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Chapter 628 Entering Infinity Maze

Never before had anyone heard, much less witnessed, an Alpha killed in a second. Calling it impossible would be an understatement, but everyone saw it with their own eyes.

Those who were glued to their screens and still retained consciousness felt their weak hearts on the brink of exploding.

CREAKK~

With deafening sounds, Infinity Maze opened. A sucking force streamed out of it, but none noticed it, not even Alphas.

They were focused on that point called Singularity and its creator.

Kiba stood nonchalantly. It was like he had done nothing worth mentioning.

This casual attitude further terrified the crowd and those observing through live streams.

Even the World Councilmen were shocked by the oppressive yet casual display of might. Many of them instantly started researching about him.

"Just what level is he?"

Lord Harley wondered while observing the holographic projection. He wished the projection was capable of recording the energy readings. It will have helped him study the nature of power Kiba used.

He waved his hand, and a virtual projection of a masked man appeared.

"Find me every detail on this Dr. NTR."

The masked man nodded.

✼✼✼

Kiba lowered his finger.

Singularity faded in thin air, and the crushing pressure vanished.

Katherine stared at Kiba, obviously shocked. She never knew the one who considered her MILF was an Alpha, that too of such incredible powers.

"The maze has opened," Kiba looked at her with a smile. "I'm sure we will meet there and resume our conversation, (future) customer."

"!" Katherine was stunned, but only for a moment. Knowing what type of customer he considered her, her eyes flashed with explosive energy.

BOOM

The air burst apart as this energy bombarded out in the form of two prismatic beams.

"See ya~!"

Kiba's lips stretched into a smile, and he leaped up. The sucking force from Infinity Maze wrapped him, pulling him inside.

The beam slashed through nothing but afterimages of Kiba.

"Damn!"

Katherine gritted her teeth.

That villain has escaped!

Some distance away, her husband and other Alphas were dumbstruck.

"Why being called a customer angered her so much?"

Alan wondered as he glanced at his angry wife.

"While technically she should be a patient for that Dr. NTR, being addressed as a customer isn't wrong!"

The other Alphas were dumbstruck for another reason.

Katherine had witnessing Dr. NTR's oppressive might, yet she dared attack him! And the latter didn't retaliate at all!

Just why?!

Could it be due to the Hippocratic Oath?

"Shameless scoundrel, just wait! I will teach you a lesson even if it costs me my life!"

Katherine told herself as she flew into the maze.

The other Alphas got out of their shocked state, and they also entered the maze.

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Kiba appeared in what appeared to be a never-ending corridor of a palace. The walls were engraved with runic patterns while the ceiling seemed to be made of translucent, glowing stones.

An ethereal mist lingered in the air, making it difficult to see far ahead.

"I only have 9 hours in this maze!"

Kiba thought as he shot forward.

"And within that period, I need to find some time for seducing… err, I mean, helping lonely women!"

Kiba was an expert in doing multiple things at the same time. But Infinity Maze was no joke, and he knew he has to be serious if he wanted to help women here.

He crossed twenty miles in an instant when two statues standing on either side of the corridor shook. Their listless eyes glowed with a sinister light, and they turned life-like, emitting boundless vitality.

One of them raised its hand, unleashing a series of dazzling bubbles that spread around Kiba.

"Oho~ A warm welcome! How touching!"

Kiba exclaimed as the bubbles detonated with a popping sound. Explosive waves gushed out, creating an energy cloud that was no less than the detonation of a hydrogen bomb.

Far away, a group of mutants - that has just arrived - screamed as the shockwaves hit them. They turned into a blood fog that was devoured by the ethereal mist.

The statues didn't care for the deaths far away, as the one they targeted was safe!

Kiba charged through the energy cloud and grabbed the hand of the statue that released the bubbles. The other statue jumped in action, striking out with a spear that turned humongous as it approached Kiba.

"If you two were women, I would have loved the attention you are lavishing on me!"

A hammer made of power Cosmic appeared and slammed into the spear. Violent ripples surged out, and the spear burst apart.

Through the pieces, the hammer moved unhindered, crashing into the head of the startled statue.

BANG

The statue was blown away, destroyed.

"But since you are not, I can't spend my time on you."

Kiba pulled the statue whose hand he has grabbed. The statue's face leaned towards Kiba due to inertia, and he flicked its forehead.

A tyrannical force invaded through the length of the statue, exploding it from inside out.

Kiba made a grasping motion, and the hammer flew into his hand.

"Hammer suits me!"

He swirled the hammer while resuming his journey.

✼✼✼

Hall of Legacies.

Scenes from Infinity Maze flashed on the surface of the crystalline pool.

Enchantia's incorporeal face materialized amidst Legacy Orbs, and she focused on two scenes.

One showed a woman donning a crown of ice, freezing every obstacle and trap as she leisurely explored the maze. Naturally, she was Ice Queen.

The other scene projected Kiba. He was his usual self - bold and brazen.

"Dream Seeker… you might not know it, but you have ruined everything."

Enchantia whispered, her face twisting from anger and helplessness.

"We all have to pay for the sins of your future-self… just to save that daughter of yours!"

Just then, the Legacy Orb created by Cosmic Emperor buzzed, and ripples of darkness flooded out.

"!!"

Enchantia was taken aback as these ripples swept through hundreds of Legacy Orbs.

"Stop! I'm not going back on my deal!"

Sadly, her words fell on deaf ears as the Legacy Orbs were coated with darkness. They were corrupted, and knowing the powers of darkness, she knew they could never serve the role for which they exist.

"Cosmic Emperor!"

Enchantia roared.

Cosmic Emperor might have left this version of reality, but the mechanism left behind him remained.

Enchantia knew it. Though she never thought venting through words would anger it.

"I have no choice but to disturb Lord Xeced's plan for Infinity Maze... That's what Cosmic Emperor wanted."

Chapter 629 Shameless Villain and Katherine

Like a bolt of lightning, Kiba rapidly flew through the corridor of Infinity Maze, smashing through countless obstacles.

After crossing over ten thousand miles, he stopped before an enormous door. The door wasn't really blocking his path. In fact, it was embedded in the corridor, and perhaps except for him, none would have noticed it in the endless corridor.

He ran a hand over it, feeling its hard texture engraved with runic texts.

"Before I achieve my aim here, I need to sidestep."

Glowing Power Cosmic burst from his palm and streamed into these texts, making them shine. A spatial force swept out of the texts and swallowed Kiba.

✼✼✼

He appeared inside what seemed to be a wracked spaceship. It was a familiar sight to him.

Years ago, when he arrived in BSE-79, the final leg of his journey was in the wracked part of the ancient spaceship.

That spaceship was different than this, but they had a shared past.

"Princess Scarlet Leila De Rose..."

Kiba let out a sigh while exploring the spaceship. Wires hang from the ceiling while poisonous gases flooded the air. They served no restriction for him as he stepped forward and arrived before the motherboard of the spaceship.

It was in the form of an octagonal box.

Kiba tapped a finger into it. Ripples emerged on its surface, and a projection beam erupted, landing on the ruined wall.

A sea of alien text appeared, and Kiba rapidly scrolled through it before tapping into the box again. The text morphed into a screen, showing the memory log of not this spaceship, but the core of all spaceships - the mother spaceship who beings of Celestial Elysian Plane called Longing.

The screen displayed a human boy running from a fleet of alien beasts after he emerged from a secret dimension. Balls of flames flooded out of his body as he did everything to run away.

Naturally, this boy was Zed after he left Hall of Legacies.

Kiba didn't show any change in expression as he checked this footage from the distant past.

On the screen, Zed managed to bypass the beasts, only to meet the man he never wanted to meet again.

Castor Damon.

"Slum insect!" roared Castor Damon. "How dare you trick me?!"

Zed was frightened, and he shot back.

Castor Damon snorted, and tentacles of liquid surged out of his body. These tentacles burst towards Zed, who had no choice but to do what Echantia wanted him to... or risk death.

"Become a pawn... now that brings back memories!"

Kiba mused as he pulled the motherboard and transferred it to his storage dimension.

"Oh well, if I'm not wrong, Infinity Maze will give me a nice rewind of those days!"

✼✼✼

In the meantime, Katherine and others destroyed multiple gigantic statues that blocked their paths. As Alphas, it wasn't at all difficult for them, but they were cautious and didn't fully release their powers.

Katherine shot forward, and more statues came to life. She flicked her hand, and a translucent gate appeared, through which mist of death flooded out. The mist enveloped the charging statues, and decimated them.

A rain of debris followed, and Katherine moved through it. She crossed a few steps when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"!"

She was stunned.

A guardian statue has appeared and caught her by surprise. But then, her eyes turned wide as she realized the hand was far too small to belong to a statue... and it has warmth like that of a human.

Everything happened in an instant.

Katherine was about to turn when a hypnotic scent greeted her nostrils. Before she knew it, a male head leaned forward, resting on her other shoulder.

"!!" Katherine saw the familiar golden-hair falling over her shoulder and brush her chest.

"You are a fierce woman!" said the seductive voice she knew too well. "And seeing you decimate these statues, I wonder just how fiery you are on the real battle site."

Katherine's face cramped.

Real battle site?

What does he mean...?

She stopped her line of thoughts as she recalled the things he did as a doctor.

