The battlefield trembled.
Not from raw destruction.
Not from overwhelming power.
But from something deeper, a shift in reality itself.
Aiden watched intrigued as the air thickened. This wasn't just a formation.
It was a Domain.
Not quite a Grand Mage personal domain, but something dangerously close, a pseudo-domain, forged by the synchronized mana of three individuals.
The world itself was being rewritten.
Seraphina. Eryndor. Valen.
Their mana interlocked, fusing into a single, cohesive force.
The moment they activated [Magic Synchrony: Celestial Trinity], Aiden was no longer just fighting people.
He was fighting the will of the Domain itself.
In that moment, Aiden's vision was immediately distorted, the environment shifted, the sky above darkened, dyed in an otherworldly gradient, swirls of radiant lightning, frozen stars, and burning auroras.
The ground beneath him solidified, not into stone, but into something more absolute, like an unbreakable foundation of magic itself.
Then came the pressure.
Not physical.
Not mental.
Conceptual.
The very laws of the battlefield were being dictated by the Trinity's collective will.
Suppressing Aiden.
This was no longer a battlefield.
This was The Celestial Trinity: Axiom Realm.
A pseudo-domain where Aiden's reality was dictated by three Archmages working as one.
Aiden clenched his fists.
The Celestial Trinity: Axiom Realm represents a domain created by the three Archmages of similar power level and a good understanding of each other where they establish new laws of reality that apply within the space.
Time, space, and physical laws are all distorted, bent to their collective will.
It is an overwhelming and near-impossible battlefield for anyone on the same level to fight in, designed to trap and overpower opponents through their combined mastery over mana and the elements.
Seraphina as the Frost Star, controlled Time & Space, her ice not just freezing bodies in place, but halting area movement, slowing perception, distorting distances.
Eryndor's Lightning were no longer bound by natural physics, but omnipresent, absolute, cutting through any defense with surgical precision.
Valen served as the Domain's Core, anchoring the domain, his sheer physicality and mana presence reinforcing the very laws of the space, ensuring Aiden could not bend or break them so easily.
His breathing slowed.
This was bad.
Even with his strength, his mana, his aura— he was being overwritten.
Not just restricted—
Not just trapped—
But systematically erased from controlling the flow of battle.
Then, Valen spoke.
"[Absolute Desolation.]"
A single command and the world shattered.
Aiden's vision fragmented as the laws of destruction were enacted upon his very existence.
From above, Eryndor's etheric lightning rained down, not as individual bolts, but as threads of conceptual erasure, each one aimed at his mana circuits, his thought processes, his very connection to reality.
From the sides, Seraphina's temporal frost expanded, not just freezing, but rendering the passage of time irrelevant, slowing Aiden's reactions to a crawl, distorting his ability to even process the battle.
From below, Valen's Core pulsed, not just breaking the ground, but turning the battlefield itself into an unshakable gravitational force, ensuring Aiden's movement was reduced to absolute zero.
It was perfection.
A spell formation that could rewrite how combat functioned within its radius.
Even Aiden with all his genius knew he couldn't escape, but he could break it.
His eyes turned crimson as he reached into himself, into the very essence of what made him Unique in this universe and then he whispered.
"[Domain Expansion… Spatial Domination.]"
As soon as his words fell, the space howled in protest as his domain unfurled.
Space collapsed inward, as if reality itself had been gripped by unseen hands and crushed.
The very concept of distance twisted in ways that made the control over space shown by Seraphina look like child's play.
The rules of Axiom Realm shattered.
Eryndor's lightning misfired, bending away and pulled into gravitational wells that weren't supposed to exist. Seraphina's frozen time crumbled, no longer an absolute force but a fragmented illusion, broken by the warping of dimensions. Valen stumbled, his feet sinking into a space that shouldn't be there, as the once-unchangeable terrain became an infinite paradox.
Aiden stepped forward.
Reality distorted.
Then…It broke.
The Axiom Realm shattered, its conceptual laws torn apart by Aiden's control over space.
And when the dust settled—
Aiden stood alone.
Crimson light crackled around him, the remnants of his Spatial Domination warping the very air.
Seraphina wiped blood from her lips, eyes wide. "Impossible."
Eryndor gritted his teeth, his mana fluctuating.
Valen breathed heavily, his stance finally shaken. "This can't be."
Before coming here, they'd heard of the Third Prince illustrious Domain that even took the lives of New Gods, beings said to be superior to the old Gods in terms of physical durability.
However, they found it hard to believe.
In the magical society, a Domain is the manifestation of one's mastery over magic, formed through the crystallization of their magical essence(energy).
This domain acts as a territory where their control over magic is absolute, enhancing their spells and allowing for reality-defying feats within its boundaries.
This wasn't something Aiden, a young man still in his Early twenties could actualise…Or so they thought.
Even in the off-chance that he did possess it, they didn't believe it would completely suppress their Axiom realm, a Pseudo-domain skill.
"Now then," Aiden exhaled. "What was it you said..?"
Then he smirked.
"Ah...This is where the real fight begins."
The Axiom Realm was no more.
The air buzzed with unnatural energy, the tension palpable as reality struggled to regain its balance.
The Celestial Trinity's domain which was forged from the magic of three Archmages now lay in ruins and in its place was Aiden's Spatial domain.
A crackle of crimson lightning arced around him as the very fabric of space bent to his will.
