CH 225

Arc’s spell was powerful. Once she combined the principles of No Thoughts Gold Strong Technique and the Black Yak school of magic, her ability level as a user was only second to the three in the Heaven above the Heavens. Though Arc couldn’t collapse a dimension space and create a dimensional rift, she was able to create an undulation in a dimensional space.

However, just before Arc launched her attack, Regrants summoned GaoGaiGar through the dimensional barrier that Archmage Leighann had wrapped around the planet, which meant that GaoGaiGar had to appear through a dimensional portal. This was the start of a series of improbable events.

As GaoGaiGar busted through the dimensional barrier and made its appearance, the space around Regrants became very unstable, albeit momentarily. In addition, when Regrants activated his transcendent Sky Fist attack, which contained power beyond any user’s imagination, and added the power of GaoGaiGar to create the upgraded Iron Fist attack, the distortion of the dimensional space around Regrants intensified. Thus, when Arc’s Master Skill was activated, it was like the last straw that broke a camel’s back. The dimensional space surrounding Regrants couldn’t withstand the constant barrage of undulations and had collapsed, creating a momentary dimensional rift.

“A-away with you!”

The collapse of the dimension, and the opening Regrants revealed was very brief, but the White Divine Celestial Dragon, Thousand Scents, reflexively lifted her Chintamani Marble and finished her holy worded spell chant right at that moment. Regrants, who had been preparing to launch his Iron Fist attack, could not resist the enormous force pushing against him.

Arc was the first to be swallowed by the illusory space that appeared in the crack of the collapsed dimension. She couldn’t escape the pull of the illusory space within the dimensional rift since she was the closest to the dimensional rift; furthermore, she had no special ability to escape the illusory space’s powerful suction power. Regrants was next to fall into the dimensional rift. Although he had the ability to escape, he was temporarily incapacitated by the attack Thousand Scent launched with her Chintamani Marble, the best weapon of the draconic species, so he was inevitably sucked into the illusory space within the dimensional rift.

“T-this… so unlucky…!!”

With his developed insight ability, Regrants instantly grasped and understood the situation he was in, but there was nothing he could do. Soon, the illusory space within the dimensional rift swallowed the two before returning the dimensional space to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

“…”

“…”

“Regrants’ spiritual pattern… cannot be found. Success?”

“What the hell?”

For a moment, not only the users but also the four transcendents were lost for words as they looked dumbfoundedly at the space that swallowed Regrants and Arc just a moment ago. No one had expected such an ending.

Leighann, who deployed the planet enveloping dimensional barrier and made Regrants bring GaoGaiGar through a dimensional portal… Thousand Scents, who momentarily made Regrants immobile with her Chintamani Marble attack… the small number of Irregulars that existed throughout the entire universe… and the Masters who were said to be the best among humans… even the operators of DIO, and especially Tan, who was conspiring behind the scenes… not a single one of these existences expected such a result…

What happened was truly an accident, a pure anomaly.

“Oh My God! Arc?”

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In a state of panic, Merlin jumped forward. Of course, the body the current users were in were not their main bodies, just their in-game character avatars. In fact, their bodies were asleep on Earth, and even if they died during a mission, they would wake up in reality. However, the illusory space was a realm of chaos; a chaos that existed before the origin of the universe. The gap between dimensions was a space where everything was mixed, even a divine being wouldn’t be able to endure in such a space for long before being completely annihilated. Since the Emperor of Martial Arts, Regrants, fell into such a space, the four transcendent Grand Masters logically assumed that Regrants was as good as dead. Hence, it went without saying, but in such a case, Arc was most likely gone for good as well.

Crack!

However, once again, another unexpected occurrence occurred. The space where Arc and Regrants had disappeared from began to crack.

“Damn it! Is the Emperor of Martial Arts escaping from Chaos?”

“I knew it! There’s no way he would have gone out and died so quietly…”

Plop.

The dimensional space split and a user covered in leather armor fell onto the ground. Afterward, the dimensional rift closed shut once more.

“…”

“…”

With eyes full of disbelief, the transcendents looked at the fainted Arc. To think that a lowly weak human could escape from the space of chaos, a place that even the Emperor of Martial Arts couldn’t escape from…

“Arc! Arc, are you okay?”

Merlin hurriedly approached and shook Arc’s body, but Arc didn’t show any signs of waking up. And then, a text message appeared in his mind.

