From the split sky, huge, cyclopean, and hulking planets emerged one after another, their sheer size defying comprehension. Their numbers soared with every passing moment as Anthony quite literally summoned planets directly onto the battlefield. There was no pause, no hesitation, only continuous summoning.

As for their count, it was simply unquantifiable. He didn't merely summon a few celestial bodies; he bloated the entire separate plane, filling it to the brim until there was scarcely any empty space left untouched. The plane itself groaned under the absurd mass now occupying it, reality stretched thin by Anthony's will alone.

With a simple gesture, they all plummeted toward Lucian in raving, ravaging delirium, a rain of planetary annihilation descending from all directions. These were not ordinary planets that one could shatter with brute strength or disperse with a single blow. They were high-ranked planets, monstrous in both size and mass, each one a celestial weapon capable of ending worlds. Anthony merely smiled as he watched them fall, his expression calm and confident as he awaited Lucian's response.

Lucian frowned, his brows knitting together as his mind raced through spell after spell, discarding each that proved insufficient. The pressure mounted as countless planets bore down upon him, their shadows swallowing everything below. Then, abruptly, his thoughts snapped into alignment.

[Gravity Magic: Mana Zone: Course Reversal]

With a thunderous roar, his mana ignited violently from his core as he poured vast reserves into the spell. Gravity warped instantly. Anthony had filled the entire separate plane with gigantic planets, and Lucian understood that reversing their trajectory would demand an enormous expenditure of mana.

To send them back toward their summoner, he would have to shoulder their collective mass alone. Yet he was unbothered. He spent his mana with unrestrained glee, laughing inwardly as though he possessed endless reserves comparable to Anthony himself.

Anthony watched with an amused expression as the countless planets abruptly reversed course. One by one, then all at once, they tore back toward him with even greater speed than before, their momentum amplified by Lucian's gravity manipulation.

[Time Magic: Mana Zone: Temporal Fragment]

At Anthony's tone, the stopping hand of a colossal, mechanical clock seemed to echo throughout the endless separate plane. Instantly, everything halted, light, heat, motion, reality, space, even existence itself froze in absolute stillness. Then, in the next moment, time shattered. It fragmented violently, splintering into countless shards as the entire separate plane distorted beyond its own laws and order.

The planets surrounding Anthony aged an uncountable number of years within the span of a single second. Their surfaces cracked, eroded, and decayed at an accelerated rate before collapsing inward upon themselves, crumbling like nothing more than perishable debris. In mere moments, what had once been celestial weapons became dust scattered through frozen space. Then, just as abruptly, everything returned to normal as Anthony's spell ended.

[Cloud Magic: Mana Zone: Fallen Sky]

Lucian's voice echoed from below as another massive portion of his mana vanished to support the spell. This time, he shifted affinities, channeling cloud magic with absolute precision.

Anthony heard the mana scream around Lucian, but he neither reacted nor cared. Then, in the next moment, he felt it, a shift. A change. The sky he floated within began to shake and tremble violently, quakes rippling throughout the entire plane. The once-blue expanse darkened rapidly, its color draining away as though something dreadful was approaching. The clouds began to move unnaturally, folding inward around Anthony like inverted, blooming lotus petals closing upon prey.

Anthony didn't need to be told. Whatever this attack was, it was dangerous, at least to others. To him, it was merely noteworthy.

In the next instant, the folded sky devoured him completely. Then it bloated outward, swelling like an overfilled balloon straining against its limits. A heartbeat later, an all-consuming wave of madness and apocalyptic ruin erupted as the sky detonated outward in erasing, unhinged pandemonium. The edges of the separate plane trembled violently, screaming as though they could no longer contain the destruction unleashed.

Yet before the plane could collapse entirely, an unseen energy spread through the air, reinforcing reality itself and holding everything together by sheer force.

The sky had fallen. Erased. Annihilated. No single word could accurately describe the devastation Lucian had just unleashed. It was absolute chaos in its purest form.

Through the haze of shattered and ravaged reality, Anthony stepped forward. His eyes were calm. His expression flawless. His presence relaxed and unshaken. To him, the attack had amounted to nothing. The moment he came fully into view, a new sky formed above as the separate plane healed itself once more, restoring what had been lost as though nothing had happened.

Lucian's eyes narrowed sharply. He couldn't understand it. Anthony had been at the very center of the attack. By all logic, he should have been injured, if not critically wounded. Even if he had survived, there was no reason for him to appear so… perfect.

'Sigh… this guy seems to have become more of a monster since the last time I read the book,' he mused inwardly.

Anthony, however, was unconcerned with Lucian's thoughts. He simply raised a hand and spoke.

[Storm Magic: Mana Zone: Calamity Fall]

Mana echoed violently from his being, tearing upward into the newly regenerated sky. Instantly, the heavens darkened, clouds churning as the separate plane screamed in warning at the impending doom. Crackling white lightning erupted from above, snaking violently through the clouds. Space shivered in fear. Time convulsed as the energy across the entire plane skyrocketed beyond safe limits.

Then it fell.

Erasing pillars of thunder and lightning descended from above in pure, unadulterated madness, crashing down in a deafening crescendo. The calamity did not target Lucian alone, it struck everything. Land, structures, space itself, nothing was spared. The calamity had fallen, and it recognized neither ally nor enemy.

Lucian felt his entire being scream at the sight of the incoming devastation. He reacted instantly, moving with desperate speed.

[Space Magic: Layered Dimension]

He didn't dare take the attack head-on, nor did he attempt to form a barrier. He understood the futility of such efforts. Anthony's attack would simply tear through everything, erasing all resistance in its path.

With that, his mana bent space around him, peeling him away from that layer of reality and pulling him into another. The moment he vanished completely, the separate plane was drenched in pure horror as Anthony's attack ravaged everything left behind. Lands were erased. Entire zones wiped out. Space itself shattered and tore apart without mercy.

Klaus, who had been observing from the side, had no choice but to intervene. Once more, he protected those watching. He created a pocket space similar to Lucian's, hiding everyone far from the ongoing destruction. Even so, Anthony's attack shattered all surrounding layers of reality, its reach extending far enough that it eventually brushed against Klaus himself.

"Sigh… the youngsters these days are far too energetic," Klaus remarked with a wide grin as he blocked Anthony's attack effortlessly, as though stopping such apocalyptic power was the easiest thing in the world.

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