Chapter 722: Even Calamities Beg for Mercy

The six white wings contracted for a moment.

"You understand nothing about our purpose!"

"Then explain it, why did your Father create five parasites and send them after the worlds?"

The white rings rotated violently.

"Do not speak Father’s name in such a manner!"

Lian showed no reaction and answered sarcastically.

"Why? Are you that afraid of him? You don’t even dare to say his name?"

White Oblivion remained motionless for a moment, and then his voice came from every direction.

"Father taught us that to destroy a world, there is no need to fight against its full power, every world has weaknesses within itself. We only turn those weaknesses into its end."

"Five Calamities, five different ways to end worlds, we were not created to be defeated by mortal beings!"

Young Vorhelm looked at him for a moment.

So Father wanted worlds to collapse from within from the very beginning.

This information matched the nature of Black Silence and White Oblivion.

One turned the emotions of living beings into madness and killing, while the other consumed their memories and identities.

Both destroyed worlds by using their own inhabitants, but why Father wanted such a fate for the worlds was still unknown.

White Oblivion continued.

"Even if you destroy me, four other Calamities will remain!"

Lian moved one of his huge tentacles.

"Black Silence is already gone, so after you, there’ll be three left, and I promise you, I’ll send them to join you soon."

[ Time Remaining: 00:19 ]

White Oblivion’s anger finally went out of control.

His six huge wings opened, and a white wave moved from the rings behind him toward Lian.

This attack was not intended to destroy a physical body.

It wanted to separate Lian’s presence in the non-physical realm from his own understanding of himself; the same identity erosion that had been used against him many times before.

But this time, Lian was present in the borrowed form of a Calamity.

He did not withstand the entire wave without damage, but his thousands of eyes recognized the paths of the spiritual pressure, and his willpower managed to resist a large part of the attack.

"Now it’s my turn, let’s see which one is stronger between brother and sister."

[ Edict of Primordial Madness ]

At that moment, the emotion burning within White Oblivion became stronger.

Hatred.

Hatred toward the human who had destroyed his corruption network.

Hatred over the deaths of his two Unholy servants.

Hatred over the destruction of Roderick’s Vessel.

And most of all, hatred toward a mortal being who had dared to devour one of the Five Calamities.

Lian did not create those emotions from nothing. Instead, he only multiplied what already existed.

This was the same power that could increase the emotions of millions of living beings and drive them into madness.

And now, he had focused all of its power on a single Calamity, intending to drive him mad.

White Oblivion rushed toward him with uncontrollable anger.

The white rings moved from different directions, and the six huge wings targeted Black Silence’s dark structure.

But Lian was now watching every movement from thousands of angles.

One eye followed the right wing, while another remained fixed on the spiritual flow of the third ring, and dozens of eyes saw the points White Oblivion had left unprotected during his attack.

’So there it is.’

Thousand Eyes of Sin had revealed the Calamity’s spiritual weaknesses.

He activated the next power.

[ Feast of Corrupted Passions ]

White Oblivion’s anger and hatred were no longer only affecting his decisions.

That same spiritual disturbance turned into a new pressure on the structure of his own existence.

One of the white rings stopped moving, and then the left wing became unstable for a moment.

He tried to perform his next attack, but the spiritual flow he needed was no longer as stable as before.

"What... what have you done?"

Thousands of purple eyes remained fixed on him.

"Nothing, I just let you hate me a little more." Lian’s voice rose from the darkness.

White Oblivion stopped moving for a moment.

But the more he tried to control his anger, the more he realized that something within his existence was going out of control.

Lian slowly extended one of his huge tentacles.

"You destroyed all those worlds from within, and yet now you’ve reached a point where you can’t even control your own emotions, how pathetic."

The white creature no longer answered, and his rings moved once again, but this time, not to attack.

To retreat.

’So you finally understand? You have no chance against me.’

Lian sensed the change in the enemy’s behavior through thousands of spiritual flows.

White Oblivion was still angry, he still hated him, but now, beneath all that hatred, a new feeling had appeared.

Fear.

Not human fear, but the understanding that the creature standing before him could hurt him and perhaps even destroy him....

[ Time Remaining: 00:12 ]

White Oblivion spread all six of his wings.

He intended to escape.

He could find another Vessel later, create a new Anchor, and spread his corruption again.

But to do that, he first had to get away from the creature now standing before him.

Lian recognized this decision from the changes in the enemy’s spiritual flows.

