up completely.
“Perfect. How fortunate that this round’s enemy walks right up to my face uninvited.”
That’s right; the 229th round, calculating the angle for self-destruction, charged forward with a bloody revived body.
The former emperor, who had sat upon the empire while peering behind the scenes of the world, sensed a significant foreboding.
“Stop!”
“Haha. It’s already too late!”
The 229th round’s body was engulfed in a brilliant blaze.
But before that light could swallow the giant monster’s flesh and the chairman that manifested through it, the darkness emanating from the chairman’s form devoured the 229th round first.
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First Wahyhiemhai
Implanted Black World Tree
[Dimensional Gate Generation] + [Absorption] + [Isolation] + [Collection] + [Deprivation] + [Exile]
Hero Special Ability [Exile Outside Authority]
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He was caught.
A thought that arose during self-destruction for the 229th round.
At the moment his body exploded, he had already been dragged into the dimensional gate opened by the Chairman.
Moreover, the medium that opened the dimensional gate was a fragment of the black world tree implanted into his soul.
The dimensional gate opened by the Chairman could connect to several dimensions touched by the roots of the black world tree instead of just one.
At the moment the coordinates were not confirmed.
The body of the 229th round, which exploded too quickly, was scattered across countless dimensions.
Even the unique mana that would pull the scattered body together was distorted by dark mana.
The fragments, having lost their homogeneity, could no longer sense each other.
The ‘Auto-Recovery’ function that accompanied resurrection ceased to function as none of the fragments had the certainty of being the main body or the central axis.
The scattered fragments now needed to purify the black mana and seek ways to bridge the immense distances of multiple dimensions, as well as securing means to endure the damage that could occur during transit.
Unless the above conditions were met after 100 seconds of resurrection, resurrection would not occur.
The Chairman had created a state in which resurrection would be impossible with a single counter.
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[Title – The One Who Revived the Phoenix]
[Equipped Effect – Revives ignoring all conditions, but for just one time.]
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The endless seal cast by the Chairman.
As soon as the final move that could surpass even that was activated, the [Rune of Misfortune] stored within the black world tree exuded a sinister darkness.
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
At the moment of being exiled by the power of the World Tree, the body of the 229th round had already entered the effective radius of the Rune of Misfortune.
“!!!”
The strength-all-in of the 157th round’s forbidden magic and the strength-all-in of the 332nd round’s space exploration both felt an immense shock and sense of crisis from the action of the Chairman.
He openly unfolded a dimensional barrier using the black world tree and stored it aboard the foundation’s flagship.
Surely, he must have destroyed a part of the black world tree, implanting it into himself, sealing a build that was basically invincible—it was no joke either.
“Next is your turn. It seems you’re quite knowledgeable about magic, so how about this?”
The Chairman, no longer hiding the fragment of the black world tree that he had revealed once, now openly flaunted it.
As the body of the giant monster reached out, the Chairman’s figure coiled like a mass of flesh and a deadly spell began to spread like paint in water.
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[Destruction] + [Explosion] + [Collapse] + [Diffusion] + [Erosion] + [Fear] + [Death Sentence] + [Reproduction]
Disaster-Class Linked Technique [Trigger of Mana Disaster]
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A destructive function that can only be obtained by destroying ten thousand different substances.
A death sentence function that can only be obtained by ending the lives of ten thousand beings.
Functions with horrendous acquisition conditions, each having unstable and threatening structures, undergo amplification and reproduction.
‘Is the Chairman planning to hold the entire allied forces hostage?!’
The Chairman’s intent was exceedingly firm.
Isn’t there a weakness on your side of having someone to protect?
If this spell overlaps and spreads, then those below will die, and wouldn’t you have to risk massive losses to seal it?
Ignoring him might allow them to deal the Chairman a blow, but that would be a breach of the ‘main body’ that had taken them all out in the numerous rounds and a failure to protect the friends that ‘Oknodie’ worked hard to defend.
The strength-all-in of the 157th round’s Forbidden Magic could never commit such an act.
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[Sealing] + [Linking] + [Stabilization] + [Isolation] + [Counteraction] + [Suppression] + [Blocking] + [Contraction]
Disaster-Class Linked Technique [Point Contraction]
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An instant-modified spell that converges all the mana spells in the surrounding area into a single point to erase them.
