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"This is everyone's graduation battle, and also your final graduation ceremony in the academy after all these years." Hundreds of years ago, in that summer, at the age of 16, he heard his teacher's words at that graduation ceremony.

"Therefore, everyone can fully demonstrate their skills as a graduation battle in this academy life, and the final top graduate will have any wish granted to him," Faust said with a smile.

In that graduation ceremony, the ultimate winner was Mephisto, who rightfully became the chief.

“Mephisto, my most outstanding student, your future achievements will surely surpass mine.” Faust looked at his student with satisfaction. “So, what do you want? As long as I can fulfill it, I will certainly do so.”

"Teacher, I want to fight you one last time, a true battle for modern mystics," Mephisto said, making his request.

Faust was taken aback and asked, "Why? Are you using this wish, which only a chief possesses, here?"

"I know that if I were to propose a fight normally, you wouldn't take it seriously, so now, I want to personally experience the power of the strongest mystic in modern times, which will also serve as my graduation duel."

After speaking, Mephisto brought his index and middle fingers together and placed them in front of him, assuming a stance to extend his domain.

Faust looked at the student in silence, but a slight smile played on his lips, indicating that he was in a good mood.

“Now that the child’s wings have hardened and he wants to fly high, then the teacher will give you one last lesson.” Faust smiled and looked at Mephistopheles.

"The field expands!"

In an instant, Faust's pseudo-omniscient domain was suppressed. He looked at his student. Just now, in terms of domain mastery alone, had he already been suppressed by this student?
But Faust did laugh very happily, like a child, no longer with that gentlemanly polite smile, but with a genuine smile that belonged to him.

“Mephisto, you have surpassed your teacher in some aspects, but it is not enough. Your teacher will now teach you another kind of battle between mystics.”

"Spell: Release!"

……

"Buzz!"

To Mephisto's astonishment, the refraction spell he had just cast instantly crumbled. Opposite the spell was Faust's maniacal smile, the most important teacher who had taught him everything with all his might when he was at his weakest, a teacher and father to him!

However, now, the teacher's face showed no emotion towards him, only the deepest, most unforgettable hatred.

"Teacher, you have no idea of ​​the weight I bear. The weight of more than 180 cities in the world is on my shoulders. I have given everything, and what do you know!" Mephisto roared.

But clearly, neither Faust nor Xue's Law could be bothered to listen to her nonsense.

A towering pillar of annihilation light cleaved down, and the terrifying destructive energy, powered by the Divine Tree Greatsword, unleashed the destructive power of the Colossus that could annihilate everything.

The land of the consciousness space trembled and shook under this world-destroying pillar of light. If it weren't for the roots of the divine tree reinforcing this subspace, Xue Lude would never have considered using this place as a battlefield.

"Teacher, you only ever knew that I destroyed the world, but you don't know that at that time, this was the only thing I could do. Only by doing this could I save the world. You have no idea what the real enemy we were facing was!"

"This was a last resort for me, to preserve my strength so that I could eventually break free from the Fourth Apostle's control. And you know absolutely nothing! You understand nothing! What do you know about everything I've sacrificed!"

Mephisto's roar echoed.

At this moment, she completely transformed into an energy state. The annihilating pillar of light destroyed her original physical body and almost destroyed her soul as well. In particular, all the defensive spells she had deployed were disintegrated when facing Faust.

Her techniques are entirely derived from Faust!

However, Faust remained indifferent and frantic as he looked at her, his heart unwavering. No matter how his enemies explained or spoke of her hardships, his purpose remained unchanged.

Xue's Law did not give her any preparation. The destructive giant did not stop. It threw away the divine tree greatsword in its hand that had been destroyed by annihilation energy, and the next moment, it replaced it with an annihilation greatsword made of divine tree.

A beam of light shot into the sky once more, and the light cannons fired in rapid succession. This was, again, the last bit of power that Xue's Law could use.

The energy stored in the Flowing Sands is being consumed at an extremely rapid rate. In his current state, Xue Lude can only rely on the power of this treasure to summon the Destroyer God.

This was his final blow.

Mephisto clearly realized that this was her last bit of power; if she could withstand this attack, she could escape this space.

Here, her abilities were largely crippled, and she was absolutely locked down by Xue's Law. In this battlefield, her strength was reduced to less than one-tenth. In particular, almost all of her defensive spells could be dismantled by her teacher.

