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Jin and the Legends gathered in front of the Chaos turned gate. Vahn displayed her frustration, but the Chaos showed no reaction, as if it had truly become an inanimate object.
"It seems Brother Jin has won... Has it fled?"
"Calling it fleeing doesn't seem right; it's more like the Chaos itself has become the gate. Quite a peculiar fellow. From what we know, it could be the first Chaos."
This time, even Jin hesitated to enter.
His thoughts were blocked.
"It's not that he's not speaking, it's that he's completely cut off once he becomes the gate."
The last thing Jin felt within the chaos was that this gate was his ace.
"Brothers, I've just been able to read the thoughts of the chaos. That's why I've been able to easily handle its attacks."
As Jin explained the situation, a sigh escaped the Legends."I thought it would be easily resolved thanks to the God of Battle Fusion, but it seems we've encountered another challenge."
"Still, since Brother Jin recovered his strength much faster than I thought, there must be a way. The God of Battle Fusion hasn't risen yet."
The God of Battle Fusion wasn't completed even after the chaos turned into a gate.
However, unlike the other brothers, Jin and Vahn rather thought it was a problem.
It was because Jin didn't know when he would lose consciousness, and Vahn was still forcibly transferring her energy to Jin.
"Brothers, it seems it's time to think it over, so let's first go somewhere else and discuss it."
Jin and the Legends left two ordinary warriors as guards and left the training ground.
"He doesn't show it, but Sister Vahn seems a bit tired..."
The Goddess of Battle Vahn, originally her energy was practically infinite.
However, as she herself said, her prime has passed.
She lost some of her strength even at the time when the Legends were on the verge of extinction 5000 years ago, and she weakened even further after passing her true energy to Jin several times.
Therefore, for the current Vahn, the God of Battle Fusion was a kind of forced amplification, and it was somewhat exhausting.
She couldn't control the energy as she wished, and the effectiveness of Jin accepting power from her wasn't good.
The other Legends couldn't even imagine that Vahn could tire just from "transferring" her power.
Naturally, the eyes of all the Legends were focused on Boras.
"Brother Fifth Battle King, can you guess something this time?"
"Yes, Brother Fifth Battle King is a genius. He must have thought of something, right?"
Boras awkwardly laughed and scratched his head.
"Well, I don't have a clear idea either. The God of Battle Fusion, Brother Jin reading the thoughts of Chaos, Chaos turning into that gate... It's all unheard of. Let's observe for a few days and collectively think about what to do."
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A week had passed since Chaos turned into a gate.
Meanwhile, Jin spent his days training or participating in various experiments with his brothers to understand how the gate worked.
However, he only discovered two definite things.
Firstly, only Jin could enter the Chaos gate. Any attempt by another person was met with strong resistance.
Secondly, not even with the Shadow Blade could he force the gate.
Any attempt at attack caused the gate to briefly blur like water before quickly regaining its original form.
Most of the power Jin had lost was still tied to the Chaos.
It wasn't visible to Jin's eyes, unlike when Chaos took the form of a dragon, but he could feel it.
He refrained from trying to attack Chaos with the lightning energy combined from the Legends, fearing it could harm their united strength.
The Phoenix Tess, who had always been a solution in those moments, couldn't be summoned.
After all, Lafrarosa was a dead world.
"In the end, Brother Jin has no choice but to go through the gate."
"That seems to be the case, Sister Goddess of Battle. After all, the last thought it transmitted to me was that I could no longer receive help from my brothers."
Entering the unknown trap wasn't difficult if you strengthened your determination.
The problem was that after entering through the gate, if something unbearable happened to Jin, it was very likely that his brothers couldn't help him.
In any case, the Legends decided to gather in front of the gate and wait.
Jin, just like when he embarked on a journey, carried a backpack full of provisions.
"Ah, is it really okay to send Brother Jin like this?"
"Brother Jin, it might be difficult to accept... but even if you lose some strength, what if you travel with the other brothers?"
"I can't do that, brothers."
"Ah, I said something stupid. I didn't want to say something without considering your feelings."
"Why explain all that? I understand. Don't worry too much; maybe things will work out better than expected inside the gate. I'll be back."
"Good luck, brother."
"Even when you enter, I hope that the power of Sister Goddess of Battle will continue with you..."
The Legends felt as if they were sending a child alone to the sea.
Jin waved to them as if to reassure them, but he also felt uneasy.
Whoosh!
As soon as he stepped on the other side of the gate, the landscape suddenly changed.
"I expected it to some extent, but it's similar to when I entered Gliek's subspace."
