Chapter 134: You Observe Inversion Through Obliteration

There was an instinctual reaction in the minds of people that stopped them from self-harm. It was easier for a hardened warrior to cut off the heads of a thousand begging enemies than to sever one of their fingers.

Elias had only a brief moment that was less than a fifth of a second for him to not only think, but also react quickly enough to tear out his limbs.

If he had hesitated for even the briefest of moments, this opportunity would have been gone, and he would have been left with nothing but death.

His innate healing had already made Elias almost fearless of physical harm, and coupled with his tenacity alongside a cold and calculating mind, Elias was slowly regaining the calmness that he had lost after the countless trials he had suffered in this short amount of time.

The laughter of the Void Echo transformed into crazed screams as the severed arms flew through the air and reached the surface of the nearest infinite ocean.

If Elias had a normal Lumina Pool, then one would expect a loud splash as the hands still holding on to the Void Echo fall into the liquified Lumina, but his pools appeared to be empty, just massive spheres of darkness where tiny lights glinted inside them as if they were connected to the starry sky.

These vast and seemingly empty oceans were Elias’s greatest secrets beside his Elder Talent, and he doubted that he was ever going to know all of their secrets any time soon.

The moment he cut off both of his arms and threw them into the nearest empty ocean, they did not sink into it. Elias did not know what to expect because the only things he had thrown into this vast emptiness were Lumina and the seeds of his vein scriptures and arts.

His arms did not sink, it just vanished, as they were swallowed instantly into the perfect stillness.

Severing his arms did not stop the memories still streaming into his head, but if they were previously at the level of a flood, now they were barely a trickle, and he fell on both of his knees, as he could now see a part of what the Void Echo was experiencing as it fell into his infinity.

The perception of this creature now became a tiny window for Elias to look down into a depth that had no bottom, no light, no end, and to experience what it would be like to fall into that infinity.

When he saw his endless pools for the first time, Elias had the suicidal thought of jumping into them and seeing how long it took for him to reach anything, but the arms had been falling for what seemed like a long time, and they had not approached anything; they seemed like they would fall endlessly.

However, while Elias was seeing through the connection with the Void Echo that it was falling endlessly, he had gathered himself well enough to stand, and when he looked at the pool he had thrown the arms into, they were still on the surface.

If he had eyes in this form, he would be blinking in shock at the sheer contradiction of having his arms falling while simultaneously refusing to leave the surface.

He did not think that this contradiction was a mistake in his perception, and it seemed to perfectly encompass what his Lumina Oceans had become, and why they seemed able to contain infinity in the finite.

Still, as he watched in amazement, he also noted that the arms were gathering speed as they fell. The screams of the Void Echo had transformed into a long stream of sound that was elongated into an infinite echo that was almost amusing to hear, but that was only for a moment, because the more you listened to it, the more horrific it sounded.

If Elias did not have any connection with the arms, he would only see them floating on the surface of his oceans and hear a fading scream, not knowing that in the perception of the arm, its speed had fallen to an extent that it could not be easily calculated.

However, as the arms kept falling faster, they seemed to have hit a threshold, and they tore open something… Elias felt it; his infinite oceans had noticed the contradiction of the arms that were falling and also not falling.

Elias found it interesting that without his presence and his perception being shared across these two extremes, his infinite oceans would not have noticed it.

This was similar to what he had experienced when he wanted to seed the core of his Lumina Scripture and Arts inside his pools, without his mental inputs; his infinite oceans were, well, infinite, and even if these arms were falling forever, but Elias’s mind seemed to be the trigger for it to be able to respond to any changes inside of it.

And now, his pool reacted as a low vibration rolled up from the endless depths. The vibration did not just erupt from a single pool, but all one hundred pools, as Elias finally confirmed that although all one hundred pools were distinct, they were still connected.

The mirror-like surface of the pool cracked inward, the fracture lines bending down into the abyss like roots seeking water that did not exist.

It was strange that an explosion that should blow outward was directed inward, but Elias was slowly getting used to the contradiction of his pool.

If this explosion caused by the vibration was mind-bending, it was nothing compared to what happened to the arms next.

You would think that an explosion that was inverted would have sucked in the arms deeper, but that did not happen; the explosion was inverted, and yet the arms were pushed upward while still letting them fall.

However, although his infinite pool was a place of contradiction, when a new factor was added to this pool, like say, his arms and a screaming Void Echo on the verge of explosion, that contradiction birthed force.

Elias could feel that force beginning to rise from the arms that were falling and still being pushed upwards by the vibrations erupting from the depths of the infinite oceans, and he gasped as a silent explosion of absence erupted from the arm.

There was no light or heat, but this was indeed an explosion, and the only way Elias could describe this explosion, following all the details his mind could gather… this was an explosion of lack.

What followed was equally as ridiculous; the arms were erased from existence in one direction while being preserved in the other!

So the arms in his perception that were falling were erased, yet the one his eyes were seeing that was rising was preserved. The Void Echo that was still shrinking froze mid-scream.

The red glow arising from it that was primed to detonate across miles collapsed inward like a lung punctured from the inside, as the glow reversed, and one of the powers from the depths of the Infinite Ocean, the first scroll of the void, finally seemed to have recognized the presence of another, and then it pulled upon the Void Echo.

The creature’s many-eyed wings snapped shut in panic; it had shrunken to the extent that it resembled a bat’s wings, and there was no way it could fight the pull of the first scroll of containment.

Its horrified scream became a choke, and the connection Elias had with it snapped shut, and there was silence. He could no longer see or know what was happening inside his infinite oceans for a brief moment, but a strange thought entered his mind… Inversion through obliteration.

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