Lucas came back to his senses, finding Knull, frozen in a chopping posture, his long sword solidified at his neck.
A look of terror slowly emerged on Knull's face, as if time had stopped at this moment.
But that wasn't the case.
Although Knull was too weak to be worthy of his title, he was undoubtedly an Elder God, the Lord of the Abyss.
Time hadn't stopped. Rather, Lucas's thought speed far surpassed Knull's, making Knull's every movement appear motionless to him.
The talent [Energy Absorption] activated, and the energy within Knull, the Symbiote dragons, and other Abyss creatures was drawn towards Lucas.
After absorbing the energy, Lucas waved his hand, erasing their bodies one by one, leaving only dust particles to scatter in the wind.
Knull, in particular, received special treatment. Lucas devoured every particle of his entire body into the white Space.
To Knull, Lucas confronting him had happened not long ago.
But to Lucas, this event felt like it had happened a long time ago. His novelty had worn off, and he just wanted to end the battle quickly.
This won't do!
Exhaling a long breath, Lucas realized that with his current thought speed, if he didn't suppress it, he wouldn't be able to live in the Universe.
If he said something, the time it took for others to respond would be enough for him to do countless things and completely forget the conversation.
Lucas reluctantly began to suppress his thought speed, lowering it back to its original level. Then he discovered that Knull had resurrected.
The Primordial Dark Energy in the Abyss had been completely drained by him earlier, but in this short time, a tiny bit more had emerged. This tiny bit of Primordial Dark Energy began to reconstruct Knull's body and consciousness.
Although Knull's body was still very weak and his consciousness hadn't awakened yet, Lucas had no doubt that after hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years...
One day, Knull's body would be re-incubated, and his consciousness would awaken.
"He's really hard to kill."
At this moment, Lucas gained a deeper understanding of the inexhaustible nature of Primordial Dark Energy. He had originally thought it referred to a vast quantity, but it turns out it's not just vast in quantity, but also capable of automatic replenishment.
"How about blocking the Abyss's access to energy?"
"No, that's no different in essence from sealing Knull. Sealing him directly would be even simpler."
"How about trying to destroy the Abyss?"
Thinking of this, Lucas felt a little restless.
It would be a good opportunity to test his current destructive power on the Abyss.
Lucas punched the void, and silver divine power poured out, spreading wildly like lightning, wantonly destroying the Abyss's void and the dark matter structures within it.
Crack... Crack...
The Abyss began to crack from the point of impact, and massive void rifts appeared.
When the void rifts spread throughout the entire Abyss, the Abyss shattered like a bursting bubble, disintegrating completely with a 'pop'.
The fragments were swallowed by the void rifts, drifting arbitrarily in the spacetime turbulence.
Some would fall into the Multiverse, embedding themselves within the Universe to become extradimensional spaces.
Some would fall into the Superflow, becoming new nascent dimensions or pure trash.
Some would be flung out of the Superflow, reaching the Neutral Zone at the final boundary of Marvel, or even beyond the Neutral Zone, completely leaving the Marvel world.
Boom!!!
The Abyss shattered.
If nothing unexpected happened, a disturbance affecting almost half of the Multiverse was about to occur.
But for now, this was irrelevant to Lucas.
Lucas looked at Knull and found that even though the Abyss was destroyed, his resurrection progress had not stopped. It had only slowed down because the speed of gathering Primordial Dark Energy had decreased.
As long as the Abyss was not destroyed, and the Primordial Dark Energy was inexhaustible, he would not die.
It turned out the emphasis was on the inexhaustible Primordial Dark Energy later. The 'Abyss is not destroyed' part earlier was just a bluff.
The destruction of the Abyss merely meant losing a fixed resurrection point and slowing down the resurrection speed.
As for Primordial Dark Energy, there's a little bit of it, more or less, in every corner of the Multiverse, and it's continuously generated in trace amounts, making it impossible to completely deplete.
What a good birth!
Lucas couldn't help but exclaim.
After careful observation, he found that after losing the Abyss to gather Primordial Dark Energy, Knull's resurrection speed instantly dropped to less than one ten-thousandth of its original speed.
That's still barely acceptable, my ass.
Although the resurrection speed had slowed down and he could be sealed, it still couldn't completely stop the process, which meant he couldn't be completely killed.
Ultimately, it still came down to the path of sealing.
Rather than that, why not...
Lucas's lips curved into a smile.
Changing his perspective, wasn't the resurrecting Knull a natural gatherer of Primordial Dark Energy?
However, before that, he had to ask him something.
Although this Elder God was a bit weak, he was at least ancient enough that he shouldn't lack knowledge.
Lucas's finger pricked Knull, and a radiant white light flashed, awakening him from his weakened state.
Knull slowly opened his eyes, saw the shattered Abyss around him, remained silent for a moment, then suddenly roared at Lucas with a sinister laugh, "I am the Lord of the Abyss! The God of Darkness! I am immortal! Do you think you can kill me?"
Lucas chuckled softly.
He's really stubborn.
White matter surged out, forming a blade in imitation of Knull's All-Black the Necrosword, incorporating Knull into the blade and carving runes on it, forming a special spell.
"Are you going to spew venom at me? How great is your fall? From a God to a prisoner."
"Ahhhhhhh!!!"
"Damn sorcerer, you deserve to die!!!"
Knull continued to roar.
"I never submit, I never fall! As long as life exists, as long as time has meaning, I will not give up!"
"Sorry, time no longer has meaning for you."
Lucas smiled, introducing the sword of light he had created to Knull, "This sword of light will absorb the Primordial Dark Energy you gather and convert it into another form of energy, attacking you periodically."
"As long as this sword remains intact, you will be unable to absorb Primordial Dark Energy from the outside world. And you won't even be able to fall into slumber."
Lucas lowered his voice, saying coldly, "Eternal torment awaits you."
Lucas then changed the subject, adding, "However, it seems we don't have any deep-seated hatred. If you help me with a favor, then I don't mind forgiving your previous offense and not disturbing you while you're in slumber."
If he could kill Knull, he wouldn't mind doing it.
Firstly, there was already animosity, and secondly, Knull wasn't a good person.
As for eternal torment, without deep-seated hatred, there was no real need for it.
Knull was silent, he felt this experience was an unprovoked disaster.
If time could restart, he would definitely restrain himself, not be so glib, and certainly not so stubborn.
"Speak, what do you want me to help you with?"
"Answer me one question. What is a God? A true God."