David moved through the void in his space ship, his newly enhanced senses drinking in every detail of the battlefield. The stars were cold pinpricks in the distance. The debris fields drifted in their ancient patterns. And somewhere behind him, following a trail of carefully placed clues, Raka was coming.The plan had formed in his mind during the long journey from the secret realm. He could not simply run. Running would only prolong the hunt, and the pirates had already proven they would wait decades for their prize. He could not simply fight. An Immortal peak was still dangerous, even with his enhanced strength, and Raka would not come alone and the battle might attract other enemies so he formed the new plan. The only option was to control the engagement, to choose the battlefield, to isolate the enemy, and to end the threat permanently.So he had left clues but not blatantly just in Subtle ones. A brief appearance near some marked location where he knew underworld force work, f

The battle that followed was unlike any David had fought before.Raka was an Immortal at his peak, and he had earned that power through centuries of combat. His fists were weapons that could shatter asteroids. His speed, while not matching David's spatial shifts, was still enough to track his movements and counter his strikes. His immortal energy surged through his body in waves, healing wounds almost as fast as David could inflict them.But David was faster.His Space law, at fifty-seven patterns, let him flash away with a fluidity that Raka had never encountered. One moment he was in front of the pirate, his spear driving toward his throat.The next he was behind him, his sword slashing at his spine. The next he was above, below, to the left, to the right and his constant blur of motion kept Raka off balance.His Destruction law, at twenty patterns, let him bypass the immortal's defenses. His spear didn't just stab it erode the stabbed flesh, bone, energy shields and all crumbled u

David starts to look at the technique Athena gave him.The technique was called Soul Chain of Eternal Binding, and it was the most complex thing he had ever tried to learn.Athena explained it to him over the course of three days, her silver eyes patient as she walked him through each step of the process. The technique requirement is not about the comprehension of Space and Destruction, but an understanding of how souls functioned, how they connected to bodies, how they processed will, how they could be bound without being broken."An immortal's soul is fully incorporated into their body," Athena said. "Unlike a mortal, whose soul is separate and can be bound through external means, an immortal's soul must be bound from within. You are not creating chains around his soul. You are weaving your will into the fabric of his existence, making it impossible for him to act against you without destroying himself."David absorbed the knowledge with the same intensity he had brought to every

Chapter 1: The Wormhole's EndThe spaceship emerged from the wormhole with a lurch that even the stabilizers couldn't fully dampen. David gripped the armrest of his chair, his enhanced senses tracking the sudden shift in spatial pressure as the vessel transitioned from the chaos of the Fractured Edge into something far more stable. Far more controlled."Sir, we have arrived at the coordinates," Trippy announced. "However, I am detecting unusual readings. The environment outside does not match any known battlefield sector."David rose from his seat and moved to the viewport. What he saw made him pause.The secret realm stretched before him like a painting of a world that should not exist. Green forests blanketed rolling hills that descended toward a silver-blue sea.Mountains rose in the distance, their peaks capped with something that looked like snow but shimmered with an inner light. Rivers carved through the landscape like veins of mercury, and the sky above was a deep amber, lit b

The breakthrough began at dawn or what passed for dawn in a realm where the sun never moved.David sat cross-legged outside of the pagoda, the tower rising above him like a spear thrust into the amber sky. The monsters inside, sealed behind walls of crystallized law, stirred restlessly as if they could sense what was coming. The air around him hummed with energy, the accumulated power of twenty years of training pressing against the barrier between realms.He closed his eyes and let go.The barrier shattered.The energy that erupted from David's body was not just power. It was a statement. A declaration of an upcoming strom. A wave of force that swept outward from his position and washed across the entire secret realm. The silver rivers rose in their banks. The golden fruit trembled on their branches. The amber sky darkened, and from that darkness, red drops began to fall.“Blood rain.”It started as a drizzle, then a downpour, then a deluge. The crimson drops fell from the sky like t