Connected to the World once again. Kalpas sat down right in the middle of the barren wastend of South India.

  Though the people barely living here for various reasons, the poor who cannot meet the demands of society, vagrants and wanderers who have no pce to call home, criminals running from the governments. Even Argent Alexandria cannot reach this hellish pce.

  Well, things are getting better with The Enigma Code around. The multiple food banks and homeless shelters significantly improved the lives of the people here. Yet nothing could change that this is a whim of an Eldritch God.

  Plus, many pces were attacked by Avalon in the name of ending the Great Game. And while fighting Charlotte, they are still killing the Outsiders.

  Kalpas remained the same, just killing any Eldritch entities that wandered through their territory.

  And there was such anomaly here.

  A girl who looks the same yet completely different from Charlotte. Dyed in an aura of darkness, her bck eyes are completely different from To'eva's. If The Starlight Breaker's eyes were swallowing light, then hers are completely devoid of it.

  A being that should not exist, yet she was standing right there.

  "Hello~ Charlotte have a message for you!!", she spoke joyfully, but every word was dripping with venom, as if Kalpas murdered her firstborn. Those lightless eyes, they are creepy.

  "What does she want?", Kalpas asked.

  "Come back to Kiyv! Or, she'll destroy the world.", the light atmosphere completely vanished, but she kept on smiling.

  Kalpas nodded, acknowledging her words.

  "I will be there after a few minutes of rest—"

  They dodged out of the way, avoiding a near-lightspeed attack. Kalpas could not sense her anywhere.

  "Ah, forgot to introduce myself. My, I haven't been acting for a while so I'm getting rusty.", that voice came from behind.

  Kalpas turned around, seeing her standing there ready to hit them. But they quickly raised a wall to block an earth-shattering strike.

  "I am S????i???n????c????l??????a??????i?????r?????? ??????A??????p??????o?????c?????r????y????p????h???????a????, we met before. I am the former Records of Humanity from another timeline.", her pitch-bck eyes penetrated their very existence, "I had destroyed the world, burned down every st sign of Life. In my madness, I became the Records of Earth."

  "And now, I am the Paradox deemed by the Voidborns as The Nowhere Girl."

  A Title given by the Scions of The Original One. She was something dangerous, dangerous enough to warrant the Voidborn's attention.

  But looking at her still free and dancing around— she was not someone The First Born deemed dangerous enough. Unlike the Buddha, who transcended reality itself was caught and imprisoned the moment he was merging with the universe.

  "Aah~ I was going to let you go. But...", a set of metallic bck wings, blowing out crimson jet fmes, formed on her back, "But I changed my mind."

  "Hey, dear viewers or readers at home.", she smiled, her gaze directed at something beyond Kalpas, "Do you want me to go total apeshit?"

  Kalpas had no idea what she was talking to.

  "Well, I will show you the power of the one who destroyed Earth.", her smile turned wicked, "Come to me, Elderstahl."

  A bde of obsidian and molten magma appeared next to her. Although it bore the same name as the Bde of the End, Kalpas could tell it was just a replica at a gnce.

  "Ah, I lost Prydwen. But this should do.", a crimson tower shield formed in her free hand, "Archmagia."

  But that was not all.

  "C???o?????r????r????u???p????t?????i????o?????n????."

  Tendrils devoid of light wrapped around both weapons. The clear application of Corruption, twisting and bending the object in hand to the user's will.

  Corruption in the grand scheme of the universe can be understood as the stable version of Entropy, as both bend the world around them into chaos. But Corruption can be maniputed, though the result may be to the user's liking, the changes are not as absurd or powerful as Entropy.

  "Thank you, narrator!!", Sincir winked at someone Kalpas could not understand.

  "All Seal— Release."

  Instead of the burning firepower of the nine worlds, there was the freezing cold of stagnation. That bde repced an extinction with another extinction.

  The barren wastend was repced by a snowfield, cold and chilling to the very core. Kalpas found their movements becoming more restricted...

  "Ice...", not the element, but the Attribute.

  "Pretty neat, right?", Sincir smiled.

  The next moment, she was already in front of Kalpas, swinging her sword down— a massive wall of ice shot out from the ground where they once stood.

  "I request the power of the stars.", she raised her shield, charging it up with starlight— the Light of the Stars, of the Eldritch Gods.

  Archmagia was an Astrology device, and with it being twisted by Corruption, it bends the starlight under Sincir's view. The night sky for her was a giant nuclear powerpnt, filled with millions of reactors - Stars.

  "World Autho—", before they could finish, Sincir smmed the shield right into Kalpas, sending a wave of chaotic energy annihiting their form.

  "THIS IS FOR 2024!!!", she yelled out.

  Her body was wrapped in a purple aura of glittering starlight, eating away at her every second.

  "THIS IS FOR THAT ONE TIME YOU TRIED TO EAT ME IN MY SLEEP!!"

  She did not let them rest, kicking them in the stomach, burning them with starlight. Kalpas summoned a behemoth of cy and vines, fully intending to crush her. But the power of the stars shattered it.

  "FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENDLESS ARMY OF PUPPETS! WHY DID YOU ATTACK ME WHEN I WAS HAVING SEX?!"

  She swung her sword, slicing another puppet coming at her. Creating an iceberg with that attack.

