The Lord Who Levels Up by Devouring - Chapter 350

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Chapter 350. The Wizard of Truth
Arcanis couldn’t comprehend what was happening.
The hands cradling his head fell away, dropping limply to the ground.
Adrian lay motionless, as though every tendon had been severed.
‘What…?’
Why had he suddenly collapsed?
Could there have been poison in his heart?
He pondered it, but no—that couldn’t be it.
There was no reason he’d be carrying poison in his heart in the first place.
Whatever had happened, it was an opportunity.
Arcanis drew upon his magical power.
But the tendons binding his entire body—
Antimana responded instantly.
The magical power he’d summoned was erased in an instant.
Adrian had fallen, but antimana still lived.
Yet it was not infinite.
Eventually, it would dissipate.
Arcanis gritted his teeth.
He drew upon his magical power again.
Tremendous energy tore through his insides.
It was an annihilation reaction.
As Adrian fell, the suppressive force of the antimana weakened.
Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash—!!
His entire body felt as though it would be torn asunder… yet he endured.
There was no reason to hesitate.
If not now, such an opportunity might never come again.
“Gaaahhhhh—!!”
With a scream, I summoned forth blood-tinged magical power.
The bindings began to twist slowly.
At that very moment.
Snap—!!
Space resonated.
Like the snap of a finger.
In other words, it was not the sound of the bindings breaking.
From that instant onward, strange things began to swirl and coil around Arcanis.
Neither light nor darkness.
Things without name.
‘What is this…?’
Arcanis murmured.
In that instant, space folded inward.
Arcanis’s body began to be pulled inward.
‘This is….’
Banishment to the Other Dimension.
Someone was banishing Arcanis.
…The response came too late.
And it was impossible to resist.
The body bound by sinews would not move.
The anti-mana continued to erode from within.
And so.
Arcanis vanished, thrust back into his original dimension.
* * *
Arcanis surveyed his surroundings.
No sky, no earth, no direction.
Formless remnants drifted suspended.
All laws twisted, collapsing and crumbling and collapsing again in this place.
The Sea of Entropy.
The Other Dimension where Arcanis dwelled.
Simultaneously, his true form.
Here, Arcanis could distort spacetime and wield reality-manipulation magic, maintaining his immortality.
He was no different from an absolute god.
Therefore, these sinews binding his body now.
Snap!
Could be severed effortlessly.
Arcanis exhaled softly.
“Sigh….”
Once banished to the Other Dimension, returning required far more sacrifice than one might expect.
“How troublesome.”
Arcanis swept his hand once through the void.
It was then.
“Those who seek truth must, once in their lifetime, doubt all that is possible.”
A voice reached his ears.
Yet a voice that should never have been heard.
“That is my iron principle.”
Arcanis’s sweeping hand froze.
His crimson eyes turned slowly.
There stood a girl with blue hair.
Iliana was there.
“How did you come to this place…?”
No answer came.
But Arcanis could understand.
“You don’t mean… the Book of Truth?”
I couldn’t believe it even as the words left my mouth.
That was… impossible.
The Book of Truth was truth itself, in the most literal sense.
It contained all knowledge of this world.
Reading it was manageable enough.
As long as one merely explored fragments of truth.
But to read and comprehend it completely… was impossible.
One’s existence would collapse.
Or one’s identity would disintegrate.
Yet the fact that she had come to the Sea of Entropy meant she had endured all of that.
At least, it was proof she hadn’t been consumed by truth.
…But how on earth?
Before my confusion could settle, Iliana drew forth her magical power.
A luminous azure radiance of mana.
‘Magical power…?’
Arcanis doubted his own eyes.
Magical power was energy that Arcanis had transformed mana into, making it usable.
A form of mana usage that Arcanis had translated and reconstructed through his own understanding.
In other words, the structure of mana as perceived from Arcanis’s perspective.
And that was why it was different.
This azure radiance possessed an entirely different texture from Arcanis’s magical power.
Arcanis could discern it.
Iliana was now rejecting Arcanis and rewriting the system of magical science through her own method.
Therefore, this was.
Interpreted through Iliana’s perspective.
Imbued with her interpretation alone.
“Exclusive Mana Force deployment.”
Exclusive Mana Force.
* * *
A deep resonance thrummed through the air—!!
The atmosphere trembled.
Particles of magical power scattered like light, spreading throughout the entire space.
Iliana gazed upon the flowing mana.
In this very moment.
Iliana was turning away from Arcanis’s magical science.
A system accepted as truth for millennia.
The law that could best comprehend this world.
Regrettably, she could not deny it.
For Arcanis’s magical science was flawless.
There was no contradiction.
As time passed, the knowledge and understanding of countless Mages accumulated.
Today, Arcanis’s arcane arts had become absolute law.
