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Chapter 389: The Daughter of the Void
The silence of the Negation Domain had shifted. The pressure that had once threatened to crush Sunny's cosmic body was still present, but the claws that had been binding his soul had suddenly, inexplicably, vanished.
He stood in the heart of the darkness, his body glowing with a steady, defiant violet light. It wasn't the flickering, desperate spark which allowed for just a second of use of his full power; instead it was the regained glow of his full power.
Beside him, the black particles of Deimos's dissolved form drifted away like ash in a windless room.
The Beyonder, the entity that had been a faceless, mountain-sized nightmare only moments ago, turned her gaze toward him.
Even without a defined face, the sheer, burning intensity of her confusion radiated from her like heat from a furnace.
"Now tell me..." the entity's voice resonated, no longer a metallic shriek, but a clear, melodic tone that carried an edge of wonder. "How is it that you walk through my house with your lamps lit? Inside this sphere, even the memory of a talent should be a heavy burden. Yet you strike me with the strength of a Law."
Sunny looked up at the towering, formless mass. He found it difficult to address a being whose face was a shifting vortex of non-matter.
"It is hard to hold a conversation with a cloud," Sunny replied, his voice calm despite the adrenaline still singing in his veins.
The entity seemed to consider this. With a slow, fluid motion, the trillions of miles of dark matter that composed her body began to contract.
The darkness folded in on itself, weaving and spinning like silk on a loom, until the gargantuan domain and the monster had vanished.
Standing in its place was a young woman, appearing no older than nineteen or twenty in human terms.
She had skin the color of starlight and hair that flowed like a river of ink, her eyes two burning rubies that seemed to contain the birth of a galaxy.
Sunny's breath hitched. "I didn't expect the you to look like like this"
"This is my true face, though not known by many. Now tell me the reason." she said, her voice now perfectly human but layered with a sub-vocal hum that suggested a much larger power.
"I thought your domain was malfunctioning. I thought perhaps the strength of the two Anomalies, me and that Deimos was more than what your Negation could handle. But he is gone, and i can still... Use my talents." Sunny answered, his Divine Eyes finally flickering to life within the dark. "It feels as though the domain has simply... accepted my presence."
He wasn't afraid of her now. With his talents restored, the power gap had flipped. He could sense that while she was the master of this space, she herself was hollow.
She didn't possess the complex web of Laws and talents that he did. She was a singular point of absolute physical and conceptual negation.
"No," Allegra said, shaking her head, her dark hair swirling in the vacuum. "My domain is absolute. It is a fundamental law. Inside this sphere, talents are meaningless. It does not matter if there is one intruder or a million; the Negation does not divide its quality."
She stepped closer, her ruby eyes peering into Sunny's violet pupils. "The pressure you felt, the weight on your limbs, that is what divides. And that pressure only affects the physical powers, not the talents. So.. what now? Do you have any other hypothesis?"
Sunny didn't respond immediately. Instead, he used his divine eyes. He focused his gaze on the girl before him, pulling the description of the Beyonder in his mind.
[Name : Allegra]
[Race: Beyonder]
[Talents: Domain of Negation(SSS-Grade)]
[Description: A young scion of the Beyonder race, approximately 970 years of age. Unlike her kin, who are born with a multitude of laws, Allegra was born with only a single talent.
Mocked for her simplicity, she entered a deep hibernation for nearly nine and half centuries, using her Domain of Negation as a protective cocoon.
During this sleep, she focused entirely on her physical evolution, tempering her body so that within her domain, where all talents die, her raw physical strength would be the undisputed master.]
[Talent Name: Domain of Negation (SSS)]
[Description : Creates a localized void where all external Talents, Laws, and Mana-Constructs are suppressed.]
[Note: The domain generates a Conceptual Pressure to limit the physical movement of intruders. This pressure is divided among the number of sentient beings within the sphere.]
[Growth Factor: The user's physical power increases the longer the domain is active, provided it remains undisturbed.]
Sunny processed the information in a heartbeat. He looked at Allegra with a newfound perspective.
She wasn't an ancient, malicious god; she was a teenager of her species who had been bullied for being weak and had spent her entire life in a gym made of darkness.
"You've spent a lot of time sleeping, haven't you?" Sunny asked, his voice softening. "You're just a kid who wanted to be strong enough that no one could ever touch her again."
Allegra flinched, her eyes widening. "How do you... how do you know that?"
"My eyes see everything," Sunny replied. He then turned his gaze inward, peering at his own status window to find the anomaly. If her domain was perfect, then the change had to be in him.
Deep within his talent tree, a new branch had sprouted. It was glowing with a fierce, silver light, entwined with the roots of his Divine Resilience.
[Talent Name: Negation Immunity]
[Grade: SSS-Grade]
[Description: A law born from the Divine Resilience of the user. Having endured the Negation of the Beyonder's domain, the user's soul has developed a conceptual Anti-Body. This talent prevents any law of negation from affecting the user's ability to manifest their own inherent power.]
Sunny let out a long, slow breath. "I see. It was my Resilience."
"Your what?" Allegra asked, floating closer.
"My Divine Resilience," Sunny explained, rubbing his chin. "It's a talent that specializes in adaptation. When I entered your domain, it began to study the poison of your negation."
"At first, it could only buy me a second of clarity. But after the impurities were purged and I survived the first few strikes, my soul literally rewrote its own code. I've developed an immunity to your darkness, Allegra. I'm no longer an intruder; I'm a resident."
Allegra stared at him, her ruby eyes shimmering with a mix of horror and awe. "But... but even then. To use a talent to fight a negation... you would have needed to use the talent during the silence. That's a paradox. You can't use a talent to gain the ability to use talents."
"I suspect that is the Divine part of the equation," Sunny whispered.
"According to me, Divine-tier talents aren't fully restricted by your domain. They are just muffled. My Resilience was working in the background the entire time, like a heartbeat. I didn't cast it; it just... was."
Allegra laughed then, a high, silver sound that lacked any malice. "Two divine talents? In a single being of the bubble? That's impossible. Even in the real void, having a single Divine-grade talent makes you a strong power house. Who are you? Are you the one who breathed life into this world?"
"I'm just the guy who's trying to keep the lights on," Sunny said, tilting his head. "Wait... you said two divine talents. My eyes and my resilience. How did you know about the eyes?"
Even though he knew he possessed many divine talents, but he only used his eyes and the resilience, so it made sense that the other divine talent was his eyes, but the question remained how?
"You're not exactly subtle," Allegra chuckled, crossing her arms. "When you were outside, your gaze was like a lighthouse. I felt you peering at the billions of Gods I had collected. I immediately knew the glow of a divine eye. I made sure to focus the brunt of the Negation on your eyes the moment you stepped inside, it was to blind you before you could find me."
She looked around at the darkness, which was starting to feel less like a weapon and more like a curtain. "So, you can use your talents. What now? Are you going to kill me and take my heart for your collection?"
Sunny looked at her. He could. With his talents back and her pressure divided, he could end her existence in a single strike. But he looked at the Description again, a girl who slept for centuries because she was mocked for having only one talent.
"I have enough hearts in my collection," Sunny said, a dangerous, playful grin spreading across his face. "I'm more interested in your grudge. As you had said a man disturbed your sleep. A man with an aura similar to Deimos. I can show you exactly where he is."
Allegra's eyes flared with a ruby fire. "That Coward. The one who poked the nest and then sent his dogs to do his fighting. Yes... Show me."