’You think I’ll let you leave?’

[ Silence of the Last Will ]

At that moment, the connection between White Oblivion’s decision and the power he was preparing to use to leave the realm was disturbed.

A heavy sound rose from deep within Lian’s existence.

Thump.

Thousands of purple eyes turned toward the source of the sound at the same time, deep within his consciousness, the Ruined Heart had begun to glow.

The cracks in the Heart’s black structure filled with golden light, and a wave of the same power that had previously injured Black Silence spread through the realm.

Lian looked at it for a moment.

’Finally!’

White Oblivion also sensed the new presence, and one of his white rings stopped.

"What... is this?"

Young Vorhelm did not answer.

He knew this power.

The Ruined Heart had previously allowed him to damage a Calamity’s true form during his battle with Black Silence.

And now, in the presence of the second Calamity, it had reacted again.

[ The Ruined Heart Has Reacted. ]

[ Emergency Authority Granted. ]

Lian raised his right hand.

A golden ring appeared in the darkness.

A huge area of the non-physical realm came under its light.

In the areas where the light passed, broken pillars and the remains of unknown structures appeared; as if the realm itself was turning into the ruins of something that had once existed.

But the main purpose was not to change the environment, when the golden boundary reached White Oblivion, his entire white structure trembled.

The six huge wings became fixed in certain positions, and the thirteen rings behind him could no longer freely change their shapes.

And the figures that had been moving between different parts of his existence only moments earlier were now trapped in a single structure.

White Oblivion resisted with all his strength.

"No...!"

But before he could escape the area, Lian moved.

A golden line passed through the darkness.

One of White Oblivion’s huge wings was cut off from its middle section.

For a moment, nothing else happened.

Then a scream echoed throughout the entire realm, a scream that did not sound like the voice of any living creature.

The separated wing collapsed into the darkness.

The countless faces that formed it disappeared one after another.

But most importantly, that part did not return!

White Oblivion remained motionless for several moments and then looked at the place where his wing had been cut off in disbelief.

"Impossible..."

He tried to rebuild his structure, but nothing happened, that part of his existence had truly been damaged.

This was no longer his physical Vessel, but the Calamity himself!

Lian looked at the vanished wing for a moment and then said.

"Interesting."

Thousands of purple eyes turned toward White Oblivion.

"Apparently, when it’s your turn, being forgotten isn’t very pleasant."

White Oblivion no longer answered, for the first time, his entire existence moved toward the realm’s exit.

He no longer intended to fight, he wanted to survive, even if it meant Hollow Sun would imprison him again, he preferred being imprisoned over dying.

"Save me! I’m willing to be imprisoned! I’m willing to let you seal my consciousness! But please save me!" He shouted.

Clearly, he was asking for help from the very sun he had wanted to kill only moments earlier.

But Lian did not allow it.

The sound of metal being dragged echoed through the realm, and a golden chain emerged from the light and wrapped around one of the white rings.

Then came the second chain, the third, and within a short time, several huge chains connected to White Oblivion’s wings and rings.

The Calamity used all his power to break free.

One of the chains cracked under the pressure, but when he tried to break it, the golden light burned another part of his existence.

Another scream rose from the faceless opening.

"Release me!"

Lian pulled the chains tighter.

"No."

"Father will destroy you!" White Oblivion shouted with anger mixed with terror.

Thousands of Black Silence’s eyes remained fixed on him, and then a laugh filled with mockery was heard.

"You know, your brother said the same thing, and where am I now? I’m destroying the second Calamity too, and yet that Father still hasn’t dared to show himself."

He remained silent for a moment and then added.

"Have you ever thought that maybe your dear Father doesn’t care about any of you at all?"

[ Time Remaining: 00:06 ]

The Ruined Heart opened.

Five huge slots surrounded its broken structure.

One of the slots had already been lit by Black Silence’s presence.

Now, another slot slowly began to glow.

When White Oblivion saw it, he stopped all his attempts to escape for a moment.

Then something changed within his existence, he still did not know the nature of the Heart, but his instincts understood what fate was waiting for him.

He was not going to be imprisoned.

He was not going to sleep for thousands of years.

He was going to be devoured.

[ Second Calamity Identified. ]

[ Name: White Oblivion. ]

[ Corresponding Slot Identified. ]

[ Swallowing Process Initiated ]

"No!" He screamed with the last of his strength ... but it was already too late ...

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( Visualization )