Void Evolution System
chapter-1885

As Damien's respect disappeared, the Dark God became more manic.

And as he became more manic, he became more powerful. Damien had the upper hand for a second there, but the Dark God took it back almost instantly.

He pushed him back and forced him into a corner. Damien's energy was special because it could be used very precisely, but it took time to make the necessary calculations.

That amount of time wasn't much at all, but the Dark God was able to prevent Damien from having even a single fraction of a fraction of a spark of a second to think. Using pure volume to overcome any and all obstacles, he created a situation where he held a great advantage.

Damien's memories made him feel endless envy, but he watched them all. He understood the core of Damien's existence extremely well. The problem was that it wasn't very easy to target.

The center of Damien's everything was his own name. It was the pride he held in himself, his integrity, and his morals. To break something like that took a lot of time and effort. Luckily, Damien managed to rile the Dark God up, and the Dark God was someone who had endless power hidden within his envy. His emotions were intrinsically tied to his energy. Damien saw his history, so he knew this for a fact.

When the Dark God was born, he actually had holy energy. He was connected to the heavens through a strange link, which made him a prime hero candidate. If he continued on that path without looking at his brother's achievements, he would've lived happily and achieved great feats.

Unfortunately, his energy was corrupted. When his energy was corrupted, his ego dipped into a pit of envy so deep that it touched upon Nonexistence.

Nonexistence became a crutch for the Dark God. He used it as a way to affirm himself and assure himself that he was not useless. It became his emotional support, and because it liked this position, Nonexistence responded to him.

However, it entertained an emotion it should not have touched. Rather than becoming a pure representation of itself, it became a twisted weapon of his.

It was exploited so he could gain control over Existence, and that Existence which never willingly chose him was corrupted as well.

This bundle of corruption was held together by one and only one thing. Emotion. Emotion was an interesting fuel for Existence and Nonexistence. Perhaps this was the only aspect where Damien could find a parallel between him and the Dark God.

He also used emotion to connect to the two concepts, but rather than his own, he focused on theirs. He gave them the opportunity to feel like a human and evolve past their original states, and they accepted wholeheartedly.

Because of that relationship, the flow of Damien's energy was smooth and buttery. It was flawless, like the whitest of swans in an icebound lake at the top of the most beautiful mountain in the world. It was like crystal-clear glacier water. Meanwhile, the Dark God's energy was murky. It was a sludge of muddy water filled with the residue of his emotions. Because he focused on himself instead of the elements themselves, he influenced their states negatively.

They became further from the Void, further from their fullest potential. As such, they manifested in ways that were similar to his internal state. Naturally, that wasn't a good thing. If he wanted to reach the Void and change all things so that his Legend would change, then he needed to first reach a state of selflessness and become one with the Void.

Damien was under the assumption that the Dark God had never even felt the Void with his own body. There was a real chance that the current madness he was exhibiting was caused by the visions of the Void he saw in Damien's memories.

'Why did he ever think that?'

Why did he ever think he was going to be able to reach the peak if he was pretending like the concepts of Existence and Nonexistence were nothing more than concepts to be controlled?

'Wait…'

'Why did he ever think that?'

Right, Damien was able to get this far because he always took the two concepts into consideration. Always, right?

That was it. He wasn't looking for it. For the first time since he came back to the Heavenly World, he didn't think about the merger between Existence and Nonexistence at all. He completely put it out of his mind with the thought that he would focus on it after the Dark God died.

But, precisely for that reason, the clue he needed came to him. The things that evaded him when he was single-mindedly focusing on reaching the peak finally dawned on him. In the first place, Existence and Nonexistence needed more than just his control to come together.

He treated them as their own beings with thoughts and emotions while he was comprehending them, but he never once maintained that mentality after he came out of the Land of Nothingness.

The two concepts still had their emotions after becoming one with him. They embraced him because he showed them that he was willing to consider them and recognize them in a way that nobody else could.

Now that he was trying to force them together like ordinary energies, what reason did they have to continue listening to him?

Their refusal to bond was something of a rebellion, and he only now realized why they were rebelling at all.

He understood that they needed to achieve a kind of compatibility before they could begin their merger. He was hearing their voices again, listening to their complaints. They felt themselves being heard and could see the qualitative change in the way he handled their energy.

That was when they finally responded. Their energies stopped disobeying his command, and finally, he was able to accomplish the things he desired.

In an instant, he returned to the attack. He used his own energy to suppress the Dark God. His emotion-fueled barrage was unable to stand against his connection to Existence and Nonexistence. The space trembled, and subtly, the Void came closer. Damien split his mind into millions, billions, and used the power of each individual to compute a new concept to either add into Existence or remove. His purpose was one. He was going to completely remove the Dark God's energy from the world. In any other case, this would have been irrelevant, as it didn't have any real effect on their battle. However, Damien's goal was a little different. Physical attacks were meaningless. Any sort of impact taken by their bodies was made inconsequential by the fact that they would always be able to heal back to perfect condition.

Still, Damien closed the distance between them. As the energy blocking his way was destroyed, as the space quaked and adjusted itself to accommodate the ongoing battle, Damien regained control.

He didn't wait a second longer to make his move.

Existence and Nonexistence combined in his hands. Their power was no longer exercised completely separately. They were starting to mingle, a sign that Damien was getting closer to that final boundary. He looked at the Dark God with extreme scorn in his eyes.

"In the end, you are nothing more than a child trapped in his brother's shadow."

With one sentence, Damien waved his hand and destroyed everything the Dark God used to keep himself hidden. For the first time, his true form was revealed to the world.