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?’

which he intended to neutralize the spatial distortion ability that Hanul had taken

…….

the distorted spaces collided, all sound disappeared from the world. The spot where the explosion occurred was tinged with jade, resembling the

in space created by the explosion. It was a flawed result of an incomplete version of the

“......!”

same time. They felt some type of presence

it connected it to the upper

smiled while looking

thin and soft hands that emerged

The shockwave was huge.

beautiful hand that reached out from the rift, spun around, and quickly transformed into a great

turned into light and distanced himself, suffered from internal

the voice of a strange

dare you take a peek at the immortal

clear and had

moment before hurriedly saluting.

to an immortal. It meant that, after repeated efforts to defy the natural order, this

woman on the other side of the space rift took an

thousand years and 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 tens of thousands of years, so there

him. He could tell that the woman on the other side of the space rift had

absolute ruler from birth. A person who managed to grasp eternal life after petty struggles didn’t impress him in the

“I might think differently of you if you became an Only One God like

made the boy glare

you be rude to the

words absurd. “Should I be

it and a mirror

Fortress and who could turn into light, he was astonished, but he felt both fear and joy. He knew

its reflection would lose its power and would be unable to move, like characters in a

“Which one are you?”

matter if Hanul would be stuck for an eternity or for a brief second. The boy thought the result would be the same no matter what. He considered that he

Flash!

got captured in the mirror, and the corners of the boy's mouth curved as high as they could. Hanul, who lost his light, took the

exposed and couldn’t even lift

was already close to Hanul. He thrust a large spear with strange characters flowing like

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

pretended to lose his light. At least, that’s what the boy thought. If that wasn’t the case,

Hanul had been caught by the Mirror of Life. However, he was a

recovered faster than the boy thought, and

“It’s ridiculous to panic. Could it be that you’ve never seen

boy’s point of view, what Hanul was saying

do you mean?” the

an ordinary human body. Later on, they become