/Clear! Mission complete! Awards will be distributed according to each participant’s activity score!/

The world started to go dark. Knowing that this was a phenomenon in which users were forcibly disconnected from DIO, Merlin asked a question to Leighann, who was currently holding onto Arc.

“What are you going to do with Arc?”

“I have something to investigate. I won’t harm her, so take care of her real body on Earth so that she doesn’t die. Just wait.”

“Wait. Are you guys…”

Poof!

But before Merlin could ask anything more, his vision darkened. In no time, Merlin was no longer on the battlefield, where he had been up against the Emperor of Martial Arts, but comfortably seated on a reclining chair inside his house.

“… What the hell?”

Merlin, no, Yongno was at a loss for words. In a completely unexpected turn of events, even he, an Irregular, couldn’t process what was happening.

“What is going on?”

***

Crack.

A desk, made of an unknown material, cracked and split with great force. The silver-haired, middle-aged Tan, sitting in front of his now broken desk, froze for a moment in a state of stupor. Then, Tan took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

“This is ridiculous. How did this happen…”

Tan gnashed his teeth. His objective and plan, which he had painstakingly planned out over a long period of time, completely collapsed due to an absurd chain of coincidences.

Tan, who had been jealous of the cosmic yet lowly human genius who overpowered him and reproduced the DIO system that only the highest level of gods could create, in other words, the Empress of Magic, Jenica, knew just how powerful the Emperor of Martial Arts was better than anyone else in the world.

The Emperor of Martial Arts, Regrants, who had successfully operated the first user training system along with the Empress of Magic, Jenica, was quite strong in the past, but as time passed, Regrants had gotten even stronger. Regrants’ power level was comparable to that of a Demon King.

It was true that the Grand Masters who protected DIO’s world had superior abilities, and were even recognized beings within Noblesse, but even so, the four Grand Masters were no match for Regrants.

“I was planning to take advantage of his relatively obscure existence, since he remained quiet all these years and was overlooked within the wider universe, but things have taken a ridiculous turn.”

Having received all the battle information, Tan knew how Regrants had lost.

GaoGaiGar, a Transcendent Weapon powerful enough to be in the top 100 of all Transcendent Weapons, cracked through a dimensional space to enter the area… then, one of the users exerted her special unique power to create a dimensional undulation… all the while Leighann’s planet wrapping barrier was isolating the space… and Thousand Scents had used her Chintamani Marble… all these events overlapped to bring about the most improbable of results. An accident of epic proportions had occurred.

“Was this all just a coincidence? All of this?”

All the data he possessed pointed to everything occurring through pure random chance. First off, Tan wasn’t even aware of Arc, as he had not paid attention to her throughout DIO’s operation. Moreover, through Arc’s body, Tan acquired the residual thoughts and data of what happened to Arc after she went beyond the boundary of chaos, so he knew that she wasn’t controlled, conspiring, or manipulating any situation nor was she acting of someone else’s accord.

He knew that Arc’s escape from Chaos occurred due to a special phenomenon that sometimes occurred in the illusory space.

However, a sense of doubt crept into Tan’s mind.

Tan couldn’t believe or accept the current situation. Of course, even a one-in-a-billion chance happened every once in a while; in fact, wasn’t it already a statistical impossibility that three Irregulars existed on a single planet? However, Tan just couldn’t get over the fact that such a statistical anomaly had occurred when executing his arduously schemed plan. No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t get over the strange feeling that something was off.

Tan was an ardent conspiracy theorist and enjoyed plotting and executing conspiracies. Moreover, as an elder within the Noblesse, which could be called the backbone group of the Union, Tan was the very existence that executed many major conspiracies behind the scenes. This gave him all the more reason to vehemently deny the logical conclusion that this absurd situation was a simple succession of coincidences.

“But even so, there are no indications of any ulterior motives or actors. Ugh, what a mess. I need to completely scrap my original plan and come up with a new one.”

Based on Tan’s original plan, everyone who faced up against the Emperor of Martial Arts was supposed to die. Only then would it be possible for Tan to mobilize the moderates within Noblesse and take a more full-scaled action in dominating the Noblesse and the Union. However, on the contrary, since the Emperor of Martial Arts, one of the Elohim’s guardians, was defeated, the Noblesse were now politically placed in a much more disadvantaged position within the Union.

It would have been a lie to state that Tan hadn’t assumed such a situation in which Regrants was defeated, but to have the lowest probability event occur left Tan in an awkward position with very limited choices.

“Now I’m only left with extreme choices.”

Tan growled as he raised a blue spiritual qi aura. Then, he started working on a new set of plans.