As the clash of red and white energy raged within the eerie expanse of the White Realm, I knew—I was too late to stop anything before it spiraled out of control.

The atmosphere itself was in turmoil.

Cold.

Then hot.

Fluctuating between extremes, as if the very fabric of the realm couldn’t decide its own nature.

My steps cut through the battlefield, carving a path of destruction.

Anything that stood in my way—died.

I had only one goal.

Alice.

She was barely holding on, her body battered, her soul fraying at the edges.

The moment our eyes met, I saw it—

Relief.

That flicker of comfort, the unspoken words behind her exhausted gaze—

But before she could say anything, before she could drown me in her worries, I silenced her with a warm, reassuring smile.

“Ril—”

She barely whispered my name.

-Phuck!

With a precise, gentle strike to the side of her neck, I ensured she lost consciousness immediately.

Comfortably. Painlessly.

Because if she stayed awake any longer—she would have suffered.

Even in that brief moment, I could feel it.

Her life was already slipping away.

Inside. Outside.

She was dying.

If I had been just a moment later…

She would have met her Bad End.

A cruel, inevitable death.

The mere thought of it—

Set my blood ablaze.

A deep, seething rage churned inside me, growing hotter by the second.

I took a slow breath, forcing myself to focus.

Divine power.

The golden light in my palm pulsed as I channeled it through Alice’s body.

It wouldn’t be enough to purge the White Queen’s curse entirely—not yet.

But it would be enough to heal her.

Enough to keep her alive.

Even so…

I knew it wasn’t over.

Not by a long shot.

Haah….

It had been a while—

‘Since I’d been this mad at someone.’

-FOOOOSHHH!

The moment I felt the White Queen’s energy looming behind me, my body reacted on its own.

A subconscious surge of divinity burst forth from me—

A golden radiance clashed against the oppressive, law-bending force of her own divinity.

Hers sought to rewrite the world.

Mine sought to respect it.

The result?

The world itself shattered in a cascade of golden and white sparks, a collision of opposing forces that cracked reality apart at its seams.

This time—unlike my arrival—my light wasn’t meant to guide or illuminate.

It was meant to destroy.

To harm.

And for the first time—

The White Queen staggered.

Not physically, no—her perfect, regal form remained untouched. But in her pale, depthless eyes, I caught something rare.

Shock.

She hadn’t expected this.

A power that directly opposed her own.

A force that could challenge the very foundation of the world she sought to impose.

I exhaled slowly, my senses sharpening beyond their usual limits.

Then I felt it.

A flicker in the distance—

Cheshire.

I adjusted my vision, activating [True Sight], and in that instant, the battlefield unfolded before me.

The fantastical cat fought alone, his body battered, his presence flickering on the edge of oblivion.

The Hatter.

The White Rabbit.

The remnants of the Queen’s forces.

They all clashed in a chaotic whirlwind, overwhelming Cheshire with relentless precision.

He was at death’s door.

If this battle continued—he wouldn’t survive.

Not against foes who rivaled his own power, not in his current, weakened state.

And yet—

I knew.

He would be fine.

After all…

He was already affected by the blessing the Goddess had bestowed upon me.

I stole one last glance at Senior Alice, my heart twisting with guilt.

If only I had been more cautious.

If only I had arrived just a moment sooner.

Then maybe—just maybe—she wouldn’t have suffered like this.

I clenched my fists. The feeling of helplessness clawed at my chest, but there was no time to wallow in regret.

“Just wait for me a little longer, Senior…”

I knelt beside her, pressing my hand gently against her body, allowing a pulse of radiant golden energy to flow into her.

Though my divine power was unstable—barely contained—it would be enough.

Enough to keep her sustained.

Enough to dull the pain.

Enough to shield her from whatever came next.

A thin, golden barrier formed around Alice, wrapping her in a cocoon of warmth and light.

It wouldn’t last forever, but it would hold.

At the very least, it would keep her safe while I handled the White Queen.

‘I’m glad she can fly…’

With a final glance, I pushed her higher into the sky, far from the battlefield.

She would be out of harm’s way—away from the clash that was about to reshape this white, broken world.

I exhaled slowly, then turned my focus back to the real threat.

The surge of energy within me—deep, unrelenting—began to swell, pressing against the limits of my body.

Then it exploded.

A silent, earth-shaking detonation of divine power.

[System Notification]

→ [Blessing has awakened to the user’s will!]

→ [Blessing of Change] [Activated]

→ [Ultimate Skill: Divine Will] – Requirements altered.

→ [Evil Entity Effect Bonus] → [Fantastical Entity Effect Bonus]

[System Scan Initiated]

→ [A Fantastical Entity has been detected within the user’s vicinity.]

→ [Scanning surroundings…]

→ [Number of Enemy Fantastical Entities detected within a 200-meter radius: 1 confirmed.]

→ [Blessing of Change effect will last only while the user’s divine presence remains active. Once ascendance ends, all skill effects will revert to normal.]

I smirked, my fingers crackling with golden energy.

