“It seems all the causality you can control extends as far as your front paw can reach. That might have been enough for this tiny world,” I said with a smirk, “but no matter how much cause you break and effect you accumulate, your shoddy castle will never reach me.”
“Indeed, all I can do is build or break causality, for now,” Maytilen said, sounding completely unbothered by the fact. “But I have Farris. If he becomes ruler, the Great Castle of Causality will be able to take any shape he draws. Balandias will sink further into the depths, allowing all four of my paws to reach causality, as you say. When I finally reach the bottom of the abyss, my thoughts will control the causality of the entire Sacred Silverwater Sea.”
Gleeful laughter cackled through the sky.
“Once that happens, all my wishes will be granted with a mere thought. You are merely a checkpoint. Now that Farris is mine, I can build my aspirations as high as I wish!”
The Silverclaws of Ruin gleamed once more, ignoring cause and stabbing through me from behind. An immense volume of blood poured out of my mouth and chest.
“Isn’t that right, misfit? Even if I cannot make Farris the ruler, all I need in battle is a single front paw. If you want to talk down to me, do it after you manage to scratch me.”
“Hmm. By scratch...”
I drew the Two-Law Blade, using its magic power to cast Dagdra while stomping down on Maytilen’s shadow.
“Guwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!”
Maytilen’s body plunged down to the ground with an intense crash.
“Did you mean something like this?” I asked.
Changing causality with a single paw didn’t erase the shadow of her paw. Thus, my capture of her and her subsequent fall were the natural result of casting Dagdra using the Two-Law Blade’s stocked-up destructive magic power.
“Grrr... This...” Maytilen gasped while clawing apart the ground. “This is far deeper than Dogda Azbedra... In fact...”
I cast Demile to send six shadow needles over to her, pinning her shadow to the ground before she could get up.
“Gruh... Grrraaaah!”
I stepped down on Maytilen’s face.
“It can’t be... There’s no way...” the Royal Tiger muttered in disbelief. “That’s the magic of the Two-Law Usurper! Only the Inviolable Waters can use such magic!”
Shocked eyes turned to stare up at me. “How... Just who are you?”
“Carve this into your skull so you’ll never need to ask again. I’m the Demon King of Tyranny, Anos Voldigoad.”
With the Two-Law Blade in an underhand grip, I swung my sword down on Maytilen.
“I can’t believe...”
The blade didn’t reach her. No matter how hard I pushed, it couldn’t reach her head. She had erased the effect of her head being pierced.
“Oh?”
“I can’t believe I had to use this against a misfit of an ephemeral world!” she roared. A castle-like armor appeared, covering her body. The silver light of Heizbenierya overhead shone down upon her.
“Great Castle Armor Heizbenierya!”
“Hmm. An armor protected by causality, is it? Not something you’d see outside of the Silvercastle World,” I said, calmly drawing the Two-Law Blade back. “Perfect timing.”
I looked up. A girl was riding on a cog that had been fired into the sky.
“Let’s see if you have any effect on the true authority of a chief god,” I said to her.
She nodded quietly.
“Moon rises not; sun falls. Spring illuminates the godless world.” Her tranquil chant echoed through the Second Balandias. “Springtime Hexabloom, Levihelorta.”
A burning ring of ice appeared behind Arcana. The contradictory power caused Maytilen’s Great Castle Armor to freeze over and burn at the same time.
“No magic or power can damage the towering Silvercastle of Balandias. All causality in this miniature world works to protect my castle—”
The Royal Tiger’s eyes widened. The silver castle that enclosed Second Balandias, the Great Castle of Causality Heizbenierya, was crumbling to pieces before her. The order of the world itself was malfunctioning.
“What... What is that?”
Giant pieces of castle rubble rained down upon Maytilen.
“Gwuh! It can’t be... My castle...turning on me!”
The cause and effect of protecting the chief god was in disorder, causing the castle to attack Maytilen instead. Large pieces of rubble continued to fall, crushing her body.
“Gyah! That’s impossible! My power...is fading...fading...”
Her tragic scream echoed from underneath the rubble.
“The power of the chief god that controls Balandias... Why?! It can’t be! No authority is capable of erasing my power, not even the Inviolable Waters! How... What did you do, misfit?!”
“There was one misfit from my world who lost to me. He had created a means of dealing with a chief god, should one ever be born in my world. The result is as you just experienced.”
A particularly pointy part of the castle came falling straight down from above.
“Order gets distorted into absurdity. I am the blasphemous god that opposes the heavens,” Arcana said.
Rubble crashed into rubble, sending sharp pieces through Maytilen’s body as they crushed her on impact. The Royal Tiger was being buried by the Silvercastle she herself had created. The disruption to causality caused the rubble to balance on top of each other in a precarious stack, piling on top of her body. The only part of her that wasn’t buried was her head. With all her authority gone, she couldn’t even fight back.
“Did it work?” Arcana asked, descending from the sky.
“Perfectly.”
She smiled bashfully.
“Will your magic power last?” I asked.
“If I don’t use Leviangilma, it can last for another few minutes. But I can’t finish her off.”
Once the Six Flowers of Absurdity vanished, Maytilen would regain her authority. Her power was only being sealed temporarily.
“My power may not seal the authority of another world’s chief god completely.”
“Let’s test that too.”
Using the Two-Law Blade, I detached Maytilen’s head from her body.
“What...are you doing...misfit?” Maytilen’s head muttered. She sure was a tough one. Even in this state, she still had enough magic in her source to stay alive.
“If I try to destroy you, you’ll just surrender. I can’t get Farris back that way.”
I grabbed the Royal Tiger’s head and flew towards the Demon King Express, which was still locked in combat with Zeridheavens.
“That’s why I’m getting you front row seats to Balandias’s complete and utter defeat.”