Chapter 1041 - Collapse of the Chaos Gate (2/2)

“Devils will ultimately be devils.”

Alice hovered in midair despite the large tentacles whipping and lashing at her. She lowered her gaze with half-opened eyes at the devil before her. Even though the devil spouted profanity and launched all-out attacks on the young lady, they weren’t effective at all. The situation was similar to the battle against Boulder, where all attacks were restored to a state before they were launched the instant they were about to land on Alice. Therefore, it could be said that the devil’s attacks were basically useless. But even so, it didn’t give up despite the terrified and uncertain look on its face.

“Why? Why? Why! Why can’t my attacks hit her? I clearly possess the power. My lord has given me such mighty powers. Why…!”

“What a sad soul.”

Alice mumbled, gazing at the devil. She raised her right arm and along with her movement, the thick, heavy tome flipped open gradually and floated before her steadily.

“You’re so blinded by Chaos that you can’t recognize your limitations? In the end, you’re just a chess piece to Chaos.”

Alice gently pinched one of the pages and turned it over.

“No… this is impossible. I… impossible… I…”

But those were its last words. In a single move, the devil stopped moving. Then, as though after countless years, its body began to crumble, turning into ashes and fading away in the wind. In a few moments, there were no traces of the devil in front of Alice anymore. Alice, who was quietly witnessing everything, closed her eyes. Then, she closed the tome and retreated, before vanishing into the endless void.

***

Swish!

The octopus devil brandished its enormous tentacle at Rhode, but he raised Slaughter without giving it a single look. Rhode flourished the sword forward and an extreme, razor-sharp wind blades split the tentacle into two effortlessly. But shortly after, the sliced tentacle shook and regenerated fully.

“Frankly, I don’t care what you say.”

Rhode slashed the sword in his hand once again, spraying beads of blood to the ground. Then, the tentacle in front him instantly flew off like sliced wheat crumbling to the ground. Upon sensing the tremendous pain, Nakvard’s determined face twitched. However, he continued to gnash his teeth and tolerated the agony. Even after detecting the power Rhode possessed, Nakvard didn’t give up.

“You can’t possibly understand the destiny we humans have for ourselves…!”

But before Nakvard finished his sentence, Rhode penetrated his chest with the razor-sharp, scarlet blade.

“I said, I don’t care. Besides, please don’t try to represent most humans as perhaps their understanding of destiny is different from yours.” Rhode responded and the steel chains wrapped around his arm spun and rose like menacing vipers. Then, the steel chains punctured Nakvard’s face, stirring and ruining the acceptable-looking face into a bloody mess of flesh. Shortly after, Nakvard’s swelling body shriveled and deflated like a rubber ball.

“… Your… struggles… are meaningless…”

Nakvard’s voice didn’t vanish from the dried, trembling body.

“The power of Chaos… is far stronger than you imagine… And… you don’t have much… time left…. Even if I fail… it is… only temporary… because all of you will eventually perish!”

As though responding to Nakvard’s words, the stable Chaos Gate started distorting and shaking, unable to maintain its balance after losing its cores. Then, a storm from the void erupted.

The spatial turbulence began with a round dark hole appearing in the center of the Chaos Gate. The enormous force of attraction swiftly devoured everything, be it the sky or earth, dead or alive.

However, Rhode had already made his way out.