MIGHT AS WELL BE OP Chapter 921: Law Defiance Field

"Aura Nova," she intoned the instant her mana collection was complete.

An incomprehensible and overwhelming surge of energy rose from her form, swelling outward and saturating the air like a balloon inflated far beyond its breaking point. This mana didn't merely gather; it warped the fabric of existence, filling the separate plane until even the notion of empty space was extinguished.

Then, it burst forth in a sudden, apocalyptic frenzy of ruin. The resulting explosion surged with a merciless power, striking Kingsley at point-blank range. In that heartbeat, the entire separate plane was swallowed by a blinding white and gold radiance, as if no other color or entity dared to exist alongside it.

The blast raged with unbridled violence, shredding space, pulverizing the terrain, and turning everything in its path into mere dust and raw energy. This was an attack designed for erasure, not just simple destruction.

As the swirling haze of light, smoke, and debris finally began to dissipate, Kingsley was nowhere to be found. Though it seemed impossible, he had evaded the strike entirely. He was currently hovering high in the heavens, his body composed and unharmed as he looked down at the devastation Aura Nova had wrought. His eyes held nothing but a sense of detached contemplation.

Kingsley had escaped such a catastrophic blow using a different ability, one that completely defied the standard laws of movement. It was known as Zero-step Displacement. This technique permitted him to travel from one location to another without actually moving. It represented teleportation in its most absolute and illogical form. Reality itself simply accepted that Kingsley had always occupied his new position and had never been at the previous one. There was no journey, no motion, and no middle ground—only the total acceptance of the laws of existence.

Before the silence could settle, the voice of Aura Nova rang out once more.

"Gravity Collapse," she declared.

Once again, a massive quantity of mana erupted from her, far more concentrated and focused than before. In the following instant, the space encircling Kingsley shattered with violence, like glass cracking under pressure. From that fracture, the void emerged, spiraling into a colossal vortex. A literal black hole materialized around Kingsley, its gravitational pull so insane that it dragged everything toward its core. Space curved inward, light warped, and matter wailed as it was shredded and consumed.

The suction was absolute. Even abstract concepts seemed to be pulled toward total annihilation.

Nevertheless, Kingsley remained completely unruffled. His facial expression didn't shift. He merely lifted a fist and threw a punch with casual confidence.

"Impact Reversal," he commanded.

In the next breath, the black hole came to a total standstill, as if time had been forced to a halt. Then, impossibly, it began to stretch backward from the inside out, its shape elongating like rubber pulled past its limit. The vortex shook violently, its very structure failing under an invisible force. Moments later, it exploded in a reality-wiping burst of destruction, erasing the black hole and the very space it had occupied.

Aura Nova narrowed her eyes as she glared at Kingsley, who had just demolished a black hole with a single strike. Such a feat shouldn't have been so effortless. Yet, she did not waver. Her mana began to boil again, surging fiercely as she readied her next move.

"Omni—"

Before her words could finish, and before the technique could even trigger, Kingsley was already there.

His speed was absurd in every sense, so far beyond logic that Aura Nova’s Omniedit could neither track nor understand how he had moved so fast. One moment he was high above, and the next he stood directly in front of her, his presence suffocating.

Kingsley’s lips moved as he spoke in a calm tone.

"Law Defiance Field," he whispered.

The moment he uttered those words, Aura Nova felt her link to mana vanish instantly, as if it had never existed. Her eyes widened with genuine alarm as she tried to grasp what had happened. Kingsley had completely severed her connection to mana. For her, this was a disaster. Her Omniedit was entirely dependent on mana; without it, her greatest power was effectively gone.

The Law Defiance Field allowed Kingsley to make all forms of energy inert. Mana, Intent, blood energy, and faith energy—none of it functioned within this zone. Every external source of power was reduced to nothing but useless potential. However, the technique had a glaring flaw. Kingsley could only activate it once per day, and it lasted for a mere two minutes. Additionally, the field was stationary and could not be moved. Regardless, two minutes were plenty of time for him to conclude the fight.

Kingsley’s hand lunged forward, moving to execute Aura Nova right then and there. Inside the Law Defiance Field, only raw physical combat was possible, and in that area, Aura Nova was far inferior. As Kingsley’s hand reached for her neck, space suddenly warped violently, and Aura Nova vanished from her spot.

Kingsley’s hand cut through thin air and fractured the space itself, causing it to crumble and break. The ground beneath them split, trees collapsed and shattered, and shockwaves rolled outward. Kingsley’s eyes sharpened. For the first time, he was the one who was shocked. He couldn't comprehend how Aura Nova had managed to move when her mana connection was severed.

Aura Nova’s figure flickered back into existence high in the sky. As she reappeared, she felt her mana connection snap back into place, flowing through her once more as if it had never been interrupted.

She looked down at Kingsley, a confident smirk touching her lips. Yes, the effects of his Law Defiance Field had surprised her, but that didn't mean she lacked a way out. For most of her life on the Dusk Planet, people had tried to kill her. They had used countless tactics to cut off her mana in hopes of making her Omniedit useless.

Runes, formations, special abilities, and secret techniques—Kingsley was hardly the first to try such a move. Since she recognized this massive vulnerability in herself, it was only natural that she had crafted a countermeasure long ago.

Without bothering to explain her escape, Aura Nova snapped her fingers, her voice ringing with authority.

"Omniedit: Mirror Legion," she commanded.

A massive flood of mana erupted from Aura Nova’s core like a dam bursting. Reality itself twisted and obeyed her will. In the following moment, numerous silhouettes began to take shape, their forms shimmering before becoming fully solid. Hundreds of figures appeared, each one a perfect duplicate of Kingsley, possessing his exact presence and mode.

They encircled him from every angle, staring down at him in a haunting silence. Then, without a moment's delay, they all vanished at once, using Kingsley’s own movement technique.

However, Kingsley did not feel panic. In his view, a copy could never outmatch the original.

"Universal Eradication," he said.

This technique was not part of his original Universal repertoire. He had manifested it in this very moment simply because he could. His right leg rose steadily before slamming into the ground to trigger the ability. In the next instant, every single clone froze in mid-air, as if time had stopped specifically for them. Then, one by one, they began to crumble, disappearing like dust in the wind, completely erased from existence.

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[Author's Note: End of Chapter]