Strongest Hammer God

Chapter 1093: The Eternal Chase

A space filled with Energy, Death, and Balance. All three forces were in a constant dance of chaotic destruction. Energy met Death, creating unending waves of Brutality, which scattered more Energy and Death into the surroundings. The scattered forces hit each other again, creating more Brutality.

If a Demigod were to appear in this space, they would be destroyed before they could even perceive what's going on.

This was the Primordial Chaos, the space in which all the different Cosmoses existed.

Its size approached infinity.

An almost infinite plane of constant destruction.

Time and space had no meaning here. Time was defined by the rules and Laws with which a Cosmos worked. One second in one Cosmos might equate to thousands of years in a different Cosmos.

The owner of the Cosmos decided how fast their Cosmos operated. Increasing the speed of a Cosmos' reality required using more Energy to keep the Cosmos operating.

It was a dance of efficiency. Faster reality represented faster growth for the inhabitants inside the Cosmos, but it also represented a greater expenditure of Energy.

Energy attracted other Energies. The denser the Energy was, the more Energy it attracted. Seekers, Cultivators, Warriors, Mages, Beasts, Demons, Devils, Gods, Angels, and all other manner of beings that could be considered alive had the greatest potential to turn into dense masses of Energy.

The owner of a Cosmos could harness the power of everything inside their Cosmos. The more powerful beings they had in their Cosmos and the more varied the Laws were, the more complete the powers of the Cosmos' owner would become.

The owners of Cosmoses were collectively called Heaven Breakers. This name originated from the concept of Heaven.

In the eyes of the intelligent living beings inside a Cosmos, the owner of their reality was just a mystical force that dictated reality. A Heaven Breaker rarely interacted with the living beings inside their Cosmos. This most often led to the inhabitants of the Cosmos not knowing that an intelligent being was dictating everything about their reality.

Because of that, most of the time, the inhabitants believed that their reality was just nature. They believed that there was no owner. After all, how could someone own reality or create reality? Reality needed to exist first to be created. It made no sense.

Yet, from time to time, the owner got involved, and when they got involved, they rarely showed themselves as they were.

A sinning Cultivator was suddenly struck by lightning.

Elemental Energies suddenly flooded into worlds.

Things that had been possible moments ago suddenly became impossible.

These changes often made people believe that there was some kind of force that changed their reality. Most of the time, when something like this happened, people believed that reality was just a set of natural Laws that adapted to other changes.

Often, people referred to the entity that dictated these changes as Heaven. They lived on earth, and Heaven dictated how life on earth worked.

That was why the owners of a Cosmos were often called Heavens.

Yet, every Heaven had once been a living being inside another Heaven's Cosmos. Inside their Home Cosmos, they managed to reach supreme power, and in one way or another, they managed to leave their Home Cosmos.

A Cosmos couldn't be created within a Cosmos. It could only be created inside the Primordial Chaos.

However, one had to remember that a Heaven Breaker's power was dictated by the powers contained within their Cosmos. If the most powerful member of their Cosmos left to create a Cosmos of their own, the Heaven Breaker could no longer use their powers. After all, the powerful member would no longer be inside their Cosmos.

Because of that, in the vast majority of cases, the powerful members of a Cosmos were not allowed to leave the Cosmos to establish their own. They would not let them leave.

Yet, from time to time, circumstances occurred in which a powerful member could escape the Cosmos or even kill the owner of the Cosmos. They managed to destroy Heaven's shackles on them. One could also say that they broke Heaven.

That was why they were called Heaven Breakers.

In their Home Cosmos, they broke Heaven, but at the same time, in their self-created Cosmos, they were Heaven.

Every Heaven Breaker was also a Heaven.

In the Primordial Chaos, only Heaven Breakers could move unhindered. It was exceptionally rare for other living beings to travel through the Primordial Chaos.

Yet, at this moment, a Heaven Breaker was chasing such a being.

While a Heaven Breaker's true existence and appearance were their Cosmos, they could also form a body with which they could channel their Cosmos' powers.

In the Primordial Chaos, a tall man with blonde hair was traversing seemingly infinite distances in a matter of relative moments. In his hand was a thin and long sword, which transformed into countless weapons that existed at the same time.

The object in front of him was different from the Primordial Chaos around him. It was not made of all manner of forces but of only one thing.

Death.

It was a dense cloud of pure Death with unimaginable size.

The blonde man slashed with his sword.

The dense cloud of Death parted. The Death that was thrown to the side came into contact with more Energy and turned into Brutality, creating even more destruction.

Yet, at the same time, more Death left the Primordial Chaos and flooded into the massive cloud, replenishing its mass.

The blonde man, a Heaven Breaker, wasn't surprised. He had seen this display countless times.

He slashed again. Death scattered and gathered.

It was a never-ending cycle.

Yet, the Heaven Breaker didn't give up.

This chase had been going on for over a billion years, but it wouldn't continue for all of eternity.

When the chase had just started, the cloud of Death had almost been overwhelming. In fact, the Heaven Breaker had been the weaker party.

Yet, the Heaven Breaker had an advantage over his enemy.

Since he was a Heaven Breaker, his Cosmos could grow stronger. The more living beings it had and the stronger the living beings were, the more powerful the Heaven Breaker became.

Over a long period of time, the Heaven Breaker slowly got the upper hand. His Cosmos was growing stronger, increasing his power.

Meanwhile, his enemy was not a Heaven Breaker. His enemy did not have his own Cosmos.

His enemy was just an amalgamation of Energy and Death. His enemy could control the Death around him to increase his own power, but there was a limit to this power.

The enemy used Brutality, but Brutality didn't only require Death. It also required Energy. The enemy could attract Death, but he couldn't attract Energy nearly as well as a Heaven Breaker could.

While his storage of Death was unending, his storage of Energy was not.

Over the course of the chase, the enemy had gathered more Energy, increasing his power. Yet, the speed at which his power grew couldn't compare to the speed at which the Heaven Breaker's power grew.

The Heaven Breaker knew this wouldn't continue forever.

His Cosmos was outgrowing his enemy's power. Yet, if his enemy could grow in peace, this might not be the case.

If his enemy could focus on attacking and consuming Cosmoses, the speed of his growth would eclipse the Heaven Breaker's growth.

That was why the Heaven Breaker was chasing his enemy.

As long as he kept attacking his enemy, he would force him to waste his Energy to defend.

At some point, he would be able to kill him.

The Heaven Breaker slashed once again.

And again.

He kept chasing.

And then, he felt something change.

The Heaven Breaker narrowed his eyes and slashed once again.

BOOOOOOM!

The power of this strike was almost 2% stronger than the previous one, even though it hadn't consumed more Energy.

A two-percent increase in power in such a drawn-out battle would make a tremendous difference.

When the strike was finished, the first exchange of words after a long period of silence took place.

"Oh, Alex, look at how much your Cosmos has grown," a mocking voice from inside the cloud of Death said. "You're almost not useless anymore."

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