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Chapter 592 - Gwyn siblings
🕑 Added 2025-04-07 08:53:28 +0000 UTCHalf of the group splits and starts heading directly at us. Around five stay behind to use ranged attacks while the remaining ones move around to flank us from behind.
Just before the front attackers come close, gray mana bursts on the roof where the ranged attackers stayed. It seems that the twins used the [Disintegration] orb stored in the box, they follow with attacks of their own. Min-Jae joins them too in cutting off the sniping.
Led by Derick and Klara, the frontal attackers get close. While Group 4 continues exchanging messages, Blackie, now in a spider golem body made of glass, concrete, and metal, jumps off the roof and crashes into an unfortunate woman. As they fall, his eight legs tear her apart.
Pieces of him explode and a few legs break, but the golem spider rolls upon falling onto the ground, crashing into another building which it breaks, collecting more material and repairing itself. Then the huge monstrosity pierces its legs through the glass and into the skyscraper to start climbing up at an impressive speed.
Maya surrounds herself with mana and huge armor grows around her. Its color darkens as she uses her [Boost] and a shield grows on one of the huge arms she uses to block attacks. Even a few arrows made of primordial lightning, Noelle shoots.
Lily, with [Disintegration Mantle] floating around her, jumps off the roof to another one, and her huge bone axe smashes against the woman who tries to block it with her shield. Gray mana swirls around the blade of the axe and it pierces through easily, and then through the woman.
A barrage of attacks shoot at her, but her mantle swirls around, disintegrating them all. Lily disappears with a movement reminiscent of Wraith Dance, and Klara dodges an attack from her. There are tears on Lily's body from the impact, but they visibly heal. And she isn't even using healing; that is just her regeneration.
Lily disappears again and swings her axe, while Klara ducks under and, with impressive speed, stabs her short spear through Lily with that red, liquid, smoke-like substance blazing around. Lily increases her speed and ignores the wound, continuing to attack.
Some vines pierce through the roof, trying to slow her down, but she tears them apart with the strength of her body. Flames surround her, burning her, but her body nearly immediately restores.
I notice Derick cursing as he changes his direction and heads to help Klara, but as he is jumping from a roof, Noodle explodes from underneath—now as thick as a car would be an impressively long. Noodle bites at Derick, who twists in the air and avoids the bite, only to continue running across the scaly body. Green, purple, and blue flames, fragments of eternal fire, surround Noodle, and Derick's shins glow in that disruptive magic, only for the flames to ignore it entirely and burn the man.
More Beyonders join in attacking Noodle, and even Derick's wife Noelle forms a huge arrow of primordial lightning to shoot at him. But at the last moment, she moves from where she is, and an explosion of flames the same color as Noodle's melts a huge part of the building where she had been standing, causing it to begin tilting and falling.
Izzy stands there with flames blazing around her. She holds a bow made of the same flames, as well as arrows floating around her. She grabs them from the air before firing them at the woman.
A constant barrage of attacks hits our building, but Sophie and Maya redirect the most dangerous ones, destroying them before they can land. Sophie even finds time to get into the mind of another Beyonder whose projectile made of light pierces the roof where Lily, Derick, and Klara are fighting. Sophie redirects the attack there without any hesitation, and after the explosion Derick and Klara step out with their skin burned and facing the direction from which the greatest force of the attack came.
Lily steps out with her body wounded and burned, but it regenerates incredibly quickly. Her hair shortens and she disappears again, smashing her axe where her two opponents stood, and the entirety of the building's windows explode from the resulting shockwave.
Noodle coils around it, the flames surrounding him turning the falling glass into liquid. At times, he consumes the mana-based attacks that hit him while continuing to fight off those who come at him.
I hear a message exchanged between Min-Jae and Lily, and she nods. Her body cracks further as she slams into Klara. Even at the cost of having her neck pierced by the gladius, the redheaded woman holds. Lily grabs her, and blood bursts from her mouth as Derick dodges her mantle and hits her side, likely turning her insides into liquid.