Seraphina, Eryndor, and Valen staggered, their mana sources flickering and unstable, as though they'd been struck by a force they couldn't comprehend. The battlefield that was once their domain was now Aiden's to manipulate.
Seraphina, blood staining her lips, wiped it away as she lifted her hand. Frost gathered in her palm, sharp and cold, but her eyes were wide in disbelief.
"How?" she murmured in disbelief.
Eryndor, his once-brilliant Etheric Lightning flickering erratically, growled. "This is madness! That should've been impossible!"
Valen's hands clenched as his body shook from the strain.
He'd never thought a single mage, let alone one so young, could break the domain they'd crafted.
He gritted his teeth, knowing they needed to regroup, but that would mean breaking from their synchronization, an opening Aiden would seize in an instant.
"Fall back," Valen ordered, but it was already too late.
Aiden's eyes glinted with cold determination as he stepped forward. As he moved, the air itself rippled in the wake of his presence, the laws of space warping with each step.
Where once there had been a clear plain, now there was only the infinite stretching and compressing like an endless expanse of space folding and unfolding in unnatural ways.
He raised his hand, and a shift in the environment took place, as if a layer of the world itself peeled back.
Gravity vanished for a split second, sending Seraphina floating upward, her expression one of sheer panic.
"[Collapse,]" Aiden muttered unsurely under his breath..
His voice echoed in the void, twisted in the folds of space.
Seraphina, now weightless, tried to stabilize herself, but Aiden had already turned the ground beneath them into an endless drop.
The space she occupied contracted, pushing her toward a single, shifting point in the air.
The Time she had previously frozen and manipulated, now seemed to break and fracture as what was once frozen in space around her now unraveled like the threads of a delicate fabric.
"Revert," Aiden muttered, and the entire stretch of space bent back on itself, as if the past few seconds had never happened.
Seraphina's movements slowed, time around her suspended like a moment.
She flinched as she found herself suddenly plummeting, but not in the traditional sense. The world shifted, and suddenly she was descending, or was it ascending?
No—she was stuck in an infinite loop of contradictory forces, unable to escape.
"She's caught in her own time distortion," Aiden said calmly, before turning his attention to the others./1/
Eryndor, clad in his lightning, formed erratic strands of dangerous energy which he lunged at Aiden. The threads of etheric energy slithered through the air at speeds faster than light, but Aiden was faster.
What could light do if he decides to stretch space till infinity?
He snapped his fingers, and the very air around him shifted. The lightning twisted mid-air, pulled into a gravitational pocket that Aiden had formed.
Instead of striking, the energy condensed, expanding into a shimmering, fractured ball of pure force which Aiden sent hurling back toward Eryndor.
Eryndor barely had time to react as the force collided with his chest, sending him sprawling backward.
His mana flickered erratically as his breathing became heavy. "This—this isn't possible!" he spat, wiping blood from his mouth. His body burned, drained by the feedback from his own energy.
"I don't set such limits for myself." Aiden said cooly and turned to the last man standing without any regard for Eryndor.
As long as the Force's energy had entered his body, he was as good as dead if Aiden willed it.
Valen, upon seeing his companions struggle, clutched the ground, his hands grounding themselves as he began to draw from the core of the earth.
The earth beneath them began to shift and rumble, attempting to regenerate and reform itself into something new.
A new force, new laws of reality. He was trying to use his remaining connection to the Axiom realm to displace Aiden and potentially disrupt his domain.
But Aiden's domain would not let it.
Aiden smirked. "No matter how hard you fight, you can't rewrite what I already control."
Valen's response was a growl of frustration as the spatial warping intensified.
His body shuddered, and for a moment, the earth seemed to fracture and crumble beneath his feet.
With a smirk, Aiden twisted his wrist and the ground Valen stood upon warped and collapsed inward, as though it had never existed at all. Valen's grip on the foundation faltered, and for a moment, he could only watch in horror as the ground beneath him turned into an endless void.
"No," Valen gasped, realizing the inevitable.
Then Aiden's voice broke the silence. "It's over."
Raising his right palm and bringing it down towards Valen, a palm like indecture was made with him at the center, the gravity around Valen was increased, slamming him into the ground which he recovered, his internal organs shattered, his possibility for survival depending on his natural regeneration.
Aiden didn't really care whether they lived or died. They dared attack him so they should have been prepared for this much.
Only Aiden remained, his crimson aura pulsing with eyes that glowed with the overwhelming power of the Force.
Seraphina, frozen in an endless cycle of temporal distortion, and Eryndor, defeated and drained, were the last two standing against him. Aiden turned toward them, his smirk widening.
"You're next."
However. "Aiden?"
"... Mom?"
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/1/: This sentence describes the effect Aiden's Spatial Domination has on Seraphina's ability to manipulate time.
Originally, Seraphina had control over time in her part of the battlefield, freezing or slowing it to her will, essentially freezing moments in space. However, when Aiden activated his own domain, Spatial Domination, it overpowered her time manipulation. His domain warps space itself, and this causes her previously frozen moments—her manipulation of time—to unravel.
Instead of being in control, her power falters and breaks apart, like a piece of fabric coming undone. It's a vivid way of showing that Aiden's domain is not only disrupting space but also breaking down the structure of her time-based abilities, rendering her manipulation of time ineffective.
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