Villain in a Fantasy World; I Level Up by Conquering Villainesses-Chapter 65: A Domain Clash of S Ranks! [1]
"Domain Expansion: Black Hole!"
Still stunned by the sudden unexpected development of the raid, Julian saw as Sir Alfred step out of the balcony and activate his domain, and then he heard a loud sound that made him feel like his brain just exploded.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
Reality shattered!
Within the seemingly, endless cosmic-like domain of the S Rank Sovereign Queen of the Evergreen Kingdom that encompassed the entirety of Falaniondor, a new domain emerged.
Instantly, Queen Mirabel’s domain wobbled as it was forced to accommodate a new domineering domain.
The domain emerged like a painting as a stark, monochrome cosmic scene suddenly filled the frame of this city, overlapping with reality and overlapping with Queen Mirabel’s domain.
At the center of this new domain, far and at the same time close to the center of Queen Mirabel’s domain, connected to a middle-aged Demon sat a dark, perfectly round sphere of gigantic proportions whose surface absorbed all light from the city, plunging the City of Falaniondor into hues of white and black.
Julian felt like the City of Falaniondor suddenly turned into a medieval white and black picture frame.
This was a black hole!
And Sir Alfred was the center of the black hole.
Around the center of the black hole where the middle-aged Demon stood like a pillar, luminous white streams of light swirled and stretched like flowing smoke or liquid starlight, forming a disk that curved and warped reality as if pulled by immense gravity.
The entire city was subjected to the immensity of the domain’s gravity, but not everyone was affected by it.
Sir Alfred micro-controlled it, or else every single existence in this city below A Rank would die instantly.
The domain had only one target- Queen Mirabel.
CRACCCKKK!
The moment both domains clashed, cracks emerged and rapidly spread through the sky as both domain boundaries clearly revealed damage.
This was a clash of domains and for some reason, Sir Alfred’s domain revealed more cracks.
The middle-aged Demon’s eyes narrowed. ’An S Rank Artifact!’
He finally understood where the domain law of Spatial Lock came from.
But it didn’t matter because the next moment, Queen Mirabel whose domain kept her at an infinite false proximity was suddenly affected by the immense density of this new domain’s gravity.
Sir Alfred’s domain had 1 simple law, the law of attraction!
The moment the domain law kicked into effect, a loud sound reverberated, piercing through the city like an echo of thunderclaps even as the Altar of False Proximity was briefly overpowered.
Floating in the sky, Queen Mirabel’s silhouette briefly flickered like pixels blinking on and off in a screen as her domain resisted, but then her domain resistance was force-stopped.
Instantly, the Elven Queen started being uncontrollably and violently pulled towards the center of the Black Hole from an infinite distance!
And as the Queen rushed towards him as the center of the black hole, grayish white qi flared around the middle-aged Demon Mage.
Omnipresence!
The moment the Demon Mage activated the skill, a thousand Sir Alfreds materialized into existence, appearing in different nodes of the domain and a few of these Sir Alfreds breached the infinite distance to the Elven Queen!
None of the Sir Alfreds was fake, every single one of these Sir Alfreds were the real one.
The authority of Sir Alfred’s domain just subjugated the Queen’s domain authority despite the domain law from her Artifact, and the clearest effect of this was that she was now in his attack range.
The Elven Queen was caught off-guard by the sudden appearance of the S Rank Mage Sovereign, she thought Zaratul and the rest of his subordinates didn’t come to support the raid.
But despite being caught off-guard, as a veteran Awakened standing at the pinnacle of power in Gomorra, she didn’t hesitate to react.
The moment the domain clash started, she realized that the enemy’s authority would likely subjugate her own domain authority.
This was not because her domain was weaker, this was simply because of the nature of her opponent’s domain authority.
Gravity was dense and had a tendency for always seizing priority.
This was why she brought out a brown Bow, an A Rank Artifact. This Bow that seemed to be cut out of roots of a World Tree was over 2 kilometers long, it looked as long as Heaven and Earth.
Despite the immense size of this bow, Queen Mirabel was able to wield it like it was an ordinary bow.
And as she pulled, reality started fracturing around her as she activated 2 skills.
Conceptual Arrow!
Omnidirectional Kill Zone!
These were Level 100 Skills!
But the moment the Elven Queen activated them, Sir Alfred responded with a single targeted skill of his own as he mouthed a few words in an ancient language- an incantation.
At higher levels, Mages no longer just need qi to activate skills, they also need to learn certain ancient incantations for maximum skill effect.
The moment Sir Alfred completed the incantation, his qi detonated outwards.
Reality Rewrite!
BZZZ!
