Novel Full Chapter 568 - Awakening (VIII)
A little over four decades after Zatiel's Paths of Powers reached Rank 5, the situation in Kingar had experienced an unprecedented change. As the number of people advancing in the Ranks grew, the expansion of The Church of the Purple Sun progressed exponentially faster.
By now, Gladys and the higher-ups had more than sixty percent of the population sending Faith Power toward the Myriad day and night.
The quality and quantity of the Faith Power also increased as people's cultivation advanced. Due to the previous restriction of the Gods, the natural energy in Kingar was incredibly dense since no one had used it for a very long time, making everybody improve very fast.
That was excellent news for Myriad, since the moment Zatiel's existence fully reached Rank 5, he devoured raw forces five times faster than before.
Nine years before Zatiel's one hundred and fifty samsara's anniversary, a white whirlwind appeared inside his brain.
It was time to seal the fifth Apocalyptic Star!
Once the black humanoid reached the soul dimension, he glanced at the Star Consciousness, and a solemn expression appeared on his face.
The enemy was a three-meter tall humanoid with demonic characteristics wielding a flaming sword. Blue yin flames surrounded him, and a cold domain extended from his body.
As a Peak Tier 7 Star, the swordsman's soul force put him at the Peak Hollow Sun Doman Stage, an entire tier above the True Doomsday Body.
What concerned the black humanoid the most was not his enemy's soul force but the yin flames. The Law Of Yin had a spiritual nature, and therefore it could generate significant damage to anything formed by Primordial Essence.
The True Doomsday Body clasped his hands, fusing the power of the Law of Yang and the Law of Fire to form a fiery force field around him. That would help him fight off the Star Consciousness' cold domain.
Next, he made another hand seal, and the power of the Law of Void and the Law of Gravity manifested as ropes around his arms. They would work as arm guards, protecting him from the sword and improving his fists' weight and power.
"¡BOOM!"
As soon as golden energy reinforced the soul dimension's wall, the True Doomsday Body and the Star Consciousness flashed toward the other.
The sword bathed in yin flames could not cut through the black ropes formed by the combined might of the Law of Void and the Law of Gravity, but the strength in it still made the black humanoid's arm tremble.
Immediately after they clashed, the True Doomsday Body sent a kick toward the yin demon's head, connecting right in his jaw. That strike displayed a great martial skill that the black humanoid could not have developed if not for his continuous fights against the Star Consciousnesses.
However, before the True Doomsday Body could get too happy, the Star Consciousness sent a kick of his own, striking directly in the black humanoid's chest.
This initial exchange proved to the True Doomsday Body that the fight would not be easy. Still, he did not hesitate for even a millisecond before lunging toward the yin demon once he regained control over his body.
One hour later, the battle ended as an explosion echoed through the soul dimension.
"¡BOOM!"
That explosion originated as the black humanoid launched a fist so mighty that it made the yin demon's chest burst open.
He was having a hard time remaining conscious. There was a cut in his shoulder so big that it almost severed his left arm, and his chest had a gaping wound so deep that it almost pierced him.
After the black wheel devoured the Star Consciousness fragments, he immediately returned to the Spiritual Endless Ocean and entered a state of deep meditation.
The True Will in the Soul Celestial Vault saw the state of the black humanoid, and the golden wheel behind him glowed, making golden streams of energy enter the black humanoid to help his recovery.
A few months later, once the fifth Apocalyptic Star finished improving the brain, pillars of blood vitality and Astral Origin emerged from each dodecahedron and gathered between Zatiel's' Bloodline Heart and Elemental Chaos Heart.
The Peak Tier 6 Yang Apocalyptic Star and Peak Tier 7 Yin Apocalyptic Star handled the positive and negative forces needed for the new organ.
The Infinity Heart began to form using the patterns and matrixes engraved in the True Doomsday Body.
Usually, the new organ would require so much Astral Origin and vitality that Neo-Demons would resemble mummified corpses by the time they completed it.
However, Zatiel's monstrous bloodline spared him from that. Of course, he still ended up fragile, with his body resembling a malnourished person and his skin losing its color due to the blood loss.
The Infinity Heart was almost ready, but to finish, it still needed the catalyzer, the blood particle from the existence in the first level of the Final Purgatory that managed to push his body above the limits of Rank 9.
Luckily for the Neo-Demon, just like his True Name saved his Primordialis Core, it also stored the blood particle. If not, Zatiel's True Doomsday Body could not have progressed anymore until this one woke up and went to the Neo-Demon Realm.
A powerful blood force emerged from the wheel that fused with the Inner Law Dimension's wall, and the next second, the blood particle appeared inside the dark golden heart.
Pain appeared in the child's face as the Infinity Heart's obtained physical form. He was sleeping but still suffered great agony.
The True Will had reached the Moon Shatterer Rank, but there was a limit to the level of pain he could suppress.
Myriad saw the pain that assaulted Zatiel, but there was nothing he could do other than wait. Or that was what he thought until the dark red core in the center of the brain began to shiver, and waves of a dream-like force emerged from the Neo-Demon and reached the void.
That dark purple brainwave altered the void and began to evolve from an illusion into something real!
Zatiel's thoughts were powerful enough to create life!
Myriad was utterly shocked by what was happening. As more and more brain waves gathered in the void, he felt how this new entity was not merely something made of energy but would have a body and even a rudimentary soul.
Usually, knowing Zatiel's abilities were so extraordinary would have brought nothing but bliss to Myriad, but there was a significant problem with the new entity forming in the void.
Those brain waves manifested due to Zatiel's agony, giving them a nightmarish nature, so the creature manifesting in the void was nothing but a straight-up terror.
Myriad did not hesitate before attacking the creature with all his power. His instincts told him that this thing would only bring pain and terror to the universe.
The horror once again surprised him as it was incredibly resilient, and while he could break it to pieces, it would reform almost immediately.
Luckily, Myriad had the dark purple lightning-fire prime force at his disposal, which was powerful enough to consume the nightmarish horror.
If he did not have the prime force, the only thing Myriad could have done would be to seal it.
The horror may have flesh and a spirit, but its core was an idea, a metaphysical manifestation of Zatiel's agony.
Myriad was the first life form in the Prima Universe to face a power that would bring terror to the multiverse one day!