The surroundings filled with grotesque darkness, and only Jin's silhouette could be distinguished.
Now, such subspaces were not particularly new to Jin.
Do I proceed blindly...?
The moment Jin thought to that extent, he heard a grave and somber breathing coming from somewhere.
"You come...."
It was within the first ten seconds of Jin's entry into the subspace.
Jin, trying to find the direction of the voice, instinctively looked up and immediately was stunned.
Madness.
It was because he encountered Chaos.
Even when Chaos was in the training ground, it was already huge, but now it was different.
A single eye was large enough to overwhelm Jin.
For a moment, every fiber of Jin's being tensed, but he quickly wielded Bradamante, striking the Chaos's huge eye that seemed about to engulf him.
Crack!
It was like being struck by an ancient eternal steel, but the one who received the impact was Jin himself.
With that single blow, he could clearly discern one fact: at that moment, he had no chance of defeating Chaos.
"The God of Battle Fusion hasn't even been severed yet, but there aren't even any scars...!?"
Jin couldn't be sure even before losing his power.
The best course of action was to retreat.
Far from things turning out better than expected, the situation was even more dire than when Jin first extracted the Chaos.
"God of Battle Fusion, that's what you call it, right? That monster's power resonates with the remnants of me remaining in you, so I had a pretty hard time."
It was an even more desperate turn of events.
In the training ground, Jin unilaterally read Chaos's thoughts, but here it was the opposite.
Chaos was spying on Jin's most intimate thoughts.
Jin quickly turned around, but there was no trace of the gate.
It was absurd to think that he hadn't even taken five steps beyond the gate.
This is the worst. Even after considering all scenarios with my brothers, there's nothing worse than this'.
Bang!
Jin felt dizzy from the blow that seemed to make his body disappear.
It was the result of Chaos's enormous front paw sweeping him away.
[Last time, you didn't get to taste the powerful blow of my front paw! Bang, bam.]
The bones and organs throughout his body shook with that single blow, and blood spurted from every hole in his face.
If Jin hadn't been protected by his Shadow Energy Armor, he would have died instantly.
There was no surge of anger, no pain.
It was simply baffling.
'This kind of deception doesn't even exist in scams.'
[Exactly! I felt the same. It was great when I was the one getting beaten up by that monster, right? What does it feel like when it happens to you?]
"I don't think I want to hear that from someone who stole all my strength."
Jin said calmly, but inside he felt like his head was spinning.
[Are you wondering why the gate disappeared and how to get out?]
Once again, a powerful swing of the front paw, the area was too vast to avoid it.
Even if it was smaller, the speed couldn't be avoided.
Jin, rebounded, barely kept consciousness.
Jin never thought he would feel that sense of powerlessness even after regaining almost 30% of his strength, and even the God of Battle Fusion!
There was no gate.
If that was the case, he had to make one.
Fortunately, Jin had experienced something similar in the past a few times.
Shadow Energy enveloped Bradamante.
[Here, that power is no great threat to me either.]
"Is that so?"
Jin spun Bradamante not towards Chaos, but towards the empty space one step ahead.
Like a lie, the space tore apart, and an exit formed.
Through the gap, he could see Lafrarosa's training ground and even his waiting brothers.
'Didn't you read that I used the Shadow Blade to escape from a subspace like this?'
Did he not read it, or did he intentionally leave an opening even though he knew?
It wasn't something to worry about now.
After escaping, he could think about the aftermath.
Jin, who suddenly darted into the crack opened by the Shadow Blade, burned with a spirit of fighting more intense than ever, apart from his urgency.
'I'll get stronger and end you, for sure.'
Swush!
Just before Jin could escape from the crack, hundreds of black thorns suddenly formed in the air and pierced through him like arrows.
Chaos had created these thorns in the brief opening, savagely attacking Jin, but they couldn't penetrate the Shadow Energy Armor.
"Ugh!"
"Brother Jin!?
"You're back already, right! Brother Jin, you're bleeding!"
"Brother Boras! Hurry and treat Brother Jin......!"
Thud!
As Jin collapsed on the training ground floor, the Legends rushed to him, shouting.
Jin could barely hear their voices.
Instead, Jin stared at the opening through which he had escaped, lying face down, until he was about to lose consciousness.
With a fanatical look promising retaliation, no matter what.
'I'll kill you... no matter what it takes.'
And Chaos, unlike its previous behavior, stared fixedly at Jin beyond the crack with a stern expression.
When the crack quickly closed upon Jin's escape, Chaos muttered to itself.
[Heh, come again. Stupid bastard!]
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