The two enemy teams charged as one.
Each member of Ava's team was attacked by two opponents at once.
STAR
Star faced two opponents.
The first a descendant of the Selachin, much like Tavius commanded the sea itself. Water surged around him, forming blades and spiraling tides with every gesture.
He thrust his arm forward.
A tornado of water energy roared toward her, twisting with the fury of an ocean storm.
Star's eyes flared pink.
Solar runes ignited across her sword as miniature pink suns appeared before her, orbiting like petals of light.
She swung once
and the suns shot forward, colliding with the watery cyclone in a radiant explosion.
Steam filled the area.
Star turned, unable to see through the white haze.
Then
A flash of blue energy burst from the fog, slamming into her side and throwing her back. She gritted her teeth, skidding across the ground, smoke curling from her shoulder.
Through the mist, her second opponent emerge
a high-level spellcaster, floating effortlessly with an open Grimoire glowing in front of her. Pages turned on their own, each inscribed with radiant symbols. The air trembled with magical force.
Star's gaze darted between them.
The Selachin warrior stood to her left, waves coiling around his fists.
The spellcaster hovered to her right, gathering blinding energy.
Both charged their attacks at once.
Twin beams blue and white converged on Star from opposite sides as the battlefield erupted in light.
DALLAS
Dallas faced a swordsman wielding three blades.
One gripped in each hand.
The third clenched between his teeth.
Every swing tore through higher-dimensional space, slicing the air with such force that reality itself seemed to splinter.
Dallas barely dodged, the edges of those dimensional rifts grazing past his shoulder in streaks of light.
Before he could recover, a second opponent appeared a mage armed with a bow made of pure magic.
The archer drew back a radiant arrow, its glow humming with lethal energy.
Dallas twisted, raising his engine blade just in time.
The arrow struck with a shockwave of mana, sparks scattering across the ground.
But before the smoke cleared, the swordsman was already behind him three blades whirling, ready to cut him apart.
DEMETER
DEMITER
Demeter staggered backward as her opponent's body began to grow
ten feet… fifty… two hundred.
With every surge in size, her power multiplied.
The towering student raised a massive fist and slammed it down.
The impact shattered the arena floor, driving Demeter deep into the ground.
Before she could recover, the giant unleashed a barrage of punches, each one shaking the earth.
Dust filled the air. Blood ran from Demeter's nose.
Gritting her teeth, Demeter caught the next incoming fist with both hands
muscles tightening, veins glowing gold.
With a roar, she twisted her stance and threw the giant over her shoulder, slamming her across the arena. The shockwave rippled like thunder.
But there was no time to rest.
A second opponent flashed around her in blurs of motion
a speedster, reading incantations from an open Grimoire as he ran.
Each spell boosted his speed and multiplied his arms, until dozens of glowing limbs punched from every direction at once.
Demeter covered up, her armor ringing with every hit.
Then
"Enough!" she roared.
She drove her spear into the ground, and a massive shockwave erupted outward.
The earth split open, cracks racing through the battlefield.
The speedster was blown off his feet, tumbling through the air.
But before the dust settled, a shadow fell over her.
The giant was already back
grabbing Demeter in both colossal hands and squeezing with crushing force as the ground beneath them caved in.
AVA
Ava fell back, eyes locked on his team.
They were being overwhelmed.
If I don't move now… they'll fall.
He vanished.
Velocity Sync.
In an instant, Ava appeared beside Star just as the water-wielder raised a sword of liquid pressure to decapitate her.
Ava's eyes flashed.
"Chaos Counter."
His black sword flared into chaotic flame, the perfect corrupted mirror of water.
The chaos blade tore through the water sword like smoke, obliterating it.
Star reacted instantly.
"Thanks."
She unleashed a pink solar blast, blowing both her attackers across the battlefield.
Ava didn't stop.
He shot toward Dallas, who was seconds from being carved apart by three cosmic blades.
"Chaos Counter!"
Three chaotic swords materialized one in Ava's mouth, two in his hands mimicking the enemy's technique with perfect precision.
He slashed once.
The chaotic version overpowered the original, shattering the cosmic wind technique and blasting both enemies back.
He vanished again this time reappearing beside Demeter.
A colossal student descended from above, foot raised to crush her into the sand.
