“Dong… dong…”
A subtle sound echoed.
It was not the thunder of war drums, but rather the tremendous pressure brought by the arrival of two Dominators that silenced the entire battlefield.
Hiding in the shadows, Su Yun could even hear her own heartbeat with startling clarity.
The deafening sounds of battle that once filled the air seemed to be abruptly strangled by an invisible force, leaving behind a suffocating, deathly silence.
Yet when she looked up, she found what looked like fireworks blossoming in the sky.
No…
Su Yun scrutinized the scene and realized it was not fireworks, but a sight far grander and more terrifying than any pyrotechnic display.
Distant stars, like glass beads crushed by an invisible giant hand, silently shattered, bursting into heart-stopping halos of light, only to be swiftly devoured by an even deeper darkness.
“Gulp…”
Su Yun swallowed hard.
Are they really that powerful?
“Good thing the Dominator just established the rule that this planet cannot be destroyed. Otherwise, we’d be standing in the void right now,” one lucky survivor, a trembling soldier, whispered, his voice tinged with the terror of a narrow escape.
“Yeah….” Another mage lifted his head, gazing up at that chaotic starry sky.
In his eyes was uncontrollable fear and reverence. The reason why Dominators are called gods is because their power is beyond human, beyond even the same dimension.
Their very existence is a subversion of the laws of the mortal world.
A casual wave of their hand could cause a chaotic-level disaster that tears the fabric of space.
A playful slap could manifest the origin laws, unattainable for mortals.
At this moment, the two Dominators merely looked at each other across the void, but even the collision of their wills made countless worlds in the distant starry sky collapse with a roar, forming and vanishing like bubbles.
In realms unseen by mortals, two supreme laws were clashing in their most primal and violent forms.
The law representing order and rules, and the elemental law of blazing light, in their fierce conflict, spawned countless minuscule, fleeting universes, which were then utterly obliterated—again and again—leaving behind only a chaotic, misty afterimage in the sky.
So they say, “One path leads to all paths.”
It means that when one’s way reaches its extreme, all other paths can be linked, simulating and evolving all others from that single road.
But the Rule Dominator’s approach was even more intricate, directly commanding various laws by constructing rules themselves.
This was how the Dominator barely survived the siege of the other Dominators.
The Light Element Dominator also knew the opponent was not easy to deal with and did not attack directly, simply standing there to exert pressure.
It seemed as if the two sides would remain motionless in this stalemate forever.
That would not do.
The Rule Dominator narrowed his eyes, the profound gleam in his gaze piercing layers of void.
Not to mention, after a while, other Dominators might notice the disturbance and come to assist the Light Element Dominator.
Just this kind of face-off between two armies would never produce a second Dominator.
What he needed was a real bloodbath, a world-shaking cataclysm, a ruthless, all-out brawl, a slaughter that would darken the heavens and blot out the sun and moon.
Only amid such utter chaos and despair could a new Dominator possibly be born.
And only the birth of a new Dominator would ease the pressure on himself.
“Battle beyond the world.”
He spoke slowly; though his voice was soft, it resounded through the universe like a great bell.
The Light Element Dominator stared at him, the face completely shrouded in light, eyes flickering with uncertainty, as if containing the birth and death of countless stars.
But in the end, he responded.
“Very well.”
And so, the two of them vanished from this world in an instant, as if they had never existed.
Immediately, the starry sky became more chaotic and hazy than ever, the lingering reverberations of the laws twisting and trembling, as if the entire sky had fallen into disorder.
The next second, without warning, a colossal shadow, taller than mountains and brimming with boundless might, reappeared on the battlefield.
Lin Mo exerted her power once more, summoning the giant from the past again.
Meanwhile, the Elemental Army did not sit idly by—countless terrifying spells erupted simultaneously in response.
Light, darkness, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder.
Light took the lead, with the other magics supporting.
A tidal wave of law surged straight for the giant.
The giant immediately raised its hand to unleash a light cannon, blocking the onslaught.
Everyone understood this would be a war of total annihilation, with no chance for reconciliation.
Either the allied forces would be wiped out,
Or the newborn Dominator would obliterate the Elemental Army.
“Hahahaha!!!” A sorcerer suddenly let out a wild laugh, his voice shaking the land, then his body swelled rapidly, transforming into a red giant ox sixty or seventy meters tall.
Blazing flames engulfed him, and he charged toward the Elemental Army with unstoppable force.
The others all revealed their powers: crystalline glass war chariots, space-cutting giant swords, and curses carrying ancient evil relics… Every spell and odd weapon capable of breaking enemy lines appeared, gathering into an unstoppable torrent, rushing at the Elemental Army’s defenses.
Among them was even a candy war chariot dozens of meters tall.
Its body was built from colorful candies and cream, exuding a tempting sweetness yet bizarrely indestructible.
Atop it was a panic-stricken girl, clutching someone’s sleeve tightly—that someone was a sorcerer with eyes bright with mad excitement, waving his staff as he controlled this peculiar war machine.
The Elemental Army’s protective barrier shattered in an instant. Hit by this torrent, it vanished completely, unable to resist any longer.
Witches, sorcerers, knights, and mages fought together—swords flashing, magic bursting, flesh and blood flying—the battlefield became an utter scene of chaos and brutality.
Su Yun knew her mission had come, but she couldn’t help letting out a soft sigh. On a battlefield this terrifying, she couldn’t just run away!
Damn it… So evil… Ugh… Whatever…
Silently, she slipped into the shadows, gliding along the edge of the battlefield like a ghost awaiting her chance. Everyone was fighting so fiercely that lives were lost every moment, and soon casualties mounted everywhere.
Su Yun’s gaze darted quickly through the flames of battle. She couldn’t tell whose items were better, nor which held value.
All she could do was lock onto the scattered or glinting objects near corpses, dashing out like a blur to snatch them into the shadows before retreating at top speed.
She never attacked directly, only watching warily from distant shadows, seizing any window of safety to make a dash for loot and immediately pulling back.
The price for this was huge—her magic power drained rapidly, soon nearly empty.
Every stealth move, every sprint, every grab, squeezed her reserves dry.
At last, she had to curl up at the bottom of a huge crater blasted out by some terrifying force, her face deathly pale.
Cautiously, she began to recover her remaining scrap of magic.
“This… should be enough, right?”
Su Yun checked her space ring.
It was already crammed full of all kinds of odds and ends.
Even her guinea pig pouch was stuffed.
Among Mo Qingqing’s several storage devices, only one still had space left.
She thought, this way, Mo Qingqing probably wouldn’t punish her.
It’s not that she didn’t want to do more.
It’s just that, as a low-ranked nobody, she was truly powerless on this battlefield…