Chapter 750: A Change in the situation
Only Max stood amid the swirling carnage with a faint, almost devious smile curling at the corner of his lips, a subtle glint of satisfaction gleaming in his eyes as the echoes of the elder’s sword strike faded into the blood-scented wind.
’My light energy really is the natural opposite of infernal energy... and vice versa,’ he mused silently, his mind drifting back to countless hours of intense training when he’d first begun exploring the power of his Heavenly Luminance Sacred Bloodline.
During those sessions, he’d made a fascinating, almost dangerous discovery: whenever he tried channeling his light energy while tapping into his Infernal Demon Transformation, a violent clash would erupt within his body, the two forces warring like sworn enemies.
It was as though the brilliant, pure radiance of his light energy and the dark, scorching malevolence of his infernal energy were mortal adversaries, locked in an eternal struggle to annihilate each other. They didn’t merely repel each other—they sought mutual destruction, each striving to erase the other from existence.
He remembered vividly how even a small experiment in combining the two had sent shockwaves of pain searing through his veins, like molten silver and pitch-black poison battling inside his very marrow.
That had been the day he fully realized: his light energy was the bane of his infernal energy—and vice versa. They were the embodiment of cosmic opposites, like day and night, light and shadow, forever irreconcilable.
And while Nulls weren’t purely creatures of infernal energy, they bore within them a fragment of something dark and terrible: Mark. Mark himself was the essence of infernal power—a corruptive, void-born energy that gave the Nulls their monstrous strength and twisted forms.
Max had long suspected that the same principles which made his light energy hostile to his own infernal side would also apply to these creatures carrying a sliver of that dark power within them. And he’d been right.
When he’d scattered the shimmering motes of his Heavenly Luminance onto Margo, it hadn’t merely been a clever ruse—it had been a deliberate exploitation of the Nulls’ deepest instincts.