I Became the Youngest Prince in the Novel

154 - Overwhelming (2)

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Episode 154, Chapter 42: Overwhelming (2)

There was no brilliant light.

No ominous darkness.

No sound emerged.

Just, WHOOSH-

Only the hundreds of thousands of black-winged monsters that made up that army turned to dust and scattered.

"......"

Everyone in the city lost their senses, staring blankly at the disappearing army, witnessing a scene that transcended even astonishment.

Even as they saw it with their own eyes, heard it with their ears, and felt it on their skin, they couldn't understand what had just happened.

It was a sight that mortal beings, bound by the cycle of reincarnation, could never understand.

Was this what divine punishment described in myths looked like?

'But... something feels familiar.'

Elysis thought as she looked at the being responsible for this entire scene.

Though she could only see a hazy figure due to the immense difference in status, she felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity from that shape.

'That can't be possible...'

As doubt filled Elysis's eyes, knowing she couldn't possibly know such a being,

'It seems the power hasn't been fully reproduced.'

Zion, watching the army of the fallen scatter in the sky, thought as he clenched and unclenched his fist.

What Zion had just unleashed was Concept Denial, which could only be used when the Black Star reached 8 stars.

It was one of the transcendent techniques that could only be performed by twisting and reconstructing the fundamental laws of the world.

He had activated Concept Denial to erase friction, wiping out the fallen angel Belial and his entire army, but Zion had a reason for thinking this way.

'It wasn't activated perfectly.'

He could immediately recognize this fact the moment he swung Eclaksia downwards.

Was it impossible to perfectly reproduce his power even with the divine artifact imbued with Chronos's power?

'That's probably why that guy is still alive.'

With that thought, Zion looked towards where the fallen angel had vanished.

CRACKLE!

The empty space where nothing had existed twisted and split, and corrupted divinity began to flow out from within.

Soon after, that divinity gathered and formed a single shape.

CRUNCH!

It was Belial.

"Cough! Huff, huff!"

The fallen angel, eyes wide open, gasped for breath as soon as he reformed.

Two of the seven pairs of wings on his back had disappeared.

Belial then stared blankly at where his army had been moments ago, with disbelieving eyes.

-What on earth...

Perfect annihilation.

Though only a part, the army of the fallen that had once followed him in opposing even God had been erased with a single swing of a sword.

'Is this... even possible?'

A shudder ran through his body, and cold sweat he had never shed in his life flowed down his back.

That's how overwhelming the strike the fallen angel had just witnessed and experienced was.

Even Belial himself, who was close to the level of a demigod, had been annihilated without being able to block or even dodge it.

The only reason he was still alive was because he had activated 'Momentary Regression', one of the authorities of rebellion, just before the strike hit him.

'Though I had to sacrifice two pairs of wings for it...'

If he hadn't done this, he would have faced complete death.

Belial's eyes then turned towards Zion, who had created this entire situation.

-What are you... How can someone who hasn't escaped the shackles unleash such a strike?

In truth, it might have been possible for immortals who had escaped the shackles of fate, namely gods, but the fallen angel was certain that the being before him wasn't a deity.

Gods, possessing transcendent power and authority, were bound by many restrictions.

That's why they couldn't intervene in the world so directly.

It was the reason why Belial, who hadn't ascended to godhood, could stand against Luminous in the past.

Though Belial's eyes filled with doubt, the Emperor's next words didn't answer his questions.

"Is there any reason for me to answer?"

The low voice that flowed out made space itself vibrate as if trembling in fear.

This happened because Zion's unfathomable status had been engraved into the world itself due to the earlier Concept Denial.

-...What?

"You'll be a corpse again soon."

-I'll tear you apart and kill you, you bastard!

Belial, hearing words that completely dismissed him in a way he had never experienced in his life, exploded with immense anger and charged at a terrifying speed.

He knew.

If that being unleashed a sword strike like before once more, he wouldn't be able to block it.

So he intended to close the distance and pour out attacks, not giving him a chance to use it.

WHOOSH!

The five pairs of wings on the fallen angel's back spread wide, and the authority of rebellion gathered in both his hands.

The power emanating from him was tremendous enough to destroy a small city.

"......"

Zion, watching Belial approach by folding space with indifferent eyes, lightly extended Eclaksia forward.

It was a thrust that seemed too insignificant compared to the fallen angel approaching with enough force to shake heaven and earth.

It looked like it would be swept away by the wave of authority Belial had unleashed, but the result of the collision was completely different.

SWISH-

First, the authority of rebellion surrounding the fallen angel's hands.

Then, starting from his fingertips, to his palms, arms, shoulders, and even parts of his wings.

All of it was erased as if it had never existed in this world from the beginning.

Denial.

The most accurate concept defining the Black Star's existence and the only authority of its kind in the world.

The Black Star at 8 stars was enough to push this authority of denial to its limit.

-Agh... AAAARGH!

As not just his body, but a part of his very existence and fate disappeared, a scream more desperate than any Belial had ever uttered before erupted from his mouth.

But the fallen angel couldn't finish that scream.

TAP-

Zion's finger lightly touched Belial's solar plexus, as if tapping the surface of water.

At that moment, BANG!

A hole opened in a circle centered on where the finger touched, and the fallen angel's form vanished from that spot.

CRASH!

Belial's form reappeared, smashing through dozens of buildings in the City of Light before being embedded in one of the seal sites at the outskirts.

