Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100

Orion landed several meters away and looked down at the wound. Then he smiled.

”So you were waiting.”

Ervin raised his spear calmly. ”You were too fast to interrupt carelessly.”

Orion laughed. ”That is a compliment, right?”

”Yes.”

The
moment Ervin answered, the air around him changed. It sank, the light
sank, and even the sound sank with it. The invisible pressure that had
shocked everyone during his battle with Selene returned, spreading
across the central stage like the arrival of a bottomless sea.

A
black sea appeared behind Ervin, vast and silent and impossibly deep.
From within that sea rose the broken ancient gate, half submerged and
covered in mysterious symbols that no one could fully read. The moment
it appeared, the nine stars inside Orion’s body flickered.

Ervin’s voice rang across the stage.

”Pseudo Cosmic Path, Abyssal Origin Descent.”

Boom!

The
battlefield transformed completely. The star palace behind Orion still
shone brightly, but the black sea behind Ervin seemed to drag at its
light. The nine stars within Orion’s body remained powerful, yet now
every movement he made had to fight against the pressure of descent.

His
star force did not vanish the way it had against Revona’s Void Origin
Realm. Instead, it sank. It grew heavier, harder to circulate, harder to
release, and harder to change quickly.

Orion felt the difference at once, and his smile dimmed slightly.

”This path really is unpleasant.”

Ervin replied calmly, ”Your stars shine too brightly.”

Orion clenched his fists. ”Then try swallowing them.”

He
rushed forward again, and the battle grew grander than before. Orion’s
Nine Star Sovereign Body erupted with its full brilliance as he pushed
all nine stars to their limit. He no longer relied on quick changes
alone. Instead, he began combining several stars at once.

His
First Star burned through the abyssal pull while his Second Star
accelerated his movement. His Sixth Star deepened his pressure, and his
Ninth Star anchored his authority. He crossed the sinking battlefield
like a star refusing to fall.

Ervin answered with his black spear.

”Abyssal Origin Descent, First Depth Tide.”

The
black sea surged, and a wave of abyssal pressure rose from the ground
to swallow half the stage. Orion strode through it with his body glowing
brighter, though his speed visibly slowed. Ervin’s spear lanced out
from within the wave, silent and precise. Orion blocked with his fist.

Boom!

Starlight and abyssal force detonated against each other. Orion was pushed back three steps, while Ervin gave up only one.

Orion’s eyes lit up again. ”Good.”

He gathered five stars into his arm.

”Nine Star Sovereign Body, Five-Star Heaven Breaker.”

His fist shot forward, and Ervin raised his spear to meet it.

”Abyss Spear Art, Gate Shadow Thrust.”

The
thrust carried the shadow of the broken gate. It collided with Orion’s
fist, and the five-star force shuddered violently. For a moment the star
power seemed on the verge of piercing through, but the gate’s shadow
dragged part of it downward and the attack lost its stability.

Orion gritted his teeth and changed once more, driving the Ninth Star into his fist at the final moment.

Boom!

The unstable attack exploded, and both men were hurled backward.

Orion
landed with one knee briefly touching the ground while blood ran from
his lips. His old injuries had torn open again. Starlight leaked from
the cracks in his armor, and the nine stars within his body flickered
unsteadily. Even so, his smile returned brighter than before.

Ervin’s sleeve had been shredded, and a wound ran across his left shoulder. He regarded Orion with rare seriousness.

”You are injured more than you show.”

Orion rose slowly. ”And you are stronger than you look.”

The
audience was completely absorbed. No one dared call this an easy
victory for either side. Orion was weakened, yet he was still forcing
Ervin to fight in earnest.

Ervin’s Abyssal Origin Descent was terrifying, yet Orion’s Nine Star Sovereign Body refused to sink without a fight.

The
black sea rose again, and the nine stars blazed in answer. Through the
next several exchanges, the entire stage looked like a starry heaven
straining to escape a bottomless abyss. Orion’s punches birthed
brilliant starbursts while Ervin’s spear carved dark lines through the
battlefield.

Each time Orion gathered his power, the broken gate
pulled at it, and each time Ervin tried to bury the stars, Orion shifted
his star force and erupted from a different angle.

At last, Orion
stepped back. His breathing had turned rough, and blood ran down his
chin once more. Yet his eyes shone with the same reckless brilliance he
had shown against Revona.

”I suppose I only have one move left that can trouble you.”

Ervin’s grip tightened around his spear. ”Starfall Extinction.”

Orion smiled. ”You saw it.”

”I did.”

”Then defend well.”

The
moment Orion spoke, the nine stars inside his body went still, and then
they began to collapse inward. A terrible pressure radiated from his
fist as the star palace behind him reappeared in a broken and desperate
form.

The nine stars surrounding the palace shattered into streams
of pure star essence and rushed into his arm. His body shook violently,
several wounds reopened at once, and blood dripped onto the stage
beneath his feet.

The Nine Star Court disciples fell silent. They
knew what this technique had cost him against Revona, and now he was
using it again while nowhere near fully recovered.

Orion’s smile did not waver.

”This technique is still incomplete,” he said. ”But if I wait until it is perfect, I will never know how far it can go.”

The star essence compressed around his fist.

”Starfall Extinction.”

Orion
vanished. He appeared before Ervin with his final fist already falling.
The compressed star essence roared within that strike, layered and
collapsing, with each layer built to erupt the moment the one before it
was swallowed or broken.

This was the technique Orion had forged
himself, the move that had driven Revona to use Return To Nothing. Even
in his weakened state, it carried shocking destructive force.