The Lord Who Levels Up by Devouring - Chapter 251
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Chapter 251. Sovereign vs. Sovereign (1)
Frost petals bloomed in unison across the battlefield.
“How are you…!”
Astonishment flickered across The Queen’s face.
The second emotion following tension.
The bloomed petals descended upon The Queen like razor-sharp blades.
“You shouldn’t be able to use that power?”
Surprise flashed across The Queen’s features.
Yet she felt no genuine threat.
The Queen’s crimson eyes blazed with brilliant scarlet light.
Kwaaaaaaaa—!!
Blood magic erupted in a violent torrent.
Condensed blood expanded ferociously, consuming the descending frost petals in its overwhelming surge.
“How immature!”
The Queen’s eyes deepened to an even darker crimson.
The exploding blood magic raged wildly, and waves of blood flooded in all directions.
The waves rose higher and higher.
Jagged blades of blood crested and crashed down upon her.
Against the descending onslaught, Seraphia did not retreat.
‘I must protect them all!’
As Count Whitewolf, I stand firm with unwavering resolve.
Fear had no place in my heart.
I would not flee anymore.
Even without Adrian, I would overcome this and claim victory through my own strength.
Had I not trained relentlessly?
Through countless nights.
Endless repetition of effort and discipline.
Now was the moment to prove what all that sacrifice had forged.
Kiiiiiing—!
Seraphia’s eyes transformed into pure white light.
Concentrated frost erased the blood waves entirely.
The Queen’s expression twisted ever so slightly.
Merely an instant. The briefest of moments.
…In that fleeting second, ‘wariness’ flickered through The Queen’s eyes.
* * *
Tendrils of frost energy bloomed outward from Seraphia’s center.
And a world of bitter cold unfurled.
The tendrils of frost that blanketed the world erased the rampaging blood magic.
The Queen did not remain idle.
“Impossible!!”
Boom!!
Threads of blood erupted across The Queen’s entire form.
An overwhelming force exploded outward, shattering Seraphia’s domain of absolute cold head-on.
Thus, immortality and eternal frost collided.
Two incomprehensible forces clashed.
Crash!!
Immortality proliferated infinitely, expanding the boundaries of its domain.
Eternal frost infinitely froze all flow, isolating everything within.
Expansion and contraction. Diffusion and condensation.
The immortal’s mana spread life infinitely, expanding all possibilities.
The frost’s chill grasped every possibility, dragging them down into infinity and annihilating them.
The immortal’s mana transcended death.
The frost’s chill rendered life powerless.
Infinite mana.
Infinitesimal cold.
Two infinities collided.
The world trembled as if it would shatter.
Crack, screech!!
The world could not endure it.
Of course it couldn’t.
Infinity was a concept so distant that comprehension could never reach it.
Since ancient times, no one had ever truly understood infinity.
And the world was no exception.
A collision of two infinities.
The world shattered into fragments.
Crash!!
The sky twisted. The earth fractured.
Time and space began pushing against each other.
Yet still, immortality’s expansion widened infinitely outward.
“Aaaaaaaah!!”
Against it, eternal frost’s contraction froze infinitely inward.
“Haaaaaaah!!”
Existence wavered between them.
Iliana’s lips trembled violently.
“What… what do I… how can I…!”
Of course I knew I had to help.
But how?
How could I possibly help?
No matter how hard I racked my brain, I couldn’t find a way.
And for good reason—just look at that!
Crack, crackle, crackle!!!
Within the infinite collision, all laws and principles were crumbling.
Infinity devoured infinity.
Infinity spewed forth infinity.
An absurd battle unfolded where they hurled the very essence of existence at one another.
“Wh-what in the—?!?!”
What could mere humans possibly accomplish in such a place?
If they merely stayed out of the way, that would be fortunate enough.
Of course.
There were also a Dwarf and Elves beside them.
But they too were ultimately human variants.
“W-what exactly is that….”
“Good heavens….”
Finite beings rendered powerless before the infinite.
Therefore, there was only one thing they could do now.
“Everyone, save Lord Kai!”
Kai, who had been seized by The Queen.
He had to be extracted before being swept into the torrent of infinity.
Only then could Seraphia fight without restraint.
