The silence that followed my words stretched across the battlefield. Around me, some of the most dangerous beings in the supernatural world stood frozen, their instincts screaming warnings they were only now beginning to understand.
Cao Cao was the first to recover, his grip tightening on the True Longinus as holy energy began to coil around the legendary spear. "So the rumors were true," he said, his voice carrying that peculiar mix of anticipation and calculation that marked him as a natural leader. "You really aren't just another supernatural anomaly, are you?"
"What gave it away?" I asked, genuinely curious about his assessment.
"The way you're standing." His eyes never left mine as he began to circle slowly, the True Longinus held in a relaxed but ready position. "Most beings with overwhelming power carry themselves like predators. You're standing like someone who's already won and is just waiting for everyone else to realize it."
It was an astute observation. Cao Cao hadn't become the leader of the Hero Faction through words alone—his ability to read people and situations was genuinely impressive.
"An interesting perspective," I acknowledged, then decided it was time to end the pretense entirely. "Let me show you what true power actually looks like."
I focused my will, calling upon the abilities that had been awakened since I drilled red eye in my socket—the power to manipulate the four fundamental forces that governed all of reality itself. Gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force. The very foundations upon which the universe operated.
My right eye began to bleed as the strain hit me, the lack of a proper physical foundation making this power dangerous to wield. But the effect was immediate and overwhelming.
The gravitational field around me shifted, reality bending as I increased the force pressing down on my enemies. Suddenly, beings who had stood confidently moments before found themselves struggling against an invisible weight that threatened to crush them into the ground.
"Impossible," Georg whispered, his analytical mind trying to process what he was witnessing as the very air around him seemed to grow heavy. "That's... that's manipulation of fundamental physics itself."
"Finally," I said, blood trickling from my right eye as I maintained the gravitational pressure. "Someone who understands what they're actually facing."
Siegfried attacked first, moving with supernatural speed despite the increased gravitational field. Gram blazed with demonic fire as it swept toward my head, the legendary swordsman pushing through the crushing force through sheer determination.
But I was already manipulating the electromagnetic fields around his blade, disrupting the delicate balance of forces that held the demonic enhancement together. Gram's fire sputtered and died as its fundamental energy patterns collapsed.
"My sword," Siegfried gasped, staring at the now-mundane blade in his hands.
I caught his blade between two fingers as he tried a desperate follow-up strike. *The electromagnetic resonance between wielder and weapon,* I thought, *disrupt that connection and the demonic enhancement fails.*
Cao Cao had used the distraction to position himself for his own attack, channeling the full power of the True Longinus. "Pierce through all obstacles!" he roared, divine authority blazing around the legendary spear.
The attack should have been unstoppable, backed by ultimate divine power. But I was already manipulating the strong nuclear force, the very binding energy that held matter together at the atomic level.
When the True Longinus struck my palm, I concentrated nuclear binding force into a defensive barrier. The spear's tip met resistance at the subatomic level, divine authority struggling against forces that held matter itself together.
"Impossible," Cao Cao gasped as his legendary weapon began to crack under the strain. "The True Longinus represents absolute authority!"
I increased the nuclear force concentration until the spear's crystalline structure finally shattered. *Divine authority means nothing when you're manipulating the same forces that power stars.*
The destruction of the True Longinus sent supernatural shockwaves through the battlefield, several vampire guards collapsing from the conceptual impossibility of what they'd witnessed.
Georg activated Dimension Lost in desperation, mist pouring from his Sacred Gear as he tried to transport me away from the battle. But I was already manipulating spacetime itself through gravitational fields, bending the fabric of reality around me.
Georg activated Dimension Lost in desperation, mist pouring from his Sacred Gear as he tried to transport me away from the battle. But I was already bending spacetime through gravitational manipulation, warping reality around me.
His mist reached me and encountered a gravitational barrier that twisted space itself. *Dimensional gateways still operate within spacetime,* I thought as his technique failed completely. *Control gravity, control space.*
Georg staggered as his most powerful ability failed completely, sweat beading on his forehead. "That should be impossible! You can't just manipulate gravity like that!"
"Can't I?" I asked, demonstrating by compressing the air molecules around me until they formed needle-like projectiles, then launching them with repulsive force. The compressed air struck the ground around Georg's feet with enough kinetic energy to shatter stone.
