Chapter 1001: Undefeatable
Northern glared at the creature, refusing to believe the monster had actually obliterated the academy — for the most part — from the surface of the island.
He had somehow managed to save countless people, but many more remained injured. He didn’t even know where Aster was and had been using his spatial awareness to actively search around, but still hadn’t found him.
And yet, the Evil Dragon still floated in the sky, looking down upon them all, ready to unleash another devastating attack at any moment.
Well, technically, it couldn’t — or most likely wouldn’t be able to — if everything went according to Northern’s assumption. But if it happened that the Leviathan could easily shrug off the effect of his Absolute Lock, then Northern and everyone here was finished.
However, he was trusting himself and no other person to protect the survivors. Because as it turned out, even the students who had been stubborn about coming to save their home had proven utterly useless — but that was alright because even the instructors were useless too.
Northern slowly ascended into the sky and came face to face with the Evil Dragon. The Dragon snarled, crimson smoke pouring from its mouth. Then suddenly, the sky trembled and the massive monster lunged forward with blistering speed.
But Northern was waiting for it. He materialized a spear of ice and coiled fire around it. Then he smothered the fire with the shadows of dread, wielded the spear in an instant, and shot forward too, colliding with the monster midair. The air rippled and shockwaves exploded outward, destroying everything even further.
Northern drove the spear between the monster’s gaping maws that wanted to snatch him and make a snack out of him with no effort.
The monster’s maw was caught open for a brief moment; however, the spear snapped and came crashing down. Before that happened though, Northern had already fired three more into the enlarged mouth.
He controlled the frozen spears from within and began to use Absolute Zero; however, the monster suddenly began to boil, smoke billowing from its skin, its scales reddening even more and eyes blazing.
Then Northern began to feel the effect of his skill being reversed. However, he did not stop there.
Taking advantage of the little ice that was being destabilized in the body of the Leviathan, Northern used a combination that he devised on the whim.
It was simply the complete opposite of Absolute Zero.
The destabilization was breaking down the freezing molecules of his ice components, the ones that continuously spread. There was a fragment of law each of those molecules carried, and when that fragment emerged as law, that was what enforced the rule of Absolute Zero — all things freeze, even movement.
However, if he did the complete opposite, delicately using the advantage of the law and the Heat of Sun’s Legacy, he could flip the rules and make them the exact opposite too.
This would raise the heat to a standard that was obviously not hundred, but would keep rising infinitely. This was simply the essence of the difference.
In such a moment, he couldn’t have thought of a better name than...
"Absolute Heat."
The words left his lips not in a shout, but in a whisper — yet they thundered through reality like a divine proclamation.
The Leviathan shrieked as the law embedded in the ice fragments inverted. The frozen particles inside its mouth, throat, and chest did not melt — they ignited. But this was not flame as the world knew it. This was heat that was not born from combustion, but from conceptual ignition.
The very laws that governed temperature — what could be burned, what could be endured — were being rewritten in real time.
Northern’s eyes blazed with radiance, twin stars of blue flames. His entire body was wrapped in a chaotic halo: embers dancing with frost, light bending from the sheer contrast of concepts battling to coexist.
The Leviathan convulsed midair.
Its entire form bulged unnaturally, as if something was expanding from within. Its own thermal regulation, honed over countless millennia, began to fail. Its inner core — what once fueled its corruption — reacted violently, surging against the ancient bindings that kept its monstrous biology intact.
And yet, Northern wasn’t done.
He moved like a streak of lightning across the Leviathan’s massive form, embedding more spears into the beast — not for damage, but as anchors. With each one, he wove more of the unstable conceptual law of Absolute Heat into the monster’s very blood.
Northern grinned wickedly, savoring the Leviathan’s tormented reaction with glory and splendor. Since the beginning of the battle, this seemed to be the first real damage the bastard was receiving.
Northern’s grin stretched even wider.
"Yes! Dance for me!!"
He raised his hands to the sky, and hundreds of ice spears materialized, blanketing the air. All of them plunged into the beast, anchoring Absolute Heat within.
The Evil Dragon continued to convulse, and the convulsions dragged on. It wasn’t difficult to tell that its cells were being torn apart at an alarming rate.
Northern paused, his smile slowly dying as he watched the Leviathan.
Indeed, everything that comprised its existence was under intense heat that never stopped rising, hence there was a sequence of movement too fast for the monster’s body and mind to process. However, the monster should already be dying by now.
A dark frown creased Northern’s brow. He watched the creature with keen eyes, staring for a few seconds.
Then he saw it.
Immediately, he gritted his teeth.
’This bastard...’
As fast as the rules of Absolute Heat tormented the Evil Dragon, it was rewriting the laws of its soul, body, and mind with the same speed and effectiveness. It was a loop of destruction — it felt like restoration flowed with destruction in an endless cycle, with the same speed and same power.
Everything was chaotic, and that chaos raging inside the monster felt just right.
At that point, Northern’s eyes trembled and widened.
He moved, but suddenly the world shifted, causing him to halt.
He frowned, terror etched in stark lines across his face. Northern didn’t know what more could go wrong at this point. Absolute Lock, while it might have sealed the monster’s abilities, was completely useless against the sheer potency of its will.
And now, it seemed like the damned creature was about to unleash something truly malevolent into the world.
Northern began to perspire.