Carius’s body didn’t fully exist in the same spatial plane as the battlefield. To bypass a Nullite’s negation, one must not be within space, but beside it.
Carius had split the fabric of his presence, half a step outside normal space, existing in a state where the Nullite negation couldn’t reach, because it had no space to suppress.
His form shimmered subtly, reality bending around him like water disturbed by an invisible force. Each movement left faint spatial echoes.
But regardless, Carius was still vulnerable against physical attacks.
And Karn was nothing but physical might.
Their clash continued, colossal and unrelenting.
Each blow between them sent shockwaves strong enough to crumble what was left of the ruined island beneath.
Yet Carius was nothing if not cunning.
He knew the Nullite’s greatest strength was their ability to negate.
And while the ambient mana limited his space manipulation, it didn’t eliminate it.
It just made him more creative.
His eyes flashed.
And then, four distinct spatial powers activated all at once.
Dimensional Explosion.
Dimensional Perception.
Dimensional Phasing.
Dimensional Duplication.
The battlefield changed.
Space ruptured, a dimensional burst erupting between Carius and Karn, momentarily destabilizing the terrain and forcing Karn back.
Carius’s gaze sharpened, his eyes peering into alternate realities, calculating every one of Karn’s next moves before they happened.
His body turned increasingly ethereal, phasing partially out of existence, allowing physical strikes to pass through harmlessly.
And then, five other Cariuses appeared.
Dimensional copies, each one shimmering with an unstable spatial aura, their gazes hollow and cold.
They moved.
The copies shot toward the other Apexes, engaging them in clashes of speed and lethality.
Meanwhile, the real Carius intensified his assault on Karn, every movement cold, calculated, surgical.
Karn found himself under relentless pressure, struck from multiple angles, pushed back, overwhelmed.
His teeth clenched.
His muscles rippled.
And then, he roared,
"DOMAIN!"
A cloak of brown energy erupted from his body, swallowing the entire battlefield in its suffocating presence.
A Nullite Domain.
The others remained outside it. Only Carius and Karn were within.
Inside, Karn’s aura surged like a volcano. His hammer screamed through the air, each strike ripping apart space.
His attacks became brutal, untamed ferocity, raw power, monstrous might.
But Carius remained cold. Calculating. Detached.
Every swing, every strike, already seen before it was made.
Every roar, already predicted before it echoed.
Karn fought with rage.
Carius fought with reason.
And then outside, the cloak of brown light began to lower.
The other Apexes, still engaged in their battles with the copies, instinctively turned their heads toward the dissipating domain.
And what they saw stole their breath.
Karn stood still with blood trailing from his lips. His eyes were bloodshot.
Carius’s sword was driven straight through his chest.
Karn trembled, his aura flickering weakly.
Carius leaned closer, eyes like knives.
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And then, he withdrew his blade and, in a clean motion, severed Karn’s head.
Silence.
The Apexes froze.
The sergeants froze.
Even the Grandmasters around them widened their eyes for a brief moment.
Karn Voss of the Nullite.
One of the strongest among them.
A reincarnator.
A warrior of unmatched physical might
Was dead.
But Carius didn’t blink.
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