The woman cackled. “As soon as you killed the Transcendents, I felt it. I got here just in time to see you fly off. While you went back in time to help your past, I went back in time and found out everything about you and your wife.
“The second you returned, I sent someone back to change the past and destroy her. When you disappeared after returning, the past was already changed before you reached your destination.”
“Haha!” John lifted his head back and laughed hysterically.
Taken aback by his reaction, the woman’s face turned sour. “What’s so funny? Don’t tell me I’ve broken you already?”
“No.” John’s expression turned serious as he stared her in the face. “It’s just that, by punishing me, you’ve punished yourself almost as badly.”
She tilted her head and was just about to ask something, but John continued. “You think Earth is behind that barrier of Chaos Power and that’s why you want to gather a thousand Transcendents. To take their power, break the barrier, and return, right?
“You’re right! My system allowed me to get through that barrier and return to Earth! After I found out O’Malley forced me to ruin your plans, I was going to help you get past that barrier to make up for it!
“But now, you can do whatever you want to me, I will never help you. In fact, I’m like you and can kill Transcendents. So really, your only option is to kill me or watch the hundreds of Transcendents you’ve so painstakingly created die one by one.”
John suddenly travelled at the speed of light past the woman and towards a beastman that was trying to stay hidden. It was a pure coincidence that John had left his Scan on after he searched inside the castle, which let him find fifteen beastmen that were trying to hide around the structure.
When he came to a stop, there was a large hole in the beastman’s chest and John had its core in his palm, covered in his Chaos Power. He then used brute force to destroy the core completely.
Around John’s right hand were eight blades facing outwards made out of his threads. They started on his forearm, a few inches below his wrist, and they wrapped around his hand and came to a point a few inches in front of his hand.
When these blades reached the beastman, they pierced its chest as they spun. When the blades got close to the core in the beastman’s heart, John made the blades open up at the centre, let the core through, and then closed again to carry on slicing the beast’s chest open.
It all happened in less than a millisecond.
“I wonder how long you’d have to wait if I kill all beastman Transcendents?” John asked. “After all this time, slowly getting closer to your goal, I bet you’ve grown impatient because you wouldn’t have punished me for delaying your plan if you hadn’t.”
The woman laughed before shouting, “Everybody return!”
Within a second, all beastmen in John’s Scan disappeared through wormholes, leaving only him and the woman left in the castle.
“Ha! You think you can goad me into attacking? I’ve fought and killed more people than there are living beings in this universe.
“I’ve seen all fighting tactics possible, and before you even moved, I knew what you were going to do thanks to intuition, experience, and logic.”
As she finished speaking, John launched another attack.
This time, he used his threads to create guns that floated all around the woman and fired them off using Chaos Power. A single thread five miles in length could create a single gun, and John used all one million threads.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t create guns in the woman’s line of sight if he wanted to take her by surprise. John pointed most of the guns towards the surrounding area instead, in case the woman moved to those locations while trying to escape the attack.
Just before he fired the guns, John saw a large cat made from light come from the woman’s legs and she disappeared from sight. Even the Chaos Power travelling at the speed of light missed her.
She reappeared in front of John and a rhino made from light came from the woman’s body just before she rammed her body into him.
The physical force that hit him flung John across the universe many times faster than the speed of light. All his threads broke and the guns disappeared.
It took a long time for him to come to a stop, even with him pushing Chaos Power behind him to slow him down. Thanks to the universal map, he found out he had travelled through an entire galaxy before stopping.
He was amazed because he didn’t think it was possible to travel faster than the speed of light outside a wormhole, nor did he think he was strong enough to do so.
The woman had followed him and came to a stop. “How’d you like my system’s skills? It takes an animal’s best properties and multiplies it by how many animals I’ve helped over the years.
“The multiplied number is too long to have a name anymore, I’ve just been calling it infinite for eons. But no animal in the universe has control over an element, so it took me longer to gain control of the elements to the point where they could rival my system’s skills if used properly.
“For example, I can do this.”
The woman lifted her arm and swung it at John, but nothing happened.
John looked at her and a cackle escaped her lips.
Knitting his brows, John turned his head to look around. Behind him was a large, blue planet, and it looked like it was moving. A few seconds later, John confirmed the planet was headed straight for him as it was getting larger in his vision.
Using the space element, John created a wormhole and ran into it.
