Lucius looked around.
Space was still vast and empty.
An endless dark ocean with scattered, glittering diamonds that were silent and indifferent.
The battle he just fought had torn through hundreds of kiloters of vacuum, exploded energy into the void, and yet the cosmos remained unchanged.
There was not a single sound and even Jura’s blood... what little could exist in this environnt floated in small crimson orbs like distant stars.
’Even after all that... it’s peaceful.’
Lucius crossed his arms as he hovered in the void, the microgravity nudging him into a slow rotation.
There was no wind, no pressure, everywhere was just... still.
’I think I can live up here.’
He truly ant it.
Whenever he stepped into space, sothing inside him loosened like the chains binding his potential simply evaporated.
Here, he was limitless or for a more correct analogy... here, he felt like a god.
He tilted his head downward or at least what felt like downward. Jura’s headless corpse was falling far below, already swallowed by the haze of Earth’s atmosphere.
A streak of black against blue.
The Council would probably send recovery teams; maybe they’d panic, maybe they’d celebrate, maybe they’d try to yell at him again.
’Whatever.’
That wasn’t his problem anymore.
’One less annoyance to think about.’
Unless... Lucius narrowed his eyes.
’Actually, I should’ve vaporized him.’
He shrugged, it was too late now.
But sothing else caught his attention. Floating not far from his position was a massive structure... it long, cylindrical, rimd with rotating solar rings and blinking hazard lights.
A space station.
Right. This world had several of them... he rembered reading that in the Novel and Manhwa’s late arcs, though the details blurred together.
The stations monitored celestial threats: teor clusters, spatial aberrations, Void Creatures... and the rare monster that drifted into planetary orbit.
Humanity had advanced far enough to build steel fortresses in the void, but not far enough to conquer the moon.
He lifted his chin and looked toward the glowing lunar surface. The reason was obvious even from here... there were dark spots on the moon, dozens of them, like open wounds dotting the gray landscape.
Dungeon Gates.
They were buzzing and spilling mana into the lunar crust.
’Yeah... no wonder they never colonized it.’
One wrong step on the moon and you could awaken sothing eldritch.
He sighed.
’Damn, I wish soone stread this.’
And then, right on cue, he felt sothing... a ripple of awareness like a soft ping in his mind.
Lucius glanced toward Heaven’s Watch, the HW-01 orbital platform, and focused his vision.
The universe folded for his eyes alone.
Through an alloy-reinforced visor, through layers of polyr and shielding, Lucius saw a panicked human floating outside the station... tethered by a cable and clutching what looked like a reinforced smartphone.
Trent.
The low-ranking astronaut assigned to exterior maintenance.
The guy’s hands were trembling violently as he recorded the scene, the lens slightly tilted because of his shaking grip.
Lucius raised a brow.
’Well... looks like soone is streaming.’
Trent froze when Lucius turned and made direct eye contact with him from kiloters away. Even through the vacuum, his face visibly flushed under the helt.
[@Typhon: Hold the cara properly bro PLEASE]
[@SUCMYBALLAS: THIS IS HISTORY. DON’T SHAKE.]
[@Augene: Why is Stitch saying this stream is "possibly fabricated"??]
[@MaxwelltheBronc: Bro this ain’t AI, that’s literally Lucius fighting in SPACE]
[@DYETTI: YOU BETTER NOT DROP THAT PHONE, ASTRONAUT BOY]
Trent gulped so hard Lucius could see his throat bob.
’He can actually see ...? No way...’
He nervously waved back.
Lucius smirked..
He was about to head down when...
FWOOOSH.
A streak of red shot up past the upper atmosphere.
There was fire that blew outward in a violent cone, illuminating the void like a second sunrise.
Lucius’ eyes narrowed as the inferno washed over his skin, harmlessly dispersing.
’...The hell?’
A massive silhouette pushed through the flas and Lucius’ annoyance spiked instantly.
’Don’t tell —’
Before the thought finished, Jura’s fist lunged through the flas, crashing directly at Lucius’ face.
Lucius caught the punch with ease, fingers tightening around the scaled knuckles.
He carved out a pocket of space-dampening mana around them, collapsing pressure and oxygen to simulate breathable conditions.
"How," Lucius asked calmly, "the hell did you survive...?"
Jura bared his fangs. His severed head had fully reattached, the scar still glowing with mana.
His scales were darker, harder.
"You can’t hope to kill an immortal Dragon King with such a diocre thod," Jura hissed. "Tearing my head off my body won’t kill . Neither will burning , crushing , or drowning . mbers of my line cannot die so easily."
Lucius raised a brow.
"So only dragons of your bloodline can revive like this?"
"Yes," Jura said proudly. "My daughter shares my immortality. We transcend death itself."
Lucius nodded slowly.
"Oh, that’s wonderful."
He smiled then the smile sharpened.
"So you’re telling that even if I behead you repeatedly, you’ll just keep crawling back to annoy ?"
Trent zood in. .
"As long as even one cell remains," Jura declared, "I will revive. You have no way to—"
"How do I kill you?"
Jura blinked.
"What?"
Lucius tilted his head.
"Co on. Prideful dragon. You’re supposed to monologue. So tell : what’s the thod? I don’t enjoy guessing gas."
