"Watch carefully."

Azroth’s voice echoed in Evan’s ears.

"Our Ruler’s Authority has many uses. Once you grasp the true essence of our power and learn how to properly utilize our authority, do not restrict yourself because of its name. Soul Keeper is merely a name derived from its most fundamental effect. There are many things you can accomplish using it."

As Azroth finished speaking, a burst of Primordial Shadow Energy erupted from his body like a storm, blowing away all the branches that were trying to bind him.

He placed the Halberd of Destruction in front of himself, and in the very next instant, a golden halo emanated from the weapon, covering an area of nearly one hundred meters around him.

Every branch and attack launched by the Universal Tree disappeared the moment they entered the golden halo, as though they had been swallowed by something.

Seeing this, Evan could not help but think about the black hole rotating behind Elora earlier.

When Baphomet had attacked her, that black hole had also swallowed his attack with ease.

’I always used the halberd’s power of destruction for attacking and never thought about using it for defense.’

Just as Evan was marveling at the halberd’s ability, Azroth stretched out his hand and activated his Ruler’s Authority.

Evan felt a strange power gathering on Azroth’s outstretched palm, power that somehow felt deeply familiar to him but he couldn’t understand its essence.

Within just a few seconds, a milky-white orb roughly the size of a football materialized in Azroth’s hand.

At first, Evan was confused about what the football-sized orb actually was.

But suddenly, he noticed something within the orb, and his eyes widened in disbelief.

’How is this possible?’

The shock Evan felt at this moment was even greater than when he first discovered that he and Azroth were actually the same person.

In fact, not only him, even the spirit of the Universal Tree stopped attacking Azroth and stared at the orb in his hand with eyes full of shock.

"You... How did you do this?"

The spirit asked in an awe-filled voice, momentarily forgetting that she was supposed to be fighting against Azroth.

Azroth ignored the spirit’s question and instead glanced once again at the stunned Evan.

"Creation... it is also within the scope of our Ruler’s Authority," He said before shifting his gaze back toward the orb in his hand.

"Whether it is bringing someone back to life or creating a new life out of nothing, we can accomplish it easily. In fact..."

Azroth casually tossed the orb toward Evan, and it stopped floating directly in front of him.

"Creating a new life is merely the most basic application of our Ruler’s Authority. If you can control it perfectly, then creating an entirely new world like I just did is not impossible."

Evan listened to Azroth’s words while staring at the orb.

No... it was not an orb.

It was a World!

A world that Azroth had just created moments ago.

The small football-sized sphere actually contained an entire world within it.

A world that previously did not exist but had now been created by Azroth.

Through the orb, Evan could see rough mountains, seas, rivers, and volcanoes—a primitive world that had only just come into existence.

At present, there were no lifeforms inside that world.

But as it gradually developed, it would eventually give birth to new forms of life.

What shocked Evan even more was that despite the orb being only the size of a football, the world inside it was not small at all.

In fact, it appeared to be almost as large as Utopia itself.

’This is fu*king insane...’

Evan stared at Azroth, who still wore an indifferent expression, as though what he had just accomplished was something completely trivial.

’This guy is practically a god.’

Just as Evan was thinking this, the small orb flew back toward Azroth.

Azroth caught it casually as though it were merely an ordinary stone before turning his gaze toward the spirit of the Universal Tree.

"I gave you a chance. But since you refuse to cooperate, then you can only blame yourself."

The moment he spoke, a burst of golden power erupted from the Halberd of Destruction and poured into the world Azroth had just created.

The spirit of the Universal Tree, who was still shocked that Azroth had created a world out of nowhere, suddenly returned to her senses when she saw what he was doing.

As if she had suddenly realized something, her eyes widened in horror.

"Wait! I will hand that thing over to you!"

She screamed in terror, but Azroth completely ignored her plea.

The instant the orb in his hand was filled with the power of destruction, he tossed it toward the Universal Tree.

"No!"

The spirit of the tree screamed desperately, but it was already too late.

In the next instant, the orb collided with one of the leaves of the Universal Tree.

Each leaf of the Universal Tree contained an entire world within it.

And when a world filled with the power of destruction collided against another world... Apocalypse descended!

The orb exploded like a supernova, destroying the world it collided with along with everything inside it.

That destruction triggered a terrifying chain reaction.

One after another, the worlds attached to the Universal Tree began exploding, filling the entire cosmos with supernova-like explosions.

Evan stared at the doomsday-like scene unfolding before him and felt a chill run down his spine.

’Just how many worlds did he destroy with that single attack?’

Even though this was merely a memory, Evan still felt dazed watching countless worlds being annihilated right before his eyes.

Suddenly, he noticed countless colorful orbs of light emerging from the destroyed worlds and flying toward Azroth.

Azroth glanced at those orbs and calmly allowed them to seep into his body, appearing completely indifferent to their appearance.

’Those colorful orbs.. Are they the souls of the people who died because of the destruction of those worlds?’