Lily moves her arm in a way that shouldn't be possible. It twists, elongates, and gains more joints as it grabs Derick and holds him still. Her mantle flickers around, forcing both to do their best to avoid it.
Some attacks come out of nowhere, likely from a free Beyonder, and slash through the air, cutting off Lily's head. A third arm grows from her back, grabs the head, and shoves it back onto her neck, allowing it to quickly reattach.
Then the air starts shaking and everyone looks up. An entire building is floating there, with pieces of debris raining down. That building then implodes, compresses into itself, forming a dense ball that starts falling down right at where Lily and the two others are.
Their attempts to free themselves escalate, as do Lily's attempts to kill them. But neither side is able to do so quickly enough.
Klara's red liquid smoke surrounds all of them and Derick shouts in pain as the redheaded woman goes all out in the attempt. But Lily holds on and the huge ball crashes against them.
It doesn’t stop at the roof. The impact rips through it, obliterating the top floors in seconds. Concrete, steel, and glass are torn apart as it drives downward. Floor after floor gives way, collapsing under the pressure. The sound is deafening, a deep, grinding roar that rolls across the city.
The compressed sphere punches through the base of the building and crashes into the street below, carving a straight path through everything in its way. The road cracks and caves in. Cars flip. Pavement peels back. Water and steam burst from broken pipes, filling the air with hiss and heat. The shockwave spreads out from the point of impact, shaking the nearby buildings.
Multiple Beyonders on the roofs look down, only to lift their heads and see Lily standing up there with her axe and a gray mantle surrounding her. They curse immediately and begin to reposition, but the twins step out from behind the chimney and strike. Both attack the same man at once, moving fast, stabbing him multiple times before cutting off his head. Without pausing, they shift their focus to the next target.
When attacks reach them, they disappear, exchanging places with another of their illusions, and the illusion of Lily they created disappears. Izzy's flames hit the buildings and Maya herself jumps through as they don’t cause her damage.
Maya lands with a crash, her armor snapping into place as dark blue mana armor forms around her body. Her weapon shifts in her hand, cycling from glaive to dagger to heavy blade in moments. Flames from Izzy swirl around her caught and redirected by her movement.
A barrage of radiant spikes shoots toward her from the left. She raises her arm, and the armor thickens, absorbing the impact with a burst of heat. A chain of metal flies from above, trying to bind her limbs, but she slices through it mid-spin, her weapon stretching into a spear.
The spear is made of three colors of mana: dark blue, blue, and wisps of purple circling inside. It cuts easily through another barrier. It extends to three times its length and stabs a woman nearby.
It then shifts into a shield. A concentrated flame crashes against it, dark blue with a white core, roaring as it tears through the air but failing to pierce the tricolored shield.
Gravity shifts beneath her feet, mana pressing down to hold her in place. She surges forward instead, slamming her shield into the nearest attacker and crushing them into the wall. Another steps in, black mist coiling around their blade. Maya pivots deflects the strike and drives her shield, now turned into a sword, through his chest.
A whip of molten steel snaps at her neck. She ducks, parries, and counters in one motion. Her expression stays focused. Calm. The same one I’ve seen in the mirror. And the enemies trying to surround her start stepping back.
Then she dies, her head separating from her body, and Tacita stands over it. The same fragile-looking and thin figure with messy brown hair.
Izzy's flames burn around, but the air itself seems to flicker around Tacita because of her field, and no damage is caused to her. She moves again and one of the twins' illusions disappears, and Min-Jae sends a barrage of attacks at the spot where she stood, only for her to reappear next to him.
His own [Telekinesis] yoinks him high into the air and then even higher as he attempts to escape her reach, but Tacita's hand turns into a blur, and a dagger lodges itself into his chest. Right after, Tacita ducks under Dennis's attack, only for him to disappear as he exchanges places with his illusion.
The ground shakes and from between the buildings, a huge mana armor walks. It is much taller than Maya can make, but its owner does not seem to have trouble with it. Each step damages the road, and its movement carves damage into the buildings it passes by.
