A hundred-meter-wide black hole churned above his chest. The pitch-black vortex spun wildly, warping the space around it and sucking nearby rocks into the void.

Logan raised his hand. A black hole formed in his palm, same in origin as Bar's, but spinning faster and with a much stronger pull.

The opposing gravity locked onto Bar's swallowing path. Golden-black light twisted together in midair, and a violent hum shook the air itself.

Logan stared at Bar's shocked face, his voice cold. "Your Devouring Rule is too weak."

[Truth Chains!]

Dark-gold chains shot from Logan's left palm. They pierced straight into the node at the center of Bar's chest vortex, wrapping around the black swirl before yanking outward.

Bar's pupils shrank. He stared down at his chest in disbelief, screaming: "Impossible… my devouring core…"

Panic set in. He could feel his core being ripped away.

With a sharp pop!

Bar felt something tear free from his body.

It was a fist-sized obsidian crystal, its surface etched with glowing Devouring Rulerune.

The moment the core left him, Bar's power plummeted. The black hole on his chest collapsed instantly, his strength dropping from a full Demigod to the very edge of quasi-Demigod.

Logan swallowed the crystal whole. Inside him, the Gene Devour chain surged to completion, pulsing with dark light.

Right after, the scar on Logan's arm began to recede. The raw rule power pushing through him forced the corruption back.

He could clearly feel it: the Truth Mark's hold on him had dropped by five percent.

The ten Demigods fell silent, stunned.

"He ate Bar's Divine Rule!" Leon's staff nearly slipped from his grip. Arcs of electricity wilded along its shaft, completely out of control.

"Is he crazy?" Titan's gravity field stuttered. His left leg involuntarily stepped back. "Force-feeding on another's rule? He's planting a bomb in his own soul!"

They turned to look at Bar.

Bar clutched his empty chest. Ruined rules flared out of control, and power drained away fast.

His knees buckled. He dropped to one knee, eyes closing completely.

Logan didn't pause. He turned his gaze straight to Mordred·Fan.

Feeling those eyes on him, Mordred·Fan's face hardened. "Damn it!"

gray mist churned around him, twisting into a swarm of distorted ghost. They opened their mouths wide, letting out shrieks before lunging at Logan.

"Pathetic. I've killed at least five of your kind already." Logan sneered, raising his left arm. gray-white light erupted from his limbs.

[Chains of the Soul!]

The chains crashed into the ghost. A deafening crack split the air.

Shockwaves from the colliding Soul Rule rippled through the void, heavy and dull, like a drumbeat inside the mind.

Logan stood in the center of the blast. His mind reeled for a second, but he steadied himself and braced through the sonic assault.

At the same time, Truth Chains shot out again, piercing straight into the soul node at Mordred's heart.

"No!" Mordred·Fan roared.

Logan's voice was cold. "Your soul is mine now."

With that, the chains wrapped around the gray-white core and began to pull.

Mordred·Fan screamed in agony. The gray mist vanished instantly. The distorted ghost were dragged back into his body, only to be torn apart one by one by the chains.

Finally, the gray-white Soul Rule core was ripped free. Its surface glowed with Soul Rule patterns.

Logan picked up the rule crystals and swallowed them whole.

In an instant, Logan's soul gene chain reached its peak. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

The Chains of the Soul shifted from gray-white to silver-gray. They stretched a kilometer long, floating behind him like a curtain of silver light.

As his body absorbed the Soul Rule, The Observer No. 1's corruption rate dropped another five percent.

Logan felt lighter, as if a heavy weight had been lifted. A wave of joy hit him, and he let out a loud laugh.

But the sound of his laughter turned the remaining seven Demigod pale.

"Form a tight group! Fall back in formation!"

"Right! Don't give him another chance to eat us!"

"He's insane! How dare he? Doesn't he fear his soul will explode from force-feeding on other rules?"

Cursing under their breaths, the seven formed a makeshift Ancient Tribunal standard defense array. It was loose, but it worked. They successfully retreated three kilometers.

Logan watched them, letting out a cold sneer. "Too late."

His gaze swept the group and locked onto the Demigod named Aion·Trey.

"Trash sent by The Observer No. 1." Logan conjured a ghostly image of the Truth Chains in his palm. His voice dropped low. "Today, all ten of you will feed my power."

Aion's face twisted in panic. The time rule flared around him, forming a barrier of absolute stillness.

But the barrier cracked instantly under the force of the Truth Chains.

Meanwhile, at the core of the Plane Graveyard.

The Observer No. 1 watched from afar as the corruption rate in Logan's body dropped. His cold will flickered.

