Chapter 539
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Rakiratas charges head-on. A Transcender and a heterogeneous being sprint toward each other.
Taesan activates his Divine Power.
Kiiiiing!
A strange wave blankets the entire domain.
Rakiratas’s rushing body stops dead.
[Hmm?]
Momentarily caught off guard, Rakiratas loses his Acceleration and freezes in place. Taesan, already within reach, raises his sword and swings the [Gray].
Rakiratas answers without hesitation, bringing his axe up.
The axe and sword collide.
Kaaaang!
And it’s Rakiratas who goes flying, hurled to the far edge of the domain.
He tries to recover instantly—plant his feet, land, and use friction to halt his momentum.
But it doesn’t work.
Like he’s skidding on ice, his body won’t stop. Rakiratas drives his axe into the ground, but it doesn’t bite.
[Hmph.]
There’s only one reason.
His power is gone.
[Intervention, huh.]
Taesan governs the Physical Force of the universe itself.
He’s erasing the Physical Force that would arise from Rakiratas’s every action. Rakiratas manages to block the incoming strike, but he’s blown back again regardless.
[So Physical Force can be used like this too. Interesting.]
Rakiratas laughs, pleased, even as the burden travels up his arm.
[Rakiratas has activated Struggle.]
In an instant, a shimmering red aura wraps around Rakiratas’s body.
Kuuuung!
Rakiratas charges again. Ignoring Taesan’s intervention, he swings his axe in a brutal arc.
Kaaaang!
Taesan is shoved back. Rakiratas doesn’t pause.
‘What?’
Taesan had clearly used the Divine Power of Physical Force to nullify the actions themselves.
He made the Physical Force behind every movement—stepping, Acceleration, even the axe swing—cease to exist.
And yet Rakiratas is forcing his way through, charging as if Taesan’s Divine Power isn’t there.
Jjeoeeong!
A heavy impact ripples through Taesan. Another shove. Another clash. Through the exchange, Taesan realizes.
Rakiratas isn’t moving with Physical Force anymore.
He’s acting through Struggle itself—like painting “force” onto reality with his concept.
The axe swings.
Taesan steps.
He tightens the hand holding the sword, turns his waist, drives his shoulder.
He pours Physical Force into every one of those actions.
Jjeoeeong!
Two opposing Divine Powers collide.
And it’s Taesan who breaks. Physical Force is crushed by Struggle. Taesan snaps [Gray] up to cover his body.
Kugugugung!
He draws out the Boundary even further—throwing everything into it, risking his life.
Kagagak!
Even so, the [Gray] is pierced.
The axe slams into Immutable Self. Immutable Self is consumed at a frightening speed.
[You have activated Blink.]
Tat.
He creates distance.
Rakiratas shakes his axe, delighted.
[You can block this much.]
“I don’t think you can call that blocking.”
Struggle and Physical Force—the Divine Power itself is clearly on par.
But the gap in handling it is enormous. The difference in fundamentals is overwhelming, and the stability of their levels is worlds apart.
[The warm-up is done. I’ll use the rest little by little.]
With those words, death arrives.
‘…That is.’
Taesan has faced Dersha before. That’s why he knows what her death is.
Dersha’s death is cruel and cold.
But it is also calm—an end delivered without room for emotion.
The death Rakiratas calls forth is different.
It antagonizes everything around it. It fights, screams, and kills anything that touches it.
It is destruction, through and through.
The death Rakiratas governs is death through Struggle.
Dersha, watching from beyond the domain, frowns.
[I don’t like it.]
She mutters, face twisting with disgust.
She is the God of Death.
She governs the great concept of death that has existed since the creation of the universe.
But Rakiratas governs Struggle and death.
And that death is different from hers.
[That’s not death.]
It’s closer to violence wearing the name of death.
[The death I govern is death that arises from Struggle.]
Black coils around Rakiratas’s axe.
[My Divine Power isn’t as flashy as other Transcenders’. It’s simple.]
Violence in the name of Struggle and death.
That is all.
He cannot govern “demon” the way the Demon God does—controlling every demon in the world—nor can he block and erase choice itself like the God of Choice, sealing actions.
No. Maybe he could. Governing a concept means it’s possible.
But Rakiratas doesn’t want that.
He wants violence.
Pure force. Overwhelming Struggle.
And with that alone, he has reached a realm no Transcender can ignore.
Wrapped in Struggle and death, Rakiratas charges at Taesan. Taesan raises his sword, and [Gray] surges like a wave.
Rakiratas doesn’t yield.
Jjeoeeoeong!
The Boundary—absolute in compatibility, made stronger through Transcendence—is shattered by Rakiratas’s axe. Taesan gathers his power and swings again, but Rakiratas doesn’t stop.
He destroys, crushes, and drives forward. In an instant, the [Gray] is pierced.
The axe falls. Immutable Self shatters in a heartbeat.
[Your first Attack Nullification has been activated.]
Attack Nullification triggers.
But Rakiratas doesn’t reset. The death wrapped around his body tramples and kills even the system’s intervention.
Kwaaaang!
Taesan clenches his fist and hammers forward.
With the crash, Taesan is forced back.
Rakiratas doesn’t stop. He advances with nothing but violence, pushing to kill Taesan.
Taesan’s heart pounds. His entire body tightens, and his mind accelerates.
Rakiratas is stronger than Taesan.
Clearly.
He could die here—very likely.
That has always been the case. Nothing about it is surprising.
The difference is that Taesan is now his complete self.
He responds to emotion. He draws out everything he has.
