Ruri waved, and time and space inverted. An immortal-level spatial stagnation suddenly surged throughout the entire world.
Although she couldn’t control the whole place and all the peak cultivators with her current power, using the stagnation, which was the most basic technique, was possible.
At that moment, everyone closest to the center was completely petrified. Those further away were less affected, and at the edge, where the young woman was, the effects were minimal. Practically only she remained unharmed.
The environment went silent, and everyone was caught off guard. That level of control over the time-space laws was not normal; it should have been impossible for someone at her cultivation level to use it.
"Go, earn some points," Bruno said calmly to Carod. His voice echoed across the area.
Carod, unaffected, nodded. Drawing his sword, he charged toward the nearest enemies.
Since they were still at the center, the closest ones were the most powerful divine-level figures. They looked down on attacking the weak, waiting for the mid-level cultivators to defeat them first, then they would face them.
Now, these mediocre people dared to attack them sneakily? A fierce rage overtook them.
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They tried to break free, but the temporal stagnation held them as if they were immersed in a sea of mud. Then, a sword struck one of them.
The figure fell to the ground, but it was only the residual Qi that hit them; the blade cut a section of their clothes, stealing their point. A divine-level figure fell just like that...
Carod didn’t care about the others and leapt toward the nearest ones, heading for the weaker and more distant groups, who were more clustered together. They each had more than one point. In one minute, he attacked and stole points from over ten figures.
The Tarrasque snorted, finding it ridiculous. He sensed the Qi from the golem and realized that she was burning everything she had to maintain that domain. The temporal control would last at most two minutes. Even though she was fast, it wouldn’t be enough to eliminate so many. Once it ended, they would have to deal with those arrogant and furious figures.
But... he was very curious. Despite using this, why the hell were those two just standing arrogantly without attacking? And why did they both have a wicked smile on their faces, almost as if they were one person?
Meanwhile, the woman, who was practically unaffected, didn’t hesitate. Furious, she used the laws of wind and attacked from a distance, like an unrelenting storm.
However, even with her rage, she avoided killing. Her wind blades struck directly where the points were, and the winds brought them to her. Everything was done without her taking a single step forward, attacking only those who could barely move.
The people defeated by Carod and the woman lost all their points and appeared in the city, almost coughing up blood in rage. The ones still in the competition were equally furious, praying with all their might that the two wouldn’t focus on them.
Their spiritual roots were still active, and automatically kept them floating. But they couldn’t react or move. The ones at the center were practically immobile, and even those further away took several seconds to make a simple movement, like flapping their wings.
With little time left, Bruno sent a message to Carod, and he quickly returned to the side of the couple. The woman was surprisingly aware of everything. She saw the movement, stopped attacking, and preserved her strength, ready to try surviving and fleeing afterward.
For her to have attacked and stolen many points, and still show intelligence and awareness, she knew the hole she was jumping into. But she had immense courage and didn’t back down from the opportunity. It was obvious she would face the fury and attempts of theft from everyone afterward. She could barely survive before, now her life was truly hanging by a thread.
Alm and Bruno could only nod in satisfaction. She was a rare, rough diamond. Although weak, she had everything a cultivator needed. A courage and near-suicidal will to face anything without backing down.
Then, just over two minutes later, the temporal stagnation disappeared.
At that moment, absolutely all the survivors turned around and focused on the trio standing still. Ruri breathed deeply, exhausted, but did not stumble. A playful smile appeared on her face.
Emppu sighed heavily. Were those two crazy?
Carod swallowed hard, but forced himself to maintain a firm expression. He was no longer surprised by their actions. He just went with the flow and believed in the schemes they were plotting.
The round figure simply looked at everyone, with no apparent emotion. "What’s the matter? I know she’s beautiful and irresistible, but she’s already married. If you have a problem with that, come defeat me."
"You bastards... so bold..." A cold-eyed figure growled.
The 39 divine-level figures exchanged quick glances. Without wasting time, they came to a consensus.
"He deserves to die!" Another roared, and they all drew their weapons.
"Oh? Just you guys?" The round figure challenged with a gesture, calling them to come forward.
"Great. I’ve heard of him. My master said to be careful. Let’s all go together and end this quickly. The one next to him stole a lot of points; we can divide them equally." One figure declared, and everyone nodded.
Without delay, they advanced in a circle, closing off all directions around the trio. Among the divine-level ones, only Emppu stayed out of the conflict.
Carod gripped the hilt of his sword. The round figure, in turn, made a smooth movement and withdrew its spear.
When Liumi appeared, the hidden Tarrasque narrowed its eyes, feeling something terrifying from that spear, although it couldn’t identify what it was. Was it just its impression?
It was at that moment, just five meters from the trio, that Alm spoke coldly: "This is boring. Let’s end this already."
He drove his spear into the ground.
Suddenly, the entire earth shook. The Tarrasque’s heart raced like a drum from the immense shock and surprise. "What the hell..."
Alm spoke curtly: "Gravitational Domination."
*BOOM!*
Suddenly, the gravity in the area multiplied infinitely. All those flying — whether the closest attackers or the ones farther away — were affected. It felt as if a deity had descended from the heavens, striking everyone and violently sending them toward the ground.
Even before the impact, the spear and the ground vibrated.
*RUMBLE!*
Almost all the metals collected since they arrived at that place, stored in the inventory, were used by Liumi.
After its reconstruction, Alm and Bruno had placed a maximum-level storage seal on it. They hadn’t added other runic seals to the storage, so Liumi could store large amounts of metal and use it easily, connecting to the earth during a fight.
Luckily, they were taken off the planet, so using the runic seal now wouldn’t be a major problem. Alm and Bruno were sure the Tarrasque wouldn’t know what it was. Even if it had seen a similar runic seal in the past, it was nothing remotely close to the level of the one in the spear.
Even without using the full power of her immortal core to avoid drawing attention, with only the support of Alm and Bruno’s immortal-level laws, Liumi became a supreme weapon connected to the earth. Any battle on the ground gave them an overwhelming advantage.
In seconds, metal pillars rose up across the area.
Bruno, of course, didn’t allow them to form spikes. Instead, the pillars had rounded tops and struck like violent punches.
The Tarrasque watched the unfolding scene, stunned.
In five minutes, the expected happened: about two hundred figures, the weakest ones, were eliminated, with a third of them dying.
Just over two minutes later, two young figures attacked freely, defeating sixty cultivators and stealing three times as many points as their own.
Then, thirty seconds later... 335 were eliminated at once. Only five remained.
The blow was devastating, but perfectly calculated and precise. Liumi, Alm, and Bruno felt the elevated laws of the earth in the stone created by the Tarrasque, attacking exactly where everyone’s bodies were.
Strangely, women tended to place it between their breasts. Perhaps because they couldn’t store it in spatial rings, and with no time to think, they just placed it there instinctively. So the impact was somewhat cushioned. Still, they destroyed all the stones from everyone.
They didn’t need to accumulate points; if everyone was eliminated, just one point would be enough for them to pass. It was faster to destroy everything, leaving everyone with zero.
The Tarrasque was so stunned that it took a while to take away the defeated ones. After ten seconds, it reacted, and they all disappeared.
Soon, only the couple of golems, Carod, Emppu — wide-eyed — and the blood-covered woman, confused, remained.
"So? Do we have to wait for time to run out? What a waste of time," Alm stated flatly, addressing his words to the Tarrasque.