Chapter 603: Chapter 603
A "complete" origin.
The moment it appeared, it was as if every spell in the world had been laid bare before them.
Izparut’s expression finally lost its earlier ease. He became utterly serious.
He planted his left-hand staff vertically in front of him like drawing a bow, while his right hand pulled back an invisible string.
Buzz—
A series of magic circles lit up and condensed into a single long arrow.
"Izparut."
BOOM!
Suddenly, elements erupted from every direction across heaven and earth!
Primordial Taboo Magic—Element—Final Form.
BOOM!
Izparut’s body was almost instantly shattered and decomposed into elements.
Yet the multicolored elements faintly reassembled into the shape of Izparut once more.
Elementalization!
Izparut himself had long since become composed of magic and elements.
He had no fear of being broken down into elemental form.
Not only that—within the chaotic storm of elements, he seized control of them instead!
Primordial Taboo Magic: Transcendent Magic—Element—Final Form.
The same magic, yet even more refined and superior in precision!
The instant the two faced each other, tenth-tier spells and the final forms of Primordial Taboo Magic clashed directly.
Izparut maintained his posture of drawing a great bow.
The "Origin" before him perfectly replicated his actions, learning Izparut’s magic in real time.
It had recorded every spell that existed in the world—including the one Izparut was using right now.
"Tenth-Tier Void Magic: Causal Nonexistence Annihilation Arrow."
Both sides spoke in near-perfect unison.
BOOM!
The moment the bowstring was released, a bizarre ripple exploded at the center of the world~~~
The ripple spread outward, instantly flattening an entire layer of the world’s plane.
One could clearly feel it: a three-dimensional space roughly 3,000 kilometers high with infinite length and width had been folded and compressed into a single flat plane.
The world’s three-dimensionality had been crushed flat.
Whoosh—
Immediately afterward, both figures moved within the swirling elements.
A purple wave of psychic power rippled outward!
It was a collision of minds!
Even Kanzaki Rei in the sky had to use his fused divine artifact to block the aftershocks.
If any life still remained in the world before their battle, it should no longer exist after this.
Perhaps this world had never been one where mortals were meant to exist.
Once Moon God-level combatants descended and gods began slaughtering one another, no one could escape.
At the same time, Kanzaki Rei’s gaze swept across countless nest spaces.
He saw entire nests and lairs reduced to ruin.
The vast majority had become chaotic elemental realms, their elements summoned into the present world to join the battle.
Whole nests had been drained into vacuum, reduced to void.
The magic between the Origin and Izparut grew increasingly fierce. The final forms of nine different Primordial Taboo Magics rotated endlessly!
A single tenth-tier spell was enough to destroy the world.
A single final form of a Primordial Taboo Magic was likewise enough to destroy the world.
Now, with nine Primordial Taboo Magics cycling, tenth-tier spells chained together like combo attacks, launching in a relentless storm.
Multicolored magical power ground through every corner of the world.
Even Kanzaki Rei could not help but unfold his own Divine Kingdom to envelop himself, reinforcing it with divine artifacts—including those drawn from Obades—to secure enough defensive power to withstand the battle’s aftershocks.
He dared not get drawn into the fight.
If he were even slightly weaker, he would not even qualify to spectate.
CRASH!
Yet amid the chaos, Izparut’s eyes shifted brilliantly!
They reflected countless spells from past, present, and future.
As his staff swept down, a golden blade of radiant energy rang out and slashed downward!
A single strike severed time itself!
It cleanly chopped off both of the Origin’s arms.
The cut was perfectly smooth!
Tenth-Tier Metal Magic—Severance Path.
An unavoidable slash, and a cross-section that inevitably severed everything!
This spell had not existed before.
Izparut had constructed it in an instant. The moment it formed, the Origin had already become aware of its existence and immediately began deconstructing and countering it.
But it was too fast.
The final result of its countermeasures was merely changing the spell’s original target from the head to both arms.
It had barely managed to alter the unavoidable range.
The Origin should have held an absolute advantage against mages.
Because it knew every magic that appeared in the world—it was the very embodiment of all magic.
In terms of total magical power, the Origin possessed infinite mana.
In terms of understanding of magic, who could surpass the Origin itself?
After all, mages spent their entire lives pursuing the origin.
Yet now, this mage with multicolored irises stood high in the sky, suppressing the Origin and understanding magic even better than the Origin itself!
"You have flaws."
"Because I have flaws, you want to destroy me?"
Izparut’s expression remained merciless. "It’s not that I want to destroy you. It’s that you refuse to change."
"You have been guiding magic down the wrong path all along."
"This path... will only grow narrower and more perilous. If it continues like this, there will be no more mages left in the world."
"I dislike such a world."
"Therefore, I must change the origin."
As he spoke, Izparut created nine different tenth-tier spells.
At the same time, nine vast, sky-covering intricate magic circles suddenly manifested across the chaotic world!
The Origin’s will reflected every tenth-tier spell and had already comprehended their existence.
It could release them as well.
But... it was too late!
Because these nine spells had been created by Izparut first, even if only by a billionth of a second, it was still too late!
His spells would form first and shatter the Origin’s own magic!
Everything happened in a single flash of thought!
The spells had already formed!
BOOM!
Nine brand-new tenth-tier spells erupted violently!
Yet it was not as the Origin had expected—its spells were not cut off by the faster Izparut.
Instead, Izparut had deliberately waited for that instant.
Both sides’ spells completed at exactly the same time!
"Are you humiliating me?!"
At this moment, the Origin finally roared!
It had not originally been a conscious being, nor any entity with emotions.
Its current descent into consciousness was merely依托 on the "Origin."
Yet right now, an emotion that should not exist suddenly erupted from its depths.
Izparut’s strength had forced it to acknowledge him completely.
It could even accept being defeated and destroyed by him.
The Origin was inferior.
That was what the "Origin" had thought. Even after being born from the origin and temporarily becoming the complete origin, it could not defeat him.
It had already lost.
But...
What did this mean?
"You are that arrogant, Izparut!"
BOOM!
The nine tenth-tier spells surged wildly, infused with infinite magical power!
Izparut’s tenth-tier spells erupted at the exact same moment!
CRASH—
Yet the scene that followed was one of utter annihilation...
The Origin’s tenth-tier spells were torn apart by Izparut’s magic!
The nine spells slammed into the Origin with overwhelming, unstoppable force!
In this strike, Izparut did not use his staff.
He cast empty-handed.
And it was an overwhelming victory!
After the blow, every element across the world stopped its rampage.
Countless elements settled. Water formed seas and rivers, earth formed continents and mountains, metal formed all kinds of ores and alloys across the world...
Izparut quietly watched the残躯 before him scatter with the howling wind elements.
Those remaining eyes stared at Izparut’s pristine, undamaged mage robe.
"Still... couldn’t do it. I didn’t even force you to use your full strength."
Izparut pressed down slightly on his slightly wrinkled mage hat as he looked at the fading remnants. "That was my full strength. You were truly strong. I thoroughly enjoyed this battle."
"Heh... liar."
"Izparut... have you ever lost?"
Izparut: "No."
But after answering, he paused. "If I must say, there was one draw. A pure magic battle."
"A draw, huh?"
"I really want to see it."
"The mage... who could fight you to a draw."
It vanished.
Kanzaki Rei felt a hollow ache in his chest.
The origin no longer existed.
The world had suddenly become a world without magic.
But immediately afterward, a spark ignited in his heart—the new origin, shining brilliantly.
Izparut was stepping into a higher realm.
The realm of a Level 10 Mage.
He was becoming the new origin.
