"It seems the teacher is getting serious. We must hurry over, Durandal."
"Understood."
The two picked up their pace and headed toward the direction of Otto and Yeye.
At this moment, Yeye had once again appeared before Otto. Countless golden ripples emerged across the sky, shooting forth numerous chains and longswords. The golden light practically enveloped the entire firmament.
"Old friend, you had better survive this."
"I should be the one saying that!"
Yeye’s fingers were already entwined with a few white particles, which were gradually multiplying and enveloping both of his hands.
"Is True Self Mode finally activating? No matter, there is more than enough time!"
Qi converged in Yeye’s hands, forming a pair of short blades. Grasping them tightly, facing the onslaught raining down from the sky, Yeye did not retreat a single step. He calmly deflected every attack and even hurled a blade back at Otto.
However, it had little effect on Otto. Realizing that weapons alone could not stop Yeye, Otto personally entered the fray. Wielding a golden longsword, he slashed toward Yeye, but Yeye merely smiled. Catching Otto's descending blade—his hands now partially armored—Yeye firmly gripped it.
"You finally decided to get close to me!"
The numerous golden ripples in the sky vanished instantly, as if suddenly erased. Otto immediately understood what had happened.
"Erasing space? Old friend, do you actually have such immense control over space? You never showed anything like this before. To think you were still holding something back!"
"In the past, it was simply because no one was worthy of making me use it, and I wasn't all that familiar with it myself."
Yeye shattered the sword in his grip, seized Otto's hand, and drove the short blade in his other hand straight through Otto's body. A considerable amount of golden blood gushed out, but for Otto, an injury like this was far from fatal.
Therefore, Yeye let go, and a blade formed once again in his hand, this time aimed at Otto's head. Naturally, Otto was not about to let himself be struck down like that. Several chains shot toward the blade in Yeye's hand. Yeye tried to use his other hand to materialize a weapon for defense, but that hand was grabbed by both of Otto's hands, making it impossible to pull free and summon a weapon. He had no choice but to redirect the hand already holding the weapon to slash at the chains.
The chains shattered, but he missed the prime opportunity to strike Otto, and Otto successfully broke away. Pulling back from Yeye, Otto kept summoning chains and weapons from a distance, launching a relentless assault.
"I can't mount an effective counterattack. Otto's internal energy right now is nearly infinite. If I keep fighting him like this, I'll be at a disadvantage. But if I use skills like Blue, given Otto's current reaction speed, he will definitely be able to dodge them. To win, I must rely on other means. Even in my True Self state, I haven't fully unleashed the power of spatial authority. Something rated as a god-tier reward by the system definitely isn't that simple. I must be missing something."
"Old friend, your eyes can perceive everything within 360 degrees around you, right? Let me see if that's really true."
"Wait—the Six Eyes. I see, I see, so that's how it is. Normally, I rely on the Six Eyes to capture information, but the perception of the Six Eyes doesn't include space itself. That's why I couldn't push it to its absolute limit."
Yeye closed his eyes, shutting off the Six Eyes' perception of the surrounding information. In the next instant, he realized his perception of the world had changed. He could feel the flow of everything within space and command those currents; he was like the king of space itself. Space entirely obeyed his directives.
Yeye opened his eyes once more, the color of his pupils shifting from blue to gold.
"Even though it sounds utterly cheesy, I still really want to say this: from this moment on, space, obey the command of your King!!"
The attacks hurtling toward Yeye froze mid-air, trembling violently. Yeye had sealed the space around them. For these materialized weapons, breaking free of the seal required only one method: shattering space itself. While shattering space was just barely within Otto's capabilities, it was utterly impossible for mere weapons.