The meaning became apparent to her!

"Shameless scoundrel!"

Katherine swirled around while lifting her hand to thrash on his face. Sadly, when she turned, he wasn't there. It was like he has vanished into thin air.

Seeing he has left, Katherine could only stomp her feet angrily and continue her journey. She forgot about her husband and charged forward at extreme speed.

A dozen miles later, the voice from before appeared, whispering in her left ear.

"Why were you angry all of a sudden?"

Katherine's eyes flared with rage.

BOOOM!

Her might as an Alpha exploded out, wracking havoc in all directions.

Everything in the range of few miles turned into nothingness.

Katherine's eyes narrowed as the explosion cloud disappeared, the blurry figure of that shameless scoundrel came in sight.

"Now, I know!" The scoundrel exclaimed like an innocent child. "You thought my words contained double meaning! That's the reason, isn't it?"

"Thought? Villain, your words were loaded with innuendo!" Katherine spread her arms, and energy rippled out of her. "So drop the innocent act!"

"How will you know they contained innuendo?" The scoundrel wondered aloud as he dodged the energy. "Unless your mind is perverted! And all you can think is double meaning even in pure words!"

Katherine paused.

Before a year and a half, she didn't even know what M.I.L.F. stood for, much less any innuendo. After all, she was from an aristocrat family with a strong, noble heritage.

But then she had met this villain when he was teasing her daughter. After that, she got his invitation. She had no choice but to spend a lot of her resources to find about him, including his adventures as a doctor.

This was why she quickly understood his words contained innuendo. But wasn't knowing that acknowledging her mind was perverted?!

"Seems like I'm close to the truth!" The villain appeared before her in a puff of smoke. "You really are a pervert!"

Katherine opened her lips to retort, but just then, his hand slipped on her waist, and he pulled her towards him.

"You!"

She was mad from rage! How dare he take advantage of her!

This thought didn't even completely cross her mind when the air behind her split apart, and a scythe crashed on the floor, creating a valley.

"Another statue?"

Katherine could now observe through her perception that a statue has launched a sneak attack.

If not for the ultimate villain, she would have been fatally injured!

Wait!

If he hadn't distracted her with that jumbled up logic, she wouldn't even be in this situation!

Reaching this point of her thoughts, she destroyed the statue that has launched the attack and turned towards the villain.

His hand was still on her slender waist, feeling her soft skin protected by the fabric of her dress.

She stared at him with energy bursting forward.

"Here, I thought I will get a sweet kiss as a thank you!" said the villain as his hand left her waist. "Seems like perverts don't know how to thank properly!"

Katherine clawed her hand towards him, but the villain retreated. She didn't let him go and chased after him like a ghost.

Chapter 630 MILF to WILF?

In the neverending corridor of Infinity Maze, Katherine chased Kiba with a vengeance. The latter smiled in response while leisurely running ahead.

"Shameless scoundrel! My daughter was right!" Katherine said as her fingers stirred in action, and threads of death energy shot out. "You are the ultimate villain!"

"Villain and me?" Kiba looked shocked. "How could you mother-daughter duo think of such a thing about a good guy like me?!"

The threads crisscrossed the path ahead of him and then pierced towards him. Just as they were about to strike him, his body dispersed in golden smoke, and he vanished.

"Damn him!" Katherine cursed. "If he's good, I can't imagine what bad is!"

Never had anyone managed to both fluster and anger her like him. This was especially true during the chase that lasted over a thousand miles. He flirted with her with a look of pure innocence whenever she attacked him.

"The next time I see him, I will blast him!"

Katherine dashed forward. A few hundred miles ahead was a circle of passages, and she continued, she noticed him again.

He chose a path towards his right and stepped in, perhaps not noticing her due to the heavy mist.

"I got the opportunity very soon!"

Katherine thought as her lips spread into a smile.

By now, she had got a good idea of his power, so she knew if he was to be taught a lesson, she couldn't afford to hold back.

Camouflaging herself, she shot in the path he has chosen and lifted her fist. Streams of dreadful energy wrapped around her fist, and she was ready to discharge it at a moment's notice.

"Katherine!"

A familiar voice exclaimed ahead. The mist was heavy, but she could make out a male figure, and her lips further curved up into a grin.

"Take this!" She shouted as she shot out a column of energy.

"AHHHHHHH!"

An ear-piercing scream followed as the male figure was caught off-guard by the blast of energy. His back arched out, and he smashed into the wall, coughing up blood.

"Oh, no!" Katherine's face fell.

She has successfully hit the target, but it was a wrong target, to begin with!

Because the voice she thought familiar belonged to the man she knew too well!

Her husband!!

"Alan!"

Now was her time to exclaim. Her body trembled as she noticed the ghastly wound her attack has created in him.

Suppressing her shock, she arrived before him and stuffed a high-ranking healing pill in his mouth.

The pill worked instantly, and as he recovered, he cast a confused and fearful look at her.

First, she attacked him and then healed him.

Has the maze turned her into some sort of sadist?

"I…" Katherine didn't know what to say under such circumstances.

She definitely couldn't tell him she mistook him for a guy that was flirting with her.

Or maybe she should! It will stop him from blaming her!

Just then, the mist behind her scattered, and golden smoke appeared.

"I know you were really excited to inaugurate M.I.L.F. International, but never knew that to do that… you will get rid of all the main hurdle!"

The voice she knew too well whispered.

"I'm impressed!"

"You!" Katherine gnashed her teeth, and her body rippled with explosive powers. "I will kill you!"

"Kill?!" Alan was scared out of wits.

She hated him enough to turn herself into a widow?!

He didn't get time to think as the explosive power hit him and the smoke. The smoke wasn't affected as the power passed through it, but he wasn't that lucky. He slammed directly into the ceiling and vomited blood.

"Alan!"

Katherine exclaimed yet again. In her anger, she had forgotten her husband was nearby!

"Should I rename M.I.L.F. International into W.I.L.F. International?" The voice from before asked in a soft whisper as she flew up to help her husband.

W.I.L.F.?

Katherine paused before her husband, who was struck in the ceiling, and thought on the acronym.

Could it be - Widow, I will like to fuck?!

As the possibility struck her, her eyes flooded with anger.

"Scoundrel!"

Dazzling power erupted forth her body, and her husband yet again screamed miserably.

"I take that as yes!" The voice noted.

Katherine: "........."

This time she didn't react at all.

The smoke left the area.

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A few minutes later, Katherine finally awoke from her trance and helped her husband. The latter was terrified when she handed him healing pills.

"They don't contain poison," Katherine cleared his doubts. "And trust me, I have no interest in killing the father of my daughter."

She was an Alpha, and even though the villain had managed to confuse her for a few minutes, she has regained her usual composure.

"Then why did you attacked after announcing your plan to kill me?!" Alan asked.

"…It was a misunderstanding," Katherine answered after a short pause. "I said I will kill Kiba and not you! You didn't notice him due to the mist and his strange nature of powers!"

"Kiba…you mean Dr. NTR?!" Alan was bewildered. "Why will you want to kill him!?"

Katherine's cheeks flushed red.

She felt uncomfortable in answering that question.

As an aristocrat of such high-standing, how can she use words that explain what Dr. NTR wanted from her?

But she has to answer her husband and she couldn't lie!

"Because he wants to NTR you!"

"NTR? What's that?"

Katherine: "..."

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In the meantime, Kiba resumed his endeavor in the maze. The paths here were misleading, often running in circles. This was why the corridors seemed neverending.

"Infinity Maze…the maze part is understandable, but why Infinity?"

He wondered as he stepped into another gate and appeared in what seemed to be an abandoned laboratory.

"And where's the mausoleum?"

✶✶✶✶

In another area far away, Ice Queen arrived before a vast gate. Adjacent to it, there were statues of gigantic beasts.

As she placed her hand on the gate, the statues opened their eyes and turned life-like. They were ready to pounce on her, but even before they could leave their original places, a layer of crystalline ice moved over them.

Ice Queen moved her hand back as the gate then started opening. Suddenly, her beautiful eyebrows knotted, and she looked at the back of her pearly-white right hand.

The shard of Cosmic Spark there was thumping loudly.

It was resonating!

Chapter 631 She's...!

Infinity Maze.

After briefly teasing Katherine, Kiba entered what appeared to be an abandoned laboratory.

The equipment were mostly broken and withered, and as he stepped forward, the broken pieces underneath his feet made crunching sounds and turned into dust.

"Nothing remains here," mused Kiba with a complicated expression. "But then again, that's what time does… it destroys everything, life or not."

Waving his hand, he emitted streams of power Cosmic that wrapped the entire lab.

"Time Reversal."

Swoosh~!

The dust particles on the floor gathered together and turned into broken equipment. The cracks on them started filling up, bringing them back to their original state. The process continued with the equipment returning to their real positions in the lab.

Simultaneously, the withering on the walls vanished as time seemed to flow back, almost like a movie being rewinded.

Kiba's attention was neither on the equipment nor on the walls. Instead, it was on the real purpose of using this new ability.

The phantoms of the past!

With everything moving back in time, Kiba saw the beings that have long ceased to exist. They were illusory phantoms working together in the lab, speaking in an alien language Kiba knew far too well.

