Chapter 188: 188
Caranthir struggled beneath the magical binds, his body twitching from the aftershock of the chaos-infused punch. His helm had cracked down the side, and blood trickled from his nose. Still, the Aen Elle's pride burned behind his dazed eyes.
"You think this is over?" he hissed. "You think this—" he flexed weakly against the ropes "—is victory?" He didn't know who these people were and where they were at the moment. But he wasn't that surprised.
It just proved how powerful Liam was and had the power to cross dimensions, just like Ciri and the Wild Hunt would need this by hook or by crook.
Liam stepped forward, staff spinning once in his hand before locking upright with a slam. The impact echoed like a drumbeat across the courtyard.
"No," Liam said calmly. "This is education." He indicated the others to let Caranthir free. He tried to rise—only to be kicked backward by an invisible force. A wave of chaos magic surged from Liam's palm, lifting the elf and slamming him into a courtyard pillar. It cracked on impact.
Caranthir rose, panting, frost blooming from his fingers. He conjured a glacial barrier and flung it toward Liam, who didn't even move. The ice shattered against an invisible shield—the staff hummed, absorbing and dispersing the energy like it was nothing.
"You came to a world where I have no leash," Liam said, eyes glowing brighter now. This time with rainbow and Caranthir could see it. He had never seen those eyes before. But he couldn't lament on it at the time.
Caranthir conjured a portal behind Liam, trying to strike from the rear.
Too slow.
Liam vanished—blink—and appeared in the air above him.
He slammed his staff down, channeling Sila's magic—pure, brutal fire. A shockwave of red-hot energy exploded outward, engulfing the courtyard in an inferno. Caranthir screamed as the spell melted through his armor's enchantments, burning his shoulder.
Before he could retaliate, Liam dropped to the ground and raised his Bifrost hand.
From the earth itself, thorny vines shot upward, glowing with Prav's watery sigils, coiling around Caranthir's arms and legs. Water magic twisted unnaturally—fluid yet binding—turning into spikes of pressure that began crushing the air from his lungs.
"I've seen gods die," Liam said as he walked slowly toward him, "and I've seen worlds burn. You are neither."
Caranthir growled and exploded outward with Aen Elle magic, finally breaking free. He teleported behind Liam mid-flash and stabbed—
But it went through a mirror image. Heimdall's foresight had already warned Liam seconds ago.
"Wrong move." Liam reappeared beside him and whispered.
He drove his knee into Caranthir's chest, enhanced by Atreus' godly strength, sending the elf tumbling end over end. And then with his ability he took Caranthir away from Kamar Taj as this place won't be able to handle so much destruction. He took him to the Himalayas. On a place where people didn't go. He used teleportation in that.
Caranthir didn't expect Liam's ability would be so different. He didn't know what was going on but he wasn't liking it. He had been trying to teleport back to his world but he was failing miserably.
But Liam wasn't done after reaching the frozen and ragged mountains.
A rune circle bloomed beneath Caranthir in midair, glowing purple and red. Chaos magic fused with Frey's earth manipulation.
BOOM.
Caranthir hit the ground hard, half of his armor torn, smoke billowing off him. He tried to rise once more—coughing, eyes dazed—but Liam wasn't done. The death was Elie was still very much raw.
He held out his staff and whispered something ancient.
The sky darkened. Sigils of all three Forspoken schools hovered above the courtyard like a crown: Sila's fire, Prav's water and Frey's earth manipulation.
Then Liam walked through the air—gravity forgotten—until he stood above Caranthir, who now looked up with something dangerously close to fear.
"This… is a fraction of what I could do," Liam said quietly.
He snapped his fingers.
Chains of pure time—glowing golden, threads of Heimdall's influence—wrapped around Caranthir, locking him in a moment of suspended motion. The elf's breath froze in his throat.
"And it's more than you deserve."
Liam raised his hand, drawing on his chaos core. The runes around his arm flared, and a final bolt of red-black lightning surged downward and slammed Caranthir's body into unconsciousness.
He wanted to kill him, but he wasn't done with Caranthir yet. He again teleported back to Kamar Taj with Caranthir floating beside him. He had lost blood and consciousness. And was pretty close to death. Liam threw the body of Caranthir down and vanished for a second.
He returned with unconscious Vesemir on his shoulder. And then he started to heal him using his Prav and chaos magic. He also brought some potions made by Triss herself and force Vesemir to drink. He too has lost a lot of blood and needed more medical attention. He would send him to Pepper after he stabilized.
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Kaer Morhen
The sky split apart like parchment. A massive wave of crimson energy blasted down like a divine hammer, disintegrating half a dozen Wild Hunt warriors mid-ride. Lightning crackled—unlike any seen before—tainted with void-black and chaos-red.
Liam had returned.
He landed at the center of the courtyard like a meteor, cloak flaring, eyes glowing with burning threads of rainbow and starlight. His staff struck the stone.
The earth screamed in reply.
He could feel it now. The pure, unrestricted flow of chaos in this world. This was his home turf—and here, there were no multiversal rules to bind him in this power. No cosmic laws to temper the power in his veins. And the chaos here was much more vibrant than his own world.
Liam raised his hand. A burning line tore through the enemy formation, incinerating a dozen soldiers instantly. Liam walked through the battlefield as time slowed around him. Arrows hovered mid-flight. Sword swings froze in midair. With each step, he twisted the very laws that governed motion and force, disassembling his enemies without lifting a finger.
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