As expected.
It was exactly as he had predicted.
After the resistance failed,
Arceus's strongest attack
struck Shiko with perfect precision.
In that instant,
it was as if the entire universe was trembling.
Boiling energy kept exploding and roaring.
Those cosmic energies, which had been forcibly blended together,
reacted violently
the moment they touched Shiko.
The sound of explosions rang out one after another,
like the most terrifying thunder,
tearing at everyone's eardrums.
Pitch-black lightning tore open one cosmic rift after another in a savage manner.
Under the intense collision of those cosmic energies,
dark arcs flickered and vanished one after another.
Ripples continued spreading outward,
reaching all the way into the farthest distance,
almost to the very edge of this universe.
Countless stars were annihilated at this moment.
No one knew how many lifeforms
were reduced to ashes before they could even realize what had happened.
Even Arceus himself
felt somewhat shocked when he saw the might of such an attack.
It was far more powerful than he had imagined.
Arceus asked himself.
If the one who had taken this attack was not Shiko, but himself,
then
with his current strength, there was absolutely no way he could survive an attack like this.
Yes!
This attack was far too powerful.
Its strength had twisted far beyond his imagination.
Since he himself could not possibly survive such an attack,
then Shiko would be the same!
Arceus thought with incomparable confidence.
The next second,
his gaze once again turned toward the center of the storm.
The powerful fluctuations were still spreading.
That world-destroying might still made his heart tremble.
There was absolutely no problem now!
Arceus let out a sigh of relief.
This fierce battle…
in the end,
it was still his victory!
The enormous amount of energy kept colliding madly and roaring.
Even after another collision and explosion, it still did not stop.
The process continued repeating again and again.
The central area where Shiko was located
was like a furnace constantly erupting in one explosion after another.
Pitch-black flames kept spreading and appearing.
The violent energy reaction continued without end.
The space where Shiko stood
had already been completely shattered.
Only a gigantic black hole remained there.
As for Shiko himself,
he had already been wrapped and covered by the powerful cosmic energy of that attack.
His figure could no longer be seen at all.
Hm.
Perhaps under such an attack,
he had already died?
This thought appeared in Arceus's mind.
Immediately after,
he used all his strength to support his already depleted body
and seriously sensed Shiko's aura once more.
No good.
He could not sense it at all.
The energy here was too complex, too powerful, too vast, and too violent.
The aura of this energy
had completely covered Shiko's aura.
Even an existence like Arceus
could not capture or locate it at all.
However, there was still another possibility.
Perhaps it was not that he could not find him.
Rather…
this guy was already dead.
His aura had already completely disappeared.
Yes!
It had to be like that!
Thinking of this,
Arceus confirmed it without the slightest doubt.
After all,
this was the result he wanted to see most.
The fierce storm at the center was still continuing.
However, as time passed,
it was constantly weakening.
The rumbling and explosions no longer occurred one after another without end.
Little by little, it calmed down.
Within the pitch-black, deep spatial black hole,
the black light of energy slowly dimmed.
Everything also began to become clearer little by little.
And just as the energy fluctuations began to stabilize,
Arceus's expression
suddenly changed again.
Because!
The aura of Shiko, which he had been unable to sense before…
this time,
he actually captured it again!
An illusion?
This thought immediately appeared in Arceus's mind.
However,
he quickly denied it.
Because he carefully sensed it once more!
That energy aura was still there!
And!
It was becoming clearer and clearer little by little!
This was not what terrified Arceus the most.
What frightened him the most
was that after experiencing such a massive energy attack,
he could not sense the slightest trace of nearing death
from Shiko's aura.
On the contrary,
his aura was extremely stable and dense.
This meant
his life signs were extremely stable at this moment.
How was this possible?
Arceus could not understand it.
This was the strongest attack
he had unleashed with all his power after entering a completely new state.
Even if he himself had taken it,
it would not have been pleasant.
Even if he did not die with absolute certainty,
he would at least be severely injured and on the verge of death.
But now?
Shiko's aura was so stable!
In other words,
his attack had not harmed him at all!
How was this possible?
Arceus found it unbelievable and impossible to understand.
Ever since he had broken through to a new realm,
he had felt
that the gap between himself and Omegamon
was no longer like a chasm.
He felt that he already possessed the strength to exchange blows with him.
But if Shiko could truly survive his strongest attack completely unharmed,
then
his idea was utterly laughable.
What he had believed to be evenly matched strength
was nothing but a one-sided joke!
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
Arceus could not accept such a result at all.
And yet,
whether his heart could accept it or not,
fact was fact.
It would not change because of his personal will.
The energy fluctuations at the center
finally calmed down completely in the end.
At the same time,
within the center of that pitch-black black hole that swallowed everything,
where even light itself would be devoured,
a white figure appeared.
A figure Arceus did not want to see no matter what.
Yes!
There was no mistake!
The one standing at the center
was naturally none other than Omegamon.
At this moment,
that white figure continued to enlarge within Arceus's pupils.
(End of Chapter)
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