Chapter 2826: Supernova
Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Three Mischief Encampment, Limitless Celestial Blood Fate Rule Domain
"This will teach you to treat me like a specimen, Supernova!"
While we were all focused on the exchange between the devil and the Emissary, Corey moved unnoticed. She conjured two fist-sized suns and hurled them at the devil, adding a fast spin to the suns, angling their paths so they would collide the moment they entered his immediate vicinity.
The devil saw it coming, but he couldnât react in time. Two suns of that size tearing through space while spinning at high speed distorted gravity, creating a brief but fatal drag in spacetime causing the surrounding time to lag. Before he could even finish his thought, they collided before him, birthing a small-scale supernova.
It wasnât just the devilânone of us could react in time. It was as if time was being stretched and so were those of use in it. That was not good as we were standing close enough to the devil to be caught in the eye of the plasma storm, along with him and the Emissary of Light.
But the ends of the golden shawl draped over Coreyâs shoulders lashed out like a living double headed snake. They reached for us, wrapping around me, the Field Marshal, and Karl, and dragged us into the void with Corey just before the supernova could swallow us whole.
âSee? I told you I could handle this.â
âDid you see what I did there?â
âI used your trick in my attack, Wyatt!â
âNeither of you could react.â
âYou see, the spin is the key.â
âDid you catch the look on his smug face?â
âHow dare he treat me like a lab rat!â
The moment we entered the void, Coreyâs voice burst into my mind in a rapid, breathless stream. For once, I didnât find it irritating to hear her go on like that. She had earned it.
And more importantly, I was relievedâI hadnât been forced to resort to the final contingency I was planning to lean back on at that moment.
I was also surprised to hear Corey say she had learned from me. That wasnât something youâd expect from someone like her.
The trick she was referring to was when I used the weight of her sun within my endlessly stretching space to manipulate timeâslowing it down enough to show her the sun up close and make her admit her defeat realizing the difference between our abilities. She had taken that idea and adapted it. By adding a rapid spin to the suns as she hurled them at the devil, she turned them into moving anchors in spacetime.
As they traveled, the spinning suns dragged spacetime along their path, pulling it in the direction of their rotation. Those caught nearby experienced subtle but decisive time discrepancies, depending on their position and movementâjust enough to delay any reaction at the worst possible moment.
Honestly, I couldnât believe Corey had come up with this on her own. Still, I felt both proud of her and wary of facing her again. I didnât think I could withstand her supernova without relying on primordial energy. Which meant that if we ever fought again, Iâd have to go all out just to stand a chance. This version of Corey wasnât just strongerâshe was a combat genius.
The more I noticed the changes in Corey, the more curious I became about the version of her from the pastâthe one whose memories and inheritance had shaped her into this. I found myself wanting to meet that version of her, to exchange ideas the way I once did with Park. Even as a remnant, Park had been a tremendous help to both of us, guiding us through the Dark Realm when we needed it most.
âYou used the mass of the suns and their spin to create a lag in time. Who are you? What have you done with our dumb Corey?â
âThank you. Iâll take that as a compliment.â
âSo, how long do we stay in the void? How long will your miniature supernova last?â
âI donât know. This is the first time Iâve used itâafter I came up with it.â
âWait, you used it for the first time and it actually worked?â
âAll I had to do was visualize it and make it happen. Doesnât everyone do it like that? I know Wyatt does it.â
The Field Marshal was thoroughly impressed by Coreyâs miniature supernova, created from the collision of two rapidly spinning suns. She hadnât expected Corey to be capable of something like that. Among the younger generation she knew, only Corey seemed capable of giving her young lord a run for his money. Even so, in her eyes, Corey still fell short of him in terms of talent and potential.
However, she was forced to revise that judgment almost immediately. The real shock came when she learned that Corey had pulled off such a complex move simply by visualizing it onceâwithout any prior practice or trial and error. That was beyond absurd. Even with her starry eyes and unparalleled bloodline, she couldnât achieve something like that so effortlessly.
Unable to hold back, she turned to her young lord, silently asking if Corey was truly telling the truth.
Sensing her gaze on me, I didnât know what to say. I hadnât known Corey was capable of that either. The only reason I could do something similar was because of the assistance from the Hive Spiritâs speedy simulations. Still, it was unexpectedâand a little amusingâto see the Field Marshal humbled. She was a genius of her time, no doubt, but against Corey, she was just another genius.
Just as I was about to shrug in response to her unspoken question, we all felt itâa pull, sudden and undeniable, dragging us backward through the moments we had just lived. We tried to resist, realizing we were being pulled through time by an unseen force, but it was useless.
Before we knew it, we were back in the physical plane, within the divine dominion, once again facing the devil.
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