Magus Supremacy

Chapter 1082 1082: Grey's Domain (2)

"Magus Dominion; Cosmic Sovereignty"

The moment the word was uttered, the world still felt normal.

That was a mistake.

Then came a single shift in the air—like reality had inhaled sharply and forgotten how to exhale.

Then it happened.

The space above Grey fractured first.

Not breaking like glass under impact, but splitting like a truth being rewritten.

Thin cracks of lightless distortion spread outward in a perfect circle, tracing an invisible boundary around the battlefield.

Gustav's eyes narrowed.

"Wha—?"

He did not finish.

Lightning answered first.

The sky darkened as if someone had dragged a curtain over the sun.

But it wasn't darkness; it was pressure.

Veins of electric blue crawled across the heavens, slow and deliberate, like a living system awakening.

Every strand of lightning curved inward… not toward the ground, but toward Grey.

As if waiting.

Listening. Obeying.

Then fire appeared.

Not from combustion, and not from fuel—it simply existed.

Floating embers ignited mid-air, suspended like broken stars.

They multiplied, forming concentric rings that rotated around Grey in slow, controlled orbits.

The heat did not spread chaotically; it stayed disciplined.

Like soldiers awaiting command.

Wind followed.

But there was no gust, no roar.

Instead, the air divided itself.

One layer pulled inward toward Grey, while another pushed outward against Gustav.

The battlefield became a pressure chamber, reality itself tightening like a clenched fist.

The ground responded last.

Earth did not break; it obeyed.

Stone rose in silent waves beneath them, forming fractured platforms layered like ruins of an ancient world reconstructing itself in reverse.

Each step Gustav took landed heavier than the last, as if gravity had quietly learned his name.

And then space finally surrendered.

The air bent.

Not visually at first, but perceptually.

Distance stopped behaving correctly.

The gap between Grey and Gustav felt inconsistent, like the world could not agree on how far apart they were supposed to be.

Then the Domain fully opened.

It did not explode outward; it unfolded inward—like the world was being turned inside out and reassembled around Grey's existence.

A perfect sphere sealed itself around them.

Not a barrier, but a rewritten world.

Inside it, everything changed.

The earth beneath Gustav grew heavier with each breath he took, as if the ground itself rejected his presence.

Wind no longer moved randomly; it guided him, subtly steering his stance, his angles, and his options.

Fire drifted through the air in slow, controlled spirals, marking invisible zones where heat would suddenly intensify if he lingered too long.

Lightning no longer struck.

It anticipated.

Small arcs flickered ahead of his thoughts, like the universe reacting before he even decided to act.

And at the center of it all was Grey.

Still. Unmoving.

But he was no longer simply standing in space; he was standing in absolute authority.

A faint spatial distortion wrapped around him, warping distance itself so that every possible path Gustav could take felt slightly wrong.

Not blocked—just… misaligned with reality.

"Yo-You can manifest a domain now?" Gustav uttered in absolute shock as he realized exactly where he had been brought into.

He could feel the suffocation of the atmosphere, like it was trying to yank the oxygen directly from his own throat.

A heavy weight could be felt pressing on him, making it feel as though he were carrying an entire mountain on his back.

The shock the demon felt wasn't merely that the warrior mage could manifest a domain; it was the impossible number of elements he had charged into it.

"But how? No mage should be able to use more than two elements in their domain! So how can you use all your five affinities? Even the Original mages could only use two."

Grey didn't rush to reply as the fluid kept pouring from the punctures all around his body, while he glared at his father for several long seconds.

"Guess I'm stronger than the Originals then."

"..."

The seconds stretched into a long minute as both father and son glared into each other's eyes with no one making a single move.

"Huh? What are you waiting for then?" Gustav questioned with a raised brow.

"Waiting for you to cast your domain. I have thrown all my cards. You can throw all of yours let's get this over and done with it."

"..."

The wind didn't howl at all. It was like it didn't exist anymore but it's prescence could still be felt heavily in the domain.

"Unfortunately for me and fortunately for you; I never did learn how to cast a domain. Before it was created by one of the Originals, I had already part ways with them. And after I became a demon, I didn't see a need to learn it as it could beat anybody even in their domains."

"...."

There was a few seconds of some more silence as Grey's lips twitched.

"And now? How much confidence do you have that you will be able to defeat me in my own world?"

The chains around Gustav swirled and turned around. Lightning crackled all around his frame followed by thousands of metal swords that hovered behind his back ready and waiting for his command to cause havock.

A small smile curved his lips.

"A hundred percent success rate. I will take you down."

BOOOM!

He charged forward with all his might that he literally blurred forward with overwhelming speed yet, Grey remained unfazed as he could now sense the man.

Earlier, he couldn't sense him and only relied on his instincts to help him feel where the demon would appear from.

But now, he didn't need to.

It was as if the demon's movement were laid bare before him like an open book.

He could be seen appearing in the fire zone that orbited a few metres away from Grey.

The moment he stepped foot in the zone, the crushing heat that descended upon him was like no other as heavy downpour of flames swiftly poured down on him.

Not only that, Grey simply looked at the lightning that curved towards him.

Like a waiting servant, the lightning crawled forward with blazing momentum.