Chapter 526: The End of Wrath

On the city wall, Aiden’s twin pupils instantly shrank to pinpoints. An overwhelming rage surged wildly in his eyes.

0.1 seconds!

In just 0.1 seconds, Aiden’s Law of Space crossed the entire battlefield.

Whoosh!

Cheryl’s falling body suddenly disappeared and was safely teleported back to the medical area behind the front line.

"Leave the rest to me."

Aiden slowly exhaled. His voice was terrifyingly calm, yet it carried such murderous intent that the entire battlefield seemed to tremble.

He took one step forward and crossed a thousand meters of empty space, appearing directly in front of Wrath’s 800-meter-tall main body.

"Spatial Lock—Domain Separation!"

Aiden waved one hand. Endless power of space transformed into countless silver chains that tightly bound Wrath’s main body.

Rumble!

The space around them began to fold and compress violently. In the end, it formed a completely sealed domain, cut off from the outside world.

Inside this isolated battlefield, there were no other Heavenly Demons and no other humans.

There was only Aiden—and Wrath’s main body, surrounded by raging Heavenly Demon flames.

The noise from the outside world instantly faded away. Inside the sealed domain, the silence was almost suffocating.

Wrath’s main body let out an furious roar. Destructive demonic flames erupted from its 800-meter-tall body, turning the entire space blood-red.

Aiden was not in a good condition either.

For some reason, the 10,000x Critical Hit System could not be used at this moment.

After maintaining such an intense battle for so long, he had already used up more than half of his power of law. His face had begun to turn slightly pale.

But he stood there with his back straight, like a sword piercing the heavens.

So what if he could not use the system?

In his mind, the [Law Garden] was shining brightly.

The three laws—Space, Lightning, and Light—were in a state of perfect and stable harmony.

His 88% Law Comprehension was his own strength, built step by step through his own efforts.

"Roar!"

Wrath’s main body was furious. It could feel the small human’s challenge.

Its enormous fist, covered in demonic flames, came crashing down with enough power to destroy the heavens and the earth. It was like a burning ancient sacred mountain falling from the sky, aimed straight at Aiden.

Demonic flames poured down like a storm. Space shattered inch by inch. There was nowhere to hide.

This attack was powerful enough to turn any being below godhood into ash.

But Aiden did not dodge.

He did not even blink.

"My path cannot be stopped—not even by the gods."

Aiden spoke softly. At that moment, silver, purple, and golden light flashed in his twin pupils before merging completely.

Boom!

[Law Garden—Three-Law Fusion Field: Fully Activated!]

...

Inside the sealed space, the silence was as heavy as iron.

Wrath’s 800-meter-tall main body let out a roar that tore through the void. Its fist came crashing down, like an ancient volcano erupting above Aiden’s head.

Dark-red demonic flames surged forward like raging waves and instantly swallowed Aiden’s slender body.

Yet Aiden stood within that endless torrent of destruction. His expression was as cold and calm as a god looking down upon all living beings.

He did not dodge.

He did not even blink.

"Pride."

Aiden slightly parted his thin lips and spoke two cold words.

This was the first will he had understood during the time he was acknowledged by the Seven Pillars.

"I am an Intermediate God. I have the right to withstand this."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Law of Space around him turned into an absolute barrier. No matter how fiercely the demonic flames raged, they could not come within even half an inch of him.

He did not dodge or retreat. He faced the attack of a god head-on with absolute confidence.

This was the true meaning of Pride!

Wrath’s main body seemed to be completely enraged by Aiden’s contempt. The demonic flames around it surged even higher, trying to melt the entire space.

But at that moment, a second strange light appeared in Aiden’s twin pupils.

"Envy."

His gaze pierced through the layers of demonic flames and locked directly onto the core hidden deep within Wrath’s enormous body.

Beneath the endless violence and destruction, Aiden saw something extremely well hidden—a frantic trembling.

It was not anger.

It was fear.

"You’re afraid."

Aiden’s voice cut through the demonic flames like a blade and struck directly at Wrath’s soul.

"After the Sixth Pillar was triggered by the surgery, your deepest fear was being completely erased when Earth was reconstructed. Isn’t that right?"

Wrath’s attack suddenly stopped.

Aiden had seen through it.

The true nature of Envy was an overwhelming desire to exist—and the desperate fear of losing everything.

Aiden’s lips curved into a faint smile. He spread both hands, and in his palms, the Law of Space began to collapse and fold in on itself.

"Greed."

A black-hole-like gravitational force erupted from his palms.

The demonic flames of Wrath that had filled the sky suddenly seemed to find an outlet. They rushed toward Aiden’s palms like a storm.

The Law of Space turned into an unbreakable cage, rapidly compressing the destructive flames.

From a hundred thousand feet wide, to ten thousand feet, then a thousand feet...