Crackle, crackle, crackle—!!
… It seemed reckless, but it was the only thing they could do now.
* * *
Kai’s consciousness, which had dimmed for a moment.
But soon, tangled sensations gradually returned.
“Are you awake…?”
A familiar voice reached him through the haze.
I slowly opened my eyes.
There was Iliana, a small girl with a blue-tinged impression.
As our eyes met, Iliana collapsed to the ground with a thud.
“…Thank goodness.”
Her face was covered in scratches and cuts.
Blood was smeared around her lips, as if hastily wiped away.
I slowly pushed myself up.
Broombar and Rielin were nearby.
Covered in blood, they were catching their breath and steadying themselves.
“How did this—.”
My question was not even finished.
Boom—! Rumble, rumble, rumble!!
A tremendous roar erupted.
The space convulsed, and my body and mind staggered for an instant.
As consciousness returned, I saw the Vampire Queen pouring forth her crimson power in the distance.
It was a force so terrifying it made my skin crawl.
And standing against her was—
“Count Whitewolf?”
Seraphia.
Kai immediately tried to push himself up.
But then—
“Ugh…!”
My body refused to obey.
My immortality wouldn’t activate.
When the Vampire Queen had seized me, my aura had been completely depleted.
Without aura, my immortality doesn’t function.
“You mustn’t strain yourself.”
Iliana cried out urgently.
“If you move now, you may never rise again.”
“But—”
“Don’t worry.”
Iliana pointed toward one side, her voice reassuring Kai.
The battlefield where blood and frost collided.
The Vampire Queen, radiating the power of immortality, was overwhelming.
But that was all.
Even as the Vampire Queen—refined and perfected through eons, possessing reason honed across eternity, and the most powerful of all non-human beings—
“Seraphia is pushing her back.”
She was being driven back before the bitter cold.
The immortal power was being annihilated repeatedly.
“Seraphia can do this.”
Iliana’s faith was nearly absolute.
It appeared that way to Kai as well.
Until these words reached her ears—
“Lac Le Baltia.”
The Vampire Queen’s incantation.
In that instant, a blood barrier unfolded.
It expanded, devouring the frost, and Iliana’s mind snapped alert.
What the Vampire Queen had just chanted was unmistakably—
‘Rune magic?’
But that was impossible.
It couldn’t be possible.
Rune magic.
Magic that employed the language known as Runes.
Its method was direct ‘communication’ with the world itself.
But The Queen cannot communicate with the world.
The world rejects her existence.
Therefore, no matter how much The Queen tries to communicate, the world refuses to accept it.
Yet just now… what exactly happened?
‘Could it be that she forced her command through?’
The Queen had trampled upon the world’s grammar, then imposed her own syntax atop it.
Much like Mongma’s word of command.
In essence, she had weaponized the runes—not as communication.
But as a means of violence and invasion.
‘She could use runes in such a manner?’
I had never heard of such a thing.
It was something I had never even conceived possible.
The grammar of runes had been lost to antiquity.
Only fragmentary records remained.
And even those interpretations conflicted.
That was why runes could only be used for crude magic.
‘How could she possibly…?’
Iliana’s azure eyes widened in shock.
“Nubel El Rakmar—blood, grant me rupture.”
Another incantation echoed forth.
Krrrunch—!
The frozen domain swept by the blood wave twisted violently.
The barrier of cold turned crimson and shattered into fragments.
“Ugh…!”
Seraphia’s body staggered.
Then came the third incantation.
“Alta Ru Bastal—blood barrier, tear open the seams.”
The blood essence condensed and detonated.
Cracks spider-webbed across the void.
The torn cold dissipated.
“Kyaah—!”
Seraphia’s body was hurled backward.
The Queen did not relent.
“Reba Ran Astru. Ser Ru Orbis.”
Two incantations erupted in succession.
Krrrunch—! Kaboom!!
The blood waves overlapped.
Space folded once, then unfolded.
Blood trickled from Seraphia’s lips.
“Hghhh…!”
Seraphia clenched her teeth.
She swallowed the surging blood, forcing it down.
She held her head high and steady.
Her eyes, wide and unwavering, never broke their gaze upon The Queen.
