Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

The explosion that happened after the final roar of Death was akin to an apocalypse.

The power it contained was enough to wipe off every power off the face of New Earth, and even this world of the system trial was at stake.

Everything object in the Dying City shattered and disintegrated into nothingness, and even the evil spirits and wandering souls were not spared in the wake of this destruction.

Before the sound of the explosion even conceived the idea of exploding, the light had travelled all across the world and destroyed everything.

It was then that the sound of explosion resounded in the world, almost like an afterthought.

Cracks appeared in space, and at the source of the explosion which was where Death had been, was a miniature rapidly forming black hole which began to pull everything into it.

Time was also disrupted, and certain places began to experience rapid aging, and some places began to go back in time. Some even had the present and the past intermixed, causing such a scene to be something that an average mortal mind could never comprehend.

The Thirteenth Dawn who were the unfortunate souls to have been dragged into the realm of death just because they had followed Corey, were still alive.

But this was not due to luck or their respective strengths.

No.

This was all due to Corey.

One of the worst case scenarios he had simulated in his mind was a scene like this. A scene where barely anything would be able to survive because of his battle with the 'final boss' of this trial.

And knowing the high chances of this happening, he had put a safety measure in place for the Thirteenth Dawn.

The void marks he had placed on every single one of them was not only used to teleport any member of the Thirteenth Dawn to himself. It was also used to teleport them to several places he had placed void markers on.

And one of them was deep underground.

During his movement to the main source of corruption on the Third Day, he had come across an underground system that was filled with spirits and all sorts of walking dead.

The strongest danger in that place was just Tier 5, and after killing it and clearing the entire place, making sure that it was completely safe. He marked it with his Void Force.

From the moment the battle against Death began, he had teleported every single member of the Thirteenth Dawn underground, and this had inevitably saved their lives.

Although they had been shocked by the sudden change of their environment, believing that it was another phase of the trial or that they had stepped into a trap. They were safe, and they could not escape no matter what.

Corey had made sure of that.

As for Corey?

He was facing another life or death situation.

The explosion was powerful enough to wipe out every life off the face of New Earth, and he was facing not the explosion itself. But its shockwave and a fraction of the power of the explosion.

And the power was immense.

He had created thousands of layers upon layers of defensive barriers which he continuously created, but it was not enough.

The earth and metal shields he had created were not enough, and his tens of thousands of Hexagon Nova Shield were shattered in less than three seconds.

Corey had no other choice but to call upon his Devourers Armor, and just like with the tribulation lightning, his Devourers Armor, was able to save his life.

He was badly injured, partly because of the injury he sustained from the abomination above, and mainly because of the explosion of Death.

However, he had survived.

Corey receded his Devourers Armor, and then he took a look at his surroundings.

What he saw made even him to stop breathing for a second.

There was no Dying City.

There was nothing.

What remained could not even be called ruins. It was literally annihilation.

The entire landscape had been annihilated. It was an endless crater.

No.

It was a wound in reality itself which had been carved into the land. It stretched for hundreds of miles in every direction, spiraling out like a scar left behind by an ancient god's wrath.

The earth had melted and then it was erased. Everything that was once familiar- the towers, the temples, mountains in the distance, monuments, and even the grotesque beauty of some corrupted buildings- they had all been consumed and reduced to raw, elemental entropy.

Corey looked up, and he saw that the skies above no longer looked like skies.

It looked like an abyss with veins of shattered space that bled black-violet mana and ink-like rivers of unstable time.

The clouds had become long dead things, and Corey could see some clouds were charred and were churning, almost like something alive was churning inside of it.

It was

'Why does it feel like I removed one source of corruption and cause another? I hope the system was not expecting me to save Virendell?'

Corey suddenly had this terrifying thought as he gazed at the churning charred clouds, and then he gazed at the miniature black hole.

If one without knowledge were to gaze at the black hole, they would ask why one would calm such a black hole miniature sized since it was literally the size of a mountain.

Its edges were jagged, making it seem as though the world was trying to seal it shut but couldn't.

Around it, time twisted violently.

One second, flowers bloomed and withered instantly. Another second, rocks reformed from dust and then shattered again. And all of this occurred in the same breath.

Everything was slowly but steadily being pulled toward the black hole. But just as suddenly as it had appeared, the black hole began to collapse.

It did not explode. It did not implode.

It collapsed as though it had been a living thing that had finally breathed its last.

'The Universal System.'

Corey speculated, but he couldn't be sure since he could not see any sign of the Universal System acting on the singularity.

The core shuddered violently, sending out one last pulse of devouring force before the spiral reversed.

It did not take long before the black hole vanished completely, and so did the spatial cracks.

There was silence at first, and the world brightened.

When Corey saw the colour of the light, his expression changed because it was red. Thinking that the abomination above was about to attack him, he prepared for another attack, but nothing happened.

'Nothing?'

Corey thought in slight surprise as he gazed at the red stars above. There was no reaction from them for a minute, and Corey exhaled in relief.

Later on, the wind blew once again across the Dying City, and then it was followed by the notifications of the Universal System.

DING!