When Ashtel came into contact with the power of the world, he got immense amounts of realization.
If not for the fact that 'laws' of the world didn't take any liking to him, he would have awakened a legendary skill right there.
Aside from having talent and all, the favorability of a 'law' of the world also matters in gaining a legendary skill; otherwise, you can't have it.
Regardless, Ashtel had improved significantly in the past few months.
Before seeing that phenomenon, his 'World Authority' was stuck at the peak of level 4 and was showing no signs of improvement at all.
Thus, he couldn't use a certain technique that only those with level-5 or above-level authority holders could accomplish.
The technique of merging two completely different and opposite martial arts into one perfect art is something you can only accomplish with immense power and intelligence.
Ashtel lacked enough authority over 'shockwave' to fully merge his two 'arts' into one to create an extremely powerful attack.
But once he reached beyond level-5, he became capable of using an attack so strong that even himself couldn't stop anymore once unleashed.
Neo was in control of all the mana in the area, and Ashtel needed to place his own mana in the area at different set locations to fully activate this technique.
By the seventh hour of the battle, Ashtel had realized that he couldn't win this battle if he runs out of mana and keeps going like this.
Thus, he figured out a plan.
He continuously used his shield made out of the world's blessing at full capacity and created small bubbles that contained his mana imprints, then he placed them in certain locations during the battle.
Neo obviously noticed it all; he could sense the gaps in the mana flow created by those small bubbles, but he couldn't do anything about them.
As long as Ashtel's maintaining them with his mind, Neo couldn't destroy them, as they were all small-sized shields made out world's blessing.
Ashtel, who always used to charge head-on into battle, finally learned to use plans to his advantage.
The reason why Ashtel had activated that gigantic field of the world's blessing despite knowing that his own shield might collapse as the burden on his mind was already too high was because that was the final step in the plan.
Ashtel tanked the powerful attack fired by Neo and survived through it; at that moment, his plan had already succeeded.
His mental power finally ran out; all the shields he had placed in the form of bubbles collapsed, and the world's blessing field he had laid out connected them all in an instant.
Even Neo couldn't mobilize his mana fast enough to react to it all.
The past memories flashed by in Ashtel's mind as he was only a step away from death; it seemed like a lot of time had passed but only a mere nanosecond had passed.
In a battle between peak powerhouses, even a single nanosecond can be fatal. Neo was so distracted by his victory that he lost his mind to 'power', thereby missing that nanosecond timeframe.
Neo had taken over Liam's body by force, and Ashtel had stopped it midway, thus it was flawed.
He couldn't summon any of his or Liam's summoned beasts in that state, nor could he use any other skills.
That's why he was only using divinity throughout the battle, and Ashtel had noticed it beforehand.
He had noticed that after gaining such immense powers in such a short timeframe, Neo's soul was likely 'corrupted' by power.
Neo definitely achieved such immense power, but he took it all too fast, and his soul couldn't adapt so fast; that's why he was 'flawed'.
If it were anyone else, they wouldn't have noticed this hidden 'flaw', but Ashtel is different;
he has insane battle experience; he has fought thousands of battles and has adapted to disadvantageous situations many times.
He easily figured out this 'flaw' in those ten hours of battle.
Using the 'level-7' world authority, he at last merged the two completely opposite techniques
in a 'perfect' state.
Thus, 'Absolute Singularity' was born.
Elven Empire Borders.
In the sky.
"Hmm?..."
Ryul glanced in a certain direction, and a deep frown appeared on his face.
"What happened?"
Syvis, who was standing beside him, asked in confusion. It's very rare for Ryul to show such an expression, so she was also taken aback for a moment.
Ryul directly ignored her question and glanced towards the world tree.
[Secret Art: Call of the Saint!]
[World Tree's Movement: Protection of the Sacrifice!]
Ryul is the king of elves; he's the closest person to the world tree, and the world tree has its roots spread over the entire planet.
If anything that can put the entire planet in danger appears, Ryul is the first person who will notice it, as the world tree will inform him directly.
