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BOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The second she gave Rui to Kane, she just barely managed to intercept a Sage that sought to wipe Kane out with Rui.
She needed to keep him engaged.
"Your mother didn't love you!"
The Gorteaun Martial Sage snorted. "You think I don't know that?"
BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
She gritted her teeth as she withstood his devastating attacks one after another. She knew it.
Her Martial Art was almost obsolete against Martial Sages.
They were still capable of feeling wrath and despair and all the emotions that they were capable of before. However, she couldn't destabilize them.
The enlightenment was a causal understanding of who they were. There was nothing that they themselves didn't understand about who themselves and had made peace with. On top of that, the Sage Realm was very different from the prior Realms.
The fact that she had broken just a weak ago was more damning than it would have otherwise been in the Lower Realms.
If not for the manifold giving her three and a half months, she would have never been able to even attain Sage-level combat power.
BOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!
Yet, she held on.
That was all she needed to do.
She didn't need to win or even harm.
She merely needed to stall.
Every Kandrian Martial Artist understood this well enough.
And thus, they fought.
From the strongest of Sages to the weakest of Masters.
They fought at dangerously close proximity.
They fought with a dangerous number of Martial Artists on both sides.
An unprecedented concentration of power the likes of which the world had never seen before. The weight of their beings.
The weight of their power.
It crushed heaven and earth asunder.
It crumpled the very fabric of space and time to extraordinary proportions.
RUMBLE!!!!!
The combined might of forty-five Martial Sages shook the world to its root as they sent ripple across space and time.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!
Sage Shinken and Sage Knight Vermillion froze with horror as Damian unleashed an even greater wave of destruction as he summoned more Materia Prima from not just the root of his own being but also from the root of the very around them. Heaven and earth began melting away out of existence across the battlefield as he pushed back against the two peak Sages.
Instantly, a single truth became clear to all the Martial Sages in the battlefield.
They were all dead if they didn't do something about the Devil.
Instantly, they abandoned their battles and surged to converge upon him.
The very next instant, the Kandrian Martial Sages converged to reinforce the Devil against their former opponents, standing behind and beside him as each Martial Artist pushed themselves to the limit in exerting their power.
That was a mistake.
RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!
Their power converged in the gap between the two sides.
It converged upon a single point.
It converged upon a single point as the very fabric of space and time crumpled under the sheer weight of the power that they outputted.
It came to gain its own gravitation pull as the combined power of forty-five Sages converged further and further as its own gravitational pull accelerated the convergence of all that power unto a single point.
It gave birth to a cosmic monster.
It gave birth to a singularity.
A black hole.
RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In that moment, the Martial Sages froze with horror as they realized that they had crossed a line.
They had crossed a line they should have never crossed.
They watched with horror as the black hole began consuming all of heaven and earth at a horrifyingly astronomical rate!
They watched with horror as the singularity grew larger and larger with each bite of Gaia it took.
They watched as they felt its gluttonous hunger draw them in. They watched with despair as it marked the beginning.
The beginning of the end.
Far away in the Imperial Palace of the Britannian Empire, sat a man upon a throne.
An Emperor.
A Transcendent.
He opened his eyes slowly as his gaze shifted towards the impending apocalypse.
RUMBLE
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