Picking Up Attributes In Martial World-Chapter 65: Infernal (4)

Ye Jun had no clue how this thing moved. His eyes and mind couldn’t even begin to understand it. A fog inside his mind seemed to be protecting him from witnessing the true wrongness of the creature.

That was when the Seven finally moved.

They descended like falling meteors, trails of incomprehensible energy burning behind each of them as they intercepted the creature before it could reach the battlefield.

What followed, Ye Jun could barely describe even to himself. Every time he tried to focus on the figures of the Seven, his vision blurred at the edges.

Every time he tried to follow the exchange of blows, his mind simply refused to process what it was seeing. It was like trying to read scripture written in a language that didn’t belong to this world.

Except this gave him pain. Intense pain.

He caught fragments of visions.

A pillar of concentrated force that vaporized a stretch of clouds above them. A shockwave that rolled outward from a single collision and split the plateau itself down the middle, sending soldiers tumbling into the cracks before they could react. The temperature spiking so violently that the air around him visibly distorted.

But the creature still moved forward.

Slower now, yes. The Seven were doing something, holding something back, buying something precious with everything they had.

But it was undeniable that they were struggling. Even these beings, these incomprehensible existences that had descended from a higher realm entirely, were barely containing it.

Ye Jun stood completely still among the chaos and felt something settle coldly in his chest.

’Even they aren’t enough.’

Then the world stopped.

Everything around him froze, as if time itself had stopped moving. His headache also lessened as he blinked in surprise and looked around.

’What happened?’

Not just his surroundings, but even the battlefield had frozen in time. The titanic creature that seemed unstoppable also froze in its battle with the Seven.

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.

Ye Jun stumbled back as a heavy voice reverberated all around him. He snapped to his right where he found a soldier like him sitting on a boulder. The man’s eyes held grief as he stared down at the battlefield.

"It’s you..." Ye Jun tried to calm himself and asked, "You’re the one who left behind that sphere? You created all of this? But why? And what even is this?"

From the beginning of this strange dream, nobody had talked to him. All this time, he felt like an observer, but now he felt he was here in person. And the man was talking directly to him.

However, the man didn’t answer him. He just continued to stare at the titanic creature, and the heavy voice reverberated around Ye Jun again.

THE CONVERGENCE HAS HAPPENED NINE TIMES. NINE TIMES THE SEVEN MONARCHS BLED TO STALL THE VOID. NINE TIMES THE HEAVENS WERE SHATTERED AND MENDED.

"Hey, at least answer me," Ye Jun shouted, but his words fell on deaf ears.

THE CONVERGENCE WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.

Ye Jun felt a chill run down his spine at those words. If something like this happened again, would the world survive?

"Wait! You said it happened several times. That means we won those times, right?" Ye Jun asked. Once again, he received no reply.

THE SEVEN ARE NO MORE. I AM NO MORE.

Ye Jun couldn’t understand the situation or his words. He was too overwhelmed. But he processed everything and tried to reach some conclusion, whatever it might be.

However, the man didn’t wait for him and continued.

THE SEEDS ARE ALREADY PLANTED. THEY GROW IN SILENCE.

’What seeds?’

THE DOORS INSIDE YOU ARE NOT LOCKED ANYMORE.

’What door!?’

THE CONVERGENCE DOES NOT CONQUER. IT COMPLETES.

"What the hell are you saying?" Ye Jun snapped. "Explain something instead of speaking in riddles!"

Yet the man didn’t respond to his words. Ye Jun already knew why, as he had long realized this was just a memory fragment of someone, perhaps this very man.

The man raised his hand, and the surroundings blurred as the place he was standing in changed. The world shifted entirely, and Ye Jun found himself standing on the same plateau but in a completely different time.

His head snapped toward the battlefield as a dreadful presence washed over him. Eyes widening in horror, he witnessed the entire world alliance of Humans and Spiritual Beasts dead.

Not just dead. They were being consumed by the Infernal Creatures. Not a single living soul remained to fight.

’Where are the Seven?’ He looked around and found the titanic creature but not the Seven. That was when he remembered the man’s words.

’The Seven are no more.’

And then he saw it.

The titanic creature stood alone on the ruined battlefield, uncontested and unbothered, as if the Seven had never existed at all.

Whatever battle had taken place here before this moment, whatever desperate struggle those incomprehensible beings had waged against it, none of it had left a mark worth acknowledging.

The creature simply stood there amid the carnage of an entire world’s worth of fallen warriors and looked, if something like it could even look, satisfied.

Then it raised its arm.

Ye Jun hadn’t noticed the sword until that moment. Perhaps it was because his mind had simply refused to register something of that scale as a weapon before now.

It was less of a blade and more of a calamity given physical form, a slab of obsidian that dwarfed mountains, burning with malevolent red flames so dense they seemed to possess weight.

Wherever the fire dripped from its edge, it didn’t just scorch the earth. It annihilated everything, leaving behind nothing. Not ash, not ruin, only absence.

The air around it wept with heat, and the sky above it had already begun to change color, deepening into something bruised and wrong.

The sword came down.

Ye Jun wanted to close his eyes but couldn’t. The blade struck the earth, and the world simply came apart at the seam. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Fractures exploded outward from the point of impact in every direction simultaneously, swallowing what remained of the battlefield whole, consuming the dead and the Infernal Creatures alike without distinction.