Baek then looks in our direction and toward Tacita. A sword made of metallic, shining blue mana grows in his hands and the speed of his armor increases as he swings it at the roof where Tacita is. Half of the buildings explode as they are cleanly cut apart and start collapsing.
A huge fireball hits him, shot from a distance by some random hell difficulty attendee, and a flash of light and heat expands into the area, but when it is gone the armor remains undamaged and he moves again.
Kang Jiwon, that 12-year-old girl with a concentration skill, crashes onto a different building against Tacita. As before, there is no mana around her, but she moves calmly with incredible speed, destroying the buildings she jumps from while barely avoiding Tacita's attacks, which seem to be toying with her.
Down on the ground, Min-Jae's projectile that killed two kings finally cracks, and Lily climbs out. She is missing one of her arms and her entire body is mangled and damaged. The third arm she formed from her back disappears in sacrifice and she regenerates nearly immediately. Lily retrieves the axe from the debris and jumps up onto the roofs.
Tacita locates her and kicks Kang Jiwon away before shamelessly jumping onto Baek's huge armor, running across the surface, and charging at Lily, who throws her axe with incredible force. Tacita dodges and the axe lodges itself into Baek's armor and makes the huge armor stumble and crash against the building.
Then a single bone dagger forms in Lily´s hand, and she charges Tacita.
It’s complete chaos, with people fighting all over the place while I just sit there and do my thing. But I keep at it without a hint of shame. I can guess what Vic probably told them, even if they’re too embarrassed to say it to me. It works out well for them too, since I’m sure Victoria is watching from somewhere.
Group 4 goes all in, every single one of them, only falling to a monster like Tacita.
At some point, constant explosions shake the arena in the distance, and that familiar orange light spreads across a smaller part of the city. It looks like Savant and Jean are clashing too, judging by the number of buildings turned to dust, the falling skyscrapers, and the surge of intense mana radiation.
Tacita disappears and heads in that direction, with Lily and the twins following close behind. Only Izzy, Sophie, and Noodle stay back, handling the people drawn in by the heat I’m generating.
By now, it’s hot enough to melt through Sophie’s web. The top of the skyscraper turns to lava, spilling down from the room. I use kinetic energy to stay afloat, since there’s nothing left to stand on, and the heat around me continues to spread.
With each beat of my partially unsealed Ignition Heart, more of it spreads into the area. It feels like a ticking bomb, a countdown leading toward something and the barrier around the arena is already shrunk at half.
A constant combustion heals the burns inside my body, fueled by the heart, only so I can be burned again in a twisted loop. The first seal on the heart is temporarily but completely lifted, and I begin to open the second one.
Just a little.
Even that small part is on a completely different level than the first. The difference can't be compared. The amount of thermal energy now seeping out is like nothing before, collecting further into the huge amount I have already gathered.
The golden, blazing, massive halo-like circle above me expands even further. Constructs made of specially modified, heat-resistant Ley Lines are barely holding together as I keep reinforcing them and replacing the damaged sections. Only [Focus] allows my mind to endure the pain of flames combusting beneath my skin.
Sophie and the others have already moved away, and even the few powerful attacks thrown at me melt and vanish before they can reach me, consumed by the sheer heat.
More golden flames continue to flow into the spinning halo above. I fight to keep them there, spinning, burning, to stop them from expanding further and estimating how much I need.
I ease the second seal open just a little more, and for a moment, everything goes dark. Control nearly slips through my fingers, but I manage to hold it together, just barely.
Then everything is prepared.
(Done.) I send.
(Well, good luck), Sophie says and then, (I forfeit.)
(Good luck, Nat! I forfeit!) Izzy says as well.
(I will be watching! I forfeit!) Lily shouts in the middle of her fight and disappears after forfeiting.
The surviving Aaron and Noodle both also disappear.
Tacita reappears on the roof, looking at me with confusion. Savant is still locked in battle with Jean.
