MIGHT AS WELL BE OP

Chapter 1161: Orb

Anthony, God, and the Demon King were still going at it with no sign of stopping or pausing for any reason. Over a day had already passed, yet their grins refused to fade, their stamina remained at its peak, and their energy sources, Mana, Faith Energy, and Chaos Energy, remained at their brims as though they hadn’t been using them to pull off Reality- and Existence-crumbling scale attacks.

Exhaustion? Fear? Being out of breath?

Such notions didn’t exist to beings at the pinnacle; they were the pinnacle of the Lower Galaxies for a reason.

At this moment, Anthony had dropped everything that guarded his body passively. He had already told the OP System to disengage the protection against his soul and mind. He wanted to go toe-to-toe with these two and measure where he stood in every possible scenario. How would he measure such a thing if he hid behind the System? Even Romulus was no longer protecting his Soul, meaning Anthony had to tank and nullify every Soul attack by himself.

God had already closed the distance once more, slipping through the cracks of Reality like a fish in water. The moment he appeared, the Cores of various Planets and Constellations appeared on his palm, each rotating around the others in a circular formation at a speed that seemed to surpass even the speed of light.

The moment he appeared, he slammed them into Anthony’s chest with fervor, as though he wanted to tear open his chest and see exactly what this freakish two-decade-old Human was capable of.

Anthony’s eyes immediately snapped toward the incoming attack, his body adjusting as he moved to dodge, but before he could, the Demon King had already appeared behind him like a ghost. He immediately jumped upon Anthony’s back, his upper arms locking around Anthony’s neck while his lower arms locked around his waist, binding him firmly in place and preventing him from dodging.

Anthony’s sky-blue eyes shifted toward the Demon King who held him from behind. Anthony didn’t panic; God’s attack was closing in by the picosecond.

His Mana immediately roared outward as he tapped into Reality itself, moving to bend the Void and teleport away with ease. But the moment he did, Anthony felt resistance. The Demon King had already unleashed his own Chaos Energy upon the very Void Anthony was about to control, pinning him in place even further and denying him dominion over the surrounding space.

With a Reality-crumbling blast, the Core in God’s hand slammed directly into Anthony’s chest with a titanic burst beyond every scale of measurement. An explosion rocked outward, erasing everything in its path. Solar Systems were erased with ease, each crumbling out of Reality as though they were nothing more than mere toys as the attack expanded outward for light-years.

Anthony’s body tore backward through the Void, his body becoming a streak of white as he lost control due to the sheer force of the attack. He crashed through Planets, Stars, Suns, Moons, and astral rocks, his back slamming with ruinous force against a comet before he finally came to a stop.

Anthony immediately rose to his feet. A ravine had been torn open across the comet where he had landed. He simply patted the cosmic dust from his body as he stared down at his chest.

His chest had changed colour. His usual fair and flawless skin had now been blemished, an injury marring his skin. Anthony stared at the injury for a moment. Although his skin hadn’t torn open enough for blood to flow, he was still surprised by the injury.

He simply smiled as he thought, ’that’s more like it,’ his thoughts amused.

If the Demon King and God couldn’t even injure him at least once while working together, weren’t they at least fake beings? After all, these were entities who had been alive for a minimum of a billion years.

Anthony didn’t remember the last time he had been injured, but it didn’t matter. The injury immediately vanished as though nothing had happened. The moment the injury disappeared, God and the Demon King had already closed the distance once again, their coordination and timing literally impeccable in every sense of the word.

Anthony’s knees dipped slightly as the comet beneath his feet shook before shattering into crumbling fragments. Anthony shot forward with ridiculous speed. Within a femtosecond, he had already closed the distance between himself and God.

God’s eyes flickered with surprise at Anthony’s sudden increase in speed, but before he could even speak or react, Anthony’s fist crashed against his chin in a brutal uppercut, an immense wind blast shooting upward as God’s head snapped back violently.

Momentum seized God and immediately tore him upward like a broken kite, but before he could ascend very far, Anthony immediately caught him by the ankle and drew him forward. His hand changed from a fist into a chop, and without missing a beat, Anthony slashed through the Void as though his hand were a blade and chopped toward God’s knee.

God’s reaction was immediate. His other leg moved to intercept Anthony’s attack. The moment both body parts met, space exploded outward once again. Entire layers of the surrounding Void trembled under the force of the collision, rippling like disturbed water beneath the impact of unimaginable force.

But Anthony didn’t let go. He simply twisted his body, turning around as he gathered momentum before slamming God’s body directly into a Star below them.

The Star immediately shook upon impact before shattering apart. Before the Star Energy could erupt everywhere and trigger a supernova, Anthony raised a hand and immediately controlled every strand of Star Energy and the birthing explosion. It appeared above his palm in the form of a blazing orb, which he then enhanced with his own ability, thereby increasing both the size and potency of the orb to terrifying levels.

And without missing a beat, Anthony slammed it into God’s face with wicked ease, as though he intended to wipe the man from existence once and for all.

God didn’t dare delay. If this had been a normal Star attack, he wouldn’t even have bothered to defend. After all, a single Star couldn’t even tear through his body. But Anthony had enhanced it.

His Faith Energy immediately boomed outward with outrageous force as he tapped into the Time Element. As a God, it was only natural that he possessed the ability to control Time to a certain extent. Using Time, he immediately adjusted his own position within the temporal stream, and in the next instant, he vanished as though he had teleported.

But the moment he appeared at another point in Time, Anthony’s attack was already there.

God wasn’t the only one who could manipulate Time. Anthony and the Demon King could as well. So Anthony simply moved his own attack through Time, following the temporal traces God had left behind and refusing to allow his target even the slightest avenue of escape.

And with that, Anthony’s attack exploded outward with maddening crescendos that heralded yet another collapse of another portion of the Acarnis Galaxy. Ontological Fractures appeared across various levels of Reality as everything seemed to degrade at that moment. Vast regions of space trembled under the aftershocks, boundaries fractured under the pressure, and countless celestial phenomena were swallowed by the expanding wave of destruction.