Soverick moved forward in a blur with his spear empowered with flames meanwhile his magic arsenal activated. Rock spikes rose from the ground to impale the GodKing. Fire fell from the sky. Ice spikes condensed in the air and flew toward him. Water whips lashed onto his limbs and tried to pull him down. An icy hurricane was already forming. Darkness clouded his vision.
Soverick was also augmenting his body with the various elements of mana in his core. Light and wind buffed him to be as fast as a shooting star. Fire and light were intertwined within his spear to enhance its attack power. Earth increased his body's defenses and fortitude. Water made his barriers resilient and with high regeneration.
Soverick was using the full might of his spells from the get-go. He had unleashed everything he could prepare in such a short time on the former god-king. He was poised to collide with Ode after his spells have wreaked havoc.
Things were not looking good for Ode by any account. But then Ode said "Nullification."
A domain spread out from him and the world froze. Momentum ground to a halt. Soverick was also caught in this frozen world. He couldn't move an inch. His spells also broke apart.
Ode smirked and said. "Do you finally see why you can't defeat me?"
Soverick spoke with his divine sense. "You nullified momentum."
Ode nodded in approval. He even clapped. "Well done. It is fairly obvious so you don't get a prize."
He continued smugly. "Smart and confident as you are, what use are they now that you are caught and helpless? It isn't your fault. This trick of mine has worked several times on much stronger and smarter foes."
This is the major reason why he is confident in bringing Soverick down.
"To acquire Victory, some empower themselves. They use momentum to amplify their prowess. Some destabilize their opponents. They use their opponent's momentum against them. Some other unique people weaken their opponents. I am one of those people. I remove momentum entirely from others."
"I see. But in exchange, you become powerless yourself." Soverick said.
Ode frowned. "So what? I can still kill you easily."
Ode couldn't move quickly in his domain but he could still kill Soverick and he would be able to kill him at leisure too.
Soverick commented as his eyes scanned the world. "Isn't this the secret step of mastery of momentum, the Nullification of momentum? You didn't even come up with it, but you're bragging about it and you even botched it. How shameless."
You Botched An Imitation.
Ode roared angrily. "I didn't botch it."
Veins of frustration were showing on his forehead. He had reasons to be frustrated. His way of life has ended. The small hope he was clinging to is about to be ripped away from him. Then an upstart dares to call his technique botched.
Soverick would have shrugged if he could move. "I thought the limit on the mastery that could be shown in the mana stage is the third step. I didn't know this. Trust me, you botched it."
Ode calmed down and began walking unhurriedly toward Soverick. He felt he had nothing to fear in indulging his trapped opponent so he asked, "How did I botch it?"
Soverick also answered unhurriedly. "If I am seeing this right. You didn't nullify momentum. You're just stealing it. You have gone beyond siphoning the momentum of the world to siphoning the momentum of mana. You are imitating the power of a titan of law."
Only titans of law can go beyond siphoning the momentum of a plane as a result of its rotation and movement, to controlling the power of the world contained within mana. It is an impressive thing to imitate such power but it is still an imitation and a botched one at that.
Soverick continued. "The reason why only you can move is that you have the momentum siphoned stored within you. You aren't a transcendent anymore so you don't have unlimited storage. This domain will stop when you reach your maximum capacity."
Ode sneered, "You'll be dead before that happens."
Soverick nodded. "Maybe. But it is a domain in the end. It is not a proper mastery of momentum. You can't even do more than move. Your domain is hindering you from doing more than that. As I said earlier, you botched it. You botched an imitation."
Ode had had enough of that word. He decided to make Soverick's ending as painful as possible. There would be no respect for a worthy foe from him towards Soverick. "It doesn't matter now."
He had walked within 10 meters of Soverick.
Soverick shook his head. "Of course, it matters. A domain can be broken."
Ode was about to jeer when he stopped midway. A domain spread out from Soverick and broke his field of nullification. The domain encapsulated him and they seemed to disappear from the room into a world of 6 colors of mana. There were 6 small spirals of mana surrounding a larger 7th one which included all of them above them in the sky of the domain.
"This is a domain. How did you get one? He asked in shock. His shock only increased when he realized how wrong he was.
"This isn't a domain. It's a nascent world."
It is a very powerful nascent world too. All he could see as far as his eyes could see were the 6 colors of mana that formed an ocean around him. The black of darkness. The white of light. The red of fire. The brown of earth. The blue of water. The green of wind.
He couldn't feel any connection whatsoever to mana. He had become weakened and suppressed.
He pointed at Soverick. He had a lot to say and a lot to ask. For starters, how did a new mana entity have such a strong domain that it evolved into a nascent world? It should be impossible.