BOOM.
Ava appeared in front of her like a thunderbolt.
His voice was calm.
"Chaos Counter."
WHOOOOOOM!!!
A single punch.
Reality detonated.
A massive black fist of chaotic energy exploded from his arm, engulfing the air and launching the giant attacker across the desert, the shockwave shaking the dunes and rattling the bones of ancient titans buried in the earth.
Before the dust even settled
Demeter moved.
A golden spear manifested in her hand with a flash of radiant fury.
"Move," she snarled.
She hurled the spear like lightning.
CRACK!!!
The second attacker was blasted off his feet, the impact carving a trench through the wasteland as golden energy rippled through the sky.
Demeter spun the spear back into her hand and glanced at the rest of the team with a smirk.
"About time," she said, amused.
Ava's team regrouped back-to-back.
Their enemies, battered and furious, looked up to their two leaders floating above.
"KEEP FIGHTING!" Mortis Regalia, Lord of Resurrection commanded.
"ATTACK THEM!" Axiom Zerath , Paradox Titan added.
Both enemy teams roared and charged again.
Battle chaos erupted.
Blades clashed. Magic exploded. Bodies flew.
But high above the battlefield…
The two leaders watched with narrowed eyes.
"He's the problem," Axiom said, his voice low and steady.
"As long as Ava stands, they have a chance."
Mortis smirked.
"Then we kill him first."
They moved.
Ava fought alongside his team, his movements sharp and precise.
He parried one spell with a twist of his wrist, kicking an attacker aside.
But before he could reposition
CRACK!
A devastating punch slammed into his ribs, folding him over with a burst of pain.
BAM!
A second blow crashed into the side of his skull, the sheer force launching him backward like a cannon shot.
He tore through shattered bone structures and crumbling sand pillars, the ruins collapsing in his wake.
He hit the ground hard, rolling across the desert until he finally slid to a stop.
Dust and golden sand swirled around him.
Ava's vision blurred.
He could taste blood on his lip.
Still, he pushed a hand against the cracked ground and forced himself upright eyes glowing faintly, his halo flickering in the storm of chaos around him.
He looked around.
He couldn't see his team.
But directly in front of him…
Floating calmly in the air…
Were the two leaders.
Mortis Regalia – Lord of Resurrection.
Axiom Zerath – Paradox Titan.
They hovered above him like executioners.
Ava tightened his grip on his sword.
His heartbeat was steady.
His eyes… slowly turned more gold.
"Alright," he whispered.
"…let's see what you've got."
Mortis Regalia laughed, voice like knuckles against a coffin lid as he hovered over Ava. "You look scared," he taunted. "You really think your teammates can last without you?"
Paradox Titan smiled coldly beside him. "No," he said. "He's scared because he knows we're going to kill him."
Ava's jaw tightened. "I have confidence in my team. They don't need me. And you two will be finished soon."
Mortis's grin widened. "You should be scared. Back home In my multiverse, I am the Lord of Resurrection I am the concept itself." He spread one hand; corpses in the dunes trembled and twitched as invisible threads pulled at their bones, knitting flesh to bone at his command.
Axiom's eyes flashed. "And I" he boomed"am Infinity. I make paradoxes happen; I fold contradiction into reality and multiply infinity itself."
Ava watched them, the words registering. Concepts, he thought. How weak. Let's see what this body can handle.
He dropped into a fighting stance, black sword firm in his grip.
Mortis raised his staff.
The earth answered.
Sand split. Bones rattled.
Skeletons and dead warriors of every kind clawed their way out of the ground, marching toward Ava like a tidal wave of death.
Even the monsters they had already slain began to reassemble skin knitting back together, armor snapping into place, eyes reigniting with undead hunger.
And as if that wasn't enough
more undead began to pour in from every direction of the desert, summoned from other realms, other battles, other timelines.
Mortis floated above, serene and cold.
"You will never win," he intoned. "My army is infinite endless dead I can summon and revive."
Beside him, Axiom extended one hand.
Space folded.
Reality coiled.
The air around Ava twisted into a shimmering cage.
An infinite-dimensional bubble began to form around him stretching endlessly in every direction.
Axiom smirked as the barrier locked into place.
