Published at 14th of November 2026 7:43 am

Chapter 2510: The event from the outside

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Outside the shell—

Sakar spread his heavy spiritual sense as far as he could while simultaneously activating every scouting technique and tool available to him, directing his full attention and turning his face toward the distant Universe B-14.

He was still wearing his unusual sweaty armor, completely concealing him, so it was impossible to see Sakar’s expression at this moment or determine exactly what was going through his mind...

But there was hardly any need to see his face when one could guess his reaction from all the demons surrounding him. Every single one of them had their enormous mouths hanging wide open, their attention fixed in the same direction in pure, undisguised astonishment.

...Three years ago, Marshal Sakar had received a report about a point of light that had appeared somewhere within the Desert of Nothingness. He had immediately gone to investigate the claims made by the vanguard himself, and indeed, after searching carefully, his senses had managed to detect it. There truly was a point of light out there in that endless Nothingness, yet nothing from it reached them except its light, light that had traveled alone through Nothingness for an unknown number of years before finally becoming visible to them.

Sakar had immediately decided to leave the task of continuing the expansion and protecting the shell to Amon and the remaining Demon Emperors, while he personally took only a small number of his closest followers and set out toward that distant light for one purpose alone: to use it as a fixed direction by which they could determine and maintain their course while traveling through the vast Desert of Nothingness.

Three years... For three entire years, they had been using extremely fast spacecraft to travel continuously through the Desert of Nothingness, heading in the same direction without allowing the seemingly endless journey to change their course.

A vessel like the one they were using was fast enough to circle an entire Sector within only a few hours, yet that same vessel had been traveling nonstop at its full capacity for three whole years without allowing its speed to fall.

And despite all of that distance and all of that time, they hadn’t noticed anything throughout the entire journey, while the distant point of light ahead of them hadn’t grown any larger in their eyes.

In fact, what shocked them even more than the unchanged light ahead was the appearance of the universe they had left behind....

Before their departure, the shell had looked like an unimaginably enormous wall stretching across their vision with only a slight curvature visible overhead, its vast surface seemingly filled with luminous dust that had eventually turned out to be the distant galaxies and nebulae visible through it.

Now, after traveling continuously for three years aboard the fastest spacecraft model the empire possessed... the circular shape of the universe behind them was only barely beginning to reveal itself.

Even now, they could only just make out the bulge around its middle and somewhat clearer curves toward the upper and lower portions, and even that limited view was only possible if they practically broke their necks turning toward it while stretching their senses toward the furthest reaches of every direction they could perceive!

Sakar’s followers had asked him to stop and reconsider more than once throughout those three years. Time in this place seemed almost completely frozen; they were simply sitting aboard the vessel while barely anything happened around them at all, and the only tangible proof that the vessel had truly been moving throughout all that time was the extremely slight change in the shape of the universe’s shell behind them. Had they not spent those years eating from their stored supplies, talking among themselves, and exchanging their experiences with one another to occupy the passing time, they would have gone insane!

But Sakar didn’t stop or turn back because of their requests. He simply continued onward along the same course.

Attacking other universes... Those were the master’s instructions, and those instructions were the reason behind this entire journey.

If that distant point of light truly represented the nearest universe to their own, then no matter how distant it appeared to be, they had to find some way to reach it and explore it.

But that distance... The sheer, seemingly endless distance separating them from their destination had made even Sakar consider abandoning the mission and turning back more than once. If not for his iron resolve holding him to his decision, then every time the thought of returning arose in his mind, he might have acted upon it instead of merely falling silent, suppressing the impulse, and continuing onward.

The master didn’t need them inside the universe anymore. In truth, he had expelled them from it in an elegant manner... Yes, he had given them a mission to carry out, a safe place to remain, and enough food to sustain themselves, but there was no place for them inside the universe itself, so why exactly would Sakar want to turn around and return there?

His only real problem at the moment was the possibility that their food supplies would run out before they managed to reach the next universe, and—

....While Sakar was thinking along those lines, something suddenly happened behind him that instantly pulled him out of his thoughts and made him freeze completely where he stood, and every single one of his followers around him froze along with him.

The rigid, unchanging shell of Universe B-14, the enormous shell they had spent three years steadily distancing themselves from, was emitting golden lights at this very moment.

