"…And the next match is between the Goddess of Elves and the Goddess of Urn Ceremonies!"

The winged angel announced.

'Where is he?!'

The Fair One nervously looked around, as there was no sight of Kiernan anywhere as he left the Feast Hall and never came back.

"…"

Death sat silently with his arms crossed, but he had already sensed someone and scoffed as a result of that.

"Sorry that I am a little late."

In that moment, Kiernan walked over, and the Fair One's expression relaxed significantly, as they would have had to forfeit if he didn't arrive in time.

"Where have you been? It's your turn to fight!"

"…Mhm."

Kiernan nodded, stepped past the table, and entered the stage.

His opponent was already waiting there—a strange three-headed woman—one of the heads was facing front, another was to the left, and the last one to the right.

All of the three heads had black hair, and they were all wearing a strange black veil that had thin chains dangling from it.

She was pressing her hands together—almost like she was praying—and her mouth was softly moving behind the veil.

It was obvious that she was murmuring something, but since she was so quiet about it, nobody was able to hear her.

'From what kind of realm is she from?'

Kiernan thought to himself.

"FIGHT!"

The winged angel shouted.

"Haaaaaaaaaah!"

The mystery woman suddenly shouted, and she lifted her right hand above her head, and it started glowing.

The Feast Hall started changing.

The gods and goddesses faded away like they were not even real, and the surroundings became more dark and ominous.

It looked like they spawned somewhere in space—stars sparkling all around them, universes forming in the distance, and the ever-so colorful cosmos looking like a work of art.

"Mystery World!"

She shouted.

"…"

Kiernan frowned, and at that moment, he started to have difficulty of breathing as if he was really in a space now.

'What in the world…'

"This is my world, and there is nothing you can do here except suffer and die. Meet your demise, mortal man!"

She said.

Only the front head was speaking, while her other heads were eerily mute, as if they didn't like talking as much.

'Is that so…'

At that moment, Kiernan touched the ground below his feet—there actually was ground even though it seemed like they were floating in space.

'Black World!'

Black smoke shot out from the palm of his hand and started spreading throughout the space like an uncontrollable plague.

The black smoke reached the woman standing across from her, and she started to slowly sink into the darkness.

It turned difficult for even her to breathe because of the lingering black smoke, and soon, the beautiful cosmos world was shrouded with darkness.

'What an evil power!'

The woman thought with squinted eyes.

In her realm, powers of darkness were associated with evil beings, and she thought it was very fitting for the so-called Great Robber.

"Black Hole!"

A black vortex appeared in front of Kiernan's hand, and she couldn't resist the immense gravity pulling her towards it.

She flew straight at him, and he grabbed her by the throat of the front head while her two other heads turned to look at him.

"Soul Gaze of the Myriad Universe!"

The two heads opened their eyes wide, and their pupils started spinning like an endless vortex.

"Ah…"

Kiernan froze like a statue, petrified by the intensity of their gaze.

While his body froze, his mind was taken elsewhere to another dimension, and his mind-self appeared in some kind of apocalypse-ridden world.

…

'Where the hell am I?'

Kiernan looked around the destroyed world with a confused look on his face.

He could swear that he was in that strange space dimension with the three-headed woman just now.

Now, he was in some random world that had obviously been destroyed by some cataclysm.

Dark smoggy sky. The sun was red. The ground was dry and dead. The air was thick with an acrid smell that burned his nostrils.

"I saw her two other heads doing something, so they must've sent me elsewhere, but how the hell am I supposed to leave this place?"

Kiernan thought aloud.

In that moment, the ground started shaking as if a giant stomped right next to him, and when he turned to look over to the horizon, his eyes shook.

A massive head was moving through the thick dark clouds. The massive head had an equally massive body. The person's stomping made a sound that boomed so loudly it could be heard for miles.

It was a massive titan.

It was as tall as the sky itself, and each of its footprints left a crater in the ground so wide and big that it seemed like a giant meteor had struck the earth.

At that moment.

The titan stopped, as if it saw something, and one of its massive eyes looked straight at Kiernan.

"…A human?"

It spoke, and at that moment, it grinned hideously and lifted one of its enormous feet and brought it down with a deafening crash.

'Not friendly… Got it!'

Kiernan formed a fist with his left, and he jumped towards the falling feet and punched as hard as he could.

"IRON SMASH!"

The massive foot got pushed backwards, and the titan stumbled, as if it was about to fall down to the earth.

"Ah… Urgh… Ragh…"

The titan let out several angry roars as it struggled to regain its balance.

In that moment, Kiernan appeared high in the air. Even above the titan's head. His fist was clenched tightly.

"…"

The titan lifted its head to look at the flying human.

This was the first time that the titan had met any human capable of such feats, as everyone else was disgustingly weak.

With a single stomp, it could kill thousands of humans, and yet, this one human was able to survive it.

At that moment, Kiernan's fist started burning, and it started emitting light so bright that it was possible to see it from the darkest corners of the world.

"High Supernova!"

He punched down, and as soon as it landed at the titan's head, its massive head got crushed underneath.

Boooooooooooooooom!

The titan got engulfed in a blinding explosion of light and heat, and after a moment, all that was left was rubble and ash.

"I am True God…"

Kiernan whispered.

He wasn't that small mortal boy anymore that had to be careful who he had to fight.

As True God, he had reached the pinnacle of the Martial Arts Pathway, and even though there were a couple ranks after this, this was as far as martial arts could take him.

Thus, there was no way some mindless titan could harbor some danger to him.

"…"

At that moment, the world started shaking violently around him, and for a moment, Kiernan managed to hear a whimper of a woman.

It sounded like a scared whimper.

'…This isn't a real world, is it? It's some kind of Mindbreaker-type stuff, right? When I looked at that woman's eyes, that must've sent me trapped in my own head, I suppose.

'I already know how to get away from here. If it's my own head, I must've created some way to get out of here too, right…

'And I know how.'

With a smile, Kiernan raised his fist and punched the ground.

The ground cracked, and the entire world started crumbling apart.

He kept punching and punching.

The world couldn't withstand his punches, and slowly, it exploded, and while floating aimlessly in the space, Kiernan closed his eyes.

Swoosh!

…

"Ah…"

Kiernan opened his eyes and saw that he was back in the space dimension, staring straight at the three-headed woman.

"…How…"

The woman whimpered in fear.

'That scared whimper must've been her. It must've been pretty shocking to her to see that I defeated that titan. I must've been the first one to ever defeat it.

'It was quite easy, though.'

Kiernan reeled back his fist, and the three-headed woman's eyes widened in fear.

After seeing what happened to the titan once it got punched once by him, she was certain that she would die instantly.

"I forfeit!"

She shouted and raised her arms in surrender.

In that moment, the space dimension cracked apart, and they returned back to the Feast Hall.

The gods and goddesses were still there—watching—but they were able to see the fight that happened in the three-headed woman's space dimension and mind world.

However, the champions couldn't, and for most of the fight, they were just watching the two of them not moving.

It was a very boring fight for them, but for gods and goddesses, it was extremely entertaining.

"…Good fight."

Kiernan said, then he turned around and walked back to the table, where the Fair One was excitedly clapping her hands.

"Good job, Kiernan! She was actually one of the more dangerous opponents in the tournament, but you defeated her easily!"

"Really? I guess her mind abilities can be troublesome to deal with."

Kiernan said.

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