ALL NOVEL Chapter 92: Void Quandary
What answered his call was a sharp glare from the thirteen eyes. The ruler of glemorax stood up from the towering thirty-meter-tall throne. Without saying a word he unfurled his four pairs of wings which had two eyes on each.
“Attacking right away huh, some host you are,” Zyrus spoke as he channeled his mana and activated the Avatar skill.
The white marble which was trembling for a while finally broke apart at this instance.
*Boooom*
The entire castle was shattered into bits and pieces except the ivory throne. The glemorax king hovered in the sky while pointing his arms at Zyrus. The twenty-meter-long arms would have ripped apart the fabric of space if they were on earth.
It was fortunate this place was assimilated with a foreign dimension. Both opponents had the home-ground advantage in this fight, however, with a skill like ‘Avatar’ and a title like ‘The Last Apostle’, Zyrus was ahead in terms of momentum.
Even the glemorax king was forced to pause for a moment. The immense pressure of bloodline had narrowed the gap between their league of existence.
A hundred-meter-long eastern dragon was floating above the castle’s ruins. In the sanctuary, he had summoned a projection of a dragon. But it was different this time.
The black dragon opened his abyss-like eyes. One eye was calm and tranquil whereas the other showed a crazed intent of slaughter and destruction. This was the result of Zyrus’s merging with the world's laws.
His physique wasn’t strong enough to awaken his dormant bloodline, but the fact changed under the synergistic effects of his title and skill. Although it was a forced and incomplete transformation, its might was nothing to scoff at.
*Roooooar*
Zyrus’s roar broke apart the silence between the two. Four gold and two crimson horns which adorned the glemorax king’s head, were now erupting with a sharp intent. Like a knife slicing through butter they tore through Zyrus’s accumulating mana.
Zyrus wasn’t in the mood to chatter at this time. Unlike the glemorax king, he couldn’t maintain this state for long.
He was unable to exert the full power of his new body, but this didn’t stop him from using his mana. He clawed at the glemorax king’s chest, or to be precise, at the three eyes that were shining on his chest.
*Whiirl*
The claw marks transformed into five vortexes. But before they could exert any power, they were shredded by an unknown force.
‘A domain made from the source of sharpness…,’
Zyrus didn’t have the time to think further as two pincer-like hands were already at his throat.
*Roooar*
Instead of avoiding the attack, he used poison breath at the enemy. His recovery rates were off the charts in this state. It was impossible to kill him unless every cell of his was disintegrated in the same instant.
The glemorax king retreated with a frown. He didn’t mind the lousy poison in the attack. What alarmed him was the corrosive power of the abyss.
Although it couldn’t corrode his domain, the abyssal mana was hard to get rid of. It was like slashing at a pit of tar. The abyssal power was a good counter against the source of sharpness.
*Crrrrack*
The space cracked once again as the glemorax king drew back his arms. If he couldn’t slash the tar then he’d just penetrate it with speed.
“Fuc-”
*Bang*
Before he knew it Zyrus was already smashed on the ground. Judging from the gaping holes on his heart and forehead, he didn’t need to guess what happened.
Zyrus slammed his tail on the ground and shot towards the glemorax king. But as he had guessed before, his speed was inferior compared to his foe. His jaws didn’t even catch the glemorax king’s shadow.
The glemorax king didn’t allow Zyrus to take the imitative. He interrupted the latter’s skill casting with two hands while his other hands drew a rune in the air.
The broken spires reassembled under the bloodred light.
[Shackles of Nihility]
Before the shackles could land on the spire they were already destroyed by the sharp aura.
‘Looks like I can only go all out,’
Zyrus stopped dodging the attacks and forcefully activated the powers within him. His current form wasn’t a coincidence.
His bloodline had the potential to evolve in any direction. Perhaps It was due to Nidraxis’s blood but he felt like he had a higher affinity with the dragonoid species. He had selected the azure dragon due to its unique advantages, and the same was true for the current abyssal dragon.
*Clang*Clang*Clang*
Golden bells rang on the reconstructed towers. The entire world seemed to resonate with their chimes.
