Free Web NovelChapter 488: Chapter 488
Khar’razoth roared—pain and fury combined into sound that operated across dimensions, that made the nightmare realm itself vibrate with sympathetic resonance.
The roar carried force that shattered Satou’s quantum superposition. Eleven of the twelve versions simply popped out of existence, reality reasserting itself, uncertainty collapsing into singular truth.
Only the real Satou remained, his body already moving before the roar’s shockwave could catch him.
But he’d done damage. Real damage.
Khar’razoth’s four-hundred-foot form showed wounds. Large sections of flesh missing. Tentacles reduced from thousands back to hundreds. The lion-skull cracked again, fractures spreading deeper despite ongoing regeneration attempts.
"ENOUGH GAMES," the Ancient God declared, its voice carrying weight that made reality tremble. "YOU HAVE PROVEN YOUR WORTH. NOW FACE THE CONSEQUENCE OF EARNING A GOD’S FULL ATTENTION."
What happened next transcended normal combat.
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[DIVINE TECHNIQUE: ENDLESS CONSUMPTION]
Khar’razoth activated the ability that defined its existence as the God of Hunger and Consumption.
[ENDLESS HUNGER - MAXIMUM OUTPUT]
The Ancient God opened its massive lion-skull jaw—and from that opening came void.
Not darkness. Not absence of light. Void. True, absolute nothingness that consumed everything it touched—matter, energy, space, time, concepts, existence itself.
The void expanded from Khar’razoth’s mouth in a sphere that grew at light-speed, consuming everything in its path.
Satou’s nightmare realm was the first casualty. The carefully constructed ten-mile sphere of altered reality simply vanished as consuming void touched it, the nightmare-logic devoured by hunger that transcended logic entirely.
The obsidian mirrors shattered and were eaten. The watching eyes closed and were consumed. The impossible geometry collapsed and was digested.
Within three seconds, Satou’s Absolute Nightmare Dominion was completely gone—not dispelled, not countered, but literally eaten by divine hunger.
And the void was still expanding, still consuming, heading directly toward Satou’s position.
His enhanced perception tracked it in subjective slow-motion:
Expansion rate: 186,282 miles per second. Speed of light in vacuum. Physical evasion impossible.
Composition: Consuming void. Not energy-based. Not matter-based. Conceptual attack operating on existence itself.
Defensive options: Standard regeneration ineffective against existence-deletion. Void Fang might counter but can’t match this scale. Reality Anchor might help but unproven against divine-tier consumption.
Conclusion: Cannot block. Cannot dodge. Cannot tank.
Must counter with equal force.
Satou made his decision in the 0.3 subjective seconds before the void reached him.
He activated every defensive and offensive ability simultaneously, burning through mana reserves at catastrophic rates, creating a counter-technique that shouldn’t be possible:
[HYBRID ULTIMATE: DIVINE-DEMONIC ANNIHILATION SPHERE]
Drawing on his unique nature—demon-type creature carrying goddess blessing, able to channel both holy and corrupted power—Satou created something unprecedented:
A sphere of conflicting absolutes.
Holy power from Valentine and the Angel of War, divine radiance that purified and blessed.
Nightmare corruption from Merc Assault, darkness that twisted and tainted.
Draconic fire from his Dragon’s Heart, heat that burned hotter than stars.
Void energy from his Devouring ability, existence-erasure that deleted reality.
Shadow absolute from Vegeta, darkness that controlled dimensional spaces.
All five energies, each one incompatible with the others, each one trying to destroy the others, held together only by sheer force of will and the goddess’s blessing that let impossibilities coexist.
The resulting sphere was unstable. Violently, catastrophically unstable. Like holding five types of antimatter in a bottle made of willpower.
Satou could feel it trying to explode, feel the conflicting energies tearing at each other, feel his control slipping as the forces inside exceeded his ability to contain them—
The consuming void reached him. ƒrēewebnovel.com
He released the sphere.
[COLLISION OF ABSOLUTES]
Khar’razoth’s Endless Hunger, void that consumed everything, that had eaten entire civilizations, that represented divine consumption at its purest—
Met Satou’s Divine-Demonic Annihilation Sphere, five incompatible absolutes held in unstable equilibrium, representing impossible fusion of contradictions—
And the collision was apocalyptic.
The two techniques didn’t just clash. They rejected each other at the fundamental level.
Consuming void tried to eat the sphere. But which part? The holy radiance that was already pure nothingness in different form? The nightmare corruption that was conceptual absence? The draconic fire that was heat approaching infinity? The void energy that was deletion itself? The shadow absolute that was dimensional control?
The sphere tried to explode. But into what? The void was consuming the space it needed to expand into. The consuming void was eating the energy it needed to maintain itself.
The result was a zone of impossible conflict—a sphere roughly two hundred feet in diameter where multiple forms of absolute power tried to occupy the same space and simply... couldn’t.
Reality inside that sphere broke.
Not warped. Not distorted. Broke. Like glass under too much pressure, the fundamental fabric of space-time developed cracks, visible fissures in existence itself where the laws of physics had given up trying to make sense of what was happening.
Through those cracks, Satou could see... nothing. Not darkness. Not void. Nothing. True absence. Spaces where reality simply didn’t exist anymore, where the universe had gaps like missing teeth.
The collision lasted four seconds.
Four seconds where Satou held his impossible technique together through pure willpower while Khar’razoth poured endless divine hunger into consumption attempt.
Four seconds where both combatants burned through massive power reserves maintaining attacks that should have been unsustainable.
Four seconds where reality itself protested through visible cracks and audible screaming sounds that came from tortured space-time.
Then both techniques failed simultaneously.
Satou’s sphere, unstable from the start, finally exceeded his ability to contain it. The five conflicting absolutes exploded outward, no longer restrained, annihilating each other in mutual destruction.
Khar’razoth’s void, having consumed more than even divine hunger could digest, choked. The Ancient God’s ability to process consumed existence reached its limit. The void collapsed back on itself, folding into impossible geometries before dissipating.
The explosion from the sphere’s failure.
The implosion from the void’s collapse.
Both happening simultaneously in the same space.
The resulting detonation was measured not in megatons or gigatons but in scales that made those measurements meaningless.
A spherical shockwave expanded outward from the collision point at supersonic speeds, flattening everything within a five-mile radius. The ground itself was pulverized to dust, then the dust was pulverized to atoms, then the atoms were split by force that rivaled nuclear fission.
