Having entered the Way, he had already ascended to the absolute summit.

The talents he possessed, along with the original Forbidden Magic he had mastered, were abilities whose effects could not ordinarily be altered, nor could they be released through unconventional means.

But Rei’s new system of laws now employed these powers perfectly.

It changed the triggering mechanism of God-Tier Talent · Predestined Ending of Death.

At the same time, it also incorporated the Second Forbidden Magic—Time.

The monsters exploded into a rain of blood.

Nearby, the Level 7 archer wore a face full of disbelief.

In her calculations, the monster she had been battling should not have died so quickly.

At the very least, the arrow she had just fired had been nothing more than a probing attack.

There was no way it should have killed the creature.

And yet, the impossible had happened.

Almost simultaneously, she sensed battle erupt nearby once more.

This was outside the Land of Moon.

No other humans should have been here.

Only monsters.

Then she saw the sky blaze with shifting colors like an aurora.

Every monster touched by that radiance dissolved and fell from the heavens like rain.

"An... ally?"

Someone was slaughtering the monsters.

Which hidden powerhouse had finally appeared?

She stared at Kanzaki Rei, but could not make sense of him.

Archers commonly held the Observer profession as well, a widely recognized pairing due to the synergy between the two classes.

But when her perception swept over Rei, it passed straight through him.

She detected nothing at all.

It was as if she were looking at a ghost.

Meanwhile, Rei stood high in the sky.

He raised a single finger toward the heavens.

Azure Way—Fifth Form: One-World Prison

The fifth technique of the original Azure Sky Flow had been a combat art designed to seal enemies and suppress their abilities.

Now, after integrating everything...

Whoosh!

Mana, vital energy, life essence, blood, and even consciousness began flowing toward Rei from every direction.

The swarming monsters withered before they could even reach him.

Their vital energy was extracted.

Their life force was extracted.

Even their mana, consciousness, and the finest traces of blood essence were drawn away.

Everything streamed into Rei.

Their vital energy became his.

Nourishing his body.

Their mana transformed into his mana.

"Human!"

A savage mental roar erupted in the sky.

A half-draconic monster hovered in the distance, confronting Rei.

"Be careful! That’s the leader of these monsters!"

The archer no longer cared who Rei was and immediately transmitted her warning to him.

At the very least, he was killing monsters.

According to the intelligence gathered by the Land of Moon, the forces besieging them operated under a strict hierarchy.

And the supreme ruler commanding them was the half-dragon before him.

Rei: "Oh..."

He simply gazed at the creature.

Even as they faced one another, corpses continued to fall around it.

This monster...

Had developed far more completely than the others.

Moreover, its origin was not the Abyss.

It came from the Brood of Aberration.

Whoosh!

In an instant, Rei appeared directly before the half-dragon.

Whoosh!

Its tail lashed out and struck him.

But the blow passed straight through Rei’s body.

"ROAR!"

A devastating sonic blast exploded from its jaws as it bellowed at him.

Rei casually tapped forward with one hand.

Bang!

The soundwave shattered into fragments.

"Rank 7... Seventh Metamorphosis?"

This was the first Rank 7 monster of such a high metamorphic stage he had ever seen.

Rei had encountered countless monsters before.

In the Brood Hive alone, he had seen numbers beyond calculation.

And within the three hundred billion kilometers now covered by his perception, monsters were everywhere.

Yet a Rank 7 monster that had undergone seven metamorphoses—

This was truly a first.

The shockwave from its tail carved a hook-shaped trench across the Moon Sea.

Rei glanced downward.

Come to think of it, Ant Mountain still lacked the materials needed for advancement.

If it devoured this Rank 7 Seventh Metamorphosis monster, it should be enough to evolve to Rank 7.

Though, at his current level, Rei was no longer especially lacking in souls...

The human before it had completely exceeded Ze’s expectations.

In truth, almost no time had passed.

It had just witnessed Prion Ring being inexplicably killed by a single arrow from a human archer.

In the next instant, its army had launched a ferocious assault on a lone human.

Two or three seconds later, only corpses remained in the sky.

Its army had been drained of life by an incomprehensible force.

They had collapsed utterly in an instant.

It did not understand what had happened.

But it knew one thing.

This human’s arrival had caused all of it.

Rage filled its heart as it attacked Rei.

Then it discovered—

BOOM!

Rei’s fist lightly touched its abdomen.

A massive cavity was blasted clean through its body.

Its tail whipped at Rei once again.

This time, Rei did not let the strike pass through.

Instead, he casually raised his other arm and met the tail head-on.

BOOM!

Its tail exploded on impact.

Rei’s body did not move in the slightest.

Not only did he remain perfectly still—

Even his clothing was immaculate, without a speck of dust or the slightest tear.

Azure Way—Tenth Form: Reversal

No longer merely Stasis.

Now, Reversal.

The enemy’s own power was turned back upon itself.

After only two blows, the creature’s body was already torn and collapsing.

There were no Rank 8 monsters left in these waters...

Without a stronger opponent to test his abilities on, he would have to make do with this one.

Rei looked at the terrified monster with almost pity.

Every movement it made seemed like slow motion in his eyes.

Azure Way—Sixth Form: Origin Arcane Way

Rei crossed his hands.

"Magic is a law. Martial techniques are also laws. Everything in this world can transform into and encompass one another. How could the ten thousand laws be so inconvenient as to be unable to interconnect?"

"As for the so-called Origin Way..."

"It is not merely the search for the answer to the origin."

"It is the creation of that answer."

Rei began to chant.

"All things have an origin. The origin itself is no exception."

"The world exists in duality—void and substance, truth and falsehood. The two streams of time both dwell between these opposing states."

"In this world, there is no longer a single unique origin."

"There is only my singular duality."

Tap.

Rei placed one hand atop the creature’s head.

Origin Arcane Way—My World Alone · Inner Realm

Whoosh!

The instant Rei touched it, the entire world in the monster’s eyes fell silent.

Reality split into two.

There were no more corpses.

No more ocean.

This was a world composed entirely of elements.

Mountains, rivers, sky, sea, sun, and moon had all become pure elemental manifestations.

This was no longer the material world.

It had been extracted from reality itself and cast into another world.

A world constructed according to Rei’s rules.

Built upon his new system of laws.

Governed by his Origin Magic.

At the same time—

Rei, standing in the material world, calmly gazed at the empty space before him.

The half-draconic monster of the Seventh Metamorphosis had been erased directly from reality.

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