The battle between the two sides has reached a fever pitch.
This was like a replay of the previous battle. No matter whether it was Fang Zheng or Chaos Knight, every blow they made would split the sky and tear the earth apart. All creatures caught in it, no matter if they were Chaos Beasts or Zergs, would be ruthlessly torn into pieces in an instant by that extremely powerful force.
At this moment, the others had already moved away, nervously watching the battle far away. Fang Zheng had no intention of asking them to come up to help, even Nanoha and Fate were the same. In this situation, he could exert a more powerful force alone, without having to distract himself from paying attention to the safety of others.
“Ding! Ding! Ding!”
The black and white blades intertwined, Fang Zheng's pitch-black sword was not an ordinary thing, and the white long sword in the hands of the Chaos Knight seemed to be quite impressive. Every time Fang Zheng tried to use the "vampire" special effect of the pitch-black sword, he would feel that the power of existence did not work immediately after flowing into the opponent's sword, but disappeared completely as if it was decomposed and dissipated. Not only that, this sword seemed to have a magic immunity effect. The magic missiles and other magic released by Fang Zheng were basically split by the Chaos Knight's sword and did not pose any threat.
Fang Zheng's sword-repelling technique, which had always been invincible, finally met its match.
As the saying goes, a man never steps into the same river twice. Chaos Knight was tricked twice by Fang Zheng's bullet counter and gun counter, and even lost his own unicorn. If he didn't know that there was a problem, he should have died in the Holy Church Civil War.
So Chaos Knight also used his signature skill - releasing sword energy!
This type of sword energy release is not the kind of thing where you swing the sword and then release a stream of sword energy to attack the enemy. On the contrary, he condenses the sword energy outside the sword body and uses the sword energy to expand the attack range.
Facing this kind of attack, Fang Zheng's parry was useless. Whether it was parry or gun parry, it needed to hit the enemy decisively and surely. However, parry was blocked by the sword energy and could not hit the blade itself, so it was ineffective. Gun parry was too easy to dodge. Even if Fang Zheng could control the bullet to turn, the opponent was not a big and weak old black soul monster. The reaction and speed of the Chaos Knight were not much slower than Fang Zheng. Even if Fang Zheng used gun parry, he would be directly blocked by the opponent.
But this does not mean that Fang Zheng is helpless!
“Drink…!”
Realizing that the opponent was wary of bullet and gun counterattacks, Fang Zheng decisively put away the white dagger, then raised the black greatsword in his hand and slashed at Chaos Knight. The Chaos Knight also suddenly raised his long sword and rushed towards Fang Zheng's greatsword.
At the moment the two sides intersected, time began to overlap!
Sword of One!
The power accumulated in this attack within 1,537 time and space exploded completely at the moment of the collision, causing the space behind the Chaos Knight to tremble violently. A gully hundreds of meters deep even appeared out of thin air on the thick ground, extending far to the other side of the horizon.
This force was enough to turn everything in front of it into dust, but for Chaos Knight, he simply gripped his sword tightly and snorted coldly.
"snort!!"
Along with this cold snort, Fang Zheng felt that the power he had output was suddenly destroyed, disrupted, and shattered. The powerful force that could crush everything was like hitting a high-speed crusher at this moment, and was directly crushed to pieces.
However, this is not without cost.
“Click…click…”
He used the power of chaos to neutralize Fang Zheng's attack, but Chaos Knight's armor also had tiny cracks. In any case, he was just an outlet for chaos, not chaos itself. Facing Fang Zheng's attack, if he wanted to completely neutralize it, as an outlet, he would also suffer a certain degree of damage.
But Fang Zheng was also feeling bad.
It is often easier to destroy than to build.
The swordsmanship created by Fang Zheng is based on his ability to manipulate time. Time itself is an orderly, precise pointer. At the moment, Fang Zheng feels as if he has painstakingly built a model with building blocks to fight, and the opponent has just swung a hammer and smashed it to pieces. However... do you think this is the end? !
