Chapter 374 337 – The True Power of Restoration, the Evolving Gauntlet

When Vali controlled the White Dragon Emperor's poison and spread it outward, he was stunned to discover that the poison could not approach Takumi.

"A defensive force field? Impossible. If it were magic, I should be able to keep halving it until it's reduced to nothing."

"This power of mine brings the convergent infinite series in Achilles' paradox into reality."

"From the beginning, this distance has been endlessly shrinking, so your halving was useless against me in the first place."

Takumi explained calmly, but Vali could not understand him at all.

What Achilles' paradox? He had never learned that.

The only thing Vali understood was that the powerful enemy before him was worth giving his all against!!!

He gathered the absorbed power throughout his body and detonated it in an instant!

At this moment, it was as if tens of thousands of high-energy bombs had exploded inside Vali's body.

This portion of Takumi's energy was completely beyond what he could bear!

"But this is enough. All I seek is this one moment of brilliance!!"

"Rooooar!!!"

Vali pushed his power to the limit, and his speeding figure surpassed several thousand times the speed of sound!

The overflowing aura of magic transformed into countless sparks that scattered outward. Each and every spark contained enough power to flatten and shatter mountains.

The moment Vali attacked, he used his full strength without holding back in the slightest.

Bang, bang, bang!!!

In less than one ten-thousandth of a second, overwhelming fist shadows covered Takumi's field of vision.

Vali, who had unleashed his power to its limit, had even crossed the restriction of the Stop and truly reached Takumi.

But just as all of this was about to land, Takumi raised a finger and pointed forward. Supreme divine power flowed from his fingertip and dyed this world.

"Return to the beginning!"

"Origin Restoration."

Takumi's sigh-like whisper rang beside Vali's ear.

Flickering images flowed before his eyes, flashing past like a revolving lantern.

Until those revolving-lantern images froze in place. Vali suddenly sucked in a breath of cold air, opening his blurred eyes and looking up at Takumi, who was gazing down at him.

"I… did I just make any move at all?"

The scene at this moment had clearly returned to the beginning, when Vali had smashed through the mountain, fallen to the ground, and crashed into the deep pit.

His whole body lay stiffly at the center of the scorched crater, without having made any movement.

It was as if everything he had done before had been nothing but his own fantasy, an illusory bubble.

Takumi reached out and picked up a jewel embedded in a piece of the White Dragon Emperor armor.

He casually weighed it in his hand and murmured, "For a Longinus on the level of Divine Dividing, I really do need a bit of material to create the most perfect copy."

After doing all this, Takumi finally spared some attention for Vali, whose eyes were unfocused and who still could not recover for a long time.

Only at this moment, Vali no longer had even the slightest will to resist.

The dried-up magic power inside his body constantly reminded him that everything just now had not been an illusion.

He had truly risked everything to resist just now.

He simply did not know why everything had returned to the very beginning.

And Takumi did not take Vali's life either. After sweeping his gaze over him, he quickly looked away.

"Young man, you're not bad. Just don't try to provoke me."

"Next time, I won't give you another chance."

Takumi shook the jewel fragment in his hand, then leapt into the sky.

As he compressed space, he vanished before Vali in a manner almost identical to teleportation.

Seeing Takumi disappear, Vali finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Haa~~ This is the first time I've felt so close to death… Albion, do you know what just happened?"

"…"

Faced with Vali's question, Albion fell silent for several seconds, something it had not done in a very long time.

It answered in an uncertain tone, "I'm not entirely sure. Time reversal? Probably not… It was more like the world returned to the point when you fell."

"In any case, everything we did just now was reset, like loading a saved game."

"But what's different is that the other party can also set the state after the reset."

"Your magic power should have recovered too, but it didn't."

Albion tried hard to explain, but even it could not fully understand this power.

Takumi, who had already returned to the sky above Kuoh Academy, was still savoring the first time he had used this level of "Power of Restoration."

"Expand the reset range to an entire area, then reset it back to a specific point in time."

"Unfortunately, this requires consuming divine power and using the status of a god to accomplish."

Because this ability was too profound, pure magic power could not perform such precise operations.

A "restoration" that interfered with the concepts of time and space was not something that could be achieved through magic power as a fuel source.

Unless he completely mastered this power, he could not achieve a downgraded cost and drive it with magic power instead.

"Luckily, I have quite a lot of divine power. Using this level of operation ten or twenty times a day isn't a problem."

Having already absorbed two gods and obtained quite a few authorities, he had clearly broken free from the limits of a newborn god.

The surging divine power in his body also recovered very quickly. Even a power that interfered with concepts like this could be used with ease.

"Restore!"

Takumi then pointed toward the ground, causing the shattered earth and academy to rapidly return to their original state.

At the same time, he used Nightmare Magic to alter most people's memories.

The events here tonight had caused far too much commotion. If he did not interfere, it would definitely spread everywhere.

Not casually revealing this sort of thing to the public could be considered an unspoken agreement among everyone.

In the end, they still hoped human society would not fall into large-scale chaos.

Since Takumi still had to live at Kuoh Academy, he naturally did not want to see a chaotic scene either.

Looking at Kuoh Academy, which had returned to its original state, the only abnormality left was the few dazed three-headed hellhounds on the sports field.

These three-headed hellhounds summoned by Kokabiel had suffered terribly too.

Ever since Takumi arrived, they had been pressed down by his terrifying aura, trembling as they lay on the ground and showed their bellies.

After Vali appeared, they had nearly been scared to death.

Just now, after being blown away by the force of the battle, they had flown back to the sports field along with Takumi's restoration of the academy.

These vicious three-headed hellhounds were now unbelievably obedient.

If their intelligence were a little higher, they might have knelt down and kowtowed to Takumi on the spot.

But even though they were not that smart, they now understood very clearly how to write the words fear and death.

"Awoo~~"

The three-headed hellhounds whimpered a few times, not daring to show the slightest vicious expression.

Takumi looked at the hellhounds. To be honest, he had not paid them much attention.

Right now, his focus was still on the "jewel" in his hand.

"Alchemy Formula: Divine Dividing!"

As Takumi activated his magic power, using the jewel as the center, he copied a perfect Longinus, "Divine Dividing."

Boosted Gear immediately appeared, and under Takumi's will, it completely devoured Divine Dividing!

The originally gilded gauntlet instantly revealed pure white patterns.

The appearing patterns intertwined back and forth, outlining two lifelike Heavenly Dragon designs on either side of the gauntlet's jewel.

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