But he doesn’t lose his composure.
“Let’s do it.”
Kwaaaang!
Rakiratas surges in. Struggle and death fuse and stain the axe.
It breaks, crushes, and pushes through every Boundary.
Taesan draws out the Boundary. A deep, dark [Gray] manifests in the world.
And he handles the Boundary.
The Boundary slowly loses its color. The Boundary Line begins to fade. The gray drains away, until it becomes an intangible, colorless aura.
Ripple.
[Worthlessness]. The Ancient God’s Divine Power is realized in the world as a Boundary.
Taesan seizes [Worthlessness] and swings. Everything in the world begins to be erased, meaninglessly.
And Rakiratas bursts into laughter.
[Worthless one! A nostalgic Divine Power!]
[Worthlessness] makes everything meaningless.
Rakiratas’s response is simple.
He throws himself straight into it. [Worthlessness] erases Rakiratas’s Struggle and death.
But even more than that—
a Divine Power that blankets the world surges forth.
With sheer volume of violence, it exceeds the threshold [Worthlessness] can erase and punches through. Rakiratas swings his axe down, brutally.
Kwaaaang!
[Your second Attack Nullification has been activated.]
Taesan snaps back to create distance. He gathers the Boundary again and spreads it wide.
“Stop.”
The world’s time freezes.
The Divine Power of The Walker of Time—Time Stop. Rakiratas’s body halts for an instant. Taesan rushes in and drives his sword forward.
The moment he closes in, the Divine Power wrapped around Rakiratas ripples.
It tramples and kills the stopped time, forcing new time into the space.
[That Divine Power too, I’ve already dealt with it.]
Kaaaang!
The stopped time dies.
More than breaking, it is executed. Rakiratas brings his axe down on the charging Taesan.
Kwaaaaaaaaaang!
[Your third Attack Nullification has been activated.]
Kiiiiing!
This time, Taesan compresses the Boundary. Dozens of beads manifest and surge toward Rakiratas.
Even that is crushed.
Rakiratas’s death forcibly tramples and destroys the Boundary.
“Hm.”
Taesan creates distance again, eyes sunken.
‘This doesn’t work either.’
It isn’t that he lacks level.
There is a gap.
So he closes it.
Rakiratas charges, and Taesan answers.
He tries to break through by drawing out his powers one by one.
It looks like he’s testing his abilities on Rakiratas—experimenting mid-fight.
Even though his life is on the line, he’s still running trials.
That should be unpleasant.
But Rakiratas laughs, delighted instead.
[Good! Use me as a tool! Test your power on me! But! If you can’t prove it! You will die!]
With that roar, Struggle and death surge over Taesan. Taesan draws out [Gray].
* *
Kwaaaang!
Taesan uses every method he has.
He manipulates [Gray], draws out Physical Force, and wields Divine Power—doing everything to test himself, and everything to win.
But in the end, he is forced back.
The pure violence of Struggle and death.
Rakiratas is an existence that abandoned every “miracle” a great Divine Power could perform and pursued nothing but raw power.
Even the Boundary is torn apart and crushed by force.
Kwaaaang!
Taesan is sent flying. He barely interferes with the Boundary, but half his limbs are nearly blown away.
Thump.
His heart hammers. Rakiratas swings his axe, carving a rough line across the world.
If that touches him, he will die. Instinct screams the warning.
But Taesan doesn’t retreat. He steps forward instead.
With the clash, Taesan is hurled far away.
And he rises immediately.
Body and mind accelerate, synchronizing.
Taesan has reached his own realm.
But even he doesn’t know what he is.
His realm is incomparable, yes—but there’s another reason.
He has never drawn out everything he has.
Now he fuses mind and body, cuts away all distractions, and focuses solely on the present.
That is what this battle is doing.
Mind, body, level, Divine Power—everything that only recently arrived and felt foreign—now finds its place and begins to mix into one.
And Taesan suddenly understands.
He raises his hand. Mana gathers.
[You have activated Rainbow Rush of Diverse Colors [Boundary].]
A rainbow dash stained with [Gray].
Contradictory, yet the only way to describe it.
Physical Force is fused into the gray dash.
Kwaaaang!
For the first time, Rakiratas’s advance is halted.
Fusion of Divine Power.
Taesan is doing what Rakiratas has been doing.
And Rakiratas bares his teeth, satisfied.
[Not enough yet! Show me more of you! Prove your Struggle!]
Rakiratas erupts into wild laughter.
His Divine Power deepens, growing heavier and fiercer. The gray-ash rainbow dash begins to crack and crumble.
Kagagak!
It is clearly the same Divine Power.
And Taesan’s Boundary is a heterogeneous power—superior in compatibility to everything.
It has risen higher as it becomes fully his.
Yet even so, he is being overwhelmed by Rakiratas.
No matter the difference in handling, this is too one-sided.
And the reason is simple.
Taesan still can’t handle his Divine Power properly.
He’s only drawing out half of what he truly has.
His control is still awkward, yes—but the real reason is deeper.
Even Taesan doesn’t know the bottom of his Divine Power.
The beast within him.
He wasn’t confident he could control it perfectly. That’s why he couldn’t draw out the essence of the Boundary.
But not anymore.
He is risking his life against Rakiratas. Mind, body, level, and Divine Power have become one.
Now he can control the beast sleeping inside him.
“Come out.”
[Gray] blankets the earth. The beast within him—growling in dissatisfaction—finally rejoices and manifests in the world.
The beast of the Boundary takes a step into the world.
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