The Battlefield.

Two figures, longswords in hand, constantly intertwined in the silent space.

"Swift Blade"

Surrounded by green wind, Liens quickly completed his charge after dodging an attack, swinging forward and leaving a clear green sword mark in front of him.

Then, his figure, like a charging spear, rapidly lunged at Alfred, who had avoided the slash, drawing a fiery red light band along his path.

"Parry"

Alfred held his sword horizontally in front, parrying Liens's thrust and simultaneously stopping the 'paintbrush's' depiction.

Liens paid no mind, continuing to swing his longsword and fight Alfred, and in the process, the longsword in his hand was like a paintbrush, leaving sword marks of various colors in the silent space.

Upon closer inspection, the surroundings were almost entirely covered with such marks.

They seemed like chaotic existence, yet also seemed to contain some kind of connection, reflecting each other and shimmering with faint light.

"Is this the path you walk?"

After blocking Liens's attack once more, Alfred looked at the seemingly chaotic and disordered sword marks around him and couldn't help but ask.

After several rounds of engagement, he had gone from initial confusion to now having a slight understanding of what Liens was doing.

Those sword marks, each sword stroke, were Liens's understanding and Sense of the world, and Liens seemed to be using these sword marks to depict the world in his mind, thereby creating a world dominated by himself.

It was precisely because he saw this that he could not suppress the surprise in his heart and transmitted his question to Liens during the fierce battle.

He had once wanted to walk a similar path.

During that time, he was obsessed with thoroughly exploring the principles of the sword, wanting to interpret all truths in the world with the sword, but later, after realizing himself, he gave up this path.

Besides the 'Faith' path being more suitable for him, another reason was that this path was almost impossible to complete.

The principles of the world are almost infinite; how could a human, with a mortal lifespan, have the ability or time to exhaust all the truths in this world?

Moreover, the world is constantly changing, old principles are dying, and new principles are being born; how can a mortal grasp these changes?

This may not be a dead end, but it is not a path that mortal Life below the Legend can complete.

"Give up, this path is impassable."

Alfred could not bear to see a figure like Liens stop short of Legend, and he spoke to persuade him.

Liens ignored him, remaining silent and continuing to attack. He had already debated similar topics with Alfred in the instance, so there was no need to do so in reality as well.

What he needed to do now was to exhaust as much of Alfred's strength as possible here.

Seeing Liens maintain this attitude, Alfred frowned slightly and said no more.

He also knew that the 'Path of Self' was a choice made by the self, so how could it be changed by a word or two from others?

If it were, it would mean that this 'Path of Self' was not truly the self's choice.

This persuasion was just a reminder for the future Liens, so that when he found this path impassable later, he could recall today's reminder and flexibly change his own path.

As for the original path, it could perfectly wait until after becoming a Legend, when he had a sufficiently long Life and a higher level of vision to explore it.

Legend is not the end, but a new beginning.

Of course, the premise is that Liens still has a future.

Looking at his stance, today might be the fated decisive battle, and perhaps one of them would be forever buried here.

Thoughts flashed through Alfred's mind, and he held his sword finger upright in front of him. A giant sword then plummeted from the sky at high speed, its powerful pressure crushing the sword marks along the way.

Although he didn't know how far Liens could go, he couldn't let the other party continue to accumulate power and intended to clear the field directly.

This was not a guidance battle, but a Life-and-death struggle belonging to the two of them.

He would not hold back at this time.

"It's time."

With a thought, all the sword marks, including those crushed by the giant sword's pressure, transformed into starlight.

These starlights quickly gathered to form an illusory long river. The long river had no boundaries and no beginning or end; it flowed eternally until, at a certain moment, a ripple suddenly appeared on its calm surface.

"Flow"

Alfred watched this scene vigilantly. He didn't know what move Liens was about to unleash, so he could only first adopt a normal defensive stance.

Flow, in addition to possessing some defensive capabilities, could also make one's power flow, strengthening and accelerating the power and casting speed of the next move, making it an excellent auxiliary move.

Time flew by, just like the giant sword that was plummeting at high speed.

Alfred saw Liens doing nothing in the face of the falling giant sword, and the vigilance in his eyes deepened.

Although the falling giant sword was not a true 'sword', its power would be difficult for Liens to block, even if he used his multi-layered spatial superposition defense move.

So, he didn't understand what Liens's confidence was in making no preparations? And what exactly was that illusory long river?

Boom ~

The giant sword fell, and an invisible, powerful impact swept through everything around, even causing distortions in the false scenery of this silent space.

However, Alfred at this moment was not focused on this scene, but instead looked down at the longsword piercing through his chest, and somewhat puzzled, he confirmed with Liens: "Time?"

Liens shook his head, denying Alfred's guess.

"Fate"

This was a sword that locked onto fate.

Liens used the sword as a paintbrush, depicting, or rather creating, the fate of piercing Alfred, ultimately completing this sword that reversed cause and effect.

This sword was his realization when he was establishing the Path of All Phenomena and organizing his mental image, and it was also the result of the explosive accumulation of his understanding of cause and effect and fate along this journey.

Theoretically, this was not an ability he could access at his level.

But 'Fate' was too close to him.

Regardless of the reason, its existence itself was a 'radiation source' that constantly enhanced his understanding of fate.

Of course, Liens could only use this kind of move in consciousness spaces like the Mind Battlefield; in reality, he didn't have enough power to influence fate.

Moreover, even using this move in the Mind Battlefield consumed an extraordinary amount of energy.

The more crucial the fate it locked onto, the more time and consumption it required. Therefore, Liens only created the fate of piercing Alfred, and did not directly create the fate of killing the opponent.

This sword did not pierce Alfred's heart area.

However, Liens never expected to resolve Alfred in the Mind Battlefield; being able to injure the opponent and cause a significant loss of his power was enough.

He pulled out his sword, retreated, and avoided Alfred's slash.

Liens could see that Alfred's mind phantom was much more transparent than before, no longer like a solid body as it was at the beginning, and there was still a wound on his chest where he had just been pierced.

This indicated that Alfred had sustained mind damage that would be difficult to recover from in a short period.

Of course, Liens's condition was not much better; his mind phantom was also very transparent.

Although he did not suffer direct damage, the consumption of using "Sword of Fate" and maintaining "Extreme Wind" was enough to give him a hard time.

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