Level -99 Archmage - Chapter 132

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Episode 132. Master of Void
……Master of Void, they called it.
The term itself was a contradiction.
The Void meant Non-existence, the absence of all things, emptiness itself.
How could something that did not exist have a master?
And yet Park Chan-woo felt it.
The tension in Signus’s tone.
More precisely… a trembling of the soul.
‘He’s perceiving wavelengths as a soul force.’
There was another surprise.
He had intuited precisely what he was doing—blending souls.
Which meant Signus, too, was a spiritual being capable of perceiving souls.
“Find another nest.”
Park Chan-woo spoke coldly.
Leave this place.
Find a different nest and hatch there instead.
【That is impossible.】
Signus refused.
The answer drew his brows together instinctively.
“Do you mean you cannot, or that you will not?”
【I cannot.】
“Why?”
【…The egg fell through a rift near the Land of Valhalla when I laid it. I have no proper nest.】
Now he understood.
In the Second Night, Ataraxia—the Black Dragon—had breached the Abyss.
A ‘crack’ appeared between that breach, and it happened to be where Signus was laying his egg.
Signus had tumbled through along with the egg, and upon discovering Han Min-o—something that could serve as a nest—had hastily taken root.
‘A butterfly effect.’
……The odds were staggering.
Had he not returned from the future and conquered the Tower of Arrogance, the Black Witch would never have sent Ataraxia, and Signus would have laid his egg where he intended.
A small butterfly’s wing beat had summoned a hurricane.
【’Master of Void,’ I warn you now—it is not too late to cease the Soul Harmonization. Do not provoke my wrath.】
Signus issued his warning.
Yet for a being called the ‘Destroyer,’ he spoke too much.
In other words, what Park Chan-woo was doing now posed a genuine threat to him.
He was afraid.
It was inconceivable that a creature who had lived aeons would fear nothing more than Park Chan-woo’s soul alone.
There was only one answer.
‘He believes I’m capable of destroying the egg.’
Desperation to protect it.
Proof that what Park Chan-woo was doing was beyond Signus’s ability to stop.
This place was Han Min-o’s world, after all.
Han Min-o had accepted Park Chan-woo without resistance.
He had not refused to let their wavelengths intertwine.
He had placed his life and soul—his everything—into Park Chan-woo’s hands.
Since the ownership of this nest belonged to Park Chan-woo, all that Signus could do was shriek and threaten helplessly.
《Harmonization Rate: 110%!》
He pulled upward in increments.
Another half-step forward.
From here lay completely uncharted territory.
He did not know what would unfold.
—Incompetent fool.
—If you had inherited even half of Han Shin’s talent!
—You will never even reach Han Shin’s heels.
Trauma surfaced.
The inferiority that lived in Han Min-o’s heart.
His envy and jealousy toward his older brother, Han Shin.
And longing—emotions that began to feel like his own.
【’Master of Void,’ if you advance further, your soul shall be annihilated!】
Rummmmmmmble!
The world trembled.
Signus’s fury shook the very foundation of the earth.
The immensely powerful Magical Wavelength of Signus crashed against Park Chan-woo.
And still, the egg continued to hatch.
If it completed its resurrection, Han Min-o would die.
And so would he.
Signus would never let him live.
‘I’ve come this far. I cannot turn back now.’
Half a step forward. Then another.
He needed to draw closer still to reach the egg.
The egg, which had not yet fully formed its soul or stabilized its Magical Wavelength, would shatter the moment he touched it.
《’Harmonization Rate’ 120%!》
Just one more step and he’d be close enough.
Yet with each fraction of distance he closed, his own mind wore thin.
Park Chan-woo’s form grew hazy, transparent.
Merging.
Being devoured into Han Min-o’s world.
Still, Park Chan-woo did not stop.
【Let us make a bargain. If you withdraw here, I shall grant you any wish your heart desires.】
Signus spoke urgently.
A vow from the Divine Beast and Destroyer himself.
A wish so grand it would make one’s jaw drop—surely it would come to pass.
But if he accepted, Han Min-o would die.
Park Chan-woo had decided to save Han Min-o.
Now that he’d made that choice, he would see it through.
【Do you truly intend to sacrifice your soul for a mere human?】
In ordinary times, he would never have staked everything to save another.
Risking everything on an uncertain outcome was foolish.
……Yet why?
Perhaps the high Harmonization Rate had shattered his mind.
Or perhaps he’d been moved by the actions Han Min-o had shown him.
A man who shared blood with Han Shin, yet walked an entirely different path from him.
If Han Shin had possessed the same temperament as Han Min-o, the future might have been different.
At least it would not have culminated in such a bleak world.
That was why.
Park Chan-woo placed his hope in Han Min-o.
《’Harmonization Rate’ 125%!》
【Master of Void, do you wish for my wrath to sweep across all mankind?】
Signus’s threats continued without pause.
Words of annihilating humanity entirely.
Those words struck Park Chan-woo’s nerves even more sharply.
A single utterance from the Transcendent Dragon Sepirot had reduced humanity to dust.
How much had he despaired then?
How deeply had he sunk into despair?
All the effort built over a lifetime, all the hope—scattered and rendered meaningless by that creature’s one careless word.
Signus had spoken words that should never have been uttered.
【It is already too late! This human cannot be saved.】
【Even if you destroy the egg, he cannot survive!】
Too late?
The connection of the wavelength was indeed impossibly thick.
It was already bound to his very life force itself.
If the egg was destroyed, Han Min-o’s soul and life would be annihilated together.
Was there nothing to be done?
Must he simply concede?
No. There was a way.
If the egg consumed the Nest as it hatched, he could simply provide it with another Nest.
‘The Destroyer Signus had given me a hint.’
It had said clearly.
Do you intend to sacrifice your soul for a mere human?
Rather than destroying the egg itself, he could simply substitute the life force it needed to devour—life itself.
Of course, there would need to be a life and soul possessing potential equal to or greater than Han Min-o’s.
‘…I could even replace myself as the Nest.’
Park Chan-woo.
If he became the Nest itself and transferred the egg.
At least Han Min-o could survive.
Yet he couldn’t be certain that Chan-woo’s potential exceeded Han Min-o’s.
Something more concrete was needed.
Park Chan-woo shifted his gaze.