"Something that shouldn't exist has appeared! Syvis! Use maximum output to heal the world tree!!"
Syvis was a bit confused at those words, but she didn't question much and hurried towards the world tree with Ryul.
[World Authority: Blessing of Life!]
Ryul's world authority 'Blessing of Life' is strong enough that it can give an insanely powerful boost to the world tree; the earlier secret technique he had used was also to awaken the roots
of the world tree.
The world tree is not only a tree that creates fruits and powerful items; it's also a guardian deity for the entire planet!
In a scenario when a planet-destroying attack is unleashed, the world tree is the one who's responsible to defend and stop it from being destroyed!
Maya Continent, Outside the Spire of Ascension.
*BOOOM!!!*
Just a few nanoseconds before 'Absolute Singularity' was unleashed, gigantic roots of the
world tree burst out from the ground.
A massive crack appeared in the tectonic plate of the continent, and roots the width of fifty- story buildings burst out from the ground one after another.
The roots immediately surrounded the entire spire of ascensions from all directions, including under the ground too, and formed a bubble-like shield around it.
*CRACK!!**SHATTER!!*
*BOOOM!!*
Just as the world tree's roots had completed forming a protective shield, gigantic cracks appeared in the upper floors of the spire of Ascension, and it started to shack violently.
The power of 'Absolute Singularity' was too immense; even with the automatic repair mechanism working at full capacity, the damage was too much to repair.
In that instant, the fifty upper floors of the Spire of Ascension were instantly reduced to powder in an instant.
Everything in sight was destroyed and reduced to nothingness; a massive hole was opened in the void, and the space-time fabric was horribly ripped apart to the point that it couldn't even
repair itself anymore.
Ashtel's attack created a permanent hole in the space-time fabric.
The power of that attack was beyond comprehension; it was so immense that the lower floors were also affected, and gigantic permanent cracks appeared in the entire Spire of Ascension. Fortunately, everyone had already evacuated to the lower floors at some point in the past ten hours, so they were empty.
Neo's soul was shattered to bits, and everything was reduced to 'Null'; even Liam's body was reduced to powder in an instant!
The upper floors of the spire of ascension significantly suppressed the power of the attack as they got destroyed, thus it lacked more lethality.
The attack spread outside and hit the roots of the world tree.
Thousands of layers of the world tree's roots were smashed to bits in an instant and reduced
to powder.
Thankfully, the world tree was being enhanced by Ryul's world authority and Syvis's healing magic; thus, it regenerated fast and kept suppressing the power of the attack further! Ryul and Syvis had to use the whole of their mana in this process before the attack was finally suppressed to the point that it was no longer harmful for the entire planet.
Still, the attack broke out of the shield of roots and spread in all directions.
*CRACK!*
The entire Maya continent was shattered and the tectonic plates were broken apart; a massive global earthquake and tsunami was formed that caused immense destruction worldwide. Thankfully, only a few million casualties occurred from this attack as the natural disasters
were created.
Ryul was fast enough to react on time; otherwise, this attack had the power to shatter the entire planet into bits and kill billions of people in an instant!
...
Human empire's southern border.
[World Authority: Frozen World!]
After ten hours of struggle, Raji had ended the demon attacks without much casualties.
Just a few seconds ago, a message from the world alliance leader Ryul came, and she immediately got ready to suppress the impact.
She used her world authority to freeze the space-time fabric around the borders and created a temporary shield so that the human empire wouldn't get hit by massive waves of tsunami.
It caused a massive mental burden on her, but she was determined to follow her duty till the
end.
After taking measures for the tsunami, she immediately sent messages to the army to help people who ended up getting hit by the earthquake!
Millions of people died, and this was just the start; this event will go down in the annals of history as the 'Chronos Incident.'.
And this day will be remembered as one of great misfortune.
The countries that had no SS-rankers to protect them were even more unfortunate, and the
death count caused by natural disasters reached ever higher in those places.
The power of 'Absolute Singularity' was simply too immense.