The two enemy teams charged as one.
Each member of Ava's team was attacked by two opponents at once.
STAR
Star faced two students.
One a descendant of the Selachin like Tavius wielded water magic and powers, forming blades and tidal waves with ease.
The other was a high-level spellcaster, floating with her Grimoire open, radiating pure magical force and overwhelming strength.
Star parried the water sword with flaming strikes, but the second girl hurled crushing spells from above. The pressure was intense.
DALLAS
Dallas faced a swordsman… with three swords.
One gripped in each hand.
The third clamped between his teeth.
With every swing, the student shattered higher-dimensional space, cutting reality itself.
Before Dallas could recover, another attacker appeared a mage with a magical bow, drawing back an arrow glowing with lethal power.
Dallas blocked one sword strike with his engine blade, but the bow user was about to fire
DEMETER
Demeter was slammed back as one student grew in size each second 10 feet, 50 feet, 200 feet her strength multiplying with every growth.
The second opponent darted around her at blinding speed, reading from Grimoire that enhanced every movement.
Demeter slammed her spear, trying to reshape the earth but the speedster struck her from behind.
She stumbled.
AVA
Ava fell back, eyes locked on his team.
They were being overwhelmed.
If I don't move now… they'll fall.
He vanished.
Velocity Sync.
In an instant, Ava appeared beside Star just as the water-wielder raised a sword of liquid pressure to decapitate her.
Ava's eyes flashed.
"Chaos Counter."
His black sword flared into chaotic flame, the perfect corrupted mirror of water.
The chaos blade tore through the water sword like smoke, obliterating it.
Star reacted instantly.
"Thanks."
She unleashed a pink solar blast, blowing both her attackers across the battlefield.
Ava didn't stop.
He shot toward Dallas, who was seconds from being carved apart by three cosmic blades.
"Chaos Counter!"
Three chaotic swords materialized one in Ava's mouth, two in his hands mimicking the enemy's technique with perfect precision.
He slashed once.
The chaotic version overpowered the original, shattering the cosmic wind technique and blasting both enemies back.
He vanished again this time reappearing beside Demeter.
A colossal student descended from above, foot raised to crush her into the sand.
BOOM.
Ava appeared in front of her like a thunderbolt.
His voice was calm.
"Chaos Counter."
WHOOOOOOM!!!
A single punch.
Reality detonated.
A massive black fist of chaotic energy exploded from his arm, engulfing the air and launching the giant attacker across the desert, the shockwave shaking the dunes and rattling the bones of ancient titans buried in the earth.
Before the dust even settled
Demeter moved.
A golden spear manifested in her hand with a flash of radiant fury.
"Move," she snarled.
She hurled the spear like lightning.
CRACK!!!
The second attacker was blasted off his feet, the impact carving a trench through the wasteland as golden energy rippled through the sky.
Demeter spun the spear back into her hand and glanced at the rest of the team with a smirk.
"About time," she said, amused.
Ava's team regrouped back-to-back.
Their enemies, battered and furious, looked up to their two leaders floating above.
"KEEP FIGHTING!" Mortis Regalia, Lord of Resurrection commanded.
"ATTACK THEM!" Axiom Zerath , Paradox Titan added.
Both enemy teams roared and charged again.
Battle chaos erupted.
Blades clashed. Magic exploded. Bodies flew.
But high above the battlefield…
The two leaders watched with narrowed eyes.
"He's the problem," Axiom said. "As long as Ava stands, they have a chance."
Mortis smirked. "Then we kill him first."
They moved.
Ava parried one spell and kicked an attacker aside just in time for a devastating punch to crash into his ribs.
CRACK!
Before he could recover
BAM!
A second hit slammed into the side of his skull.
The combined force sent him flying across the battlefield, tearing through bone structures and ancient sand pillars.
He crashed into the ground hard, rolling across the desert until he came to a stop.
Ava's vision blurred.
He forced himself to rise, blood trickling from his lip.
He looked around.
He couldn't see his team.
But directly in front of him…
Floating calmly in the air…
Were the two leaders.
Mortis Regalia – Lord of Resurrection.