In the end, the vast sea of Heavenly Demon flames was compressed into a law sphere the size of a human head.

"That’s enough."

Aiden spoke calmly, his eyes cold and emotionless.

"The amount absorbed has reached the limit."

Greed was not endless taking. It was absolute control over exactly how much to take.

Wrath’s main body could only watch as its power was taken away. It let out a furious, frightened roar.

But it was not over yet.

"Gluttony."

A cruel look flashed through Aiden’s eyes. Behind him, the [Law Garden] appeared with a thunderous roar.

Three-colored divine light intertwined at the center of the garden, forming a passage that stretched from heaven to earth.

Aiden casually tossed the law sphere, which contained the essence of Wrath’s power, into the passage.

Rumble!

The Law Garden began to spin wildly. It treated Wrath’s demonic flames as the purest "food" and started digesting and absorbing them at full speed.

"This isn’t greed. It’s payback."

Aiden whispered quietly.

The injuries Cheryl had suffered—and the damage done to Celestial Imperial City—had to be paid for with this power!

"Roar—!!"

Wrath’s main body let out its first cry of pain in ten thousand years.

For the first time, there was no anger in its voice. Instead, it was filled with fear.

It had realized that the human before it was not trying to destroy it.

He was destroying the very rage that made it what it was.

Without its rage, what would be left of Wrath?

Its enormous 800-meter-tall body began to shrink at a visible speed.

Seven hundred meters.

Five hundred meters.

One hundred meters.

The demonic flames died out, and its laws began to collapse.

Aiden took one step forward and crossed the void in an instant, arriving before Wrath’s core, which had already shrunk to the size of an ordinary human.

In Aiden’s twin-pupiled eyes, he saw the faint light shining from the core.

"I see."

Aiden looked at the core. A look of understanding appeared in his eyes, along with a trace of pity so faint it was almost impossible to notice.

Among the Seven Pillars, Wrath was the youngest.

The other Pillars possessed endless memories, ancient histories, and the marks left behind by every previous Great Destruction.

But Wrath was different.

Its memories were completely blank.

It had never existed in any of the previous cycles of reconstruction.

"You were not created by the Great Destruction," Aiden said softly as he looked at it.

"You were born recently."

Wrath had been born from humanity itself.

It had been born from the endless, never-ending rage of mankind.

Every injustice, every war, and every massacre between members of the same species had fed it.

It was not a Heavenly Demon at all.

It was simply a newborn life-form from Earth, parasitized by a Heavenly Demon and twisted by its influence.

Only a few minutes remained before the reconstruction began.

The pressure in the void grew stronger and stronger. The chains of law surrounding the reconstruction had already begun to tighten.

Yet in this sealed space, Wrath stopped fighting for the first time.

The demonic flames around its body went out completely.

It had not been defeated. It simply... did not want to go on like this anymore.

It was tired.

Aiden slowly crouched down and looked directly at the faintly trembling core.

"Isn’t Wrath also one of the Primordial Forces?" Aiden asked softly.

A weak and confused thought came from inside the core. It was filled with endless sorrow and grievance:

"No... I was never included."

"They called me a monster. They called me a virus."

Hearing this, Aiden smiled faintly.

He reached out and gently lifted the core in his hand.

"Then I’ll include you now."

At that moment, Aiden’s voice became as heavy as a mountain. It echoed throughout the entire sealed space.

"You are the seventh path of evolution."

Buzz!

As soon as Aiden finished speaking, Wrath’s core began to tremble violently.

The last black demonic flames around it completely turned into a gentle black glow.

The terrifying entity, once 800 meters tall, had now shrunk completely. It became a small, faintly glowing black sphere, no bigger than a fingernail, resting in Aiden’s palm.

This was not a recognition crystal from the Seven Pillars.

This was the first time someone had made Wrath a true, native part of Earth!

[Earth Reconstruction Progress: 100%]

The timer on Aiden’s wrist reached zero.

Boom!

The entire sealed space shattered instantly.

Above Celestial Imperial City, the raging void rifts were forcibly erased by an irresistible power.

Deep within the source of the laws, Earth’s new system of laws completed its final stage of growth!

Buzz—

The faintly glowing black sphere in Aiden’s palm suddenly burst into thousands of rays of light.

It did not recognize Aiden as its master, nor did it form a contract with him.

Instead, it turned into a streak of black light and flew directly into Earth’s newly reconstructed network of laws.

This was a completely new kind of relationship between a being and the laws of the world—one that had never been designed before.

Wrath, as a new primordial emotion, was officially added to Earth’s system of laws!

It was no longer a virus that sought to destroy the world.

It was Earth’s own anger!

"Reconstruction complete."

Yves’s vast, ancient-sounding voice suddenly echoed in the minds of everyone on Earth.

At that moment, the Great Destruction came to a complete stop!