Fang Zheng, who missed the attack, quickly jumped back. At the same time, hundreds of golden whirlpools appeared behind him, and a number of magical weapons emerged from them.
Then, time stopped moving.
At this moment, countless time branches were activated.
Fang Zheng stretched out his hand.
He grasped the bright red, cold spear and threw it forward.
The bowstring in his hand was pulled to its full extent, emitting the brilliance of a shooting star.
The golden holy sword was swung down, and with its dazzling brilliance it turned into a raging wave of light.
The colorful light tears through space and destroys civilization.
The cold blade follows the trajectory of death, destroying everything.
Among the king's treasures, 32,521 treasures released an unparalleled attack on the same target at this moment, this minute, and this second.
Then, time began to flow.
Tens of thousands of timelines began to rapidly extend towards Chaos Knight. As long as they reached the end, the fate of Chaos Knight would be completely determined!
However……
"wishful thinking!"
With a roar, Chaos Knight suddenly clenched the sword in his hand and raised it high. Then, a violent hurricane broke out with him as the center!
Time, space, cause and effect, at this moment, everything lost the constraints of the law of order and began to become chaotic and broken. The tens of thousands of timelines that Fang Zheng had fabricated were also directly involved and then ruthlessly torn into pieces!
The connection between cause, process and result is broken.
The connection between the beginning and the end is erased.
No matter how terrible or powerful those attacks are.
As long as it has never existed, it has no meaning!
But, this is not the case!
“I caught you!”
At this moment, Fang Zheng's figure suddenly appeared behind Chaos Knight. Holding a greatsword in his hand, he stabbed Chaos Knight in the back.
At this moment, Fang Zheng's eyes were extremely clear.
In his mind, he was recalling something that happened a long time ago... a long time ago... Of course, strictly speaking, it wasn't too long ago.
That was when he and Fina fought side by side for the first time to close the gates of hell.
At that time, Fang Zheng once said something to Fina.
“Since the characteristics of chaos are uncertainty and disorder, does this mean that chaos itself is also a part of order?”
According to the time of the main world, it may not even be two years yet.
But to Fang Zheng, it seemed like it happened a long time ago.
What is order? What is chaos?
If order can give a definition to chaos, are the two sides really necessarily opposites?
At this moment, Fang Zheng seemed to finally understand why the things created by the Goddess of Order in this world, according to Nymph, only set goals and results, and omitted all the processes in between...
No, that's not ellipsis, that's black-boxing.
Just like Schrödinger's box, before you open the box, the living cat and the dead cat exist in it at the same time.
However, whether the cat inside is alive or dead only matters to the person who wants to open the box.
To everyone else, does it matter whether the cat in the box is alive or dead, or whether there is a cat in the box?
No.
Just like when most people take an elevator, they don’t care what principle the elevator uses to operate. They just know that the elevator can safely take them from point A to point B.
Back then in the goddess' bathhouse, Nymph almost burned her brain out over this matter, but Fang Zheng and Fina obviously didn't care about it.
Because...it really doesn't matter.
What matters is not the process, but the result!
It turns out that if something is impossible, then it is a finite improbability. And an infinite improbability is that it must have a result.
Because it is infinite and non-probabilistic.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about how I killed him, because I just need to kill him! I don't have to think about these problems myself, I just need to find that point in time and jump there!
As for the steps and processes in between...what does it have to do with me?
That’s right, this was exactly what Fang Zheng came up with when he suddenly had an idea based on the goddess’ previous actions.
Four Swords!
“Puff!!”
The sharp sword pierced Chaos Knight's heart and passed through his body. Chaos Knight's movements also stopped at that moment. He turned his head and looked blankly at Fang Zheng who appeared behind him, with disbelief in his eyes.
"Why are you here?"
Chaos Knight couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't understand it either. He had already exerted all the power of chaos, tearing apart the surrounding space, time, and everything. Logically speaking, no creature of order could resist this power and come to him, because around him, even space itself was chaotic and uncertain.
However, Fang Zheng appeared here and pierced his body with a sword.
"How should I know? I don't care."