Yet those who pursue truth must, once in their lifetime, doubt everything possible.
Even the utterly absurd.
The pointless.
The seemingly impossible—all must be questioned to their end.
Whether such things truly cannot be done.
Uuuuuuuung!!
The resonance intensified.
Invisible currents crossed and intertwined.
Tearing through the seams of dimensions.
Beginning to restructure its very fabric.
Thus unfolding through Iliana’s exclusive arcane power.
“Fancy Realization.”
Fantasy born from imagination.
Imagination is not grounded in reality.
The dead returning to life.
Time flowing backward.
Or perhaps an intelligent brain suddenly materializing from absolute nothingness—how could such a thing possibly be realistic?
Therefore, for Mages.
In Arcanis’s arcane arts, imagination cannot be realized.
Because we have already come to understand its impossibility.
…But is that truly so?
Remarkably, the possibility of an intelligent brain suddenly appearing from nothingness actually exists.
Quantum fluctuations occur in a vacuum state.
And among those possibilities, a human brain.
That is, a Boltzmann brain forming—this can never be theoretically excluded.
Only the probability is far too low.
Approaching infinitesimally close to zero percent.
A Boltzmann brain.
Still nothing but pointless, unrealizable imagination.
Yet there exists something even more absurd than that.
This very moment.
We who live and breathe.
Probabilistically speaking, the chance of a Boltzmann brain existing is far greater than the chance of life existing in this universe.
Furthermore, the probability of a Boltzmann brain is even greater than the probability of a universe suddenly being born from absolute nothingness.
Yet as if to prove that even a zero percent probability succeeds once after infinite attempts.
We exist now.
The spacetime of the universe stretches infinitely.
And if the universe existed long enough, entropy would reverse course.
In other words, time itself would inevitably begin to flow backward.
Natural law, surprisingly, permits all possibilities.
And so imagination (Fancy) is born.
From the word “if”.
If gravity had been stronger than it is now.
If the speed of light were faster or slower than it is.
If stars had never been born.
And if (If).
The world we inhabit now is but one branching point among countless possibilities.
Then this world would contain infinite branches within itself.
In some places, time flows backward.
Matter exists that moves faster than light.
Gravity repels rather than attracts.
Cause precedes effect.
Tomorrows we never reached.
Paths we never chose.
Pasts already passed and alternate endings.
All those branching points, latent and layered upon one another.
That is precisely.
What Iliana now unfolds.
Infinite parallel worlds.
Parallel World (Parallel World).
In this realm, all imagined possibilities become real.
Yet it is not mere imagination.
These are events that actually occur somewhere within the infinite parallel worlds.
Laws that genuinely exist in one of those worlds.
The laws of those parallel worlds, brought forth, “interpreted,” and manifested here.
The result: something that does not violate the laws of this world.
Something that faces no resistance from this world.
A realizable imagination (Fancy).
Snap──!!
Iliana flicked her fingers.
The space around her transformed.
The density of the air shifted.
Spacetime trembled faintly, as if pierced by something.
As though the laws of another realm.
Had momentarily descended upon this place.
Formless patterns radiated outward from Iliana as the center, and the laws began to be manipulated.
[Interaction Manipulation : Gravity]
[Law Transformation]
[Gravitomagnetism]
Kuuuuong!!
The deafening sound of a massive boulder crashing down echoed through the space.
Yet something was amiss.
Arcanis saw no massive boulder before his eyes.
Not a boulder—not a single object was visible.
Still, Arcanis’s body collapsed in an instant.
“Kugh!”
He could not move, as though crushed by some invisible force.
“This power…! How…! How is this possible!!”
Arcanis cried out.
Iliana remained unmoved.
She simply flicked—snap!
Her finger snapped once more.
[Interaction Manipulation: Weak Force]
[Law Transformation]
[Fission]
Kwaboom!
Space itself tore asunder.
Following the rupture, Arcanis’s body was shredded along with it.
“Grraaaa—aaaa—aaahhh!!”
A horrific scream scattered through the fractured space.
A sight so gruesome that no eye could bear to witness it unfolded.
Yet he did not die.
Arcanis, merged with the Other Dimension’s fabric.
Here, Arcanis was immortal.
An absolute god.
And yet… he could not resist.
Arcanis’s crimson eyes burned with rage.
Iliana did not avert her gaze.
Her blue eyes shone with perfect composure.
Within them dwelt no mercy.
Snap—!
[Interaction Manipulation: Electromagnetic Force]
[Law Transformation]
[Photon Collision]
Kiiiing!
Light swelled outward.
A tremendous roar and tremor.
Light burst forth in all directions, carrying them with it.
Even Arcanis needed a moment to comprehend what had transpired.
“Gaaahhhhh…!!!”