The city is being torn apart, piece by piece, as the attendees continue to fight. Entire buildings are sliced in half by wide arcs of mana, the upper sections crashing down and flattening the streets below. Others are vaporized outright, turned into clouds of dust and fire as piercing beams punch through them and keep going, carving deep scars through the skyline.
Massive impacts shatter rooftops as fighters slam into each other in mid-air, sending shockwaves that break windows in buildings several blocks away. One skyscraper detonates from within, its core ruptured by a delayed explosion, sending burning debris into surrounding structures and igniting them instantly.
Chunks of pavement are ripped from the ground as shockwaves slam into the streets, tossing cars like toys. A swirling mass of elemental energy collides with a defensive barrier and obliterates an entire intersection, cratering the area and snapping support beams of nearby towers.
High above, unstable magic detonates in waves, turning rooftops into craters. Flames race along the sides of buildings and burst from broken windows.
The arena is collapsing under the pressure. Too much force, too many skills, too many people fighting without restraint. In a short amount of time, the level of destruction is unreal. Everyone is still far from a Champion, yet the buildings are coming apart like they're made of paper.
I glance at Tacita, challenging her, and she looks like she’s actually considering it. The field around her rises, and the air begins to vibrate, almost glitching with unstable pressure.
But in the end, she does not do so and disappears again in the direction where Savant and Jean fight.
Something hits my chest and I grab it before it falls down: just a tiny piece of finger bone left after passing through the heat around me.
I smile. Damn it, Vic. Fine.
Then I release all the heat I’ve stored, and the spinning halo shatters with a sharp crack. Flames erupt like a golden tornado, tearing through the rooftop and surging outward in waves. Buildings in the path evaporate instantly, turning to glowing dust before it disperses.
The fire spreads fast, rushing between structures and down streets. Concrete melts, glass vaporizes, and mana barriers crack and fail. The flames slam into the orange light, held back for a second. They melt through, crash against that orange light only to extinguish it. For a moment, they are blown back by a shockwave sent by Jean. Then again. It almost looks like he might endure. But the amount keeps increasing and after multiple more setbacks, they wash even over him. The golden fire rolls over the battlefield, devouring everything.
Entire blocks vanish. Skyscrapers fall, their frames glowing red before disintegrating. The air becomes impossible to breathe, thick with heat.
The few remaining presences try to resist, but each one is overwhelmed, disappearing in violent bursts of force. The ground cracks open. What’s left of the city collapses inward, twisted steel and stone breaking apart as the last of the fire passes through.
It doesn’t slow. It doesn’t stop.
Amid the destruction, a figure takes shape high above the ruins.
Lissandra descends from the sky into the burning chaos, untouched by the heat, her silver hair drifting weightlessly around her face.
I toss the fingerbone to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, Victoria rises from it. She wears those same somewhat formal yet comfortable clothes, carrying the same steady, reliable presence.
My feet hit the burning rooftop, and she moves to stand beside me as we face Lissandra.
The crown over my head turns entirely black, and I pull Fracture from its scabbard, knowing the weapon will break this time. It immediately attacks my flesh, starting to disintegrate and devour it as the unstable forces within it fight to kill me. The effect is even stronger than before, with all my gained knowledge from the Logic core used to make it more deadly rather than stable.
Lissandra glances between me and Victoria, nodding. "I shall allow it."
A loud thud sounds from her, like an implosion, and her pressure diminishes incredibly as she limits herself.
"Come then, Gwyn siblings."
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Comments
Ray Mo
Little Plothole here... If Lilly was already able to touch them, she should have just used desintegration. Its like she completly forgot about that?
JJB4345_80_815
Thank you for the chappy! Friendly possible edit: Quote: Noodle explodes from underneath—now as thick as a car would be an impressively long /Quote an ==> and impressively long
A B
Edit suggestion: lightning, Noelle shoots -> lightning Noelle shoots.
venkata siddhardha yarlagadda
Really hope that's the case
Kingcarn
Hopefully only one hour left for a new chapter
Ronnel
This is awesome!!
