My attributes are increasing infinitely Chapter 408: Survived

The confrontation lasted but a pulse, yet in that fleeting moment, the very foundation of the negative plane began to fracture.

Ethan's fingers tightened around the Sword of Infinity, the weapon’s hilt vibrating with the synchronized resonance of his dual oceans.

In an instant, his power surged, skyrocketing into the Source Authority realm.

Standing across from him was Erebus, hands behind his back in a relaxed posture, looking like a disinterested spectator of a world he had long since transcended.

"No answer?" Erebus queried, tilting his head as his eyes, resembling two endless voids, locked onto Ethan. "Then we shall discover if your soul possesses as much volume as your silence."

Ethan struck without delay. He understood perfectly that when facing an entity of this magnitude, any pause was a death sentence.

"Infinity Slash: World Ender!"

Ethan lashed out. The Sword of Infinity did more than slice through the atmosphere; it erased the very space separating him from Erebus. A massive column of grey-gold radiance, vast enough to consume an entire galaxy, burst from the edge. This strike was fueled by the Infinite Bloodline and magnified a millionfold.

The resulting shockwave pulverized the neighboring mountain ranges into microscopic grains of dust in a heartbeat.

Erebus didn't even shift his stance. He merely lifted a solitary finger.

CLANG.

The noise produced wasn't the sound of steel meeting steel, but rather the sound of reality colliding with an impenetrable barrier. The titanic pillar of light came to a dead stop against Erebus’s fingernail. A faint, cold smile touched the lips of the "Death Manifestation."

"Good weight," Erebus noted. "But you lack depth."

With a simple flick of his finger, Erebus redirected the force. Ethan’s pupils dilated. He spun away, forcing the Law of Space to obey his command as he materialized a thousand miles distant, yet the backlash of his own redirected strike still crushed his ribs.

His golden cells instantly surged into action, mending his broken frame in a matter of milliseconds.

"I’m nothing more than a child to him," Ethan realized, as blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. "Even at the sword’s maximum output, I’m barely leaving a mark."

Ethan let out a roar, his aura detonating outward. He abandoned all restraint. He fused his Ocean of Energy and Ocean of Entropy into a single, turbulent maelstrom. The sky above the negative plane transformed into a chaotic nightmare of swirling gold and grey.

"Genesis Domain: The Void’s End!"

Ethan turned into a blur of pure light. His velocity was so extreme that time itself appeared to falter. He rained ten thousand strikes upon Erebus in the span of a single second. Each hit was a masterpiece of annihilation, capable of wiping out Source Authority existences.

The heavens were filled with the screeching of metal as the sword battered against Erebus’s effortless defenses.

To the onlookers in the distance—the trembling Source Authority rulers—it appeared as though a golden deity was laying siege to a bastion of darkness. The entire negative plane trembled. This was a conflict that defied all logic.

Erebus, however, was merely playing. He moved with a dancer’s fluid grace, parrying the Sword of Infinity with his bare palms, his face showing nothing but mild curiosity.

"You possess the spark of a creator," Erebus’s voice resonated directly within Ethan’s soul. "But you are merely playing in a sandbox reserved for giants."

Suddenly, Erebus moved. It wasn't a matter of speed; it was a conceptual transition. One moment he was ten feet away; the next, his palm was resting gently against Ethan’s chest.

"Collapse."

A minuscule spark of absolute darkness ignited. Ethan felt as though a star had just been birthed inside his lungs. His golden cells began to disintegrate. His oceans of essence boiled violently, attempting to expel the alien energy. He was hurled across a million-mile void, crashing through the fabric of dimensions until he slammed into the very edge of the negative plane.

[Master! Your health is at 5%! You must leave now!] Yumiko’s voice blared like a warning siren in his mind.

Ethan clenched his teeth, his sight growing dim. He watched Erebus strolling toward him through the vacuum, looking as unruffled as if he were walking through a peaceful garden.

"I can’t beat him," Ethan muttered under his breath. "But I can’t die here."

As Erebus reached out to complete the capture, Ethan executed the unthinkable. He didn’t rely on the sword.

He reached deep into his own essence, into the Ocean of Entropy, and compressed its boundless mass into a singular, microscopic dot. Utilizing the Law of Entropy—the very law he had used to birth the negative plane—he forced it to detonate, targeting the coordinates Erebus occupied.

"Absolute Entropy"

For the first time, Erebus’s eyes widened in surprise. The very air within his lungs began to rot. The cells of his invincible physique suddenly lost the ability to maintain their structure. It was a fleeting glitch in his perfection, a minute fracture in his total authority.

Erebus faltered, stunned by the sheer boldness of a "primitive" wielding a Genesis-level law against him.

"Now!" Ethan yelled.

He launched the Sword of Infinity forward as a distraction and triggered his final escape route. He tore a rift in the dimensional barrier, propelled by the detonation of his own entropy, and vanished into the void between planes.

Silence returned to the negative world.

Erebus stood motionless, his chest rising and falling once. He inspected his hand, where a tiny, faint scar marked his palm. He began to laugh—a deep, resonant sound that caused the stars to tremble.

"Interesting. Very interesting."

The aftermath was nothing less than a cosmic tremor.

In the Origin Worlds (the positive plane), the supreme sovereigns of every Original Race simultaneously turned their gaze toward the sky. They sensed a ripple of power so foreign and so immense that their very bloodlines quivered.

The report traveled like a wildfire: Someone had engaged the slumbering Erebus in the negative plane and escaped with their life.

The pursuit commenced immediately. Every supreme power within the positive plane began hunting for the human with the "strange scent."

However, within the void, an even more terrifying presence had taken notice of this minor skirmish.

"The Presence," the Absolute Continuum entity that governed the negative laws and served as the master of the law of entropy, detected the transgression.

Someone had gained mastery over the Law of Entropy without his authorization.

Within the white expanse between worlds, Ethan was in full flight. Suddenly, the space surrounding him began to dissolve into white static. He felt a freezing chill that went beyond death itself. It felt as if a colossal hand was reaching out to wipe his name from the records of existence.

"What is that?" Ethan gasped, his frame shaking. "I feel like... I’m being deleted."

[Master! An Absolute Continuum being just attacked you! You used the Law of Entropy, the Genesis-level law of the negative plane. You broke the ultimate taboo. "The Presence" is initiating an Erasure Sequence to delete your existence!]

Ethan did not look back. He channeled every remaining drop of his Infinite Bloodline into pure speed. He smashed through the final wall of the Origin World and tumbled into a secluded, forgotten star system just as the white static collapsed behind him.

He impacted a desolate moon, spitting out mouthfuls of golden blood. He was safe, but only for the moment.

[Master, you have survived, but you are now a marked man. You have crossed the line. You must hide and grow.

Until you can withstand their Erasure power, you should be a ghost in a world of hunters. Besides I think, One Above All would soon start searching for you.]

Ethan stared at his trembling palms. He had battled a god and stared into the eyes of the ultimate eraser.

"Let them search," Ethan whispered, his golden eyes shining with a new, frigid intensity. "By the time they find me, I won’t be running."

He shut his eyes and entered the space cube. With his cultivation now at the eternal sovereign realm, the cube possessed the power to shield him even from the prying senses of Absolute Continuum beings.

"Yumiko, now that I have survived an Absolute Continuum being, would I gain his power?"