A cataclysmic sound rang out the moment Nina’s mace touched Admiral Rudra’s head.
The entire dimensional battlefield rippled like a pond under the explosion of forces.
Space itself groaned, collapsing and reforming, cracks of pure darkness tearing through the light of distant stars.
Billions of burning stars within the golden-silver domain crushed down toward Admiral Rudra in a frenzied storm, each carrying the force to annihilate planets.
The stream was a pure wall of flashing screens:
[ HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK ]
[ Is he dead? Is he dead? ]
[ There’s no way even a monster could survive that…! ]
For a breathless second, nothing could be seen.
The blinding light of destruction had swallowed everything.
Nina, breathing heavily, hovered above, her entire figure trembling from the bloodline eruption she had just unleashed. Her wings flickered, some even burning away.
And then—
From the center of that ultimate storm…
Step.
A single step echoed across the battlefield.
As the smoke and obliterated domain peeled back—
Admiral Rudra walked out.
His left shoulder armor had a faint crack, and a line of blood trickled from his temple, sliding down to his jaw.
But his gaze…
Unshaken.
Flat.
Fierce.
Absolute.
The ethereal purple fluid still flowed around him, even more vividly than before, each step he took seeming to crush the remnants of Nina’s domain.
The chat exploded:
[ HOW?! ]
[ HE’S ALIVE?! WALKING?! ]
[ MY BRAIN JUST BLUE SCREENED ]
Nina’s breathing hitched sharply.
Her instincts screamed at her:
Run. Death was approaching.
Admiral Rudra looked at her, his gaze same as it was since the start.
“I suppose you won’t be making the third move.”
Nina’s lips trembled, not a word coming out of her mouth.
“I shall make a move then.”
The attack he promised.
He took no stance. He simply flicked his hand forward like a casual wave, oozing utter dominance.
But the moment that hand moved—
Reality snapped. Dimension shatter. Arcane broke.
A line of absolute destruction tore through space, straight at Nina.
Just pure dominance fueled by his will and cumulation of his arsenal and the stacked oaths he had sworn.
Nina barely managed to cross her mace in front of her body, pouring every ounce of her energy and power she had left into defense.
But it was meaningless.
The line of destruction reached her….
…and her body froze.
The mace cracked.
Her wings shattered into ethereal fragments.
Her armor split apart.
Her internal organs collapsed before her mind even registered the blow.
Her bloodline screamed as it was severed, her mind in chaos.
And in the next instant—
She exploded into countless glittering sparks and dissipated completely into the dark void of the battlefield.
The stream was silent.
Then the kill notification popped up on every viewer’s screen:
[Admiral Rudra has killed Nina Karvalheim! (Officially verified by Arcadia Spectrum.)]
[Wish Stone Reward: 1 Claimed.]
[Challenge: Completed.]
[ HE FUCKING DID IT!!!! ]
[ HOLY FUCK. ]
[ THIS IS THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY. ]
[ RESPECT. RESPECT. RESPECT. ]
[ THIS OLD MAN IS A LEGEND! ]
Admiral Rudra calmly floated there, his arms crossing back again.
The blood on his face dried instantly under the cosmic winds.
Without even a word, without even a smile, he turned away from where Nina had been and vanished.
Appearing back in the mini-ruin, the resource that looked like a white bell-shaped flower with red and blue patterns shot at him and entered his source space.
…
At another mini-ruin, Liang Zhou finished a battle against the Trelfjor clan’s High Mortal, completely annihilating him without giving a single chance for his opponent to fight back.
Bianca Moretti fought against an Immortal of the Big Ten, evading and confusing the opponent for an entire five minutes before ending the battle with one shot.
Viktor Volkov fought against an Immortal of the Big Ten, plummeting him into a frozen meat cube and eating him.
Kira fought against an Immortal of Armen Clan of Battlesong Cosmos where Almond and Lily had gone for vacation.
The result? The battle ended with her opponent getting atomically shredded by her katana.
Noah followed his grandfather’s steps, brutally fighting his Immortal-rank opponent and annihilating the woman of the Big Ten—the Gibrelin clan, the noseless slim people with four arms.
Emma fought against Nizahir Clan’s Immortal-rank powerhouse, the clan that arranged all of this in the first place. With her exotic poisons and control of plant clones inhabiting exotic poison powers, she brought absolute death.
The other old Monsters who were High-Mortals won all battles against the enemy High-Mortals, killing them all!
The top Guild Monsters knew the prestige of House of Regalon was at stack, giving their all and winning their battles. Some survived, some ended in mututal destruction, but only after achieving victory!
A few Regalons of High-Mortal lost and died, but as the entire first day passed by…in all the battles that were fought, Regalons won 80% of them.
[ House of Realon is domi-fucking-nating! ]
[ Shit. ]
[ They are going to get even more powerful with the resources they’d be collecting! ]
[ I wonder if the House of Regalon has started accepting outsiders to become members of their civilization? ]
As all the viewers were hyped and having fun watching, a notification suddenly rang to them.
< The Stream will be ending in five seconds. I hope you all had fun. >
[ What?! This is bull shit! ]
[ We want to watch more! ]
[ Stop! ]
…
Arcadia Spectrum.
The Supreme Emperors of the Big Ten had grim expressions.
“Romex Nizahir….it looks like the plan you cooked up failed.”
“They even got more Immortal Emperors in the expedition and most of our forces are dead. This is a loss that wasn’t in the calculation.”
“We’ve underestimated them. We had more powerful elites and if we had sent them, things could look better. Some of the Regalons, like that Rudra Deva, were exceptions, but not all Regalons are like him.”
“This is gut-wrenching, bah!”
“The stream is stopped. What’s the plan now? Wrap it up with goodbyes to them once they emerge from the chaotic dimension eight days later?”
“There’s still a second layer of big ruin to be unlocked…and there won’t be any more streams. Let them do whatever they want and earn whatever they can, but once the Regalons emerge from the chaotic dimension, there must be a fleet of Supreme Emperors ready to kill half of them.”
“For others, it’d just mean they died inside.”