This was it.

The power I had now—it was temporary.

Fleeting.

But as long as I could wield it, as long as it burned within me—

I know I can do anything.

[Threat Level: Demon-God Class Detected!]

[Readjusting Bonus Effects…]

[Due to the overwhelming disparity in power, the adjusted effects may compromise the user’s soul stability and purity.]

[Ego Corruption Imminent: 12%]

[Warning: Prolonged exposure may result in permanent soul damage. Do you wish to proceed?]

[Yes / No]

I didn’t hesitate.

‘Yes.’

— [Ultimate Skill: Divine Will – Extra Effects Activated.]

[Commanding Presence: Activated!]

[All entities within the area of effect are compelled to obey my will. Resistance is futile.]

[Evil Entity Annihilation: Activated!]

[When engaging a Fantastical Entity, my stats increase by 500%].

[All abilities now scale exponentially beyond their original limits.]

[Divine Ascension: Activated!]

[My Divinity surges to 100%, reaching its absolute limit.

[All Divine Energy-infused attacks are now amplified beyond natural constraints.

[All external energy sources within range are forcibly converted into Divine Energy, severing the power flow of all enemy entities.]

[Warning: User’s body is undergoing rapid divine adaptation!]

[Initiating Temporary Divine Mortification…]

— [User’s mortal frame will temporarily transcend its limits to withstand the overwhelming power influx.]

[Recalculating Level…]

[Base Level: 152] → [+760]

[Temporary Level: 894]

[Temporary Status Boost:]

[Strength: EX]

[Agility: EX]

[Endurance: EX]

[Luck: EX]

[Power: EX]

The world trembled.

A blinding surge of golden radiance erupted from my body, warping the very fabric of space around me.

My limbs no longer felt like my own—the sheer magnitude of power now flowing through my veins was monstrous.

The weight of divinity pressed against my soul, and I could feel the creeping touch of corruption trying to latch onto me.

But I didn’t care.

The moment my power flooded the battlefield, the very laws of reality seemed to bend in my favor.

The White Queen flinched.

For the first time… she felt fear.

Her divinity, once absolute, was now challenged—no, suppressed.

The light she once used to rewrite reality now shattered against my presence.

I took a step forward.

-BOOM.

The ground beneath me fractured, reduced to golden dust.

I locked eyes with the White Queen once more.

At this moment, with my [True Sight] enhanced beyond the constraints of mortality, I saw everything.

Every fiber of her existence, every strand of power woven into the fabric of her form—every hidden layer she had yet to unveil.

And yet, even now…

She still wasn’t in her final form.

A deep, suffocating weight pressed against my chest.

Even with [Divine Ascension] in full effect, I knew that beating her outright wasn’t going to be easy.

In terms of raw power—

She could reduce this entire world to dust.

She was a force of destruction beyond comprehension, a nightmare capable of rewriting reality itself.

But in terms of adaptability—

I win.

[Skill Mastery Expansion: Initiated.]

[All known skill libraries have been unlocked.]

[All applicable skills under the user’s current threshold are now accessible.]

— [All S-Rank skills acquired.]

— [All A-Rank skills acquired.]

— [All B-Rank skills acquired.]

— [All C-Rank skills acquired.]

— [All D-Rank skills acquired.]

— [All Unique Skills unlocked.]

[Notification: All skills are now fully applicable.]

[Would you like to activate them?]

[Yes] / [No]

‘Yes.’

The moment I confirmed it, a tsunami of knowledge crashed into my mind.

Every skill, every technique, every single power I had ever acquired, mastered, or even glimpsed at in my entire existence— all of them were now mine to wield at will.

Power surged through me like a flood breaking through a dam. It was intoxicating.

Overwhelming. Wrong.

The sensation of omniscience made my very being recoil.

It felt unnatural—to see everything, to know everything, to wield all power as if I had transcended the limits of existence itself.

And then—

Pain.

A deep, excruciating, soul-rending pain.

It wasn’t physical. It wasn’t even something that could be described as an injury. It was a fundamental unraveling—a tearing apart of what made me me.

My soul was breaking.

It hurt.

More than any wound, more than any battle, more than any injury I had ever suffered.

The weight of becoming something greater than I was ever meant to be was ripping me apart.

My body trembled.

My hands clenched into fists so tight that my nails pierced my palms.

My vision blurred between absolute clarity and utter fracture.

But even as I stood at the precipice of losing myself—

I smiled.

Because…

if it meant saving Alice—

If it meant winning—

If it meant protecting her—

‘Then losing a part of my soul was worth it…’

[Warning… Ego and Soul Corruption Imminent…]

[Soul Threshold… 95% capacity before permanent damage may unfold.]

[Recommended time to activate the full effects of [Ultimate Skill: Divine Will]: 5 minutes.]

‘Five minutes at best, huh…’

Five minutes of absolute, unchecked power.

But how much of that time would actually reflect in this world? In the outside world?

It didn’t matter.

Five minutes was more than enough.

“GOOOAAAAAGGHHHHH!!!”