The golden light first erupted from a single point and immediately began branching outward at an unbelievable speed, spreading across the shell in countless directions until its glow had filled the entire structure. Then a pale-purple light suddenly appeared and altered that golden spread into a certain pattern, and an astonishing kind of battle began between the two lights as each affected the other, continuing until the purple light was ultimately destroyed and the pattern it had formed was shattered. At that very moment, several cracks appeared across the entire shell, spreading through different parts of it as the enormous structure began to shake.

Then, before their astonished eyes, the golden glow began devouring the remaining pale-purple light!

Only a small portion of the pale-purple light managed to escape the process of being digested by the golden glow. That surviving portion separated itself from the shell entirely and shot away into the distance at tremendous speed, abandoning everything else behind it and leaving the rest of what was happening to continue unfolding as it would.

And indeed, the golden light quickly seized control of the shell after the pale-purple light withdrew and brought the violent disturbances spreading across the shell’s surface to an end before forming an enormous pattern of its own over it... During that brief period, the golden glow itself could be seen diminishing at a rapid and obvious pace, steadily growing weaker as though what it was doing was consuming it, but it never disappeared completely.

Then, after only a few seconds had passed, what remained of the weakened golden glow began withdrawing once again, retreating across the shell until all of it returned toward the very same point from which it had originally erupted.

"What... just happened?"

One of Sakar’s followers finally asked, his attention still fixed on the distant shell.

"Is the universe ending? ...Maybe it’s already ended?"

"That golden light, that feeling..." Sakar’s normally deep voice carried obvious hesitation as he continued staring toward Universe B-14. "I felt it the last time I was beside the master... when he was purifying the Executioner’s blood for me, the same blood I gave some of to you."

"....?!"

"That’s the master’s power?"

"Impossible, right? He’s... the master we know!!"

"Are you saying the master is weak?!" Sakar immediately turned toward the one standing beside him, then Bam, slapped the demon who had spoken those words across the face. "Would you still be serving him now if he were weak?"

"I... didn’t mean that!" The demon hesitated as he clutched his aching cheek, looking both pained and ashamed after being struck. "It’s just... that level..."

"...." Sakar lowered his gaze toward the ground beneath him and remained that way for several seconds, his silence and posture making it obvious that he was seriously thinking about something.

Then he finally raised his head and turned toward the nearest aide. "Since the master was the one who won that brief battle, there’s no need for us to worry about anything. Return to the shell and continue the expansion."

"Return?" The aide immediately caught onto that particular word in Sakar’s order and looked toward him. "What about you?"

Krsssh—

The vessel’s door opened with a harsh sound, and Sakar floated directly outside into the surrounding Nothingness, his movements and posture showing not even the slightest trace of discomfort from being there.

Then his deep voice rang out once again. "It’s obvious that the master is facing difficulties inside, and it’s equally obvious that he’s taking major steps... Even if we were exiled out here in an elegant manner, we still have a mission that was given to us, and we haven’t managed to complete it yet. I can’t return to meet him empty-handed."

Then Whoosh, Sakar disappeared from where he had been floating.

"Marshal!!" one of the aides shouted after him.

Every single one of them had received particles from one drop of the Executioner’s blood, which meant that their affinity with Nothingness was already high. Even so, compared to Lord Sakar, who had personally digested four whole drops already, they were both slower and weaker when moving within true Nothingness.

That was why they were still able to perceive the path Sakar had taken after his departure, but even if all of them immediately set off after him at their greatest possible speed, they still wouldn’t be able to truly follow him.

In fact, even the incredibly fast vessel they had used throughout their three-year journey wouldn’t be able to reach or match Sakar’s speed while traveling through the Desert of Nothingness.

"Where exactly is he going?!"

"That’s not even the direction of the point of light!"

Gulp

Everyone suddenly turned toward a single person among them, the only one who had swallowed nervously while the others were still trying to understand where their Marshal was heading.

Under the pressure of all those gazes suddenly falling upon him, that demon slowly raised his hand and pointed in the same direction Sakar had departed. "He’s...."

Then, without needing to explain further, he shifted his finger and pointed toward the cloud of pale-purple light that had escaped from the shell earlier. That cloud was now racing through Nothingness in a certain direction at a tremendous speed, growing visibly larger with every passing second until it had already reached nearly the size of an entire galaxy despite still being far away from them.

The rest of the aides looked toward the enormous pale-purple cloud, then turned their eyes toward the path Sakar had taken, then looked back toward the rapidly fleeing cloud once again as the implication became increasingly difficult to ignore...

At that moment, every single one of them made exactly the same sound.

Gulp.

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