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Chapter 72 - chapter 71;The Black Arm of Despair and The Velocity of AxiomsDate

Date (Real World): Wednesday, March 1, 2025. 4:24 AM.

Location: The Vast Conceptual Void / The Axiomatic White Room.

I. Fang: The Destruction of the Universe's Fabric

Fang, the 100-million-year-old First Thought, was a blur that exceeded light, time, and conceptual velocity. He was traversing the entire observable universe in a desperate, selfless dash to reach Null in the Axiomatic White Room. His body was a lance of pure Dark Conceptual Energy, aimed like a bullet toward the single dimensional anomaly representing the battle.

But he was not fast enough.

The conceptual agony from the broken protection contract was a blinding white fire in his consciousness. It screamed at him: The Chosen One is compromised. His will is broken.

Fang pushed harder.

He had already achieved the Velocity of the Axiom—the speed of thought—but the sheer distance between the universe and the Axiomatic White was an infinite gulf. He had to accelerate beyond infinity.

He began to break the Law of Dimensional Integrity.

With every microsecond, Fang willed greater conceptual acceleration. The effect was immediate and catastrophic to the fabric of reality he was passing through.

The Destruction of Existence

4:24:00.12 AM: The massive conceptual energy required to propel him destabilized the dimensional layers. The universe around him, already a blur, began to rip. Entire galaxies, thousands of light-years away, shimmered into non-existence, their conceptual anchor points briefly nullified by Fang's passing. This wasn't merely fast travel; it was conceptual erasure of the path.

4:24:00.15 AM: Fang's own physical form—the Dark Dragon of the First Thought—began to suffer catastrophic structural failure. The sheer internal velocity exceeded the conceptual binding of his scales and flesh.

T H R E S H O L D.

Fang's body disintegrated.

He was no longer a dragon; he was a cohesive field of Black Conceptual Particles, an infinitely dense cloud of anti-matter thought, speeding across the conceptual map. The particles, once his scales, detached from the core velocity field, escaping the speed-limit violation.

These expelled particles, fragments of the First Thought, instantly accelerated into the void, reaching velocities Fang himself could not maintain, and began to exist outside the universe. This was the ultimate conceptual feat: the physical breakdown of a God-like being into conceptual dust that transcended the established boundaries of creation itself.

Fang's consciousness, now spread across the velocity field, endured the crushing pain of the shattered contract and the agony of his own disintegration. He focused his will, attempting to breach the psychic boundary and establish contact with Null.

II. The Despair and The Portal Paradox

Location: The Axiomatic White Room.

The Ascended Satan 666 was ecstatic, laughing maniacally as he dodged the desperate, powerful strikes from Null's new, dark conceptual arm. Null was a torrent of balanced power, but his despair had made him predictable.

Satan leaped high into the featureless white sky, charging a massive sphere of Hell's Flame—conceptual fire that grew hotter with every passing microsecond.

Null, his silver crown dimmed, his new black arm coiled with dark, unbreakable energy, simply stood still. The depression was overwhelming. I am struggling against an imposter. I am not worthy of the Code.

His response was flat, devoid of the Asura Code's fierce life.

[FANG – MIND LINK ESTABLISHED]

FANG (Conceptual Broadcast, Rushing): Null! Hang in there! I am coming! I am breaking through space itself to reach you. You must hold the line!

NULL (Mental Whisper, Numb): ...Fang? Why? Why not just open a portal? Why risk conceptual death? I am already done with this.

FANG (Strained, battling conceptual breakdown): I cannot open a portal! Understand the structure of this dimension! The Axiomatic White is the space before conceptual definition. It has no coordinates!

Fang urgently projected the necessary lore into Null's mind, fighting the agony of his shattering form.

FANG (Explaining the Axiom): If I were to generate a portal from my current position—outside the universe—it would be a conceptual door leading to a space defined only by randomness. That door would open into an empty, unlocatable white space within the Axiom, but I would not know where in this infinite void you are located! I would waste time searching for a coordinate that does not exist here! I must use my physical acceleration to collapse the distance directly onto your conceptual signature.

FANG (Focusing): I can only sense your Prime Stone Signature—the conceptual essence of the Void Code. I am using that signature as my compass, warping reality to travel directly to the source. It is the only way to ensure arrival! Hold on! I am getting close!

III. The Ascent of the Half-Written Lord

Satan 666, still airborne, screamed his challenge. "You are just a vessel! You fight with borrowed power! But I was blessed with mine! I don't need no one!"

Satan threw the Hellfire Ball. It was a sun of conceptual misery, capable of erasing a conceptual layer of the universe.

As the fire descended, Fang's conceptual energy field—the fragments of his disintegrated body—slammed into the dimensional barrier. Though he hadn't fully arrived, the massive influx of his 100-million-year-old power struck Null's Prime Stone Signature.

Null's body convulsed as his conceptual engine was force-fed the raw, dense energy of the First Thought.

FANG (Triumphant Roar): Yes! Continue to absorb my power, Null! I am getting closer! Use it!

Null's depression was instantly incinerated by the sheer power, replaced by a cold, calculating focus. His transformation accelerated past the Silver King phase, settling into a new, temporary equilibrium.