*Rooooar*
Zyrus roared as he activated his bloodline powers and the abyssal mana simultaneously. Both of them combined were barely enough to stand against his source of origin.
The laws of void held the power to erase everything from existence. Zyrus himself was no exception.
His strong willpower allowed him to resist the impact of void, but the same wasn’t true for his physical body. If he was careless then he’d become a wandering soul without a body.
‘Well, here goes nothing,’
Zyrus gritted his teeth and put his theory into practice. He wouldn’t dare to use such a method under normal conditions, but his current transformation as an abyssal dragon had a chance to succeed.
The thirteen eyes on the glemorax king’s body achieved a complete resonance with the chiming bells. The sky was dyed in a deeper shade of red.13 gigantic eyes manifested in front of the trembling black dragon.
Even the sun felt dim under the glaring lights of these eyes. Zyrus felt like the numerous white pupils were tearing apart his soul, but still, he didn’t stop his attack.
“Argh-”
Zyrus spat a mouthful of blood as the invisible attack landed on his source of origin. He realized firsthand how Tauranox and Camazotz felt when he snuffed out their existence.
“You’re right, but I’ll fix that flaw thanks to you,” Zyrus spoke with a bloody grin and activated his skill. The contrasting powers of abyss and void were stabilized at this moment.
Even though his current state was temporary, it was enough.
[Curse of Uncertainty: Void Quandary]
There were no visible changes, but still, the glemorax’s kings’ attacks missed their mark.
“Humans may be weak, but none can deny their intellect,”
It was hypocritical coming from someone who had given up on humanity. Nonetheless, Zyrus wasn’t one who shied away from the truth.
This spell he made was based on Heisenberg's principle. It was impossible to determine a particle’s position and momentum at the same time.
The more accurate one is, the less you can find about the other. This theory showed the inherent unpredictability of particles at the quantum level.
Zyrus used the same principle to ‘dodge’ the glemorax king’s attack. Be it magical or physical attacks, they were directed at something in the end. Even the spells that targeted a mobile target or the archers' seeking arrows, all of them had to pinpoint a target.
But what if their target was a particle? Just by observing its position you would change its momentum. And if you focused on its momentum then it would change its position.
*Clang*Clang*Clang*
The bells chimed once again. It was an aoe attack that surrounded the entire battlefield, but even so, it was unable to injure Zyrus.
It was as if he existed in another dimension altogether. In the eyes of the glemorax king, all of his attacks passed through the abyssal dragon without dealing any damage. He almost thought that the dragon in front of him was just a projection.
‘While it’s fun to annoy others with this principle, it’s too taxing for the current me,’
An enormous amount of mana was needed to treat a hundred-meter body as a particle. Besides, Zyrus didn’t create this skill to dodge and run away.
*Cracck*
The thirteen bells cracked at once. A black sphere was forming above the abyssal dragon. It was silent like the depths of the ocean, without any fluctuation of laws and mana.
The glemorax king stopped his attacks and used the bells to raise his defense. He knew very well that it was Zyrus who was in a hurry to finish the battle. He had no reason to rashly take on this eerie attack.
‘A clever bastard indeed,’
Zyrus clicked his tongue and ignored the rest. He wouldn’t have needed two months to integrate Herzenberg’s principle into his defense.
His goal was to use the unpredictability of the particles as a base and create a new spell. He wanted to integrate the concept of position and momentum with the powers of void and abyss.
He didn’t want a spell that made him invulnerable for a short time. What he wanted was an attack that could not be avoided by anyone.
‘Void Quandary’ was based on the mana attribute of abyss and the laws of void. He used his abyssal domain- ‘Malediction’ as a base and added his bloodline power into it. This boosted the traits of abyssal mana so that it could stand against his laws of void.
One spread infinitely and corrupted everything in the vicinity, while the other erased everything from existence. The two principles were polar opposites in nature.
But what if they worked on the principle of uncertainty? The black sphere was the result of that.
“Descend,”
The amalgamation of void and abyss fell on the glemorax king.