Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 601 - 563 VS Catastrophe Demon 2_2

Chapter 601: 563 VS Catastrophe Demon 2_2

In past detective stories, there’s a saying that once you’ve eliminated all possibilities, whatever remains, no matter how absurd, must be the truth. I am uncertain if my intellect allows me to list all possibilities, let alone eliminate all erroneous parts, but at this moment, only one possible answer remains in my heart. I can only accept it as the truth.

Even though it’s just ordinary water, if accumulated to the mass equal to the sun, it would collapse and transform into another sun. Flames, when accumulated to a certain limit, could also transform into a substance entirely different from flames. I thought I understood this principle, but didn’t expect to forget it during practice.

At the same time, I realized why the Catastrophe Demon could manipulate the power of attraction.

Because "attraction" itself is the power of "mutual pull," in other words, "gravity." For the Catastrophe Demon, who can directly manipulate gravity, this is easily an expandable concept. The abnormally high hit rate is the same; perhaps it can also reverse gravity, granting itself an abnormally high dodging rate.

It’s probable that Mazao’s journey to the modern world is partly due to the indispensable power of the Catastrophe Demon.

Although Mazao’s 扫帚 star power attracts abnormal things to him, the attraction process isn’t without reason; events must have their own independent logic. Similarly, Little Bowl’s Prayer Power, while miraculous, either enhances the abilities one already has or makes a possible event happen, but never brings down miracles without reason.

The Catastrophe Demon’s gravity can warp space-time, inevitably affecting and potentially causing malfunctions in spatial teleportation and other skills. Little Bowl’s Prayer Power likely intervened in this malfunction, realizing an astronomical probability, allowing Mazao’s crossing to succeed.

Again, waves of black flames rushed towards me rapidly, and I did not dare to neglect them, counteracting them all with my flames.

These black flames can harm my True Spirit.

However, unlike Huang Quan and Ming Zhuo’s methods; those two could harm my True Spirit because they possess deep knowledge of it and power far surpassing mine. The Catastrophe Demon prefers to forcefully achieve this through its Power Attribute.

Heavier substances tend to sink to the bottom of the sea; the Catastrophe Demon’s extremely heavy black flames seem easily capable of attacking the "deep and fundamental parts."

The attack from the opposite side hasn’t stopped, I almost simultaneously felt my flames being "hacked."

—The Catastrophe Demon is trying to manipulate my flames!

This is the same thing I previously did to it. Seems like it learned this trick from me.

We both exist as entities formed by flames and souls, invading and seizing each other’s flames equates to "contesting each other’s existence."

More brutal than ordinary combat, the losing side will be completely swallowed and assimilated by the other.

I completely decomposed my body, transforming into a vast Fire Sea to devour the Catastrophe Demon. The Catastrophe Demon also did the same, transforming into a black Fire Sea biting over here.

Bright and dazzling flames tangled with dark and deep flames, transforming this area into an ocean of destructive energy.

My consciousness spread to every place my flames reached, so the next scenes would be difficult to describe plainly using human language; I can only forcibly describe them as such—In my mind, it’s like a huge chessboard constructed by feedback from each location, white pieces symbolizing me and black pieces symbolizing the Catastrophe Demon moving chaotically, mingling and fighting together.

Each piece is both my flame and my thought, so too is the Catastrophe Demon. I keep eating the opponent’s pieces, converting them into my white pieces; simultaneously, my pieces were being eaten by the opponent, converting into black pieces opposing me.

Some would say a fight is "know each other better through battle," even believe that opponents can "communicate through fists," naturally understanding each other’s will through combat. But what we are doing goes even further, exchanging our consciousnesses in a real sense.

In this continual process of devouring each other and being devoured, I grasped the essence of the "Catastrophe Demon" as an existence more efficiently than ever before.

Now I seem to understand the logic used during the Naraku Gospel summoning and predicting the Catastrophe Demon.

This Catastrophe Demon, although being "the future me," is not "the me after meeting Mazao."

The encounter between Mazao and me probably wasn’t supposed to happen. Without Little Bowl’s prayers, we were destined never to meet. Perhaps even Naraku Gospel couldn’t incorporate the Power of Divine Seal Fragments into its calculations. Therefore, the prototype of Catastrophe Demon should be "the me who didn’t meet Mazao, couldn’t encounter any abnormal events, just wandering outside the gates of the abnormal world, suddenly entering the Doomsday Era ten years later."

Because he couldn’t contact any abnormal events, this me naturally couldn’t contact any demon hunter, let alone any Spell knowledge.

Even if given time to grow slowly, even without encountering any danger or combat, I could naturally become Impermanence within these ten years, but not knowing how other Impermanence uses power, I couldn’t determine what my correct evolutionary path should be.

To keep growing stronger, one must enhance one’s density—at most, I could imagine this halfway and crudely compress my flames at the superficial level. As for what meaning there is in becoming stronger without encountering any abnormal dangers, I cannot say, but I would undoubtedly pursue powerful strength. "The desire for stronger power" doesn’t need a reason.

Just walking like this, my power finally underwent a qualitative change, and the Eclipse form was born.

As I understood all this, a certainty emerged from the depths of my heart.

—This battle, I have won.

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