Axiom Zerath – Paradox Titan.
They hovered above him like executioners.
Ava tightened his grip on his sword.
His heartbeat was steady.
His eyes… slowly turned more gold.
"Alright," he whispered.
"…let's see what you've got."
Mortis Regalia laughed, voice like knuckles against a coffin lid as he hovered over Ava. "You look scared," he taunted. "You really think your teammates can last without you?"
Paradox Titan smiled coldly beside him. "No," he said. "He's scared because he knows we're going to kill him."
Ava's jaw tightened. "I have confidence in my team. They don't need me. And you two will be finished soon."
Mortis's grin widened. "You should be scared. Back home In my multiverse, I am the Lord of Resurrection I am the concept itself." He spread one hand; corpses in the dunes trembled and twitched as invisible threads pulled at their bones, knitting flesh to bone at his command.
Axiom's eyes flashed. "And I" he boomed"am Infinity. I make paradoxes happen; I fold contradiction into reality and multiply infinity itself."
Ava watched them, the words registering. Concepts, he thought. How weak. Let's see what this body can handle.
He dropped into a fighting stance, black sword firm in his grip.
Mortis raised his staff.
The earth answered.
Sand split. Bones rattled.
Skeletons and dead warriors of every kind clawed their way out of the ground, marching toward Ava like a tidal wave of death.
Even the monsters they had already slain began to reassemble skin knitting back together, armor snapping into place, eyes reigniting with undead hunger.
And as if that wasn't enough
more undead began to pour in from every direction of the desert, summoned from other realms, other battles, other timelines.
Mortis floated above, serene and cold.
"You will never win," he intoned. "My army is infinite endless dead I can summon and revive."
Beside him, Axiom extended one hand.
Space folded.
Reality coiled.
The air around Ava twisted into a shimmering cage.
An infinite-dimensional bubble began to form around him stretching endlessly in every direction.
Axiom smirked as the barrier locked into place.
"And with Infinity, I trap you in a pocket domain an endlessly long bubble that keeps you here, forever out of reach."
They laughed as the undead surged.
Ava did not flinch.
He stepped forward and sliced, his blade shrieking through the air as black demonic light erupted in every direction.
A halo of chaos his Demonic Halo flared above his head, spinning like a crown of darkness.
Chaotic thunder coiled along his blade, lightning alive with corruption.
He tore through the hordes.
SLASH! Corpses split in half.
BOOM! Chaos Thunder exploded from his sword, obliterating monsters and warriors alike.
CRACK! Black lightning tore through the sky, blowing apart undead soldiers by the dozens.
He used Chaos Counter whenever he could
Lightning that imitated and corrupted enemy attacks, turning their own power against them.
Strikes that unmade spells, shredding magic apart at the source.
But every time he killed one…
They stood back up.
Bones snapped back into place.
Flesh reformed.
Eyes reignited with undead hate.
Each corpse he felled simply reknit, crawling back to its feet.
How many are there?
Fatigue gnawed at his limbs.
The onslaught never ended.
They kept coming.
And coming.
And coming.
His breath grew short. His muscles burned. The desert was drowning in enemies.
Ava's golden eyes narrowed.
If Mortis and Axiom break through…
If my team gets overwhelmed…
I can't let that happen.
I can't lose to these two.
My team needs me.
I have to hurry… I need to defeat them fast so I can save them.
He paused mid-swing, chaos lightning crackling across his blade.
…What is this feeling?
Why do I care so much?
His chest tightened. It was strange. Unfamiliar. Almost painful.
It's the same feeling I had about my fake parents…
I never felt this emotion before…
Not until I was reborn.
The realization hit him like thunder.
His golden eyes flared brighter.
Whatever this feeling is…
I will fight with it.
From above, Axiom began raining down obliterating energy blasts that carved desert and bone alike. Ava dodged, but there were too many blasts, too fast. Explosions smashed into his flank, pain blooming like fire. He tasted blood. He could not fail them.
He inhaled slowly… then exhaled.
FWOOOM.
From his back, one black wing erupted into existence, unfolding like a shadow tearing through reality sleek, obsidian feathers crackling with purple lightning.