"Spell: Concealment!" She immediately unleashed her life-saving ability.

"Seclusion - Solution!"

"Substitute Death Technique: Straw Man!"

"Substitute Death - Release!" Faust used a completely opposite inscription to release Mephisto's other spell.

“Teacher, there is a misunderstanding between us. I can love the world, I can love people, but my position doesn’t allow it! Our world has been discovered by another apostle. Only by offering up our population will she give us enough time to breathe!”

“You know nothing, teacher!” Mephisto roared.

……

In her memory, she seemed to have returned to that summer of their graduation duel. In the clash of their two domains, after the spell was easily dispelled by the teacher, Mephisto actually smiled.

He is a genius, he is not from this world, he is the son of Zuo Qianhu, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

However, in this life, although he was an orphan, he was a child blessed by the world.

"Teacher, please watch closely. This is my original creation, a technique that completely breaks through your domain!" Mephisto smiled, and the next moment, his domain completely merged into Faust's domain.

"What kind of spell is this!" At this moment, Faust finally showed a look of astonishment when facing his 16-year-old student.

"Teacher, this is the method I obtained from researching domain techniques. It can completely break another person's domain in a short time. It involves completely combining one's own domain with another person's, and then detonating one's own domain. I call this technique..."

"Domain collapse!"

"And the price for releasing this spell is to create a domain by polluting the world from within with one's own soul!"

……

In the space of consciousness, Faust's expression remained unchanged. In the next instant, his pseudo-omniscient domain shattered and disintegrated within Mephisto's domain.

The fragments of the domain transformed into countless points of light, drifting before his eyes and scattering at the point where the two met.

"Teacher! Are you going to use that spell?!" Mephisto roared. "That's exactly the spell you're thinking of," Faust chuckled, muttering to himself.
"Domain collapse!"

The pseudo-omniscient domain merged into Mephisto's domain instantly, like salt falling into the sea. However, at this moment, she roared and shouted, "Teacher, you know the price of this spell. Even in our prime, using this spell will still cause pain to our souls. The shattering of the domain will cause unimaginable damage to our spirit and will."

"And now we are all just souls. You will die after using it, Faust!" Mephisto's roar continued.

"Do you hate failure, Mephisto?" Faust laughed. He had long been prepared to die, not just now, but back during the Hymn Society.

"You are someone I taught. This is merely my final act of cleaning house." Faust smiled as he looked at the towering pillar of light in the sky, the dark purple annihilation energy seemingly tearing this subspace apart.

"I have no complaints about taking you on this journey, Mephisto!" Faust laughed. At this moment, his last remaining soul shattered completely, merging into Mephisto's domain along with his pseudo-omniscient domain.

"Teacher! You can't do this! You can't!"

"Goodbye, Mephisto, come to hell with me!" Faust's final voice completely merged into her domain, as if it came from within her body.

The next moment, "click!"
Mephisto's domain began to crumble; the divine tree in the background, the twilight sky, and the earth that seemed to have been destroyed all shattered like a mirror.

Mephisto's last remaining soul also began to disintegrate.

If she weren't in this unknown subspace, she would have had a million ways to dodge her teacher's attack that caused the domain to collapse.

If her own domain weren't actually located in another "domain," she would also have the strength to persevere even after the domain collapsed.

If her strength hadn't been reduced to a mere tenth here, and if all her illusions hadn't been broken the moment she used them, she would have had countless ways to dodge the following attacks.

But there are no "what ifs" in life.

The moment she was forcibly pulled into the consciousness space, her death was already inevitable. Mephisto probably knew this too, so she never thought about fighting Faust to the death, but rather about persuading Faust to understand her and feel her hardships.

They are the closest people in the world, both in the past and present. Why have they fallen into a situation where they are fighting each other to the death?
She couldn't figure it out.

Now, there was no need for her to figure it out. The annihilating pillar of light crashed down, and Mephisto, along with her entire soul, body, and last energy state, completely disintegrated under this destructive power.

It was completely transformed into the purest quarks and utterly annihilated in this subspace.

The Destroyer Colossus planted the equally annihilated greatsword into the consciousness space, looking at the wretched state of the consciousness space, yet his heart remained completely unmoved.