If used in normal conditions, it would risk collapsing space and causing dimensional gaps to proliferate in the Mid Realm, but it is the best way to absorb and eliminate any spells that must not be released.
However, in the hurried attempt to execute this spell to block the Chairman’s spell, one essential element was missing.
The magician’s safety.
A means to protect himself.
The Chairman’s magic could bypass the 157th round’s Forbidden Magic’s casting.
However, the dark mana and backlash of the spell would have no time to stop before rushing into the forbidden magician who cast the spell.
“Cough!”
When the Chairman’s massive spell was lost, the magic of the 157th round sensed the disaster trigger blooming from inside himself.
His body was quickly deteriorating, and the mana circuits and life of the magician were nearing their ends.
If he hesitated to live, the powers he had just gotten rid of would begin to spread in the Mid Realm once more, centered around himself.
“Please take care of what’s behind me…”
“No!!”
Before the 332nd round could even stop him, the 157th round threw himself into an open dimensional gate.
In the depths of the universe, at the very center of the sun, was a noble sacrifice aimed at annihilating his own life alongside the disaster spell within him.
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
In the face of the sun, the 157th round felt his flesh and the connection to the dimensional gate wobbling rapidly.
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
It’s coming.
Something, an overwhelmingly colossal force.
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
Once or twice, even three times, the uncountable forced judgments looming as destruction arrived relentlessly!
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
Among the countless judgments where the black world tree rooted itself in the dimensions, the failure was finally activated.
At the same time, the 157th round’s body felt itself being pulled back to the Mid Realm.
The generation of the dimensional gate was forcibly judged as a ‘failure’, and he was being forcibly returned to his original position.
“Main body, what kind of monster have you created!!”
So, three strength-all-ins could not be handled?
That was an absurd miscalculation.
It could not be defeated even if there were not just three but a hundred present.
Not even if all strength-all-ins across the rounds gathered.
The Chairman.
First Wahyhiemhai.
That’s a ‘principal’ level monster.
An existence that could not be contended with mere faltering strength acquired as a byproduct of event exploration and end special reward openings.
Only a truly optimized build like the ultimate strength-all-in series, honed to perfection for tackling, could challenge it.
Even that was despairing, but the fact that the Forbidden Magician was bleeding tears of blood in agony was something else entirely.
“I was to be the catalyst for the destruction of a world, and because of my shortcomings, I vanquished the world of the main body as well.”
That was the cruel truth.
Just as he was about to be engulfed in despair and self-reproach deeper than he had felt from the God of Knowledge, a new dimensional gate pushed him away toward the sun.
The strength-all-in of the 332nd round had begun to open the dimensional gate linked directly to the coordinates of the sun with far lower mana costs than the Chairman.
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
[Rune of Misfortune]
[Failed to activate the effect with a 50% probability.]
No matter how many times he collapsed the dimensional gate and forced it to fail, it was of no use.
The mana cost was drastically reduced while opening a dimensional gate due to knowing the coordinates, while the Chairman’s magic usage controlled it to a limit.
“Thank you. At least I’ll be able to protect the second world.”
The 157th round was able to sacrifice himself at the heart of the sun while breaking through the Chairman’s interference and annihilating his own life alongside the death spell within himself.
But the battle in the Mid Realm was not yet over.
“Even in my daughter’s gift to fool Papa, if you look closely, there’s a heart that cherishes Papa. Could that be useful to you as well?”
The Chairman’s grinning face turned toward the strength-all-in of the 332nd round.
The most fearsome of the three great evils.
Even the Dragon Principal recognized him as the worst of humanity.
The former hero who abandoned his mission to delve into sorcery, the conqueror of the order.
Chairman of the Foundation, First Wahyhiemhai.
“That crazy series of probability judgments… you combined the Rune of Misfortune with the World Tree’s multi-dimensional connection, didn’t you? Was your main body’s mistake underestimating your talent?”
“It has its uses, but those eyes of yours are dangerous. After all, a gift should only be one to be special, right? Thus, I shall make you ‘nothingness’.”
That tremulous strength aimed at the final hindrance.
