Cosmic Ruler - Chapter 484

Chapter 484: Fate IV
Aiden’s expression remained impassive, but his instincts screamed.

The pulse spread like ripples across existence itself, rewriting the very fabric of reality. His connection to the Codex of True Sovereignty trembled—not out of fear, but in acknowledgment.

This wasn’t just an opponent.

This was something that should not exist.

The enforcer didn’t attack. He simply watched.

“It has been a long time… since something like you appeared.”

Aiden didn’t respond. Instead, his gaze shifted upward.

The sky fractured.

No, not just the sky—the very concept of boundaries broke apart.

Space. Time. Causality.

They bent, twisted, and then… split open.

Something descended.

It wasn’t a being. It wasn’t an energy. It was a principle given form.

[Designation: Regulator of Absolute Order]

[Function: Correction of Anomalies]

[Target Identified: Aiden]

The voice wasn’t heard—it was imprinted directly into reality. Aiden felt it, not as sound, but as a fundamental law being declared.

A shape coalesced.

It had no true form—only shifting layers of concepts, each one representing an absolute truth.

Aiden narrowed his eyes.

“So that’s what they’re bringing out?”

The enforcer finally spoke again.

“You should be honored. The last time a Regulator descended, an entire civilization ceased to exist.”

Aiden’s grip on his sword tightened. He had already guessed as much.

The Regulator’s presence wasn’t just power—it was an inevitability.

A force that didn’t fight—it simply corrected.

And right now, it had decided Aiden was an error.

Aiden exhaled slowly.

“Alright, then…”

A single step forward.

The world froze.

The stars dimmed.

And for the first time in an eternity—the Regulator hesitated.

Aiden’s gaze burned with cold resolve as he stared down the Regulator. The weight of its presence was enough to warp reality itself, yet he remained standing, unfazed. His Spirit Sense flared, analyzing the entity before him.

The Regulator had no true weaknesses—it wasn’t a being in the conventional sense. It wasn’t governed by laws; it was the law. A fundamental truth that erased all that defied its purpose.

[Threat Level: Immeasurable]

[Victory Chance: Undefined]

Aiden smirked. That only meant he had to force a definition.

The Regulator moved. Not through motion, not through speed, but through conceptual displacement. It was simply somewhere else, and then—

Aiden’s sword rose.

CLANG!

The world bent. Space twisted as the sheer clash of forces rippled across existence. Aiden’s Golden Sword Martial Spirit vibrated, resonating with a force even it struggled to comprehend. The Regulator’s attack wasn’t physical, magical, or even energy-based—it was the imposition of a correction. Aiden should not be.

Yet, he was.

[System Notification: Immediate Countermeasure Required]

[Warning: Presence of True Law Detected]

Aiden’s lips curled.

“You think a few rules will stop me?”

He stepped forward—and the world shattered.

No, not the world. The concept of forward movement itself broke apart. The Regulator sought to erase the very notion of action, denying causality itself.

But Aiden was a man who walked against fate.

The Destiny Thread of Million Miracles flared to life, golden threads intertwining with his form, countering the Regulator’s conceptual assault with pure, unbound possibility.

[New Route Created]

The Regulator hesitated.

It did not hesitate because of doubt. It did not fear.

It hesitated because Aiden had just done the impossible.

[Correction Protocol Adjusted]

[Absolute Causality Lock: Engaged]

Reality convulsed.

Aiden’s Timeflow, his ability to manipulate past, present, and future, ceased to exist. His Spirit Sense dissolved. His Golden Sword, his Reaper Scythe, his Death Dragon—all Martial Spirits vanished.

The Regulator had rewritten reality. Aiden was now nothing but a mortal.

“Absolute erasure… huh?”

Aiden cracked his neck.

The world burned.

From within him, something roared.

Something that existed before laws. Before time. Before even the concept of existence itself.

A force older than the Regulator.

Older than reality.

The Regulator stepped back.

For the first time in eternity, the Correction Entity felt it.

A presence that could not be erased.

Aiden’s eyes shone, burning with infinite stars. His very being defied logic.

[Authority: Lord of Pride, Lucifer]

[Authority: Master of Craft, Eternal Forge]

[Authority: Lone Traveler, Pathfinder]

[Authority: Lord of Information, Akashic]

These were not just powers. These were the pillars of existence itself.

Aiden raised his hand.

The Regulator’s own laws collapsed.

The entity tried to retreat. But it was too late.

Aiden smiled.

And then, he rewrote reality in his favor.

The Regulator twisted, its form flickering between states of existence and non-existence. It was trying to escape—no, trying to correct the very fact that Aiden existed outside its authority.

But Aiden had already seized control.

[Authority: Lord of Information, Akashic] – Absolute Comprehension Activated.

Aiden’s mind expanded. The true nature of the Regulator unfolded before him like an open book. It wasn’t a single being—it was a concept given form, a failsafe to maintain balance across countless realities.

[Analysis Complete: The Regulator is bound by External Laws.]

[Weakness Detected: It cannot correct something that was never meant to exist.]

Aiden grinned. That meant he could force it into a paradox.

“You can’t erase me because I was never supposed to be part of this equation, huh?”

The Regulator jerked, its glowing form crackling as Aiden’s words twisted its very function.

Aiden stepped forward.

The Laws of Reality bent around him, warping and distorting as his mere presence began overriding the Regulator’s authority. His body, still bound by mortal limitations, should not have been able to contain this power.

Yet, he did.

[Authority: Lone Traveler, Pathfinder] – Unshackled Existence Activated.

With this, Aiden became something beyond correction. A being that walked outside of preordained fate. The Regulator tried once more to rewrite him out of existence, but the very act of doing so contradicted its own nature.

It began to unravel.

[Correction Failure: SYSTEM ERROR]

[Correction Failure: SYSTEM ERROR]

[WARNING: EXISTENCE COLLAPSE DETECTED]

Aiden reached out, his fingers grasping the light that made up the Regulator.

“Let’s see what happens when a system crash meets a system rewrite.”

A golden glow enveloped his hand.

[Authority: Eternal Forge] – Reality Reconstruction Initiated.

He didn’t just delete the Regulator.

He remade it.

The collapsing entity shuddered as its form changed, reshaped by Aiden’s will. It was no longer a mindless enforcer—it now carried a spark of choice.

For the first time in its eternal existence, the Regulator hesitated not because of protocol, but because it could.

And then, with one final pulse of light—

It vanished.

The world stabilized.

Aiden stood alone, his eyes dimming as the sheer weight of what had just happened settled in.

[New Status: Outside the Authority of All Laws]

[Unique Existence Achieved]

He exhaled slowly.

“Heh… so I win, huh?”

But even as he said it, he could feel something shifting. Something watching.

The Regulator was not the final force governing reality.

And whatever was—

It had just noticed him.