Sjonzy
Man, Lissandra's appearance gave me One Winged Angel vibes.
Edmund Dillon
Next chapter going to be epic, tftc!!!!
Val the mysterious Jedi
You say abuse but I say classic group 4, the head thing really made me laugh but also nat did the same thing in beyond.
Zaim İpek
It's interesting that Victoria's body is strong enough for a piece of her bone to have survived long enough to reach him. I wonder if it's just stats, or if she applied some mana reinforcement to her finger before throwing it. Now that Lily has evolved as a fighter, I want to see Lily vs Victoria for real. It should be a very interesting fight.
Brady Fiola
“Noelle even shoots a few arrows made of primordial lighting.” or “Noelle even shoots a few arrows made of primordial lightning, which she blocks.”
Poutine Au Syrop d'érable
Liss could casually touch the unsealed heart. Now it's only early phase 2. But it has control and intent.
Madje Tobi Marc'Avent Tchona
Lily is so scary. What the heck? They cut off her head and she GREW a third arm out of her back? To catch the head and reattach it? What the hell? And the kamikaze tactics too. They are really abusing the fact that she is unkillable lol. Her ability to create matter and then sacrifice that for energy is also broken.
Madje Tobi Marc'Avent Tchona
Tacita toying with Kang Jiwon and previously Minion indicate a soft spot for children. Not hard proof but considering her character, it lays credence to the child abuse theories.
Madje Tobi Marc'Avent Tchona
If he’s not selling the item, it shouldn’t impact his rating
Ivan Jelenić
I predict the prize for winning all events and rankings to be a skill/trait slot. He's been hit and restricted by the limit multiple times already, so that is a natural progression. There's no other sane way to get that outside of the tutorial. Inside, the system makes it easier, plus the delayed prizes for the first places stack almost multiplicatively, I think. Maybe he gets a chance to choose between that and something to help Tess. Oh, and he'll obviously get time with the bestest ESM.
Ivan Jelenić
It's going to be funny when Nat finishes the arcane item for Channeler and Tent Creep shoots like 10x above everyone else on the crafting rankings. He might even reveal himself.
dampsey damamme
Hell yeah, this chapter and I'm sure also the next one will be fire 💯
Moon Winchester
"Sir we need to nuke Player: Nathanial." "I'm sorry but we can't." "Why?" "He is even stronger then a nuke." I like this, I do hope for more Victoria screen time. Like I can kind of see the eventual destination that Nathan is trying to reach, as well a the goal others want for him. But for Victoria I don't know. With her duplicate ability I can see her just creating the greatest delivery service in the universe and using it to support Nat.
Al
I thought the text implied she was limiting herself, so if she handicaps herself enough it may make victory possible (albeit incredibly difficult, bc it’s Lis)
jax rammus
Honestly, I love lissandra
Goblin
Thanks for the chapter
TreeReader
Cannot wait for next chapter so epic haha
Moonfrost
After this Tournament, Channeler will take a video of this fight and threaten the government with it. The best part? We'll likely get to see that as part of the Book 7 epilogue.
Al
Cerim is a cruel HDT god, for this doozy of a cliffhanger
William Johnson
If one of the normal attendees is recording this the world is going to shit a brick. Also, unbelievably hyped for this fight.
Bartlomiej Głowacki
KABOOOM!!!
Andrew
Thank you!
Bobbs
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Zaim İpek
I wonder how fracture will be destroyed. Will it simply consume itself into nothing, or wil it make a huge explosion?
JTP
Let's team up to kill him? Nah, low diff.
Hardworking Guy
We know that Liss is going to win, the question is, Willy they make it hard on her?
RnR_ RnR
So much going on in this chapter. Im so glad izzy and noodle got some time to shine. Lily is an absolute monster. Tacita saw what was coming and was like fuuuuuck that! The next chapter should be wild! But where is myrra?
