Chapter 1878: An enemy from outside the universe
Book 20 – World War
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Infinite. That was a word often thrown around with reckless abandon. Whether describing the scope of a battle, the potential of a cultivation path, or even the sheer size of a universe, it was a term wielded frequently, but rarely with accuracy.
In the Nine Empyrean Suns Universe, even "infinite" faltered under the weight of truth.
For even an ArchDeity, crossing a single Empyrean World from one end to the other was a monumental task, one that could take years depending on the laws of space-time in that region. Traveling from one Empyrean World to another? That was even more complicated—not merely because of the laws dividing each plane, but because of the staggering distance between them.
Even if nothing obstructed their path, an ArchDeity would likely die of old age before visiting every single Empyrean World. And considering these beings could live for hundreds of millions of years, that was a terrifying realization.
And yet, despite its size and majesty, the Nine Empyrean Suns Universe was not infinite.
There was a periphery, a border beyond which no one had ever returned. Reaching this border was a task reserved for the most ancient and secretive superpowers. The current Nine Empyrean Suns Universe did not seem to have anyone who could reach that barrier.
And to cross it? That was believed to be impossible, even for those beings who had transcended normal understanding of power. And even if they could, what was beyond the barrier could break the mind of an ArchDeity.
Beyond the edge of the universe, there was no time. No space. No gravity, no elements, no laws. Even the most transcendent entities of the Third Realm—creatures who could survive in broken dimensions where space-time lay shattered—could not persist in that realm of nothingness.
Yet, all that impossibility did not stop what was about to happen.
What first appeared as an obsidian monolith, larger than the Everstrife Empyrean World, was moving.