Rise of the Cosmic_Emperor

Hal placed his hands on his hips and looked up as he said with his wide grin unchanged,

"Take away governance and it creates a vacuum of power, it creates anarchy. Once you have been taken out of the equation, the Continent will collapse atop itself if left unchecked for too long but that vacuum is exactly what I require. I can not replace you as the innate governing force of the Dystopian Continent if I don't get rid of you first after all"

The atmosphere in the hall stilled and the tension of combat heightened which Hal expected and accepted with a smile as pressure attacked him from all sides aiming to cripple his consciousness which he was using to infiltrate the core of the Nexus stone.

Before the pressure could hit Hal's consciousness, which appeared like a full-sized apparition of the real Hal, he vanished into the concept that all of Hal's power was now being based on or at least being improved upon in the case of his Sovereignty.ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ ɴovelFɪre.net

Hal's consciousness began to exist nowhere as well as everywhere within the stone all at once. He spread all over the internals of the Nexus stone like an infinite affliction that instantly caused the Stone's consciousness to feel worried and attempt some sort of retaliation.

It took focused thought for the stone's consciousness to remind itself that this was its domain which it controlled and could do with as it saw fit.

Immediately, it put its idea into action by morphing the internals of the space to make the area of Hal's corruption much more condensed and hence easier to attack but alas the stone's consciousness had greatly underestimated the immense reach of Hal's infinity.

No matter how it condensed or manipulated the space within itself, Hal was still infinitely spread within. That said, the stone remained optimistic as it believed it had found where the core of Hal's corrupting consciousness was.

It isolated that area and then attacked it with an incredible principle-guided focus that hit the core and destroyed it.

A second or two passed before Hal cheekily said in a deadpan tone,

"Missed me,"

Immediately Hal spoke, multiple cores appeared for the Stone's consciousness to attempt to destroy.

"Crush as many as you want. Many more will appear" Hal said.

None of the cores he made to appear was particularly fake. They were quite real and that was why they worked so well to trick the Stone's consciousness.

What Hal had done was to employ a more advanced use of infinity that he was not allowed in the physical world to replicate the cores that were under attack and give himself multiple backups so that his consciousness could continue corrupting and unraveling the core from within.

To destroy Hal in the entirety, the stone's consciousness would have to destroy him completely but he was too infinitely spread and too intricately interlocked with the stone for that to be possible.

There was likely a way but before the stone could discover it, Hal would be done with his corruption and unraveling.

The stone consciousness, controlling all of the power accessible to the Nexus stone let loose and went about striking as many of the replicating cores as it could all to no avail. It even used its control of the stone's internals to pinpoint every one of them but its attack was not as fast as the replicating ability of Infinity.

Hal made more progress with his unraveling and at that point, the stone's consciousness decided to throw caution to the wind, combine with the Nexus Stone's internals and attack Hal as one with the Stone.

The reason it had not done this before was because the strain of it(the stone's consciousness) and Hal being spread all over the internal of the stone would further damage the stone's integrity.

Alas, there was no other option at hand and the stone's consciousness would rather have the integrity of the stone compromised than let Hal complete his plan.

Outside the battle taking place within the stone, Hal was still standing with the stone in his hands and the four Dystopian Continent rulers watched as a crack appeared on the surface of the formidable Nexus stone.

Within, the stone's consciousness continued with its attempts at getting Hal's corruption to stop and if Hal's consciousness could grin in its formless corrupting state, he would have because the Stone's consciousness had only made things easier for him.

"Wha- What is this?" the stone's consciousness asked as it felt Infinity begin to wrap around it.

Once Hal's infinity got a good hold, it never relented in pulling the stone's consciousness into itself. Hal even paused spreading corruption and unraveling the insides to focus on the consciousness itself.

Slowly but surely, he absorbed the stone's consciousness until he had swallowed it completely and he used what he gained from that swallow and absorption to power the unraveling process and it sped it all up.

In seconds, Hal was done and the entire Dystopian Continent felt it in the tremor of the ground and in the immense pressure that attacked them as the innate governing force was pulled away from the Continent like an invisible Dome that had always been present up until now.

Hal's consciousness exited the Nexus stone and his body vanished to reappear in the sky to complete what he had started.

The Nexus stone remained as durable as ever but the fact that its consciousness had been swallowed by Hal rendered it vulnerable enough for Hal to unleash the might of his cultivation as a Demi-god heightened by his bloodline-bestowed battle prowess, coupled with his Sovereignty over all things with roots in cosmic energy in one form of the other after which he enveloped all that in the ever encompassing and empowering concept of infinity.

When he struck the Nexus stone with this compound of attacks, there was at first just a bright flash in the sky that everyone all over the continent could see on account of how wide the flash spread and how bright it was.

Only when the flash of light began to dim a few seconds later did a massive explosion follow,

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

The explosion was felt all over the continent and not just from the waves blowing from the epicenter in the sky above the Serpent Chief's estate but also in the ground they all stood on.

Everything began to go wrong.

Breathing alone became dangerous and killed even cultivators. The very fundamentals that made it possible to live on the Dystopian Continent began to fall apart.

Gelread Valley, the barren land that demarcated the Dystopian Continent from the Human/Haron Continent was getting torn apart to further the destruction of the Dystopian Continent all aimed at cutting it off the Nexus world completely.

Beasts wailed, cultivators tried and failed to make an escape as a force bore down on them all to stop them from making any moves.

It did not matter whether they were Transcendent Beasts or even Demi-gods the likes of Elenor and Alvira, no one was able to move a limb and were stuck at the mercy of the destruction so far out of their possible sphere of usefulness.

Hal was not bore down by those forces though and he wasn't actually in his normal form anymore.

Hal's robes had transformed into Imperial Garments formed thickly of power and nothing more. The garments were thick with cosmic energy and Sovereignty and the aura around Hal commanded all natural forces such as Ordinances, Abstract or Elemental, to bow and seize.

His black hair got an increase in its mysterious hue and adorning his head was a magnificent crown made of the same material as his Imperial robes and oozing with Sovereign Authority.

Hal's skin was a light bronze color giving off a golden-mixed-with-Sapphirine Blue glow and clutched in his right hand was his Sovereign Scepter, the symbol of his Sovereign Law.

His eyes remained the totally Sapphire blue orbs speckled with gold that they were in his normal form and the gold specks glittered brightly as Hal unleashed his force to drive from the sky where he was and into the Dystopian Continent ground where it sought the unraveling and imploding core.

The core was fragmented and Hal did not bother attempting to fix it, rather he sped up the process. Once it was gone and the Dystopian Continent began to fragment, Hal created another core from his Sovereign energy and he used Infinity to stretch out to the farthest reaches of the Continent to tie it all to the core.

The trembling stopped and the breaks that had been appearing at Gelread valley sealed up as the Dystopian Continent became a part of the Nexus world as it used to be but now under a new government.

The pressure that had been bearing down on all denizens of the Dystopian continent seized and they were all able to regain their standing postures.

Yeah, there had been casualties during the calamity and sure not all of them had surrendered to Hal's rule but that did not stop any of the trillions of alive Dystopian denizens from looking up to behold the absolute picture of power and grace that was universally present in their skies.