Chapter 2500

2500 – Breaker of Certainty

Mid Sector 90 — On the surface of one of the planets

[Let me show you then… I will show the universe… who Robin Burton is.]

"Oh no…" Theo's eyes began to tremble violently.

This was not part of the plan!!

The idea of a live broadcast to show what was happening inside Donara to everyone, to relieve the pressure on them and correct Robin's image, was Billy's idea. He had sent it to Theo because he knew it wouldn't succeed without coordination with the Shadow Swords, and he asked him to help as his uncle and to keep the matter secret.

Of course, Theo kept nothing secret.

The proposal went to Robin as it was, and Robin reviewed it and thought about it, and approved.

Then he arranged the timing and prepared the arena by spreading a warning to everyone not to come for a visit on his birthday, then he dressed up and waited.

According to the flow of events, his father was supposed to expose the secrets of the major powers spontaneously, on the principle that you wanted my downfall so I will drag you down with me, and to speak about the strengths of his empire and boast about the power of his sons before everyone… He also used the dice of Causality more than once and predicted that one of the three powers would launch a major attack on him during the broadcast, and he said he would use the attackers as a lesson for those who take heed.

And that was why he prolonged the broadcast by opening gifts, to give the attackers a chance to arrive, whoever they were. And that was also why Theo prevented Billy from ending the broadcast, while at the same time not telling him that Robin knew about the broadcast so that his spontaneous reactions wouldn't change.

Everything was arranged, everything was going well…

Until this moment!

Hoooowm

The Golden Light exploded from Robin's body on the broadcast with a blinding force.

This was not part of the plan, his father was truly angry this time!!

Damn it… even he had actually written his memoirs because he was on the verge of death at the hands of Helmor, how could he have known that everyone would do it too?!

Immediately Theo raised his wrist and began speaking through the interstellar communication network, "Change of plan, change of plan, prepare to improvise!!"

Dozens of responses came from the numbered Shadow Swords… preparing for what exactly?!

But he didn't know, he truly didn't know…

Maybe he was going to fight one of the great powers? Maybe he was just showing off his strength? Maybe he was coming to Sector 90 to join the war?!

"Damn it!!" Theo raised both his hands above his head.

Any choice would humiliate his father and weaken him, would show him to everyone as slightly unhinged, short-tempered, sharp-mooded, untrustworthy—even if he managed to cause damage wherever he targeted—but mere posturing with laws, that's worse… Who would get angry and flex his muscles for nothing?! That would diminish his prestige.

What exactly would he do?

What—

A disturbance.

"….!!" Theo's eyes widened to their utmost and his breath caught.

Not because of what he saw… but because of what he felt in Mid Sector 90.

What he felt at a distance of 10 sectors from where his father raised his arms.

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Mid Sector 900—one of the streets of the dying planets.

"Hehe, you won't catch me!"

Among the billions of planets in every sector, it's natural that not all of them are developed and affiliated with empires, natural that not all of them have space gates and broadcast screens and spacecraft…. natural that there are remote planets with scarce resources, planets whose inhabitants thank the fact that they are forgotten.

Here, children play in the street with small sticks and stones, their clothes made of animal hide barely enough to cover the important parts of their bodies, yet on their faces are wide smiles.

For no one concerns himself with such-and-such empire that wants their meager resources, nor with so-and-so who wants to occupy them.

Here, in the bliss of ignorance, they only—

Tremor

Quake

Quake

"Huh?" The boys fell on their backsides, some began running under the trees and some began to cry.

As for most of them, they began looking toward the night sky in astonishment…

This was not the feeling of an ordinary earthquake; their very bodies were shaking, the air was destabilizing, and the sky… the sky was changing.

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Middle Sector 750—

Kshsh

Quake

"…?!" Sevar stood up slowly.

The Sky-Avoidance Cave was shaking violently.

And the atmosphere around him had changed; the air itself began to compress and expand.

"What is…?!" Sevar's expression began to pale slightly, "Is it targeting me?!"

Mid Sector 99— Donara

Tremor

The immense Golden Momentum continued surging from Robin's body like a waterfall that had been dammed for thousands of years and was finally released.

"Aah… Aaah…." Billy fell on his backside; words of consolation no longer knew the way out.

He just kept looking at Robin from behind in astonishment, and kept broadcasting to all the two worlds and the unaware among the sons of the universe.

Quake

Quake

The demons below knelt; they did not feel just a vibration like the rest of the universe, but rather they felt the terror of the Golden Momentum itself.

Even the passage that was spitting out a new monster every few seconds seemed as if it had frozen… not a single monster dared to pass.

"I…" Robin spoke through gritted teeth, "I—you think I will be defeated? And by whose hand? Who in this universe can triumph against me? Who beneath The Shell can force me to start over?"

Disturbance

Disturbance

The Golden Momentum surged in an immense quantity out of Donara's planetary atmosphere and penetrated deep into space.

"I am the one who broke my death when it seized me, I am the one who broke my fate when it bound me!" Robin began to raise his voice, "I am the one who broke every obstacle in my path, I am the one who broke every person who dared try to stop me!"

Then he raised his hands higher, pumping out Golden Momentum that grew ever more massive.

"I am the one who broke the concept of human inferiority by my mere existence, I am the one who broke the inevitability of the Cosmic Elder's death with an idea of mine!" Then he began to raise his head slowly, "I am the one who broke the dreams of the dreamers and his kind to destroy the universe without punishment, I am the one who will break anyone who dares to touch anything that belongs to me… I am Robin Burton, I am the Breaker of Certainty!"

Then he clenched his teeth hard, his hair and eyes radiating fury mixed with a look of supremacy.

"If this is not enough for you to learn who I am… allow me to break something else that every creature within this universe can feel, and whose echo reaches beyond it…"

Then—

He brought both hands down with force.

"The buffer zones between the sectors of the Middle Belt… break for me!"

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