Chapter 2174 Rage

Chapter 2174 Rage

Rui glared at her with the darkness of a thousand nights.

'Do you loathe me?' Her eyes gazed into his with pious devotion. 'Do you wish to kill me?'

It took a herculean effort not to show her the answers to her questions with his actions.

It took more self-control than he had ever mustered to stay his rage until the battle formally commenced.

Yet, even then, he felt a deep frustration at his inability to kill her on this occasion.

Disapproval flickered in her eyes.

'The Antithesis shan't be bound by the force of man.'

Her expression grew more forceful.

'Lord Virodhabhasa mustn't cede to worldly shackles.'

Her eyes bore into his with a powerful gaze.

It was as though she was trying to overwrite who he was with her vision of the Antithesis.

'You are not ready...' She gazed at him with clear eyes. 'For you do not even know who you are.'

Rui's eyes grew darker as the air between them boiled tumultuously.

'Lord Virodhabhasa knows no uncertainty of self.' She spoke to him from the depths of her eyes. 'Come, let me show you who you are. Let me show you—'

"Shut up."

Rui's voice was laced with hatred and disgust.

Everything she said simply fueled his rage. He hated the vision that she had for who he was.

He hated the pious devotion that he saw in her eyes.

He hated the reverence that he could feel in the depths of her soul.

It was love.

A deep, twisted, sickening love.

Yet, it was directed not at him as he was.

No.

An ephemeral storm emerged from the depths of Master Uma's eyes as her Martial Embodiment bloomed in all its tempestuous glory, sweeping across the vast expanse of the Master-level battlefield.

Yet, it wasn't merely an illusion.

No.

"Tempestuous Whirlwind Sword." A whisper escaped Master Uma as she activated a technique that birthed a storm that overlapped over her Martial Embodiment.

It was a manifestation of absolute harmony and a perfect synergy between the Martial Mind and Martial Art. An extremely rare feat.

The winds of her technique only multiplied as its scope continuously rose.

It had grown far stronger than it had been eighteen years ago.

Yet, what was to come had already arrived.

The world held its breath as Rui's Martial Embodiment erupted from deep within the depths of the microcosm of his mind.

It subsumed heaven and earth in its vengeful fury.

An infinite void.

The panel of Martial Masters witnessing the battle widened their eyes in sheer horror at the power of Rui's Martial Mind.

Never before had they beheld such an otherworldly Martial Embodiment.

Never before had they beheld such an astronomical capacity of thought.

While the Martial Masters had come to accept the anomaly that was Rui and had grown used to his truly unprecedented power of mind, the same could not be said for Martial Masters who were witnessing it for the very first time.

The Martial Master who was tasked with evaluating Ruis Martial Mind was simply frozen with an aghast expression on her face as she witnessed systems of thought far greater than anything she had ever thought possible.

However, this was just the beginning.

A single whisper escaped Rui.

"Muspelheim." WHOOOOOSH!!!

An inferno the likes of which none of them had seen before emerged from within Rui as the realm of fire descended upon heaven and earth.

It reflected the fury that Rui felt emerging from the depths of his heart.

WHOOOOOSH!!!

The first clash of the battle was the storm colliding with the inferno.

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