FWAAASH.
A second wing burst forth, the air warping from the force of its arrival as power surged around him.
Black and purple energy Chaos itself, the power of the Black Lotus exploded outward in a shockwave, blasting the undead armies backward like ragdolls.
The desert split. The sky shook.
Each wing held four golden eyes, unblinking and alive, mirroring Tenshi no Me watching everything, understanding everything.
The wings beat once…
And the entire world shuddered, as if reality itself bowed to his awakening.
Ava had ascended.
His transformation settled, wings spread wide as the dust began to clear. Ava lifted his head… and saw it.
Axiom, outside the pocket bubble dimension, floating safely above, raining down endless blasts into the prison he created.
Purple chaos energy coiled around Ava's arm, lightning dancing across his skin.
His golden eyes scanned the technique with perfect precision reading every layer of power, every paradox, every twist of Infinity itself.
Ava raised his sword.
Chaos Counter.
He swung once.
The corrupted force erupted from his blade, not as a reflection but as a devouring storm of chaos that tore forward, smashing through the incoming blasts.
It didn't stop there.
It pierced the barrier of the pocket dimension, then ripped through the infinite layers of space Axiom had created, shattering the "endless" distance like glass.
The chaotic strike broke through every layer of infinity…
…and reached Axiom on the outside.
The bubble trembled. Monsters staggered. The wings lit with a darker, purer flame: the Black Lotus awakening. Ava spun, a furious blur, and shouted, "Black Lotus Chaos Infinite Destruction!"
A wave exploded from him, black and purple like a supernova of void. It swept the pocket domain clean countless undead dissolved into motes that evaporated in the wake. The infinite tide collapsed inward and, for the first time, could not be reassembled.
Mortis and Axiom's faces shifted from arrogance…
to disbelief.
Mortis: "He he destroyed my army."
Axiom: "He tore through… my infinite layers… my pocket dimension
Mortis snarled, desperately calling the dead back. They rose then failed. The Black Lotus flame burned some deeper wound within the reanimation: their chance of revival snapped, seared away. "No" he whispered, panic breaking his regal tone. He tried again, hands trembling, but the corpses lay still, black char marking their ruins. What is this? he gasped.
Ava steadied his breath.
My Black Lotus wings are back… but how long can my body handle this power?
Even now, he could feel the pressure his muscles straining, bones creaking, reality itself weighing on him.
I have to finish this fight fast… before this form tears me apart.
His eyes lowered to the sword in his hand.
I wonder… can I awaken it too?
As if answering his thoughts, the blade began to change.
Slowly, black lotus petals of chaotic energy spiraled up the weapon, wrapping around it like living shadows. The sword extended, growing longer, heavier, more divine and more terrifying with every pulse of his wings.
CRACK… BOOM…
The air trembled as the transformation completed.
A single golden eye opened in the center of the blade unblinking, calm, all-seeing.
Ava lifted the weapon, feeling its true weight.
A slow, dangerous smile touched his lips.
"Good," he said quietly.
"The Black Lotus Sword… is in my hand."
Ava's golden eyes blazed, locking onto Mortis with divine precision. Tenshi no Me awakened fully, mapping every thread of existence and non existence around him until he found it the life string of the Lord of Resurrection himself. He reached out, saying velocity sink seized it, and tied his own to it, connecting essence to essence, concept to concept. The moment their strings intertwined, Ava moved vanishing in a blur of black light and reappearing before Mortis like a living nightmare.
The Black Lotus Sword struck clean through green-marbled armor and straight into the heart of resurrection. Mortis convulsed, his staff falling from his grasp as his eyes went wide in horror, feeling his own life strings unravel and burn. Axiom roared, leaping forward, his massive fist aimed to crush Ava but the blow met only air. Ava flickered, appearing again before Mortis, driving the blade deeper until the concept itself shattered.
Mortis screamed a sharp, ragged sound that split the desert then fell silent. His body flickered, broke apart into light, and vanished, expelled from the dungeon as reality refused to hold him. The points he had earned millions burst into golden ribbons, spiraling through the air before streaming into Ava. And as the light faded, Ava stood motionless, the Black Lotus Sword humming in his hand.
