My attributes are increasing infinitely Chapter 431: Attacking the executioner
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Ethan seized the handle of the Sword of Infinity.
Gazing forward, he beheld the glittering void ahead, the divide between the familiar realm and the territory controlled by the One Above All.
Ethan showed no delay.
He swung the Sword of Infinity.
No noise echoed, just the feel of existence ripping apart like damp fabric.
Via the irregular tear, he spotted it. A gigantic, blood-red eye that appeared to stretch across a concealed realm.
This was the Eye of the Executioner, the One Above All, the overseer of the positive plane.
The eye expanded.
It wasn't merely observing Ethan. It was assessing his essence, searching for the option to wipe out his being.
"Who are you? Do you want to be erased?"
The words didn't enter through his hearing.
They resonated deep in Ethan's core, a frigid, intense force that insisted on total obedience.
It resembled a deity addressing a mere grain of sand.
Ethan refused to kneel.
He didn't quiver.
Instead, a rush of rebellious energy coursed through him.
Staring at that enormous, holy eye, he lifted his arm and thrust up his middle finger with a smirk that mixed insanity and brilliance.
"Fuck you, scum. Take this!"
Ethan charged forward.
He held back from full strength. He wasn't aiming to claim victory in a battle he couldn't yet complete.
He deployed precisely 51%.
A ray of untainted, pale annihilation burst from the Sword of Infinity, crashing into the scarlet center of the vast eye.
Ethan skipped checking the impact.
Before the glow from his strike dimmed, he cleaved the space behind and leaped through a fresh opening, disappearing into the layers of dimensions.
For an instant, quiet reigned.
Then, the whole positive plane howled.
The One Above All had endured since the cage's beginning.
It had remained untouched.
It had faced no affronts.
To get gestured at by a "speck" and then witness that speck flee was an outrage too vast to grasp.
"DIE!"
The term was an order to existence itself.
The One Above All activated "Erasure."
This wasn't a material surge. It was a conceptual directive declaring that the plane of Ethan Hunt ceased to be.
The area where Ethan had stood moments before became a void of utter absence.
Ethan, now shifted across three dimensions, sensed the icy grasp of Erasure clawing at his back.
His flesh started crumbling into oblivion.
"Not today," Ethan growled. "Extinction!"
He whirled his blade in a sweeping arc.
If Erasure meant "remove," then Extinction ordered "annihilate the remover."
The pair of ultimate principles clashed in the emptiness.
Erasure got nullified.
Ethan's form rebuilt in a flash, his Grade 1 Absolute Continuum ability serving as a barrier.
"What a dumbass!" Ethan bellowed into the emptiness, aware the One Above All would catch it. "You missed! Is that the best the 'supreme' ruler can do? My grandma hits harder than you!"
He leaped once more.
This formed the strategy.
It was a risky pursuit like tag.
To observers in the plane, it resembled two deities maneuvering stars on a board.
Whenever the One Above All attempted to pinpoint Ethan's trace, Ethan altered his "position" across the multiverse.
He acted as a specter within the system.
A stone irritating the vision of a colossus.
For hours, the pursuit dragged on.
The One Above All lost his composed oversight.
He became a furious tempest of scarlet power, ripping apart his own realm to locate the nuisance that had prodded him.
Worlds got ensnared in the turmoil, pulverized to powder by the Executioner's mere transit.
"Master, your energy use is at 40%," Yumiko cautioned. "The One Above All is entering 'Singularity Rage.' He is starting to disregard the cage's rules to track you."
"Good," Ethan breathed heavily, brushing perspiration from his forehead. "The madder he gets, the less he reasons. If fury blinds him, he won't spot the other 'visitor' nearby."
Deep beneath, in an ordinary settlement of the lizard race, the air grew oppressive.
The lizard people huddled in their basements, frightened by the celestial rumbles.
Yet in a modest, grimy inn, a figure in shadowy attire kept devouring his steak.
This was the Messenger from the neutral plane. The infiltrator.
He ranked as a Grade 2 Absolute Continuum entity, a hunter far deadlier than the regional Executioners.