The 12th apostle died completely.

Xue Lu looked at the earth that had been completely flattened by the annihilation beam, along with Faust's hut and a large part of the roots of the divine tree, which were completely destroyed. The roots rolled around and barely managed to fill in the pitted and uneven ground.

Although he had tried his best to avoid his own magic academy, the aftershocks of the light cannon still destroyed a large number of facilities within the academy.

Xue Lu looked up at the sky. For some reason, he had a feeling of unreality. However, it was only through so much scheming and the collapse of Faust's final domain that they were able to kill this apostle.

“Now, I’ve used up all the energy of the [Sand of Flowing Light].” Xue Dinglu silently looked at the hourglass on his chest.

Now, only a very small amount of gravel remains, scattered sparsely.

And it seemed as if his original emotions had vanished along with the disappearance of these grains of sand.

“However, we still won.” Xue Dinglu returned to his original spot, thinking of Faust.

When he was preparing to target Harley Alban, he told Xue that he would use everything he had to hold off Mephisto's spell and deliver the decisive blow to Xue.

And he did it. Whether it was enduring the ultimate humiliation of using his beauty to seduce Mephisto, or holding Mephisto back twice in a row, he kept all his promises.

And the promise of Schrödinger's Law...

"I will restore this world to its former order, Faust, at least to a better one than the one you once knew." Xue Dinglu silently stared at the empty ceiling in his consciousness space, unable to feel any emotional fluctuations.

Even though Faust might never see him again, he remained completely unmoved.

"It's all over now. I need to find out the connection between this world's consciousness and the 12th Apostle, and also to completely eliminate the nobles of this world," Xue Dinglu said.

……

When he left the space of consciousness, he found that, as he had expected, he was now able to reconnect with the world's consciousness.

However, at this moment, the world consciousness was actually an "empty shell"!
Xue's Law arrived at the core of the world, but there was nothing there. The consciousness of this world should have been like that of Earth, the kind of world consciousness that could rescue people in subspace.

This kind of status is unique in the world as understood by Xue's law, and even surpasses that of Margaret.

Perhaps only after Margaret completely absorbed Hell will she have such power.

When the 12th Apostle was still around, Xue Law dared not contact the world consciousness at all, but now he found that there seemed to be no world consciousness at all.

Impossible. If they could retrieve Mephisto's soul from the warp, how could they not?

But the truth is that now, the whole world has "consciousness," but this "consciousness" is an empty shell, similar to a person in a vegetative state, with only basic reactions and logic, but no clear thinking ability.

"Perhaps there are still many issues that I haven't been able to investigate," Xue Dinglu said.

In particular, the fact that Mephisto became a woman, both in body and soul, is the biggest point of contention.

He began preparing to pull out the backstage of this world.

The priority was to find the information that Mephisto had been discovered by the world, and soon Xue's Law found the record from 400 years ago.

In the year 14589 of the Loren calendar, the 574th attempt to search for information from the warp... captured an unknown soul, began acquiring its memories and traits, and began modifying the soul to adapt it to itself...

In the year 14590 of the Loren calendar, the 575th attempt was made to search for information from the warp, involving the apostles, the Mist Council, and the invaders...

In the year 14599 of the Loren calendar, the apostles discovered my trail. I could no longer passively hide and needed to get rid of this situation where I could not escape the pull of gravity and my position. But the gravity of the stars, damn it!
But why should I be afraid of the apostles?
In the year 14627 of the Loren calendar, why can't I become an apostle?
In the year 14687 of the Loren calendar, the Ascension Plan was completed. The attempt was to transform the soul's qualities in that ritual into my own unique "will," and to use that soul as a starting point to retrace the Apostle's "Path of Ascension"!
This is a waste utilization of the soul from another world. The only drawback is that this path to ascension will completely seal off one's consciousness, requiring one to relive the life centered on the soul's memories. Otherwise, one cannot truly ascend to become an apostle.

Once I become a complete Apostle, I will be able to reclaim my authority, possess the power of an Apostle, and the status of my planet, and thus elevate myself, so that my power is not limited to my own planet!

With this spirit, ascend to the Apostle!
……

Upon seeing this, even Xue Dinglu, who had lost the emotions of [Flowing Sands], felt an indescribable...horror... (End of Chapter)