Unrivaled in another world

[: 3rd POV :]

"Such big words," Aurelian said coolly, golden eyes narrowing with open disdain, "coming from the mouth of a mortal like you."

His gaze lingered on Daniel as though inspecting something unsanitary.

"But then again," he continued, lips curling faintly, "what should I expect from a low-life world that doesn't even understand its own place in the hierarchy?"

The air felt thinner with every word he spoke.

Not because of pressure, but because reality itself seemed to agree with him.

The golden armada behind him glowed brighter, celestial sigils rotating slowly as if awaiting a command that would unmake continents.

Daniel, however, didn't flinch.

He stood amid the fractured battlefield with one hand in his pocket, posture relaxed, expression calm to the point of indifference.

His gaze was steady, unhurried, like a predator watching a noisy insect struggle to assert dominance.

"But enough of this," Aurelian said, clearly irritated by the lack of reaction.

"I have no time to indulge your childish theatrics."

He turned slightly, attention shifting away from Daniel as though he were already irrelevant.

"It is time I complete the mission assigned by my lord."

His voice hardened.

"So, Princess," Aurelian declared, raising his hand and slowly clenching his fist, "I advise you to cooperate peacefully."

The moment his fingers closed, something had happened.

"Ackkk!"

Arin cried out.

Her body jerked violently as an unseen force seized her, lifting her slightly off the ground.

She gasped, golden eyes widening in pain as her entire existence felt like it was being crushed inward, body, soul, and origin all being dragged toward something far beyond her control.

"D-Daniel—!" she cried, voice shaking. "I—I can't—!"

Invisible chains wrapped around her, not physical, but conceptual.

Authority-bound restraints designed to suppress royalty of Radiant Dawn.

Her knees buckled midair, breath hitching as agony surged through her veins.

The sky darkened subtly and Daniel sighed.

Not in panic.

Not in rage.

But in mild annoyance.

"Daring," he said softly, almost conversationally, "to take someone I swore to protect in this world…right in front of me."

He tilted his head, crimson eyes glowing faintly.

"How brave of you."

Aurelian scoffed.

"Do not misunderstand your position, mortal. You—"

Daniel raised his hand.

From his palm, shadows tore open reality itself.

Abyssal fangs emerged first, followed by massive, glowing crimson eyes, ancient, hungry, and smiling with an intelligence that sent a ripple of dread across the battlefield.

The air screamed.

[: Absolute Consumption :]

The unseen force gripping Arin shattered instantly.

Not repelled.

Not resisted.

It was consumed.

The conceptual chains evaporated as if they had never existed, devoured so thoroughly that even their laws ceased to be remembered by the world.

Arin collapsed forward, but Daniel was already there.

He caught her effortlessly, one arm steadying her as though the previous agony had never occurred.

"Breathe," he said calmly.

"You're fine."

Arin clutched his sleeve, trembling.

"T-That wasn't just force," she whispered, shaken. "That was—authority. You… you just—"

"I know," Daniel replied gently.

Behind him, shadows twisted as his presence surged.

His stats exploded upward, ten thousandfold, not with violence, but inevitability, as though reality had simply updated itself to accommodate him.

Aurelian's brows rose slightly.

"How bizarre," he murmured.

"What a peculiar ability."

His gaze sharpened, interest finally piercing his arrogance.

"To pierce through the countless laws I embedded within that authority…you truly deserve praise."

He smiled thinly.

"But do not mistake novelty for danger."

Golden light flared around him.

"If you believe I am comparable to those Conquerors you killed," Aurelian said, voice dripping with confidence, "then you are gravely mistaken."

He raised both hands.

[: Astronomical Light :]

The air around Daniel trembled.

Dozens of radiant orbs manifested instantly around Daniel, orbiting him in precise, mathematical perfection.

Each one pulsed with Blessings, Laws, Authorities, and layered Concepts, yet all was reinforced by one of Aurelian's personal Concept that he liked.

[: Absolute Pierce :]

"Daniel—!" Arin shouted.

"That technique—move!"

*Boom.*

A beam of compressed light detonated from one orb, ricocheting to another, then another, striking Daniel again and again in an endless loop.

The impacts rang like bells of judgment, each strike capable of erasing gods.

Yet Daniel didn't move.

The light scorched his skin.

Just barely.

"…Woah," Daniel muttered, blinking once.

"That actually hurt."

He sounded impressed.

For the first time since awakening his power, he had felt pain.

But it was both minimal and trivial.

Yet, it was real.

The damage registered, roughly a thousand points.

Against the incomprehensible ocean of digits that made up his health pool, it was meaningless.

Even then, Aurelian frowned.

It should have been impossible.

Absolute Pierce was designed to ignore all defenses, all resistances and all abilities meant to prevent damage.

And yet...it didn't work.

However, what surprised him the most was an ability given by the Alliances of Gods.

"…How," Aurelian muttered, disbelief creeping into his voice, "can Remnant of Ruinous deal such low damage?"

That ability, his greatest passive was forged to bypass damage reduction and negation entirely.

The stronger the target, the more devastating it became.

It should have torn Daniel apart.

Yet it hadn't even scratched 0.1% of his HP.