"And with Infinity, I trap you in a pocket domain an endlessly long bubble that keeps you here, forever out of reach."
They laughed as the undead surged.
Ava did not flinch.
He stepped forward and sliced, his blade shrieking through the air as black demonic light erupted in every direction.
A halo of chaos his Demonic Halo flared above his head, spinning like a crown of darkness.
Chaotic thunder coiled along his blade, lightning alive with corruption.
He tore through the hordes.
SLASH! Corpses split in half.
BOOM! Chaos Thunder exploded from his sword, obliterating monsters and warriors alike.
CRACK! Black lightning tore through the sky, blowing apart undead soldiers by the dozens.
He used Chaos Counter whenever he could
Lightning that imitated and corrupted enemy attacks, turning their own power against them.
Strikes that unmade spells, shredding magic apart at the source.
But every time he killed one…
They stood back up.
Bones snapped back into place.
Flesh reformed.
Eyes reignited with undead hate.
Each corpse he felled simply reknit, crawling back to its feet.
How many are there?
Fatigue gnawed at his limbs.
The onslaught never ended.
They kept coming.
And coming.
And coming.
His breath grew short. His muscles burned. The desert was drowning in enemies.
Ava's golden eyes narrowed.
If Mortis and Axiom break through…
If my team gets overwhelmed…
I can't let that happen.
I can't lose to these two.
My team needs me.
I have to hurry… I need to defeat them fast so I can save them.
He paused mid-swing, chaos lightning crackling across his blade.
…What is this feeling?
Why do I care so much?
His chest tightened. It was strange. Unfamiliar. Almost painful.
It's the same feeling I had about my human parents…
I never felt this emotion before…
Not until I was reborn.
The realization hit him like thunder.
His golden eyes flared brighter.
Whatever this feeling is…
I will fight with it.
From above, Axiom unleashed hell.
Blinding spheres of annihilation rained down, tearing through the desert and the colossal bones buried beneath it.
Each blast carved craters deep into the earth, and the sky itself burned under their light.
Ava was caught within a multi-layered Infinity Bubble Dimension
a trap of folded space and endless reflections, each layer collapsing as the bombardment struck.
He dodged and weaved through the chaos, his movements a blur of black and purple.
Each time he avoided a blast, another came closer
and then the battlefield began to stir again.
More undead emerged from the shifting sands, clawing their way up through the dust.
The ones Ava had already crushed and shattered moments ago began to stitch themselves back together, bones snapping into place, hollow eyes reigniting with cold blue light.
Hundreds of thousands became a million..
The desert floor writhed with their movement, an army of death surrounding him once more beneath the burning sky.
Ava roared, driving his fists through them
hundreds, Tens of thousands each strike bursting with chaotic energy, golden lightning tearing the corpses apart.
But the blasts above kept falling.
Then one finally hit.
BOOM!
The explosion engulfed his flank, searing pain tearing through his ribs.
He stumbled, dropped to one knee, blood spilling down his lip as the ground trembled beneath him.
Another energy blast screamed toward him, its light reflected in his eyes.
He clenched his fist.
"I can't die here… I won't fail them."
His voice deepened, steady.
"I'll show these two chaos."
He rose, lightning crawling across his body.
"I'll show them… why they call me Avalokita the Shinma of Chaos."
He inhaled slowly.
Then exhaled
and the air itself began to warp around him.
FWOOOM.
From his back, one black wing erupted into existence, unfolding like a shadow tearing through reality sleek, obsidian feathers crackling with purple lightning.
FWAAASH.
A second wing burst forth, the air warping from the force of its arrival as power surged around him.
Black and purple energy Chaos itself, the power of the Black Lotus exploded outward in a shockwave, blasting the undead armies backward like ragdolls as well as destroying the energy that was coming his way.
The desert split. The sky shook.
Each wing held four golden eyes, unblinking and alive, mirroring Tenshi no Me watching everything, understanding everything.
The wings beat once…
And the entire world shuddered, as if reality itself bowed to his awakening.
Ava had ascended.
His transformation settled, wings spread wide as the dust began to clear. Ava lifted his head… and saw it.
Axiom, outside the pocket bubble dimension, floating safely above, raining down endless blasts into the prison he created.
Purple chaos energy coiled around Ava's arm, lightning dancing across his skin.