Reality Rewrite is a Level 100 Mage Skill that enables a Conceptual Mage Sovereign to fluidly change the properties of matter between different states of solid, liquid, and gas.
A Level 100 Mage can turn an enemy into a puddle of blood to cause instant death!
But Sir Alfred didn’t use this skill on the Elven Queen knowing that her resistance to the attack would be strong.
Instead, he targeted the bow on her hand that was over 2 kilometers long.
He could sense the threat of the Artifact.
Instantly after he activated the skill, the bow melted, turning into brown liquid as the Elven Queen could no longer hold it properly.
And instantly, all the skills that she activated were negated.
An Archer no matter the rank and level still needs a Bow to use their skills.
The moment the Elven Queen realized what was happening, she no longer hesitated as her qi erupted around her body like a tsunami.
Domain Overlap: 2-fold Authority!
Queen Mirabel used Domain Overlap as her qi swirled like a tsunami, adding a second authority to her already overbearing domain.
She called her second domain law Mind-Nock Authority.
With this law active, within the range of her domain, Queen Mirabel didn’t need a bow and an arrow to be an Archer.
Within this domain authority, the act of nocking an arrow on a bow for her is purely psychological and conceptual, allowing her to release projectiles formed of focused willpower.
Instantly, the density of her domain overpowered the enemy Demon’s domain as countless cracks appeared in Sir Alfred’s domain!
Among A Rank powerhouses, Domain Expansion is the pinnacle of skill usage and powers. But among the true elites at A Rank, Domain Overlap is the next absolute peak.
Level 90 A Rank powerhouses have access to Domain Overlap, making their domains powerful and dense enough to overwhelm any normal and singular law Domain Expansion.
But at S Rank, Sovereigns take Domain domination to a whole new level.
Among S Rank Sovereigns, over centuries of wars and constant battle, they’ve developed a metric system to differentiate the power between fellow S Rank Sovereigns.
The power of S Rank Sovereigns is calculated by the amount of authorities or laws an Awakened can stack inside his domain.
There are three levels of this: 3-fold, 4-fold, and 5-fold domains.
S Rank Sovereigns are beings that already attained power levels exceeding imagination, but even among them, there are weaker types and stronger types.
The weakest, or better still the normal S Rank Sovereigns are those who can overlap 3 domains, the 3-fold domain Sovereigns.
At such a level, an S Rank Sovereign can overwhelm any A Rank enemy in the world in a domain clash.
Most S Rank Sovereigns in the world are 3-fold Sovereigns; both Sir Alfred and the Elven Queen fall into this category.
Beyond 3-fold, there is a rare level that few S Rank Sovereigns in the world have attained- 4-fold domains where 4 laws can be overlapped in a single domain simultaneously, turning a domain into a true conceptual and authority kill zone.
4-fold domain Sovereigns have the capacity to kill 3-fold domain Sovereigns because the weaker Sovereigns simply can’t maintain their domain in their presence.
And then there’s the enigmas, the 5-fold domain Sovereigns.
These monsters are as rare as phoenix feathers and in the entire history of Gomorra, there have been less than 15 of these monsters.
In the current era, there are only five 5-fold domain Sovereigns: Zaratul at his peak, the Empress of the Shereya Dynasty, the Emperor of the Infernal Empire, the Emperor of the Valor Dynasty, and the Dragon Sovereign of Dragon’s Tooth.
At the pinnacle of Awakened combat where domains clash, only the domains with the most laws overlapped survive and wins.
With the new law- Mind-Nock Authority active within her domain, Queen Mirabel let go of her Bow Artifact and aimed using an imaginary bow, then she activated the same skills again.
Conceptual Arrow!
Omnidirectional Kill Zone!
When activated, the Level 100 Skill, Conceptual Arrow grants an Archer’s arrows the concept of inevitability- projectiles cannot be dodged, blocked, or deflected by lower-ranked beings.
As for same-rank beings, they can only block it, not dodge or deflect.
And as for Omnidirectional Kill Zone, when activated, all hostile movement within a city-scale area enters a Trajectory Sovereign’s firing zone.
Queen Mirabel targeted every single avatar of the S Rank Conceptual Mage Sovereign at the same time, then she pulled at her imaginary bow and released.
Saturation Bombardment!
BZZZ!
The sky brightened from the fiery lights of over a thousand projectiles as Queen Mirabel shot a thousand arrows at once, each with extreme destructive and explosive potential.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Amid violent explosions as the avatars were being killed, more cracks appeared in Sir Alfred’s domain.
Seeing this, with his calm eyes fixed on the suddenly distant Elven Queen again, he responded in kind and also took the domain clash up a notch.
Domain Overlap: 2-fold Authority!
CRUSH!
KABOOMMMM!