"Eternal Darkness is the true enemy of us all living…" whispered a humanoid octopus who seemed to be a researcher.

"The only enemy!" corrected a fellow researcher. "Others are just tools of Eternal Darkness…even Genesis!"

The humanoid octopus seemed to agree as it fell into silence.

"We can't win against it!" the researcher from before added. "But we can delay the inevitable!"

"We have to!" The humanoid octopus' expression flashed with determination. "Lord Xeced sacrificed everything for that! We can't afford to fail, not now!"

RUMBLE~

Just then, loud rumbling sounds quaked the lab, stopping the conversation between the researchers. They quickly opened up a holographic projection to check the reason.

It was a tentacle that shrouded planets with its seer size.

Presently, the lab and everything else was in a World Fragment – a meteorite flying through space.

As the researchers saw the tentacle in the space, their expressions turned ugly. Before they could react, the tentacle burst into the World Fragment, killing countless living beings and wiping out rich resources.

The shredded corpses and resources turned into motes of lights and sipped into the tentacle.

"Damnit! It's a Star Devourer!" cursed the humanoid octopus. "Activate Lord Xeced's mechanism!"

The fellow researchers followed instructions, and the crushed World Fragment erupted with an unrecognizable power. It was terrifying for sure as the tentacle rapidly retreated in fear. Still, before it could entirely disappear, the power turned into a beam and hit it.

A shower of gore followed as the tentacle exploded.

Kiba witnessed this shocking scene but without any interest.

"Eternal Darkness… that's the only important information…" Kiba streamed out more energy to continue Time Reversal. "But what I need to know about is the mechanism Lord Xeced left behind to delay the so-called inevitable."

He has no interest in the treasures Infinity Maze has to offer. The only reason he appeared here was to pay back at least one of the favors he owed to Princess Scarlet Leila De Rose.

"Hopefully, I will succeed."

✻✻✻

At the same time, in another area of Infinity Maze.

Ice Queen was startled by the resonance she felt from the strand of Cosmic Spark. While surprised, her beautiful face remained indifferent.

"Cosmic Spark is the most supreme treasure the world has known… yet none knows it is also the worst for it strokes greed and fans genocidal thoughts…"

Letting out a gentle breath of air, she lifted her right hand and observed the strand that gave her mighty powers.

She ran a finger over it, feeling the golden lightning and the gray particles pulsate from her touch.

She ignored them and concentrated on the darkness that stored them.

"Eternal Darkness… the source of all sins."

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Meanwhile, on Earth.

It barely took Lord Harley a few minutes to gather information on Kiba after the awe-inspiring display of powers.

"Despite his ability to kill an Alpha in seconds, he seems to have a strong weakness!"

Remarked Lord Harley as he checked the virtual screen full of gorgeous women.

"Femme fatale! How surprising!"

Grinning, Lord Harley tapped in the air and another screen popped up.

"Pass my instructions to the most stunning femme fatale we have," commanded Lord Harley to a servant of his. "Read this doctor's profile in detail and use it to systemically seduce him."

The servant nodded, and the screen vanished.

"This step was for the future," thought Lord Harley as he summoned another screen. "Now, time for the present."

On the screen appeared a man with strange tattoos. This man was someone Zed would never forget.

Because he was the one who destroyed Dream Rise House a year and a half ago!

Dracon Moonfall.

"It has been a while," said Dracon Moonfall.

Lord Harley nodded before sharing Kiba's profile and the task he wanted.

"The doctor is in Infinity Maze for the next eight hours," said Lord Harley as he shared Kiba's profile. "This means his residence is unguarded."

Dracon's eyes glinted with a sharp light. In the profile, there was information on the greatest weakness of that doctor… his daughter!

"Don't worry," replied Dracon. "Everything will be a child's play!"

"Fufu, good!" smirked Lord Harley. "Complete the task, and you will be aptly rewarded."

Dracon nodded, and the screen vanished.

"Hehe, for an Alpha, Dracon is too stupid!" mused Lord Harley while shutting his eyes. "It's good for me, though; otherwise, the real task will be incomplete!"

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The city of Arcadia.

Using a teleportation formation secretly provided by the House of Hestia, Dracon appeared in the city's skies. He was the master of wind, and in the blink of an eye, the wind carried him above a fifty-storied glass building.

"That doctor sure has a taste for purchasing such a beautiful building!" thought Dracon as he aimed his hand at the building. "But no more!"

The skin on his palm started swirling, and a vortex flashed out.

Its sudden appearance terrified everyone as they felt a presence far dangerous than even the most potent weather storms.

The buildings in the vicinity were rooted out just by the presence alone.

"It is the attack of an Alpha!" cried the citizens who fell to their knees.

Amidst their cries, the vortex slammed into the targetted building.

But to Dracon's surprise, the building didn't even shake, much less burst apart.

Before he could think of the reason, his back turned cold, and his eyes squinted. In front of him, out of the blue, two spectacular women in bikinis had appeared.

The women were twins, their bodies drool-worthy. Even seeing one of them would make a man thank the Creator. But this was only true for men who don't know what type of women they were!

"Crazy twins?!" exclaimed Dracon in utter shock.

"Evil Uncle, you appeared yet again to destroy our daddy's home!" started Madison.

"Again?!"

Dracon was dumbstruck.

Years ago, after he destroyed Dream Rise House in Delta City, the twins had confronted him. They claimed they were sad as he has destroyed their daddy's house.

Back then, he thought they were speaking the nonsense as they were insane. But now, he was doubtful.

"It is good, though!" chimed Lillian. "Last time we wanted to gift your corpse to daddy! But you ran off after giving us your chopped hand! Thankfully we made up for daddy by gifting him new mommies!"

"He loved them, especially their big titties!" declared Madison proudly.

"But I'm sure he would love to see the one destroying his home dead!"

The twins released their auras, but Dracon didn't fall back.

"You two overestimate yourselves!"

Dracon roared as the air around him imploded with airwaves.

Madison and Lillian raised their hands to block the explosive airwaves. In that time, Dracon used an ability he created explicitly to escape if he met these unpredictable psychos again.

"Body Dispersal."

He fused with the wind and turned intangible.

In this form, he has no blood, so he couldn't be affected by Madison's powers, nor was he made of free energy and hence free from Lillian's abilities.

"I will murder them!"

Dracon could perceive the twins in this form but couldn't attack. Still, he didn't mind as his primary focus was something else. He appeared inside the building and saw his target, barely two years old, playing with tiger cubs.

They didn't notice him, but a woman who was reading a book did. She placed the book on her lap and gazed in his direction.

"Ashlyn… the kid's mother!" thought Dracon as he noticed her gaze.

Ashlyn's primary ability was related to space, so she quickly detected Dracon. Yet after gazing at his intangible form, she picked the book and resumed reading again.

It was like she didn't care about the invader or what he might do to her daughter.

Dracon was confused. Why was the mother behaving like that?! Did she not care for her daughter?!"

Still, now was not the time to waste on thinking. Rapidly, in the wind form, he flew towards Hope to grab her and leave this building.

Swish~!

Just as he was about to grab her, the sound of air sliced apart echoed in the floor, and something hit him.

"!!"

Dracon was shocked as with the injury, he reverted to his original form, with blood leaking out of his face.

"I was hit?!"

Terrified, he looked up and saw a red whip dancing in the air. The whip was red because it was made of rose petals.

Dracon ignored the strange whip and looked further up to see the one wielding it. And when he saw it, he got the biggest shock of his life.

It was a beautiful female dressed in gothic clothing.

Her eyes were round, beaming with innocence as her rose-colored hair flew wildly.

Dracon was more than shocked by her appearance. Not because she was beautiful or that she looked innocent.

But because of her age.

From her appearance alone, she didn't' even seem to be an adult. She was a teenager!

No, even that was a wrong description.

The only appropriate word to describe her was…loli!

A loli could hit an Alpha and even make him bleed?! Just what sort of absurd reality was this?!

"Who the hell is this loli?!"

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A/N:

Sorry for the long delay. My elder brother passed away on 18th Nov due to post-Covid complications. He was only 32…

I always knew life was unpredictable, but never imagined to such an extent. I wish I never found out.

In the last month, many of you have prayed for him, and for that, I'm eternally grateful. Thank you.

Please take care of yourself and your loved ones.

~True_Seeker.

632 Who Are You!?

Dracon was more than taken aback by the appearance of "loli." She was cute and beautiful, but the gothic clothing and the dreadful power emitting off her body terrified him.

"How can she terrify me?!"

Dracon roared to free himself from the cold feeling that shackled him.

"She's only a loli! And I'm an Alpha – a god!"

"Loli?"

The eyes of the girl narrowed, and she waved the whip. Like a menacing snake, the whip lunged at Dracon.

"Last time you caught me off-guard, but not again!"

Dracon's body turned into a stream of wind, and he moved past the whip at a frightening speed.

Stretching his hand forward, a globe of fierce wind appeared in his palm, and he pounced on the loli.

His shocking speed and power wreaked havoc on the floor as he appeared before the loli. She didn't care about him at all as her attention was on the destruction of the floor.

Seeing the damage, her beautiful face scowled, and her eyes locked on Dracon just as he was about to smash into her.

"How dare you ruin my home yet again?"

Along with the question, the sound of a thunderous slap reverberated. It was because the loli's soft hand hit Dracon on the face!