His golden eyes scanned the technique with perfect precision reading every layer of power, every paradox, every twist of Infinity itself.
Ava raised his sword.
Chaos Counter.
He swung once.
The corrupted force erupted from his blade, not as a reflection but as a devouring storm of chaos that tore forward, smashing through the incoming blasts.
It didn't stop there.
It pierced the barrier of the pocket dimension, then ripped through the infinite layers of space Axiom had created, shattering the "endless" distance like glass.
The chaotic strike broke through every layer of infinity…
…and reached Axiom on the outside.
The bubble trembled. Monsters staggered. The wings lit with a darker, purer flame: the Black Lotus awakening. Ava spun, a furious blur, and shouted, "Black Lotus Chaos Infinite Destruction!"
A wave exploded from him, black and purple like a supernova of void. It swept the pocket domain clean countless undead dissolved into motes that evaporated in the wake. The infinite tide collapsed inward and, for the first time, could not be reassembled.
Mortis and Axiom's faces shifted from arrogance…
to disbelief.
Mortis: "He he destroyed my army."
Axiom: "He tore through… my infinite layers… my pocket dimension
Mortis snarled, desperately calling the dead back. They but failed to do so. The Black Lotus flame burned some deeper wound within the reanimation: their chance of revival snapped, seared away. "No" he whispered, panic breaking his regal tone. He tried again, hands trembling, but the corpses lay still, black char marking their ruins. What is this? he gasped.
Ava steadied his breath.
My Black Lotus wings are back… but how long can my body handle this power?
Even now, he could feel the pressure his muscles straining, bones creaking, reality itself weighing on him.
I have to finish this fight fast… before this form tears me apart.
His eyes lowered to the sword in his hand.
I wonder… can I awaken it too?
As if answering his thoughts, the blade began to change.
Slowly, black lotus petals of chaotic energy spiraled up the weapon, wrapping around it like living shadows. The sword extended, growing longer, heavier, more divine and more terrifying with every pulse of his wings.
CRACK… BOOM…
The air trembled as the transformation completed.
A single golden eye opened in the center of the blade unblinking, calm, all-seeing.
Ava lifted the weapon, feeling its true weight.
A slow, dangerous smile touched his lips.
"Good," he said quietly.
"The Black Lotus Sword… is in my hand."
Ava's golden eyes blazed, locking onto Mortis with divine precision. Tenshi no Me awakened fully, mapping every thread of existence and non existence around him until he found it the life string of the Lord of Resurrection himself. He reached out, saying velocity sink seized it, and tied his own to it, connecting essence to essence, concept to concept. The moment their strings intertwined, Ava moved vanishing in a blur of black light and reappearing before Mortis like a living nightmare.
The Black Lotus Sword struck clean through green-marbled armor and straight into the heart of resurrection. Mortis convulsed, his staff falling from his grasp as his eyes went wide in horror, feeling his own life strings unravel and burn. Axiom roared, leaping forward, his massive fist aimed to crush Ava but the blow met only air. Ava flickered, appearing again before Mortis, driving the blade deeper until the concept itself shattered.
Mortis screamed a sharp, ragged sound that split the desert then fell silent. His body flickered, broke apart into light, and vanished, expelled from the dungeon as reality refused to hold him. The points he had earned millions burst into golden ribbons, spiraling through the air before streaming into Ava. And as the light faded, Ava stood motionless, the Black Lotus Sword humming in his hand.
He had ended the Lord of Resurrection with his own Truth.
Axiom staggered, fury contorting his face. He gathered himself, clutching his arm where some wound bled. He glared at Ava with infinite hatred. "You won't" he hissed, voice low and jagged. "I will destroy you with my" He spat the last word like a curse. "infinite power."
Ava stood, chest heaving. The Black Lotus wings folded slowly. The golden eye on his sword pulsed once, accepting the stolen points' weight, and his voice was quiet but sure.
"Try," he said.
Above the ruined sands, the battlefield held its breath.
Before Paradox Titan could even finish speaking
BOOOOM!!
He was struck by a combined attack from Ava's entire team.
Star's flaming blast.
Demeter's golden spear strike.
Dallas's engine sword strike enhanced with energy constructs.
All three hit at once, creating a shockwave that sent Paradox Titan flying across the desert.
