"I’m sure this is the anchor."
The Ancestors stared at him in stunned silence, their expressions ranging from disbelief to barely contained irritation. One of them — the draconic figure — opened his mouth as if to protest, but no words came out.
Ash simply smiled wider, taking another drag as the bizarre room seemed to pulse with the weight of NovelGeek2’s eccentric touch.
HUMMM!!!
Before any of the Ancestors could speak, Ash waved his hand lazily.
In an instant, all five of them were compressed into small, neatly wrapped gift boxes — complete with bows on top — floating harmlessly in the air.
With another casual flick, he sent them away for future use.
"You all will do nice for the finale," he muttered.
Ash continued walking deeper into the cluttered chamber, smoke curling from the joint between his fingers.
He spoke up, his voice carrying as though he were addressing the very essence of the realm itself.
"So... you’re saying this is really all the Unknown has in store?"
A low, familiar chuckle rolled through the air, lingering in the emptiness.
Then came a simple, amused reply.
"No."
HUMMMMM!!!!
A massive surge of energy flooded the room.
Everything — the desks, laptops, ashtrays, dungeon relics — vanished in a blinding flash. Ash found himself standing in an endless white void, pure and featureless.
Off to the side, lounging casually on nothing at all, was NovelGeek2.
He wore a grey hoodie and black sweatpants, a joint burning between his fingers, and a plate of pineapple slices resting beside him.
He looked completely relaxed, as if he were chilling in his own living room rather than shaping reality.
"Since you changed the course of your novel again," NovelGeek2 said with a lazy smile, taking a drag from his joint.
"By treating the Source of Expansion like it was nothing... I figured I should at least give you one last challenge."
Ash’s lips twitched into a smile.
"Well, what did you truly expect? The Source is nothing but foolish idiots."
After gaining full authority over the Novel, Ash could clearly see its trajectory, and to his disappointment, he felt it was bogged down with far too much filler.
He had come a long way from toppling kingdoms and erasing entire realms, and if he were to reach the Source of Expansion only to encounter any real difficulty, it would feel like a blemish on his record—something he simply couldn’t allow.
NovelGeek2 merely shrugged, releasing a cloud of smoke, and uttered a single word...
"Plot."
Then, with a lazy smile, he gestured off to the side.
"Ash... meet my failed protagonist. Hopefully he can give you a nice fight."
HUMMMM!!!!
From the very fabric of the white void, a man materialized.
He stood at an immense size equal to Ash’s own, with long flowing black hair that seemed to drink in the light, pale skin that carried an unnatural, almost corpse-like sheen, and piercing red eyes that burned with unhinged madness.
Around his neck coiled a living black snake, its scales glistening as it hissed softly.
From behind him hovered two massive illusory eyes — blood-red and unblinking — that stared with eternal, predatory intensity.
The moment he fully appeared, the man tilted his head at Ash and let out a wide, unhinged laugh that echoed through the void like shattering glass.
"Finally... someone with a real whiff of strength," he cackled, red eyes gleaming with psychotic delight.
Before Ash could even speak, the man moved.
WHOOSH!!!!
The exchange was instantaneous and brutal.
Ash dodged instinctively, his body reacting with his battle style as the man’s fist tore through the space where his head had been.
In the same fluid motion, Ash countered — grabbing the living black snake from around the man’s neck, yanking it free with, then delivering a powerful kick to the man’s chest.
BOOOOM!
The force of the blow hurled the man backward into the endless white void.
But in that same instant, Ash blinked.
The black snake stretched out like a cosmic bungee cord, snapping taut with violent force and yanking the man back through the void with brutal, whipping speed.
Ash’s fist came crashing forward like a falling star, meeting the man’s face with devastating, bone-shattering impact.
CRAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!
The collision was utterly... cataclysmic.
As a shockwave of raw power exploded outward, ripping through the white void and sending violent ripples across the fabric of reality itself.
The man’s head snapped back with a sickening crack, blood and essence spraying in a wide arc as his body was launched like a broken comet, hurtling deeper into the endless expanse with a fading trail of deranged, echoing laughter.
For a moment, silence reigned — heavy, ringing, and pregnant with violence.
Ash stood motionless, his arched brow the only sign of mild curiosity as he glanced sideways at NovelGeek2.
The author was still lounging casually on nothing at all, joint burning between his fingers and a plate of pineapple slices resting beside him.
NovelGeek2 simply chuckled, a low, knowing sound, and shrugged lazily.
"You may want to focus."
In the next instant, the most maddening laugh Ash had ever heard erupted from the void behind him — wild, unhinged, and filled with pure, psychotic joy that scraped against the soul like broken glass dragged across bone.
"HAHAHA!!!"
He cracked his neck with a loud pop as he reappeared.
His red eyes gleamed with psychotic delight as he tilted his head, the black snake around his neck hissing softly while the two massive illusory eyes behind him stared with eternal, unblinking hunger.
"Set," he introduced himself, voice dripping with manic joy. "And you are?"
Ash tilted his head slightly, his expression calm and unimpressed. "Ash."
In the next moment, Ash moved first.
He blurred forward with explosive speed, closing the distance in a heartbeat. But Set only smiled wider — a mad, predatory grin splitting his pale face.
The two illusory red eyes behind him blinked once.
WHOOSH!
Then.... Set’s body moved almost exactly like Ash’s had — mirroring his every motion with eerie, perfect precision.
Before Ash could land his strike, Set countered with the same devastating punch, catching him square in the chest.
BOOOOOOM!
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