Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100 Chapter 1898 Max vs Orion!

Damian sank to his knees, and then to his waist. The corridor tried to remove him from the battlefield entirely. It did not attack his body. It attacked his position, his presence, and the route connecting him to the stage. If it succeeded, even his Sword Sovereign Heaven would be forced to cut through endless folded exits to return.

Kaiden pressed harder. "Go."

Damian looked down at the darkness below him, and then he closed his eyes. For a breath, the sword in his hand became silent, and the Sword Sovereign Heaven behind him fell silent as well. Then the single sword hanging before the empty throne descended, and the entire sword world seemed to hold its breath.

Damian opened his eyes.

"Sword Sovereign Heaven."

The sword before the throne dissolved into light and entered his blade.

"Final Edict."

The labyrinth trembled.

"Throne Of The Only Sword."

In that instant, every sword light vanished. The sword altar vanished, the sword mountains vanished, and the sword rivers vanished. Even the palace behind Damian dimmed. Only one sword remained, the sword in Damian's hand, and because only one sword remained, every other direction lost its meaning before it.

Damian slashed downward. The slash entered the Void Beyond Return.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then the final corridor cracked.

Kaiden's face changed. "No."

The crack spread through the corridor. It did not spread along the surface. It spread along the hidden route of exile, cutting through the very connection that made the path lead away from the battlefield. The Void Beyond Return tried to deepen itself, but Damian's sword had already found the line that mattered. The destination was cut, the returnless nature was cut, and the exile authority was cut. The corridor shattered.

Boom!

Damian stepped out of the collapsing void with his sword still lowered. The Grand Void Labyrinth shook violently. Kaiden tried to move, but Damian was already gone. A straight sword line crossed the labyrinth. No corridor delayed it, no mirror diverted it, and no folded plane swallowed it. The sword line cut through the center of the Grand Void Labyrinth and arrived before Kaiden.

Kaiden opened three emergency folds, and Damian cut through them. Kaiden formed a Hollow Displacement, and Damian severed the displaced position. Kaiden raised a World-Folding Barrier, and Damian's blade pierced through it. Then the sword stopped at Kaiden's throat.

The entire arena went silent. Kaiden stood still. His silver-gray robes were torn, his aura was unstable, and the Grand Void Labyrinth behind him cracked layer by layer before finally collapsing into countless fading fragments of space.

He had given everything. He had shown the full depth of his spatial path. He had trapped Damian, wounded him, nearly exiled him, and forced him to use the Final Edict of Sword Sovereign Heaven. But in the end, Damian's sword had cut through space itself.

Kaiden looked at the blade before his throat, and then he looked at Damian. After a few breaths, he smiled faintly. "You cut the Void Beyond Return."

Damian's expression remained calm. "Barely."

Kaiden shook his head lightly. "Barely is still enough."

He lowered his hands. "I surrender."

Angelina Valerius announced the result.

[Winner: Damian Voss.]

[Kaiden Voidmere Defeated.]

The screen above the arena updated.

[Battle Record Updated.]

[Damian Voss]

[Total Battles Fought: 20]

[Total Wins: 20]

[Battle Record Updated.]

[Kaiden Voidmere]

[Total Battles Fought: 22]

[Total Wins: 18]

The Divine Realm erupted. Damian Voss had completed all twenty-four battles with twenty-four victories.

The Sword God Palace fell into thunderous celebration. Countless swords rose from their sheaths, and their cries echoed through mountains, halls, and floating sword platforms. Their strongest genius had not merely won another battle. He had ended the full round-robin stage undefeated, cutting down divine light, body power, curses, and now the Grand Void Labyrinth of the Grand Void Sanctum.

At the Grand Void Sanctum, the disciples were silent, yet none of them lowered their heads in shame. Kaiden had fought beautifully. His space power had pushed Damian further than most opponents, and even in defeat he had proven once again that his place among the top monsters was unquestionable.

Inside the Eternal Hourglass, Damian lowered his sword and stepped back. Kaiden gave him a slight nod.

"The Sword God Palace deserves its name."

Damian sheathed his blade. "So does the Grand Void Sanctum."

The transfer light descended and returned both of them to their pillars.

Max watched Damian quietly. Twenty-four battles and twenty-four wins. Damian Voss had finished his round, and his sword still felt as though it had more to show.

After Damian defeated Kaiden and returned to his pillar with twenty-four victories to his name, the pressure inside the Eternal Hourglass rose to an even more frightening level. Everyone understood that the final competitive stage had entered its final stretch, and from this point onward, almost every battle that appeared on the screen would carry the weight to shake the entire Divine Realm.

Angelina Valerius gave the arena only a brief moment to settle. The broken traces of Kaiden's Grand Void Labyrinth disappeared, the stage restored itself under the laws of the Eternal Hourglass, and then the great screen of light above the battlefield began to spin once more.

This time, even before the first name appeared, many spectators had already begun holding their breath. The top monsters remaining had grown too few, and any pairing among them was enough to make the blood of the crowd heat up.

The first name slowed and stopped.

[Max Morgan]

A wave of noise rose instantly. The second name continued rotating through the light, passing several surviving participants before finally slowing as well.

[Orion Starfall]

The moment both names appeared together, the Eternal Hourglass erupted.

[Final Competitive Stage]

[Max Morgan vs Orion Starfall]

All across the Divine Realm, countless viewing grounds, sect halls, clan plazas, floating platforms, mountain palaces, and inheritance chambers burst into excitement. The Black Dragon Clan disciples straightened immediately. The Nine Star Court fell unusually quiet for a moment before its disciples began watching with burning eyes.

Even many elders from the seven strongest first-rate forces leaned forward slightly, because everyone knew this was no ordinary battle.

Max Morgan, who had risen from the mortal world and continued shocking the Divine Realm without pause, was now facing Orion Starfall, the strongest genius of the Nine Star Court, a man who had proven again and again that even when injured or cornered, his will to fight only grew more terrifying.

On his pillar, Orion stood up immediately, and his bright smile returned at once. That smile carried no fear, no hesitation, and no trace of gloom from his previous battles. If anything, he looked more alive than before.

"So it is finally my turn," Orion said with a laugh as he looked toward Max. "I have been waiting for this battle for a long time."

Max met his gaze from across the arena and smiled faintly. "I know," he said calmly. "You have been looking at me with battle intent for quite a while now."

Orion jumped down from his pillar as the beam of transfer light descended around him. "You are right," he replied, still smiling. "Because among everyone here, you are one of the few who truly make me feel excited."

Max stepped into his own beam of light and appeared on the central stage opposite him. "You should be excited," Max said. "I am not easy to fight."

Orion laughed loudly. "Good. If you were easy, I would be disappointed."

The crowd's excitement only rose further at that exchange. Max stood with Dragonheart still sheathed, his white hair drifting lightly in the wind generated by the arena's formations. Orion stood opposite him in dark-gold battle armor marked with stars, and even before the battle began, the air between them already felt heavy enough to crack.