A monstrous, earth-shaking scream erupted from the White Queen.

The sheer force of her cry shattered the space around us, distorting the air into jagged fractures of pure chaos.

She had finally realized the threat I posed.

She knew.

She knew I had become something capable of killing her.

But I paid her no mind.

Instead, I smiled. A sharp, deliberate, taunting smile—one meant to provoke her further.

“I’ll make sure to make it quick…”

At the very least, this was the final act of respect I could give Senior Alice.

To the being she had once called Mother.

“Valeria.”

I called forth my sword.

A simple blade of golden light, unassuming at a glance—until its very essence shifted.

Until its form transformed to match the one who wielded it.

— [Tempest Sword (Valeria) has awakened!] —

[Tempest Sword (Valeria)]

[Unique Skill: Master’s Strength] Activated!

[Effect: Tempest Sword shall now gain the strength of its user!]

[Tempest Sword (Valeria)] [Level: EX]

[Hidden Skill Unlocked: World Tempest Applicable]

[Effect: Valeria will cut through the fabrics of space and time itself.]

[Tempest winds from the era of gods surge forth.]

[All physical and magical defenses are now nullified.]

The moment its transformation completed, the air trembled.

The weight of inevitability crashed down upon the battlefield.

This blade—this sword—

It would carve through the White Queen’s very existence.

“GROOWWWOAOAAAAAGGHHHH!!!!!”

The White Queen’s screech ripped through the void, an all-encompassing, monstrous wail that shook the very fabric of reality.

She was reasserting her rule.

Rewriting her domain.

The ground beneath us shuddered, warping and twisting at her command as the thousands—no, tens of thousands—of ethereal spears materialized in the air, each one aimed at me with an unshakable will to eradicate my existence.

But—

—FLASH!

[Hidden Blade: Final Form]

[Null Space]

—Click!

A single step. A single swing.

-WHOOOOOSHHHH!!!

A blinding golden arc of energy erupted from my sword, a crescent of pure destruction tearing across the endless white realm, cutting through everything in its path—

And yet—

Even as the White Queen was cleaved in two, I already knew.

It didn’t matter.

Her form split, her existence was momentarily torn apart—but in an instant, she rewrote herself.

The cut was erased.

Reality shifted at her will.

This was her world.

And in her world, nothing could kill her.

I clicked my tongue. My grip tightened around Valeria.

But she wasn’t done.

—FOOOOOO!!!!

A deep hum vibrated through the air.

She raised both palms, and in that instant—

Hundreds.

No—thousands of intricate magic circles ignited above her, each one pulsating with an overwhelming destructive force.

I smirked.

Familiar.

Too familiar.

A massive AoE attack.

An undodgeable, inescapable spell that erased everything in its path.

A perfect countermeasure—one she had used time and time again.

Blocking was useless.

The attack, much like my [Null Space], completely ignored all forms of physical and magical defenses.

Nothing could withstand it.

Nothing—except divine power.

I could nullify it—but at a cost.

She wasn’t in her final form yet.

If I let this fight drag on, if this battle became a war of attrition, I’d be at an unrecoverable disadvantage.

Overwhelm her.

That was the only way.

Brute force.

She couldn’t be reasoned with. She couldn’t be outlasted.

If I didn’t take control of this battle now, she would.

I refused to let that happen.

I clenched my fists, forcing my mana to explode outward.

Hundreds—no, thousands of magic circles ignited beneath me, each one burning with enough power to turn this entire realm to ash.

Every single offensive spell I could recall—every ultimate-tier magic, every lesser variation of it—flashed through my mind at once.

[All known offensive magic within the user’s skill threshold shall now be activated!]

A flood of knowledge slammed into my skull like a tidal wave. Spells. Incantations. Forbidden arts.

It hurt.

A searing pain so intense it felt like my head was about to explode.

But I ignored it.

I clenched my teeth and forced my body forward.

I had to reach her before she reached me.

BOOOOOOM!!!!!!

Our magic was released at the same time.

A detonation of impossible scale.

A sky filled with unrelenting fire and pure destruction.

The world itself seemed to halt—

Then—

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Explosions. Again. Again. Again.

A constant, merciless chain of eruptions that shattered the very fabric of this realm.

The blinding brilliance of ultimate-tier magic filled every inch of our vision, warping reality itself.

Then—

A moment of silence.

A god-like pause.

The aftermath of divinity unleashed.

And in that instant—

I moved.

-FOOOOSHHHH!!!!!

I carved through the storm of explosions, my body breaking past the speed of light, slicing through the chaotic inferno of our clash.

My vision locked onto her—The White Queen.

She was still there.

Still standing.

Still rewriting reality to suit her whims.

Not this time.

Before she could react, before she could twist the battle in her favor—

I struck.

My grip tightened around Valeria, and I willed into existence the absolute pinnacle of swordsmanship.

The single strongest technique this world had to offer.

[Heavenly Sword]

I swung.

-SWAAANNNNGGGGG!!!!!

And the world turned white once more.

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