Cursed Immortality

Chapter 1161: Scales that Dare the Void Mantis! (3)

Suddenly, ambiguous thoughts started to flash past Jacob’s mind at a terrifying rate...

’Is obedience justice?

’Is annihilation necessary?

’Is survival a virtue?

’Is killing evil?

’Is helping someone necessary?’

Although those thoughts were random, they questioned Jacob’s morality and seemed to be empowering the Scales of Justice to pass judgment on Whiteness.

But Jacob remained calm as all those thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning bolts because, despite his twisted mentality over the years, deep down he still holds the beliefs of his old world and knows everything he had done and is doing was nothing short of the work of a devil!

Yet despite all of this, he embraced everything because it was all for Immortality, which means Jacob also considered himself evil and in no way sought salvation by putting false beliefs in his mind!

The moment the Scales of Justice connected with Jacob’s beliefs and values, his Cursed Heart pulsed at a terrifying speed, and more Infinity Blood started to course through his bones before burning through the Scales.

Jacob didn’t obstruct the burning of the Infinity Blood because Immortika had already revealed everything, and maybe for this exact reason, the Cursed Book even bothered to explain all of it.

At that moment, Jacob’s answer was silent, but absolute, and the Scales started to tilt, not violently or dramatically, but just enough.

The infinity-marked pan dipped, while the other rose, and an indistinct ethereal sound echoed...

"Judgment in progress!"

Whiteness, who seemed to have been frozen on his spot, was horrified when that voice sounded because he seemed to know exactly what this implied. He had never thought that one day he would experience the Arch Justice Human Race’s legendary law ability personally!

He stared in horror as something he had never experienced began to take effect. The next moment, his perfect, terrifying physique grew heavier, but not physically; existentially!

His movements slowed by fractions. However, the most terrifying part was that at that moment, his Null Void Law faltered, not sealed, or erased, but weighed down, dragged toward Jacob’s level by an invisible verdict!

"Who!? Show yourself, do you want to offend the Supreme One!?"

Whiteness hissed, panic seeping through his once-absolute certainty, and he finally started to use threat because he knew if this ability wasn’t stopped, it wouldn’t be the ’Heretic’ who perished here.

Furthermore, the things he had learned today were simply too shocking, and if they were spread, the entire Higher Plains would be stirred.

Even if Whiteness perished today, he needed to report back to the Supreme One because the Heretic’s backer was none other than a hidden remnant of the Arch Justice Human race.

But there seemed to be no way out, and he still hadn’t killed the Heretic, and now that ’hidden’ existence had used this terrifying innate law ability of the Arch Justice Human Race.

Lastly, Whiteness was so indulged in his own delusion about the ’hidden existence’ that he didn’t even notice Jacob’s Eyes of Judge, and even if he had, he couldn’t identify them because even among the Arch Justice Human Race, they were a rarity among rarities, a myth among the Arch Justice Human Race’s royal bloodline!

Whiteness has only general knowledge of the Arch Justice Human Race’s abilities, but has no idea of their origin, and the ancient clan has been extinct for so long that many have forgotten about them.

Nonetheless, according to Immortika, the Eyes of Judge is one of the twelve ancient and most powerful optical eye abilities of the Zodiac Plains, and it also ranked among the top three among the twelve, so Whiteness couldn’t see through them even if he had knowledge about the Eyes of Judge.

On the other hand, Jacob stood unmoving, skeletal frame bathed in the cold glow of judgment as his glyph-like eyes burned steadily.

He didn’t show curiosity or fear about the background of Whiteness because he knew everything, but he didn’t gloat either because it wasn’t over.

After all, despite putting Whiteness at bay and titling the Scales of Justice in Jacob’s favor, the final verdict was still withheld, which meant the chance of backlash remained.

Right now, the situation was on a knife-edge. If the Scales deemed Whiteness not guilty, Jacob would not only lose his lifespan but also suffer backlash and lose the law’s ability, the Scales of Justice, forever.

At that moment, Jacob would be at Whiteness’s mercy.

However, if the Scales of Justice tipped further, then even a Higher Law God would be forced to kneel.

At that moment, Whiteness the Void Mantis realized something terrifying: this was a Law that dared to judge gods, and the verdict was still forming!

Right at this moment, the Scales of Justice trembled from completion, and the humming chains of cause and intent between the two pans grew taut, vibrating with a low, cosmic resonance that spread across the Infinite Space like a funeral bell tolling for an immortal existence.

Thereafter, the infinity-marked pan descended with inevitability, and the opposing pan rose in silent concession.

A sound echoed again with no voice, no language, yet every layer of existence understood it with perfect clarity.

Whiteness almost forgot how to speak, and Jacob listened with subtle anticipation...

"Verdict Rendered...

"You have been judged...GUILTY!"

The moment the verdict crystallized, the Infinite Space convulsed as a terrifying pressure erupted from the Scales of Justice, far surpassing suppression, sealing, or authority.

This was not power exerted upon Whiteness, for this was judgment imposed within.

The Scales blazed, and the cracked infinity symbol upon the lowered pan ignited with pale, merciless radiance, its fractured lines glowing as if countless eternities were awakening at once.

"No! This is...this is impossible...!"

Whiteness shrieked at that moment because he felt exactly what was happening, but his voice fragmented, distorted, losing cohesion as if truth itself was tearing it apart.

The hexagonal sigil above his crown spun wildly, emitting shrill ripples of Null Void Law in a desperate attempt to stabilize, but it was already too late for the Scales answered.

At this moment, from the Scale of Justice’s obsidian-white frames, chains emerged!