The Half-Written Lord.

Null hit 30% of his ultimate power.

Hair: His white-silver hair mix, half turning to jet black (Umbros) and half remaining stark white (Asura) a perfect, dynamic balance between Yang and Yin.

Eyes: His eyes inverted. The background turned a deep, infinite black, and the pupils became a searing white, reflecting the eternal light. His previous cross pupil violently tore apart and reformed, becoming a rotating, swirling conceptual cross that moved independently within the white pupil.

Crown: The delicate silver crown shattered, reforming instantly as two opposing colors: one side glowing silver, the other made of pure, matte black shadow.

He was no longer fighting for justice or vengeance. He was fighting to prove that his existence, even when broken, was a necessary truth.

He raised his right arm. From the balanced energy flowing through him then blending in, a conceptual weapon formed: a massive, sweeping Dark Scythe, its edges made of solidified, eternal Conceptual Decay.

His newly formed Black Arm of the Void instantly wrapped itself in a white, spiraling conceptual energy the Light of Asura coating the darkness, balancing the defense and making the arm truly unbreakable.

The Half-Written Lord the balanced, dual-God entity charged toward the descending Satan and the Hellfire Ball.

IV. The Violation of the Axiom: Time Stop

Satan 666 laughed as Null charged. "You fight with borrowed power! But I was blessed with mine! I don't need no one!"

Satan threw the Hellfire Ball. It was a sun of conceptual misery, capable of erasing a conceptual layer of the universe.

The Half-Written Lord did not flinch. He did not dodge. He did something conceptually impossible:

He stopped time.

The Axiomatic White Room exists outside the conceptual limits of the universe, where time is not meant to flow at all. Null, using the combined, borrowed power of Fang and his own 30% mastery of the Code, asserted a new, temporary Sub-Axiom onto the Void.

Null was no longer Null or the human Soren. He was The Half-Written Lord, the living embodiment of the Author's necessity.

The Hellfire Ball froze inches from his face. The smoke, the light streaks of Satan's ascent, the falling conceptual dust all of it halted in a conceptual, eternal moment.

The Ascended Satan 666, grinning and mid-air, was frozen in conceptual amber.

The Half-Written Lord moved through the frozen conceptual moment. He did not walk; his movement was a conceptual shift effortless and immediate.

He brought the Dark Scythe—the Death Axe to bear.

Hit One: The Liver

The Scythe swept horizontally, aimed at a single point of weakness Null had observed in the earlier brutal exchange. The blade met Satan's exposed side, slicing through the conceptual obsidian scale like paper.

R I P.

The conceptual liver, the source of Satan's regenerative plasma, was severed.

The Half-Written Lord unstopped time.

The world lurched forward. The Hellfire Ball, still traveling at near-infinite speed, moved a single micrometer. Satan experienced the agonizing, blinding, immediate shock of the deep internal injury. He roared in confusion and pain.

The Half-Written Lord immediately stopped time again.

Hit Two: The Jugular

Satan was frozen again, his scream halted mid-sound, conceptual blood suspended in the air.

The Half-Written Lord shifted, appearing above Satan. He brought the Scythe down, aiming for the conceptual anchor of the spine.

SL I C E.

The blade severed the conceptual jugular, cutting off the main pathway of pure kinetic Code to Satan's brain.

The Half-Written Lord unstopped time.

Satan's roar continued, but it was cut short by a suffocating, blinding wave of conceptual paralysis. His body shuddered uncontrollably, the massive momentum of the Hellfire Ball slowing visibly.

The Half-Written Lord stopped time one final time.

Hit Three: The Death Axe

This was the final blow. The Half-Written Lord ascended high above the frozen Satan. He focused the full agony and destruction of his shattered ego into the blade, infusing it with Fang's raw, accelerating power.

The Death Axe Scythe descended, aimed squarely at Satan's crown.

C O N C E P T U A L I M P A C T.

The Scythe obliterated the conceptual anchor of Satan's consciousness, splitting the Ascended false skull.

The force of the blow was so immense that the white void around the impact point was instantly tainted. The energy released was not fire or light, but a swirling black and white conceptual spiral—the balance of life and death, the yin and yang of the Half-Written Lord's nature. This spiral instantly dyed the Axiomatic White in the area around the battle, leaving a swirling conceptual vortex.

The Half-Written Lord unstopped time for the final time.

Satan 666, struck by three fatal, delayed injuries simultaneously, convulsed violently. His Hellfire Ball sputtered and dissipated before reaching its target. He fell limp, his eyes rolling back, the black cross pupils fading.

Unconscious.

The Half-Written Lord stood over the fallen, unconscious God of Scales. His own form was steaming, the 30% power draining rapidly. He was depleted, but functionally whole, having successfully defended against the conceptual attack and proven his new, terrifying level of axiomatic control.

At that exact moment, Fang's disintegration was complete. The final conceptual energy of the First Thought slammed into the Axiomatic White Room, not as a coherent body, but as an instantaneous, protective wave of pure Dark Conceptual Energy, surrounding the newly defined Half-Written Lord and the unconscious False Satan. The cavalry had arrived.

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