Boom!

A massive trench stretching hundreds of meters tore across the earth.

Fenrir slammed into the mountainside, the impact spreading through the rock and covering the mountain in dense cracks.

"Cough!"

Blood spilled from his mouth.

Fenrir stared at the bright red blood staining his hand, disbelief filling his face.

Just one hit.

One single hit had injured him?

What kind of joke was this?

If he were that easy to hurt, he never would have survived the extermination war, much less fought three factions for years.

Fenrir stepped out from the shattered mountain, his expression dark.

"Who the hell are you?!"

"Why would I tell you?"

Caelum opened his palm.

A brilliant jade like sphere of compressed Cursed Energy floated above it.

The overwhelming pressure vibrating from it distorted the air itself with a low humming sound.

Then it shot forward.

At that instant, death crashed down on Fenrir like a tidal wave.

His scalp went numb.

For the first time in his life, he truly felt close to death.

Without hesitation, he unleashed his own technique in response.

"Weight of Ten Thousand Calamities!"

Boundless Cursed Energy erupted from empty space itself.

In an instant, Fenrir compressed it into a sphere of equal size and launched it directly at Caelum’s True Void Orb.

As the strongest Sorcerer of this era, Fenrir possessed endless Cursed Energy.

He could draw directly from the source of Cursed Energy itself without relying on his own reserves.

Unless it was an especially complex technique, he did not even need hand signs.

Without question, Fenrir was terrifyingly powerful.

That control alone was enough to justify his title as the strongest Sorcerer of his generation.

Unfortunately for him, his opponent was Caelum.

In front of Unrestricted Technique, nobody could compete with Caelum in raw technique output.

Even the most ordinary technique became absurd in his hands.

Theoretically, as long as Unrestricted Technique was active, any technique Caelum used possessed limitless destructive potential.

Blocking it was impossible.

Boom!!!

Caelum’s True Void Orb tore through everything in its path with overwhelming force.

Fenrir’s Weight of Ten Thousand Calamities shattered instantly.

The True Void Orb blasted straight through him, vaporizing over half his body into blood mist.

Fenrir had nearly been killed on the spot.

"Reverse Technique!"

Negative energy converted into positive energy inside his body.

His flesh regenerated almost instantly.

Behind him, endless explosions echoed through the horizon as mountain ranges were carved apart by a trench stretching beyond sight.

The destructive power was monstrous.

Fenrir’s breathing became ragged.

Cold sweat poured down his face.

For the first time in his life, he understood fear.

How could someone possess power like this?

It made no sense.

He was going to die.

This time, he really might die.

Never before had Fenrir felt so helpless.

Whoosh!

Caelum vanished from sight.

Panic surged through Fenrir as he desperately searched for him.

Then agony exploded through his chest.

Boom!

An overwhelming force pierced through his body.

Muscles ripped apart.

Bones shattered.

Internal organs ruptured.

Fenrir’s eyes bulged violently.

"Pugh!"

Another mouthful of blood sprayed out.

His consciousness began fading.

Caelum appeared beside him, black Cursed Energy wrapped around his fist.

Extinction Art. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Every blow brought unimaginable pain.

Before meeting Caelum, Fenrir had believed his close combat ability was unmatched.

Now he was being utterly beaten down without the slightest chance to resist.

He could not block.

He could not dodge.

His speed and reactions could not keep up at all.

How was he supposed to fight this?

Dozens of punches landed in the blink of an eye.

Every hit landed cleanly.

Blood sprayed everywhere.

Fenrir tried to activate Reverse Technique to heal himself, only to realize the damage would not recover.

At that moment, his fear reached its peak.

That terror forced his fading consciousness back awake.

A violent burst of Cursed Energy exploded from his body.

With a furious roar, he activated his final trump card.

"Domain Expansion: Dustrealm Between Horizons!"

Cursed Energy erupted outward.

His Domain had only just begun forming when Caelum smashed another punch downward.

Origin Reversion Technique instantly unraveled the Domain itself.

"Impossible!"

Fenrir stared in disbelief.

Even his last desperate struggle had been crushed without mercy.

Despair swallowed him whole.

Caelum finally stopped attacking.

He grabbed Fenrir by the head and lifted him off the ground.

"The strongest Sorcerer?"

"In my eyes, you’re just an arrogant brat who never got beaten hard enough."

"Pain makes the best lesson."

"This beating is the final punctuation mark on your flawed life."

Fenrir honestly deserved it.

If Caelum had really wanted him dead earlier, he could have added True Hit to True Void Orb and erased him instantly.

Fenrir’s muscles and bones had already been completely pulverized.

His limbs hung limply as Caelum held him there like prey.

Then Caelum tightened his grip.

"AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"

Boom!

Fenrir’s scream ended abruptly.

Caelum’s violent Cursed Energy detonated his body into blood mist.

Nothing remained.

Not even a corpse.

Caelum raised one hand.

Fenrir’s soul was forcibly bound within his palm.

His journey through the world a thousand years ago had come to an end.

He had no attachment to this bleak era filled with endless war and slaughter.

Compared to this wasteland, he preferred the modern world a thousand years later.

This place was boring.

Since Origin Reversion Technique could recreate any technique, constructing one capable of traversing time itself naturally posed no difficulty.

Fortunately, such a thing existed within the rules of the Jujutsu World.

Meaning it was not an irreversible game mechanic.

And once that possibility was eliminated, the real question emerged.

Why did destroying the world trigger time reversal?

The answer was obvious.

Someone, or some organization within the Jujutsu World, had caused it.

Before returning to the future, Caelum intended to uncover the truth.

Buzz.

Using Origin Reversion Technique, he constructed a technique capable of peering into the truth of the world itself.

Countless images instantly flooded through his mind.

One after another.

Moments later, Caelum released the technique.

A sharp light flashed through his eyes.

"So that’s how it is."

The cost for uncovering the world’s truth descended immediately.

Caelum redirected the backlash onto Fenrir’s soul.

In the next instant, Fenrir’s soul exploded and vanished completely.

Efficient use of resources.

Caelum brushed dust from his hands.

"At least your death ended up being useful."

A backlash of this level required someone monstrously powerful to bear it.

In this era, only two beings qualified.

Caelum himself.

Or Fenrir at full maturity.

As expected, the time reversal triggered by world destruction had indeed been artificially created.

The technique responsible was called Wheel of Reversal.

Its function was simple.

Reverse time itself.

Whenever the Sorcerer world suffered catastrophic destruction, the technique would activate automatically, rewinding the entire world and banishing the one responsible to an earlier point in history.

A safeguard for the future.

Caelum had not been personally targeted.

It was simply because he had always been the one destroying the world that Wheel of Reversal kept throwing him further and further into the past.

And Caelum was absolutely certain of one thing.

If he could dismantle Wheel of Reversal itself, he would gain an enormous amount of Interference Value.