He had ended the Lord of Resurrection with his own law.
Axiom staggered, fury contorting his face. He gathered himself, clutching his arm where some wound bled. He glared at Ava with infinite hatred. "You won't" he hissed, voice low and jagged. "I will destroy you with my" He spat the last word like a curse. "infinite power."
Ava stood, chest heaving. The Black Lotus wings folded slowly. The golden eye on his sword pulsed once, accepting the stolen points' weight, and his voice was quiet but sure.
"Try," he said.
Above the ruined sands, the battlefield held its breath.
Before Paradox Titan could even finish speaking
BOOOOM!!
He was struck by a combined attack from Ava's entire team.
Star's flaming blast.
Demeter's golden spear strike.
Dallas's engine sword strike enhanced with energy constructs.
All three hit at once, creating a shockwave that sent Paradox Titan flying across the desert.
He crashed into a dune, skidding across bone and sand, eyes wide in surprise.
He looked up
And saw Ava's team running toward their leader.
Ava stood, still breathing heavily but unbroken.
"Glad to see you all safe," he said.
Demeter wiped blood from her lip. "Barely."
"You guys won, right?" Ava asked.
They nodded, each one bruised, exhausted, and running at half their strength.
Still…
Each of them had massive point totals hovering above their heads for a moment before fading.
They took their positions beside Ava, raising their weapons, staring down the last enemy Paradox Titan.
But before the final clash…
This is what happened in their fights.
STAR'S BATTLE
Star was attacked from every angle.
One of her opponents a Selachin student controlled magical water that hardened into cutting blades and crushing tendrils.
The second student floated above with her Grimoire open, summoning massive ethereal ninja blades that rained from the sky.
Star dodged, weaving through the storm of water and steel.
She needed time.
She bought it.
Then…
She unleashed her spell.
"Flame Legion!"
Flaming warrior constructs erupted around her an entire army of blazing avatars.
They charged forward, clashing with the enemy spells, intercepting attacks.
Star darted in
Her sword became a blazing line of destruction, slicing clean through both enemies in a single fluid motion.
Victory.
DALLAS' BATTLE
Dallas faced the three-sword swordsman, who slashed with such force that each swing cut through mountains in the distance.
At the same time…
The second enemy fired magical arrows that locked onto Dallas's signature and chased him no matter where he moved.
Sword slashes from one side.
Homing arrows from the other.
Dallas had to outthink them.
He lunged past the swordsman, stabbed him, disrupting his stance, then summoned a construct shell to mimic his energy signature.
The arrows targeted the construct instead.
Dallas vanished.
Then reappeared behind the archer.
SLASH.
One clean strike.
Double Victory.
DEMETER'S BATTLE
Demeter was nearly crushed.
One student grew into a towering giant, stomping and trying to squish her flat.
The other was a super-speed mage, reading spells from his grimoire and punching her faster than she could see.
She was pinned down fists slamming into her face over and over.
Blood dripped from her lips.
And then…
She roared.
"I AM THE EARTH!"
The ground itself obeyed.
The battlefield warped mountains erupting, stone arms wrapping around her enemies.
She slammed her hands into the ground and cast her spell.
"TERRAN COLOSSUS!"
Massive earth giants erupted from the planet, towering above even the giant student.
Demeter leapt onto one, coating her arms in stone, fists enormous and unstoppable
BOOM!
One punch took down the speedster.
CRASH!
A second shattered the giant.
Victory by pure, brutal strength.
BACK TO THE PRESENT
All three stood beside Ava.
Battered. Scorched. Breathing hard.
But unbroken.
Together, they stared down the last remaining enemy…
Paradox Titan.
The battlefield fell silent.
A storm of power gathered in the air, thick and suffocating.
One enemy left.
One final battle.
Ava stepped forward, golden eyes glowing with calm fury.
"Your team… is gone," he said quietly. "You're next."
Paradox Titan's aura exploded outward like a collapsing star, tearing cracks in space itself. He bared his teeth, face twisting with rage.
"I am Infinity," he growled. "And I will erase you all."
