Chapter 235: His Cosmic Punch Shattered the Ninth Strike!

After the activation, his eyes blazed with golden energy, and golden veins bulged all over his body, which even black and white lines could not hide.

At this moment, Luke felt that all of his muscles, bones, and every part of his body was filled with so much strength, that he could literally...

Destroy the world with one punch.

Of course, that was an illusion created by the huge influx of strength, and he also understood this.

So he brought back his full concentration toward the dark clouds, since he had only 10 seconds of absolute strength, or maybe even lower, as his body was not even in perfect condition.

Then it came, and his attack also followed suit.

THOOOOOOOOOM!!!

A colossal bolt combining the strength of all those 1,000 peak Golden attacks descended from the sky, striking toward Luke with catastrophic force.

And with only one objective.

*Erase the forbidden user.*

Luke also roared in defiance and shouted toward the heavens themselves.

"COSMIC PUNCH!"

Then he punched toward the colossal bolt, which anyone would call suicide, because the size difference between the attack was huge.

Like comparing a fly to a truck. So how could Luke’s punch even stop that?

Though, the lightning and Cosmic Punch didn’t stop because of the disparity.

And the instant Luke’s Cosmic Punch touched the colossal lightning, the world seemed to hold still.

As time froze itself.

And then came the result. Not in any form of declaration, but in the form of blinding light.

So bright that it blinded anyone within 100km.

"AHHHH!"

"MY EYES!!!"

Their cries echoed, but no one helped them, since they were also blinded.

While the people coming toward this area also stopped, because they could see this blinding light even from thousands of kilometers away.

Which resulted, that the Diamond Knights, who were waiting earlier for the essence cloud to disperse before checking it out,

immediately flying toward the area.

Since at A rank, everyone got the ability to fly.

Among them included Count Magnus and the demi-human marquis powerhouse who had destroyed the Barrus brothers’ family.

From afar, Theia watched all of this with a worried expression, because earlier she had completely lost vision of Luke’s area.

And now she could feel many new dreams entering her sight.

"I have to stop everyone." Theia muttered with quiet determination before activating her Origin Skill’s Ultimate Ability—Dream Well.

"Let all dreams become reality."

Her voice was soft, yet the moment those words fell, her lustrous purple hair began glowing with brilliant light.

Then her voice suddenly rose.

"DREAM CONVERGENCE!"

BOOOOOOM!

A vast surge of purple dream power erupted from Theia and swept across Luke’s surroundings.

In an instant, the world around him changed.

The land, the sky, and the distant mountains.

Everything within a 100-kilometer radius became enveloped by a mysterious dream world.

Reality itself seemed to blur as countless dreams began manifesting across the landscape.

Yet despite how massive the transformation appeared, it happened in an instant.

Far too fast for ordinary beings to react.

Even those at lower realms had no chance of responding before the dream power swallowed their surroundings.

Meanwhile, after the blinding light...

Came the deafening explosion.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The sound alone was catastrophic.

The world-shaking roar spread across nearly 100 kilometers, violently assaulting everyone’s ears and worsening the suffering of those who had already been blinded by the earlier light.

But Luke didn’t care about any of that.

His eyes remained fixed on the sky.

Because his Cosmic Punch had won.

The enormous storm of dark clouds covering the sky for nearly 100 kilometers had been pierced through its center.

A gigantic 1-kilometer-wide hole now existed within the dark heavens, as though something had punched straight through the sky itself.

Even the ninth lightning strike had been defeated.

Yet...

The resulting backlash was something far higher than Luke had anticipated.

The immense shockwave tore through the Cosmic System beneath him.

One after another, the celestial bodies began collapsing.

The asteroids exploded first.

Then the comets.

Then the moons.

And finally even the planet couldn’t withstand the overwhelming backlash.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

One celestial body after another shattered into millions of fragments, filling the Cosmic System with debris.

But even after destroying everything in its path, the shockwave continued.

It descended toward the surface of the Stormhowl Mountains, accompanied by the fragments of the destroyed celestial bodies.

BOOOOOOM!

The mountain surface within nearly a 1-kilometer radius was instantly obliterated.

The earth erupted outward as a devastating shockwave tore through everything in its path.

Trees were ripped from the ground.

Massive boulders were launched into the air.

Hills were flattened.

Even beasts hiding deep beneath the earth were caught in the destruction.

"What is this?!" The newcomers trapped within Theia’s dream domain cried out in panic.

Even though the shockwave had already weakened considerably by the time it reached them...

It was still terrifying.

As Golden Knights were injured by its impact, Silver Knights suffered serious injuries.

And for those below the Silver Knight Realm...

The result was far more brutal.

The moment the shockwave reached them—

Their bodies were torn apart instantly.

The impact caused the side part Stormhowl Mountains to shake violently, as though a high-magnitude earthquake had struck the region.

The tremors spread far beyond the essence cloud region.

Even some slumbering A-Rank beasts within a thousand kilometers were disturbed from their deep sleep.

Their massive eyes opened.

Their instincts immediately sensed the source of the disturbance.

And in their anger, they began charging toward it.

Meanwhile, Luke—the very person responsible for all of this—had absolutely no idea what he had just awakened.

Instead, one thought occupied his mind.

’Seems like I f*cked up.’ He was currently caught directly in the middle of the explosion and the devastating shockwave erupting beneath him.

The backlash from his Cosmic Punch was far beyond anything he had anticipated.

His body was being erased by the overwhelming force.

His hand had already disappeared.

Then his arm.

Then half of his body.

Luke watched helplessly as his flesh turned into dust and scattered into the raging energy.