Four Abysses

Grant's pupils constricted and his expression changed drastically. It seem like these men had discovered that the ossis ark was no ordinary bone ark. It's defense and offense is immaculate. A single roar from it could overturn existence completely. 

"Kid, give us the ossis ark and your small universe can be spared." 

The first man drew closer, his voice seething with bloodlust and greed. Imagine if he was capable of incorporating the essence of the ossis ark into his own essence. His strength would definitely spike tremendously. He would even be able to defeat those of higher ranks than he is. 

Grant still guarded the ossis ark behind him like it was his own life. He sneered;

"Do you think I believe that? The Origin God had given you orders, how can you disobey the orders of the Origin God?" 

The man's brows furrowed and he sneered. "I can kill you with a slap. You better listen to me and hand over the ark!" His terrifying pressure descended instantly causing the feeling of vertigo to wash over Grant's head. It was almost like a massive hammer being slammed deep into his brain causing grave damages.

However Grant was stubborn. 

"The Master Path will obviously kill you if you kill me." 

The man was furious. How can a child make him so angry. He knew of the man's weaknesses and also knew when he lied. His face was beet red and he shouted.

"How presumptuous!" 

The void around shattered in a circular motion around Grant and the ossis ark which was binded with the tree of life. 

The shattered void shrank and pressed towards the ossis ark and the tree of life and Grant spat out blood, and the tree of life healed him at the same time.

"Let me tell you, the tree of life's healing energy is not infinite, it can be exhausted." 

Grant smiled. "I know, which is why I used it. If you try to exhaust it, you'll be actually risking your own life. If the five of you decide to deplete the life nexus of the tree of life, all of you will end up weak and very easy to kill." 

The man's expression changed drastically. 

How is the kid actually seeing through them. And it looks like the first invasion seem to have failed woefully. 

He immediately grunted.

"I'll be back, and when I return you would not be able to escape. The tree of Life will crumble before you and the ossis ark will be mine!" 

He quickly turned and vanished. 

The five men vanished into the thick dark cloud-like rift which was in the sky. However, the rift did not vanish, it remained there hanging over their heads like a heavy lead ready to drop down at any moment and squash them into a pulp. 

All of humanity was in despair. 

Grant was the most bitter. 

In the previous life, the first invasion had actually been the only invasion because it was more than enough to wipe off every living humans from the surface of the earth. But now, reversing time could only stall for time. 

The five men went to get reinforcements, humanity only had the Neoverse and they were almost 3 weeks away from the Outerverse. 

Grant just hoped that the Neoverse's powerhouses would be able to make it in time before the second phase of the apocalypse resumes.

Grant was tied down with the Ossis ark and the tree of Life. Many humans gathered the tree, as they received the nexual healing streams which hovered in the air like drifting mists. Some humans were lucky. Most of them had grave injuries like, their bodies severed from their stomach or their heads dislodged from their body. 

As long as they were still alive and did not die, the green healing energy was capable of joining them back to position. 

The next one week, the clouds thickened and Grant's face fell. 

Was it the next attack? Or the second phase of the apocalypse? 

However after that thickness, nothing happened for the next three days and suddenly, something rained down like time bombs. 

Grant's eyes widened and the ossis ark acted at the right moment. A powerful barrier manifested that it covered the entire Outerverse, stretched deep into the Innerverse and then the Neoverse, disregarding the distance. 

From above, the bombs dropped on the defensive shield and exploded.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The sky caved and shattered. The massive shield distorted and cracks appeared on it and spread. 

From Grant's position, his pupils shrank rapidly. 

The crack on the shield extended, from his point to the end of the Outerverse and into the Innerverse. It disregarded distance and anyone who looks up and see the crack, their expressions were changing automatically.

Another one week passed after the bomb launch and then, the dark clouds parted. 

Grant's expression changed drastically. 

A projectile suddenly emerged from the parted clouds and just the presence alone caused space to displace and distort.

Suddenly, the projectile dropped. 

The dark clouds-like rifts closed up, still maintaining it's stance and eerie sapience above the sky. While the projectile descended as existence twisted and broke around it. 

Grant's face paled, and he commanded the ossis ark to move. 

The ossis ark became offensive and defensive at the same time. A powerful force churned and twisted, after that, it blasted upwards like a ring and slammed upon the descending projectile. 

There was a thunderous boom as an earth-shattering ripple caused the domain of space-time to open up and spill causing chaos on parallel existence. 

Grant's face was pale. He suddenly understood what they were doing. They wanted the tree of Life to exhaust it's healing energy. First of all, since Grant was the one controlling the ossis ark, it was taking him his energy to control. The ossis ark was capable of unleashing attacks on it's own, however being controlled to attack, and attacking on it's own were two different things. 

If the ossis ark was controlled to attack, it would be much more stronger unlike when it attacks freely. What improves the power is just the essence of the controller. It becomes even more powerful if the controller is much stronger.

Grant's face was pale. The Invaders were trying to exhaust the tree of life's healing energy. The ossis ark was using Grant's energy, and the tree of Life was replenishing it. 

They were really ready to attack until then. Unless there's a way that the black cloud-like rift can be dissolved which would disconnect the Invaders dimension from their own.

Grant immediately decided to try something. 

Then, boundless essence exploded from his body. In reality, he did not have such boundless essence. Only when being constantly invigorated by the tree of life can one's essence seem almost infinite. The ossis ark manifested a sky and Grant's essence merged with it, giving a more and refined shape. 

