Chapter 404: Chapter 404: First Meeting

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The natural world is full of things that represent the evolution of energy and matter, and the most conspicuous is the one hanging in the seat of heaven—the sun.

And Haru, who had mastered the two great rules of matter and energy, had made the scientific conjecture of an artificial sun a reality.

A black, ping-pong-ball-sized sphere appeared in his hand.

The next moment, infinite light and heat emanated from the black sphere. Haru, who was wrapped in golden magical power, who was shaped like the sun, a real—sun appeared in his hand.

It was not a mimetic object summoned by the authority of a Heretic God, nor was it an illusion imagined by the Crimson Moon’s Marble Phantasm. It was a real, natural sun.

Constrained by the immature laws of time and space, the miniature sun was confined to a palm-sized area.

While losing its large-scale destructive power, it gained an extreme destructive power within that small area.

The golden sphere distorted time and space and arrived before the old True Magic User. Though the sphere was small, no different from a ping-pong ball, in the old True Magic User’s eyes, which were about to pop out of their sockets, it was a super-monster of terrifying proportions.

“Have the Counter Forces gone mad!!” The old True Magic User’s face instantly turned deathly pale as he felt the terrifying sphere, which was equivalent to a supernova explosion and could instantly evaporate a large part of the earth.

“In the name of my manifested order (Blue), I declare—

To return all things to their proper course—

And for order to collapse here!”

His childish, black hair suddenly turned a crimson red. In the instant he had used his life, it had turned a blood-red. The blood, which was like a boiling river, glowed with a dazzling red light under the influence of his magical power.

The face of Soujuurou Shizuki instantly aged, and in just a moment, it had turned into the face of an old man of about seventy or eighty, exceptionally aged.

The aged face vaguely had the shadow of Aoko and Touko. It was clear that his current appearance was the old True Magic User’s real face.

The old True Magic User suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. It was the result of his magic circuits operating at a super-frequency. But he couldn’t be bothered with that now.

Faced with this madman, Haru, who had come up with a super-killing move, the old True Magic User had no choice but to fight for his life if he didn’t want to die.

“Collapse—!”

His voice was extremely hoarse, like the grating of a rusty wire, exceptionally strange.

With his words, the four cornerstones that made up the world began to collapse.

Time and space ceased to exist, and matter and energy vanished. Around the old True Magic User, it was as if it were a void, with only an indescribable darkness.

The sun was heavily wrapped in this indescribable black curtain, and the flawed rules of time and space that were wrapped around the outside of the sun were the first to be annihilated.

The power that had not touched the realm of the Law, in the Moon world, was like a rootless tree. The power that had no subsequent support was naturally the first to be eliminated.

At the same time that time and space were eliminated, the sun that was wrapped inside returned to its normal size. It was a huge celestial body, equivalent to half the moon, and it was constantly radiating infinite light and heat.

It was fortunate that it had appeared in the dark area around the old True Magic User. Otherwise, just the real appearance of this sun on the surface of the earth would have caused the entire earth to face solar radiation, triggering the third mass extinction.

The destructive power of the Fifth Magic firmly wrapped the sun, absorbing all its light and turning it into a huge, black sphere.

Seeing this, Haru’s lips curved into a teasing smile. Even for him, to create a celestial body of this scale was exceptionally taxing. A creation that had simultaneously used the laws of matter and energy, how could the Fifth Magic possibly destroy it?

As expected, the dark sky only covered it for a moment before it burst open, and the huge celestial body once again approached the old True Magic User.

The old True Magic User’s face turned from green to purple. Not to mention the heat of the sun, just the mass of the celestial body was enough to turn his human body into a pulp.

“Damn it, as a creation of the Law, it can’t be completely destroyed?!!!!” The old True Magic User roared with a cold voice.

“Since I can’t destroy it at this age, then let my past self do it!!!” The old True Magic User’s face was grim. He ignored the somewhat collapsing magic circuits in his body and forcibly activated the Fifth Magic.

A phantom river suddenly appeared behind him, and in an instant, it had completely enveloped his body.

At the same time, a phantom river also appeared behind Aoko Aozaki, who had, at the start of the battle, pulled the physically weaker Alice and retreated from the battlefield. In an instant, it had annihilated her.

“This is? Aoko!!!!” Alice’s eyes widened, and with a look of panic, she looked at the Aoko who had been swallowed by the phantom river.

“Don’t worry. She’s just being temporarily used as a price by the old True Magic User,” a voice, as ethereal as a young woman’s, an old man’s, a saint’s, naturally echoed in the atmosphere.

“Who are you?” Alice covered her cherry lips with a look of astonishment. If she hadn’t misheard, the strange voice just now had come from her own throat.

“I am you, I am Aoko, I am human, I am all living things, Alayashiki!” the ethereal and melodious voice sounded again.

“…Alayashiki?!!” This incomprehensible sentence made Alice immediately realize the underlying meaning, and with a look of horror, she said.

The phantom river suddenly burst open, and Aoko’s figure was violently vomited out.

Thump—!

“Cough cough.” Her legs went weak, and she fell to the snow, clutching her throat and dry-heaving.

“What on earth is going on?” Alice stared blankly at Aoko’s exceptionally beautiful, bright red hair and asked with a look of suspicion.

“That is a restriction issued by us, the Counter Forces, a price forcibly added to the magic,” Alaya’s ethereal voice sounded again.

“Are you okay, Aoko?” Alice, who was completely in the dark, rushed up to support her and asked with a look of concern.

“Cough cough, that damn old man, to press his fifty years on me. Damn it, how am I supposed to run with this body that’s so hard to even lift a hand?” Aoko leaned on Alice and roared with frustration.

“The total amount of time cannot be changed. This is a restriction we have forcibly added to the Fifth Magic, which collapses order. Therefore, the old True Magic User, who wants to return to his youth, has thrown his fifty years of age to Aoko. So, though her appearance doesn’t show it, in the eyes of the world, Aoko is already sixty-seven years old,”

Alaya said with a faint smile.

“I’m a seventeen-year-old in my prime!!!” Hearing this, Aoko’s face turned grim, and with a look of annoyance, she retorted.

“—That’s Alaya,” Alice replied with a strange expression. In a way, to a magus, the two Counter Forces that prevented humans from reaching the Root were even more terrifying than gods. And now Aoko was unscrupulously cursing…

“Eek!!! A… A… Alaya.” Aoko’s face instantly turned deathly pale.

To a True Magic User, Alaya was a grim reaper with a scythe at her neck. Anyway, from the moment she had received the Magic Crest, this grim reaper had been sending her minions to watch her in secret.

But now, she had, it seemed, actually, cursed at the person herself?

For the first time, Aoko wondered—was she being far too reckless?

“Are you the real deal, or a fake?” Aoko swallowed hard and looked at Alice with a panicked expression, or rather, at the Counter Force that had possessed her.

Just as Aoko’s words fell, Alice slowly opened her mouth, and an ethereal and melodious voice drifted in the air.

“A pleasure to meet you, Aoko and Alice.”

Then, Alaya paused for a moment and said with a teasing tone,

“My lovely daughters-in-law~”

“…”

Aoko Aozaki and Alice Kuonji were in the biggest state of bewilderment of their lives.

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