Chapter 732: 732. She Shot Me Into Space! But Then I Came Back With a Meteorite

Rex didn’t stop. He was moving now, a blur of cocky, fluid motion.

He was using wind to propel himself, leaping from the edge of one descending monolith to another, laughing all the while.

WHOOSH! HA!

"Come on, Valentina! Show me that fifty-year insight!" Rex taunted, mid-air, as he launched a volley of lightning-infused earth shards.

CRACK ZAP!

"Or is the great Headmaster getting tired of chasing a man who won’t stay broken?"

Valentina’s hands moved like a weaver’s loom, her fingers a blur of motion. "FLUX REVERSAL! KINETIC DISSIPATION!"

She intercepted his shards, turning their momentum into harmless sparkles of light. But the sheer volume of his attacks was overwhelming.

Every time she neutralized one, Rex was already there, his body regenerating the micro tears in his muscles before the fatigue could even settle.

He landed a heavy, wind-enhanced kick against one of her floating shields.

BOOM!

The shield rippled, and Rex felt the impact, but the moment the vibration traveled up his leg, the [Supreme Healing] smoothed out the muscle fibers, neutralizing the shock.

"You’re fighting a god of attrition!" Rex roared, his voice booming with supreme confidence.

He gathered a massive amount of water and ice, swirling them into a colossal, spinning vortex around his arm. "FROST FIRE WHIRLPOOL!"

He swung the massive elemental limb at her.

SHHHHH WROOOOM!

Valentina countered with a concentrated beam of pure, white light, a [Solar Flare Projection] aimed directly at his core.

VREEEEEEEE!

The two forces met in a blinding, violent collision.

KRA BOOOOOOM!

The explosion was so intense that the very air seemed to turn to plasma. The shockwave sent Valentina skidding back through the air, her energy shields flickering dangerously.

She hovered there, her breathing heavy, her eyes wide as she watched Rex emerge from the smoke. He wasn’t just unhurt; he looked better.

His skin was glowing, his aura was surging, and that damn, smug grin was wider than ever.

"You see, Valentina?" Rex said, his voice echoing with a terrifying, effortless power.

He began to walk toward her, each step cracking the very foundation of the world. "Your magic is perfect... If I have to be honest, then it is true that it’s beautiful and a masterpiece of physics."

"But you’re trying to break a man who is constantly rebuilding himself faster than you can tear him down." He pointed a finger at her, and a spark of pure, unadulterated elemental chaos danced on the tip.

"Now," Rex whispered, his eyes locking onto hers with a predatory, cocky intensity. "Let’s see how many times you can try to kill me before you run out of magic."

The battlefield was no longer a place of earth and stone; it had become a swirling, chaotic nebula of clashing fundamental forces. The sheer density of the mana being thrown around was so high that the atmosphere itself was beginning to liquefy, creating a shimmering, viscous haze of elemental residue.

Rex was a whirlwind of arrogant destruction. He was dancing through her spells like a man walking through a summer rain.

WHOOSH! ZAP! CRACK!

He would dive through a wall of fire, his skin turning red and blistering, only for the [Infinite Regeneration] to flash a golden light, leaving his skin smooth and unblemished before he even hit the ground.

"Is that all the ’Architect’ has?" Rex taunted, spinning a massive flail of lightning and compressed water above his head.

WHIRRRRRR BOOM!

He swung the flail, the centrifugal force tearing the very air apart. "You’re throwing everything at me, and all you’re doing is making me feel alive!"

Valentina watched him, her eyes narrowing into slits of pure, analytical genius. Her mind was a supercomputer, calculating the rate of his regeneration against her current mana expenditure.

’He is a closed loop,’ she realized, her heart hammering against her ribs. ’Every ounce of damage I deal is simply fuel for his next surge.’

’To fight him here is to fight a rising tide...’

’If I cannot break the vessel, I must move the sea.’

She realized the terrifying truth: Rex wasn’t just a mage; he was a biological anomaly of infinite endurance. As long as he was on this planet, as long as he was connected to the elemental ley lines of Aethelgard, he would never fall.

’If he cannot be broken... he must be exiled.’

"Tremor!" Valentina screamed, her voice cutting through the roar of the elemental storm. "You think you’ve won because you can’t die?!"

"You’ve forgotten the scale of the world!"

She planted her feet, her energy flaring into a blinding, ultraviolet aura that pushed the very clouds away. She wasn’t targeting his body anymore; she was targeting the space beneath him.

"AETHERIC GRAND DESIGN: THE CELESTIAL EJECTION!"

She began a series of hand signs so rapid they became a blur of motion.

SHHHHH TING!

She wove a massive, invisible lattice of spatial force, wrapping it around Rex like a cosmic cocoon.