He crashed into a dune, skidding across bone and sand, eyes wide in surprise.
He looked up
And saw Ava's team running toward their leader.
Ava stood, still breathing heavily but unbroken.
"Glad to see you all safe," he said.
Demeter wiped blood from her lip. "Barely."
"You guys won, right?" Ava asked.
They nodded, each one bruised, exhausted, and running at half their strength.
Still…
Each of them had massive point totals hovering above their heads for a moment before fading.
They took their positions beside Ava, raising their weapons, staring down the last enemy Paradox Titan.
But before the final clash…
This is what happened in their fights.
STAR'S BATTLE
Star was underwater, her body straining against the crushing pressure.
The Selachin student had summoned enough water to drown a planet, his oceanic magic forming endless waves, tendrils, and blades that spiraled around her like living serpents.
Above, the second student hovered within a glowing spell circle, her Grimoire open and crackling with energy.
She raised her hand and dark lightning ripped through the sea, striking Star again and again.
Her scream echoed through the water, bubbles bursting from her lips as the pain surged through every nerve.
But she refused to yield.
She focused
gathered every ounce of her remaining strength
and ignited.
A massive explosion of light burst from her core, the ocean flashing into vapor in an instant.
It was as if a star had been born beneath the waves.
The water construct shattered, exploding into clouds of golden steam that blotted out the sky.
Gasping for air, Star raised her Grimoire, pages flipping on their own.
"Solar Codex awaken!"
She pressed her palm against the book.
Three enormous silhouettes rose behind her blazing, celestial figures formed entirely of fire.
The Sun Titans.
Each one roared and charged forward, shaking the battlefield as they collided with the Selachin's torrents, turning water into smoke and steam.
The Selachin student fought desperately, barely keeping control as his tides boiled away.
Meanwhile, Star spun toward the spellcaster.
She swung her sword through the air each motion tracing glowing trails of light.
Dozens of tiny pink suns erupted from her blade, streaking toward the mage like meteors.
They struck all at once explosions rippling through the air.
The girl cried out, her Grimoire snapping shut as she was engulfed in light
and then vanished, teleported back to the school in defeat.
Star turned, her golden hair whipping through the steam.
The Selachin student was still struggling against the Titans, his focus split.
She dashed forward.
Her fist ignited with miniature suns orbiting her knuckles like burning rings.
"Solar Impact!"
She struck once twic three times.
Each hit exploded with divine heat until he too was sent flying, disappearing in a flash of teleportation.
Silence fell.
Steam drifted over the battlefield.
DALLAS' BATTLE
Dallas soared through the storm of battle, jetpack roaring, his body encased in a glowing green construct shell of his own design.
Below him, the desert trembled as the three-sword swordsman unleashed slicing winds powerful enough to carve through distant mountains.
At the same time, the second enemy a magical archer fired arrow after arrow, each one glowing with enchanted light.
The arrows locked onto Dallas's energy signature, twisting through the air, chasing him relentlessly no matter where he flew.
Sword slashes from one side.
Homing arrows from the other.
He couldn't dodge forever.
"I can't outrun them for long," Dallas muttered through clenched teeth. "They're tracking my energy."
His visor flashed with data, analyzing trajectories, energy wavelengths then his eyes lit up.
"I've got an idea."
He turned sharply, accelerating straight toward the swordsman.
The student raised his blades, ready to cut him from the sky
But Dallas raised his hand.
"Ultimate Shine!"
A surge of emerald light exploded outward, blinding the swordsman completely.
In that instant, Dallas drew his weapon the Engine Blade its engine roaring to life with a metallic snarl.
He struck.
SLASH!
The swordsman's defense shattered, his body disintegrating into green light before teleporting back to the academy.
Dallas exhaled, smoke trailing from his blade
But before he could celebrate, a new warning blared in his HUD.
The arrows were still coming.
He shot upward, weaving through explosions that lit up the sky.
Each blast slammed into his construct armor, shaking him violently.
"I can't shake them!" he yelled, gritting his teeth as another detonation ripped across his flank.
Then his eyes caught something on the horizon
the skeletal remains of massive dungeon beasts, scattered across the dunes like a graveyard.
"That's it…" he whispered.
