Overgeared

“You are unlucky to meet me. This must be karma for not accumulating merit on a regular basis.”

A boy with long red hair looked at Hanul with pity as Hanul was trapped in the spatial distortion. The boy was a genius who managed to reach the late great ascension realm in only eight thousand years.

He was a monster who had been in a state of harmony since he was born. His techniques and mystical arts had synergized well with one another regardless of attributes and environment. This allowed him to exert enormous power.

He always overpowered cultivators of a higher realm than him, so the entire cultivation community feared and respected the boy. He felt grateful that people treated him this way. People’s respect and support motivated him.

That’s right. To put it bluntly, the boy was someone who liked being the center of attention. Before he knew it, the boy began working hard to be praised even more. For his own sake, he accumulated merit by respecting his superiors and taking care of his subordinates.

The boy’s perspective was different from that of an ordinary cultivator.

“So, why don’t you usually take care of those around you?” he asked. “If you had been praised like me, you wouldn’t have been in this troublesome situation all alone as you are now.”

“Praised?”

The rampant light trapped in the distorted space took on the shape of a person. It was Hanul, a God of the beginning. He’d taken the form of a human, though he had never been human.

Hanul sneered. “It’s shameful for you to discuss worship with me.”

Hundreds of ripples occurred in the spatial distortion that trapped Hanul. The boy cocked his head. He couldn’t feel any waves of power, but he was surprised to see that his technique was showing signs of collapse.

The distorted space shattered before the boy could understand what was going on. He didn’t have a chance to react.

Fragments of space sparkled like broken glass as Hanul pulled them into his hands instead of letting them scatter in all directions.

“Um...?”

The boy still didn’t understand the phenomenon that was unfolding before his eyes. However, he sensed danger and made a decision.

The chill air around the boy instantly transformed into a barrier of ice. It reflected and absorbed light from all angles, reflecting all kinds of colors on its surface.

Hanul suddenly turned into light and attacked the boy, who had the ice barrier around him.

“Didn’t I say that It was your misfortune to meet me? Even if you turn into light, I know many methods to bind it...”

The sneer on the boy’s face suddenly stiffened. He felt a heavy shock reverberating throughout the barrier. The ice created by the boy couldn’t be melted by any flame and had never been broken, but the intensity of the impact was unusual. He had a bad feeling about this.

Part of the ice wall disappeared without a trace. It wasn’t destroyed. Hanul’s grip devoured it.

A chill went down the boy’s spine.

‘Spatial distortion?’

This was a technique used to summon distorted space. Hanul was using the same secret technique the boy had used on him just moments before.

It was impossible for Hanul to know this technique beforehand. The spatial distortion created by Hanul and the spatial distortion created by the boy were the same in every single way.

‘He stole it?’

finally understood what happened and hurriedly cast a new spatial distortion, which he intended

…….

all sound disappeared from the world. The spot where the explosion occurred was tinged with

space rift. The jade light was coming from the deep crack in space created by the explosion. It was

“......!”

type of presence beyond the space rift that appeared between them. The

didn’t just connect the dimensions, it connected it to the

The way he smiled while looking nervous seemed to indicate that he was both

and soft hands that

The shockwave was huge.

above the beautiful hand that reached out from the rift, spun around, and quickly transformed

Even Hanul, who had turned into light and distanced himself, suffered from internal injuries and coughed up blood. The boy reacted

the voice

you take a peek at

harsh words, the voice was clear and had

was stunned for a moment before hurriedly saluting. “This incompetent junior greets his

meant that, after repeated efforts to defy the natural order, this

other side of the space

are almost at the peak of the great ascension realm. You are a rare talent even in the immortal world. You have the potential to aim for ascension within

the woman on the other side of

“Bah.” He was a born immortal. He was an absolute ruler from birth. A person who managed to grasp eternal life after petty struggles didn’t

himself while thinking of Grid, “I might think differently of you if you became an Only One God

made the boy

dare you be rude

found those words absurd. “Should

couldn’t bear it and a mirror popped

he was astonished, but he felt both fear and joy. He knew a lot of ways to neutralize light.

to move, like characters in a painting. Those

“Which one are you?”

or for a brief second. The boy thought the result would be the same no matter

Flash!

in the mirror, and the corners of the boy's mouth curved as high as they could. Hanul,

was exposed and couldn’t even lift a finger. He seemed

to Hanul. He thrust a large spear with strange characters flowing like blood veins

handle the devastating power of light that Hanul unexpectedly released. His nascent soul abandoned his body. “What...?” he asked,

been affected by the Mirror of Life. He only pretended to lose his light. At least, that’s what the boy thought. If that wasn’t the case, then Hanul’s immediate counterattack would’ve been

by the Mirror of Life. However, he was a god. Even if his body was destroyed, he had the

faster than the

Could it be that you’ve never seen something like

boy’s point of view, what Hanul was

do you mean?”

miracles despite having an ordinary human body. Later on, they become a hero, then a legend, and eventually a