Chapter 2501

2501 – Break-1

Mid Sector 90—The Stellar Field adjacent to the Buffer Zone

[The Buffer Zones between the Mid Sectors… break for me.]

"It seems your Lord has gone mad." Asterion spoke with his tongue, but his heart was trembling.

The sight of that golden power was terrifying, and for some reason he could feel it from nearly ten sectors away, and that alone was enough to prove the power and intensity of Lord Robin.

But breaking the Buffer Zones established by the Executioner? That was a dream and folly.

Even the Cosmic Elder could not do anything about them, the Archon and the Ruler of Chaos did not approach them either, the Buffer Zones had become an established reality carved into the cosmic fabric.

"…Your Lord is more arrogant than the rumors and more conceited than what we witnessed at the hands of the Ruler of Chaos. In my life before the first catastrophe and to this day, I have never seen a person driven by arrogance and the pursuit of glory and status more than him. But he let his arrogance consume him further in front of everyone today and diminished his own worth. He blabbered something impossible in a fit of anger like a small child… When this episode calms down, he will lose his prestige forever no matter how powerful he is."

"Don't talk about Lord Robi—no, don't talk about His Excellency the Breaker that way!" Arkail pointed his finger angrily toward Asterion, "If the Breaker said he'd do something, you'll see for yourself—those Buffer Zones will crack and passage through them will be safe!!"

Arkail shouted with confidence after the impassioned speech he had heard, but at the same time he left himself an opening in case Robin inevitably failed to achieve what he had declared.

In any case, that tremendous power they had felt up to this point should be enough to—

Rumble

Arkail swallowed his thoughts… The ground seemed to be pulled from beneath his feet, and the sky above him began to change, the stars moving at a strange speed.

Then—

Crack

Before Arkail's deluded eyes, the distant black space toward the east turned into something resembling a visible wall—it was colorless but distinguishable from ordinary space.

That colossal wall began to crack.

Crack

Crack

"….!!!" Asterion turned, putting his back to Arkail, then began retreating rapidly with terrified expressions until he stood almost beside Arkail.

Craaaaaaack

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Mid Sector 1 – Tyrant Galaxy

[Buffer Zones between the Mid Sectors… break for my sake.]

"Huh?" Intiras, who had been analyzing the amount of momentum emanating from Robin's body in astonishment, immediately smiled in bewilderment. "Has that child gone mad? Just because he has excess momentum, he thinks he can do what the Executioners do? What does he know about the Law of the Void that the Executioner used to—"

Crack

"....!!" Intiras lost his balance and nearly fell backward, had he not quickly widened his stance. "No..."

His eyes were opened to their fullest.

What was happening was not merely a tremor. The previous tremor had occurred because of the terrifying amount of momentum permeating the fabric of spacetime in Universe B-14... This time, something different was happening.

Perhaps others would fail to determine what was going on, but he... impossible.

His planet.

No, rather his entire galaxy...

Its speed suddenly increased and it began to move as if someone had kicked it.

"No... No, you wouldn't dare..." Intiras muttered unconsciously, then with a wave of his hand, he opened a rift in space overlooking the First Buffer Zone.

Craaack

A massive rift the length of the invisible wall—no, rather it should be said that a rift the length of the entire universe had cracked open, and stellar tornadoes began emerging from it.

A cosmic shockwave, dust, stellar embryos, clusters, great galactic winds, and gravitational waves burst forth from that rift with terrifying speed and force, as if they had been trapped and compressed inside a balloon, and that balloon had finally been punctured.

And this was not happening from one direction alone—

The Buffer Zone between 1000 and 1 had shattered, and the Buffer Zone between Sectors 1 and 2 had shattered as well.

Both of them were pouring what had been trapped within them for 70 million years into Sector 1 at this very moment.

And this was happening across all Sectors in the universe at this very moment… the Buffer Zones had split open from both sides, pouring into every Sector like a balloon emptying its bowels.

All those strange components, all that wind and cosmic dust began to push the fabric of Spacetime itself into ripples… the Sector itself began to convulse up and down, began to compress and then expand.

The Sectors could withstand this for now because of their immense size and because the rifts were small relative to the Sectors.

But if this continued…

"That reckless madman!!" Intiras shouted, "He will destroy the universe! He will destroy the universe and us with it because he thinks himself an Executioner or a Transcendent who can remove the Buffer Zones just because he wants to!!!"

Woosh

Intiras withdrew his rings and all his possessions from the Throne Room, then brought out a strange circular spear. "I must leave immediately."

Then

Woosh

He opened another rift overlooking a barren space desert, overlooking the Wall of the End of the World, or what is known as The Shell.

Then finally he cast a glance toward the broadcast that was still running, toward Robin who was still pumping quantities of momentum, and let out a forceful exhale. "Hmph, the All-seeing God's joy in his successor — the Cycle has ended. If the rifts continue for another minute without closing, the cosmic system with everything in it will collapse. If they continue expanding gradually like this, the collapse will happen in less than a minute. And if he closes them suddenly, the resulting waves will destroy half the universe as well."

Then he looked ahead toward The Shell. "...I hope that damned one accepts me. I ended the Cycle for him early, even if indirectly... heh~"

Craaaaaaaaaaaack

"Agh!" Intiras's balance faltered once again. "What happened this time?!"

Then he looked toward the rift he had opened toward the Buffer Zone.

He opened his eyes wide.