The Strongest Student of the Weakest Academy

The purple aura around her body suddenly expanded outward like an exploding star.

Domain of the Creator.

The moment the domain activated, the entire battlefield changed.

Reality itself bent to her will.

Stars that had been destroyed reformed instantly under her command. Dead galaxies reignited.

The laws of physics rewrote themselves in real time, gravity became optional, time flowed in whatever direction she desired, and space folded and unfolded according to her thoughts alone.

Within her domain, she was no longer just a combatant.

She was the absolute authority of existence.

I felt the pressure immediately.

My movements slowed, and my authorities started resisting me. Even the Trumpets inside my core pulsed uneasily, as if recognizing the true source of their power.

I had no choice.

✹The Domain of Chaos✹

Black-and-white energy erupted from my body in a violent shockwave.

My domain collided with hers head-on.

Where her domain created and ordered, mine unraveled and rejected.

The two forces met in the middle of the void with a sound that wasn’t a sound at all, but more like a conceptual scream as two opposing fundamental truths tried to overwrite each other.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

The clash of domains erased everything within a radius of several galactic clusters. New stars tried to form only to be torn apart an instant later.

Timelines flickered into existence and were immediately rejected by the chaos flooding the area.

The void itself seemed to bleed purple and black energy as our domains fought for dominance.

She charged through the overlapping fields, her spear glowing with concentrated creation energy.

I met her with both swords raised.

Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!

The first clash sent shockwaves that destroyed a newly born galaxy behind me and created three more behind her.

We exchanged blows at a speed that made normal perception meaningless. Every thrust of her spear was answered by a slash of my swords.

Every authority she unleashed was met with a counter.

When she tried to age my body into dust with accelerated time, I reversed the flow with Karma and forced the aging back onto her.

When I tried to erase her existence with pure Destruction, she answered with Creation, turning my attack into a wave of newborn stars that she then weaponized against me.

Golden blood and my own mixed fluids sprayed across the chaotic battlefield with every exchange.

We were both regenerating as fast as we could inflict damage, but the intensity of the domain clash was starting to take its toll.

"You’re still holding them back!" she shouted as she drove her spear toward my heart.

I parried at the last second, the tip grazing my ribs and leaving a burning wound.

"How much longer are you going to wait, Luntheris?!"

I didn’t answer as I couldn’t afford to.

My full attention was on surviving the storm of her domain while searching for that single, perfect opening.

She suddenly changed tactics. Instead of attacking me directly, she began rewriting the space around me.

Walls of pure creation energy formed on all sides, trying to cage me in. I shattered them with Chaos, but more formed instantly.

The domain was amplifying her control to an absurd degree. Every time I destroyed one of her constructs, two more took its place.

I was being pushed back.

For the first time since the fight resumed, I felt the pressure of true disadvantage.

Her Domain of the Creator was simply more complete than my Domain of Chaos in this environment.

Chaos could reject and destroy, but her domain could rebuild faster than I could tear things down.

She pressed the advantage ruthlessly.

Her spear became a blur of purple light, each thrust carrying the weight of collapsing stars. I blocked, dodged, and countered as best I could, but several strikes got through.

One punched through my left shoulder.

Another carved a deep line across my chest. A third nearly took my head off, forcing me to lean back so far that the tip still sliced open my cheek.

Golden blood poured from her own wounds as well.

I had landed my share of cuts and thrusts.

The Heaven Swallowing Sword had drained significant amounts of her power. But it wasn’t enough, as she was adapting faster than I could create new openings.

"You’re cornered," she said, her voice almost gentle despite the violence of our exchange.

"Your domain is strong... but mine is the original. Chaos can only reject what already exists. I can create whatever I need."

She raised her free hand.

A massive construct of pure creation energy formed above us, a colossal spear the size of a planet, aimed directly at me.

I tried to move, but the overlapping domains made every action feel heavier. My Domain of Chaos was still fighting hers, but the balance was tipping.

This was the breaking point.

