The Epic Tale of Chaos vs Order

Chapter 2671: Fourth Realm clash

”End of Despair!”

Meylin unleashed every ounce of her power.

Longinus descended with enough force to cleave a Primary World in two. The divine blade carried a pressure so overwhelming that space collapsed before it, forming a massive rift that stretched across the battlefield.

It was a killing blow.

Even a Limit Alpha Omega Overgod would have found it fatal.

Yet just as the blade was about to reach Nito...

The smile on his face returned.

It was wider than ever.

”CRACK!”

The seven divine spears forged from the essence of the Seven Deadly Sins—treasures Meylin had painstakingly refined over decades of cultivation and countless battles—shattered into fragments.

Nito stepped forward.

The chains that had pinned him down exploded apart as though they had never existed.

Then, with terrifying calmness, he extended his hand.

His palm rose to meet Longinus.

”BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!”

The collision unleashed an explosion powerful enough to shake the heavens.

The sword and the bare hand met head-on, generating shockwaves that collapsed the surrounding sky. Reality itself caved inward, forming enormous chaotic voids capable of swallowing anything beneath the Alpha Omega Overgod Realm.

The battlefield beneath them fractured.

Mountains disintegrated.

Oceans of clouds vanished.

Even the distant warriors instinctively halted their battles for a single instant as they felt the terrifying force erupt overhead.

Shock flooded Meylin’s heart.

Nito had stopped her strongest attack...

With nothing but his bare hand.

Her pupils shrank.

”It isn’t only his speed,” she realized.

Her heart sank.

”His strength... his vitality...”

Understanding struck her like lightning.

”His entire body has already stepped into the Fourth Realm.”

The realization was horrifying.

She had expected one aspect to transcend the Third Realm.

She had never imagined that every part of his body had done the same.

Against such an opponent, victory should have been impossible.

Yet the fear lasted only a fraction of a second.

The next instant, blazing determination erupted within her golden eyes.

”BOOM!”

The starlight flames surrounding Longinus ignited with greater brilliance than ever before.

The Flame of Hope surged through every vein in her body, pouring into the blade with overwhelming intensity. The pressure pushing against Nito’s palm grew stronger and stronger until, for the first time, his arm trembled.

A flash of surprise crossed the Curse Eater’s eyes.

He had expected despair.

He had believed that revealing the true strength of his Fourth Realm body would shatter Meylin’s fighting spirit.

Instead...

The exact opposite happened.

He watched as her determination burned brighter.

Her life force ignited.

Her soul force ignited.

She was using her very existence as fuel.

Her power skyrocketed.

”ARGHHHHHH!”

Meylin roared with everything she had.

The flames surrounding Longinus became dazzling stars, releasing wave after wave of radiant fire. Every heartbeat made them burn brighter, hotter, purer.

Nito clenched his teeth.

The flames were burning his flesh.

His feet began sliding backward through the sky.

He was being pushed back.

Before he could stabilize himself, the power gathered around Longinus reached its limit.

It exploded.

”BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!”

A sea of starlight swallowed the battlefield.

Both Meylin and Nito were blasted away, tumbling through the heavens like comets.

Nito recovered almost instantly.

His Fourth Realm body granted him absolute control, allowing him to regain his balance long before Meylin could stabilize herself.

Yet...

He did not attack.

Instead, his gaze slowly fell toward his hand.

A blackened burn mark covered his palm.

Smoke rose from the wound.

Silently, Nito stared at it.

His body had already surpassed the limits of the Third Realm.

By all logic, this fight should have become completely one-sided.

Yet Meylin had still managed to wound him.

He slowly lifted his eyes toward her.

A cold sneer appeared on his face.

”A shooting star,” he said calmly.

”You may burn brilliantly...”

”But stars only shine for a moment.”

”They always fade.”

Blood trickled from the corner of Meylin’s mouth.

Her breathing had become uneven.

The price of burning both her life force and soul force was beginning to reveal itself.

Even so...

She smiled.

Seeing the wound on Nito’s hand filled her with renewed resolve.

That single injury proved something.

He was not invincible.

”I don’t need forever,” Meylin replied.

Her voice remained steady despite the blood staining her lips.

”I only need to burn long enough...”

”To reduce you to ashes.”

”After that...”

”Nothing else matters.”

The Flame of Hope erupted once more.

It spread across every inch of her existence, no longer merely surrounding her body but burning from within her flesh, blood, soul, and heart.

Her aura exploded.

The heavens trembled.

Cracks spread across the sky as waves of divine light radiated from her figure.

Her wings unfolded completely, becoming enormous rivers of living starlight.

Longinus shone with unmatched brilliance, its blade carrying a radiance that seemed capable of severing the very essence of creation itself.

Everything she believed in...

Everything she hoped for...

Everything she wished to protect...

Was gathered within that single weapon.

Nito’s expression darkened.

The confidence he had carried since the battle began slowly disappeared.

His brows furrowed.

Resentment surfaced within his eyes.

The aura before him...

Was beginning to rival his own.

Normally, such a thing would never have affected him.

Yet his mind was no longer stable.

The cracks spreading across his face deepened.

More fragments of skin peeled away, revealing something increasingly unnatural beneath.

Whatever transformation he had undergone...

It was becoming harder to control.

”Fine!”

Nito’s voice thundered across the battlefield.

Purple flames erupted from every inch of his body, consuming the surrounding space as waves of Samsara Energy distorted reality itself.

”I’ll snuff you out!”

”And then...”

”I’ll finally cleanse the will of this universe!”

A meaningful light flashed across Meylin’s eyes.

Those words stirred countless questions.

Unfortunately...

She had no time to think.

Every second she maintained this state consumed more of her life.

”Now... or never.”

Meylin vanished.

She became a literal shooting star streaking across the heavens.

Her blazing wings left behind rivers of starlight that illuminated half the battlefield.

Nito moved as well.

He transformed into the incarnation of death itself.

Purple flames devoured life wherever they passed, twisting the cycle of Samsara and corrupting the very laws governing existence.

Creation withered in his wake.

Hope surged toward destruction.

Light collided with darkness.

Life clashed against oblivion.

”BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!”

The collision shook the world.

Two Fourth Realm forces crashed into one another with enough power to make the heavens themselves tremble.

The void shattered.

The atmosphere collapsed beneath the overwhelming pressure.

Neither side yielded.

Neither side retreated.

The explosion hurled them apart.

Yet before a single heartbeat had passed, both warriors charged once again.

Their figures pierced through the atmosphere and ascended into the endless void beyond the world.