Beyond the Bloodline-Chapter 270: Blatant Threat
Vaelon attempted to grab her with his massive hands, but Miranda kicked off his face and shot downward, landing on his chest. Using it as a boost, she launched herself upwards, delivering a brutal uppercut.
The impact sent the Giant’s body tearing through dimensions, blasting through entire planets before finally colliding with a star, causing its instant collapse.
Miranda cupped her palms, and the energy from the Nova-level explosion enveloping Vaelon’s body was compressed around him.
She poured in more energy, intensifying the eruption from a Nova-level explosion that Vaelon could have tanked without a scratch, to a blinding burst of cosmic energy that caught the attention of every Higher Existence in the dimension.
Forming her palm into a knifehand, Miranda controlled the law of swords and swung it down, delivering a slash that tore through space itself, leaving a long gash across Vaelon’s body, spilling blood.
The Giant’s durability allowed him to survive the attacks, but he had no time to regain his bearings before Miranda closed the distance and punched him upwards.
This time, unlike when she had punched him through dimensional planes before, the very fabric of reality seemed to warp, as if the laws of space and time were being overwritten.
Vaelon’s body was blasted out of the conventional plane of existence and into an abstract, higher dimensional space, where time and linearity ceased to exist.
In this dimension where time was no longer a constant, Miranda imposed her will on the incomprehensible plane, dragging Vaelon upward before smashing him back down.
Her fists sent him crashing through dimensional boundaries, back to the third, the Universe’s main dimensional plane.
Since distance worked differently when higher dimensions were involved, the area they exited was nowhere near where they had entered.
Miranda didn’t care. She continued to pummel Vaelon, each blow leaving shockwaves that obliterated nearby stars.
Her strikes shattered not only his body but the very space he occupied, sending Vaelon beyond the reach of any known galaxy.
The cosmic energy of the Universe itself bent and twisted as she forced him to the edge of everything.
And this was NOT just a figure of speech.
One of Miranda’s punches sent Vaelon tumbling through the outer reaches of the universe, an area where space and time had yet to properly form and galaxies were still being born.
The giant slammed into a massive cosmic energy barrier, causing it to ripple. Its stability faltered under the tremendous impact, and for a moment, the very fabric of existence trembled as his form was pressed against the unyielding boundary.
"Huh?"
It wasn’t until she saw the barrier that Miranda realized she had literally punched Vaelon to the edge of the Universe.
She looked down at her bloodied fists and then raised her gaze to Vaelon’s massive body, pinned against the barrier, unable to move or break free.
Suddenly, the space around her began to shimmer, and Miranda’s hair ignited as she summoned her Power for the first time.
Bright purple flames swirled around her, crackling with a destructive force that made universal laws recoil.
In his blurry, blood-soaked vision, Vaelon’s eyes widened at the sight of the flames, recognition flashing across his face as his mind struggled to make sense of what he was seeing
|Wait... those flames... you... you’re, Violet In—! |
Before he could finish, Miranda’s body vanished, the space between them erased in an instant.
|Don’t...|
Miranda appeared directly before his eyes, her fist wreathed in purple flames shooting forward.
|...call me that. |
Her fist collided with Vaelon’s forehead in a cataclysmic impact, causing the barrier of the Universe behind him to groan under the pressure.
Vaelon’s skull caved inward, the force rippling through space-time, bending the fabric of reality itself.
The burst of power vanished as quickly as it erupted, leaving behind Vaelon’s sagging body, pinned lifelessly against the universal barrier.
A deep cavity remained on his skull where it had imploded, with purple flames licking at the edges as his body flickered and distorted.
Miranda’s flames slowly stabilized, retracting into her body, and the glow of her hair dimmed. Around her, the universe began to stabilize, the recoiling laws slowly knitting themselves back together.
Suddenly, Miranda felt a chill and her gaze shot upwards. Her eyes widened as a crack appeared before her.
Where Vaelon’s head had collided with the Universe’s cosmic energy barrier after she punched him, a jagged fissure split through its surface, allowing a surge of unfiltered cosmic energy to leak into the Universe from the void beyond.
