The Monarch-Chapter 580: The true lord of the universe

The amount of mana that Matheus placed in a fireball in his hands was simply insane; it looked more like a black hole than an actual spell. He didn’t even know how to stabilize the spell, but it wasn’t necessary—the amount of mana was so overwhelming that it surpassed the need for any technique, and there was no mage capable of rivaling him in this place.

The fireball was tearing through space for dozens of billions of kilometers. Kayden could feel his body melting even at such an absurd distance. Not only that, but his soul was being burned little by little, and to make matters worse, he hadn’t even received the attack yet.

"Goodbye, demigods and magicians of the tenth realm. You can go back to the hole you came from," Matheus said without any fear. Then he turned to Kayden. "And you will pay for your sins."

The attack came at high speed…

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

The colossal dragon opened its golden eyes, each one larger than multiple galaxies combined, and an ancient glow illuminated the emptiness of the cosmos. Its body slithered through space, its mere presence causing the laws of the universe to tremble, and its breath was a sigh that shaped realities. Its scales, each the size of entire constellations, reflected the absolute power of an entity that existed even before the first stars ignited in the sky. Time around it distorted, past and future colliding in an incomprehensible whirlwind, as its existence transcended ages and realms. With a single movement, the flow of mana throughout the cosmos bent in reverence, while its silent presence declared an inevitable truth: the balance of power would never be the same.

The dragon swallowed Matheus’s attack the same way a child swallows an ant. In fact, this comparison was incorrect; it was easier to compare an ant being crushed by a galaxy. There was no chance, there wasn’t even any resistance from the second attack. The dragon continued its movement without any resistance from the universe.

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The dragon’s ruin was an event that echoed through eternity. Its destruction wasn’t a simple end, but an unprecedented cosmic collapse. When its body crumbled, the colossal scales fell like shattered worlds, piercing through galaxies and erasing entire civilizations in their descent. The monster’s blood, denser than any known matter, formed flaming rivers that twisted through space, creating new suns and extinguishing ancient constellations in their wake. Its final roar reverberated through the fabric of the universe, tearing dimensions and making even the gods tremble before the magnitude of the disaster. The space, unable to contain such loss, fractured, and from its fissures emerged storms of raw mana, rewriting the laws of existence in countless star systems.

Matheus came out of this attack completely destroyed. His injuries covered more than 90% of his entire base and body, but… he was alive. His wounds would take at least a few billion years to heal. The attack wasn’t meant to kill him. This was the most terrifying part.

The person who made that move did so in a way that Matheus was left only injured to the point where he would need a long recovery time. The injury wasn’t permanent, and it wasn’t something that would prevent him from defending himself—just not with the full force of his capacity. This was a demonstration of mastery and control over one’s abilities that shouldn’t even exist in this universe.

The path of destruction that appeared in the universe was superior to what many gods could do. In fact, very few could achieve something like this. Probably only Yan and a few other dozens were capable of such feats. The most surreal thing was that the person who did all this was merely a tenth-realm mage.

"Control your actions, boy. Your ego doesn’t match your strength," the Ice Emperor appeared in all his glory. Kayden laughed to himself. He truly was just a frog in a well. This level of strength… was something completely insane, far beyond his wildest dreams.

That dragon was alive and at the same time a spell. Not just any spell—it was a law so perfectly crafted that it became alive. It was the embodiment in flesh and bone of a law composed of millions of other laws. Kayden, with his eyes, was able to see this time. Every inch of that dragon was a law that self-completed.

It was so complex that his mind couldn’t even form a logical thought about how it worked. He didn’t even know how so many things were connected flawlessly. The gap between his strength and that was larger than the gap between a fly and his current power. In fact, it was tens of thousands of times greater.

Each centimeter of that dragon exhaled a unique aura in the entire universe. It was a degree of complexity unimaginable, something that common laws couldn’t even formulate. The final law, the junction of all laws, was something that even Kayden’s sight couldn’t fully process. It was simply far beyond his understanding.

The destruction caused by this event led to trillions of planets being erased from existence in the absolute void. Holes in space and the nothingness were completely opened. The universe fell into complete chaos; it was about to collapse. Kayden could feel space being compressed and reshaped in waves. The size of the universe was expanding to accommodate the effects of the dragon.

The heavens didn’t even make a single move. This could only mean one thing: this man wasn’t a god. He was merely a mortal, and yet his strength was capable of something so insane. Kayden couldn’t stop laughing in his mind. It was completely terrifying. Dozens of tenth-realm mages had died from Matheus’s attack. The demigods also met the same fate, but not a single mage was killed by the dragon. Everyone here was spared.

In just a few seconds this universe practically doubled in size to be able to deal with all the attacks carried out by the mere presence of the dragon, Kayden finally understood how his universe was something low level, a simple spell from a mortal was capable of causing something like this, how strong were the high level gods really? Kayden couldn’t even formulate a thought about it.

Author’s note: I crashed my motorcycle yesterday, I’ll owe you a chapter that I’ll try to pay for this week.