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The woman in revealing clothes, Nocturnal, curled up her finger, and the Skeleton Key escaped my grasp, going through the barriers I had put with ease. Well, it could unlock anything.

Mending any holes in my defenses, both to protect myself from the chaos and night, as well as Nocturnal herself, I felt like cursing at God.

It was capable of sending us to so many different worlds and offer rewards that could make people into Gods, so I expected it to be a level above entities like Nocturnal.

Nocturnal played with her Skeleton Key, and said, "I may not be the most active of my fellow Et'Ada, but I think I would have known if we had a new member. Where are you from, Alexander, was it?"

Knowing I had to gain some time, I mused, "It appears trying to get the Skeleton Key was a bit greedy of me."

Nocturnal chuckled in response, "I am the Patron God of thieves, why would I punish mere greed?"

Raising an eyebrow, I asked, "What are we here for then, if you do not seek to punish me?"

My mind felt stronger and faster than ever in my current state. Although my opening of the Third Genetic Constraint had been interrupted and thus not completely opened, it was opened halfway.

I wasn't sure yet of what that meant exactly, but for now my Third Genetic Constraint was still opened.

After I asked my question, I felt the invasive darkness once again try to penetrate my defenses, so I commented, "I can feel that this body you show me is only a projection, and your real self incorporates the darkness around. So you seem awfully vindictive for someone not here to punish me."

Nocturnal smiled, replying, "It is all about the words we use. Punishment assumes you crossed some kind of rule or morale code, which you didn't. You just angered me, so a more proper word would be letting off steam, as the Dwarves would say."

Snorting as I understood she wasn't letting me leave so easily, I stopped focusing solely on the defensive and started going on the offensive.

While under the Third Genetic Constraint, it wasn't just my control over my Cursed Energy that had become perfect, but also over the Force.

Usually, manipulating, be it with Sith or Jedi techniques, came with a lot of restrictions and rules. For example, doing certain gestures, like pushing my hand for a Force Push, would help fuel my subconscious into my action and give more power to my technique.

But now that I had full control over my brain, I no longer needed them as I achieved the highest level of control over my abilities.

Starting with an enhanced Almighty Push, the invasive darkness was forced back, revealing for a scant second a curtain of familiar light surrounding our location. I also received a notification from the silent God who sent me here.

[Teleportation has been intercepted. Counter-]

So God was useless, simply repeating the same thing over and over. Honestly, it felt more like a program than a real almighty being.

But since it was being blocked off for now, that meant I would have to get out of here myself.

Perfectly understanding that I wouldn't be getting out through the Force alone, I activated my Cursed Energy Innate Technique.

A black and white circle manifested behind me, slowly rotating on itself as Nocturnal asked, "What is this?"

"This is my Innate Technique, Yin-Yang Supremacy."

Nocturnal's eyes were fixed on the black and white circle as she said, "Supremacy you say? I would like to see that."

The rolling darkness around me intensified, and I felt the Force Shield weaken and quickly disintegrate.

"Cursed Technique Reversal: Yang Force."

As the Force Shield broke, and the darkness descended upon me, the circle behind me spun, until the white color was on top.

I felt invigorated as I used the Force, and felt the amplitude of my control over it magnify as the darkness was blasted apart, once again revealing the white light, as well as the void.

Nocturnal quickly covered the top again, fearing I would head for the light, but I instead flew down, back towards Mundus. Again, Nocturnal tried to stop me, but the circle behind me once again started spinning as I emitted a strong Yang energy.

The bright energy easily dispersed the darkness, allowing me to propel myself through the world barrier of Mundus.

Flying faster than even when I had Stormfront's power, I flew back towards Skyrim, and to my shock, Nocturnal's darkness actually followed me as night set all over Tamriel.

Moreover, Nocturnal's darkness seemed to become used to the Yang energy I emitted as it encroached on it, and started getting closer to me.

As for me, I gradually slowed down as I arrived back where I had left, right above the Thalmor's Embassy. Looking down, I saw several High Elves look up in awe, all dressed as Thalmor agents.

Yes, this is a fine place to fight.

Clasping both hands together, I said aloud, "Domain Expansion: Seed of Creation."

Most Domain Expansions seen in Jujutsu Kaisen were closed off domains meant to trap their victims within. Mine wasn't.

The circle behind me once again started spinning as it left my back, and both colors separated. The black went below me, and the white above me, both turning into gigantic circles themselves that covered several hundreds meters.

At the same time, I could feel through the Force that for every moment Nocturnal stayed here, her power here weakened as the world rejected her.

Strangely enough, it did not reject me.

With a thought, my senses spread all over the Thalmor Embassy below me, and extended to the mountain it stood on.

Then, with another thought, I tore it off, and sent it flying at Nocturnal.

Nocturnal scoffed at the incoming mountain, "You think chucking mountains at the night will do anything? You-"

She was abruptly interrupted however as the mountain slammed into her, physically damaging the darkness as the mountain turned into rubble, everything on it dying in an instant.

Nocturnal's projection looked shocked as blood trickled down her orifices, "How could that hit me! I'm not even here as a physical entity!"

I had gotten a good hit on Nocturnal, and managed to weaken her presence here, but that seemed to anger her even more as a giant pillar of darkness slammed down at me. It had been turned into a physical attack.

Yet, as it was about to hit me, the white and black circle suddenly changed places, and the attack passed through me harmlessly, smashing into whatever remained of the mountain below.

Although I had dodged the attack, my expression was grim as Nocturnal was enlightened, and her darkness split in two, both attacking the circles above and under us.

The physical attack went for the white side, and the spiritual for the black one. She had figured out how to attack them then.

However, as they were about to hit them, their natures suddenly switched, and the attacks still passed through them harmlessly.

Nocturnal frowned, before murmuring, "You can not only change yours, but also other things' nature? Then, I wonder, what you will do against an attack merging both."

She drew her hands, and made a strange gesture before pushing both palms at me. The world turned a little darker as she funneled her powers my way.

"Hollow Technique: Wheel of Samsara."

A new circle appeared before me, or rather a wheel, and started spinning so rapidly that the colors seemed to merge. And once again, Nocturnal's attack was nullified.

I wanted to follow up with an attack, but under her current form Nocturnal was a pain to attack as she was the night itself. Still, I commanded the Force to directly battle her in her own domain, fueling the Force with my Yang Energy to force the day to come back.

Nocturnal said nothing, and started clashing with me for hegemony over the sky.

I already knew she was stronger than me, and in a real face off, she would have already destroyed me, but with the aid of the world's rejection, I slowly managed to force her away, using a sliver of my mind to continue tearing parts of the ground below me to throw them at her.

Eventually, her powers grew so feint that she was finally forced back out through the hole in the sky, allowing God's light beam to once again reach me.

A part of me felt tempted to try and resist against this force too, but I quickly abandoned my thoughts as I felt my Third Genetic Constraint start closing.

Still, I fought off the daze, and watched as I rose through the chaos, multiple entities watching me, but unable to do anything as I regained God's Dimension.