Time did not pause—not even slightly—for anything Silas did.
It continued to slip by, day after day.
....
Monteferro.
Deep within a hidden mountain base, far from the eyes of the world.
This was the construction site of the [Interstellar Teleportation Gate].
Sitting in his office chair, Silas stared out the window at the still-unfinished teleportation frame in the distance. He felt a faint tension in his chest as a thought echoed in his mind: 'The time has come…'
Today was the day he had died in his previous life.
Though his current life had taken a vastly different path, Silas had never figured out exactly how he died before. And just in case fate decided to repeat itself, he chose to stay hidden within this highly secured base, prepared to respond to anything unexpected.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Monteferro—in Nasa City, his hometown—
Orsaga had just set foot on the land after crossing the ocean.
He hadn't even had time to settle in or go out hunting for fresh prey when a strange scent caught his attention.
Following the scent, Orsaga noticed a black-haired young man standing nearby. He hadn't been there just seconds ago.
There had been no one in that spot a moment earlier.
Catching a deep whiff of the unmistakable aura coming from the man, a delighted smile crept across Orsaga's face. "I'm thrilled… You finally stopped hiding."
Before the words had even finished leaving his mouth—
A crack appeared across Orsaga's forehead, revealing a hidden vertical eye.
He carefully examined the youth in front of him.
The black-haired young man, however, remained calm. "You're utterly repulsive to me… but if I eat you, I'll probably gain quite a lot."
Orsaga merely shrugged, unfazed by the insult. "Well, I want to eat you too. But I've never found you all that annoying."
Then, in the next instant—
Boom!!
It was as if two colossal forces had just collided.
The deafening impact exploded between them, and the shockwave rippled outward like a blast wave.
Cars, pedestrians, and all sorts of debris were thrown into the air like dust.
Within a radius of several hundred meters, everything—except for a few especially sturdy buildings—was wiped out.
Half the city was instantly plunged into chaos, and countless people were struck deaf from the sheer volume of the blast.
Behind Orsaga, a serpentine tail slithered and coiled around him like a living whip.
It was that tail that had launched the first attack.
The black-haired youth glanced at the damaged skin on his right hand, his expression darkening. "That was my favorite outer layer…"
He spoke with the pettiness of someone whose favorite outfit had just been ruined.
Orsaga's grin widened. "That's perfect. I love destroying what others hold dear."
His twisted nature hadn't changed at all.
It made people want to kill him on the spot.
And judging by the look on the other man's face—he intended to do just that.
With a sound like silk being slowly torn apart, the black-haired man's body began to swell. The human skin covering him was quickly shredded apart.
Beneath it emerged a ten-meter-tall humanoid form, grotesquely warped and covered in eyes of every shape and color.
He opened his mouth and let out a thunderous roar.
Under the influence of an unknown energy field, every human who heard that roar began bleeding from every orifice—transforming into hideous anomalies.
"I, Raiyaglen, will kill you!!"
The words, spoken in an unknown tongue, still made perfect sense to Orsaga—thanks to his innate understanding as a deep abyssal demon.
He grinned savagely. "Then go ahead—try me."
With that, his form shifted instantly. A towering figure over twenty meters tall now stood in his place—complete with eight massive wings fanned out behind him.
In response to Raiyaglen's will, the twisted monsters born from his roar surged forward from all directions, throwing themselves at Orsaga without fear of death.
But the intense heat radiating from Orsaga's body had already turned the area around him into a blazing death zone.
The closer anything got, the higher the temperature rose.
Within a radius of several hundred meters, it was like standing in the heart of a furnace—temperatures in the core zone had reached hundreds of thousands of degrees.
Even the air currents became streams of molten heat, so intense that they warped the sky.
The moment those monsters came within range, they were incinerated—reduced to ash without ever getting close.
And all this happened before the real fight had even started. Every innocent within range had already perished.
Without saying a word, the vertical eye on Orsaga's forehead narrowed, and a red beam of energy shot forth—moving at the speed of light toward Raiyaglen.
But several of the eyes on Raiyaglen's body focused sharply, and a spatial rift opened just in time to intercept the beam—redirecting it into an unknown dimension.
At the same time, an unseen force radiated outward, attempting to lock down the space around Orsaga.
He didn't even flinch. One sweep of his wings—
And trillions of tons of raw force were evenly distributed across the surrounding space.
With sheer brute power alone, he shattered the incoming spatial field.
Raiyaglen's eyes narrowed slightly. This was the first time he'd seen someone counter that technique through sheer physical strength.
Before he could react, Orsaga had already crossed the distance between them—appearing directly in front of him.
Compared to Orsaga's massive form, Raiyaglen now looked like a child standing before a full-grown man.
A clenched fist came crashing down from above, filled with murderous intent and violent power.
Blazing heat, tainted with both corrosive force and a virus-like energy, surged forth from the blow.
Raiyaglen's eyes widened in alarm. Sensing lethal danger, every eye on his body snapped open!
A translucent barrier enveloped him in all directions, cutting him off from the outside world.
And then—
Orsaga's fist struck.
The force behind it hit Raiyaglen's barrier like a meteor.
The shield protected his body from injury, but the sheer momentum behind the blow slammed him to the ground.
To make sure Raiyaglen didn't get embedded into the planet's core, Orsaga even cast several dozen Reinforcement Spells on the ground beneath them.
The moment Raiyaglen's head hit the earth, it was like a nuclear bomb had detonated.
A colossal shockwave spread out from the impact point. A mushroom cloud slowly rose into the sky, piercing the clouds.
Within a two-kilometer radius, the land sank by several hundred meters—flattened as if it had been smashed into like a water surface struck by a boulder.
Countless tons of earth were blasted into the sky, some even reaching the upper atmosphere.
The resulting quake and explosion obliterated all of Nasa City—every building reduced to rubble, every life extinguished without distinction.
Even cities dozens or hundreds of kilometers away felt the quake. It was as if a natural disaster had struck.
Buildings began collapsing like dominoes across the nation.
In that instant, the entire Nation was thrown into chaos.
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