"Using concepts you can understand, Rin, Demon Lord Seed to Quasi-Demon Lord, their strength is generally between surface-level to star-destroying level."
"S-rank True Demon Lord, at full burst, is enough to destroy a galaxy."
"Special S-rank, based on Veldora's power just now as the basic unit, a conclusion can be drawn."
"A Special S-rank Calamity possesses single-universe level destructive power."
The single-universe level here doesn't mean they can truly destroy a universe. It means being able to destroy all matter and rules within a universe.
To analogize with creation and genesis, it's like being able to destroy everything created by the creator, but unable to shake the world itself.
"Hmm, I pretty much understand."
Rin wasn't worried about Veldora. Veldora without an Ultimate Skill was merely a magicule battery for Rin.
'The truly dangerous one is still Velzard...'
Just as Rin thought that, light flashed around Veldora, and hundreds of magicules cannons, as if to tear apart the entire starry sky, rushed toward him.
The attack speed of these light cannons was astonishing.
They used techniques of spatial folding and time acceleration. Even in the vacuum of space, they had an absolute hit rate.
'Am I locked on?'
Realizing this, Rin no longer dodged. "Violet, how's Veldora's magicules consumption?"
"Almost no loss!"
Despite such intense bombardment, in Violet's perception, Veldora's magicules showed no signs of decreasing.
"As expected of the individual with the most massive magicules among True Dragons."
If it were just this, Veldora could even fight endlessly.
This was Veldora's extravagance.
"Unfortunately, this level isn't enough to make me serious."
Rin raised his hand, then gently waved it.
In the next moment, all the light cannons that had been blasting toward him were swallowed by the void.
"Here you go."
Rin smiled at Velzard. "Come and taste your brother's affection for his sister."
"Tsk."
Velzard had originally planned to observe Rin's strength first and let her foolish brother Veldora go up to exhaust some of Rin's energy.
But the moment she looked up, the surrounding space suddenly twisted.
"Boom boom boom!"
In an instant, hundreds of magicules pillars burst forth from all directions, surrounding the Frost Dragon in her girl form.
"Veldora, that idiot..."
Velzard was annoyed. She didn't want to take her foolish brother's bombardment head-on in her human form.
So, a translucent ice curtain enveloped Velzard.
"Buzz~"
Magicules converged into a single point, engulfing the Frost Dragon.
After that, matter collapsed and space twisted.
A small black hole appeared at Velzard's location, expanding continuously, devouring the surrounding planets, light, and energy.
Shizue and Rimuru were protected by Rin's power, but they could still feel the terror of Veldora's attack.
Rin, unlike the two girls, wasn't focused on this terrifying astronomical phenomenon.
He was watching how Velzard blocked Veldora's attack.
Yes, Velzard was in excellent condition.
Not to mention being injured, she didn't even have a speck of stardust on her.
"Is it a space-time skill?"
"This range... it can even distort Veldora's magic..."
Suspended in the black hole, the Frost Dragon looked at Rin, completely unaffected. "Is your Ultimate Skill related to space-time?"
"Buzz!!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the black hole that had been expanding suddenly shattered with a bang.
Yes, it didn't disappear, it didn't close, it shattered.
"What's going on?"
"The black hole, it was erased?"
Shizue couldn't understand the scene, but Rimuru, who had Great Sage explaining, found the issue. "It's not erased. It's a conflict of rules."
"What does that mean?"
With Shizue's strength, she still couldn't grasp the level of rules.
"How should I put it..."
Rimuru wasn't entirely sure either, but she still passed on Great Sage's explanation. "It's like a whirlpool in water. Even without external force, the whirlpool will still exist, but the speed of rotation will slowly decrease."
This is a normal phenomenon under the rules.
But just now, the Frost Dragon used an unknown method to erase 'motion' and 'change'.
It was like forcibly pressing the pause button, eliminating all kinetic energy, inertia, and any other factor that caused the water to spin in the whirlpool.
Honestly, Rimuru couldn't comprehend something like that.
Logically speaking, even without kinetic energy, wouldn't there still be inertia?
How could a whirlpool suddenly disappear?
This was completely unreasonable.
But Velzard's Ultimate Skill had achieved that kind of logic-defying effect.
The so-called Ultimate Skill is the ability to create bugs using the power of rules.
Simply eliminating a black hole was nothing to Velzard.
"Ultimate Skill, Lord of Patience."
"The ice curtain that enveloped her just now wasn't actually water or ice, but a concept called 'fixation'."
Violet's voice echoed in Rin's ears, and he suddenly realized. "An ability similar to Snow Empress?"
"Yes, but this power is far stronger than Snow Empress."
...
"It has the ability to fundamentally break rules."
The difference between the two is like a GM and a programmer.
GMs just use permissions, but programmers, they write the permissions.
"Immovable, still, fixed, unchanging."
"Eradicating all chaotic, violent, and moving things, leaving only eternal tranquility."
If described in scientific terms, the Frost Dragon's Lord of Patience is 'entropy reduction'.
And it's not just about controlling entropy reduction and its phenomena. The Lord of Patience itself is the embodiment of entropy reduction.
"Heartbroken?"
"Hmph, this is the price for provoking your older sister."
Velzard ignored Veldora, her eyes glowing with golden light.
Immediately, the burning stars began to extinguish.
The rotation and revolution of planets abruptly stopped, as if the force that kept them moving had been erased.
Light no longer propagated, as if an invisible black-and-white curtain was slowly being drawn across the brilliant galaxy by a massive hand, plunging the entire universe into dead silence.
"Lord of Patience among the Seven Virtues..."
Rin didn't stop her. Instead, he watched Velzard's actions with great interest.
He knew very well what she wanted to do.
Through the entropy reduction of Lord of Patience, she would drain all the energy from the entire universe, causing it to self-annihilate and collapse.
With Velzard's magicules, she couldn't cover the entire universe with her Ultimate Skill's authority.
But covering one or two galaxies was still no problem.
(To be continued.)