He halted, meat en route to his lips.
He glanced upward through the roof, his sight penetrating timber, skies, and spatial weave.
"How curious," the Messenger murmured. "An native being has attained the Absolute level. And he is... toying with the overseer? How daring. How utterly reckless."
He attempted to lock his stare on Ethan, to discern what spirit could achieve such a deed.
But his sight struck a barrier.
It felt like peering into a reflection in pitch darkness.
"A hiding artifact?"
The Messenger's curiosity sharpened.
He let go of his utensil.
The meal lost its appeal.
"I should seize him. A spirit that evades my detection is one deserving examination."
Back in the emptiness, Ethan experienced a abrupt, numbing frost.
It wasn't the scorching wrath of the One Above All.
It was an icy, detached scrutiny.
It evoked a researcher eyeing a specimen beneath a lens.
The infiltrator had detected him.
"Shit! Yumiko, he’s looking! He’s looking right at us!"
[Master, the pressure surpasses safe thresholds! If he acts now, we cannot flee!]
Ethan stayed composed.
He held one final move.
He ceased his flight.
He halted amid a crumbling stellar cluster, the One Above All barreling from one flank, and the unseen force of the infiltrator advancing from the opposite.
"Come on, you big red eye! Over here!" Ethan shouted, infusing his cry with 60% of his strength.
He loosed a flurry of blade attacks, not toward the One Above All, but toward the area concealing the intruder's spot.
He aimed not to strike the intruder.
He sought to mark him as bait.
The One Above All, sightless from endless irritation and taunts, noticed the power ripples there.
He ignored the identity of the presence.
He viewed only prey.
"ERASE EVERYTHING!" the One Above All thundered.
A torrent of crimson obliteration, dense enough to submerge a galaxy, rushed ahead.
Ethan didn't linger.
In a burst of silver radiance, Ethan drew his whole being into the Cube's inner realm.
He erased himself from reality's "grid."
The crimson tide of Erasure pressed on.
It collided straight into the intruder's position.
The Messenger, poised to snag Ethan with ease, abruptly confronted the unbridled, desperate ire of the positive plane's protector.
"Impertinent local," the Messenger snarled.
He remained motionless.
He merely lifted a palm.
"Begone."
The impact was devastating.
"Erasure" clashed with the Messenger's "Void Hand."
The blast yielded no illumination.
It tore a rift in existence.
The One Above All suffered a backlash so fierce that his tangible shape, the massive eye and its stellar frame, fragmented into countless shining scarlet fragments.
For a brief span, the One Above All perished.
Yet the positive plane refused to let its core fail.
From all plane edges, aureate flows of power converged on the blast site.
The cage's principles worked to mend the One Above All anew.
It was a compelled revival, a torturous and savage ordeal that forced the guardian to wail in torment.
The Messenger lingered at the turmoil's heart, his somber garb faintly disheveled.
He appeared let down.
The "vermin" he pursued had slipped away, leaving him entangled in conflict with a regional entity that refused to perish.
"A waste of time," the Messenger grumbled.
He directed his sight to the distance, probing for Ethan's path, but the Space Cube had fulfilled its role.
Ethan was absent.
Within the Space Cube, Ethan slumped to the ground, his chest heaving.
Chill perspiration drenched him, yet he chuckled.
"Did you see that, Yumiko? It worked! They’re fighting each other!"
[Master, your heart rate is dangerously high. But... yes. The One Above All is currently being reconstructed, and the intruder is distracted. You have successfully survived the first contact.]
Ethan eyed the Status Panel hovering in the cube's faint glow.
[Time until Power Synchronization: 11 Hours, 42 Minutes]
"Twelve hours," Ethan murmured, his gaze alight with keen, hunter-like intensity. "In twelve hours, I claim Grade 1 power for good. And with the Sword of Infinity gripped tight, I’ll reach Grade 2. I’ll match him."
He rose, steadying against his blade.
He realized the cube couldn't shelter him indefinitely.
The Messenger would soon breach the veil.
But for the moment, he had secured what wealth and cultivation seldom offered.
He had gained time.