Chapter 2: The enemy, in such a short time, had gone from the strength shown in their last clash to their current combat power.
Without needing to weigh the options, Avila was certain it was the first guess. As for why it wasn't the second, if something so absurd had actually happened, Avila felt that the assured victory in this Abyss campaign would suddenly become risky.
Avila looked at the crimson battle spear in her hand, "Blood Oath Covenant," a weapon that had accompanied her for many years, now only half remaining.
Releasing the crimson battle spear, Avila crossed her arms and drew two sharp but not lightweight rapiers. Compared to her old partner "Blood Oath Covenant," these "Full Moon Twins" were actually stronger, only the Twins were more aggressive and came from Chaos, possessing the strongest "Devouring Annihilation" trait. One thrust of the rapier, wherever it struck, would leave a massive crater.
Ignoring the consumption of "Time Force," Avila immediately rewound to before she had received the enemy's blade strike, returning to the chaotic battlefield. Avila suddenly felt something was wrong. Her perspective began to spin and lower, causing her to instinctively reach out and grab, successfully catching her own head.
The intense pain throughout her body confirmed that she had endured multiple slashes, and even her causality was beginning to show signs of fracturing. Worse still, her body energy was completely depleted. If not for the fact that "Time Force" didn't belong to body energy, it would surely have been burned away as well.
Rewinding again, this time she prepared to return to one second ago, but a sudden sense of crisis made her extend that time to five seconds ago.
With a *wah*, Avila spat blood. Five seconds ago was the moment she had just received the enemy's blade strike and was flying under the sky wall.
The past five seconds, and the three seconds after returning to the battlefield—especially those three seconds—must never be touched again. Those were the three seconds that had affected the entire Star Realm. In total, these eight seconds were death time. But if she continued consuming "Time Force" like this, she wouldn't be able to contend with this Law Destroyer.
Her physical injuries disappeared, and Avila returned to the battlefield. Let there be no misunderstanding: Avila wasn't manipulating the time of the entire Star Realm back and forth; she was switching her own time to change her state.
Avila stood opposite Su Xiao without a scratch, but she knew that her completely depleted body energy and the somewhat shattered causality were already irreparable through "Time Rewind." This had become a fact spanning past and future, carved out by a few slashes from this Extreme Realm Grandmaster before her.
Avila, hidden in the time dimension and completely invisible, looked at the Law Destroyer opposite her. Suddenly, the Law Destroyer looked back at her, causing Avila's grip on her sword hilt to creak. This enemy was the most unsolvable existence she had ever encountered.
At first glance, this Law Destroyer only fought with the long blade in his hand, but without facing him directly, one would never know the helplessness of going against this man and his blade. All of Avila's time-affecting abilities struggled to influence the Law Destroyer opposite her; they would be shattered by his slashing might.
Time being shattered—something that would have been laughable to mention in the past—was now a reality.
This was an enemy with a seemingly simple combat style but no weaknesses whatsoever.
The same applied to his attacks. His attack was simply raising his blade and slashing down. This simple method of attack had nearly become Avila's nightmare. All her abilities would be shattered. Just now, the Law Destroyer had slashed out a full eight seconds of "Death Time Zone," especially the last three seconds, which were an absolute dead zone.
‘Time Travel.’
Avila slashed open the world before her and leaped into it.
‘Extreme Blade: Azure Shadow King.’
*Zheng!!*
A slash imbued with Azure Shadow King came down, shattering the time travel with a bang. Avila, a look of surprise in her eyes, flew backward for a distance before landing in a half-crouch, holding her slender twin rapiers.
The time gate ahead was already broken. Avila slowly exhaled, her heart calming. Her aura erupted, merging the limits of darkness and time force. She was about to engage in close combat in the next few seconds because the enemy had shattered the "Time Gate," temporarily silencing all her time-based abilities.
With a *boom*, Su Xiao suddenly appeared before Avila. The long blade in his right hand was raised above his left shoulder, the Dragon-Slaying Flash transformed into a gold-blue long blade, delivering a maximum-force slash.
‘Extreme Blade: Azure Shadow King.’
Avila vanished from her spot, blocking with both swords as she flew backward at high speed. The swords in her hands were already shattered, leaving only the hilts.
With a crash against the realm wall, before Avila could rise, the Law Destroyer she was fighting had already appeared. Due to the erosion of Abyss energy during the battle, the depths of his eyes were pitch black. But this didn't weaken him; instead, it heightened the villainous big boss aura of this red-eyed Law Destroyer.
‘Extreme Blade: Azure Shadow King.’
The gold-blue long blade slashed down. Beneath the sky wall, Avila, half-crouched, raised one hand. Forcibly using time-based abilities caused cracks to appear on her neck and cheeks.
