Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 652 - 040 Hidden

Above the starry sky's change, Austin likewise knew nothing.

At this moment,

he carefully examined the Sword Realm in his palm, filled with massive holes and shocking cracks, his gaze heavy.

Then, he lightly shook his head, a sigh naturally escaping.

"Completely beyond salvation!"

In his voice,

was mixed a sense of regret for this technique, the Sword Realm, which he had spent years perfecting and had become extremely powerful, now utterly destroyed, and an admiration for the power level of the Divine.

The earlier instant of confrontation occurred in a flash,

though brief,

the level of danger was beyond any Austin had faced since birth, the destructive power almost reaching his main body through his Divine Fragment!

As if an attack from the realm of causality,

with no escape,

and no avoidance!

That moment was a collision of ultimate destruction, causing even Austin's main body in the distant dark chaos depths to feel completely transparent.

Fortunately, that power merely caused Austin to feel heart-palpitations, without causing any harm to his main body.

"Perhaps because it's merely a temporary consciousness manifestation, the Divine's main body cannot descend into the world, the kind of power that surpasses limits cannot unfold in this world; the heart-palpitating danger comes from the power level, rather than the opponent's ability to threaten the main body."

This,

was also the source of Austin's greatest confidence.

As long as the Divine's true self did not descend and act personally, then when a fragment descends, Austin believed that even facing the Divine's avatar, he could protect himself adequately.

This encounter wasn't without harvest.

Some understanding of the Divine's power was gained.

"Even though I only saw the tip of the iceberg, I could feel the magnitude of that overwhelming Divine might. However, the opponent seemed to also have concerns, perhaps worried about acting too recklessly and causing irreversible damage to this world..."

Austin pondered in his heart, his eyes flickering, thinking of some other matters.

Why was it like this?

The fragmented state of this world, those mighty Divines seem to be constrained by some restriction limiting their actions.

And over these past eight thousand years, since the disappearance of the Seven Sages of the Central Earth World, no one has broken through to the Epic realm, nor have any Epic-level existences appeared in the world.

It seems everything has vanished,

because of some reason.

Though not having truly experienced that era, Austin believed that something he did not know happened in those seemingly peaceful eight thousand years.

"Twilight of the Gods, Beastman Empire, Seven Sages, Human Race's rise..."

Austin murmured these names softly.

Though still completely ignorant of the truth,

however,

he already sensed, beneath the surface of the peaceful world, more tumultuous currents were hidden.

In the midst of his thoughts,

Whirl! Whirl! Whirl!

Several figures flew out from within the hall, flashing to appear below the hall, and upon seeing Austin suspended on the Golden Throne, immediately half-knelt to the ground.

"Your Majesty! We came to rescue late!"

"No matter, if even I can't handle the enemy, you won't be able to deal with them either."

Austin waved his hand, signaling them to retreat.

"Withdraw, just handle the matters within the main city, I don't need you yet."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Those burly figures below the hall respectfully made a salute, then withdrew from the hall.

Seeing the few leave,

Austin raised his hand, looking at the Sword Realm in his hand that was on the brink of breaking.

"Though the Sword Realm shattered, saving the top-tier power of the Dragon Nest Beastman Tribe can be considered worthwhile."

Long before the arrival of that unknown Divine,

Austin had vaguely felt that the powerful unseen hand behind was highly likely to descend personally, so naturally he wouldn't prepare nothing.

Not mentioning the strength of that hidden hand behind the scenes,

with Austin's fragment power, if attacking fully, the entire main city would probably be obliterated in the aftermath, multiple Law Powers fusing, the resultant power is not merely a simple one plus one equals two addition.

Should conflict arise with the potential descending unseen hand, the thousands of meters' range around Dragon Nest Tribe would be entirely annihilated, twenty years of hard work would be lost in a day.

Thus, prior to this,

Austin had already left behind a safeguard for the surrounding city.

That was, the Sword Realm's power.

Like a void dream, expanding the illusory yet real Sword Realm extremely, utilizing the Dream Realm Law's power to blanket it over the real world layer.

When Austin collided with that Divine avatar in that instant, the explosive destructive power was entirely transferred into the Sword Realm that overlapped reality.

That feeling was like overlaying a thin film on the real world.

All attacks, power, were absorbed by that layer of film.

Therefore,

the black hole piercing the spatial ground within a range of thousands of kilometers post-encounter did not appear in reality but within the Sword Realm.

Absorbing completely the destructive power, all entities within the Sword Realm, including city structures, were at most impacted in Heart Spirit by the collision's calamitous Divine might, losing the converged Sword Realm, causing those intelligent lives to feel a temporal vertigo, as if time was taken away.

That was not true time reversal.

The Power of Time is still sealed in this world, Austin also does not have the ability to reverse the time of this world.

But as a result, the Sword Realm which he had spent nearly ten years building step by step was thus destroyed.

"Destruction is as destruction is, it's just the right time to try integrating Space Law's power, see if it's possible to re-create a space world..."

Thinking this way,

Austin squeezed his palm, the ethereal Sword Realm suspended within shattered violently, transforming into countless fragments of stardust, scattering into the void.

Following that,

Law Powers hovered up, causing fluctuations in void distortions.

The Four Spirits Sword Array's integrated Law Powers, Dream Realm Law's power, and the Frost Law Origin from quantitative to qualitative change...

If Austin hadn't used his power to seal the void,

these Law Powers, upon appearing, would provoke the external world's fierce turbulence like tides, triggering terrifying astronomical phenomena.

An invisible, intangible mysterious field emerged from the palm, absorbing completely the dispersed Law Powers post-Sword Realm, merging within Austin's Divine Fragment.

"Creation World can be put aside temporarily, but certain matters..."

Austin's eyes,

suddenly turned icy, like deep winter.

Revealing overwhelming murderous intent.

"Let's first settle past grievances, right, esteemed troubled Beast God!"

Austin punched towards the space beside him,

Crack!

The entire space instantly shattered like a mirror, revealing an exceedingly dark void vortex.

Austin stepped in,

the next moment,

his figure appeared within the Dragon Nest Hall, where numerous Golden Bricks and rare treasures were stored, surging and stirring vast void storms!

Along with Austin's appearance,

within the collection room,

a translucent crystal, plain and ordinary yet unanalysable in its essence, suddenly rose a spot of pure black darkness, like ink spreading throughout the crystal!

Accompanied by

came a hoarse, vindictive voice, echoing within the void:

[Heh heh heh... you've found me, huh...]