His spellbook snapped open behind him, pages swirling like a vortex. He poured magic into himself, layering spell after spell, increasing his affinity until his power surged beyond logic infinite strength and infinite magic fusing together.
A massive sphere of reality-shattering energy formed in his hands, growing larger than mountains, warping the sky.
"It's over!" he roared, hurling the attack toward Ava's team.
Dallas staggered, barely standing. "I… I can't move."
Demeter tried to lift her spear but her arms trembled. "My body's done…"
Star exhaled shakily. "If that hits us… we're finished."
Ava's black wings flickered, struggling to stay materialized. His entire body screamed in exhaustion… but he still stepped forward.
"I think…" he muttered, voice low… "I've got one more left."
He launched into the sky, sword in hand, flying straight toward the incoming annihilation.
The energy blast roared like a god's judgment.
Ava's golden eyes scanned it instantly mapping every layer, every paradox, every infinite fold.
His sword ignited with black and purple chaos, lightning tearing across the sky.
He raised the blade.
"CHAOS COUNTER!!!"
SLASH!!!!
One swing.
His blade split the infinite blast in half, tearing it apart like paper, corrupting its power, devouring its infinity.
The counterstrike did not stop.
The chaotic energy rushed straight through the attack
and pierced Paradox Titan before he could even react.
The student's eyes went wide
"W-Wait"
SHHHK.
The Chaos Counter tore through his body, through his concept, through his claim to infinity itself.
There was no time to scream.
He died before the dungeon could return him to the Academy.
His body vanished on the spot
erased from the realm.
And then
ALL of his points every universe, every conquest, every infinite bonus poured into Ava like a cosmic flood.
As the light faded…
Ava hovered in the sky, wings dim but still open.
The battlefield was silent.
He had defeated Resurrection.
He had devoured Infinity.
And he still stood.
After the battle with Paradox Titan, Ava and his team were seriously injured.
They spent multiple days inside the dungeon recovering, fighting, conquering, and earning even more points. Their strength continued to rise. Their teamwork sharpened. Their dimensional power expanded.
Until finally…
It ended.
Their bodies began to glow with returning light, and in a flash of energy, they were pulled out of the dungeon and brought back to the Dark Lord Academy.
The massive arena buzzed with exhausted students. Some were limping. Some were silent. Some didn't return at all.
Professor Gorath Valoron stood at the front, arms folded behind his back.
"Congratulations to all who survived," he announced. His gaze swept the room. "And congratulations to the team… with the highest score in the entire dungeon."
Every head turned.
Ava's team.
A ripple of shock, envy, and awe spread through the students.
Gorath dismissed the class, and as everyone else left, he walked directly toward Ava's group.
He stopped in front of them, studying each of their faces.
"You four…" he said slowly. "You have shown the greatest growth I have ever seen."
He narrowed his eyes, baffled yet impressed.
"It's as if your dimensionality evolved in just one week inside the dungeon. Your energy… your presence… all of you feel completely different."
Demeter smirked with pride.
Dallas tried not to look too happy.
Star folded her arms, pretending to act casual.
Gorath nodded once.
"Keep this up… and your team will rise to the higher levels of the Academy sooner than anyone in history."
Ava felt a spark of opportunity.
This is my chance.
He reached out and gently placed a hand on Gorath's shoulder.
"Thank you," Ava said with a calm smile while secretly scanning of his energy, scanning it for the demonic presence.
Nothing.
Gorath stepped aside. "Head to your next class."
Ava and his team walked down the hallway, bruised but laughing, making jokes about everything that had happened.
Star bragged about slicing armies.
Demeter flexed, recalling how she punched a giant in the face.
Dallas claimed he "strategically" didn't die.
Ava stayed quiet, hands in his pockets.
So… he's not the one controlling the demonic eye either.
That makes four teachers I've scanned.
I need to hurry and find who it is… before they make a move.
He paused.
Interesting…
Inside the dungeon, the demonic eye didn't follow me. Maybe it has limits…
But as they turned the corner…
He didn't look up.
He didn't need to.
He could feel it.
Hovering near the ceiling… silent… patient…
The demonic eye was still watching him.
Unblinking.