His face swelled, and blood erupted out of his mouth while he was sent flying.

BANG!

Like a cannonball, his body tore through the wall and emerged outside, only to crash into a building far away.

"What?!"

The fleeing public was left both frightened and speechless. Frightened because the awe-inspiring Alpha was smashed. Speechless because as he emerged from the building's debris, they could see the red print of a small hand on his face.

"An Alpha was slapped?!"

"Am I seeing it, right!?!"

"No! Alpha is a God! How can he be attacked, much less slapped?!"

"Yes, your words make sense! Our eyes must be deceiving us!"

…

Far away, in the House of Hestia, Lord Harley jumped to his feet.

He was observing the latest developments through satellite and droids, and what he saw left him really shocked.

"So I was right!"

Lord Harley has lived for many years, and as one of the world councilmen, he was smart and sly.

When he saw Kiba revealing his might to decimate an Alpha and then enter Infinity Maze, he was skeptical. Because Kiba's actions would invoke not only fear but also anger and resentment among the world's power circles.

Yet, Kiba entered a dimension that was divorced from reality for the next nine hours…leaving behind his daughter and loved ones in danger.

To confirm his skepticism, Lord Harley sent Dracon to seemingly kidnap Kiba's weakness. In reality, Dracon was just a tool to check the strength of those connected to Kiba.

"Who is this girl?"

Lord Harley wondered while observing the live projection. The figure of the loli appeared as she flew out of the building, wielding the whip.

At Lord Harley's question, the projection's sensors rapidly scanned her appearance through the World Government's vast database. Yet, there was no positive match. It was like she has appeared out of nowhere, without any traces of her existence.

"Now that's truly surprising!"

Lord Harley thought.

"It would seem the balance of power is finally going to break!"

…

In the sky, Dracon ran a hand over his swelled face, his eyes surging with unspeakable fury.

"You intrude into my property and try to destroy it, and yet you dare to be furious?"

The loli asked while appearing behind Dracon. He rapidly spun around, but he regretted the very instant.

SLAP!

Another slap hit him, sending him crashing into the road below. Dust and debris surged up as a crater appeared.

In the distance, the shell-shocked crowd swallowed forcefully.

"I think our eyes are working fine…"

"Me too…"

"Poor Alpha! Last time he was slapped on the left cheek, now even on the right!"

"I envied him a few minutes ago when he revealed his godly aura! I desperately wanted to be him! But now I'm happy being me!"

"Same! At least we are not slapped left and right!"

"That too in public!"

"…."

The chatter of the crowd rang in Dracon's ears as he rose from the crater.

"These punny weaklings!"

His fury amplified, and he roared.

RUMBLE~

The clothes on his body tore apart, and he started undergoing a monstrous transformation. His aura exploded through the surroundings while his body bulged up.

"Like destroying the neighborhood wasn't enough, you dare to further ruin the view with your ugly transformation?"

Amidst the transformation, the whip slashed through the explosive aura and hit Dracon right on the face.

Ppff~!

Dracon's newly transformed body was sent up, making a bloody spectacular arc as blood sprayed out of his mouth.

The whip chased after him, hitting him before he could stabilize his body.

"Impossible!"

He mumbled while smashing through multiple buildings.

"There's no way this is happening to me!"

He was a mid-stage Level VII Alpha, and yet he was treated like a baseball by the loli, smacking him again and again.

How was such a thing even possible?!

If earlier, he was frightened, he was now shit-scared as he looked at the wielder of the whip. The more he looked at her, the stronger the sense of dread grew. He now felt, if he didn't use everything he got, he would definitely die here.

"Realm of Murderous Winds !" Stretching out his hands on either side, he shouted.

The air violently twisted, turning into sharp wind blades. Simultaneously, the ground below exploded, erupting with countless terrifying typhoons that joined with the sky.

Everythook started breaking from the pressure. It was even difficult to breathe.

But the loli leisurely floated between the typhoons with her eyes closed, as if she was enjoying fine weather. There was no sign of panic on her face.

Seeing this, Dracon couldn't help but ask, "Just what on Earth are you!?"

"I'm the one who made Dream Rise House and everything master owns!"

The loli answered, her eyes snapping open, showing starry pupils.

"M-master?!" All color drained from Dracon's face as he mumbled. "You have a master?!"

"Yes! I'm his blade —"

BOOOOM

A strange power intruded through the typhoons, detonating them. The typhoons exploded, echoing out not the explosive sound but a name.

"Claudia."

Chapter 633: Could You Wait?

The typhoons burst apart, and through the wind currents, the loli stepped out.

"I'm my master's blade – Claudia!"

Her name rang like a clap of thunder, carrying an imposing presence that made everyone shiver. The surroundings collapsed while space ripped apart, making even Alphas in cities far away surprised.

"Claudia?"

An Alpha, hundreds of miles away, looked in her direction while enjoying a cup of tea. Feeling her imposing presence, his eyes constricted, and he exclaimed, "A level VIII Alpha!"

"What?!"

Another Alpha, who was his companion, exclaimed.

"I have never heard of her! And you are telling me someone we never knew of is one of the few humans who achieved legendary Level VIII?!"

The Alpha from before nodded and added, "The real shocking part is that she's only a servant!"

At the same time, Dracon retreated in pure terror. He was now able to sense her level and knew he lacked the strength to face her.

"Where do you think are going?" Claudia appeared before him, thrashing the whip out.

Dracon continued to retreat while creating a windshield.

Crack!

The whip was no less than the scythe of a grim reaper, and it quickly tore through the shield.

His blood turned cold, for as the whip moved at him, the space around him locked.

"Oh, no!"

The whip brutally collided with him, and like a burning meteorite, he was sent crashing into the ground.

"When you destroyed my home – the first dream of my master – I couldn't act."

Claudia stomped her feet into Dracon's face, smashing his head further into debris.

"But master assured me… that when the time comes, we will burn everyone responsible for its destruction. And I'm glad, the time came sooner than I ever thought, even though it is in master's absence."

Dracon was incapable of replying as small pieces of stones flew into his mouth, making him taste dust along with the taste of blood. Still, he was an Alpha, even if nowhere near as strong as Claudia.

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So, he mustered up strength, and as his body sank into the ground, his wind powers exploded out.

"It is good that you are resting," Claudia remarked with a twisted smile. "It will make things more interesting."

In the distance, Ashlyn, Agatha, and the twins looked on as the battle commenced.

"Wow! Claudia has changed!" Lillian said with twinkling eyes. "She's just like daddy now!"

Agatha was forced to agree with her. The Claudia she knew was cool, calm, and sarcastic, who often made Kiba speechless with her brutal remarks. This didn't change when Kiba finally created a body to store her vast consciousness a year ago.

"Well, she really cares for her wealth! So, this isn't surprising as daddy is also protective of his wealth!" Madison explained.

"Though for daddy, real wealth is women with big titties!" Lillian corrected her younger sister.

"…" Agatha was left speechless while Ashlyn lowered her eyes and observed her chest.

Her breasts weren't big… but Kiba was really protective of her! So, surely, Lillian was mistaken!

✼✼✼

Infinity Maze.

In the vast chambers, over twenty Alphas speeded forward. Katherine and her husband were also among them.

It has been over an hour in the maze, and so far, they haven't really made any progress.

"We need to find the mausoleum soon!" Katherine stressed while increasing her speed. "Time is running out!"

"Relax.. we still have almost nine hours---"

Alan stopped in the middle as the floor suddenly twisted, and hundreds of gigantic thorns pierced out.

"Watch out!"

The Alphas backed away, but despite their divine speed, not all of them were fast enough. Faster than lightning, two Alphas were stabbed in the chest – the thorns emerging from the other side of their bodies.

The Alphas responded quickly with their magical abilities, but the thorns blurred out and escaped before the abilities could activate.

"Cough!" The injured Alphas vomited blood, their complexions pale. "The thorns are dangerous! They sucked my vitality before escaping!"

At the same time, the twisting floor split apart, revealing an enormous beast of epic proportions. It was a leviathan!

The thorns that escaped quickly stabbed into its outer shell.

"Damn!"

The Alphas cursed.

The thorns weren't stabbing the leviathan. Instead, they were fusing with it. The blood vitality was quickly absorbed by the leviathan, and its eyes snapped open.

"GRRRR!"

The leviathan grunted and emerged from the floor, viciously eyeing the Alphas. The figures that were gods on Earth were no different than helpless preys in its eyes.

The Alphas didn't dare swear at the leviathan for looking down on them. Because it indeed had the prestige to consider them as preys.

For it has survived the destruction of the Celestial Elysian Plane and lived for who knew how many years!

"Flee!"

That was the only thought that ran in the minds of Alphas. Using everything they had, they transformed into streams of lights and retreated.

This only angered the leviathan. They were its food - their only purpose was serving as nutrients!

Then how dare they try to run away!?

Swish! Swish!

The thorns on its body flickered, and they shot out, rapidly expanding as they chased the Alphas.

Swoosh!

The Alphas responded with their abilities, making the world glitter with a violent glow.

Katherine unleashed a magical fog that turned into an illusory Life & Death Gate. With crackling sounds, the gate opened, and beings that have long ceased to exist flooded out.