‘Time Echo.’
‘Rebellion.’
‘Causal Reversal.’
‘Time Stop Mark!’
Four time-based abilities—three for counter-damage and one to forcibly stop the enemy—were all pushed out by Avila with one hand.
*Slap slap slap slap!*
All four abilities were slashed to pieces. At that moment, all four of Avila's hearts contracted, and the cracks on her face grew denser.
‘Time Gate!!!’
With a *thump*, Su Xiao's slashing long blade finally slowed down. But even so, the surrounding frozen time force field emitted a strained sound, like a wail, showing what it was enduring.
A pitch-black spike appeared in Avila's hand. It was about 30 centimeters long, as thick as a pinky finger, and covered in holes. This was "Eternal Night." Being stabbed by it would immediately banish the victim to the depths of Chaos.
With a *whoosh*, "Eternal Night" flew past Su Xiao's face. He actually sidestepped it—very absurd. Even within Avila's Supreme Domain, Su Xiao's speed wasn't slow.
The Blade Domain had already appeared. The two domains canceled each other out, preventing Avila from slowing down Su Xiao's slashing blade any further. As for why she didn't take the opportunity to evade and leave this position, she wished she could. The problem was that being locked onto by an Extreme Realm Grandmaster made evasion impossible. This feeling of being tightly squeezed by the surrounding Star Realm wouldn't disappear no matter where she evaded to. The best choice was to face the battle head-on.
Avila reached out with her bare hand toward the blade of Dragon-Slashing Flash. The moment she touched the blade, the crimson in her eyes intensified to its limit. She was going to rewind Dragon-Slashing Flash to its maximum extent, returning it to the time when it wasn't a "Legendary Famous Blade." She was certain that no Technique Grandmaster's weapon was a "Legendary Famous Blade" right when it was first forged. This gave her an opportunity.
Once Dragon-Slashing Flash was rewound to no longer be a "Legendary Famous Blade"—temporarily downgraded from Reincarnation Rank to "Origin Rank"—then with Avila's strength, she could immediately shatter Dragon-Slashing Flash.
*Dong!!!*
Su Xiao's straight kick landed on Avila's abdomen. Avila's plan failed. She crashed into the rear realm wall and bounced back, leaving a trail of splattered blood in the air.
Avila's pupils trembled. She was truly stunned by the kick and couldn't understand why someone would develop their combat system like this. As a Supreme Being, shouldn't she have some incredibly unsolvable abilities that peak existences couldn't touch?
Time, Abyss, Elements—even mastering a single rule power and slashing with a long blade in hand—wasn't that a move even ordinary people could use? Why... why had it been developed to such an exaggerated extent, even becoming a power capable of slashing through time-based abilities?
Looking at the Law Destroyer so close, Avila knew she had to use her ultimate move as an Abyss-type Supreme Being.
‘Abyss Gaze.’
Avila's eyes turned pitch black. At that moment, Su Xiao felt as if he were at the bottom of the Abyss, rejected and strangled by the entire Abyss.
Su Xiao felt an intense pain surge from within his body. Blood flowed from his mouth, nose, and ears. Avila took the opportunity to distance herself from him.
"Heh, heh," Avila's breath was a bit ragged. She said, "Not feeling good, is it? Suddenly losing most of your life cores. This was originally an ability prepared to send you to your funeral."
Avila looked at Su Xiao, but soon her expression began to change.
Because on the opposite side, Su Xiao touched the blood under his ear. The blood had already stopped and turned into blood mist, making it seem as if he had never been injured. This attack had suddenly shattered 420 of his life cores. One could only say that this Abyss-type ability was indeed powerful, causing him to lose nearly a quarter of his life cores. He glanced at the remaining 1,300-plus life cores. Hmm, this Supreme-level opponent's attack was indeed too dangerous.
Su Xiao never spoke a single unnecessary word during battle. He suddenly advanced and slashed down with his blade.
‘Extreme Blade: Azure Shadow King.’
Avila's expression management nearly broke. When she was first slashed by "Azure Shadow King," she knew it was a big move-level ability, so the power was normal.
But when the enemy slashed out a second "Azure Shadow King," Avila felt this guy was a bit arrogant, continuously using an ability of this intensity. However, when the enemy followed up with a third "Azure Shadow King," Avila began to sense something was wrong.
And at this moment, Avila was certain of one thing: after the deathly three seconds had emptied her body energy, every subsequent slash from the enemy was at this level. The enemy had entered a second stage.
‘Time Reminiscence.’
A tall dark figure appeared behind Avila. It held an "Abyss Greatsword" and slashed down with a single massive strike.
