Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 38: Lilithia vs. Neira, part 4
Neira moved so fast that it looked like a faint dark blue glint, his sword was emitting so much energy.
However, once Lilithia shrank the radius of the gravitational round arch to five kilometers, Neira's speed instantly slumped to half that. Then the dragon man's speed became his original eighth as the radius of the gravitational arc became two-point five kilometers. And when Lilithia again reduced the radius of the arch to just one point twelve kilometers, Neira's speed became one sixty-fourth of her original speed.
“Do not think you can move,” hissed Lilithia while shrinking the radius of the gravitational arch to five hundred meters—and instantly Neira's speed slumped to one thousandth of the initial speed.
Neira's speed became like the speed of a normal human who never knew where.
The gravity became so great that Neira could no longer handle it with her gravity. He felt a great pressure squeezing his body from all directions. Even so, Neira did not try to stop. Compared to the gravity in the black curvature that shuts them in, the gravity in the arch is still small, very small. Neira theorized that Lilithia herself would not survive the gravitational curve.
Gathering all the power in his right arm, Neira released his energy sword slash in full force.
However, Lilithia had already entered into the mirror the moment the slash was released. Then he came out of the mirror outside the dark black gravitational arch. “Absolute Gravity:‒” exciting Lilithia with both hands open forward, “‒Enclosed Singularity!”
Instantly, the dark black sphere became significantly heavier and its size shrank rapidly. If the center of gravity was in the black curve, now the center of gravity has moved to the center of the gravity ball which is getting smaller and smaller. The seabed was until it was seen, and huge cracks began to form there due to the immense pressure that the gravity ball exerted. The light has even been illuminating it to form an accretion disk.
The only reason why everything there is not interested in is because it's Enclosed Singularity ‒ gravity is completely trapped inside. The outer arch of the black sphere made the inside and outside completely isolate each other.
Lilithia has two other versions of Singularity: Final Singularity and Eclipse Singularity. Eclipse Singularity makes the other person the center of gravity that will pull everything towards him. This will cause such a great destruction. Another larger moon will be created due to Eclipse Singularity. And this is the weakest Singularity.
Meanwhile, Final Singularity was the opposite of Eclipse Singularity. Here, Lilithia herself would become the center of gravity. It is a singularity that significantly surpasses both previous singularities. Not only will the world they live in be destroyed, the moon, sun, and everything around them will also be drawn in. No one will survive, including Lilithia herself.
Lilithia had no intention of killing herself. Nor does he want to destroy Islan and all that is on it. Enclosed Singularity was the only option he could choose to defeat an opponent stronger than him.
…However, if that fails, Lilithia will escape from here. He no longer had enough mana to use Eclipse Singularity. He also did not want to waste his life to use Final Singularity.
Lilithia stopped shrinking the size of the black sphere of gravity when her radius was exactly 100 meters. He can shrink it again, but he needs Neira Claudian's body. His efforts will be in vain if Neira is completely destroyed. The goal was not to eliminate the girl; the commander's aim was to bring his body to Nueva.
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Neira has lost his perception of the body and everything around him. His consciousness had even been stirring. He had been trying to overcome the gravity that made his body feel like ground meat, but the gravity that bombarded him was too strong. There's nothing he can do. His strength is not enough, and he has no anti-gravity.
…Neira begins to lose herself in the dark black space to which the concept of time does not apply. Even the concept of space itself has been pseudo. He could no longer even say if he still had a body. He is not alive, but he is not dead either. Stagnant, stasis, or absolute static. Neira had no other words to describe her condition.
On the one hand, it's not a bad ending. Neira has lost her family. He has lost citizens and the government. Even his purpose is no longer. The only reason he lived all this time was because Edenia's curse wouldn't allow him to die. Now that the curse had disappeared, he could die and be finished with this mortal world. Neira will be able to rest for good. Not a bad ending.
The nephilim's faint smile that flashed in his memory forbade Neira from giving up. He still had not completed the task that the nephilim had given him. Fie entrusted him to make sure Axellibra was uneven with the ground. For Neira who has nothing left in her life, the trust given is the only thing she can hold. If he had to die, he would die once the task was fulfilled.
So Neira began to release all the energy in his body. His mana began to burn while trying to give a re-touch to his body. Not burning literally, but burning conceptually. But the gravity is too great, the amount of mana is not even close to the word enough. Inevitably, his life energy was also deprived as a source of energy—and it was in significant speed. His life energy was reduced like water being poured from a bottle.
Neira never learned how to control the life energy in his life, but he did not need that control. His body moved on instinct; his own body made life energy a source of energy. Neira had lost control of his body and mind. Between himself and death, now only a thin line separates him.
The center of gravity began to tremble violently, and Neira's body began to release energy exponentially.
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Lilithia frowned at the sight of her gravitational ball vibrating and starting to spin, and she instantly cursed to see the radiance of energy coming out from above, below, and beside the rotating ball of gravity.
This time Lilithia no longer held herself back; she did not care if Neira and her body would vanish unceremoniously. The hundred-meter-high ball of gravity he compressed again became smaller and smaller, making the gravity inside it increase exponentially. Lilithia did not want to keep quiet and see what would happen if she did not act.
As if ignoring Lilithia's effort of compressing the gravity ball, the amount of energy that came out was increasing. And cracks began to appear on the surface of the gravity ball—energy seeped out from those cracks.
Lilithia exerted all her strength to compress the gravity ball. “Death and perish, Neira Claudian!” shouted the commander, trying to bring the volume of the ball close to zero.
However, good fortune apparently reluctantly perched on Lilithia's face. Just as the radius of the gravitational sphere shrank by fifteen meters, the energy-filled sphere collapsed from within. Neira shot out in a speed that Lilithia could not follow.
Lilithia had not had time to blink, a splash of blood shot out from her punctured left shoulder. Neira, with her body no longer breathing, had been on top of the first commander with her head turned upside down.His right hand pierced Lilithia's left shoulder.
Maybe luck is still on the side of the first commander. Otherwise, Neira's hand pierced not his left shoulder, but his head.
In fact, Lilithia was still alive. His left hand was separated from his body along with Neira's lifeless body falling down. Blood splashed and slightly gushed out, but Lilithia was still alive. He's still alive.
Although his eyes were turned back, his expression was shocked, and his face was pale, but the commander was still alive.
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