The remaining Hero Faction members spread out, clearly planning some form of coordinated assault. *Electromagnetic fields,* I realized, tracking the electrical impulses in their nervous systems. *Every thought generates a signature.*
"Heracles, you're planning a direct assault from behind," I called out without turning around. "Perseus hopes to use his shield while I'm distracted. Jeanne is preparing blessed ammunition. Leonardo is creating anti-monsters."
They froze, shocked at having their strategies anticipated so completely.
Jeanne attacked first, abandoning supernatural techniques for conventional firepower. Her modified assault rifle spat blessed bullets at hypersonic velocities, each round carrying enough kinetic energy to penetrate tank armor.
I manipulated inertia itself, reducing the bullets' momentum to zero the instant they entered my personal space. The blessed rounds simply stopped in midair, hanging motionless before dropping harmlessly to the ground.
*Kinetic energy is still energy,* I thought. *And energy follows laws I can control.*
Heracles charged with legendary strength enhanced by years of training, his massive fists aiming for pressure points with mountain-shattering force. I increased the gravitational field around him a hundredfold, forcing his superhuman muscles to work against crushing weight.
His punch, slowed to a crawl by the increased gravity, was easy to catch in my open palm. When I added attractive force to my grip, his legendary strength meant nothing.
*Strength is just applied force,* I mused as he struggled futilely against my hold. *Control force directly, and physical power becomes irrelevant.*
Perseus raised his shield desperately, reflective surface gleaming as he invoked the power of his Greek heroic spirit. But I manipulated weak nuclear force, controlling the radioactive decay of particles around me.
The petrification effect struck and failed completely, unable to transform matter that was already transforming under controlled nuclear processes.
Perseus stared in horror as his legendary shield proved useless. *Petrification versus controlled atomic decay,* I thought. *Nuclear forces operate deeper than heroic spirits.*
Leonardo had been quietly preparing his response, the young boy's expressionless face showing no emotion as creatures began materializing around him. Anti-monsters designed specifically to counter supernatural abilities emerged from his Annihilation Maker - beings that should have been able to adapt and neutralize my techniques.
I manipulated electromagnetic fields, disrupting the delicate balance of forces that held his artificial creatures together. One by one, the anti-monsters collapsed as their fundamental structures failed.
*Creation through Sacred Gear still follows physical laws,* I thought, watching the boy's emotionless mask finally crack with confusion. *Disrupt the underlying forces, and even Longinus creations fall apart.*
The battlefield fell silent except for labored breathing and the distant crackle of fires. My right eye was bleeding heavily now, the strain of using these powers without proper physical foundation taking its toll. But the fight was over.
Cao Cao clutched his ruined arm where the True Longinus's destruction had sent backlash through his system. "This can't be how it ends," he said hollowly. "We were going to save humanity."
"Were you?" I asked. "From where I stand, you were just replacing one form of oppression with another."
Georg managed to activate Dimension Lost one final time, creating an unstable escape portal. As they moved toward it, I struck with precise applications of force manipulation—repulsive bursts that severed Cao Cao's arm and crushed Georg's right eye.
They escaped, wounded and broken, through the collapsing dimensional gateway.
The battlefield fell silent except for labored breathing and the distant crackle of fires. My right eye was bleeding heavily now, the strain of using these powers without proper physical foundation taking its toll. But the fight was over.
I reached into my pocket and pulled out a small bottle filled with luminescent liquid - holy water of life, one of the few substances that could restore what the Sage's eye consumed. The bleeding stopped as I drank, feeling my lifespan restore itself as I felt more energized with clear mind and the burning pain in my eye faded away.
*The cost of using fundamental forces without the King's Body,* I thought, capping the empty bottle. *But worth it for the demonstration.*
I had just shown them what happened when someone could manipulate the very foundations of reality itself. The four fundamental forces that governed everything from atomic bonds to gravitational fields to the electromagnetic spectrum.
Physics itself had become my weapon, and no amount of divine authority or legendary power could stand against the forces that made existence possible. But without King's body, I was still a human who could die of over exertion of this divine power.
I stood alone among the unconscious forms of their allies, blood streaming from my right eye as the nuclear forces settled back into dormancy. The demonstration was over, but its implications would echo through the supernatural world.
*Creation through Sacred Gear still follows physical laws,* I thought, watching the boy's emotionless mask finally crack with confusion. *Disrupt the underlying forces, and even Longinus creations fall apart.*
Perks of being a mundane mortal.
The real question now was how the supernatural world would respond to this revelation.
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