Facing Chaos Knight's puzzled gaze, Fang Zheng shrugged.
"Look, I wanted to kill you, and now I've killed you, and that's enough, isn't it?"
"boom!!!"
As Fang Zheng finished speaking, the scorching first flame instantly burned from the greatsword, and it flowed into Chaos Knight's body along the wound. The next moment, Chaos Knight's surface began to break and split. He stared at Fang Zheng blankly, seemingly unable to understand what he was saying.
"This...is not order."
"So, what is order?"
Fang Zheng stared at him without blinking.
"Order is... truth..."
Chaos Knight muttered to himself, he reached out and tried to grab something.
"What, then, is truth?"
Fang Zheng still didn't care. It was all meaningless. Perhaps the sentence "What is truth?" he said now could travel through a wormhole to a galaxy thousands of light years away, and then cause a war that would last for thousands of years and cause hundreds of millions of casualties. Then, when both sides realize the culprit who provoked their war, they will gather a huge expeditionary force to destroy the earth and mankind.
Then, when the fleet was traveling through space, it miscalculated the size and ended up being swallowed by a dog.
This kind of thing will always happen, and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
This is reality, this is life.
"The truth... is..."
This time, Chaos Knight did not finish his words, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. However, a blazing flame burst out of his throat, his eyes began to melt, and black smoke began to come out of his ears and nostrils. Soon, Chaos Knight turned into a pile of black charcoal, slowly disappearing in the burning of the First Fire.
"call--!"
However, at this moment, Fang Zheng suddenly felt the air around him becoming sticky, and at the same time, Nymph's voice sounded in his ears.
"Master, be careful. We have detected an extraordinary and unobservable energy forming at the North Pole...!"
As soon as Nymph's voice fell, Fang Zheng saw a thick cloud of smoke suddenly rise from the sky, and then it turned into a hand that covered the sky and the sun, grabbing Fang Zheng. At the same time, Fang Zheng saw Chaos Knight's body break with a "snap", and then, a fist-sized, shining, colorful, crystal-like thing came out of Chaos Knight's body and flew towards the big hand.
What is that?
Fang Zheng didn't have time to think about it. He wouldn't care about this issue now. For Fang Zheng, he would oppose everything the enemy supported. He would support everything the enemy opposed. From this, if it was something the enemy wanted to destroy, he would definitely protect it. If it was something the enemy wanted to protect, then he would definitely grab it!
Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng hesitated for a moment, then suddenly stretched out his hand, summoned the Dimension Codex, took out a soul stone from it, and crushed it with force!
"roar--!!"
The Star-Forging Dragon King suddenly appeared from the void, roaring and leaping towards the strange big hand, colliding heavily with it. Fang Zheng took the opportunity to rush forward, grabbed the crystal and put it away.
At the same time, the Star-Forging Dragon King and the big hand collided heavily.
“——!!!”
The violent air currents blocked out the sky and even a huge hole was torn in the atmosphere at the North Pole. The howling cold wind rushed up and swept away everything.
When Fang Zheng opened his eyes again, the huge hand that appeared inexplicably had disappeared, and the Star-Forging Dragon King was quietly staying at the top of the sky, staring at him.
Then, its body began to collapse.
“What bad luck…”
Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng sighed helplessly.
This did not mean that the Star-Forging Dragon King and the mysterious big hand died together. The reason was very simple - the Star-Forging Dragon King's soul stone had been used up.
Originally, Fang Zheng did not intend to use the Star Forging Dragon King, but the huge hand was coming with such a fierce momentum that it was not a good thing at first glance. In addition, its momentum was so strong that soul stones of the level of Malthael and Arthas would definitely not be its opponents. So Fang Zheng had no choice but to use the Star Forging Dragon King for the last time.
Although I don’t know what that thing is, fortunately it has been saved.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng once again looked at the strange crystal that he had stored in his inventory.
As for what this is...it seems that only the Goddess of Order can tell.
I hope this thing is worth the price I paid for sacrificing the Star-Forging Dragon King.