This Was Only the Beginning

Fang Zheng had long heard that Chaos and Order were mortal enemies, but he had never known just how far that enmity went.

This time, however, he finally experienced it firsthand.

The instant Fang Zheng unleashed the Chaos Fire, Rand charged at him as if he had seen his father's murderer. At the same time, Fang Zheng could even feel everything around him crashing down upon him like raging seas, trying to crush him completely!

But at that moment, Fang Zheng's Chaos Fire finally displayed its tremendous power.

"Crack—!!"

As Fang Zheng swung his sword, that seemingly indestructible force abruptly collapsed. Rand screamed and quickly recoiled.

So that was it!

Gripping the hilt of his sword, Fang Zheng finally understood how the Goddess of Order's divine power worked.

One word: assimilation!

When Fang Zheng had swung his sword just now, he could feel the opposing force desperately trying to assimilate and merge with his attack. That was why Kurumi's Zafkiel and Fang Zheng's attacks had been unable to harm it before. As long as their attacks remained part of the laws of Order, they would immediately be assimilated by the Goddess of Order's divine power, merge into it, and lose their effect.

But the Power of Chaos was entirely different.

Chaos itself was synonymous with disorder and instability. The instant Fang Zheng's Chaos Fire came into contact with the Goddess of Order's divine power, he immediately sensed that although the other side was desperately trying to assimilate the Chaos Fire, the chaotic power in his hand had no intention of surrendering quietly.

It was like trying to lasso a wild horse. An experienced adult might succeed, but Rand had only obtained a tiny fraction of the Goddess's divine power, perhaps not even one-thousandth of it. It was like a five-