Cosmic Ruler - Chapter 542

Chapter 542: Realm VII
The world became nothingness.

His very being threatened to unravel, his consciousness stretched thin across infinite nothing. The void clawed at him, attempting to erase his sense of self.

And yet—

Aiden smiled.

“Do you really think I fear the void?”

His golden-blue eyes burned.

And then—

—𝘗𝘈𝘈𝘈𝘈𝘈𝘈𝘈𝘈𝘈—!

His aura exploded outward.

The void itself shattered.

Nyx staggered, her form flickering as if she had lost her grip on existence itself.

“What—”

Aiden gripped his sword tighter.

“I AM THE UNWRITTEN. NOTHING BINDS ME.”

His voice reverberated across the cosmos.

The assembled universal titans—beings of immeasurable strength—felt something they had not felt in eons.

A force greater than fate.

A power beyond gods.

And then—

A new presence made itself known.

BOOM—!

The stars flickered out.

A wave of absolute silence swept across the battlefield.

And from the abyss, something stepped forward.

Something older than time.

Something even Aiden had not foreseen.

A being draped in endless black, its face obscured, its very presence warping existence around it.

Even the cosmic titans froze.

“The Arbiter…” Ragnar whispered.

“He wasn’t supposed to wake up.” Nyx murmured, her voice tight with unease.

The being—The Arbiter of Balance—took a slow step forward.

And for the first time—

Aiden felt the weight of something beyond even his power.

The true test had only just begun.

The void trembled.

Even the cosmic titans, rulers of galaxies and destroyers of civilizations, took a step back as the Arbiter of Balance loomed before them.

A being without beginning. Without end.

Neither creation nor destruction—only the absolute enforcement of equilibrium.

Aiden gripped his sword, his heartbeat steady despite the overwhelming pressure washing over him. He had shattered fate. He had denied destiny.

But now—

Something had come to correct the imbalance.

The Arbiter did not speak. It did not need to.

The weight of its gaze alone was enough to warp existence itself.

And then—

—𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘔—!

A single step from the Arbiter collapsed a star system in the distance.

The very fabric of reality strained.

Ragnar’s fists clenched. “Tch. Even we might not be able to take this thing head-on…”

Fenris, the Dragon Monarch, coiled tighter, his abyssal flames flickering—but they did not consume.

Nyx, the Void Queen, vanished completely, unwilling to be caught in what was about to come.

Aiden remained still.

The Arbiter lifted a single hand.

And reached toward him.

—𝘞𝘏𝘈𝘔—!

Time itself ceased.

Aiden felt his movements lock.

His breath stalled.

The universe stopped spinning.

And then—

—𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒—!

Aiden felt it.

His own existence was being rewritten.

Not by fate.

Not by will.

By something beyond choice.

By Balance itself.

His sword flickered, its golden and abyssal glow dimmed, as if struggling against something it could not comprehend.

For the first time since he had ascended, Aiden felt powerless.

The Arbiter tilted its head.

It had already won.

And in that moment—

Aiden remembered.

He had torn apart destiny.

He had broken the cycle.

And in doing so—

He had become the very thing that should not exist.

The ultimate anomaly.

The sword in his grip trembled.

His body screamed.

And in the silent, frozen eternity of that moment—

Aiden made a choice.

—𝘚𝘞𝘖𝘖𝘚𝘏—!

The Unwritten Blade flared back to life.

“You will not decide for me.”

The Arbiter paused.

It was the first time in all of existence—

That something had resisted its judgment.

Aiden’s aura exploded outward, shattering the frozen grip of Balance. The universe lurched back into motion, time resumed, and the Arbiter took a step back—its first movement of hesitation.

Aiden clenched his sword.

The golden-abyssal light around it shifted—no longer just destruction, no longer just rewriting.

It was something new.

A power beyond choice. Beyond balance. Beyond control.

It was True Freedom.

The Arbiter spoke for the first time.

“You should not be.”

Aiden smirked. “And yet, here I am.”

The battle for the Unwritten Era…

Had truly begun.

The Arbiter’s form shifted, reality itself unable to fully define its existence. A concept given shape, neither divine nor mortal—it was the will of balance itself.

And it had deemed Aiden an anomaly.

Aiden’s grip on his Unwritten Blade tightened as the space around him began to collapse into raw possibility. The Arbiter was not attacking him.

It was erasing the very space he occupied.

—𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒—!

The laws of existence trembled.

The cosmic titans watching from the edges of creation knew this was beyond their war.

Even gods who had once shattered universes stood still.

For the first time—

The fight was no longer between the strong.

It was between those who determined what strength even meant.

Aiden exhaled.

His body flared with power, his very existence refusing to be erased.

The Unwritten Blade burned.

A sword that was neither destruction nor creation—but the rejection of control itself.

—𝘚𝘏𝘖𝘖𝘖𝘔—!

Aiden vanished.

The Arbiter shifted, a thousand futures collapsing and forming within its grasp. It saw every move Aiden could possibly make—every strike, every strategy, every desperate attempt to break free.

And in all of them—

Aiden lost.

The Arbiter raised its hand.

Reality itself began to collapse.

Aiden did not care.

He had defied fate before.

He would do it again.

—𝘊𝘓𝘈𝘕𝘎—!

Their clash shattered galaxies.

The Arbiter’s hand caught Aiden’s blade, but instead of stopping it—

The Arbiter recoiled.

It had never been hurt before.

Not by gods.

Not by devils.

Not by time itself.

Yet now—

Aiden’s sword had done the impossible.

It had cut possibility itself.

The Arbiter’s golden gaze locked onto Aiden.

A pause.

A hesitation.

And then—

A single whisper from Aiden.

“I don’t lose.”

—𝘍𝘞𝘖𝘖𝘖𝘖𝘚𝘏—!

And for the first time in eternity—

The Arbiter of Balance was forced to fight for survival.

The Final War had truly begun.

The entire universal battlefield trembled.

Aiden surged forward, his Unwritten Blade radiating power beyond comprehension. The Arbiter, once an untouchable force, was bleeding.

For the first time.

The cosmic entities that had been watching in silence reeled back in shock.

“The Arbiter… is being injured?” a god of destruction whispered.

“Impossible!” a time sovereign trembled. “That being exists outside of existence itself!”

Yet, in front of them—

Aiden had changed the impossible into reality.