Daniel tilted his head.

"Oh," he said thoughtfully.

"So that's why." Daniel figured out why Aurelian's Remnant of Ruinous didn't work.

And it was because of this.

[: Absolute Being: Absolute Nullification :]

—Attacks will not be nullified.

—Enemy nullification toward the user will be nullified.

Aurelian's negation had been erased.

The only damage that remained was the residual echo of Remnant of Ruinous itself, nothing more.

After all, this was an ability forged by Gods after all.

Arin stared, stunned.

"You… you're smiling," she whispered.

Daniel was smiling.

"This is new to me, so it's kinda interesting for me" he said softly.

At the same time, something stirred deep within him.

It wasn't anger or fear, but hunger and greed.

The kind of greed and hunger that looked forward to a fight he had been anticipating.

Aurelian's composure finally cracked, just slightly.

Daniel looked up at him, his eyes gleaming.

"Maybe," he said, tone light but dangerous, "I won't be disappointed this time."

Shadows coiled tighter around his body, the abyssal eyes and fangs grinning wider.

"I hope you can last longer, Aurelian."

Daniel's smile widened.

"And try not to break too quickly."

"You think that's all I have?" Aurelian snapped, golden light flaring violently around him.

The faint crack in his composure widened into raw humiliation.

"You ignorant fool!"

His pride burned hotter than his radiance.

The fact that Daniel still stood there, unbroken, unimpressed was unacceptable.

"Then witness it," Aurelian roared, voice echoing across the heavens, "the power that defines despair!"

[: Miracle of Despair :]

[: Glaze of Light :]

[: Rupture of Blight :]

[: Mandate of Luminescent :]

Four abilities mixed with laws, authorities and concepts descended at once and the sky tore open in layered gold.

First came the manifestation of Glaze of Light.

A colossal feminine figure emerged, towering over the battlefield like a living idol.

Her body was formed of condensed divine mana, wrapped in flowing golden aura.

And a third eye slowly opened on her forehead.

The moment it did, Daniel's vision dulled.

All of his senses had been sealed.

Even spatial awareness flickered.

At the same time, his stats plummeted, crushed downward by ninety percent, while an alien impulse surged through his mind, worship.

Arin gasped. "Daniel—! Don't listen to it! That thing forces obedience!"

Daniel didn't respond.

Not because he couldn't hear her.

But because he didn't need to.

Miracle of Despair activated next.

The world tilted.

Probability bent, rewriting itself so that every possible outcome leaned toward Daniel's defeat.

Aurelian's presence exploded outward as his stats multiplied, millions of times over, dragged upward by despair .

Aurelian spread his arms, laughter echoing.

"Despair empowers me, mortal! The more hopeless your situation becomes, the stronger I grow!"

Then came Rupture of Blight.

Above Aurelian, a golden warrior descended, winged, radiant, terrifying.

It possessed multiple arms, each wielding a different weapon: sword, spear, bow, axe, and more, each forming with a deafening hum.

Every weapon carried a passive law.

A law that severed futures.

A law that erased possibilities where its strike would fail.

Each attack would land.

Arin's voice shook.

"Daniel… please… this isn't like before. Even the future is turning against you."

Finally, the Mandate of Luminescent had manifested and the clouds parted.

From above, divine mana gathered in terrifying densitygolden essence infused with the partial will of the Pillar of Light itself.

The sky crackedz and the space fractured, and the world screamed.

This realm was never meant to contain a god's borrowed authority.

Far away, within a cocoon of roots and light, Mika convulsed.

"—Hnng!"

Cracks spread across her crystalline shell as the pressure rippled through dimensions.

Her evolution destabilized, pain seeping into her soul.

And that was when Daniel moved.

He didn't smile.

He didn't laugh.

The imposed worship shattered without resistance.

The sealed senses reconnected, not gradually, but violently, as if the concept of sealing him had never been valid to begin with.

"…That one," Daniel said quietly, eyes lifting to the heavens, "crossed a line."

Aurelian sneered.

"Still standing? Even now?"

Daniel raised his hand.

The shadows around him didn't surge.

They opened.

[: Maw of Endless Hunger :]

Reality tore itself apart.

A colossal metaphysical maw unfolded behind Daniel, vast, infinite, wrong.

It devoured everything indiscriminately: light, despair, authority, probability, and law.

The idol of Glaze of Light vanished first, its third eye screaming silently as it was erased from all timelines.

Miracle of Despair collapsed, its rewritten outcomes consumed before they could resolve.

The winged warrior of Rupture of Blight disintegrated mid-strike, its weapons swallowed along with the futures they guaranteed.

Mandate of Luminescent never descended.

The god-borrowed power was eaten mid-formation, causing the sky to snap shut as if bitten closed.

Silence fell.

Not peace.

But absence.

Aurelian staggered backward, blood, golden—dripping from his mouth. "W-What have you—"

Daniel stepped forward, eyes cold.

"You endangered this world," he said flatly.

Another step.

"You hurt someone under my protection."

Arin stared at his back, breath caught—not in fear, but awe and relief. "Daniel…"

"So here's the outcome," Daniel said.

"This ends now."