Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

Silence.

A silence that was deeper than the depths of many oceans.

A silence that pressed down on the Dying City like a heavy, funereal veil.

The echoes of the battle between Corey and the monster were long gone, and the building that had once served as a safehouse was now filled with an unnatural stillness that was not just within its broken wall, but in the world outside.

Dust floated in the air as a strange pressure was slowly receding as the figures of both Corey and the creature was revealed.

The creature was dead.

Its body, if it could be called that, lay scorched into an unrecognizable heap of blackened flesh and bubbling ichor.

The parts of its skin that was not charred, was blistered and warped.

The mass of malformed limbs, appendages, and hollow red eyes had been reduced to twitching smolder.

And even that, the twitching... was fading.

Fading into nothingness as Dreamfire consumed every lingering trace of corruption. Its severed head, the last part to remain, twitched one final time.

Then it cracked open like an overripe fruit, and pale smoke and ghostly hands which were writhing and clawing, poured out from within the head.

But the azure, silver, and violet fire consumed them all.

Until there was nothing left but ash.

Corey stood in front of the remains of the creature with a completely indifferent but cold light in his eyes.

He had previously planned on making the monster a subordinate of his through his Nightmare Finger since it had the unique powers of illusion.

But the monster had the audacity to transform into his believed sister, Anna after giving it 'advice'?

Such an act could not go unpunished no matter what.

There were other less energy-consuming methods he could have used to kill the creature, but he wanted it to suffer.

And Dreamfire was a skill that hurt the monster the most.

Its screams that traveled far and wide in the Dying City was enough proof of that.

Sigh

Corey released a sigh, and then he unclenched his fists which had been clenched ever since he began burning the monster with Dreamfire.

'Although I don't want to admit it, the monster played a good trick with that. Despite knowing that it was not Anna, burning the creature while it was wearing Anna's face was not as easy as I thought.'

He took one last look at the monster, and then he turned towards the Thirteenth Dawn, and the surroundings.

The Thirteenth Dawn stood frozen with dazed expressions as they were still locked in the illusion he had placed all of them in.

His brows furrowed slightly as he looked at the surroundings.

'If they wake up and see that the surroundings is not exactly like it was in the illusions, they would become suspicious.'

'I need to fix this... Fortunately for me, I still have enough spiritual energy to keep on using my Tri-Pupil Eyes for exactly nine minutes and sixteen seconds.'

Corey's Tri-Pupil Eyes flashed with a pondering light, and then he moved.

He waved his hand, and then he covered the house and the surroundings in Infinite Mirage, making sure that nobody, not even an insect, would be able to see what he was about to do next.

He stepped toward the shattered and broken walls, and he placed his palm on the part that was intact.

His Void Energy rippled out of his body, and he used an ability that was only meant for Tier 6s and above.

Time Reversal

A soft pulse of grey energy rippled outward, and time began to reverse itself around the walls.

The shattered stones, dust, and sand on the floor began to float towards the cracks and shattered parts of the wall, making the wall as it was the moment the creature grabbed Yara's neck.

The shattered glass of the windows repaired itself, and the broken floorboards mended itself.

Every trace of his earlier battle, the destruction, the blood, the burn marks, and the shattered debris went back to how they were before the battle ever began.

Time was literally reversed, and if the elites of the universe knew that Corey was doing all of these with ease.

And most especially.

Without using his lifespan as a cost.

Time Reversal was a skill that was meant for Mystic Beings at least, and majorly for Tier 6s.

However, it was not a skill that many used leisurely because of the immense cost.

Using Time Reversal usually cost an average Tier 6, about 95% of their mana.

And this was if they wanted to reverse time by a three minutes at most, and if the time they were reversing was only for non-living objects

Once a person's mana was used up, the skill would begin to siphon their life span, and this was what made Time Reversal a skill that most did not like using.

However, Corey was reversing time for almost an hour, and he was not only reversing time for an object.

He was reversing time for an entire building, the land, and his surroundings.

And he had barely used fifty percent of his void energy to do all of these.

Unlike mana which is consumed a lot when reversing time, void energy is the complete opposite.

Its regarded as the best energy to use when manipulating both time and space.

A minute went by, and everything went back to how it was.

He looked around, and then his gaze shifted back to the Thirteenth Dawn.

'Now, I have to make sure the environment, the building, and the atmosphere is just like how it is in the illusion.'

His mana rippled out in waves, and then he layered Infinite Mirage over the entire building and its surroundings.

A soft hum vibrated through the space as the fake version of the world formed, replicating the environment exactly as it appeared in the Thirteenth Dawn's own illusion.

Then, he walked toward each of them.

One by one.

He raised hand, and with precision, he struck the side of their necks.

Zeke was first.

Kieran was second.

Then Myra, Aelric, Rhys.

And finally, Yara.

He frowned as he placed Yara on the ground, but he did nothing.

Each of them dropped unconscious, and none of them was stirred awake.

He caught them gently and lowered them to the floor, one by one.

As for why he did this?

It was because he found stressful and wasteful to keep on putting them in an illusion until the night was over.

If they woke up with questions, they would never get the answers.

He then leaned against the nearest wall, and exhaled slowly.

His pure white eyes stared ahead, but his thoughts drifted towards a lot of things.

Hours went by, and Corey suddenly looked toward the window.

The darkness outside was beginning to shift, and the faintest glow bled into the cracks of the horizon.

Red stars blinked to life slowly, and the bone-deeo cold that came with the Second Night began to fade.

'The Day will come soon.'

Then he felt it.

The soft, almost imperceptible warmth that returned to the air.

And some minutes later, the Night was over, and the Day came back.