After Karl finished off the Aspirants, he prepared to return to Earth.
Then he suddenly remembered something.
Scarlet Witch, who had been fighting alongside him, was probably still locked in a bitter battle.
Leaving just like that didn't seem right.
The problem was that Karl had no idea what kind of space Wanda had dragged those Aspirants into.
Earlier, he hadn't been able to find it at all.
"She's using extremely powerful Chaos Magic."
"Could she have used Chaos Magic to create some kind of hidden space?"
Karl rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
Chaos Magic truly deserved to be called one of the most powerful forces in this world.
Karl's current strength already placed him among the strongest beings in existence.
Yet even he had been unable to detect Scarlet Witch's method.
That alone showed just how extraordinary Chaos Magic was.
It didn't even seem like a power that belonged at this level.
Karl sometimes felt that it was a higher-dimensional force, something that transcended the ordinary framework of this world.
Fortunately...
He possessed this power as well.
Karl extended a hand.
Scarlet energy appeared.
His eyes immediately turned crimson.
At that moment...
He finally noticed something unusual.
Within the void before him, a concealed space appeared.
It existed between the deepest layers of the world's laws, somewhere ordinary spatial methods could never reach.
Or rather...
It wasn't simply a separate space.
It was more like an extension of certain laws, existing independently outside the normal structure of the world.
Karl could clearly see countless flashes of light within it.
Scarlet Witch was obviously engaged in an extremely fierce battle.
The energy spilling out from the conflict was twisting the surrounding laws, even beginning to permanently affect the nearby world.
Karl could already imagine Earth's scientists having a very unpleasant time in the near future.
Various physical constants in the surrounding region might start fluctuating periodically.
Karl shook his head and immediately activated his own powerful Chaos Magic, walking toward the hidden space.
With a flash, he crossed directly into it.
The instant he entered...
He saw Scarlet Witch fighting like a war goddess.
Crimson light covered both of her hands.
The Aspirants around her were being tossed around like toys, constantly battered and twisted by her power.
The sight reminded Karl of how spectacular she had looked when she had once ripped a rocket apart.
However...
Karl could also tell that Wanda was under tremendous pressure.
It looked as though she had the Aspirants completely on the defensive.
Yet up until now...
Not a single Aspirant had died!
Thanks to the powerful connection between them, even though Scarlet Witch held the advantage, she still couldn't decisively end the battle.
Karl actually felt a little embarrassed.
Wanda had been fighting this fiercely on her own, while he hadn't come over to help her at all.
That wasn't exactly considerate of him.
"Wanda, take a break. Leave this to me."
The moment Karl appeared, he materialized directly beside her.
Wanda was startled.
"Karl? How did you get in here?"
"You're already finished on your side?"
Scarlet Witch stared at him in disbelief.
There were only around twenty Aspirants on her side, and dealing with them had already pushed her to her limit.
She had been forced to use practically all of her power just to keep them under control.
In fact, she was already holding herself together through sheer force of will.
She had even been preparing to pay a price and force out an even stronger attack.
She hadn't expected Karl to suddenly show up.
"Don't worry. I'm already done."
"I killed all of them."
"I'll help you. Just leave these guys to me."
"Get some rest."
Karl spoke casually.
"All right, then. I'll leave them to you."
Scarlet Witch hesitated slightly.
But then she remembered that Karl had already killed more than a hundred Aspirants.
These twenty should be nothing to him.
Of course, she still didn't know that Karl had actually wiped out more than a thousand Aspirants.
If she knew that, there was no way she would remain this calm.
Even without knowing the full truth, Scarlet Witch was still deeply impressed.
Karl's strength was simply astonishing.
Who on Earth possessed power like this?
Karl truly stood at the pinnacle of the world.
Scarlet Witch stared at him, her eyes gleaming with curiosity.
She wanted to see exactly what method Karl would use against these Aspirants.
Would he use Chaos Magic as well?
She already knew that Karl could use Chaos Magic.
What she didn't know was just how advanced his mastery of it actually was.
Still...
It was obviously not weak.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to locate the hidden space she had created.
With Wanda watching him so closely, Karl naturally wanted to put on a decent demonstration.
"Wanda, take a look at my Chaos Magic too."
"Maybe you can give me a few pointers."
Karl smiled at her.
Scarlet Witch was essentially self-taught.
Even after becoming one of the strongest beings in this world, she had never received a truly systematic magical education.
Yet she was still extraordinarily powerful.
That alone showed just how incredible her talent for Chaos Magic was.
Karl believed that by comparing his own Chaos Magic with Wanda's, his understanding of the power would definitely improve.
He waved his hand.
Crimson power emerged.
The surrounding laws immediately changed.
Both Aspirants and Celestials were beings that required extremely high-level energy to sustain their existence.
Their bodies were immensely powerful, and beneath their armor, they were fundamentally composed of energy.
That was one of their greatest strengths.
It was also one of their greatest weaknesses.
Karl directly used Chaos Magic to rewrite reality itself.
Within the surrounding region...
All energy simply vanished.
Against sufficiently powerful beings, Karl wouldn't necessarily be able to impose such a change.
But the power of an individual Aspirant was nowhere near enough to resist him.
Naturally, they had no way to oppose a force acting directly at the level of reality's laws.
In an instant...
All surrounding energy disappeared.
The Aspirants had been moving around vigorously only a moment earlier.
But immediately afterward...
They were overwhelmed by agony.
It was like suddenly draining all the blood from a person's body.
Even a Celestial-level life-form couldn't withstand something like that.
In the next instant...
All twenty Aspirants died.
Their armor sagged and collapsed, as though whatever had once supported it had completely disappeared.
Scarlet Witch's eyes widened.
"You..."
She stared at Karl, completely at a loss for words.
They were both using Chaos Magic.
So why was the difference in power so enormous?
She had gone through tremendous effort just to fight these Aspirants.
Karl, meanwhile, had killed all of them as casually as if he had done nothing at all.
Wasn't this a little too ridiculous?
Scarlet Witch's mouth twitched.
"Don't be so surprised."
"It's not that my understanding of Chaos Magic is deeper than yours."
"I'm simply much stronger than you are right now."
"If you continue increasing your own power, then one day you'll be able to do the same thing."
Karl explained.
Scarlet Witch rolled her eyes.
For some reason...
She wasn't entirely convinced.
(End of Chapter)
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