A triangle.
It was indeed the most stable shape.
But that had one prerequisite.
The power of the three points that formed the triangle had to be balanced.
Right now, however, a problem had appeared.
Shuma-Gorath was extremely powerful, Mephisto was in the middle, and Kaluu was comparatively weak.
All at once, the three of them had no uniformity in power at all, and the difference in their wills was also obvious.
Naturally, that gave their attack a weakness.
Karl's eyes shone with light.
Mephisto's face filled with terror.
He kept urging his powerful strength to attack Karl, not wanting to give him this opportunity.
If Karl really found the weak point in their power…
Wouldn't they become lambs waiting to be slaughtered, without even the slightest ability to fight back?
"Don't even think about it!"
"Die!"
Mephisto's body changed once again.
He directly revealed his true demon body.
His entire body burned with evil green flames. Twin horns grew from his head, making him look like a giant beast walking out of a sea of fire.
As powerful energy surged around him, a green light emerged.
A black-and-red greatsword more than a hundred meters long appeared in his hand.
He brought it down directly at Karl's head.
Using a hundred-meter greatsword to slash at a human who was less than two meters tall looked like a joke.
In reality, however, Mephisto had locked onto Karl with his Mental Force.
There was no possibility of missing.
Under the effect of that powerful strength, even space itself was torn open, leaving behind a crack.
This was a true deep-layer rift.
It tore straight from the real world into the void.
Part of the matter in the universe was swallowed out of thin air.
That showed just how dangerous this attack was.
Even Karl could not help but take it slightly more seriously, raising his own power a little.
He raised his strength until it was on par with theirs, then directly slashed out.
The two attacks collided.
Ripples erupted once again.
Just like that, Karl and Mephisto exchanged blow after blow.
In a short while, they had clashed dozens of times.
The aftermath of their battle even destroyed more than a dozen star systems.
Whether stars or planets, everything before them was annihilated.
They were reduced to the most basic cosmic particles in this world.
Countless things were directly turned into useless ruins.
Mephisto, Shuma-Gorath, Kaluu, and the others were all existences approaching the single-universe level.
If they erupted with power for a short time, producing single-universe-level strength was not a problem.
What did "single-universe level" mean?
It meant that within a single universe, they were invincible.
The destruction they could cause was also unimaginably terrifying.
For present human civilization, it was practically a power capable of destroying an entire universe.
The so-called powerful nuclear weapons of humanity could, in truth, only scratch Earth's surface.
Even if every nuclear weapon and every weapon humanity possessed exploded at once, they would not pose any real threat to Earth.
However…
In the eyes of a single-universe-level powerhouse, destroying a planet was nothing more than breathing out.
The strength of a single-universe-level being could be imagined from that alone.
Even stars, among the largest celestial bodies in the universe and thousands or tens of thousands of times larger than ordinary planets, were unable to withstand a single blow.
If they were allowed to keep fighting like this…
Perhaps half the universe would be completely blasted apart by them.
No one knew how many star systems would simply disappear.
Fortunately…
Karl had already found the weak point in their power.
"This ends here."
"You simply can't properly control this kind of immense power."
Karl sneered.
The Rift-Cleaving Blade in his hand thrust forward in an utterly ordinary motion.
Mephisto only felt a burst of intense pain inside his body.
It was as if the power within him was about to explode directly.
"He destroyed the balance of our energy!"
"Temporarily withdraw your power!"
Mephisto shouted loudly.
"You useless trash!"
Shuma-Gorath also roared, but he could only withdraw his own power.
His enormous body suddenly vanished.
Mephisto did not hesitate at all.
In a flash, he fled straight back to Shuma-Gorath and the others.
Karl did not pursue him.
"Mephisto, you useless trash."
"With power this strong, you still failed. If it weren't for the fact that I can't serve as the core…"
"I would have acted personally long ago."
Shuma-Gorath spoke with great fury.
Shuma-Gorath had to maintain the balance of the three people's power. Radiant light flashed around him.
He simply could not act personally.
Otherwise, why would he have let Mephisto make the move?
But Mephisto felt indignant.
"I'm useless?"
"If you're so powerful, why did you still fail to support me after more than four hundred days?"
"You're no match for this sorcerer either. Where do you get the nerve to say that about me?"
Mephisto said angrily.
If they did not have a common enemy in front of them, they would already have started fighting.
This alone showed that the three of them could not be considered a real group at all.
With a great enemy before them, they actually fell into internal conflict.
However, they were still powerful beings in the end. They could not possibly be so stupid as to start fighting in front of Karl.
"I suspect this kid is still hiding his strength."
Mephisto gritted his teeth and spoke.
How powerful were the three of them?
Their combined strength had completely reached the single-universe level.
Karl was able to block it now.
Didn't that prove this kid already possessed single-universe-level strength?
If that was true…
Then the situation was extremely bad.
Shuma-Gorath thought it over carefully and also noticed something slightly wrong.
Ever since Karl had begun fighting them, this guy's emotions had never fluctuated at all.
That was not normal.
The two of them…
No matter what, they were great demons who had dominated this world.
Just hearing their names should have made him nervous, at least a little.
But Karl seemed to have no such emotion at all.
He simply attacked the moment he arrived.
It was as if he had never once doubted that he might lose.
Clearly…
He had absolute confidence in his own strength.
But where did that confidence come from?
Shuma-Gorath, Mephisto, and Kaluu were not fools either.
They had begun to sense that something was wrong.
"Ahem. I also think something is off."
"Let's test this kid first."
"If he really has single-universe-level strength…"
Shuma-Gorath did not finish.
If this kid in front of them really possessed single-universe-level strength…
Then they absolutely could not defeat him.
At that point…
It would be time to run.
And the faster they ran, the better.
Shuma-Gorath felt that he did not necessarily need to be the fastest.
He only needed to run faster than his two teammates.
That would be enough.
"How do you plan to test him?"
Mephisto's eyes turned as he spoke.
"Of course, by clashing with him through laws!"
"Conventional strength will make it very hard to test his true power."
"We'll clash with him through the power of laws!"
(End of Chapter)
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