The eyes of the leviathan sparkled, and it turned towards Katherine.

"False gate…but she carries the true essence!" It muttered in an unknown language. "She can quench my thirst!"

Ignoring the other Alphas, the leviathan rushed at her.

"!!"

Katherine's face flickered. An indescribable pressure weighed down on her, making it seem she was about to explode.

"I might lack the strength to face you, but I'm not helpless prey!"

Roaring, Katherine channeled her powers and started spinning around. The Life & Death gate above her expanded further, and an intangible being burst out. This being smashed into the leviathan, emitting an annihilative might that distorted the space and time barrier.

At the same time, Katherine turned towards Alan to signal him to channel his powers into her.

Her summoned being won't be able to handle the leviathan, so she needed his help. With their powers combined, she was sure they can definitely escape with their lives.

But to her shock, when he saw the leviathan rushing at her, he had fled!

"Alan!"

She shouted just as the leviathan defeated her summoned being and appeared before her. She had no choice but to focus back on the leviathan while secretly wondering if her husband heard her call.

"No choice but to go all out!"

A sandstorm of energy rippled out of her, coiling her body. Alas, the leviathan was in no mood to give her time to use her best move.

She was its food…and it couldn't allow her to waste her energy like this.

Opening its enormous mouth, the leviathan dived its face at her, ready to devour her.

Given its physical strength, she couldn't escape.

"Sighs~."

Katherine knew this was the end. She closed her eyes while unleashing everything she could.

"I'm sorry, Sophia…I won't be there to see you mature into a beautiful woman…"

She whispered as a tear escaped her eye.

"Nor I will be there to witness when you finally marry Zed…but my blessings will remain with you!"

The leviathan could feel her thoughts, but it didn't care. All it cared was to taste the delicious flesh, and for that, it clenched its teeth.

KRRRRR~

Its eyes constricted as a screeching sound rang from its teeth. It was like something has come between them, stopping them from stabbing into the woman.

"Hey there," A male voice echoed. "She's a future customer of mine. So, could you wait till she has enjoyed herself to death in MILF International?"

Chapter 634: A God?

Beams of golden light swept through the corridor, landing amidst the teeth that were about to burrow into Katherine. The beams turned into spikes and stopped the teeth from pressing down. This resulted in sparks that brightened the mouth that was no less than an endless tunnel.

The leviathan was surprised, and it brought its eyes to observe the one who dared interfere in its dinner plan.

Katherine did the same.

She knew the voice, and even if she didn't, the style of speaking made the identity of the speaker obvious.

This shocked her, for she believed if someone attempted to save her - it would be her husband.

Yet the one who saved at her last moment was the man she considered the ultimate villain.

With his trademark smile, he emerged hundreds of miles away, totally relaxed.

"Customer, you need to value your life."

Kiba lifted his foot to step ahead. Space seemed to compress, for, by the time his foot landed, he was before her.

"I have been holding off the inauguration of my dream project for you. Treasuring your life is the least you could do."

If it was some other time, such words would have exploded her rage. But now, she only stared at him, not at all thinking about the innuendo.

CRACK!

The leviathan's teeth burst through the spikes, and golden shards blew out. With the obstacle gone, the teeth began to press down to turn the two humans into mincemeat.

"Seems like the poor replica of sea serpent disagrees."

Kiba slipped a hand on the small of Katherine's back and took a step back. The spatial phenomenon from before repeated, and he was back by thousands of miles, holding Katherine.

In the meantime, the teeth cut into nothing but thin air, angering the leviathan.

"ROAR!"

A monstrous roar echoed out, turning into a shocking sound wave.

"Oh, please, no need to be so loud," Kiba said, still holding Katherine by her back. "You are disturbing my time with the customer."

"!"

Katherine's eyes fluttered, and her trance-like state broke. She jumped back, separating from Kiba.

By now, the leviathan was above them, its pressure pouring down crazily.

"We need to escape!" Katherine spoke telepathically, saving precious seconds in communication.

"Escape? Why?" Kiba asked without any panic. "Just because this useless sea serpent fails to understand that we are not fish and this place is not a sea?"

The leviathan was able to listen to the telepathic conversation, and hearing the words filled with contempt, it stopped.

This human didn't deserve easy death. He needed to be eaten slowly, making him understand the consequences.

Katherine's complexion paled. The pressure increased multifold, and despite being an Alpha, she was having a hard time resisting.

"This beast must be at least late-stage Level VIII!" She thought while harnessing into her ocean of powers. "Maybe even pseudo Level IX!"

This was why every Alpha decided to flee instead of facing the beast. They might be a group of divine mutants, but numbers never made a difference, not even in thousands, against a being of a higher level.

And when the battle involved an alien creature, even a same-level mutant would be hesitant. Because one has to consider the physique and battle experience! Something no human could compare, definitely not with the leviathan.

"No! The Alphas might have retreated without major loss if they decide to use everything they had!" Katherine corrected herself while shielding herself with an energy cover. "Many of us have overwhelming abilities! But we need time to use them… and that's a gamble no Alpha is willing to take!"

She could only sigh in bitterness at her and Kiba's luck. Kiba didn't seem to be bothered, as his smile remained unaffected.

"That woman understands her place, but not you!" The leviathan spoke while sealing the space for countless miles. "Worry not, for you will understand soon!"

Three glowing thorns from its body ripped out and shot at Kiba, emitting a chilling force.

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Katherine was a few meters away from him, and as the thorns shot, her lifeforce started depleting. Her protective covering didn't work despite not being a target. She could only imagine what effect the thorns were carrying on their real target.

"This dimension is not Earth, where you can think of yourself as a god!" The leviathan concluded just as the thorns made contact.

"A god?"

The corners of Kiba's mouth further curled up.

"You are right. The very fact that this place is not Earth… makes me not a god – "

An indescribable presence surged from him and swirled into the thorns. The life-draining force from them vanished instantly, and simultaneously, they started disintegrating, as if time was accelerated by hundreds of years.

"But The God!"

"!!!!"

The leviathan slipped backward, shock obvious on its face. It hurriedly unsealed the space it locked a minute ago to restrict Kiba.

The presence - that was no doubt related to time - swept forward, forcing the leviathan to hurry up.

While it has thousands of years of lifespan left, it refused to lose even a second. There was no question of risking hundreds of years of life!

Every moment was precious!

Otherwise, what was the use of toiling so hard to gain such power?

Only because of this belief did it survived the tragedy that fell on its race and world.

The leviathan swung its tail behind as if it was a sword. Space ripped apart, creating a teleportation rift.

Like an arrow, it then flew towards the rift while eying Kiba.

Killing him was easy, but the price was not worth it. So, backing away for the moment to contemplate a no-risk alternative was the only choice.

"I always wanted to know what it feels like to be The God."

A crushing gravitational force seeped out of Kiba. Instead of suppressing matter, the gravity targetted time, making it slow; and, in turn, slowing the leviathan that was almost in the rift.

"!!!!"

The leviathan didn't feel slow. It felt frozen!

In typical situations, its speed was no less than that of light! Now it was even slower than a snail.

"Now is my chance to find out."

Chapter 635: Mindful of Feelings!

"Im…possible!"

Katherine muttered as the unbelievable scene played out before her eyes.

The leviathan that forced Alphas to flee… now wanted to escape from Kiba, but wasn't able to!

"Just what sort of ridiculous game reality is playing?!"

She asked herself. The only answer she got from herself chilled her to the core.

Kiba was the devil king in disguise!

Yes, that would make sense, given everything she knew about him.

Only the devil king could play with a legendary monster!

The leviathan, in the meantime, refused to let the incoming torrent of time age it. Its body might be almost frozen from the slowing down of time, but it was still a pseudo Level IX existence.

There was no way it would let human ridicule it like this.

The tentacles around its head spread while its mouth opened, shooting out a globe of spatial force.

"Spatial detonation!"

The globe shoved into the torrent of time and detonated.

BOOOOOOM

An explosion followed, powered by the collision of space and time, looking like a rapidly expanding sphere of multicolored lights.

If such an explosion occurred on Earth, and none blocked it, the entire planet would have been obliterated out of existence.

Thankfully, it occurred in Infinity Maze, a dimension far stronger than Earth. This didn't mean there weren't consequences.

RIPPPPPPPP

The foundation of reality was built on space and time. As the explosion occurred, its shockwaves rippled through the very reality, snaking out cracks.

The entire maze started quivering intensely, and all types of beings stamped their feet to retain balance.

Some were unlucky as they fell into the cracks in reality, sinking into a blurred void where there was neither space nor time. Perhaps in such a void, they will be immortal. But it wasn't the type of immortality anyone ever wanted, for it was nothing less than eternal banishment from reality.

Katherine was also sucked by one of the cracks. She was helpless, like a boat in the middle of a stormy sea.

"I never took you for a damsel in distress."

A voice rang in her head as a familiar hand gripped her by the waist again. She looked up, eyeing the ever-smiling Kiba as they flew out of the crack.

"Neither did I," Katherine replied while clenching her teeth. "But seems like reality wants to toy with me, making you the knight in shining armor again and again."

"Well, I guess the reality won't stop unless we conclude the play."

Kiba pulled her closer, his nose brushing hers.

Conclude the play?

Katherine's voluptuous chest rose up and down as she thought of how.