The rigid sky moved above the starry sky and instantly pressed itself upon cloud-like rift and there was a tearing sound. 

It was as if reality was being torn or the law of permanent space-time were being disrupted. Spatial cracks appeared everywhere. Space, time. Everything was in complete chaos. Existence was very close to humanity that it was almost easy to touch it. 

Grant was happy. 

He was already starting to relax. The rift had been replaced by the rigid sky and it would be impossible for the Invaders to find out the particular parallel universe where their main timeline originated from. However, his thoughts were far-fetched.

The next two weeks, the powerhouse from the Neoverse arrived and at the same time, the rigid sky shattered. 

The sky was so boundless that it was Impossible for someone like Grant to create something like this with just his essence. And of course, if anything happens to the sky, he would be the one getting all of the backlash. 

Grant immediately spat out blood that it dripped out from every part of his body, his eyes, nose, mouth, ears… in fact, his body was drenched with blood. 

When the rigid sky cleared, there was only gray mist in the sky obscuring the main sky and a figure dancing in the wind.

Grant's eyes widened. 

"It's you!"

He muttered, coughing and blood spilled. 

Behind him, the tree of Life had withered out and with the little bit of energy left in him, the ossis ark could not use any powerful offensive attack.

Grant's pendant fell off his neck and it opened revealing the same man that was up in the sky. 

The Master Path was taking direct action. 

"After granting me a second chance, you still want to destroy the universe? Why didn't you just refuse me the first time? Why do I have to sacrifice my soul for nothing?"

Grant was shouting that humanity was surprised. Tension, fear and anxiety gripped them. Even the powerhouses from the Neoverse could not fight against an existence like the Master Path. 

The Master Path ignored Grant as he waved his hands. All of a sudden, time was suddenly being erased. 

With a single draw of his finger, humans were being erased. Void disappeared, space disappeared, existence disappeared and life disappeared. 

Nothing remained. 

"Stop! Stop it!" 

Grant screamed. But it was useless. 

The man was determined to do what the Origin God had asked. 

"The Origin God! The Origin God!!!" 

Grant quickly moved away from the already withered tree of Life and pulled the ossis ark along with him. 

The Master Path ignored him. He could not escape. Grant immediately appeared in his room and searched around it for something. 

He found it! 

His mother had given him the pendant with the picture of the Master Path while she had worn the pendant with the picture of the Origin God. 

Before she died, she had given to him her pendant, telling him that he might help him in time of his needs. 

He quickly brought out the pendant and threw the one bearing the Master Path's picture. 

From where the Master Path stood gracefully in the sky as he erased humanity, he almost fell. His face flushed with embarrassment.

Grant wore the pendant and unlocked it, revealing the picture. 

However, he received a shocking revelation! 

He saw flashes of scenes that shuttled like a flashback. Everywhere was dyed in red and a massive headache descended upon him. 

The only information he received was; 

"Find the Four abysses."

Grant immediately left the room. And just as he left the room, it instantly disappeared like it never existed. Only a single pendant was left drifting in space and the Master Path saw it and grabbed.

When he saw the pendant, his eyes widened. That moment, he searched for Grant and saw him heading straight for the Four abysses. 

His eyes immediately turned icy cold. 

He controlled two knives and it flitted through space, chasing time and instantly stabbing Grant in the back and also breaking in his body. 

Grant's expression changed as more blood leaked from his body.

Instantly, the sky changed as many powerful man descended and started to attack the universe once more. Grant himself did not care about the universe anything, he only cared about the four abysses. What was in there that the Origin God had asked him locate it. 

He could feel the penetrative gave of the Dao of Time and then, a whirlpool of time manifested, but he sacrificed the ossis ark and the weapon shattered completely and at the same time, shielding him from being erased by time. 

The Dao of Time immediately pressed a hand down as he completely overwhelmed the entire universe. Then he closed his hands slowly and everything around started to close in.

Grant found the four abyss and he heard a voice. 

"Call upon the Dao of Sword!" 

Immediately, Grant shouted: 

"THE DAO OF SWORD!" 

The Dao of Time felt a terrifying chill crawl down his spine. A powerful chill washed down and a massive sword slashed at the void and space, instantly canceling time as it advanced. 

The Dao of Time retreated and shouted; "that's the Origin God Dao of Sword, retreat!" 

The Dao of Sword instantly overturned the heavens. Humans were annihilated alongside with most of the enemies powerhouses. 

Everything around was completely crippled. 

Meanwhile, Grant got another instruction! 

"Power the four abysses!"

The Dao of Sword only lasted for a brief moment before it dissipated. 

The Dao of Time was horrified, but he resumed erasing all of humanity that when Grant realized this, his hatred spiked.

Angrily, he spat:

"In this life and the next, I'll never let them go!" His eyes was seethed with hatred, his teeth gnashing in anger. "I'll kill them all... I'll ruin them one after another!" 

He had gotten the instruction to avoid becoming the Dao of Time's toy by killing himself within the four abyss. With that, it would be difficult to reclaim ownership of his soul. Grant was delighted.

He paused, a terrifying chill filling up the air as the four abysses powered up. 

"I'll take my revenge! I'll come back and finish this story!" 

The abyss suddenly roared and his body parts was shriveled apart, each piece swallowed and distributed evenly Into the open maws of the chilling abysses. 

And in a blink of an eye, the entire universe was wiped out.