Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1355: Mortal Sourcing Destiny Rune



The Doom Knight suddenly found itself planted on the ground, lying face-up. Indeed, it was Araeyn's doing.

Levin lit up in a bold, complex Rune around it, so brilliant it could be seen from beyond the sky, where the misshapen blue sun had been.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Seventy Divine Elder Sages of Penetration rode the burning clouds in the sky, surrounding the Doom Knight and began chanting something Skullius couldn't quite understand.

The Hybrid Warmoth knew about languages between Null Lifeforms, and had even been able to converse with rogue creatures of the Null Verse before, but this...

The Sages chanted in unison what might have been a song and between them, in the sky, a replica of the same Rune around the Doom Knight began to form.

When it appeared, Skullius felt the incredible amount of Null Life Essence packed into it. There must have been close to ten billion units!

And beyond just the fuel used to bring the complex Rune to life...

'BRO!' Skullius thought, horrified and drew far away from the gathered maniacs as quickly as he could.

Runecraft, quite like souls and mana, was a universal concept. Runes were marks used to make tedious and long processes more streamlined and efficient. They were a means of absolute control, and the greatest forms of them were not easily mastered.

The Elder Sages of Penetration were a race that completely abandoned the concept of building skills or other forms of techniques in favour of Runes.

In order of complexity and power, there were three levels to Runes according to the Sages: GRAND, MYTH and ETERNAL.

An example of a GRAND Rune was the Rune of the FIRST, which Skullius had learned how to use from Caxellac. It was powerful, but not too much so.

What the Sages were using now... was an ETERNAL Rune, called the Mortal Sourcing Destiny

Rune.

To be sure, Skullius wasn't too familiar with any of these details. He had fled because he sensed the sheer power bounding within the Rune.

It was baffling how the Sages skirted using Andori and Amras like everyone else in the wider reality (it didn't make any sense according to the Common Reality Leagues) but he knew for sure that the Rune they were using was equivalent to an Ascendant Andori!

That was one tier above his strongest Andori, the [Entropy's Harmonising Nimbus]!

The Mortal Sourcing Destiny Rune was ignited... and Skullius was glad he had been nowhere near its vicinity.

It first torched the world in a glaring white light too deep to see through.

The realm and its clouds, and the fiery matter falling from the collapsed sun suddenly didn't exist anymore. Only the bright light.

And then... ZZZZT.

ZZZZT!

ZZZZT!

ZZZZT!

Something flickered within that brightness. It was a gargantuan, spherical shape in a deep crimson hue.

It flickered in and out of existence, first vague with little detail and then bold and bolder. Soon, the great well of a silvery-blue substance swirling in its centre and the hundreds of unique, complicated and mesmerising symbols revolving around it could be seen. Patches of different shapes and colours could be spotted near the outer boundary of the spherical shape, drifting like islands. They held things too small to see, but as the sphere flickered, they became clearer and clearer.

But even without figuring out what was within the queer shapes, Skullius had grown pale. He was frozen in shock. For a moment, he almost forgot that this was the perfect moment for him to strike as he had planned.

'I thought... I thought this was supposed to be extremely difficult!' he thought, gaping.

What he was looking at, was the projected Broader Existence of the Doom Knight!

Somehow, the Mortal Sourcing Destiny Rune had revealed it in its entirety, almost producing a perfect, vivid depiction of everything stored within it!

It was supposed to be incredibly difficult to find another Divine's Broader Existence, but Skullius was looking at a group of severely underpowered creatures casually doing it to a Deity.

'No wonder everyone wants the Null Verse...' Skullius said. He meant these words for Serenity. 'No wonder Void tried to kill me. This is insane!'

Only Serenity could have understood the depths of his meaning, but she also understood something else.

Skullius couldn't have known, but he was only half right.

The Mortal Sourcing Destiny Rune was not just limited to projecting the likeness and boundary of the Broader Existence of anyone struck by it.

No.

It was designed to strip away the Broader Existence and return the target to mortality! The Doom Knight, unlike Skullius, sensed what was happening and immediately switched

gears.

The brilliant light scape conjured by the Mortal Sourcing Destiny Rune was killed at once by a blaze of red Undeath that poured upwards in a pillar from the Doom Knight. The world returned to normal-hell-like - afterwards.

<ENOUGH.>

The Sages of Penetration and all the other Penetrators were squashed into nothingness by something unseen - an attack using the Broader Existence. Yet, they were restored almost immediately after.

Levin sprayed all over the Doom Knight and bounced off its still-sizzling armour. Different kinds of Runes raced through the air to smash against it, but the Doom Knight quickly cut

them down.

<YOU ENJOY THE BENEFIT OF SUPERIORITY WHEN IT COMES TO THAT LITTLE TREASURE YOU HAIL FROM.> the creature said. <BUT THAT ALONE CANNOT MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE

IN MIGHT.>

Something terrible was coming, but the Penetrators attacked all the same, even as their

attacks did nothing.

The Doon Knight raised its sword... and the spark of an Andori lit up from the tip.

Something dreadful was coming.

...But then the realm dissolved into darkness and silence.

Light, gravity, heat, time, sensation... everything seemed to just STOP.

The Doom Knight was unaffected by all this, but he was again confused.

That little pest which was capable of commanding everything in this world had restricted damn near every concept to be found here.

But... was the point of that?

Well, the point, quite literally, pinched the Doom Knight in the next nano-instance.

A blade of gold and pink pierced seamlessly through its terrifying armour, and then a fraction

of obscure time later, thin cuts ran along the armour, intersecting and connecting until it was

ruined!

...!!!

For the first time, the Doom Knight was absolutely shocked.

Its armour creaked and shattered under the Absolute Prime Property of Broodweiler,

revealing the true form of the subdued Deity underneath.

Skullius was feeling the rush and also the ungodly apprehension. The first level of defense had been taken down, and now, everything either went extremely well or horribly wrong.