With a sigh, Miranda scratched her head before raising her palm to the crack.
She pressed her hand down on the opening, and the cosmic energy from outside the universe bent to her will. Using it, she repaired the barrier, mending the breach she had created by killing Vaelon.
As the barrier sealed, Miranda’s attention shifted to Vaelon’s corpse, and she dragged his soul out of it with Death Law energy.
Naturally, Vaelon’s soul was still conscious—killing a Quasi-Supreme wasn’t so simple, after all.
But even though they were both Quasi-Supreme, there was a vast difference between the Inferior and Superior Stages.
Vaelon couldn’t even object or speak as Miranda poured cosmic energy violently into his soul, tearing apart its protective barriers and grabbing its core directly.
With her Knowledge Law Authorities, she sifted through his soul effortlessly, finding out everything she needed to know about his presence in this sector of the Universe.
What she saw, however, made Miranda’s expression distort into a deep frown.
Finally, her lips parted, and she spoke a single word.
|Zanerth. |
The name of the Universe.
The name of the Consciousness that had been watching her ever since she began beating Vaelon up.
|What is the meaning of this bullshit? |
The silence that followed was oppressive. No answer came from ’Zanerth’, the Consciousness of the Universe. Not a whisper. Not even a ripple of acknowledgement.
For a moment, the stillness stretched, and then Miranda’s anger manifested.
Her right arm erupted in flames.
No, it didn’t just erupt. It became fire.
Her arm transformed into an Aspect of the Concept of Fire itself.
The transformed arm expanded, disproportionally large compared to her body. Her flames burned through the ambient universal laws, and the fabric of reality screamed as it warped, torn apart by the power in her fist.
Without moving, Miranda swung her arm toward the Universe’s barrier. The distance didn’t matter as her fist collided with it in an apocalyptic explosion.
Space-time rippled outward in waves, like a stone breaking the surface of a still pond.
The universe groaned under the impact, and the protective barrier that shielded those within from the void beyond buckled, splintered, and then catastrophically shattered.
A hole, over a light year in diameter, yawned open in the universe’s edge.
From beyond, raw cosmic energy poured in, its pressure bending space-time and disrupting the stability of the universal laws. The gravity of the nearby galaxies intensified rapidly, while the unstable space-time stretched unnaturally.
The Main Dimensional plane of the Universe cracked, and nearby dimensions connected to it also cracked, their boundaries unable to contain the overwhelming surge of energy.
The still-forming galaxies nearby overloaded with energy, destabilizing and collapsing instantly—snuffing out what would have been quintillions of new lives.
Sub-Cosmic Beings who had been rushing to the scene after sensing Miranda punching Vaelon through dimensions froze as they felt the sudden surge of energy, pouring into the universe with enough pressure to snuff out the lives of even Higher Deities.
|-- --- --- ----- --- --!!!|
They all winced as a scream reverberated in their heads.
It wasn’t a sound in the traditional sense, but an imperceptible, soul-rattling vibration that only beings of Cosmic Superiority could perceive.
It carried pain, anger, and desperation—the voice of ’Zanerth’, the universe’s consciousness itself, reacting to the wound Miranda had inflicted.
For these Cosmic Superiors, the sudden scream only confirmed the implications of the surge of cosmic energy they had sensed.
The universal barrier had been destroyed.
The flames licking the edges of the massive crack in the universal barrier continued to burn even as more cosmic energy poured through, feeding on that energy to burn even fiercer. They spilt over, torching Vaelon’s body and disintegrating it to dust. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Ignoring all of this, Miranda spoke coldly.
|Behave yourself, Zanerth. Or we’ll see a repeat of the Mercury Galaxy’s disaster—except this time, it won’t be a galaxy’s consciousness getting killed. |
Without waiting for a response, Miranda turned, her arm transforming back to normal as she vanished, leaving behind the shattered remnants of the universal barrier and the chaotic storm of cosmic energy spilling through.
