Legendary Architect of Apocalypse

"It is working!" Zesten's eyes lit up, watching the formation grow stronger with each passing second.

With the formation gaining strength, a small spatial stack started materialising above the formation, flickering with instability.

The forces of this world tried to repair the spatial cracks that looked like it was trying to connect to a faraway land beyond the reach of the Academy. But the formation prevented the crack from completely dying.

Instead, the formation constantly supplied more and more essence of Domain Lords, their combined strength reaching the realm of a complete Constellation. The unstable spatial crack slowly started stabilizing.

Once it was stabilized, the crack that was the size of a small finger started growing larger and wider, strengthening the connection with the space beyond, creating a spatial tunnel that surpassed the protection of the Land of Fables.

"Just a little more!" Zesten watched the spatial crack in eagerness, almost getting a glimpse of freedom.

Even though he didn't know where the spatial crack was going to lead him, one thing was certain for him. The distance it was going to lead him was definitely beyond the reach of the Dimensional Academy.

He even started making plans about what he was going to do after getting freed from this place. All he had to do was find a nearby world, and take over it completely. As long as he was able to stay hidden, even the Academy couldn't find him.

He even prepared to destroy all his traces from this place to make the academy believe that he had died. Everything was in perfect alignment for him, even though this was his last option that he didn't want to use.

It took only half an hour, before the entire Shadow Domain became absolutely silent. All the fables that were inside the cities of the Domain Lords, had died like rats, trapped within their own cities.

Only the fables that were outside their cities survived, but their numbers were negligible. There was one more person who had survived, but he had only recently left the city of Echless, and was still on his way to Zesten's city.

"This is it! My ticket to freedom!" Zesten stood up, unable to hide his excitement as he looked at the six feet tall portal that had almost finished stabilizing, connecting to an unknown space.

He didn't know that Elias was coming for him. If he did, he would have thought about killing that boy first, and then leaving. But unaware of it, he was eager to enter the portal.

He took a deep breath, feeling a strange sensation within him. He had lived almost all his life in this land. He had struggled so many times, even schemed against his own father, who had told him stories of the outside world.

Finally, he was going to see the outside world for the first time where no domain could trap him. There was nothing that could stop him from writing his own stories. Even gods and demons were going to become his stepping stones.

Once the portal finished stabilizing, he activated another formation, this time one that was connected to his own city. After activating the formation, he stepped inside the portal, leaving the Land of Fables forever, prepared to write his own story.

The portal closed as soon as he passed through, almost exhausted of all the essence to complete that one journey of Zesten. The formation also stopped working, and started breaking apart.

The second formation was different though. It had started activating right before Zesten left. And within seconds, it covered the entire city.

"Is this his city?" Elias stood outside Zesten's city, asking the ego to confirm the location.

Once the ego confirmed, Elias took a step forward to enter the city. But the moment he was about to enter, he felt something was wrong.

He quickly sent the ego to the class storage and jumped back, surrounding himself with a ball of shadows to protect himself completely. At the same time, the city itself exploded, creating a destruction far bigger than what could be caused by a nuclear explosion.

The cloud of flames and destruction, swallowed thousands of miles, even reaching some of the other cities. Similar explosions occurred in other cities that had their life devoured by Zesten.

Within a few seconds, more such explosions resounded, engulfing the entire Shadow Domain into its embrace, completely erasing all signs of the cities that used to be there. All that was left were multiple large craters where the cities used to be.

In one fleeting moment, the shadow domain that had ruled over the land of fables, was completely wiped off the map.

Amongst the clouds of destruction, even the fables that weren't in the city and had managed to survive the initial onslaught, were killed. Not a single fable survived, their core essence destroyed from the core.

In the entire land of fables, only one person was left, still breathing, watching the scenes of immense destruction that had left nothing behind.

As the sea of flames started dispersing, a young man was revealed, mumbling to himself, "What just happened?"

He jumped inside the large crater where Zesten's city used to be, but there were no signs of life anymore. Everyone, and everything inside the city was destroyed, with not even a small brick left behind.

...

"I am finally free!"

In another place, far away from the Dimensional Academy, a portal opened. A voice rushed out of the portal before any person could even step out.

"The f*cking academy can never trap me! I will write my own story now! A new era will begin!" Zesten stepped out of the portal, exclaimed loudly, unable to hide his excitement.

However, the moment he stepped out of the portal, his smile completely disappeared as he looked around him.

It was true that he was not in the region where the Dimensional Academy was established. But he had found himself at a place even worse which made his face go pale.