Hating himself, Jura answered instinctively.
"To kill , you’d need to obliterate entirely... reduce to bone, ash, and dust. No flesh must remain."
Lucius bead.
"That’s all?"
He let Jura shove him backward, giving them distance. Behind them, stars drifted lazily. Earth glowed below like a watercolor.
"Would you like to go for Round Two, Immortal Dragon?" Lucius asked. "I’ll make sure you regret surviving the first ti."
Jura roared which was silent in space but visually thunderous. Lucius cut the sound field and let the void swallow the noise.
He flicked Trent’s cara feed into the perfect viewing angle using a subtle Spatial mirror.
’Might as well give Earth a proper show.’
Lucius moved first.
He slamd a right hook into Jura’s cheek.
The impact bent the dragon’s jaw sideways, but Jura tanked it better than before... his skull was noticeably denser. Jura retaliated with a heavy punch, but Lucius pivoted to the side, letting the fist cut through empty cosmos.
He countered with a brutal space-packed kick, sending Jura spiraling away from Earth’s orbit.
Jura steadied himself and unleashed his full powered dragonfire... an infernal torrent that lted the world’s strongest tal and could split clouds.
Lucius didn’t bother shielding.
He simply walked through it.
Flas clung to him like liquid gold before dispersing harmlessly, exposing his scorched shirt or what was left of it.
His torso was bare now, his muscles were in full show right now as well as his trousers hich were singed at the edges, but he felt stronger.
’The further I get from Earth... the stronger Space feels.’
It was intoxicating.
He landed on Jura’s snout, forcing the dragon’s fanged mouth shut with one stomp.
Jura tried to recoil, but Lucius kicked off his face and drifted backwards, sparks dancing up his arms.
He exhaled.
"Why don’t I summon an asteroid on you, Immortal Dragon?" Lucius asked.
His eyes brightened... blinging with the glow of the Eyes of Space.
[@StarGazer: BROOOO HE’S ACTUALLY DOING IT]
[@VoidScholar: IS HE REALLY SUMMONING AN ASTEROID??]
[@CrimsonValkyrie: LUCIUS PLEASE DON’T END HUMANITY 😭]
[@BloodiedBlessing: LET. HIM. COOK.]
[@FrostedNebula: I CAN’T BELIEVE WE’RE WATCHING THIS LIVE]
Since Lucius was already floating in orbit, with his Eyes of Space fully awakened, sensing the asteroid belt wasn’t difficult.
Out in this vast emptiness, everything that carried even the slightest ripple of mana sang loudly to him.
Hundreds of drifting rocks circled the sun, so the size of mountains, so as tiny as grains of sand.
He didn’t need a world-killer.
He just needed sothing big enough.
Sothing that would erase Jura’s body completely.
His gaze drifted back to the Dragon King, who tried to force his wings open and increase the distance between them.
His instincts scread at him... whatever Lucius was about to do, it wasn’t survivable.
Lucius raised his hand lazily, almost playfully.
’Unless you kowtow and beg, there’s no chance in hell I’m sparing you.’
He doubted the dragon would, though. Pride and stupidity were nearly synonymous with a dragon.
He inhaled deeply and began shaping the space behind him.
He knew instantly that he couldn’t just teleport the asteroid into place. The mass, the speed, the gravitational consequences were too ssy.
So instead, he carved open a gateway.
A spatial tear from his location to a zone deep in the asteroid belt.
A strip of reality peeled back like a curtain, revealing the drifting asteroids behind the veil. The rift humd, pulsing with unstable energy as Lucius forced it wider.
His vision blurred briefly and a tallic taste filled his mouth.
’Even if I feel limitless out here... damn, this still takes a toll.’
He forced more mana through the structure, stabilizing the edges. The strain bit into his bones and coiled around his muscles, but he kept going.
And then...
Light.
The nose of an asteroid erged through the rift, glowing orange from solar exposure. Then more... and more.... The entire rock pushed through with violent force, roaring silently into realspace.
[@AstroDude: HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT IT’S REAL]
[@MagePhys: THAT GATEWAY SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE]
[@DragonHater69: STRAIGHT TO THE RUINS, BABY]
[@CosmicWitness: TRENTTTT, KEEP THE CARA STILL I’M BEGGING]
Lucius drifted upward, giving the asteroid an open path.
The mont the entire rock exited the gateway, the spatial tear collapsed, sending a painful shock up Lucius’ spine.
He gritted his teeth but didn’t let it show on his face.
The asteroid, now fully free, barreled straight toward Jura with apocalyptic montum.
The Dragon King panicked.
His wings snapped open as he tried to flee, but the gravitational pull wasn’t on his side. Still, he clawed desperately at the asteroid... which was a big mistake.
The mont his claws touched the superheated surface, they burned instantly, charring black imdiately.
He roared in agony, but space swallowed the sound.
Lucius watched with cold amusent.
"You’re immortal, right?" Lucius said calmly, drifting above. "You’ll revive."
Jura’s body pressed against the asteroid’s surface, unable to detach as the massive rock began its descent toward Earth.
Flas erupted violently as both asteroid and dragon hit the upper atmosphere, turning into a colossal burning streak across the sky.
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