  "World Authority: Tapana."

  "That might be a problem—"

  In an instant, hundreds of cy chains bound her, reeling in different directions as if trying to tear her apart— And she was torn apart, bck blood and organs flew everywhere, tainting the nd with some sort of void.

  "Fuu... you are way stronger than before!", she was right behind them.

  But Kalpas did not turn back. They had figured something else. Sincir can only attack once she is observed. She had a lot of chances to ambush them, but she did not.

  "Yep, I can only really exist if someone is looking at me. But can you really afford to look away from me?", that was a chilling tone, "I can you go to a gathering around here and massacre people."

  "Unlike Charlotte, I relish in murdering my own people. Did I mention I destroyed the world before? Ahahahaha!!!", her ughter echoes.

  With no choice, Kalpas turned around— they guarded against a punch. It was weaker than they expected, as it only left a dent. They knew Charlotte could deal more damage than her with no effect.

  Something was wrong...

  "Bloom, Flower of Life.", they instantly backed away, the white lines etched in the ground growing bigger every second.

  The Flower of Life is a factory, where endless puppets can be created in an instant. And so she was brutally killed by the army of puppets, all shaped in the image of Dragons, and they too possessed the power of those Dragons.

  The moment Sincir died, Kalpas felt uneasy— they sensed it. A camp of over a hundred people was killed.

  "Ahahaha~ really, do you think I wouldn't stoop so low?", her mocking voice echoed, "I know you more than you know yourself!!"

  They turned around, immediately sending the army toward the girl who became a monster.

  "Want to know why?", she sshed a puppet, destroying it in an instant, while dodging another one with an elegant flip, "I am not the Akasha, I am the st survivor and destroyer of Earth - I am the Records of all life on this very pnet."

  Her lightless gaze shook, dyed in madness.

  "Bloom, F?????l??????????o??????w??????e????????r????????? ????????o???????f???????? ??????????L??????????i?????????f?????e???????.", she created her own Flower of Life.

  One that was an insult to Nature itself. Grotesque abominations of flesh and blood tainted by the void, too monstrous to put into words, bubbling out from the Crimson Flower of Life.

  The two armies cshed, nature against flesh and blood.

  "Do you want to know another thing?", she tilted her head, sshing a Dragon that was her way with the silver needle. Her crazed smile widens further.

  "The current Pan's adaptation, the previous one's power, your previous form's serenity, your Flower of Life, my Star of Chaos, Gilgamesh's overwhelming power. Back and back. I alone possessed all Aspects of Life!!!"

  She spread her arms, ughing like a madman. Kalpas realized they could not win, there was no way to fight against the Records of a Pnet. Especially one tainted as Sincir.

  "I don't use this often but...", Sincir's smile turned faint.

  "Opening Act Three of the Velvet Tragedy."

  In an instant, the world turned crimson under a red sky, Kalpas looked down and saw a nd filled with corpses - the people Sincir massacred in her madness. It made Kalpas feel disgusted to their very core. Then the world fshed bck and white for a brief moment— then it became a ke devoid of any color, even their fme had turned to a sickly white color.

  All the puppets were gone. Now there were only two people here. Kalpas who stood firm as the protector of Earth. Against them was the Nowhere Girl, stood in front of a massive bck hole.

  "The Time of Judgement hath Come.", the silver needle glows a faint white light, "I am the Final Verdict to all Life."

  "In the Third Act, there is no magic, no special ability, no Authority. Of course, it applies to both me and you."

  "It will only be you and me here."

  That sent chills down their spine. That smile is one that belonged to someone with a lot of pent-up malice.

  =0=0=

  "And so~ I am now fighting Kalpas!!", Sincir spoke to me with a smile.

  "Really... then can you help me out of this situation?"

  Currently, I am being bound in a forest made out of hydrazoans.

  No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to escape this predicament without letting Avalon escape at the same time. These flesh trees can resist Malice too after Magnum Opus and Cerberus were killed.

  Well...

  "Can you at least call Utopia for me?", my phone is broken and Avalon is working hard to cover the sky with five more flying whales.

  "Sure~!!"

  She vanished.

  Anyway, I broke off the bindings with my strength. But more came and made me stuck in another position.

  They couldn't do anything about damaging my body, so they opted to bind me. Avalon tried to release methane a while back, but I just blew everything up.

  It is really a standstill.

  But help is on the way.

  I smiled.

  "Welcome back, my Knight in shining armor."

  Lazers burns through the hydrazoans, freeing me. The whales in the sky fall one by one. The birds were not so lucky, each was killed by a bullet shot.

  Jets transformed into knights nded around me as I shrug off the fleshy bits.

  In the sky, I saw ten aircraft hovering above, dealing with anything that dared to come close to them and me.

  Then a giant silver knight nded behind me.

  "[I apologize for my teness, Your Majesty.]", his familiar voice made me smile, kneeling down.

  "It's fine.", I crossed my arms.

  I summon Ouroboros Omniscia and War Symphony to my hands. He accepted them without another word. I know I can't defeat the massive army of beasts on my own, so I can just... outsource it.

  No, in this case, I am using a bigger gun.

  "I shall show you my Nation of Solitary, the power of the Argent Monarch of Humanity."

  My voice became like a whisper.

  "Utopia, fire."

  Rhaps