God of Tricksters

The Original Theo narrowed his eyes as if he felt the enemy before him had changed slightly.

'What's the attack earlier? It feels like the time turns back for a moment, making my attack go back to me. But if it's turning back time, the attack should return to my body, not attack me.' The Original Theo was trying to figure out Theo's power.

In the meantime, Theo had also sorted his thoughts. Despite staring at each other, the two didn't seem to make a move at all as if they were examining each other's abilities.

However, the peace was soon broken after Theo made his next move.

World Re-Creation.

He utilized this ability to expand the reality, but only at the part of the Original Theo's Darkness Descent, forcing the creature to go back inside the black hole.

"!!!" The Original Theo widened his eyes in shock because he found the movement of Magic Power.

Without hesitation, he used his Devouring Order and Magic Power to devour this power. After all, his devouring power could devour everything, including reality itself.

Theo also felt the restriction from the Darkness Descent, but he stepped forward, releasing a surge of wind into the air.

Ascension Step, First Step.

"!!!" The Original Theo turned around and saw Theo trying to attack him with this Ascension Step.

Theo remembered the Wind Emperor's teaching. The reason why the Ascension Step could become a Divine Technique was not its power. Although its power was extraordinary, it wasn't feared by anyone.

What people feared of this step was the fact that this step could be used at any time. Whether it was dodging or attacking, they could burst out this amount of power to gather it in one spot.

Theo also didn't forget when the Wind Emperor fought the Death Reaper, he told her that he would do his last dance.

In other words, the Wind Emperor was using his 'dance' or footwork to release the Ascension Step. It would be able to crush anyone if they got suppressed by the Ascension Step continuously. That was why there were many and big craters in the battle between the Wind Emperor and the Death Reaper.

Theo planned to apply this strategy to his fighting style now that he had no restrictions on his ability anymore.

"No!" The Original Theo realized he had to choose whether to stop Theo's Ascension Step or stop his World-Recreation.

The more he hesitated, the longer Theo could prepare his Ascension Step.

'What should I do? If I stop that wind technique, his other ability will send the Darkness Descent back. Darkness Descent isn't an ability that I can use easily due to the high amount of Magic Power and the long casting time.' The Original Theo narrowed his eyes.

However, his decision came when he felt the wind pressure raining him down.

"!!!" The Original Theo looked at Theo while gritting his teeth. The latter had sent his Ascension Step forward and the more he waited, the stronger that step would be. 'I can't wait any longer. I should stop that step since if it's too late, I'll be attacked by both abilities.'

The Original Theo let go of the Darkness Descent and used the Darkness Possession to reach Theo in an instant.

Theo smirked and used his blink to appear next to the Darkness Descent.

Since he had abandoned the Darkness Descent, Theo appearing there didn't disturb him anymore. He just let Theo send the creature back.

Meanwhile, he raised both hands and sent two substances from his hands. The left hand released the black substance from Curse Bestowal Skill, while the right hand used Soul Poison Skill to release a purple fog.

Both of them flew toward Theo, trying to see whether Theo could stop them together or not.

Unfortunately for him, Theo summoned his Underworld Dominion easily and stopped both of them with the Underworld Body that expelled any ailments.

Seeing the situation wasn't that favorable anymore, the Original Theo placed his hand on the ground and released a black wave.

Theo narrowed his eyes and snapped his fingers to stop the black wave. But he could feel that the Magic Power he put into it got sucked into the Original Theo.

"Hmm?" It took Theo by surprise when he saw the Original Theo recovering his Magic Power rapidly. 'He can devour the Magic Power to supply himself? Doesn't that mean his power is a kind of the strongest form of Breathing? He won't run out of Magic Power.'

"Do you think you are the only one who has a trump card?" The Original Theo then summoned another black substance and shot it at Theo.

Theo pushed the air forward with his Telekinesis while maintaining his Ascension Step. This time, he had reached the seventh step. As long as he could persist for just twenty seconds, he could release the tenth step, the accumulation of all steps.

However, the moment both Telekinesis and the black substance clashed, Theo saw the Magic Power from the Telekinesis get sucked into the black substance as it continued forward.

Theo clicked his tongue and snapped his finger.

Instead of Attribute Removal, he was using World Re-Creation. He wanted to test this new power to expand reality a little bit.

Although he believed it to be expansion, the concept he had wasn't the expansion itself. Expanding reality was a little bit too much even for him since it was similar to expanding the universe itself.

What he was doing was simply rolling the reality around. In other words, he took a part of reality from somewhere, so there was a part of reality missing and expanded the part he wanted, filling the disappeared part of the reality.

And he didn't use the World Re-Creation to send this attack back. Instead, he tried to separate reality into four.

He divided the attack into four quadrants. The first one flew up, the second one went to the right, the third one fell down, and the fourth one was thrown to the left.

"Separation."

"Huh?" The Original Theo widened his eyes. Although his power had the ability to devour everything, it wouldn't give the maximum power if Theo separated them.

But little did he know, this separation itself was nothing but a means for Theo to finally understand that bending reality was possible.