Arcanis’s scream tore through the fabric of reality.
Eyes, nose, mouth, ears.
Pure white light erupted from every orifice in his face.
“─Krraaaaaahhhhh!!!”
Arcanis roared with all his might.
He violently drew upon his blood magic.
He forced back the alien laws that had infiltrated his body and dimension.
Yet with a sickening crack─!
[Interaction Manipulation: Potent]
[Law Transformation]
[Atomic Fusion]
The light fused into a single entity with a nauseating crunch.
The fused light merged into one.
The unified radiance generated immense energy, collapsing everything in its path.
“…!!!!!”
Arcanis’s eyes snapped wide with horror.
He had no breath left to scream.
Primal terror paralyzed his reason.
This… this cannot be….
An impossibility.
Something forbidden to all.
Something that should never be permitted….
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Arcanis unleashed a roar of defiance.
Sharp malice erupted from within him.
Infinite power from the Other Dimension surged forth violently.
The manipulated laws were pushed back.
The system and order Arcanis had established were restored.
As the structure of the Other Dimension unfolded once more, in that instant.
With a sickening crack─!!
[Interaction Fusion: Grand Unification]
[Law Creation]
[Unified Field]
Space fractured with a violent crackle.
The dimension of the Other Dimension rapidly froze solid.
Spacetime itself came to a standstill, centered on Iliana.
Arcanis remained trapped and motionless within the frozen spacetime.
The sharp malice that had been closing in on Iliana was now trapped within the shackles of spacetime, suspended helplessly in the void.
“T-this can’t be… How is this even possible…!”
Arcanis’s shock had transcended all bounds.
My body… wouldn’t move.
The mana of the Other Dimension refused to respond.
Within the frozen spacetime.
Arcanis could do nothing more than barely open his mouth.
“Unbound by laws… even I, even I cannot….”
A trembling voice.
Within it dwelled only a single emotion.
Awe.
An awe so profound it raised the hair on one’s skin.
“Such… such power… I dare not, cannot even… touch it.”
And so he understood.
The place Iliana had now reached.
The destination all Mages who pursue truth yearn for without end.
The state encompassing all knowledge that could exist in this world.
Omniscience.
Therefore, this was not Iliana.
Not human.
To pierce through all causality,
To comprehend all flows,
To simultaneously perceive the culmination of every possibility—how could such a being ever be called human?
Within the frozen spacetime.
Arcanis asked.
“Who… who exactly are you….”
Iliana.
Or rather, she took a slow step forward.
Crack—! Crackle—!
With each step she took, the surrounding spacetime expanded outward in all directions.
An expanding, stretching world.
Truly infinite.
Within that infinite expanse, the essence of all things flowed forth.
Exploding stars. Rotating galaxies.
Swirling nebulae.
Planets where life breathes and thrives.
Raging typhoons.
Pouring downpours.
Blooming mist.
Quietly accumulated snow.
The natural flow of phenomena in this universe.
Plants, insects, beasts, humans.
Beings that naturally inhabit this world.
Before them, there exists neither beginning nor end.
The origin of these things cannot be fathomed.
They merely revolve infinitely.
Gazing upon this vast world, one could dare to speak.
“My name is Iliana.”
A truth known only to the divine.
One who has touched closest to the world’s hidden face.
“I’m simply a Mage who wishes to be of service to Adrian.”
Crack—!
Ripples of spacetime undulated gently through the void.
Within a realm completely severed from external spacetime.
The ripples branched outward in countless waves, splitting into thousands of threads.
At the center of these wondrous and bizarre undulations stood she, bearing an azure countenance.
The Wizard of Truth.
Boom boom boom!
Photons collided.
From the collision of photons, the nucleus of matter composing this world was created.
Crash crash crash crash crash!!
The created nuclei of matter split and fused.
Tremendous energy erupted and expanded into the severed spacetime.
The expanded energy dispersed into nature, differentiating into multiple forces.
Gravity.
Weak Nuclear Force.
Electromagnetic Force.
Strong Nuclear Force.
The four fundamental forces that constitute the law-realm.
The natural forces that allow existence to persist as existence.
The forces of law that allow the world to exist as world.
Iliana opened her hand.
Beneath her palm, the four forces that had been separated converged once more into a single point and bound together.
Losing the boundaries that had divided them.
Forgetting all distinction.
The four forces became one.
Before the primordial genesis.
Time, space, matter—
An era when they had not yet acquired their names.
A moment when all the world’s principles huddled beneath a single breath.
The primordial seed itself.
Which germinated every possibility that exists.
[Theory of Everything]
[Superforce]
[Law Reduction]
Whoosh——!!
As if the light had been extinguished.
The world dyed in darkness in an instant.
Within the primordial void where even light did not exist.
It happened suddenly.
[Big Bang]

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