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The stories of damsel and knight often ended with a passionate kiss!

But the kiss was just a censored ending for children. The real uncensored end would mean the action that follows the kiss.

She visualized him pinning her to the floor with their lips locked, his hands lifting her dress and opening his pants...

As such a scenario flashed in her mind, her face flushed with anger.

"I saved you because you are my future customer," Kiba said, her thoughts rather apparent to him. "And not for what you are thinking, you shameless MILF!"

"Huh?!" Katherine was shocked.

Kiba didn't save her life to get in her pants? But wasn't that what he wanted?

"Only uncreative men with no skills would rely on their acts of saving to get what you are thinking," Kiba winked at her. "Not the Chairman of MILF International, for the customers approach him for his service."

Her eyes turned wide.

"Shameless scoundrel!"

She shouted, but her voice was muffled as just then a vast shadow loomed over them.

It was the leviathan, who broke through the explosion, and ruthlessly pounded its tail out.

Multiple booms rang out, lashing out a berserk force of epic proportions. Just the shockwaves alone resulted in landslides and tsunamis that further wracked the area.

In the face of this, Kiba motioned his free hand towards the tail, surging out time-distorting energy.

Swoosh!

The speeding tail seemed to multiply by three.

The first tail was young and small, just like the leviathan had ages ago when it was young. The third tail appeared old and frail, almost decomposed, as if it was on death's bed. Only the second tail was the same.

"Intersection of Past, Present, and Future!"

The leviathan exclaimed in pure shock. It quickly tried to bounce its tail back, for it knew what this ability was capable of.

Alas, it was too late.

The three tails intersected, denoting the crash of three streams of time.

The past became the present, which turned into the future, only to join the past. It became a cycle with no end.

The leviathan howled in pain.

The cycle might not seem dangerous from a bystander's point of view, but the leviathan was suffering the worst crisis since the tragedy that fell on the Celestial Elysian Plane.

Because one moment its tail was young, full of life and vitality, then mid-aged, more powerful but old, and then withered, with life almost drained.

It was a vicious cycle, making it experience the three extreme stages of life.

The leviathan's entire body wriggled, and spit flew out of its mouth nonstop.

Katherine's complexion changed.

Just how powerful was Kiba to turn a powerful predator like the leviathan into a helpless prey?

"Is he Level IX?!"

What she didn't know was in the 'present form,' he was still Level VII.

The only reason he could toy with a pseudo Level IX being was that his powers were Cosmic in nature. The leviathan's strength was Divine in nature, similar to any mutant that derived strength from Divine Particles. In the pyramid of power, Divine Particles were located far below than Cosmic.

Naturally, with Kiba partly able to wield the omnipotent ability known as Cosmic Manipulation, there were very few who could face him. This was especially true in a dimension that wasn't restricted by a mechanism like that of Earth.

Only if he met a being of Hyperion's standing would he face an obstacle here. Or any human with powers similar to his.

Something unlikely…

"ERRR!"

The leviathan couldn't handle the suffering any longer. It knew what it has to do to end the suffering, something it didn't wish to.

Having no choice, the leviathan whipped the tentacles on its head. They stretched out like beams of light and stabbed the tail.

BANG!

The tail seemed to be nothing but a bag of blood. It exploded, spilling out glowing green blood.

The vicious cycle ended. At the exact moment, the leviathan took another action.

Fleeing was not an option as the leviathan knew Kiba wouldn't allow it. Not unless Kiba felt what it must feel like to be The God.

Pumping more energy into tentacles, the leviathan spread them out, forming a web all around. Not only it imprisoned Kiba and Katherine, but itself as well.

Simultaneously, the countless thorns on its body pierced the tentacles, barbing them. Vicous liquid sprayed from the tentacles from the barbing, corroding the thorns and releasing a foul smell.

"What is it doing?!" Katherine asked telepathically to converse lightning fast.

"Getting serious," Kiba replied.

"?" Katherine looked at him.

"It is turning the battlefield into its world," Kiba explained. "In simple terms, it is merging this zone of dimension with its body to become its ultimate master."

"Then stop it before the merging completes!" Katherine urged.

From the words he spoke, she knew the merging was different than Domain or even Realm Alphas used to impose their wills. She didn't know how different, but she was sure it was far more dangerous.

Stopping the leviathan while they still can… that was a smart thing to do!

"But that would make the leviathan sad!" Kiba refused with a solemn expression. "I can't hurt its feelings!"

Katherine: "....."

You are saying that after toying with the leviathan?

Also, just from when did you start caring about the feeling of others?

If you were so mindful of feelings, my daughter and I would not have considered you as the shameless villain!

Nor the poor husbands would be cursing you nonstop!

Katherine was indeed right.

If he was really mindful of feelings, many things wouldn't have happened, and many events could be avoided, especially the formation of Cuckold Union in the near future.

But that was a story for another day.

Chapter 636 A Bit of Reward

The battlefield merged with the leviathan's body, illuminating everything with an eerie glow. Katherine looked around, her face turning pale. The surrounding was bloody, literally as if it was the body of the beast.

Everywhere there were vein-like tentacles, flowing with fluids that seemed to be a mix of blood, proteins, and nutrients.

A strange feeling gripped Katherine. She wanted to merge with the tentacles because the feeling claimed she was nothing but nutrients.

"This is bad!" Katherine tried to fight with the feeling.

As panic gripped her, Kiba remained indifferent. The place was literally exploding with a power that could wipe out a planet, but it only made him smile.

"Is this all you got?" Kiba was disappointed. "Guess you must be a low-rank species despite achieving your present level."

The leviathan was furious.

"You think you can continue to underestimate me even now?"

It started squeezing its internal space while imposing its will on Kiba and Katherine.

The veins started releasing sucking force, wanting to absorb them. Katherine flew towards it, ready to assimilate.

"I think I can."

Kiba's eyes erupted with a golden glow.

BOOOOOM

Simultaneously, space vibrated, and the veins burst apart, spraying out a vast quantity of fluids that seemed acidic.

Katherine stopped, coldness gripping her. The fluid was about to splash on her.

Just then, a warm glow flooded out from space behind her and enveloped the entire battlefield. The acidic fluids faded, and the broken veins disappeared.

"What's going on?!"

Shocked, both Katherine and the leviathan looked behind.

Kiba floated with three pairs of wings flapping from his back, wielding a divine staff.

A sacred glow – that seemed to erupt from the brightest stars – surrounded him, radiating a divine presence which no one could ever hope to rival.

"Holy fuck!"

Despite her noble upbringing, Katherine swore.

"How can the devil have such a form?"

Many mutants and beasts could transform into a higher form. Whenever she thought of Kiba's possible transformation, it was him revealing his true form as the devil king.

Flames from hell would dance behind him, while the horns protruding out of his forehead will shine with an evil glow. His hands would be bloody claws that would pull out the insides of the enemies.

This was the only possible transformation.

So, how could she be so horribly wrong?

The Kiba in front of her was the most sacred angel.

Holy radiance emitted out of the white tunic that covered half of his imposing, well-defined body, making her feel she was in the presence of The God.

Her body started bending on its own, and she did, her eyes subconsciously feasted on his glorious body.

The muscular chest, lean shoulder, and ripped abs. Every part of him erupted a hot wetness between her thighs and made her heart thump loudly.

Kiba didn't notice this. He lifted the golden staff and waved it.

RIPPPPP

A cut slashed through space, and burst out the leviathan's body, severing it into two. This happened faster than lightning, catching everyone off-guard.

Bang!

Katherine and the severed beast fell on the floor.

The leviathan was shocked beyond words. In front of the staff's simple motion, it wasn't even able to struggle, much less clash with its abilities.

Just how strong was this human…No, The God?!

Kiba whirled the staff, and the glow radiating from his body swept into the two pieces of the leviathan.

"!"

To the leviathan's shock, the pieces fused back, bringing its body back to its glorious state.

Just as it thought of rejoicing, the staff transformed into a golden hammer and shot at it.

"!!"

The hammer bashed into its face, crashing its body into the ceiling.

The hammer stopped in mid-air before following the leviathan and smashing into it again.

"..."

Katherine was so shocked that she couldn't even react to a scene that should have been impossible.

She moved her eyes from the poor leviathan and back to Kiba.

"This form… it is just like the silhouette everyone saw when Dharma Chakra had acted! That would mean…!!!"

Her breathing turned heavy.

Kiba ignored her gaze and made a grasping motion. The hammer flew back to him, turning into the staff.

"Hmm?"

He then looked into the distance, and his smile turned into a grin.

Turning towards Katherine, he said, "Seems like your better-half remembered how precious you are."

"What?" Katherine was startled.

Kiba didn't answer. He aimed the staff at the leviathan, and the latter literally vanished out of existence.

"Goodbye."

Kiba, too vanished, leaving dumbstruck Katherine behind.

"What happened here? Nothing makes sense!"

She whispered to herself just as the figure of her husband came in sight. Her expression twisted in anger.

Why did he appear now?

"Katherine… thank God you are safe! I'm sorry!"

Alan appeared before her and proceed to hug her.

"I was frightened for a moment…and when I thought of coming back, the explosion in reality shoved me far away."

"…."

Katherine didn't reply nor stopped him from hugging her.