He hadn't expected Logan to use other Demigod's Rule Fragment to reverse the truthification process.

He tried to push the scar's power through Logan's system to take back control. But the newly absorbed rules hit back instantly, forcing him to retreat step by step.

The Observer No. 1 felt a frustration he hadn't known in ages. He finally stood up and roared: "Idiot!"

He paused, then sent a command through their soul link to the remaining seven Demigod. "Hold him back at any cost! I'm sending Observer No. 3 to reinforce. Remember: stall him!"

On the battlefield.

Leon·Stanley caught the message. His face darkened. "You heard him? The orders are clear: hold him back at all costs! He's only one man! Throw everything at him!"

The seven Demigod regrouped instantly. The glow of their various rules flared up.

Logan felt the mark of The Observer No. 1 in his own body react. He heard the command clearly.

"Thanks. I was worried they'd actually run away." Logan grinned, the corners of his mouth turning up.

He did the quick math in his head. Seven Demigod meant seven Divine Rule cores.

If he absorbed them all, he wouldn't just stabilize his nine gene spiral structures. He might even break through to a higher level.

Nobody said nine Divine Rule DNA spiral was the limit for a Demigod.

With that thought, Logan stood up and charged straight toward the seven Demigod.

Before Observer No. 3 arrived, Logan still had a feast waiting for him.

The Demigod were fast. In the blink of an eye, Logan closed the distance. He lifted his head, scanning the remaining Demigod.

Aion·Trey had silver-white time rules swirling around him. A stillness barrier flickered faintly over his skin.

Valen·Spike tore through space with both hands. Translucent fragments arranged themselves around him.

Thor·Green gathered green creation light in his palms.

Mars·Black had Black destruction chains wrapped around his arms.

Behind them, Leon·Stanley, Felix·Evans, and Titan·Titus stood in formation.

Logan licked his lips. His voice was rough. "Seven of you. Just enough to fill me up."

"Arrogant!" Aion·Trey's pupils shrank. His time rules surged forward.

[Time Freeze!]

A silver-white dome formed around him, trying to lock Logan in place.

Logan scoffed. "Play with time? You're asking for death."

He raised his right hand and formed a seal.

[Time Anchoring!]

Restored time rules flared with silver-white light, locking onto the time node at the back of Aion's head.

The two time rules clashed head-on. Aion's attempt to reverse time by burning his life force was brutally cut off.

Watching his own rule collapse, Aion let out a stunned scream. "Impossible! My time reversal… it failed?"

"It didn't fail. I just took it." Logan's left hand summoned Truth Chains, wrapping them around Aion's neck before piercing the time node at the back of his head.

The silver-white time rule core was ripped out. Aion's body dropped from a full Demigod to the very edge of quasi-Demigod.

Logan opened his mouth and swallowed the crystal. His time gene chain reached completion.

Suddenly, Logan understood a stronger time rule skill. He raised his hand and swung it toward the rest of the Demigod.

[Blade of Time!]

In a flash, the silver light surged to three meters long. Time rune flowed across the blade's surface.

The strange blade sliced through the empty air. For a split second, a brief Time Freeze spread through the surrounding space.

"Bad! Time decay! It's spreading toward us!" Valen·Spike realized the power behind the strike. He didn't dare take chances and tore through space with both hands.

[Void maze!]

Countless translucent spatial fragments formed a maze structure around Logan. Twisted passages filled the gaps between the shards.

Logan ignored the fragments. He used his Space Ability to sense through them.

Almost instantly, his awareness pierced the surface of the maze, locking onto the spatial node at Valen's collarbone.

"Your maze is full of holes."

With that, Logan's figure flickered. He stepped forward as if walking through water, passing right through a wall and leaving the illusion maze behind.

He hadn't even stopped moving. Before the others could react, Logan raised his right hand and unleashed a wave of chains!

[Truth Chains!]

Dark-gold chains pierced through layer after layer of spatial barrier, slamming straight into Valen's collarbone.

"This can't be! How did you get out so fast!" Valen's face went pale. He tried to escape with a space jump. Silver-gray space energy wrapped around his body, ready to teleport him miles away.

But Logan's time rules had already anchored his jump coordinates. Silver-white light locked down the space fluctuation, canceling the teleport.

"No!" Valen screamed. "My Space Rule…"

"Not anymore. It's mine now."

Truth Chains wrapped around the spatial core, pulling it outward.

Valen's body was crushed into a fist-sized sphere of space.

Logan opened his mouth and swallowed him. His space gene chain reached full completion.

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