Chapter 2923: Void Phobia
Chapter 2923: Void Phobia
Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City
"Woah," Petra exclaimed as she watched how I dealt with Aqualas.
The sight immediately made her reconsider any plans she might have had to use Aqualas’ method against the Double Celestial Rule Domain in the future. After all, she shared the same fear of the void.
Throughout history, whenever card apprentices found themselves against powerful Supreme Beings like Petra and Aqualas, they often resorted to a far simpler solution like sealing them rather than trying to kill them fearing the Supreme Fallout, but these guys were too strong. Unless the sealing methods were equally strong, it wouldn’t be able to hold them back. Not to forget the hassle of deploying these sealing methods, so they figured an even simpler solution, throwing them into the void.
The void was an endless expanse of nothingness beyond the influence of the Card World. There, Supreme Beings were cut off from the source of their strength and reduced to their weakest state.
Ironically, they could still vaguely sense the presence of the Card World. It lingered in their awareness like a distant beacon shining through an endless fog. They knew it was there, somewhere, but no matter how desperately they searched, they could never locate it. Instead, they would drift aimlessly through the darkness until the celestial force of the Card World eventually locked them and dragged them back.
Nobody knew why this happened.
For some unknown reason, whenever a Supreme Being remained in the void, they would gradually lose control of their power and regress into a massive lump of the rule they embodied.
In Petra’s case, all her rule power would condense into an enormous stone drifting through the endless darkness. Aqualas would become a vast pool of frigid water, colder than the vacuum surrounding it. Other Supreme Beings suffered similar fates, transforming into colossal manifestations of their respective rules.
The more powerful the Supreme Being, the larger the resulting mass. Some became objects large enough to rival mountain ranges, while some could grow to sizes comparable to small continents.
Worst of all, they remained conscious, unable to move, unable to wield their powers, unable to communicate. They could only drift endlessly through the void as helpless embodiments of their own rules, aware of every passing moment yet powerless to do anything about it.
Compared to such a fate, death was often considered the kinder outcome.
That was why it was not just Aqualas who feared Void, but all Supreme Beings feared the void. So much so, the Supreme Beings finally caved and agreed to a treaty between them and card apprentices, putting an end to the war that spanned several millennia.
"It’s only a temporary measure. She’ll be back, and far more pissed than before," I said, feeling a headache coming on.
I had already promised Moon Frost that I would soon meet her and the elders of her race in the Dark Realm. But now, knowing that Aqualas would inevitably return, I couldn’t leave with peace of mind. Not after witnessing just how strong and unreasonable she was.
Yes, I had deliberately ruptured the space within the domain and thrown Aqualas into the void. But I hadn’t done it without reason.
Originally, I had expected her to break through my Double Celestial Rule Domain. Once outside, I planned to unleash over a thousand Ruler-rank curses at once and teach her a lesson she would never forget.
Unfortunately, Aqualas had other ideas. Rather than trying to escape or overpower my domain directly, she chose to swallow it.
The moment her Boundless Celestial Ocean Domain began expanding without limit, I realized what she was trying to do. Her Ocean World wasn’t merely colliding with my Double Celestial Rule Domain. It was consuming every inch of space within it, replacing my territory with hers.
If she succeeded, the battlefield would become her world instead of mine. That would have been disastrous.
Inside my Double Celestial Rule Domain, my enemies found themselves helpless and at my mercy. But the reverse was equally true. If I were trapped within the heart of Aqualas’s Celestial Rule Domain, I would be helplessly swallowed by her endless ocean. So I acted before she could complete the process.
Rather than allowing our domains to continue competing for dominance, I destabilized the space. The weight of Aqualas’s Celestial Rule Domains pushed the surrounding spacetime to its limits and was forced to collapse.
The result was the void rift.
The moment it appeared, Aqualas’s expanding Ocean World became her greatest weakness. The very force she was using to consume my domain accelerated the collapse of the surrounding space, causing the rift to spread through her domain faster than she could react.
In the end, she wasn’t defeated by my power.
She was defeated by her own momentum. Unfortunately, that victory came with a timer attached. Once she made it out of the void, it would start all over again.
"No, she will never return," Petra said, then, finding that I had no clue what she was talking about, she asked, "They say you are the smartest card apprentice there is — how come you don’t know that Supreme Beings fear the void? We are helpless in there and have to wait for the Card World’s will to find us and drag us back into the world with its celestial force. Knowing that you can trap her in your double celestial rule domain and throw her into the void, she will never dare to come before you again. I thought you knew, and that’s why you threw her in the void."
"I don’t think that’s something everyone knows," I replied confidently.
After the Demihuman-Viltronian debacle, I had dispatched all of my ethereal spirits with a single purpose: gather information.
They had to go through libraries, archives, academies, everything that might contain valuable records. Anything related to history, active soul control percentage, rules, dungeons, Supreme Beings, demons, or ancient events was copied, consumed, and analyzed.
While I wouldn’t dare claim to know everything about the Card World, I was confident that my understanding of its recorded history surpassed that of most organizations and even many from the royal families.
Yet among all those records, I had never come across any mention that Supreme Beings feared the void.
There were plenty of accounts describing Supreme Beings being banished into the void, disappearing into it, or eventually returning from it. However, none of those records explained what actually happened to them while they were there. Most simply treated the void as a convenient but temporary method of removing an otherwise unkillable opponent.
It was as if the truth had been deliberately omitted. Or perhaps no one had survived long enough to uncover it.
Either way, as far as I knew, the fact that Supreme Beings feared the void was not common knowledge among card apprentices.
In fact, if it were widely known that beings capable of shaking worlds could be reduced to helpless masses of their own rules simply by being stranded in the void, countless organizations would have devoted themselves to researching ways to exploit that weakness.
Maybe that was why the truth was omitted from the records.