Just like with the Duality World Runic Formation, Zatiel sent the Fourth Realm Phenomenon into his lungs before making the power of the sun burst.
All the heat from the sun reached the Samsara Thearch's body, who carefully sent it into the Fourth Realm Phenomenon. Like with the formation, the heat deconstructed the phenomenon to its most basic form, a state in which it could be molded.
Zatiel then turned his eyes to another of the Nine Sacred Mountains. A dark and ominous force covered this mountain, and all the powerhouses training in it seemed devoid of purpose as if nothing had meaning for them anymore.
Yet, despite the state of the strongest in it and the ominous aura covering the entire mountain and the worlds orbiting around it, most of the people living in it were among the happiest of the Daybreak Universe.
The reaction of powerhouses and ordinary people was the duality of the sacred inheritance left behind by the Samsara Thearch.
Its name was Nihility Sacred Mountain and contained the Gemini Nihility Inheritance. There were two ways of approaching nihility, the embodiment of the insignificance of life and our purpose in the world. You could either allow it to crush your spirit, erasing your life and mind, or thrive under it with the certainty that nothing can bind you.
Under the gaze of the Samsara Thearch, the Nihility Sacred Mountain trembled for a moment before unleashing a cannon of soul force and energy at the Sun and Moon Palace. Zatiel infused all that power reaching his body into the mass of darkness inside his lungs.
Nero, the current Patriarch of the Fallen Race, was the Sacred King of the Nihility Sacred Mountain. It was no wonder how the soul and energy of the mountain transformed the Fourth Realm Phenomenon into thousands of dark feathers.
Each and every single one of the feathers was bathed with darkness and had strange engravings on them, glowing with sky-blue flames made of soul force.
Zatiel took the full power of the Nihility Sacred Mountain, arranging the feather into a set of eighteen majestic wings. Once he completed them, he stopped the sun's heat and channeled the moon's cold energy into his body, stabilizing the new artifact.
The wings emerged from Zatiel's lungs the next second. An ethereal and shadowy aura emerged from the wings, enveloped in a dark force field that distorted reality around them. When unfurled, they resemble the wings of a malevolent specter, emanating an aura of absolute nihility that dissolves all meaning.
As soon as they appeared in the palace, they neutralized the heat and cold of the Daybreak Universe's sun and moon, a feat that would be hard for even a True Rank 10 life form!
Zatiel was surprised by the power of the wings. Someone like Nero, who had mastered the Gemini Nihility Inheritance to its peak, could use them to seal the abilities of Truths and Eternal Flames.
Regarding the malevolent appearance of the wings, it did not bother Zatiel. Nihility was not good nor evil; it all depended on the user. Besides, it made sense that they looked like that since they were a weapon meant to kill Fourth Realm life forms.
"Voidmourn Wings."
That was the name of the treasure born out of a Fourth Realm Phenomenon capable of crushing entire universes.
Zatiel sent the Voidmourn Wings into his Inner Universe to bathe in the energy and forces inside it, just like the World Clashing Sword, before taking the Oblivion Gate's energy nucleus.
This next treasure was special, and it would be a lie if the Samsara Thearch said he did not want to save it for himself. Even if it could not improve his destructive might, it enhanced his regeneration ability and stamina, allowing him to fight for several days straight at full power.
Despite all that, there was no hesitation in Zatiel's eyes as he sent the energy nucleus into his lung and activated the heat from the Daybreak Universe's sun.
As soon as the energy nucleus began to melt, it unleashed a burst of energy and vitality. Zatiel knew it would happen and was ready, storing all of it in the trillions of cells in his body.
Such a massive amount of energy would allow him to fight without rest during the battle against the Beyonder's Knights.
The energy nucleus was the source of the power of the Oblivion Gate, something the Samsara Thearch could only describe as a Late Stage Fourth Realm Treasure, so it made sense that it would take several weeks for him to fully melt it.
By the time the energy nucleus became a golden plasma inside Zatiel's lungs, every cell of his body and particle of his soul was charged with so much energy and vitality that he was practically radiating life.
After ensuring the seal on all the forces released by the energy nucleus, Zatiel focused on a third Sacred Mountain. It burst with life force, and the powers of origin overflowed through its surface, extending to all the worlds around it.
Although the Sacred Inheritance left in this mountain had the less destructive power of all the nine left behind by the Samsara Thearch, it was the home of most powerhouses in the Daybreak Universe. The reason was that even for Extreme Rank 9 life forms, there was a chance to procreate in this place.
Having descendants was something many powerhouses wished for but found very hard due to the strength of their souls and bloodlines. That is why the Genesis Sacred Mountain was something so special in the Daybreak Universe, and its master was someone that could help even Rank 10 life forms to achieve that dream.
Under the control of the Samsara Thearch, the Genesis Sacred Mountain trembled before unleashing a pillar of life and soul force into the Sun and Moon Palace.
The Samsara Thearch took all the force from the Genesis Sacred Mountain and sent it along with pieces of his soul and bloodline into the golden plasma inside his lungs.
Measuring the exact amount of energy sent into the golden plasma was hard. Still, it was definitely more than an Initial Stage life form could need, even if he released his most powerful attack over and over again for entire weeks.
This time Zatiel guided the form of the artifact, and it did not take long for a celestial bow glowing with stardust to appear inside his lungs.
It emerged from inside Zatiel's lungs, and its aura was overwhelming. The powers of life and origin in it were hard to describe, reaching a true extreme, and they would allow the Genesis Sacred King to express the full might of his cultivation and skills.
"Starlight Eternal Arc."
That was the name of the weapon Zatiel would give his firstborn, Dante Daybreak, to use in the war against the Beyonder's Knights.
Anyone in control of the Starlight Eternal Arc would have a nearly endless amount of vitality and energy sent into their bodies and souls, ensuring they could recover instantly from any wounds they might receive during the battle.
Since it was an arc, it would also allow Dante to fight from a distance, and the arrows of the Starlight Eternal Arc could travel at a speed of several thousand light years per second with flawless accuracy.
Finally, the true power of the Starlight Eternal Arc was in its potent life force capable of mending a broken cosmos. The Genesis Sacred King would be in charge of healing the rest of the powerhouses, ensuring that everybody else would prioritize his safety.
Zatiel showed a radiant smile. He knew he could not stop Dante from joining the war against the Beyonder's Knight. Not only would his son never accept to remain behind, but as a Sacred King, this one was responsible for the safety of the Daybreak Universe.
'This should be enough.'
The Samsara Thearch sent the Starlight Eternal Arc into his Inner Universe before taking out another treasure.
While the Samsara Thearch was in the process of creating weapons for the Sacred Kings, just a few trillion light years away from the Daybreak Universe, a strange cosmic entity marched forward.
It manifested as a swirling vortex of dark shadows and ethereal mist, an essence a melding of shadowy black, ghastly green, and blood-crimson hues. As it moved through the Emptiness, it left in its path a trail of shattered realms and tainted energies, devouring and corrupting all that it encountered.
That vortex that was larger than a super universe was not a single life form, but the fusions of billions of them, all chanting in unison.
"Embrace Unity. Resistance Is Futile. One With The Beyonder."
"Embrace Unity. Resistance Is Futile. One With The Beyonder."
"Embrace Unity. Resistance Is Futile. One With The Beyonder."
Those were not simple words but a belief that dominated the soul of every single life form inside that vortex and for which they were ready to die.
The Beyonder's Knights and its army were moving closer and closer to the Daybreak Universe.
