Published at 9th of July 2026 6:54 am

Chapter 884: Armageddon [Magic Castle Bonus Chapter ]

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But just as Acker’s senses were sharp, Asher’s were even sharper. He immediately turned towards the attack, Virelass blurring upwards as he met the strike with calm ease and deflected it to the side. Although Acker’s attack speed and striking power had skyrocketed, it made no difference to Asher.

The moment he deflected the blow, he thrust towards Acker, who was still suspended mid-air, but Acker teleported once more. However, Asher had already anticipated this.

The moment Acker teleported to a new position, Asher was already there, his rapier singing towards the Buddhist’s shoulder. Acker, who had only just reappeared, was caught completely off guard. He felt the rapier tear through his skin, flesh, bone, and muscle. Blood splattered into the air as his entire arm struck the ground with a gentle thud.

Acker was stunned. He couldn’t understand how Asher had just accomplished that.

Unlike Acker, who simply turned his delusions into reality and knew nothing about space itself, Asher was the complete opposite, having trained his Space Affinity extensively. Through his mastery of Space Affinity and accumulated experience, he could pinpoint the exact location where Acker was about to teleport by sensing spatial disturbances, much like how earth and wind manipulators could perceive vibrations.

Acker vanished from where he stood as he teleported once more, but the instant he appeared, all that greeted him was the sound of the air being pierced apart and the tip of Virelass booming towards his throat.

Just as the attack was about to land, Acker uttered a single word, his stunned expression disappearing and being replaced by complete serenity.

"Amitabha."

As he spoke, he formed a one-handed prayer gesture, bringing his palm before his chest. At that moment, time itself seemed to slow down, and even Asher’s absurd attack speed appeared to decrease tremendously.

A brilliant golden light erupted behind Acker, manifesting into the colossal image of a Guanyin Bodhisattva. Along with it, numerous enormous golden arms emerged, their number easily reaching a hundred.

The instant they materialized, time seemed to resume its normal flow, and in that very moment, two enormous hands shot forward. One effortlessly intercepted Asher’s thrust. Virelass collided with the Bodhisattva’s palm with brutal force, yet the golden hand refused to budge in the slightest, remaining as immovable as a mountain.

The second golden Bodhisattva hand descended with blistering speed in a devastating martial chop. The air cracked apart, and even space itself rippled beneath the sheer velocity of the strike. Asher didn’t dare remain near Acker. He simply teleported away, and the instant he disappeared, the ground where he had been standing split cleanly in half as though a rusty sword had carved through the landscape itself, obliterating everything within a one-kilometre radius with terrifying ease.

Asher’s figure appeared upon the branch of a tree. He stared at Acker with genuine surprise as he observed the colossal manifestation behind the Buddhist. To Asher, this was simply impossible. He had always believed religion merely existed within Crymora as a belief system, but now it seemed that assumption had been completely wrong.

Asher couldn’t help but wonder whether Acker had somehow discovered the ruins of an ancient civilization that predated the Star Fall Era twenty thousand years ago. Although it sounded ridiculous, it was still possible. After all, he had read of such things happening countless times in various novels.

Besides, Asher was very familiar with this particular ability, having watched a certain character from a certain anime wield this very same power.

’Don’t tell me this guy can actually summon Buddha or some higher entity,’ Asher thought to himself as he remained standing atop the tree branch.

Asher had jokingly said a few days earlier that he would surrender immediately if Acker somehow managed to summon a god. As that thought crossed his mind again, he simply shook his head. He was clearly overthinking things.

And unknown to Asher and everyone else... Acker was simply a delusional man.

The very next second, the shoulder where Acker’s arm had been severed began to regenerate. From the stump, a completely new arm rapidly grew as though he had never lost it in the first place.

Indeed, Acker possessed a healing ability. How else was he supposed to endure the turmoil of the world and save humanity from sin if he remained shackled by the limitations of mortal flesh? Thus, Acker had always believed he possessed infinite regeneration, one capable of restoring him from virtually any injury.

"One Thousand Bodhisattva Palms."

Acker’s voice echoed throughout the battlefield.

The instant those words left his lips, the hundred golden Bodhisattva palms rose high into the sky. The moment they reached a considerable height, they descended like judgmental meteors, their speed shattering both the sound barrier and the wind barrier alike. Each enormous palm smashed relentlessly into the forest with horrifying force, every impact erasing vast sections of the landscape.

Trees vanished. Sinkholes erupted open. Massive chasms carved themselves across the earth. Earthquakes tore through the battlefield as endless clouds of dust billowed into the heavens, everything within a four-kilometre radius being mercilessly wiped from existence.

Although Acker had used this very technique against the Rank 6 Shadow Assassin back during the Thinning Round, he had clearly been holding back then, because the scale of destruction now was nothing short of insanity.

Asher’s condition remained unknown, as Acker couldn’t tell whether he had dodged or somehow defended against the attack. Nevertheless, he refused to lower his guard. Before Acker could even complete his next thought, Asher appeared directly behind him and swung Virelass horizontally with tremendous power. After witnessing the Bodhisattva’s golden palms halt his previous thrust attack, Asher had already concluded that their durability had stepped into the early Rank 7 stage.

Acker reacted instantly. The Bodhisattva’s golden palms immediately converged to defend him, but it proved completely futile. Like a hot knife slicing through butter, Asher’s rapier cleaved through the golden hands as though they were nothing more than wet sand. The Bodhisattva palms exploded into countless motes of golden light before rapidly fading into nothingness.

Asher immediately closed the distance to finish the battle, but at that exact moment, Acker teleported once again. As Asher attempted to read his destination, he froze. For the first time, he couldn’t pinpoint the exact location where Acker would reappear. After being caught off guard twice, the delusional Buddhist had conceived an entirely new delusion on the spot to compensate for his weakness.

Acker now stood suspended in mid-air atop a circular platform of Astra energy. Although the Bodhisattva’s golden palms had been destroyed, he could simply recreate them, and that was precisely what he did. The moment the missing palms were restored, he immediately commanded them to attack once more, but this time, the assault was different.

Each golden Bodhisattva palm slammed violently into the atmosphere itself. The air barrier stretched outward like elastic, and the moment it reached its absolute limit, one hundred compressed air barriers detonated outward with apocalyptic fury as the atmospheric pressure collapsed in succession, drastically amplifying the force behind every strike.

Asher’s eyes snapped towards the sky. It felt as though the entire sky had collapsed at that very moment as an attack spanning more than five kilometres descended upon the forest.

Asher didn’t retreat even a single step. Instead, he calmly raised Virelass before unleashing a single upward slash. The surrounding air compressed around both him and his rapier, forming numerous crescent-shaped sword arcs that filled the battlefield before surging skyward in a single brilliant flash.

And with that, both attacks collided, one screaming towards the sky, the other crashing downward like divine lightning.

The collision could only be described with a single word; Armageddon.

Cindralis immediately expanded the battlefield to an astonishing ten kilometres at the very instant of impact. But even she had underestimated the destructive power possessed by one delusional man and one perfectly sane man. The resulting shockwaves, blast waves, and overwhelming destruction erased the entire landscape without mercy.

Every tree disappeared. The land itself barely seemed to exist anymore, as everything had been transformed into vast chasms, deep ravines, or enormous sinkholes yawning towards the heavens.

It seemed as though the end of the world itself had descended upon everything and everyone.

Yet those watching felt nothing but exhilaration and pure adrenaline as twigs, pebbles, shattered stone, endless dust, and even the weakened remnants of the shockwaves crashed into the audience, throwing everyone too weak to withstand the force cleanly off their feet.

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