I had waited long enough.

There was no perfect moment left to wait for. If I didn’t act now, she would overwhelm me completely.

I gripped both swords tightly and reached deep into the core of my being, where the eleven Trumpets resided.

"Fine," I muttered under my breath.

Then I detonated them.

All eleven Trumpets exploded at once inside my body.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The surge of power that followed was unlike anything I had ever experienced. For a brief, burning moment, my strength surpassed equality.

The Domain of Chaos around me expanded violently, pushing her Domain of the Creator back for the first time.

Black-and-white energy flooded every corner of the battlefield as the full, unrestrained power of the Trumpets flooded my veins.

The Creator Woman’s eyes widened.

"You actually did it..."

The surge was simply overwhelming.

For the first time since the fight began, I felt a clear edge. My body moved faster. My authorities responded without resistance.

The Domain of Chaos around me expanded violently, pushing her Domain of the Creator back several galactic lengths.

The temporary power-up had begun, and I had only a short window to end this.

I raised both swords.

"Moonlit Ice Lotus Sword Art..."

『 First Move! (✦ Ice Lotus Bloom ✦) 』

A single silver lotus of pure ice bloomed at the tip of the Midnight Sword. It expanded instantly into a massive flower of frozen energy that shot toward her.

The petals spun with enough force to freeze entire star systems solid.

She spun her purple spear and met the attack head-on, shattering the lotus with a concentrated blast of creation energy.

The collision created a field of frozen debris that immediately began reforming into new stars under her domain’s influence.

I didn’t pause.

『 Second Move! (✦ Ice Lotus Barrage ✦) 』

Hundreds of smaller ice lotuses formed around me and launched forward in a continuous storm.

Each one carried the same freezing, cutting power as the first.

The barrage filled the void between us, turning the space into a blizzard of silver blades.

She danced through them with impossible grace, her spear spinning in a defensive blur.

Many lotuses were destroyed, but several cut deep into her arms and legs, drawing fresh golden blood.

She healed almost instantly, but the pressure forced her to give ground.

"Not bad," she called out, her voice still filled with excitement despite the wounds.

"But you’ll need more than this!"

I was already moving into the next form.

『 Third Move! (✦ Moonlight’s One Flash ✦) 』

I vanished.

A single silver line cut through the void as I reappeared behind her in an instant, both swords already swinging in a perfect cross-slash.

The attack was so fast that even within her domain, she barely had time to react.

She twisted her body and blocked with the shaft of her spear, but the force still sent her flying backward through a newly formed nebula.

The nebula collapsed under the impact, its gases igniting into a short-lived supernova.

I followed without giving her a moment to breathe.

『 Fourth Move! (✯ Lunar Collapse ✯) 』

A massive silver moon formed above us, its surface covered in glowing ice runes.

The moon began to collapse under its own weight, generating a gravitational pull strong enough to drag nearby galaxies toward it.

She raised both hands and countered with pure creation energy, trying to stabilize the collapsing moon.

For a short moment, the two forces locked, her creation against my lunar gravity.

Then the moon shattered, releasing a shockwave of ice and chaotic energy that tore through her defenses and left several deep cuts across her torso.

Golden blood sprayed freely now. She wiped her mouth and laughed.

"You’re really going all out... Keep going!"

『 Fifth Move! (✯ Thousand-Lotus Guillotine ✯) 』

A thousand ice lotuses bloomed simultaneously around her, forming a spherical cage of spinning, razor-sharp petals.

The cage closed in from every direction, each lotus capable of slicing through planetary cores.

She spun her spear in a wide arc, creating a barrier of purple chaotic energy that held the lotuses back for a few seconds.

CRAAACK!

Then the barrier cracked.

Several lotuses broke through and carved deep wounds into her shoulders, back, and thighs.

She gritted her teeth and forced the remaining lotuses to freeze in place with an emergency burst of her domain’s power, shattering them before they could fully close.

I was already preparing the next strike.