Dallas angled downward, streaking toward the ruins.
As the homing arrows followed, he channeled energy into his chest constructs materializing from his armor.
A glowing decoy core, pulsing with his signature energy, tore free from his chest and dropped to the ground.
The arrows locked onto it immediately.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
A series of thunderous explosions ripped through the skeletal ruins, sand and bone flying sky-high.
The archer hovered above, squinting through the smoke.
"I think I got him," he said with a smirk.
Then he froze.
All around him
tiny green constructs glowed faintly in the air, hidden in the dust.
They pulsed… one by one.
From a distant, Dallas raised a small controller.
"Not quite."
CLICK.
Dozens of explosions tore through the air, engulfing the archer in a blazing emerald storm.
When the light cleared, the student was gone teleported back to the school in defeat.
Dallas hovered above the smoking crater, breathing hard, armor cracked but glowing.
He looked toward the horizon.
"Two down," he muttered. "Let's hope the others are still standing."
DEMETER'S BATTLE
Demeter was being crushed alive.
The giant girl's colossal hands pressed down, trying to flatten her into the dirt while the speedster mage darted around, reading from his Grimoire as a dozen spectral arms pummeled her face and body faster than she could see.
The ground cracked beneath the blows.
Blood dripped from Demeter's lips.
Her teeth clenched.
Then
the earth trembled.
A deep rumble echoed from below, shaking the battlefield so violently that the giant lost her balance.
Cracks split across the ground as a massive hole yawned open beneath them, swallowing the area in golden light.
Both the giant and the speedster stumbled as the earth collapsed inward, dragging everything down.
Demeter thrust her palms forward
the giant released her just as the terrain gave way.
The Earth Mage shot upward, her body surrounded by glowing green aura.
She hovered high above the pit, glaring down.
Below, the speedster raced up the side of the collapsing terrain, enchanted legs sprouting from his spell, climbing faster and faster toward the surface.
The giant, still tumbling into the abyss, screamed, "I can't fly in this form!"
Her massive body began to shrink as she transformed back to human size, wings of magic flaring from her back as she tried to escape upward.
But Demeter had already raised her staff.
Her eyes blazed gold.
"This," she said coldly, "is for making my nose bleed."
She aimed her staff toward the massive crater below.
A single spear of solid light materialized in her hand she hurled it with all her strength.
As the spear plunged downward, a portal opened behind it
and from that portal, an endless storm of golden spears rained into the abyss.
They tore through the air in unison, each strike shaking the ground and filling the hole with blinding light.
The former giant screamed as the barrage struck her again and again
until the sound faded into silence, her body turning to dust before she could teleport back to the school.
Demeter closed the portal with a flick of her wrist.
Then her gaze snapped upward.
The speedster was still running, dozens of legs sprouting, moving so fast the ground caught fire beneath him.
She raised her free hand.
"Let's see you outrun the ground itself."
The earth below the speedster began to move.
Massive slabs of stone rose and shifted, forming barriers and cliffs to block his path.
He smashed through them, shouting, "You can't catch me!"
Demeter smiled.
"We'll see."
The entire landscape began to writhe.
Then
the ground opened its eyes.
A colossal stone face emerged beneath the speedster, its mouth splitting wide as it bit down on his leg, trapping him mid-run.
He screamed, looking down in shock.
"What what is this!?"
Demeter spun her staff and slammed it into the air.
"Underground Shine!"
The stone face's mouth began to glow gold.
Then it fired a massive energy beam upward, engulfing the speedster in blinding light.
The explosion sent him flying, his body scorched and broken before he finally vanished teleported back to the school in defeat.
Demeter landed softly, dust swirling around her.
She looked down at the hole, breathing heavily.
"Return to rest," she whispered to the earth.
The crater sealed.
BACK TO THE PRESENT
All three stood beside Ava.
Battered. Scorched. Breathing hard.
But unbroken.
Together, they stared down the last remaining enemy…
Paradox Titan.
The battlefield fell silent.
A storm of power gathered in the air, thick and suffocating.
One enemy left.
One final battle.
Ava stepped forward, golden eyes glowing with calm fury.
"Your team… is gone," he said quietly. "You're next."
Paradox Titan's aura exploded outward like a collapsing star, tearing cracks in space itself. He bared his teeth, face twisting with rage.