Belatedly, a line was drawn between Belial and Zion, and an unimaginable shockwave erupted, erasing everything it touched.

-Urgh!

Groaning as if his breath was about to be cut off, the fallen angel barely managed to raise his embedded body.

Then, in his eyes, WHOOSH!

He saw Zion, who had reached this place from the city center with just one step forward.

He had denied the very distance between them with the Black Star.

Feeling the crisis, Belial frantically flapped his wings and scattered his authority around him.

CRACKLE!

Responding to that authority, tens of thousands of spears of the fallen shot out from the inverted space, aiming only at Zion.

As these spears approached right in front of him, the Emperor gently raised and clenched the hand not holding his sword.

----------------!

At that moment, the pouring spears, the inverted spaces, and even Belial's scattered authority were all erased as if it were the most natural thing.

-What is this...

As Belial's dazed voice flowed out, unable to understand the sight he was witnessing for the second time, BOOM!

Finally, Zion's form reached right in front of him, and an utterly one-sided battle began.

* * *

"That's..."

The silver-haired woman, who had just entered the city with her companions, was looking up at the sky with shaking eyes at a situation unfolding completely differently from her expectations.

The fallen angel Belial.

The one who should have been driving the entire city, including the Order of Light, to destruction, was being overwhelmingly pushed back.

And by a single being, no less.

It was a sight impossible to believe even as she saw it with her own eyes.

"...What on earth is that being? Is it a deity or something?"

Turzan, standing beside her, asked with a pale expression.

Even he, one of the 'Seven Heavens' called the world's strongest, couldn't properly gauge the power flowing from the clash of the two transcendent beings in the sky above the city. He could only feel that it was a realm absolutely beyond his reach.

"I don't know."

The woman shook her head in response, her gaze still fixed on the sky.

She truly didn't know.

Even for her, who had already seen the end of this world once and returned, this was a being she had never seen before, she could swear to that.

Belial, before his fall, was one of the highest-ranking angels who served the God of Light, Luminous, most closely, and after his fall, he had grown even stronger by gaining the authority of rebellion.

His status was already close to that of a demigod, having half-escaped the cycle of reincarnation.

'Yet he's overwhelming Belial?'

She couldn't believe such a being existed in this world.

'Who on earth is it?'

She had never seen or heard of him even once before her regression, so she had no idea who he could be.

She couldn't even guess why he had appeared here or why he was facing the fallen angel.

"Even if Belial's seal wasn't completely broken, to be able to dominate him to this extent..."

The woman swallowed the rest of her words trying to guess his identity.

Even to her, it seemed too far-fetched.

'I need to get a bit closer.'

As she finished that thought and began to move with her companions,

-Why, why!!

A voice beyond bewilderment, bordering on desperation, flowed from Belial's mouth.

His body was already in tatters, with his chest pierced through and half of his wings torn off.

He was in a state where it wouldn't be strange if he died at any moment.

The fallen angel's eyes were filled with despair and questions.

And those questions were related to the authority of that being who was pushing him to the extreme.

-Nothing works against him!

If he had simply been overwhelmed by sheer power, Belial could have understood.

But that wasn't the case.

Something alien spreading out from that being.

His own power and authority that touched that something were disappearing as if they had never existed in this world to begin with.

No, it wasn't just that.

The surrounding air and mana, space and time.

Even fate and the laws of the world.

Everything in the world that touched that something was being erased, and there seemed to be no limit to it.

'Does such a type of authority exist in this world?'

Even Belial, who had acquired some divinity, couldn't guess its principle or origin at all.

Fear filled the depths of his heart.

-What kind of technique are you using!

As if trying to shake off that fear, the fallen angel shouted loudly, and the authority that burst from him began to interfere with the surrounding space.

CRUNCH!

Due to the 'Authority of Rebellion' that reversed the properties of everything that existed, the mana flowing through the air transformed into a massive wave and crashed towards Zion from all directions.

But, WHOOSH!

Once again, the wave was completely erased before it could reach Zion.

As if that wasn't enough, Zion's Black Star, which had reached the fallen angel through the mana forming the wave, began to deny even his remaining wings.

-Urgh!

It was impossible for the current Belial to defeat Zion from the start.

The compatibility between his authority and the Eternal Emperor's authority was far too poor.

No matter how much he tried to reverse properties using his power, it was pointless if the very act itself was denied.

'If only I could use my original power...!'

With that thought, deep regret filled the fallen angel's eyes.

Though he couldn't understand the nature of the authority that being was using, if he had been in his full power, he could have endured and aimed for victory.

But in his current state, with the seal imperfectly broken, it was just a vain hope.

Thud, thud.

The Emperor approached, emanating the authority of denial from his entire body that erased even the foundations of the world.

-...Even if you win now, don't think this is all I am.

Belial glared at the Emperor with shaking eyes and spoke through gritted teeth.

-If the seal had been completely broken, the result would have been different.

As the fallen angel finished speaking,

"Oh really?"

For the first time, a glimmer of interest appeared in the Emperor's eyes, which had remained bored throughout the battle after regaining his power through the divine artifact.

"Then why don't you show me?"

A smile slowly spread across the Emperor's lips.

The emotion contained in that smile was clearly expectation.

-...What?

"That result you speak of."

As the fallen angel's eyes filled with doubt at these words whose meaning he couldn't guess,

Zion, who had already raised one hand, lightly flicked his finger.

At that moment, CRACK!

The seals of all the remaining seal sites in the city shattered.

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