Strings Of Domination

"Are you... Are you fucking kidding me?!" Nash blurted out loudly with a stupefied expression, feeling the urge to find someone and slap them right into their death!

Right before him, a meteorite... No, a huge asteroid with the width of a mile capable of wiping out entire continents was falling on him with speed faster than a bullet! No matter how he looked at it, the chances of him stopping that giant flying rock was almost equal to zero!

"Is this some kind of joke? Do I really need to stop that thing? But how?" Nash muttered with widened eyes as he watched the asteroid falling down on him without any sign of halting or slowing down!

As Nash watched the whole sight above him with a somewhat perplexed face, his gaze gradually fell on his sword in his hand, wondering if he could use its Soul Breaker power to slice the huge rock into two or not.

'I think it deserves a try at least.' Nash thought in his heart and was ready to activate his longsword's ability when suddenly the sword in his hand flew away and remained floated in the far distance, high above in the air!

[During the second part of the trial, you are not allowed to use any kind of

technique or Art!]

"What?!" seeing the rows of text in his line of sight, Nash's face darkened before turning dead serious and looking at the meteorite high above him.

"I see, so you want to play like this..." Nash said calmly and without saying anything else took up a firm sideways stance, one from where he can exert the most strength of his body without fearing to lose his balance.

Closing his eyes to calm his mind, Nash took a deep breath and opened his eyelids slowly, only to see as the asteroid was now only a few meters away from him. The flames that covered its massive body forced the temperature around Nash to rise dramatically while the invisible pressure that pressed down on his body akin to a huge palm made the ground below his feet show small signs of cracking even though it has yet to crash into it!

If before not, now Nash was absolutely aware of the fact that the huge rock in front of him was, without a doubt, a real giant asteroid, hence he was given another reason why to give his best!

'I will smash it into hundreds of chunks!' Nash thought with firm determination in his heart and without daring to hesitate even for a second more, pushed all of his essences in his Ancient Veins into his right fist and with all his might threw out a powerful punch right at the flying rock!

"HA!"

Nash's fist blurred for a mere second before it appeared right in front of him, and the moment it got into contact with the meteorite that was now less than a meter away from crashing into him, time seemed to halt for a split second before starting to flow again together with a thunderous sound that grew in pitch by every fraction of the second!

KA-BOOOOOOOOM!

With an earth-splitting blast that would be enough to wipe out entire cities on any planet, huge and wide cracks spread across the massive meteorite's body, and not even after a second later it exploded into millions of pieces with sizes smaller than gravel!

Just under a mere second, what seemed to be a gigantic and apocalypse level threat for any living being now was rendered into nothing but dust and fragments of rocks that couldn't even kill an insect much less a human!

"I... I did that?" Nash raised his hand before his face with a dumbstruck complexion when he witnessed what a single punch from him was capable of achieving; once again, he was utterly shocked to realize just how great his physical strength was, especially now that he was an Ascender!

[Congratulations! You have successfully completed the Second Trial, Vigorous Body!]

Whoosh!

Once the second notification appeared in his sight, Nash watched as his sword that floated in the distance all this time now finally appeared before him, having this seemingly eager aura around it that told him it wanted him to go and hold it once again.

"Trying to be apologetic now, huh?" Nash narrowed his eyes when he saw this, but still went and grabbed the hilt of his weapon as it was an essential asset to his overall strength; there was nothing that would make him leave his sword behind, not even in another thousand years!

As a fact, he was pretty sure there was not even a second weapon out there in the many Dimensions that was as easy and comfortable to wield as his Soul Breaker or if there somehow indeed was one, then it must be only somewhere in the Ancient Dimension.

After holding his longsword in his hand, Nash looked around and asked calmly, "What will be the next trial?"

However, although he just asked that question, deep in his heart he hoped there was no next trial as at the moment his body, especially his right arm felt extremely sore, seemingly because of him controlling and pushing almost all of the Dimension Essence from his Ancient Veins right into his fist.

Nash waited silently to see if there were any changes taking place around him, but after one full minute when nothing happened he raised his brow and lowered his weapon.

"That was all? Really?"

One minute... Two minutes... Five minutes...

Even after ten full minutes, nothing happened at all confusing Nash greatly, thinking maybe the trial have gotten some kind of error during the process and maybe he shouldn't have been able to beat the second trial. Or it was even possible that there was not a third trial at all, that is why no changes have taken place around him even after one-sixth of an hour.

'...'

Standing in one place with a calm complexion, Nash was about to see if he could leave the trial or not, but just as he began to move the space in front of him suddenly began to twist and turn while several emerged, each with a different appearance.

'Enemies?' Nash asked in his heart, but soon his brows fell into a tight frown as he discovered that the creatures before him kind of represented the few statues from the great hall where he obtained his Soul Breaker.

Some represented the spider statue, some looked like hybrids between two different animals such as crossbreeds between a bull and a horse, and there were even a few that looked like real dragons but with a rather humanoid appearance.

Each represented a different race, which surprisingly Nash failed to recognize despite having a lot of knowledge about quite a few Dimensions and their ruling races.

"Well, whatever... There are just 15 from them and each of them are only at the bottom of the Infant Rank." Nash raised his weapon as he said those words and with strong press against the ground with his feet, he dashed forward.

Whoosh!

Less than a single second, Nash crossed the distance between him and the creatures, and without wasting even a single second more he swung his sword at the creature he reached, using no special technique or power, only his physical strength!

Swish!

With a speed that was akin to lightning, Nash's sword sliced the first creature that represented a hybrid between a human and a cat, cutting its body into two perfect halves from top to bottom.

Thud!

Whoosh!

Without even giving a glance at the corpse that painted the ground below into the color of deep red with the flowing blood and sliced organs, Nash appeared next to the next creature, and with another swing, he sliced that into two too, increasing his kill count to two under two seconds!

Swish! Swish! Swish!...

A creature represents a mutated bat, a beast with a head of a wolf, and another being that had four arms and two heads; each and every one of them were slashed into two or three pieces, none of them having the ability to resist Nash's attack for more than a single second!

Under less than 15 seconds, all the 15 creatures fell onto the ground into several pieces, filling the ground around Nash with the sight of slashed corpses and the air with the gentle smell of iron.

"Hmm..." Nash waved his sword as he pondered if this was all, but soon the space around him twisted once again while several creatures with the same appearance akin to the previous 15 emerged.

"Even more will appear once I kill them all? Interesting." Nash spoke calmly as a small grin appeared on his face, having a brief idea of just what kind of challenge this trial wished to give him.

"However, although their numbers have doubled, their strength only increased by a small margin. If I should need to compare them to our Leveling system, they are barely reaching Level 4. This is nowhere near to be called a challenge!"

And with those words Nash dashed forward again, swinging his sword around with great power and speed, slicing all the creatures he appeared next to into several pieces without mercy!

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A/N: Hope you enjoyed it! Stay safe until the next chap! <3