"What’s this?" Rex laughed, sensing the shift. "A hug? Is the headmaster getting sentimental?"

VREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

The sound was deafening. A pillar of pure, white spatial energy erupted from the ground, catching Rex in its grip.

It wasn’t a blast; it was a launch. The force was so immense that the ground beneath the impact point turned to glass instantly.

KRA THOOOOOOOOM!

Rex’s eyes widened as he was caught in the upward vacuum. "Wait hey!"

"What the fuck are you doing—!"

SHHHHH BOOOOOOOOOOM!

With a final, titanic surge of energy, Valentina released the tension. Rex was shot upward like a railgun projectile, a streak of golden light tearing through the atmosphere, piercing the clouds, and vanishing into the black velvet of the void.

Silence fell over Aethelgard. For a moment, the world seemed to hold its breath.

Valentina collapsed to one knee, her mana reserves screaming in protest, her breath coming in ragged, desperate gasps. She had done it, and she had sent the monster to the stars.

But the victory was short-lived.

As she looked up, the stars themselves seemed to tremble. A massive, dark shape began to emerge from the lunar shadow.

It wasn’t a star. It was a colossal, jagged meteorite, the size of a small continent, glowing with a hellish, friction-induced heat.

It was hurtling toward Aethelgard with the inevitability of a god’s hammer.

RUMBLEEEEEEEEE...

The sound was a low, terrifying vibration that shook the very souls of everyone on the planet.

"No..." Valentina whispered, her eyes widening in horror. "The impact... it will shatter the continent..."

But then, a speck of light appeared in the center of the approaching doom.

FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A golden streak, moving faster than the eye could track, slammed into the side of the meteorite. It wasn’t a collision; it was a takeover.

"DID YOU REALLY THINK THE MOON COULD HOLD ME?!"

Rex’s voice boomed from the heavens, amplified by his own gravitational field. He wasn’t just flying; he was tearing through the vacuum using [Full Potential Telekinesis].

He had grabbed the very fabric of space to propel himself back, and he had done something even more insane. He had gripped the meteorite.

His arms were outstretched, his muscles bulging to impossible proportions, his entire body wreathed in a terrifying, golden-black aura of pure telekinetic pressure. "GRRRRRRRRRR HNNNNNNGGGGHHH!"

He was riding the catastrophe. He was using his telekinesis to steer the massive rock, turning its terminal velocity into a controlled descent.

KRA SHAAAAAA!

As the meteorite entered the atmosphere, Rex began to dismantle it. Using his telekinetic grip, he started to crush the rock from the inside out, forcing the kinetic energy to dissipate into the surrounding air rather than the ground.

He was a god of gravity, wrestling a mountain of stone in the sky.

"HERE COMES THE REBOUND, VALENTINA!" Rex roared, his face a mask of pure, ecstatic power.

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The meteorite hit the atmosphere not as a world-ending impact but as a controlled explosion of dust and debris. Rex descended through the heart of the fire, his hands still clenched around the largest chunk of the core, his eyes glowing with a smug, triumphant light.

THUD CRUNCH!

He landed in the center of the wasteland, the massive chunk of meteorite settling behind him with a heavy, earth-shaking thud. He stood there, amidst the settling dust, his chest heaving, his hair wind-swept, and that same, infuriating, cocky grin plastered on his face.

He looked up at the exhausted, trembling Valentina and winked.

"Miss me?"

Rex didn’t give her a second to breathe. The moment the dust from the meteorite’s impact settled, he vanished from her sight.

VREEEE!

The air behind Valentina screamed. She spun, thrusting her palms outward, but Rex was already there.

He didn’t punch; he ripped into her with a [Gravitational Vortex Punch], his fist a swirling vortex of concentrated force that bypassed her physical armor.

KRA THOOM!

The blow caught her in the ribs, sending her soaring backward like a ragdoll.

Before she could recover, Rex was above her, descending like a comet. He merged his elemental mastery into a single, devastating strike.

"Searing Hailstorm!"

SHIIIIIIIIING!

A thousand needles of condensed, freezing plasma rained down on her. Valentina crossed her arms, conjuring a [Prismatic Aegis], but Rex’s momentum was too high.

He slammed into the shield, his knee driving straight into her gut.

"OOF!"

The shield shattered with a sound like a million mirrors breaking.

CRASH!

He didn’t stop. While Valentina was still reeling from the impact, Rex grabbed her by the throat, his telekinesis slamming her violently into the ground.

BAM!

He followed up with a brutal series of strikes: an elbow to the jaw, a devastating knee to the solar plexus, and a telekinetic blast that sent her spinning through the air.

KRAK! CRUNCH! BOOM!