『 Sixth Move! (✯ Moonlight Descent ✯) 』

I raised both swords high above my head.

A pillar of pure silver moonlight descended from the void above, concentrating all of its power into my blades.

When I swung downward, the combined force of the moonlight and my swords created a vertical slash that split the battlefield in two.

The attack was wide enough to cut through multiple star systems at once.

She crossed her arms and met the descending blade of light with everything she had. The collision created a massive crater in the fabric of space itself.

She was driven to one knee, golden blood pouring from her arms where the residual energy had burned through her defenses.

Her breathing was heavier now.

The temporary power of the Trumpets was still pushing me beyond equality, and she was starting to feel the difference.

"You’re... really something..." she panted, forcing herself back to her feet.

"But it’s still not enough to kill me!"

I didn’t reply.

There was no time for words.

『 Seventh Move! (✹ Absolute Zero Eclipse ✹) 』

The temperature across the entire battlefield plummeted to absolute zero. Even the residual heat of dying stars was extinguished.

A perfect sphere of absolute cold expanded outward from my position, freezing everything it touched, including the energy constructs she tried to create.

Within the sphere, time itself seemed to slow.

She tried to break free with raw creation power, but the absolute zero effect suppressed even her domain for a critical moment.

I closed the distance and drove both swords toward her heart.

She managed to twist at the last second. The blades pierced through her side instead of her heart, sinking deep into her body.

Golden blood exploded outward.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHRGGGGGGGG!"

She screamed and slammed her palm into my chest, sending me flying backward with a blast of pure chaotic force.

I recovered in mid-air and immediately transitioned into the final form.

Hopefully... this is enough.

『 Eighth Move! (✹ ✧Karmic Moonfall Eclipse✧ ✹) 』

This was the technique I had created after reclaiming my memories, a fusion of Karma, lunar power, and absolute destruction.

A massive black-and-silver moon formed above us, its surface covered in glowing karmic runes.

The moon began to fall, carrying the weight of every wound, every death, and every consequence that had ever been inflicted in this battle.

At the same time, an eclipse of pure chaotic energy wrapped around it, amplifying the attack to a level that could erase conceptual existence itself.

The Creator Woman’s eyes widened as the moon descended.

She poured everything she had into a final defensive barrier, a perfect sphere of pure creation energy designed to withstand even the collapse of a universe.

The Karmic Moonfall Eclipse slammed into the barrier with catastrophic force.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

The impact destroyed everything that remained of the local cosmic structure. Galaxies that had been forming were erased.

The overlapping domains cracked under the strain. For a moment, it looked like the barrier might hold...

Crack...

Then it shattered.

The residual force of the eighth move slammed into her body.

She was thrown across the void, golden blood trailing behind her in a long, glittering arc.

When she finally stopped, her combat clothes were in complete tatters, and deep wounds covered nearly every part of her body.

"HaHagh.h... gufgh..."

She was breathing hard, one hand pressed against a particularly severe gash across her abdomen.

But she was still standing.

Still smiling.

"That... was beautiful," she said, her voice hoarse but filled with genuine admiration.

"You really did pour everything into that. But..."

She wiped blood from her lips and raised her spear again.

"...it’s still not enough to kill me."

Just then... I felt the temporary power of the Trumpets beginning to fade.

The surge that had pushed me beyond equality was starting to recede. I had only seconds left before the advantage disappeared completely.

There was no more time for existing techniques.

I closed my eyes for a fraction of a second and reached deeper than I ever had before.

The remaining power of the Trumpets, the full weight of my Chaos, the accumulated experience of ninety-nine reincarnations, and the raw will to end this fight... all of it compressed into a single point.

A new form took shape in my mind.

I opened my eyes.

"Moonlit Ice Lotus Sword Art..."

My voice was calm, but the energy gathering around both swords was unlike anything I had ever produced.

『 Ninth Move! (✹ ✧ ᪥Genesis-Ending Lotus᪥ ✧ ✹) 』