Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1325: Most Wanted (5)

It couldn't be allowed.

Many coveted Serenity's treasure because of the distorted, precious, abnormal powers and beings it held. The Null Lifeforms were creatures with their own standards and abilities that defied common sense. Even Serenity had given up on trying to fully understand each of them. They evolved their universe rapidly and created their own rich histories and legends, some far more impressive than those of this wider reality.

But never had a Null Lifeform influenced the wider reality because they were locked up within the Null Verse. Only the Null Verse could handle the creatures on the Universe Purge Banner and the terrifying Authorities.

If some of these demented, overpowered beings ever revealed themselves to the wider reality, it would be chaos.

But chaos had already found another emissary.

It began with the first Null Lifeform to ever influence the wider reality, the Hybrid Warmoth – still in his default body.

No one had ever analysed Voided Death abilities to copy even a smidgen of their functionality before.

Many had used Void's body as a haven, some had harnessed the horrifying natural phenomenon born of her flesh for their own, but none had ever dissected the intricacies of the Mastered Void Gate powers and produced their own result.

None. Until today

And Void did not like that. Not one bit.

Emmae's answer to extinction was free to entice and entertain all others, but not her precious powers. Never.

Wyrrim couldn't be too biased. She couldn't afford tangible help to Skullius when Void struck, and that was why she only sent him a warning through the guidance field, just like she had done thrice before.

But Serenity was active and able. She had noted her sister's attack before she (Void) had even expanded Uyuniya's Void Clot to bring it through. Its size and power meant it took some semblance of time to prepare, which gave Serenity a great advantage – one that only someone of her level could have exploited.

As the great, majestic dark spear exploded out, wreathed in great tongues of puce-coloured flame, the world shuddered. Though its whistle as it carved through the air and Aigas came whole seconds later, it was devastating; it was not at all dissimilar to the sound of great hollow steel pipe clanging against another.

With great determination, all the Deities of Aigas combined, might have been able to stop it, but Skullius couldn't even perceive it. It flashed towards him at 500 times the speed of light, after all!

But Serenity had already been rushing out to meet it before it was within a meter's distance of Skullius.

With godlike levels of speed, she had procured all that she needed to save Skullius' life, and that was only a single component – a vessel.

Deep within the same prison of darkness that the Hybrid Warmoth had stowed away the WILLS of Fulgardt, there was also a seed, ripe and soon to spring to life. Serenity had seized this seed and accelerated its growth to temporarily use it as a vessel.

Even if Sila had the right reflexes to notice how quickly Serenity was moving, he wouldn't have been able to take control of his new body from her.

The vessel appeared right in front of Skullius before an infinitesimally miniscule decimal of time could be realised. Its body was a neat, compact tangle of pale, luminous vines in humanoid form with a lanky physique, a gaunt face with a golden stubble and short hair of the same hue. Its eyes were a pretty shade of orange, but they turned dark when Serenity exerted her powers into it; as much as it could handle at least.

The simple tunic on the vessel rippled as Null Life Essence of a quality Skullius would soon gape at (when he acquainted himself with the rapid events) rushed out. It formed a great, solid dome over two dozen kilometers in all directions, highlighting everything in a strict royal blue hue.

At the same time, a great portion of Serenity's Null Life Essence coalesced into a massive, thick tower shield whose radiance threatened to eclipse that of all the stars in the sky.

And thus, spear and shield met.

The impact sent thrilling shockwaves about, but most of them were all drowned in the dome of Null Life Essence. They pulsed incessantly, trapped, but in the end, some of them escaped the dome to ravage the rest of the Aigas.

Each rippling wave was enough to kill all things below the Divine level. It didn't help that each also carried enough power to cross the width of Aigas seven times of over!

All life on Aigas would have ended if Suzamete didn't act as quickly as she did.

The tip of Void's spear managed to pierce through Serenity's shield… but that was all it managed to do in the end before its momentum ceased altogether.

Serenity felt the flames from it attempt to burn away her shield, but that would be a lengthy affair. Voided Death Essence was not superior to Null Life Essence.

When the crisp sound of the impact rocked Aigas, Skullius finally became aware of what had happened. At first, he saw a body similar to the one the Stolen Angel had possessed and thought "Sila", but the pressure blazing from the body immediately told him the truth of it.

"Serenity…?" he said, dumbfounded. "What in the world is going o—"

But then the Hybrid Warmoth's senses were suddenly skewed. He heard a vicious hiss and his body seemed to melt. His bones suddenly desired to possess the properties of rubber and gum and would not allow him to stand aloof. Skullius dropped to his knees. The hiss came again, bombarding his head and he felt a malevolent force squeeze against his mind.

All while this occurred, guidance field notifications filled his vision.

[A Primeval Deity is interested in your newly forged Exotic Parlous Nature!]

[A LIMITED CONTRACT has arrived. Would you like to open the contract?]

[A Primeval Deity is interested in your newly forged Exotic Parlous Nature!]

[A LIMITED CONTRACT has arrived. Would you like to open the contract?]

[A Primeval Deity is deeply interested in your newly forged Exotic Parlous Nature!]

[An UNLIMITED CONTRACT has arrived. Would you like to open the contract?]

…

There were eight contract offers in total and they kept flashing in Skullius' vision.

But he couldn't have bothered with them right then. His head was throbbing, and the ominous hissing wouldn't stop tormenting him.

But wait.

Was it even hissing in the first place?

Skullius made the slightest attempt to see if he could comprehend it at all, and…

"I paid it no mind when Wyrrim started picking favourites. I ignored and indulged you when you loitered about, snooping, but this, I will not stand," a furious voice said. "I will not stand for the breach of our agreement. We were supposed to be equals. But now that you lied to me and raised your bearer achieve such a feat, how will we remain equals now? Was this your intent all along? Has Wyrrim been a part of it? Did she help you break your own vow and smuggle a Book of Alignment into the wider reality?"

Skullius was stunned. Almost as strange as the contents of the speech was the source of the voice itself. It was coming from the tip of the spear poking through Serenity's shield.

"He must die and then I will let this go," it said, and the Void Clot around the dumbfounded Uyuniya thrummed once again.

Skullius knew at once this wasn't good.

Serenity clicked her tongue and turned back to him. She seemed to be struggling with a decision about something.

Seven more spears exploded out of the darkness towards Skullius and Serenity. They moved just as fast as the last, but the flames around them were twice as potent!

It had been a while since Serenity had piloted a vessel. On top of this, she and Void were supposed to be formless entities as a consequence of their powers and thus, she didn't have much effectiveness in battle especially not with a vessel like Sila's.

She considered temporarily hijacking Skullius' body, but…

A blaze of flaring, scattering purple had reached her side before the seven spears fully emerged from the Void Clot. Someone adorned in a large, white fuzzy jacket, with long white hair to match and a golden mask on their face was expelling waves upon waves of energy.

Indeed, it was an ally; one no one had expected.