After reaching the maximum level, my "soft rice system" finally arrived.

“I must admit that even though I have always valued you highly, I still underestimated you, underestimated humanity, and underestimated the potential of wizards.”

“You are the most formidable opponent I have ever encountered in my long life... Neither Lieyang nor your teacher can compare to you.”

The God of War gazed at the distant starry sky and expressed his sincere feelings.

Amidst the sea of ​​stars, the figure of the black-haired wizard had become extremely illusory, and the entire universe around him had become ethereal and uncertain.

The entire imaginary universe has reached its limit, and even the basic laws of physics are on the verge of collapse. Anyone can see how weak Charles, the master of the imaginary universe, is at this moment.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that after fantasizing about such a grand supernova explosion—

Ciel's soul and self-awareness were not yet shattered; he even retained the most basic sense of self...

This in itself is a miracle that can only be described as absurd.

However, in any case.

In such a state of spiritual exhaustion, Ciel had long lost the ability to fight, a fact that no one could change.

This is the difference between a physical body and a body of faith. Both are on the verge of collapse, but the God of War can recover to full strength in just a few minutes.

For humans, who are made of flesh and blood, the same process takes a very long time.

"This was indeed a magnificent battle. You, as a human being, drove me to such a desperate situation. You have every right to be proud of it."

"Unfortunately, history is always written by the victors."

"You believe that you are fighting so hard to protect civilization, to protect the world you cherish, called the Western Continent."

"However, when I descend upon that plane... all I need to do is first eliminate the group of rebels in power, and then select sensible and obedient individuals from the remaining survivors to instill their faith in me, so that they may spread my faith."

"In just a few decades or a hundred years, your past struggles, the golden age created by your wizards, everything will be forgotten by history."

"The names of the gods will be written into every kingdom across the continent, into every textbook and lesson read by children, and will be revered by all people..."

"And you, who once burned your soul to protect them..."

"Then they will be branded as heretics and rebels by the people of the Western Continent in later generations, abandoned in the dustbin of history, and despised by all the people."

Thus, the god of war walked step by step into the depths of the starry sea.

Then, they arrived in front of the black-haired wizard.

The starlight that had been overflowing in Charles's eyes slowly dimmed, and even the distorted fluctuations that surrounded him gradually dissipated.

At this moment, Sharl seemed no longer to be the deputy tower master of the Black Tower, the omnipotent "Arcane Throne"—but rather to gradually revert back to the boy who was indifferent to everything around him when he first transmigrated.

Charles's soul power seemed to have been completely exhausted, or perhaps he had truly been broken down by the God of War's heart-wrenching words, so much so that even when the God of War came to his side, he did not offer any further resistance.

Looking at Charles, who seemed to have been completely defeated and given up all struggle, the God of War smiled.

He gently reached out his hand and pressed it against Charles's forehead, whereupon a hazy, dim light gathered in his palm.

The power that Ciel wields, capable of materializing ethereal fantasies into reality, is the supreme mystery of the entire multiverse—

Even for a military genius like himself at this moment, it was extremely tempting.

The battle was now decided; the enemy was already a lamb to the slaughter, and it was time to reap the spoils.

If one could seize that supreme mystery of "manifestation of imagination," along with the "Secret Fire of the Goddess of Magic" wielded by the golden elf—

Therefore, the God of War may be able to completely skip the long accumulation process from a half-step true god to a true god and complete a new leap.

At that time, even the other supreme mysteries will no longer be able to pose the slightest threat to Him.

"Isn't it pathetic? Isn't it laughable?"

"With just a few small tricks and small favors from the true God, you can make those humans you once protected forget their past history, forget all their glory and hatred, and regard you, the hero who died protecting them, as an object of hatred."

"This is not a fabrication of my words, but a true account of what I, as a god, have personally witnessed in countless planes."

"Human beings, by their very nature, are as unreliable as reeds in the wind..."

"A beast that has never experienced sacrifice will never know how to celebrate life."

"What a pity, with your talent, you had the opportunity to ascend to the throne of gods like me—"

"Yet, for the sake of human emotions, which are no different from dreams and illusions... he gave up the opportunity to rise above humanity and become a great figure in the entire multiverse."

The dim yellow light gathered in his palm and slowly fell towards Charles.

"Abandon your ego, merge with me, and become one of my myriad projections and incarnations—"

"I will let you truly experience what transcends a single dimension, rises above civilization, and is revered by countless worlds and millions of lives—"

"That glory belongs only to great people."

......

"Actually, I am not as great as you imagine, and I have never had any grand ambition to protect the common people."

"That's something only a savior hero would do, and I've never considered myself a hero."

"As for the deep-seated hatred between you and the wizarding civilizations in other planes of the multiverse... I can empathize with them, but I have never experienced it myself. So, while I can empathize, I still lack a sense of reality."

Even though his soul was on the verge of collapse and his self-awareness was becoming blurred, Ciel was still smiling.

"But I really love the Darkest Tower—"

"I really like some of the people and things in the Black Tower."

"My teacher gave me a brand new home, a place to settle down and make a living, when I was displaced and lost because I was far away from my hometown."

A hint of tenderness flashed in Charles's eyes.

The vibrant, dark tower seemed to reappear before his eyes.

And within that dark tower—

All sorts of people silently awaited his return.

"A person's life—"

"There are always some things that are above others."

"But for me—"

"That pitch-black mage tower is the most precious treasure."

"Neither the glory of so-called great figures in the multiverse nor the reverence of millions of lives has the right to replace it."

Charles leaned slightly.

He lost his support and fell backward into the imagined, illusory sea of ​​stars.

Only those calm words remained, echoing through the sea of ​​stars.

"anyway--"

"And what exactly caused you to...?"

"Is a supernova explosion the illusion that it's the end of everything?"

The God of War looked on in bewilderment at Charles, who unleashed his power at the last moment, causing himself to plummet into the sea of ​​stars.

His personality naturally allows him to perceive this—

At this moment, Ciel was merely making a final desperate attempt, burning out the last bit of power deep within his soul.

His actions cannot change anything. With the broken mental image that Charles has conjured up in his imagination at this moment, the God of War can easily destroy it.

But, the next moment.

The god of war suddenly turned around.

Then, we saw the star that had lost all its energy and most of its mass after the supernova explosion—

However, the core remains of the star are still collapsing.

A supernova explosion is not the end of the story—

Rather, it is the starting point of something.

Under that immense gravitational force, the electron was compressed into the atomic nucleus, where it formed a neutron with the proton.

At this moment, the density of that stellar core remnant is tens of millions of times greater than that of the original star's core, making it a star composed purely of neutrons.

In a neutron star, each cubic centimeter of volume has a mass of hundreds of millions of tons. The God of War keenly perceived that, under the influence of that enormous mass, even the surrounding spacetime was slightly distorted.

however--

Neutron star

However, this is still not the end of everything.

Under the gravitational pull of that enormous mass, which exceeded the Oppenheimer limit.

Even the degeneracy pressure inside a neutron star can no longer balance the effects of gravity.

In the distorted time, the neutron star began to collapse further.

The basic structure of matter collapses, neutrons break down, and then further differentiate, squeezing and compressing deeper.

All mass is contained within a single singularity.

finally.

That original neutron star turned into—