The cold wind of the desolate mountain range howled fiercely.
Chrites held his perfectly polished steel blade forward, his glowing blue eyes locking onto Trcids.
The time for talking was completely over.
Chrites gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, channeling an immense ocean of mana into the edge of the blade.
He swung the weapon horizontally with raw, terrifying force.
“Abyssal Horizon Sever!” Chrites shouted, speaking with a highly serious, cold emotion.
SWISH!
CRACK!
A sweeping, incredibly sharp arc of pure, condensed magic erupted from the blade.
The slash was so overwhelmingly powerful that it crossed the vast distance instantly.
It completely bypassed Trcids, slamming directly into the massive mountain peak and the dense forest trees situated behind him.
The razor-sharp wave cut completely through the solid rock and heavy timber.
In a single millisecond, the entire upper half of the mountain and thousands of towering trees were cleanly sliced entirely in half, sliding downward with a deafening rumble.
Trcids glanced back at the falling mountain, his pristine white suit fluttering in the violent gale.
“Oh, really scary,” Trcids remarked, speaking with a sarcastic, highly entertained emotion.
SHING!
Trcids instantly drew his own gleaming sword from its scabbard.
Without wasting a fraction of a second, he jumped directly toward Chrites, crossing the open valley in an instant.
Chrites leaped forward to meet him.
CLANG!
BOOM!
The two legendary blades collided in the center of the sky.
The clash of raw, unbridled magic power created a supreme, super powerful explosion.
A blinding sphere of white and black light detonated outward, releasing a catastrophic wave of magical energy that was far stronger than anyone could even imagine.
The concussive shockwave ripped across the valley.
Vane, despite his incredible strength, was heavily affected by the sheer impact.
THUD!
Vane fell hard onto the cracked ground, gasping for air while barely managing to keep himself propped up on one knee.
Beside him, Linease was completely overwhelmed, pressed flat against the earth by the immense gravity.
The released magic energy was simply too massive.
Trcids pushed his blade against Chrites’s sword, his eyes glowing intensely.
“Oh, I expected this from you,” Trcids said, speaking with a highly impressed, arrogant emotion.
“You are really, really strong.”
Chrites effortlessly balanced his weight against the lock, tilting his head slightly behind his painted demon mask.
“Yeah, I did not think you were such a weakling,” Chrites replied, speaking with a perfectly calm, casual emotion.
This direct insult did not affect the supreme leader of DNT at all.
Trcids simply laughed loudly.
“Then we can check who is truly stronger,” Trcids declared, speaking with a wicked, competitive emotion.
Both fighters instantly jumped backward, putting hundreds of yards of open space between them.
Trcids raised his left hand, gathering an extremely concentrated charge of volatile energy.
ZZZT!
BOOM!
“Elemental Nova Beam!” Trcids roared, unleashing a super extremely powerful blast.
A massive, highly destructive beam of compressed magic infiltrated the land, completely tearing up the earth and incinerating the remaining forest areas into instant ash.
The laser-like attack moved with lethal speed directly toward Chrites.
Chrites did not dodge.
He raised his sword and swung downward with absolute precision.
SWISH!
His heavy steel blade sliced cleanly through the incoming beam.
The incredibly powerful blast instantly split apart and completely vanished into the empty air, canceled out entirely by physical mastery.
Before Trcids could reset his stance, Chrites pointed the tip of his sword forward, gathering a swirling, highly dense sphere of volatile white and black mana. This chapter is updated first at novelping.com.
“Dimensional Destruction!” Chrites announced, speaking with a deep, authoritative emotion.
Chrites launched the powerful magical ball directly toward the DNT leader.
Seeing the catastrophic power contained inside the sphere, Trcids quickly raised his free hand, creating a super powerful, thick enchanted barrier around his entire body.
CRASH!
DOOM!
The magical ball collided with the barrier and violently exploded.
The explosion was super strong, releasing devastating, massive waves of pressurized air that completely shredded the landscape, creating a huge, chaotic mess of magic mana particles across the entire district.
Deep behind a distant rocky ridge, Vane shielded Linease with his own body to ensure they would not get killed in the crossfire.
“Do not dare to go outside!” Vane commanded loudly, speaking with a highly fearful, urgent emotion.
“The power of this fight is simply too dangerous!”
As the thick smoke cleared, Chrites lowered his sword slightly.
The ground beneath Trcids was entirely cratered, and the supreme barrier had completely broken down into fading shards of light.
“You are really strong to break my shield,” Trcids said, speaking with an arrogant, highly confident emotion as he brushed dust off his white sleeve.
“Yeah, I do not know why you want to say that you are strong.
You are just insulting me.
But I am not that weak if you think.”
Trcids raised both of his hands toward the sky, tapping into his ultimate reserves.
He possessed the incredibly rare ability to command all five basic elements of magic simultaneously.
RUMBLE!
CRACK!
Swirling currents of earth, water, lightning, wind, and fire gathered around him.
Trcids combined all five elements perfectly, casting a massive spell that literally created an entire army of monsters.
Hundreds of heavily armored elemental soldiers and massive, towering giants rose from the shattered ground, charging furiously toward Chrites.
Seeing the incoming army, Chrites raised his free hand toward the clouds.
“Supreme Eclipse Blade Fall!” Chrites commanded, speaking with a cold, destructive emotion.
