The darkness exploded.
Something like thousands of hands came out of the Calamity’s structure and at the same time reached toward Lian from all directions.
But unfortunately, he had no skills, no body and no mana either.
At that moment, if the Ruined Heart did not do something and help him, the battle would have ended before it even started.
This was a completely unfair battle, he had nothing to fight with, but there was no worry on his face, because he had already thought about this before.
The first dark hand was still several meters away from Lian’s spiritual form when the heart beat.
Thump.
The entire realm shook and a golden wave came out of the heart, the dark hands stopped for a moment when they touched it.
The golden light wrapped around Lian’s existence like thousands of broken threads.
An irregular golden aura, made of lines that sometimes broke and then formed again somewhere else.
And before he could even realize it, his consciousness took a shape, a shape exactly the same as his physical appearance.
[The Ruined Heart has reacted.]
[Emergency Authority has been granted.]
[The holder has received limited permission to use the power of the heart.]
[Time remaining: 02:30]
[Restrictions:]
[The granted power can only be used inside the spiritual realm.]
[The power cannot be stored, transferred or kept.]
[The holder cannot freely decide the form of the power.]
[The heart will decide the power that matches the threat.]
Lian stared at the notifications and then at the golden light surrounding him, it was a strange feeling, not the normal feeling of power that he felt after every increase in stats.
The feeling he had now was the feeling of being invincible, he felt like he could destroy anything, he felt like he was beyond everything.
He felt like he was the peak, the peak of what could exist, the peak of perfection and power and the peak of ascension.
This was exactly the same feeling he had when he saw the dark form of "Father" in the memories of the Black Silence.
That’s right... that was it, he had the feeling of being transcendent!
The heart only beat again and the Black Silence started its second attack while ignoring that thing.
This time Lian raised his hand, not because he knew what to do but because a sudden instinct simply told him to move.
The golden light gathered around his arm.
[Ruined Severance]
He brought his hand down and a golden line appeared in the spiritual realm.
It passed directly through one of the huge extensions of the Calamity and for a moment, it was as if nothing had happened... but that part was cut off!
Completely cut off!
Several mouths along with part of one of the impossible horns of the Black Silence separated from the main structure and fell into the darkness.
A sound spread through the spiritual realm, it was nothing like a human scream but something deeper, something that shook the entire spiritual space.
The Black Silence moved back, because it felt pain!
Not physical pain from the body it had occupied, not damage received by the vessel but itself... the Calamity itself was truly in pain.
Lian kept his eyes on the severed part, waiting for it to return or grow again or something similar to that, but surprisingly, it did not return.
The severed mouths stayed silent, their eyes closed and the darkness around them fell apart.
The Black Silence understood the same thing.
"No..." it said in disbelief and its presence pulled back for a moment before its anger returned.
"Familiar powers cannot hurt me." it said in a heavy voice, as if it was not arguing with Lian but with reality itself.
It was an existence beyond all dimensions and forms of life!
An existence that was not bound to death or life!
An existence created to devour, kill and destroy worlds!
It could not die! It was immortal! Its true form was indestructible!
Then why? Why had an inferior existence been able to hurt it? Why was its form not regenerating?
What were those damned golden lights?
"So I guess these golden lights are not mortal." Lian looked at the golden aura around his hand and then answered coldly.
He had guessed that this might be the case, after all, just being wrapped in this aura itself made him feel transcendent.
The Calamity’s anger exploded and thousands of mouths opened at once, but this time it was not a direct attack, instead, voices poured out.
Young Vorhelm was suddenly no longer in the spiritual realm, or at least that was what his mind thought, instead he saw a world where the sky was green.
A child shaking his mother’s body on a street covered in ash and then the image broke.
Another world, a black sea and floating islands, four-armed creatures killing each other inside temples.
The next image, a king, a soldier, a mother, a monster and millions of memories.
Lives that the Black Silence had touched or devoured in different worlds entered Lian’s mind at the same time.
Sadness, fear, murder, hunger, madness, thousands of languages and thousands of names.
For a moment Lian even forgot which memories belonged to himself.
"I..." Ed started the sentence, but his own name disappeared for a fraction of a second among millions of other names.
The Black Silence had understood that a direct attack was dangerous, it did not want to make another direct attack until it understood what those golden lights were.
So it chose a better approach, mental and spiritual attacks that could break apart a mortal mind, no matter how powerful it was.
Unfortunately, it had underestimated those golden lights too much.
At that moment, the Ruined Heart beat.
Thump.
The golden light became stronger and the memories around Lian started to crack... like huge sheets of glass, they started to break.
One crack.
A hundred cracks.
Then everything shattered and he was standing in the spiritual realm again.
"You already tried this one before, don’t tell me this is all you can do?" he said coldly and took a step forward.
The Black Silence did not move back, but anger burned inside all those eyes, this was the second time it had felt such humiliation because of a mortal.
The first time was hundreds of years ago, when the natives of this small world sealed it inside that Titan.
It would not allow an inferior mortal to humiliate it.
The space around it opened and then was eaten.
The spiritual realm itself started to be eaten and part of the spiritual space on its right literally disappeared.
It no longer existed.
The Calamity was devouring space itself and everything was turning into nothingness, and that disappearance started spreading toward Lian.
And Young Vorhelm attacked once again.
[Ruined Boundary]
The golden aura around him suddenly expanded and a huge ring appeared, and wherever the golden light passed, the eaten part of the space formed again.
But there was a problem, broken pillars, cracked ground, a broken sky and collapsed walls that had never existed before appeared inside that spiritual realm where nothing should have existed.
The Ruined Heart was not returning what had been destroyed to its original state, instead, it was turning it into the ruins of something that had once existed.
"This... is strange." Lian muttered, why was it turning this spiritual realm into the appearance of an old ruin instead of simply rebuilding it normally?
Was there a reason? Or did it want to show him something? Or could this be a special place?
The spiritual realm was his soul, in fact, they were now inside the deepest point of his soul, although only a small part of his soul remained and the rest had already been destroyed by the Black Silence.
Of course, it was now being rebuilt with the help of the extra life.
Anyway, the main advantage of this skill that had been used was something else.
The moment Ruined Boundary reached the Black Silence, the Calamity’s structure shook.
Something was forced onto it, a form... it was forced to take one single form.
The mouths moved, the horns became fixed and the eyes that had been placed in impossible distances were forced onto one single structure.
For several seconds, the Black Silence was no longer a formless and limitless existence.
Instead, it had been forced to be "something" and something that had a form could be cut and devoured.
Lian moved.
[Ruined Severance]
A second golden line appeared and another part of the Calamity’s existence was cut off.
It did not return again.
This time the Black Silence reacted differently, the anger was still there but beneath it, calculation appeared.
An existence that believed itself to be indestructible was now facing the possibility of its own destruction.
Not a temporary defeat like being sealed inside the Titan, but true destruction, something it had never thought was possible.
It was not made to fight or battle, it was created to spread corruption and calamity, to drive life forms into madness and worlds into killing and chaos.
Its form was more of a concept than something that had power by itself, it only had power when it had a vessel that could show that power.
And because of this, as long as it continued destroying worlds, it could maintain its immortality, but when it stopped doing this and its hunger was no longer bearable, it would fall apart.
But now something else had appeared that could cancel its immortality.
And that alone was enough to change the entire situation and caused something inside it to change.
To change its purpose
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( Black Silence’s visualization )
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