She hated him, but she also knew she couldn't really blame him. He was a human, and escaping in the face of a life-threatening crisis was coded into the DNA.

But then there was Kiba.

Just as she thought of him, he appeared before her.

"Oh, right."

He was in his simple form, looking at her as she was hugged by her husband.

"There's something I forgot."

Speaking telepathically, he brought his head face to face with hers, which rested on her husband's shoulder.

Naturally, Alan was clueless as he was looking in a different direction and remained clueless when his wife asked.

"Forgot? What exactly?"

"Your reward for officially desiring to join the company… I feel I should give you a bit of it now. Don't you agree?"

"?!....!!!!"

Katherine was confused, but only for a moment.

The next instant, her eyes turned wide, and her cheeks flushed.

Kiba kissed the left corner of her lips.

They were soft and warm, tasting like a delicious sweet waiting to be eaten.

Still kissing her, he whispered in her mind, "I will give you the next bit when we meet again. If you behave properly, I might even reward where you really want me to."

Before she could reply or respond, he turned into a golden fog and disappeared.

Katherine was left fuming.

Next bit… he wasn't satisfied by stealing this kiss?

Wait… reward where I really want?

Could he mean…!?

Her wide eyes blinked, and her face turned apple-red.

Damn! He must have known how my body reacted when I saw his Holy Form!

"Shameless scoundrel!"

She shouted in anger, forgetting she was still hugged by her husband.

Her words turned into an earth-shaking soundwave that burst into her husband's ears.

"AHHHH!"

Alan was sent rolling back, smashing into a wall.

He knew he has angered her with his cowardly actions. But surely there was no need to scream in her ears like this and call him names.

He has appeared as soon as he can. And she was safe, so her actions were really unfair.

"..."

Seeing the blood leaking from her husband's ears, Katherine was strangely pacified.

Every time she wanted to attack that villain, her husband would become the victim.

It was an amusing coincidence.

"A planned coincide!"

She thought with an amused expression.

"No wonder husbands are conned when they bring their wives for treatment!"

….

Meanwhile, far away.

The leviathan's body dropped in the corridor while the golden fog transformed into Kiba.

"There are things I wish to know."

The leviathan has just dropped, and before it could stabilize, a hammer ruthlessly pounded its head, smashing its body into the floor.

"Grrr!"

Amidst the debris, the leviathan wailed helplessly.

It would have answered any questions. So what was the need to attack it like this?

"Well, most often, beings in your place claim they would rather die than speak," Kiba explained with a smile. "It is especially true when they are old and powerful and have a glorious heritage like yours. So you can understand why I need to offer them incentives."

The leviathan shook its head. If a being was old, it would mean it was wise from experience. Such a being wouldn't let pride corrode its mind and invite torture.

Besides, what was the use of glorious heritage or power in the face of death or worse? Only a fool would place them above life!

"Wow! Given your appearance, I was sure you would be far braver than those I met till now!" Kiba exclaimed. "Looks sure can be deceptive!"

"…."

The leviathan's eyes dropped to the floor.

It has already submitted to this crazy being, so why was he taunting it again and again?

Or could it be that…he wanted it to resist so that he could get an excuse to thrash it?

As its line of thought turned in this direction, the leviathan's body was gripped by an icy feeling, like it was dropped into the depths of a cold abyss.

No!

No matter what, it wouldn't give any excuse to Kiba.

Quickly, it slipped to the floor, and brought its smashed head before Kiba and requested, "My Lord…. Your feet must be tired. Why don't you sit on my crown and have rest while I answer your questions?"

"…." Kiba was caught off-guard by this move. He hasn't even toyed with the leviathan, and yet it was behaving like this.

"If you insist, how can I refuse?"

With an expression denoting he was doing the leviathan a great favor, he stepped on its head and sat on a place without wounds.

"Tell me about Eternal Darkness, and its role in the destruction of the Celestial Elysian Plane is."

Chapter 637 Fate and Eternal Darkness

"Tell me about Eternal Darkness and its role in the destruction of the Celestial Elysian Plane."

Kiba commanded.

The leviathan was surprised, but it nodded. It would have done anything to survive abuse from this devil. Divulging details about the great tragedy was nothing.

"To know about it, you have to know about the universe. Like you humans, my world's beings had many theories and models on its creation and evolution. But none of us knew which was right until it was far too late…"

The leviathan's eyes flashed with sadness as it recalled bitter memories from thousands of years ago. Billions had died then, many who were close to the leviathan. Losing them was a pain that even the passing of time couldn't reduce.

"When the tragedy started, the reigning emperor – Cosmic Emperor – and Lord Xeced discovered the truth or at least reached close to it.

"According to them, trillions of years ago, long before our present universe came in existence, there was nothing but darkness.

"This darkness could be called a universe of its own, despite it having no embodiment of what we believe should be the foundation of a universe - Space and Time.

"For eons and eons, this universe thrived…not on life or matter, but serenity. The serenity was its achievement, its progress, its evolution, its power…its everything.

"But then a ripple of change emerged from within… breaking countless years of tranquility.

"The darkness didn't know it then that this ripple will change everything…for this ripple will be the embodiment that will create everything anew and bind everything within a cycle."

"!!" Kiba's expression changed as the realization hit him.

He knew what this ripple of change should be… because in the universe, everything was bound by only one common cycle.

Fate!

Start or end, life or death… everything was bound to Fate.

"Fate… so it was created from Eternal Darkness!" Kiba whispered.

Before the arrival of World Fragments, people of Earth believed the universe has two great embodiments – Space and Time, something that forms the reality.

But with the age of evolution and the rise of the House of Parcae, everyone came to know about the mysterious embodiment called Fate.

"Yes, it was Fate!" The leviathan explained. "It weaves the entire fabric of reality by using Space and Time as its threads!"

"!!!"

Kiba's eyes narrowed.

Until now, he believed Fate was in the same class as Space and Time, and they worked in sync to run the universe.

After all, with the absence of even one of them, the universe would collapse, and nothing would function.

But now, his entire perception was smashed to pieces.

"Space and Time are tools of Fate!" Kiba muttered in disbelief. "Then that would mean…the entire universe is controlled by Fate!"

The leviathan nodded before resuming the story.

"When Fate was in the nascent stage, the darkness didn't react for it didn't consider Fate worthy enough to destroy… in hindsight, this was a blunder of catastrophic proportions.

"Because as soon as Fate gained sentience, it started working…believing everything should follow a cycle of a beginning and an end.

"Naturally, it included the darkness…and to achieve that, Fate orchestrated events that lead to Genesis – the Absolute Beginning!

"This resulted in an explosion so mighty that it shredded the darkness and established the universe as we know it – creating Space and Time."

Kiba ignored the last statement. He was fixated on 'Genesis – the Absolute Beginning.'

"My Extermination persona was largely created by gray particles called Genesis… that would mean these particles originated from the time when the reign of darkness ended. But given their nature, there's something seriously wrong with them. Most likely, due to Eternal Darkness!"

The leviathan wasn't privy to Kiba's thoughts, and as such, it resumed.

"As you already know, the darkness wasn't completely wiped out from the process that created this universe.

"It was then that Fate learned about the aspect called 'Eternal' - some things can never end!

"By the time Fate realized it, the remaining darkness went into hiding, existing in a domain without any embodiment.

"Fate ignored the darkness and started working on establishing what we call as the cycle.

"It has already created a 'beginning' of everything that will ever exist through Genesis…and now the only aspect left was the end.

"To do that, it needed a medium – a medium that could decide what was worthy of existing and for how long."

"Worthy?!"

Kiba's pupils constricted.

"A medium to decide who is worthy…could it be…"

He recalled something from his battle with Hyperion. Back then, he has summoned his entire strength, resulting in the golden lightning phenomenon.

"Evolution Field!"

Kiba's breathing turned heavy.

"Hyperion claimed that wherever a world ended, Evolution Field was its herald! Whenever any world died, lives there experienced the strange powers of Evolution Field!

"No wonder Earth and the mechanism left behind by Lord Xeced suppresses my powers to such an extent! They want to prove this planet deserves to exist!"

As Kiba's thoughts turned wild, the leviathan confirmed it was indeed Evolution Field that acted as the medium.

"Evolution Field allowed worthy worlds to exist… but not for eternity because the decree of Fate commanded everything should have an end. So even worthy worlds would turn unworthy with times!

"Naturally, as eons passed, many world and beings that were born in this universe learned of the cycle… they wanted to break it and achieve immortality.

"Fate never intervened to stop them because the reality it weaved made true immortality impossible. So all the beings could achieve was false immortality…dying after a few eons.

"So eon after eon, new worlds emerged while old faded, new lifeforms were born while the old waned.

" Everything was going smooth, just like Fate desired."

"…."

Kiba placed a hand below his chin as he lost in thoughts.

Given the details so far, one might mistake Fate as a living entity. But Kiba was sure it wasn't a living entity…at least not in the ways humans imagined life to be.

If he was right…Fate was a Will. A sentient principle that was incorporeal and intangible. It governed everything by its rule, perhaps including itself.

"But then the darkness retaliated, wracking havoc in the universe!"

The leviathan resumed in a grimy tone.

"The darkness didn't do it because it disliked Fate…but rather, because it hated the new world order.

"Its only desire was serenity. And life made that impossible.

