The sky turned dark.

The entire horizon had been split under the pressure of the four commanders’ mana, and thousands of sacred arrays were stretched like massive chains among the clouds.

The winds no longer flowed normally; every wave of air had been weighed down by the pressure of endless laws and auras, making even breathing difficult for ordinary soldiers.

But at the center of that hell, Daniel still stood calmly.

His hair swayed in the winds, and behind him, the tree’s massive roots like sleeping dragons covered the entire ground.

The golden fruit pulsed quietly, each beat like the sound of a heart beating in the depths of the world.

And then, the four commanders moved simultaneously. Since one of them was not enough to defeat this monster, they all attacked together.

Varkas was the first. A massive roar shook the sky, and his half-dragon body fell through the clouds like a black meteor.

Dark flames exploded around his body, and the mere pressure of his presence was enough to make hundreds of surrounding arrays tremble.

Almost simultaneously, Alindra raised her white bow.

Thousands of soul arrows formed behind her; arrows made from the pure wood of thousand-year-old trees that even turned the space around them green and silver.

Miralia also raised both her hands, and hundreds of magic circles opened behind her.

At that moment, the entire space locked down.

And Rodric simply raised his sword again. Although his sword appeared cracked and broken, it was still usable.

"Heaven Severing Edge."

A moment later, the sky turned white. Not ordinary light, but an absolute whiteness that seemed to cut reality itself.

A massive slash split the entire ruin in two; a bright line that even split distant mountains before impact.

The ground along the attack’s path collapsed, space cracked, and the armies retreated in horror.

But Daniel just watched. His golden eyes glowed quietly, and the Law of Destruction activated. It had been a while since he had used the Law of Destruction.

No explosion occurred, no wave of mana rose. Only that white line began to decay.

First its light dimmed, then its edges cracked, and then the entire attack slowly collapsed like a worn-out concept.

As if "cutting" itself was being destroyed. By the time the attack reached Daniel, all that remained was a weak wave of energy that split the mountains behind him.

Rodric frowned deeply and felt a coldness in the depths of his being.

Because he understood that Daniel had not deflected the attack but had destroyed the concept and existence of that attack.

How could such a thing even be done? He had never seen anyone with the power to do such a thing. This was practically rewriting reality.

How could someone have such heaven-defying power that it called all logic into question?

At that same moment, Alindra released her arrow.

"Forest Soul Funeral."

Nature’s mana was drawn from the ground and gathered inside that green and silver arrow.

Even the elven soldiers felt the forest’s soul wailing.

The arrow moved, polluting the entire space along its path with the death of nature.

But Daniel calmly raised his hand and released the Law of Death.

For a moment, the entire battlefield turned cold. Soldiers felt something invisible pass by their necks.

And then Alindra’s arrow suddenly turned black. The death inside it was no longer under the elves’ command.

Rather, it was obedient to Daniel. The arrow stopped before reaching him, cracked, and silently crumbled into particles of ash.

Alindra’s face lost its color for the first time, because she understood that this being had not just used death, but he dominated the very concept of death.

"This is blasphemy! This is impossible! How could nature allow such a thing?" Alindra, who had seemed calmer than everyone from the beginning, was now showing signs of disbelief and fear.

What she saw should not have been possible. How could nature allow someone to dominate death?

"Hah...!" Varkas’s massive laugh shook the entire sky.

His body changed again, and this time he fully returned to dragon form. Not an ordinary dragon form, but a much larger and more powerful form.

A massive dragon with black scales whose shadow fell over the entire ruin. His golden eyes shone like two suns.

As if he understood that his normal form was not enough and had decided to use his full power.

Then his mouth opened.

"Ashen Dragon Cataclysm."

A sea of black fire devoured the world. These flames did not just burn.

Rather, they erased anything in their path from existence.

Even the sacred arrays around began to melt. But at that moment, golden-black lightning fell from the sky.

Hundreds of massive lightning bolts like divine serpents entered the sea of fire.

Each bolt grew larger after consuming the flames.

Grew stronger. And then Daniel just moved his finger. A giant lightning bolt split the sky. Varkas didn’t even have time to roar.

The lightning struck his massive body directly from the clouds to the ground, shaking the entire ruin.

Mountains collapsed, and hundreds of dragons retreated in terror.

And before anyone could react, Miralia’s voice shook the field.

"Divine Prison Array."

Thousands of golden runes covered the entire sky, and suddenly everything stopped.

Space locked down, mana went silent, even time seemed to slow for a moment.

Some army commanders felt hope for the first time.

We got him.

But at that moment, Daniel laughed, and the Law of Destruction was released.

And then all the runes began to tremble and went out one by one. Some cracked, some were completely destroyed.

Miralia suddenly coughed up blood and looked at her arrays with trembling eyes.

"Impossible..."

But the battle was not over yet. Alindra called out to her, and Miralia moved simultaneously.

"Sanctuary of Sealed Heaven."

Massive sacred roots emerged from the ground, luminous chains covered the entire field, and a domain formed inside which all laws were suppressed.

Even Daniel’s movement slowed for a moment. But at that very moment, the roots of the tree behind Daniel awakened.

The ground split, and the black roots like ancient serpents attacked the sacred domain.

And then they began to devour it.

The elves watched in horror as their sacred nature was eaten. The luminous chains went out.

The sacred roots rotted, and the tree devoured everything.

"Hehe...! This is it!" Varkas laughed maniacally.

Rodric silently landed on the dragon’s back, his broken sword covered in black flames.

And then—

"Dragon-Sky Extinction."

They fell like a meteor of the world’s end. The sky exploded.

Even the observation array inside the Holy Palace cracked, and the light of the explosion swallowed the entire ruin.

And for a moment, everyone thought perhaps this time they had succeeded.

But when the light faded, Daniel was still standing. His eyes had turned completely golden.

And for the first time, his true presence was released. The entire sky turned dark.

The armies froze. Even the four commanders held their breath for a moment, because that pressure no longer felt like mana.

It felt like the presence of a being standing outside the laws of the world.

And then the slaughter began. The Sky Knights attacked, thousands descending simultaneously, but massive roots emerged from the ground.

Of course, these were not the tree’s roots, but roots made from the energy of death and destruction.

They devoured the soldiers. Some aged and turned to ash before being touched. Some disappeared under black lightning.

Some simply knelt under the pressure of eternity, their bodies collapsing.

Dragons attacked in groups, but golden-black lightning struck them down from the sky one by one.

Elves rained arrows, but all the arrows were devoured before reaching him, and then arrows made from death energy were fired back at them.

In such a situation, no one could defend anyone else, and a great massacre occurred.

Thousands of knights, thousands of elves, and dozens of dragons were slaughtered one after another, their lifeless bodies falling to the ground.

And the worst part: every time someone died, the tree’s roots devoured their life force.

The golden fruit grew larger, grew brighter, and its pulse beat heavier across the field.

Even the four commanders noticed.

Rodric looked at that fruit with a heavy face. The Divine Prophet’s sentence repeated in his mind.

"If that fruit completes... the world will be destroyed."

For the first time, true fear formed in his heart, because now he understood.

They were not just fighting Daniel. They were facing something being born. And if they couldn’t stop it right now...

Perhaps no one in this world would be able to stop it ever again.