"In terms Damien can understand, Demon Lord Seeds have strength roughly between surface and star-destroying level."
"S-rank True Demon Lords, at full power, can destroy a galaxy."
"For Special S-rank, based on Veldora's earlier power as a baseline, we can conclude..."
"Special S-rank calamities possess universe threat destructive power."
This universe threat power isn't enough to truly destroy a universe, but it can obliterate all matter and rules within it.
To use creation as an analogy...
It's the ability to destroy everything a creator has made, without shaking the world itself.
"Hm, I get the gist of it."
Damien wasn't worried about Veldora. Without an Ultimate Skill, Veldora was merely Velzard's battery.
'The real threat is still Velzard...'
As Damien thought this, he saw Veldora's body flare with light. Hundreds of magical beams, as if tearing the starry sky apart, surged toward him.
These beams were incredibly fast.
Utilizing techniques of spatial folding and time acceleration, they were guaranteed to hit even in cosmic space.
'Locked on, huh?'
Realizing this, Damien stopped dodging: "Violet, how's Veldora's magic consumption?"
"Almost no loss!"
Despite such intense bombardment, Violet sensed no decrease in Veldora's magic.
"As expected of the True Dragon with the largest magicule pool."
If it were just this, Veldora could keep fighting indefinitely.
That's Veldora's dominance!
"Unfortunately, this level isn't enough to make me take it seriously."
Damien raised his hand and gave a light wave.
The next moment, all the beams aimed at him were swallowed by the void.
"Here's a gift!"
Damien smiled at Velzard: "Come taste your brother's affection for his sister!"
"Tch!"
Velzard had planned to gauge Damien's strength while letting her foolish brother wear him down.
But as she looked up, the surrounding space suddenly twisted.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
In an instant, hundreds of magical beams erupted from all directions, surrounding Velzard in her human form.
"That idiot Veldora..."
Velzard was annoyed. She didn't want to tank her foolish brother's magical bombardment in human form.
So, a translucent ice curtain enveloped Velzard.
"Buzz~~"
The magic converged, engulfing Velzard.
Then, matter collapsed, and space warped.
A small black hole appeared where Velzard stood, expanding and devouring nearby planets, light, and energy entirely!
"So, so strong!"
"Is this the power of True Dragon?"
Protected by Damien's power, Shizu and Rimuru could still feel the terror of Veldora's attack.
But Damien didn't focus on the terrifying astronomical phenomenon like the two girls.
His attention was on how Velzard blocked Veldora's attack!
Yes, Velzard was in perfect condition.
Let alone injured... she wasn't even touched by a speck of stardust.
"A space-time skill?"
"To twist even Veldora's magic to this extent..."
Floating within the black hole, Velzard looked at Damien, completely unaffected: "Your Ultimate is related to space-time?"
"Buzz!!"
As she spoke, the expanding black hole shattered.
Yes, not vanished, not closed, but shattered.
"What's going on?"
"The black hole was erased?"
Shizu couldn't comprehend the scene, but Rimuru, with the Great Sage's analysis, noticed the issue: "It wasn't erased; the rules clashed."
"What does that mean?"
With Shizu's strength, she couldn't yet touch the level of rules.
"How do I put it?"
Rimuru wasn't entirely sure either, but she relayed the Great Sage's explanation: "It's like a whirlpool in water. Even without external force, the whirlpool persists, just slowing down gradually."
That's a normal phenomenon under the rules.
But just now, Velzard used some unknown method to erase 'motion' and 'change.'
It was like forcibly pressing a pause button, wiping out the kinetic energy, inertia, and all conditions causing the water to spin.
Honestly, Rimuru couldn't comprehend this.
Logically, even without kinetic energy, there's still inertia, right?
How could a whirlpool just vanish?
It's too unreasonable!
But Velzard's Ultimate Skill did exactly that... breaking common sense.
An Ultimate Skill uses the power of rules to create bugs.
Merely erasing a black hole was nothing to Velzard.
"Ultimate Skill: Lord of Patience."
"That ice curtain around her wasn't water or ice... it was the concept of 'fixation.'"
Violet's voice sounded in Damien's ear, and he nodded in realization: "An ability similar to the Snow Empress's?"
"Yes, but this power is far stronger than the Snow Empress's."
"The Snow Empress can fundamentally disrupt rules."
The difference is like that between a GM and a programmer.
A GM uses permissions, while a programmer writes them.
"Immobility, stillness, fixation, unchanging."
"It wipes out all chaos, ferocity, and motion, leaving only eternal calm."
In scientific terms, Velzard's Lord of Patience could be described as 'entropy reduction.'
And it wasn't just manipulating entropy reduction as a phenomenon... Velzard herself was the embodiment of entropy reduction!
"Feeling bad for your creation?"
"Hmph, this is the price of provoking your sister!"
Velzard ignored Veldora, her eyes glowing gold.
Then, burning stars began to extinguish.
Planets' rotations and orbits abruptly stopped, as if the forces supporting these phenomena were erased.
Light ceased to travel, as if an invisible black-and-white curtain was being drawn over the radiant galaxy by a giant hand, plunging the entire universe into dead silence.
"The Lord of Patience, one of the Seven Virtues..."
Damien didn't stop her, instead watching Velzard's actions with keen interest.
He knew exactly what she was trying to do.
Using the Lord of Patience's entropy reduction, she aimed to drain the entire universe's energy, driving it into self-annihilation.
With Velzard's magic, she couldn't cover an entire universe with her Ultimate authority.
But one or two galaxies? That was no problem.
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