ushernet Chapter 587: An Impossible Feat
Chapter 587: An Impossible Feat
Chapter 587: An Impossible Feat
The moment the Chaos Flame made contact with the Dark Turtle's shell, reality itself seemed to hold its breath.
For a fraction of a second, nothing happened again-but this time, it was as if the universe needed time to process what it had just witnessed.
Then, a sound unlike anything they had ever heard tore through the air. It wasn't an explosion, nor was it the creature's screech.
It was the sound of existence being rewritten.
Where the Chaos Flame touched the shell, space itself began to warp and twist.
The black armor that had seemed impenetrable moments before began to... dissolve.
No-dissolve wasn't the right word. It was being unmade.
The creature's eye widened in what could only be described as pure terror as it watched its own shell begin to disappear, not chunk by chunk, but concept by concept.
Northern stood watching, his face a mask of cold satisfaction. "Interesting..."
The white flames spread across the shell like cracks in reality itself, each tendril erasing not just the physical matter it touched, but the very idea of that matter's existence.
The Dark Turtle let out another screech, but this one was different-desperate, primal. It tried to move, to retreat, but the Chaos Flame had already taken hold.
"You can't run from this," Northern said quietly, almost gently. "What's being erased isn't just your shell-it's the very concept of your defense."
The others watched in horrified fascination as the process continued.
Where the shell disappeared, they expected to see flesh or bone or whatever lay beneath. Instead, they saw... nothing.
Not darkness, not void, but a complete absence of anything that could be perceived.
Shin's face had gone pale. "This power..."
"What in the world?" Dante muttered, his voice barely a whisper.
The Dark Turtle thrashed, its movements becoming more erratic as more of its shell vanished.
The red veins that had pulsed with such threatening energy now flickered weakly, like dying embers.
Northern took a step forward, his eyes glowing with that eerie blue light.
"Want to know something interesting?" he asked the dying creature, his voice carrying easily despite the chaos.
"The reason my attack worked wasn't just because it was powerful."
The creature's eye fixed on him, and in that moment, understanding seemed to pass between them.
"Your shell was designed to absorb and reflect any attack," Northern continued. "But the Chaos Flame isn't really an attack; it's a concept that exists far beyond any. It was the first entity to be birthed from nothingness, and better than every other entity, it carries that inexistential essence of destruction.
Two passed.
Five passed.
'Don't tell me...'
Since he erased the concept of existence for that creature, could it be that the system didn't count that as a kill?
'No way, that can't be happening,' Northern shook his head. 'That can't be it.'
If Ul was the one in charge, he would have accepted that the phenomenon made sense-he
erased the monster's concept of existence; it was possible that in Ul's book, the monster didn't die, it just never existed before.
'Something has got to be going on...'
Just as Northern was thinking, the first tab appeared. His eyes lit up immediately.
[Congratulations]
[You have reached a new level of mastery of Chaos]
[Attribute CHAOS FLAME has gained its true form]
[Your proficiency with Chaos has grown]
[Chaos is proud of your achievement]
[Chaos nods in acceptance of your existence]
[Void sneers at Chaos]
'They seem to be having the time of their life inside of me... those two. Anyway, fragments,
fragments, I'm waiting for the fragments.'
[Due to your understanding of Chaos, Heritage has leveled up]
'Oh? I wasn't expecting that....'
[You have gained a new Heritage ability]
[You did not just slay a monster, regarded as a monstrosity in its own lane; you overwrote its
concept, outsmarting Ul. This is a tremendous achievement]
[You have gained +10,000 talent fragments]
[Due to penalty of not copying any talent, you cannot progress to a new soul rank for 180 days]