The fabric of the sky distorted violently.
Hundreds of glowing swords of pure Light and absolute Darkness materialized, but this time, the blades were huge, measuring twice the size of his standard summoned weapons.
The giant swords shot downward at the speed of light.
BOOM!
CRASH!
BANG!
The massive blades impaled the battlefield.
Dozens of the elemental monsters were completely destroyed in the action, exploding into basic mana.
However, several of the super powerful elemental giants managed to survive, raising their heavy stone arms to block the descending blades.
Simultaneously, Trcids launched a highly compressed, multi-elemental spear directly toward Chrites.
Chrites did not throw his sword to intercept it.
Instead, he simply drove his blade downward.
CLANG!
Chrites planted his sword firmly, digging the steel deep into the solid stone ground.
He let go of the hilt entirely, raising his bare hands.
In the magical lore of this world, manifesting a physical magic circle was an act of supreme difficulty.
Only elite mages who had successfully achieved a rank above Master possessed the concentrated authority and pure mana control required to draw a true magic circle to cast spells.
Humming with raw power, Chrites used his bare hands to draw an extremely big magic circle in the open air.
The circle spanned dozens of feet across, spinning rapidly with complex runes.
He poured pure Darkness and blinding Light magic simultaneously into the center, combining them perfectly.
“Catastrophic Void Radiance!” Chrites shouted, speaking with an explosive, absolute emotion.
ZZZT!
DOOM!
A massive, blinding laser of combined magic erupted from the giant circle.
At the exact same moment, Trcids combined earth, water, lightning, wind, and fire into a supreme counter-blast.
The two god-tier attacks collided head-on in the absolute center of the valley.
CRASH!
DOOM!
The counteract was absolutely catastrophic.
The two opposing forces collapsed against each other, releasing a wave of destructive power so intensely powerful that the entire mountain range and the surrounding valleys were completely destroyed in an instant, reduced to flat, smoking dust.
CRACK!
The distant ridge where Vane and Linease were hiding completely shattered inward.
Seeing the danger, Chrites instantly snapped his fingers, casting an indestructible, invisible barrier around his two subordinates, successfully saving them from being vaporized.
Inside the safety shield, Linease fell onto her hands, completely unable to stand.
Both she and Vane trembled, looking out at the completely flattened world with pure fear.
Vane had never imagined that a physical fight could reach a level powerful enough to erase entire geography in a single millisecond.
As the blinding light finally faded, the valley was entirely dead silent.
Trcids stood amidst the flat ash, exhaling a long, steady breath.
The aggressive pressure rolling off his body slowly dissipated.
“Oh, finally I am relaxed,” Trcids announced, speaking with a highly relieved, calm emotion.
“My mind has cooled completely down.
No, I do not want to fight anymore today.”
Chrites pulled his sword out of the ground, smoothly sliding it back into its scabbard.
“Okay, whatever you want,” Chrites replied, speaking with a tired, indifferent emotion.
“I just do not think fighting is going to be good today because the main thing is, we completely destroyed the land.”
Trcids smiled casually.
“Oh, this is nothing much.”
Trcids raised his hand, casting an extremely big magic sphere directly onto the ground.
Utilizing his supreme Master-level authority, he expanded a massive magic circle facing toward the ruined earth.
WHOOSH!
RUMBLE!
Using the perfect harmony of the five elements, the glowing circle swept across the district.
In a breathtaking display of power, the entire mountain range began reconstructing itself.
Massive stone cliffs rose back into the sky, deep canyons sealed shut, and thousands of green forest trees regrew instantly through the soil.
Within seconds, the entire landscape was completely recreated, looking exactly as if nothing had just happened there.
Chrites crossed his arms, watching the miraculous restoration.
“Oh, I did not know that you have the power of this kind,” Chrites admitted, speaking with a genuinely surprised emotion.
“Well, whatever.”
Trcids adjusted his white collar.
“Today I do not have enough time to continue playing because someone important has called me.
So, I am going.”
SWISH!
With a quick flash of spatial displacement, Trcids teleported entirely back to his own base.
Just before the DNT leader vanished, Chrites clearly noticed several deep, bleeding scratches cutting across Trcids’s hands.
Chrites, however, did not have a single scratch on his entire body.
His completely invisible Light-Dark armor had absorbed every single shockwave perfectly, keeping him flawlessly protected throughout the supreme duel.
Turning away from the empty field, Chrites walked over to the restored ridge where Vane and Linease were slowly standing up.
“Are you guys alright?” Chrites asked, speaking with a gentle, concerned emotion.
“We survived, sir,” Vane groaned, wiping thick dust off his face.
“Vane,” Chrites ordered firmly, “use your magic to heal Linease and yourself right now.
Do not worry about me.
I am perfectly fine.”
Vane nodded obediently.
He raised his hands, casting a warm, soothing green light over Linease’s bruised legs and his own exhausted muscles, quickly restoring their physical strength.
Once his team was fully healed, Chrites raised his hand, drawing a glowing magic portal in the air.
They stepped through the gate, teleporting directly back to their main underground base.
Stepping into the familiar operations room, Chrites checked the digital calendar.
The entire Cebel infiltration operation had taken exactly two full days to complete—one day spent securing the vault, and one entire day consumed by the incredibly long, cataclysmic mountain battle.