Levi stared at the palm of his right hand.
The black pattern there writhed beneath his skin like a living worm.
The power of the Death Law could only suppress it, preventing it from spreading, but it couldn't eradicate it. The essence of this thing was too high—far beyond what he could currently comprehend.
Ahead, within the void rift, the projection of the Anti-Monitor had already crawled more than halfway out.
It was a colossal figure over a thousand meters tall, without any fixed form—just a mass of constantly churning, shifting black mist.
With every breath it took, vast stretches of surrounding space were sucked into its body, completely reduced to nothingness.
The three Green Lantern ships had long since retreated to a "safe" distance of fifty thousand kilometers.
Hal Jordan and the others didn't dare approach. They could only watch this world-ending scene from afar through their screens, barely even daring to breathe.
Ganthet floated about a thousand meters behind Levi, his face so pale it was nearly translucent.
In order to counter that void hand earlier, he had forcefully pushed his own power, consuming a large portion of his life essence. Now, he was at the end of his strength.
"Don't think about closing the rift," Ganthet's voice was weak, but transmitted clearly to Levi through energy. "That crack doesn't connect to any specific space—it links to the Void Layer of the multiverse. As long as the Anti-Monitor's will remains locked here, it will never close."
Levi glanced back at him. "How do we drive it away?"
Ganthet fell silent for two seconds, as if organizing his thoughts, but in the end, he only gave a despairing answer.
"You can't. Even we Guardians, facing the Anti-Monitor's true form, would need to gather the power of the entire multiverse just to barely contend with it. This projection is only a tiny fragment of its consciousness, but to us, it is still an unbeatable existence."
"Then why did you call me here?" Levi's tone was calm.
A bitter smile appeared on Ganthet's face. "I thought it was just a standard law-level threat—at most some overlord of a single universe causing trouble. I didn't expect… it to be this."
He paused, then added, "The only method now is to contact the other Guardians, gather all top-tier forces, and use the power of the universe's origin to forcibly expel it. But that requires time—a lot of time. At least three days."
Levi turned his gaze back to the mass of black mist. It had fully emerged from the rift and was stretching its form within the void.
Every slight movement caused the surrounding space to shatter like glass.
Three days?
This thing wouldn't need three hours to erase this entire star system from existence.
"No other way?" Levi pressed.
Ganthet shook his head. "None. Unless…" His gaze fell on the black pattern on Levi's right hand. "You can withstand the erosion of void power, enter its body voluntarily, and dismantle its consciousness core from within. But that… is no different from suicide. Void power will erase everything about you—from matter to soul, from present to past—wiping you completely from this universe without leaving a trace."
Levi said nothing.
He stared at the ever-expanding black mist, his mind racing at an unprecedented speed.
Destroy it from the inside.
Theoretically, this was the only viable path. The Anti-Monitor's true form was nearly invincible, but this was ultimately just a projection.
No matter how powerful, a projection must have a consciousness core sustaining it.
If he could find that core and destroy it with sufficiently powerful law-based force, the projection would collapse on its own.
There were two problems.
First, how to get inside.
Second, how to survive once inside.
He slowly lowered his head, looking at his right hand. The black pattern continued to wriggle, as if mocking his overestimation of himself.
This was the mark left by void power—a poison.
But at the same time… it was also a key.
Levi took a deep breath and extended his right hand, voluntarily releasing his suppression over the black pattern.
The power of the Death Law receded like a tide.
In the next instant, void power erupted.
The thin black line seemed to come alive, spreading wildly from his palm up his entire arm like ink diffusing in water.
His skin began to vanish.
Then muscle, blood vessels, bone… layer by layer, systematically erased into nothingness.
Agonizing pain surged into his mind, but Levi clenched his teeth, not letting out even a muffled groan.
He mobilized all the laws within his body—this time not to resist, but to guide and imitate.
Under his will, the Space Law forcibly constructed an invisible channel within his body, constraining the void power to flow along a predetermined path.
The Body Law struggled stubbornly to resist this force.
The Power Law compressed its energy density to the limit, preventing it from completely spiraling out of control and devouring him instantly.
The Time Law acted upon himself, desperately slowing the rate of erosion, buying him fractions of a second.
The Mind Law, Reality Law, Death Law… the seven fully integrated powers operated at an unprecedented efficiency, forming a precise yet fragile circulatory system within him.
He used his domain of laws as the walls of a container, and his will as its core, attempting to temporarily hold this toxic force from beyond the universe within his own body.
The pain of the process was beyond description. Every second, a part of his body was completely erased. His right arm had already disappeared up to the shoulder, and faint black lines had begun appearing on the skin of his left arm.
But he did not stop.
Because he felt a faint resonance.
As the void power erased his existence, it also seemed to be producing a strange resonance with the six entirely different laws within him.
The resonance was extremely weak—like two strings of completely different pitches being plucked at the same time. But it was real.
Levi seized that fleeting resonance and amplified it using his Mind Law.
He wanted the void power to believe that he was the same as it.
Ahead, the Anti-Monitor's projection suddenly stopped moving.
The churning black mist froze in place, as if time had been paused. Then, the massive form slowly turned toward Levi.
It had no eyes, no features—but Levi could clearly feel that it was looking at him.
"Interesting…"
That vast, cold voice echoed once more in his mind.
"You are… imitating me…"
The black mist began to contract, shrinking from over a thousand meters to five hundred, while its density increased severalfold. A new arm extended from it—this time only fifty meters long, but the void power flowing across its surface was more than ten times as concentrated as before.
The arm slowly reached toward Levi, not with intent to attack, but more like an examination… a touch.
An icy fingertip lightly pressed against his chest.
In an instant, a tsunami of void power flooded into his body.
Levi's body shook violently. The fragile law-domain he had constructed nearly collapsed on the spot. He forcibly steadied his mind, channeling this foreign void power into his preset pathways, merging it with the void power already within him.
The two forces—same origin, different masters—met.
There was no rejection.
Instead, they began to fuse naturally.
Now!
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