"You fool! You rewinded the time of the whole world but not your own body!" (Past)
Miraculously maintaining composure in an absurdly surreal situation, past Emily could detect the start of the collapse with [omni detection]. Mana starts to collapse into one spot in the middle of present Emily's heart, rendering all her skills unusable. That just meant that past Emily had to do it.
"Wrath!" (Past)
Present Emily's state of resignation made the process easier with no resistance. The collapse of her soul was reversing, after 5 seconds she had disappeared from the spot. Looking into her palms, she closed her fingers to reaffirm her existence with the feeling of her palm. Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, her composure seeps back in as a will of determination took place.
"... I'm back... I didn't think of it before, so how? Reversing my body's time lead to the fusion? Did the time axis forcibly went past space and mass and merged my 2 selfs back together? How absurd."
What had been 5 seconds felt like a week, such was the strangeness of messing with time. But I finally had a plan. At this point it had roughly been a minute, unfortunately that was when the enemy arrived. Fortunately, it was easier to deal with them having done it before.
Using [shadow step], I arrived at the stated venue. Deep into the forest, where monsters of random levels wander. Causing mana to collapse into itself with 'pride', with the exception of Veilcry who could actually react in time, the rest perished as the insignificant fodder they were. Opening a hole in his defense with [reality displacement], shadow stakes erupted from the mana floating in his small 'safe' space followed by some mana collapse explosions to really drive in the nail on his coffin.
In the instant before absorbing the experience, I had to activate a spell. When in doubt, just use [reality displacement] to solve your problem as low tier reality warping. It had mainly evolved from skills that hid presence, but it had also evolved from [illusion]. This all came down to whether [reality displacement] was able to fool the world system into giving me more experience. A large magic circle wedges itself diagonally across the air in front of me, before a feeling of strength engulfed my soul.
The feeling itself told me what I wanted to know, but I still had to check. I had went through so much, though it was only a single loop, the demon lord could have erased my memory of previous loops. I shouldn't undermine my own effort, screw that, I can only keep moving forward. For it was my ambition, to keep growing stronger!!!
Skills:
Change:
([Storage magic tier-5] [Shadow step-tier 5]) —> [control space]
[ Omni detection-tier 3—>5]
( [mana control-tier 5] [manipulate intonation-tier 5]) —>[control mana]
[Conquest](new)
Passive:
[Physical immunity-tier 5]
[All element resistance-tier 5]
[Immortality]
[Soul immortality]
[Weapon mastery]
Active:
[Reality displacement]
[Abyss control]
[True death]
[Fate lock]
[Ex speed enhancement-tier 5]
[Diamond speed enhancement-tier 5]
[Soul reap-tier 5]
[Conquest], the ability to manipulate souls. I finally had a way to fight the demon lord.
Vanishing, the whole world had been consumed by a void. Did he cast [death] on space and time itself to offset his collapse? No if time and space is gone, such factors are no longer relevant or valid. Then and now, here and there, such concepts have disappeared. There was no longer anything to prevent us from fighting. We are exactly in the same space and not at the same time.
The only thing to go by was [Omni detection-tier 5] ,having surpassed the whole X and Y axis of space and time, it was bordering on the Z-axis, an unknown dimension that allows observation in this unprecedented disaster. With the time and space axis completely gone, the universe was pretty much non existent, we were observing the other's move in an unknown realm. Everything boiled down to skills from this point.
"[Death]!" (Vengradios)
"[Conquest]!"
In this unknown realm, actions happened in instants, the decisive factor would be the number of actions.
"Gh!!" (Vengradios)
You can't kill infinite lives but you can cancel the ability of [Conquest] with [death]. But it was already a decisive win for me. Before the battle, I had activated [conquest] cutting my number of actions by 1. So his first move was to cancel my ability. What was mine? [Conquest] was the manipulation of souls, if I can duplicate mine, surely I can delete his.
And that was what occured, the pain struck throughout his soul collapsing on itself like it was supposed to, having just been revived, he hasn't gotten used to pain yet. Using that opening, I used it again to make the process faster. Quite literally, his soul was bring pulled apart and smashed into itself at the same time. As the demon lord, he had quite a durable soul, but it was far too late. With the second cast, the deletion of his soul had increased in speed exponentially.
Though I had [Omni detection], it wasn't exactly comfortable being blind. "Fuh~" exhaling all the pressure away, the only way to get out of this occurence was to somehow obtain the authority of death. It was here and not here at the same time. When it was being worn by another person, it was impossible to take evem with [reality displacement]. But what about now, now that the demon lord is dead? Reaching my arm, I can't sense if it had actually moved without [omni detection]. Spreading my fingers, I got ready to do what I needed to do.
" [Reality displacement]! [Control space]!"
My newly obtained skill that had evolved from [shadow step], an old hand that had aided in my times of need numerous times. Using [reality displacement] alone, my mana would run out before I checked the whole universe for the ring that contained the authority of death. It was due to the fact that it was everywhere and nowhere at the same time, how do you deal with that?
It was rather simple. [reality displacement] was used to alter the potency of [control space], it was like some sort of boost that upgraded it to a yet unknown potential. Closing my palm, I still couldn't feel anything, I was probably only here because of [soul immortality]. The concept of space was destroyed, only a corporeal or spiritual form like the demon lord was allowed. With that my sense of touch was gone, but I was confident. It was in my hand.
Name: authority of death
Effect: grants skill: [death], user has to define the effects of said skill [death] before using it. Agi x 1000. User is also allowed to reverse the effects of mentioned skill.
Define it huh? Here goes. [Render target non-existent]. Reversing the effects of the demon king's use of the same authority, colour returns to the world. Before anyone knew it, everthing had just looked back to normal.