At this moment, on the chaotic battlefield, at the front line, Sun Seth, Immortal Archis, Holy Song Samanya, and others all felt the ground beneath their feet tremble. At the distant horizon, Abyss darkness and blood-red qi clashed with each other, ultimately exploding with a bang.
A shockwave swept through, forcing both sides on the battlefield to halt. Whether it was the enemy's three fortresses or their own base camp, everything rumbled and shook.
At this moment, in the area where Su Xiao and Avila were fighting, only a shattered "Time Gate" remained.
The Underworld, Skeletal Wasteland. Su Xiao's long blade slanted toward the ground, a drop of blood sliding off the blade tip. On the opposite side, Avila's expression was grim. She truly hadn't expected that this Law Destroyer, using pure and overwhelmingly powerful slashing force, had cut open her Time Gate and pursued her all the way to the Underworld.
A faint, visible gust of wind howled past, stripping the flesh from all living creatures on this wasteland, leaving only bones. Avila in front quietly disappeared.
Su Xiao looked around. A faint sense of danger approached from all sides.
‘Extreme Blade: Break Formation.’
With a *thump*, the slashing might spread like a shockwave, forcibly calming the wind over the Skeletal Wasteland and causing ripples in the time force field hidden within the gale. Three figures surrounded Su Xiao: the past, present, and future Avila.
‘Time Stop Mark!’
The killing move that Avila wouldn't use lightly before was now used with ease. One thing to know: this wasn't Avila's clone; she had truly manifested three selves.
This was a very dangerous act because all three were her true self. When the crisis was resolved, the past and future selves would rebel against the current "true self." Once rebelled against, Avila would need a very long time to find herself again, or she might ultimately become lost.
‘Extreme Blade: Azure Demon.’
*Zheng!*
The blue-green slashing light reached Avila almost instantly. The crimson in her eyes intensified. Just as she was about to use time reversal to erase this attack, Su Xiao swapped positions with the slashing light that concealed the Demon Spirit.
‘Extreme Blade: Azure Shadow King.’
*Puchi!*
A half-meter-wide gold-blue slashing light cut through. Avila, bearing a massive amount of true slashing damage, shattered immediately, flying backward like a torn sack. But suddenly, all her injuries reversed. She stood in midair, coldly staring at Su Xiao.
The three Avilas—past, present, and future—required killing the past first, then destroying the future, and finally killing the present Avila. This order was absolute and was the strongest ability of Avila's Supreme system.
Su Xiao raised his hand and saw some wrinkles appearing on the back of his right hand gripping the blade. In the battle with Avila, due to contacting and slashing through too many time-based abilities, he had suffered this backlash and was beginning to age. If he didn't kill Avila, this aging would be permanent. Conversely, if he slayed Avila, the source of this time causality, the aging he was currently enduring would gradually dissipate.
"Finally noticed, have you? You're aging, Law Destroyer. I know that Technique Grandmasters grow stronger with age, but your technique ability has already reached its limit. You will only age, not become stronger."
Floating in midair, Avila's long white hair had somehow become very long, even exceeding her ankles. If before Avila was like a Valkyrie, now she was like a time-controlling Abyss witch. Fist-sized, translucent time orbs orbited around her.
Aging a Technique Grandmaster was a very high-risk, high-reward choice. If she had a choice, Avila wouldn't do this. But in the series of battles just now, Avila had nearly developed a close-combat shadow. Continuing like this, she would surely die. Unable to enhance herself, the only option was to weaken the enemy.
Rewinding this Law Destroyer to a youth, or even a younger age, was unrealistic. Given the causal volume of this Law Destroyer, Avila felt that even if she were several times stronger, she couldn't do it. The consumption of "Time Force" for "past" and "future" differed. Aging this Law Destroyer was still achievable.
In fact, Avila wasn't wrong. Su Xiao's "Heavenly Edge Slash Shadow" ability had indeed reached max level. In such a situation, the notion that a Technique Grandmaster grows stronger with age didn't apply. While experience might slightly increase strength, compared to the various negative states caused by aging, this gain was negligible.
But Avila had overlooked one issue: Su Xiao's "Extreme Shadow" ability. Avila had used her Time Eye to perceive the upper limit of "Heavenly Edge Slash Shadow" but couldn't perceive the existence of "Extreme Shadow." And aging affected Su Xiao's entire causality, which naturally included "Extreme Shadow." Thus...
‘Extreme Blade: Death Star Moon.’
The aging Su Xiao raised his long blade. The entire Underworld was shrouded by a black full moon. Su Xiao slashed down with a single virtual strike.
With a *boom*, black slashing might poured down from above. In an instant, half of Avila's body in her Time Witch form, along with half her head, disappeared. The pupil in her remaining eye trembled. Though she didn't know what had gone wrong, she was certain of one thing.
Now... things were very bad!
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