There was no exchange of words.
The mont they faced each other, both sides went all out.
The aura of the elents descended like a collapsing sky.
Within this primordial domain, what took shape was every elental spell that had ever existed in this world.
Past and present alike.
Lost magic long erased by ti, and newly created spells unknown to anyone else.
In an instant, the Sea Abyss exploded into a kaleidoscope of color.
A riot of infinite brilliance.
And within that endless spectrum, Lomar was swallowed by chaos itself.
Countless elents flooded into its body at once as Ninth-Tier magic fully materialized.
Fwoosh!
It desperately tried to expand its domain and resist the onslaught of spells.
But Ninth-Tier magic was far too violent.
Within the storm of colors, a single blazing fireball condensed into existence. In the next mont, it erupted explosively!
Instantly, sothing akin to a newborn sun ford within the entire Sea Abyss!
Ninth-Tier Fire Magic — Newborn Solar Flare
The scorching waves released by that blazing sun spread outward, turning every planet within a radius of hundreds of millions of kiloters into molten fire cores.
The worlds lted into seething magma spheres before rapidly vaporizing into blazing gas.
At this point, rely surviving already required Lomar to struggle with everything it had.
"Who are you?! When did I ever offend you?!"
"Stop! There must be so misunderstanding between us!"
The exchange lasted only between two bursts of divine intent.
Yet more than half of Lomar’s soul had already been burned away, while its physical body froze into crystalline ice.
It beca pure frost—
—and shattered apart.
"There’s no misunderstanding."
"You should just die."
Extracting information from its mouth was nothing new to him.
Whether during the April 1st simulation within the Secret Sea—
—or the simulation from monts ago—
He had already interrogated and tortured it countless tis. There was truly no need to keep questioning it further.
The reason Kanzaki Rei did this—
Was simply because it was convenient.
Even if nothing could be changed, and everything happening here had nothing to do with his real world—
At the very least...
He could kill this irritating bastard.
Killing it was enough.
"No! There must still be room for negotiation!"
"Great Existence!"
"Whatever you want to know, I can tell you! I still have countless treasures and collections!"
"Please, don’t—!"
Bzzzt—
Within the domain where the colors had beco so chaotic they were impossible to distinguish, Kanzaki Rei stood silently.
Like a cold, emotionless statue.
anwhile, Lomar’s aura weakened at terrifying speed.
It struggled.
It begged for rcy.
It tried every possible thod to escape.
But in truth, not a single thing worked.
Everything was futile.
Ninth-Tier magic.
Normally, only Level 9 mages could wield such power—mages who had already proven their connection to the Root Origin itself.
Level 9 beings were existences equal to gods.
And Ninth-Tier magic was, in essence, divine magic.
It was practically equivalent to using Moon-Star Rank power against Lomar.
Lomar was certainly powerful.
An Eighth-Tier monster.
But no matter how powerful it was, it was still nowhere near the level of gods or Moon-Star entities.
In just a little over ten seconds—
Kanzaki Rei’s mana reserves gradually ran dry.
Even with his current mana capacity, he still could not maintain the state of Elental Kaleidoscope for long.
However, sustaining it for over ten seconds was already enough to unleash every elental spell within it.
There were a total of eighty-six Ninth-Tier elental spells.
That was the current upper limit Kanzaki Rei had learned through this magic.
In truth, there were no records in this world confirming whether Level 9 mages had ever truly existed.
There were only vague legends stating that, in the beginning—
The original Forbidden Magic had transford into living beings.
Those entities were believed to have once been powerful mages.
Perhaps even Level 9 mages.
But aside from that, no other mage had ever been heard of reaching Level 9.
So discovering that so many Ninth-Tier elental spells existed was sothing Kanzaki Rei had never expected.
Lomar died.
A plain, unremarkable death through sheer overwhelming force.
Truthfully, it possessed many life-saving abilities.
Its transformations and survival thods were extraordinarily complex. In a battle against opponents of the sa tier, if it beca determined to flee, most people would have no way to stop it.
But unfortunately...
Kanzaki Rei was not fighting it on the sa level.
"You’re really amazing."
"Doesn’t casting primordial Forbidden Magic require a price?"
"Mmm... although, in this tiline, even if you paid the price, everything should return to normal after the reset."
"But sohow, it looks like you didn’t pay any price at all."
Kanzaki Rei could clearly sense that Echkatel’s tone was becoming more lively.
She was gradually adapting to the outside world.
And surprisingly quickly, too.
"My own condition doesn’t change after the reset."
"Do you have any ideas why?"
Kanzaki Rei clapped his hands lightly, as though dusting dirt from them.
Everything around them gradually cooled.
The apocalyptic scene of endless destruction and swirling colors slowly faded away.
Only the destruction itself remained behind.
Or rather...
It would be more accurate to say most things had simply vanished entirely.
"Doesn’t change after the reset?"
"Mmm..." Echkatel lowered her head in thought.
"To be honest, I don’t fully understand your exact condition. But if what you said is true, then sothing must be helping you remain unchanged."
"A law that preserves your existence."
Hearing her explanation, Kanzaki Rei instantly recalled Ansei.
The direction of Ansei’s research into Root-Origin Magic had been focused on exactly this concept.
But at the sa ti, it didn’t quite seem possible for it to be related to Ansei.
It was also possible that the future Izparut had done sothing.
Kanzaki Rei shook his head.
"Let’s go."
"I want to return as soon as possible..."
For every day spent here, another day passed in the real world as well. And the more he learned about the hidden truths buried in the past tiline—
The more uneasy he beca about the real world.
The most troubleso part was—
Within this endlessly resetting tiline, there was no way to level up.
If he didn’t return soon—
Kanzaki Rei feared that before he even had ti to develop further—
An even greater danger would descend upon him.
If he returned earlier, he could at least gain a few more levels first.
"Sigh... honestly, this is practically a blessing."
"Soone like you, who’s been granted near-eternal life yet still wants to rush back ho... you really don’t appreciate what you have."
"Whatever. It’s your freedom."
"And besides, you’re the one who brought out here."
"As long as you want to go back, I’ll help you."
"You’re ready, right?"
Kanzaki Rei nodded.
"Yeah."
Most of the doubts in his mind had already begun linking together into a coherent chain of clues. Although there were still so finer details he wanted to verify—
It no longer felt necessary to investigate further.
At that mont, while standing upon the Forgotten Moon—
Kanzaki Rei did not feel as though he had forgotten anything at all.
Snap—
After receiving his confirmation, Echkatel snapped her fingers.
In that instant, he once again felt ti stretch infinitely outward.
And when that sensation finally disappeared—
Boom—
Kanzaki Rei saw a colossal radiant tree, its entire form seemingly woven from streams of flowing light.
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