Seraphia’s eyes transformed into pure white.
At the tips of her small, delicate hands, a deep and vivid frost had crystallized.
Kiiiiiiiiing—!!
A colossal force swirled around Seraphia.
The currents of heaven and earth bent and surged as if in submission.
In the next moment, the entire world bloomed with azure ice flowers.
In an instant.
Sharp frost blades carved through all existence.
Primordial Origin – Extinction.
Frigidus Maelstrom.
Craaaaaash—!!!
The entire world froze solid, swallowing The Queen within its grasp.
“Tch…!”
The Queen gnashed her teeth.
She stepped back several paces, her blood-stained fingertips slashing through the air left and right.
As The Queen’s hands tore through the void.
Crimson rifts spread between the frost blades.
Deep patterns of blood were etched into the empty space.
And in that instant.
Blood Heaven – Offensive Void Baptism.
Entropic Dismantling.
Saaaaaaash—!!!
Crimson ink-like tendrils erupted from the blood patterns, devouring the world.
Soon, two forces collided.
Craaaaaaash—!!!
The very fabric of the world was torn asunder.
“My… merciful heavens…!!”
Iliana screamed.
With eyes that pierced to the essence of all things, she could fully comprehend how utterly impossible this phenomenon was.
And The Queen and Seraphia.
Iliana understood perfectly just how absurd their battle truly was.
Merely witnessing this clash was perilous.
Yet retreating from this place was equally difficult.
“Everyone, get behind me!!”
Iliana cried out, raising both her hands.
Magical power rapidly unfurled.
Intricate magical formations materialized from all directions.
A brilliant flash erupted—
Threads of light interwove in layers, and a shield of cascading barriers enveloped everyone.
The shield shrieked under the assault—
Shockwaves hammered against it relentlessly.
“…Ugh!”
My entire body felt as though it might crumble.
And I was merely absorbing the aftermath of the force.
Cracks spiderwebbed across the shield’s surface—
Countless fractures etched themselves into the barrier.
Iliana wrung out every last drop of her mana to reinforce the shield.
The shockwaves continued their relentless assault—
Each wave gradually losing its ferocity.
At last, the final tremor subsided.
Iliana planted her hands against the ground as though kneeling.
“Haah…! Haah…!”
Consciousness threatened to slip away.
Iliana gasped for breath in ragged, desperate pulls.
Then, in that moment—
Laughter echoed through the air.
“Ahahahah.”
…A laugh so deeply ominous it chilled the blood.
* * *
There were only two ways to escape the Valley of Kardun.
Or rather, only two that I knew of.
The first was to create a temporal paradox.
If I erased the ’cause’ of my entry into the Valley of Kardun, I would be expelled from it.
“…Impossible.”
But that method was unavailable to me now.
I didn’t even know how to trigger such a paradox.
And I lacked the means to do so.
Which left me with only one option.
“I have to clear the Quest.”
A Hidden Quest with a 0% success rate.
The clear reward was “Inventory Enhancement and Escape from the Valley of Kardun.”
The objective was simple.
Draw the exact value of 0.5 from among all numbers between 0 and 1.
But there were infinitely many numbers between 0 and 1.
The probability of drawing 0.5 from among them was 0%.
A Quest with a success rate of literally 0%.
“But this is the only way.”
I headed straight for Death’s Sanctuary.
With nothing to obstruct my path, I arrived swiftly.
At the heart of the Sanctuary, which I reached in an instant.
Nothing had changed.
The hexahedron remained in its place, untouched.
I immediately began extracting numbers from within the hexahedron at rapid speed.
【0.5712521922…1521】
【0.8819241410572…5】
【0.42125561…591】
【0.7618358951…12】
.
.
.
0.5 never appeared.
I continued extracting numbers.
The hexahedron spewed forth new values.
【0.50129491…883】
【0.19252912124】
【0.075212…5】
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.
.
Success probability: 0%.
I continued striking at the impossible probability.
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1. Seraphia freezing her down to the molecular level essentially turning her into a living ice statue
2. Adrian’s inventory Enhancement allows him to store living beings and he traps her in the inventory
3. Adrian eats her heart effectively stealing her immortality