"Life was poison; it needed to be exterminated! But life was a part of the cycle…it might end to only begin again.

"So the darkness acted to corrode the foundation of this cycle!"

"!!"

Kiba knew what this meant.

"Eternal Darkness corrupted Genesis – the beginning…and Evolution Field – the medium for the end!"

The leviathan agreed.

"Yes, but what the darkness didn't know was that Fate expected it to happen.

"Fate has weaved the entire reality, so how could it not expect what the only entity that was free of its cycle wanted?"

"…."

"Maybe Fate didn't expect everything, but it expected the attack of the darkness…and that's why Celestial Elysian Plane existed!"

"?!" Kiba was surprised.

What has Celestial Elysian Plane to do with Fate expecting retaliation from the darkness?

"Before the tragedy, my homeworld thought we were lucky. Our plane was rich with resources, and the higher forms of life were very close to true immortality!"

The leviathan's voice hissed with bitter irony.

"Haah~" Kiba let out a sigh.

He knew the leviathan was right.

Years ago, he experienced the memories of Asmodeus Freyr Burislav – the mad king. He has experimented with various branches of immortality and left behind the Legacy Orb that Pythia acquired.

Who knows…the king might be alive even today, scheming something or having fun.

Then there were the memories of Violent Waythe[1] – the ghost-like existence that was close to immortality. Sadly, immortality became his curse as he was split to pieces and sealed in various dimensions by Rincewind Otiluke.

As for Rincewind Otiluke... Kiba didn't know much, but he was grateful to him. Because many of his abilities- especially Meteor Shower and Gravity Cage- were inspired by the attacks he used on Violent Waythe.

"Mother Trinity even felt her children could defy Fate! But neither she nor anyone knew we were just a tool for Fate to deal with Eternal Darkness!"

The leviathan continued.

"Perhaps Lord Xeced and Cosmic Emperor realized when the Celestial Elysian Plane became the target of the darkness.

"In the start, it was just the corrupted Genesis...washing away the colors of life.

"But then the darkness learned of Lord Xeced's plan and it acted to obliterate our final hope!

"Thankfully, Cosmic Emperor stepped in... sacrificing himself to stop the darkness!"

[1] Violent Waythe and many of the figures mentioned in this chapter were shown in Chapter 293

Chapter 638 - Seductive Charm Causing A Mishap

"The Cosmic Emperor lost his life, but he succeeded in stopping the darkness and sealing it!" The leviathan concluded.

"So Fate won."

Kiba said as he rose to his feet.

"The question is – did it pay a price?"

The leviathan was incapable of answering as it lacked knowledge. Kiba expected this, so he wasn't disappointed.

~tap~

Jumping from the leviathan's head, Kiba stretched his hands and looked in the distance.

Many mutants from Earth were carefully treading the maze while being awestruck by the supreme world that created it. They couldn't help but envy the beings of that world and the era they lived in. If only they were that lucky.

"It is rather ironic."

Kiba turned back to the leviathan.

"The world everyone here so envies was just a tool for Fate to defeat the darkness."

"…." The leviathan hated the remark, but it didn't dare retort.

"Furthermore, the beings that were the most supreme of all…now needs to rely on pitiful creatures of a tiny planet to make a comeback."

"!!!"

The leviathan's pupils cramped in shock.

It was a coward and treasured its life greatly. That was why it didn't mind divulging what Kiba wanted to know to avoid torture.

But there was one thing it wouldn't have revealed even if that resulted in a terrifying death. Because even cowards and traitors have something they value more than their life.

And for the leviathan…it was the hope of its homeworld! Something Kiba implied he knew from his last statement!

"You know the purpose of World Fragments?!"

"Well, not fully," Kiba answered with a smile. "But I know about a lot of things, including the real reason why Legacy Orbs exists and the net that covers Earth."

The leviathan hissed in a murderous rage.

This human knew too much! He was a risk to the hope of Celestial Elysian Plane!

"Hmm?" Kiba sensed murderous intent from the leviathan, but he didn't mind. The leviathan was already defeated by him once, and it lacked the strength to do any real harm to him.

Whoosh~!

Just then, the leviathan's body started bloating rapidly, and an overbearing power that almost touched Level IX rippled forth. The power caused natural laws to turn berserk and fall into a chaotic mess.

"You are consuming your lifeforce to summon this power?" Kiba's eyes flashed with surprise.

"No! I'm burning my entire lifespan!" The leviathan let out a roar and detonated its body. "To take you out with me!"

Kiba was dumbstruck.

Why did this leviathan turn crazy all of a sudden? Could it be an aftereffect of my hammer blow to its head?

The answer Kiba got was a blinding explosion of apocalyptic proportions.

Space shredded to pieces and time squeezed to nothingness. Even the explosion that cracked the fabric of reality was nowhere this frightening. Then again, this explosion was created by the leviathan's life. Its might could only be imagined.

The instant the explosion occurred, instead of spreading through the maze, it concentrated into an arrow and shot at Kiba.

"If you were a woman with a heaven-defying beauty, I might have even considered, but since you are not – the answer is no! I'm not going out with you!"

Wings emerged from Kiba's back, and he transformed into his Holy Form. Flapping the wings, he dashed backward. The arrow of explosion followed, bombarding out with elemental force.

BANG

Dazzling sparks sputtered while stormy winds brushed past Kiba. The arrow was powerful enough for him to turn serious, even if only a little bit.

"It is time we say goodbye."

Kiba lifted the staff and channeled out power Cosmic.

…

Elsewhere, mutants and beasts felt the resulting deadly fluctuations. They stared in the distance. Even Katherine turned in that direction to see the source.

Seeing it was the shameless scoundrel, and that too in the form that turned her on not so long ago, she quickly shut her eyes.

"Why are you closing your eyes?" Alan asked his loving wife.

"So that you won't be NTRed, you stupid fool!"

"..." Alan looked at her with a blank expression. "Just what exactly is this NTR?!"

"..."

Katherine refused to explain.

…

Not every woman behaved as modestly as Katherine.

Some drooled at the sight of an awe-inspiring figure that was destroying the terrifying explosion arrow.

The rest ripped their clothes and squeezed hands between their thighs and b.r.e.a.s.ts.

Some of these women were here with their loving partners. When the men saw what their women were doing, their jaws literally dropped to the floor.

If this was occurring in the comfort of their homes, they would have appreciated the steamy scene that could put professional R-18 videos to shame. But now, they could only grieve.

All because their women were l.u.s.ting after that divine angel!

…

…

After destroying the explosion arrow, Kiba lowered the staff.

"Ahhh!"

"OOOoooo!"

Breathless m.o.a.ns and seductive gasps entered his ears. Surprised, he turned towards their source and saw nude women.

He even felt hostile gazes, but he didn't look to check their source as he didn't want to sully his eyes.

"I'm sorry."

A melodious voice rang in the women's heads, making their eyes l.u.s.tful eyes clear.

Before they could be embarrassed by their nudity, a power from above materialized clothes on their bodies.

Stunned, they lifted their heads to see the angel they so desired floating before them.

Even though their innate desire for volcanic l.u.s.t was suppressed, they couldn't help but think - He was just too handsome!

"My charm subconsciously leaked and affected you," Kiba bowed to apologize. "Please forgive me."

"Charm?"

The faces of the hostile men paled in shock.

Charm wasn't a supernatural ability, but an attribute that one acquired. It was just like the demeanor of royalty one acquired when they reached a certain position of power.

For Kiba's charm to make women delirious with l.u.s.t…it could only mean he has seduced countless women with his skills alone! That was the only possible way to acquire such an attribute!

But was that even possible? Surely not…

"N-no, don't apologize!" A woman in her mid-twenties requested, much to the annoyance of her boyfriend. "Charm isn't something that should be sealed in the first place! It is a feature just like our skin color! So, you did no wrong!"

Not every woman agreed with her, but they remained silent. Some of them were Alphas and having witnessed his powers, they knew they couldn't handle him.

"If one needs to use charm to acquire the favor of a woman, he isn't worthy of it."

Kiba explained while landing before the woman in her mid-twenties. His action pleasantly surprised her because her looks weren't worth mentioning.

The other women were startled especially Alphas.

Katherine was far away and moving in another direction, but she observed everything through her perception. Seeing how Kiba was acting with those women, especially the one in her mid-twenties, she snorted and thought – stop being so cheesy! It doesn't suit you!

The woman in focus was oblivious to the thoughts of others. She only looked at the angel in front of her.

"This is especially true when the woman is beautiful not only outside but inside as well."

Kiba flashed her a breathtaking smile.

He called me beautiful!

The woman thought as she almost stumbled from excitement.

"Thank you for having a beautiful heart that not only forgave the sinner but sin as well."

Kiba said while helping her at the right moment. She regained her balance, and her face flushed from embarrassment.

Seconds passed, and she finally remembered she also has to thank him. She started opening her mouth, but just then, he placed a finger on her lips and stopped her.

"You owe me nothing, but I do. It has been an honor to meet you."

Kiba continued with a polite smile.

"And if I can be frank, I'm going to envy the luckiest man in the universe who gets to stay in your heart."

The woman turned strawberry-red from praise.

Her boyfriend, on the other hand, paled further.

"I don't feel lucky at all!"