Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1079: The Logic-Defying Clash Across Null Remnants! (20)

Chapter 1079: The Logic-Defying Clash Across Null Remnants! (20)

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The amalgam's experience with Reversing Undeath energy into life energy had taught him something significant about the two.

It seemed, unlike the other two Existential Parallels, Undeath was the direct opposite of life. The amalgam wasn't sure how Death itself related to Life energy, but his Reversion had allowed him to learn this fact, along with the properties of Undeath, which differed heavily from those of Null Life Essence.

Unlike Null Life Essence, Undeath was rather blatant, bold and easily noticeable, especially to living things. If Null Life was akin to a powerful yet reserved expert, it would be a

bloodthirsty, uncaring commander.

Additionally, Undeath was also, strangely straightforward. This was especially prominent in the way summons differed between Undeath and Null Life. Undeath summons were usually obedient and simple-minded, or at least incapable of showing shrewdness.

However, the amalgam had all the experience with Null Life summons. They were anything but disciplined and one note.

There were more differences, but the amalgam had yet to figure them out. It was what he had learned so far, and a desperate need to survive that spurned him into action.

'Here goes nothing...' Vohnvolt thought as his Undead arms blazed with Undeath energy while his other arms exploded with Null Life Essence.

When he had been exposed to the masked man's Undeath energy earlier, he had gotten reacquainted with how Undeath felt within the body of an undead creature and had even attracted a portion of the necromancer's potent energy.

Vohnvolt remembered how Undeath had felt like back then. Unfortunately for the old him, because of his lack of knowledge and power, he had been unable to use it even though it was always flowing in his bones as an Undead's basic form of power.

But it was different now.

Now, not only was Vohnvolt controlling it, he was mixing it with Null Life Essence to see if... to see if what his crazy phantoms were hypothesising was true.

Was the combination of Null Life Essence and Undeath energy anything significant?

When the opposing glows of power were forced to interact, everything seemed to stop.

The amalgam had no idea what was going to happen, but he doubted it could be worse than what the masked man was about to do to him if he managed to capture him.

Thus, he focused a massive amount of Null Life Essence and dunked all the Undeath energy he could muster, even if it was incomparable to the volume of the former.

The masked man hadn't been sure how the amalgam was able to wield Undeath.

It was only now, when he took a deeper look at Vohnvolt's soul that he realised that it was... odd.

Not only did it look... cheap, but deep within it, was a signature of Undeath that was so faint that even he hadn't been able to notice.

Of course, the masked man couldn't possibly have known how complicated a creature the enemy he was facing was, given that one part of him wasn't even the real thing, thus why the details of his soul were so bare bones, but he couldn't have thought too much about this either.

The taboo the enemy was committing with the energy around his four hands was what was more pressing.

The amalgam got really absorbed in what he was doing, so much so that he began to become aware of the microscopic collisions between the Undeath and Null Life at their most minute and fundamental scales!

Right then, the amalgam felt the masked man's whip stab into him, and the pain he felt was immense.

Yet... it paled in every regard when compared to what occurred next.

The red and greenish-black Undeath, and the bluish Null Life essence merged... and vanished.

'...'

...But then the masked man and the amalgam were suddenly pulled towards each other! Their bodies sped like light and smashed into each other, but there was no physical collision. What bombarded viciously, mixing and melting finely, was everything other than their flesh. Actuass was fed into the amalgam and the amalgam was fed into Actuass.

Actuass saw a vast, rapidly spreading sheet in his vision that showed countless, moving images of skeletons, gems, goblins, humans, a naked girl, a familiar cackling Lich, a temple and so much more!

The amalgam also saw a similar sheet.

He saw a vast, noble estate under an unfamiliar blue sun; a woman with a radiant smile, her face appearing over countless spreads of this rapid sheet; blood; a priest in unfamiliar garb; fire; darkness, a deafening, chilling scream of something more than physical agony and then... 'DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!!!!

The coherent shriek blared so loud that the amalgam was compelled to scream aloud as well. What he saw almost seemed to span over a lifetime, but also, it felt as though it appeared and disappeared in a second, only to leave him feeling the ground beneath his feet again.

The same was true for the masked man. No, Actuass.

Strangely, the two appeared to be standing back-to-back, a few meter's distance between them.

They also appeared to be standing opposite to where they had been standing before this extremely-out-of-pocket experience occurred!

Of course, they couldn't have known, but they had quite literally bled into each other like liquid and separated again!

Only Eobald-Minobu had witnessed this.

The amalgam clutched his head and nearly stumbled over.

'What in the world was... that...?' he asked himself. Everything he had seen mashed together and became incomprehensible. But then, his mind started to piece up and deconstruct it all

rapidly.

...!!!

At once, Vohnvolt turned back to Actuass in shock, only to find that he too had turned to him, the glow in his hazel eye striking, livid with similar emotion.

No words were exchanged between the two, but the energy between them was perfectly in

synch.

"So, that's who YOU are!" they both seemed to say with their accusing eyes.

Whatever the combination of Null Life Essence and Undeath did, left them temporarily feeling as though they knew each other more than anything else in the world.

And it was for that reason that both of these combatants realised...

'His Secondary assault...!' Vohnvolt thought promptly.

He knew, as Actuass did, that it was ready!

But also...

'I should have known he had something like that planned...' Actuass thought as he sensed outside of the shell to his Territory.

He knew, as the amalgam did, that help had finally come. After all, the world outside was no longer cast in impossible cold!

Right then, Deathward Maw trembled viciously, as though a mountain had knocked into its side. No, not one, but two mountains!

Actuass scowled.

Just a second later, the walls to his Territory were ruptured when two radiant wells of Nitros burst through, challenging his authority!

Two Territories were attempting to bring down his own, and they weren't failing, after all, their casters were being empowered by his own traits!