"I am Infinity," he growled. "And I will erase you all."
His spellbook snapped open behind him, pages swirling like a vortex. He poured magic into himself, layering spell after spell, increasing his affinity until his power surged beyond logic infinite strength and infinite magic fusing together.
A massive sphere of reality-shattering energy formed in his hands, growing larger than mountains, warping the sky.
"It's over!" he roared, hurling the attack toward Ava's team.
Dallas staggered, barely standing. "I… I can't move."
Demeter tried to lift her spear but her arms trembled. "My body's done…"
Star exhaled shakily. "If that hits us… we're finished."
Ava's black wings flickered, struggling to stay materialized. His entire body screamed in exhaustion… but he still stepped forward.
"I think…" he muttered, voice low… "I've got one more left."
He launched into the sky, sword in hand, flying straight toward the incoming annihilation.
The energy blast roared like a god's judgment.
Ava's golden eyes scanned it instantly mapping every layer, every paradox, every infinite fold.
His sword ignited with black and purple chaos, lightning tearing across the sky.
He raised the blade.
"CHAOS COUNTER!!!"
SLASH!!!!
One swing.
His blade split the infinite blast in half, tearing it apart like paper, corrupting its power, devouring its infinity.
The counterstrike did not stop.
The chaotic energy rushed straight through the attack
and pierced Paradox Titan before he could even react.
The student's eyes went wide
"W-Wait"
SHHHK.
The Chaos Counter tore through his body, through his concept, through his claim to infinity itself.
There was no time to scream.
He died before the dungeon could return him to the Academy.
His body vanished on the spot
erased from the realm.
And then
ALL of his points every universe, every conquest, every infinite bonus poured into Ava like a cosmic flood.
As the light faded…
Ava hovered in the sky, wings dim but still open.
The battlefield was silent.
He had defeated Resurrection.
He had devoured Infinity.
And he still stood.
After the battle with Paradox Titan, Ava and his team were seriously injured.
They spent multiple days inside the dungeon recovering, fighting, conquering, and earning even more points. Their strength continued to rise. Their teamwork sharpened. Their dimensional power expanded.
Until finally…
It ended.
Their bodies began to glow with returning light, and in a flash of energy, they were pulled out of the dungeon and brought back to the Dark Lord Academy.
The massive arena buzzed with exhausted students. Some were limping. Some were silent. Some didn't return at all.
Professor Gorath Valoron stood at the front, arms folded behind his back.
"Congratulations to all who survived," he announced. His gaze swept the room. "And congratulations to the team… with the highest score in the entire dungeon."
Every head turned.
Ava's team.
A ripple of shock, envy, and awe spread through the students.
Gorath dismissed the class, and as everyone else left, he walked directly toward Ava's group.
He stopped in front of them, studying each of their faces.
"You four…" he said slowly. "You have shown the greatest growth I have ever seen."
He narrowed his eyes, baffled yet impressed.
"It's as if your dimensionality evolved in just one week inside the dungeon. Your energy… your presence… all of you feel completely different."
Demeter smirked with pride.
Dallas tried not to look too happy.
Star folded her arms, pretending to act casual.
Gorath nodded once.
"Keep this up… and your team will rise to the higher levels of the Academy sooner than anyone in history."
Ava felt a spark of opportunity.
This is my chance.
He reached out and gently placed a hand on Gorath's shoulder.
"Thank you," Ava said with a calm smile while secretly scanning of his energy, scanning it for the demonic presence.
Nothing.
Gorath stepped aside. "Head to your next class."
Ava and his team walked down the hallway, bruised but laughing, making jokes about everything that had happened.
Star bragged about slicing armies.
Demeter flexed, recalling how she punched a giant in the face.
Dallas claimed he "strategically" didn't die.
Ava stayed quiet, hands in his pockets.
So… he's not the one controlling the demonic eye either.
That makes four teachers I've scanned.
I need to hurry and find who it is… before they make a move.
He paused.
Interesting…
Inside the dungeon, the demonic eye didn't follow me. Maybe it has limits…
But as they turned the corner…
He didn't look up.
He didn't need to.
He could feel it.
Hovering near the ceiling… silent… patient…
The demonic eye was still watching him.
Unblinking.