《’Harmonization Rate’ 130%!》
He pushed his Harmonization Rate higher, drawing closer with greater force.
But his Magical Wavelength did not reach toward the Divine Beast Egg.
【Dare you harmonize with me? How foolish, Master of Void!】
Signus laughed in contempt.
If this human tried to connect and harmonize souls, the victor was obvious.
The Master of Void.
The most essential being capable of handling souls.
He didn’t know why such a being existed in a human body, but as a result, it remained incomplete.
The fact that it couldn’t even properly handle a single human’s wavelength was proof of how meager the Soul Force it possessed truly was.
At first, he hadn’t believed it.
The power to handle souls was granted only to the Master of Void.
Yet according to Signus’s knowledge, the ‘Master of Void’ no longer existed.
【It’s nothing but an incomplete power in the end. The power you wield cannot be called that of a true ‘Master of Void.’ Ah, yes. Now I understand.】
He had been skeptical.
But as the creature drew near, understanding became certain.
This one was not the Master of Void.
【The talent of the Great Ten Lords, the ‘Master of Void,’ must have scattered throughout the Abyss. You merely happened to acquire that power.】
In the distant past.
The Abyss once had ten masters.
They were called the ‘Great Ten Lords,’ and each was a transcendent, otherworldly monster.
Among them was one, called the most powerful lord.
That one was the ‘Master of Void.’
The Master of Void possessed numerous Absolute Authorities.
Each authority was so sublime as to be incalculable that even other lords avoided them, or so the tales say.
For instance, he could read the essential nature of existence and Innate Mana, or forcibly destroy and absorb them—feats of Miracle that even the other ‘Great Ten Lords’ could not perform.
But the Master of Void’s greatest authority was the power to handle ‘Soul’ itself.
Just like this creature before him.
【Indeed, an extinct being could not appear again. How pathetic that such a power has been passed to a mere human.】
If the true Master of Void had witnessed this scene, he would have beaten the earth in despair.
The stupidity was beyond measure.
Signus recovered his composure.
It seemed the human was attempting to connect souls and find another way.
But how could a mere human soul ever penetrate Signus’s soul?
The moment they connected, it would crumble without a trace.
Soon enough.
《You are now harmonizing with Signus the Destroyer!》
The connection was made.
In that instant, Signus found himself tilting his head inwardly.
‘What is this?’
There was something strange mixed within this human, Park Chan-woo.
Beyond the talents the Master of Void possessed, there was something else.
Something immeasurably vast, immeasurably dark, and immeasurably ominous.
In fact, the ‘Soul Force’ that the Master of Void had wielded was merely one among countless talents Park Chan-woo possessed.
That was what seemed strange.
It far exceeded the limits a human body should be able to contain.
Moreover, none of these powers fit together.
They were not forces meant to harmonize with one another.
Yet they gathered together, forming this human called Park Chan-woo.
Soon Signus found himself rifling through Park Chan-woo’s memories as well.
In that same moment, he recoiled in horror.
【You’ve reversed time! You wretched creature!】
That which should not exist has come to be.
An act forbidden—an act that must never come to pass—and yet it was done.
It must be erased.
If that thing persists, the Abyss itself may collapse from its very presence alone.
Hissss!
Then it happened.
Park Chan-woo laughed.
And slowly, he opened his mouth.
“God of Sacrifice, I offer unto you the Destroyer Signus as my oblation.”

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