Val the mysterious Jedi
You mean champion, I don't think people understand roachsandra is basically an absolute while Nat is barely approaching champion , he is basically at the base of that mountain
Funny guy
Danks fur da chappie! Holy shit, next chapter is gonna be even more epik than this one ༼⁰o⁰；༽
Mr.Sir
I think this episode is a pretty grave foreshadowing of what’s to come after the tutorial, from the descriptions of destruction I would be surprised if entire population centers were moved or just outright destroyed by a background character that doesn’t even have a name or description
FlawlessMovement
To everyone in hard and up this looks like the birth of an absolute for sureeee
Claro reyes
Angry kittens will dominate the worlddddd
venkata siddhardha yarlagadda
I think we will get that at the end of this book. We are propably gonna wrap up the 2nd tournament and 7th floor in this book. Hopefully, we get the povs too.
Arnon Parenti
All thoughts of evil overlording just evaporated from their minds.
Arnon Parenti
Coward
Arnon Parenti
Focus to Singularity would be awesome, especially if he immediately regains Focus like Mana Manipulation
Doleo
I can't wait for Earth pov when they get videos that people have been taking in the tutorial.
SnowFreak
Damn this is so fucking cool
Madje Tobi Marc'Avent Tchona
100% would be fair. The more Liss unrestricts Nat, the harder the task, and the more she expects of him. Here she unrestricts him, allows him Fracture, his team, his sister AND limits herself? He has to win.
Michel Kommers
I think this will become a new mantra
mitchell kaiser
Such a great chapter thanks!
V
Well that's was damn epic, tftc.
vEnviouz
TGINT!
Adrian Rake
Epic 👍
Venno
Epic.
zoarian
Damn, Nat must look like an absolute freak of nature from the outside. He owned everyone using mana, then using kinetic and now with thermal energy. Without knowing the background, it looks like he has Champion/Absolute potential in three fields. If I was a king I'd be shitting myself
James Skinner
Thanks for the chapter!
D Pryor
Holy Corgi Shit. Fucking Amazing Chapter bro
vEnviouz
TFTC!!!
Extra7
Victoria's abilities remind me of Andy from undead/unluck. The way she shoots her finger tips and forms full bodies from them
frankie doerr
Thank god it’s not Thursday
ramir
Thank god its not a thursday
Ansordia
Hmmm.... Would be weird for the MC to not be the most powerful... But you are right that Vic is very close to Rubies original personality so maybe some nostalgia?
Oaktree
So how many want to bet savant forfeited?
Oaktree
Kaboooom!!!
Ansordia
How gracious of Lissandra to allow a teamup!.... I doubt Nat needs to win to count... Wouldn't be fair... But maybe he can impress on Lissandra that he actually improved enough? Any ideas on what Channelers (sorry can't for the life of me remember all the "true names") arcane item will be? I'm still for an omnitool that takes the shape that is currently needed like a shield or sword with some mana battery function for sure... Maybe some contact disruption aswell but yea... Ideas? Also it goes without saying but awesome chapter Cerim!
le moi
Epic
zoarian
This fight is going to be epic. We'll finally get to see what Victoria can do and even a limited Liss will be a monster. My prediction: Nat will evolve mana domain into a new skill during the fight. It's been pretty redundant since he got eclipse, and it'd match his pride evolution. Or he'll turn one of his skills to Singularity, though that's a bit further out there.
jj
Oh hell yeah!! None of these chump attendees were the true threat Nat was preparing for. Maybe they can't defeat her but I wanna see them take Liss down a peg. Victoria gets railroaded to Absolute Candidate for standing up to Lissandra?
Borbino the great
This next chapter is going to be insane the 2v1 jumping of lissandra😂
Neko
Great chapter, nat and Vic going all out against liss and I presume all the eliminated participants get to watch. Nice
Tsorov
Thx for the chapter! a shield grows on one of the huge arms she uses to block attacks. Even a few arrows made of primordial lightning, Noelle shoots This feels cluncky. That Noelle shoot's seems like it is supossed to explain by who the arrows were shot, but it doesn't really fit in the flow of the sentence.
Woojoe
Chonky Chapter!!
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter
