Galaxy's First Ruler

Clank! Clankkk!!!

The entire Earth rang up by the clanking sound of swords.

It didn't matter if the swords were Mana Items, or normal ones, all vibrated with an unknown frequency. Those that were held up didn't dare to remain upright and fell to the floor. Those that had emanated a powerful might become timid suddenly.

Irrespective of them being a Dreamer or not, all eyes felt like being pricked by a needle. Their skin felt being sliced open, and those who had less willpower died a painful death.

Even Barons were the same.

Olivia could be seen twitching in one corner of the hall. Annie was panting with her disheveled hair and Logan had clenched his teeth as he tried to hold down the two daggers in his hands from running away. Worst of all was the look on Matsumoto Sho's face.

The Blizzard Swordmaster had been gripping his sword with all his strength. Unlike others, there were many wounds on his body that seemed like a product of a sword fight. As Sho's sword shuddered with an unknown terror, showers of blood kept pouring out from his mouth.

BANG!

The sheath of the sword got blasted into many pieces. Sho felt the incredible weight of the naked sword. His knees buckled and the bones in his upper body were about to shatter. The defiance on his face was absolute, but his sword might not survive the ordeal.

Clankkkk!!!

Sho let go of the sword, and it struck the floor with a relief.

Huff! Hufff!!!

Sho sat down and looked around. Then his eyes moved up to the sky and ultimately landed on the broken screen. The question which couldn't come out of other's mouths finally got asked by him.

"What's happening!?"

*

"AAAAHHHHHH!"

In a chamber of the holy palace within the Kingdom of Eternal Servant, blood-curdling screams had been ringing out for quite some time.

Only a few highly classified Healers could stand within this chamber. But even they didn't dare to look or hear the state of King Antiochus with their naked eyes.

The Holy being had seemed to lose his ethereal grace after the 'Assassination' attempt. Puss and terrible itch had made the wound on his shoulder their home. Antiochus's body had many gashes that kept oozing out blood and strange slimy liquid. The most unusual and horrifying was the image of a vast Veil that kept flashing in and out of his eyes.

The missing arm was the least of his worries.

But today something reminded him of his arm. The arm that got ripped apart and the arm that he dared not to think about.

Thousands of illusory black threads seemed to penetrate his wound. Antiochus felt his lost arm again, but only for it to get shredded into pieces. The process of his arm molting and restructuring got transferred to him as vividly as possible.

The screams that echoed in that chamber told a story of a lost Will of Repentance.

*

Aldrich eyed the blacker than black Katana in his hand. The witch-like hair on the butt of its handle kept flailing around as if they were alive. The flat of its blade reflected the vast space like a mirror, and its edge was unseen with an unknown sharpness.

Aldrich looked at the Stats and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

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Item: Broken Faith

Type: Sword

Rank: King

Durability: ???

Minimum Usage Condition: The Oldest One's Authority

Description: A Katana forged with some of the best materials in the Galaxy. Gives a King's Rank to the wielder for 3 seconds.

Item-specific Skill: Dream Annihilation

Item-specific Skill's Detail: Turn the Reality into a Dream

Item-specific Skill: One Slash to Reign the Universe

Item-specific Skill's Detail: Disintegrate All Creation in its Path

Warning: Unknown

Warning: Unknown

Warning: Unknown

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1st second

Pop! Poppp!!!

An incomprehensible power coursed through Aldrich's body. Popping sounds echoed in his Mana-rich surroundings and his hair lengthened to his waist.

The Black robe extended to many miles and fluttered like a Veil floating in the darkness. Aldrich felt the presence of every being on the earth and his Divine Sense kept going outwards.

Sun, planets, and the farther places yet to be discovered came into his vision like a clear picture.

2nd second

"DREAM ANNIHILATION!"

An incredibly mighty voice shuddered the surrounding space as Aldrich used the first Skill.

A shock wave of Mana originated from the Katana and in the next instant, the shock wave covered everything in hundreds of thousands of miles. The space lost all colors, if it had any, in that area. The asteroid looked like a dull ball of gray dust, a figment of imagination.

3rd second

"ONE SLASH TO REIGN THE UNIVERSE!"

Aldrich's hand stretched outward and pointed the Katana towards Heaven.

He looked at the asteroid, with his eyes brimming with a Royal presence. Everything in this Dream seemed to be his Creation.

All Creations within this dull space were for him to annihilate.

SLASH!

Aldrich brought the Katana, and the asteroid disintegrated. Alas, that wasn't the end.

The space shattered like it was made of glass; the Mana shattered like it was not ethereal but solid, and the Reality lost its existence around Aldrich.

4th second

Aldrich looked down and saw his ethereal body turning into dust. His actual body couldn't be seen anywhere. His long white hair turned to dust, starting from their tips. Only the endless Veil kept fluttering like it had nothing to do with him.

SWOOOSH!!!!

A black ball came into existence at the crumbling space, much like he had seen as a reward during Dungeon. But only now he realized what those black balls were.

The Wormhole sucked everything within it, leaving no trace behind. The crumbling pieces of Aldrich also got sucked into it. But something strange and truly incredible was happening at the corner of Veil.

The devilish mask on Aldrich's actual body wriggled as a mouth opened and devoured the lifeless body. A tentacle reached out towards the Katana as it was getting sucked. A shark-like mouth opened up at the tentacle's end and devoured the Katan too.

As the veil was getting sucked into the Wormhole, the mask leaped at it and bit down on one of its corners.

5th second

Silence ruled again the emptiness of the space.