The Witch Hunter System - Chapter 1034

When Hecate entered isolated cultivation, she was prepared to spend several months or even a year to advance her Divine Soul to Rank 7. However, contrary to the usual cold, icy cave, she chose a cultivation chamber of pitch-black darkness.

Normally, isolated cultivation for Divine Beings at her level could last dozens of years to hundreds of years without seeing any improvements. On the other hand, advancing up the ranks might not even take a single year.

It was like the difference between blindly searching for something in absolute darkness and following the only source of light directly.

Since Hecate was enlightened on the nature of the Nihility Law, she discovered the solution to escape the constraints of her unique Soul Constitution, which didn't let her advance her Divine Soul to Rank 7.

Unlike most beings, her soul was like a glass jar with a fixed volume. There was only a limited amount of space inside for her soul power to occupy. Even if she filled it perfectly without any gaps, the bottleneck wouldn't change.

On the other hand, the Soul Constitution of most beings was normally like a balloon. It would stretch and inflate in size as they increase their soul power.

Although the balloon would reach a point where it would resist inflation and the pressure of soul power within would increase, preventing the addition of more soul power, the upper limit of the balloon's volume was still greater than the glass jar.

Hecate's glass jar-like Soul Constitution was called the Rigid Soul by some beings. Its nature resisted change and was vulnerable to shattering if forcefully applied.

Even though her initial improvement was much faster than other beings with balloon-like Soul Constitutions, her limit was fixed.

Naturally, forcing more soul power into the glass jar when it was already full could increase soul density and pressure. However, if the glass jar weren't strong enough to handle such density and pressure, it would only break.

As a Peak Rank 6 Divine Being, Hecate's Divine Soul had long reached that limit.

Nevertheless, through her comprehension of the Nihility Law, she understood that there were forces smaller than atoms and countless times faster than the speed of light.

Third-dimensional beings normally could not perceive such forces, but they have always existed. Since they couldn't be perceived, no one could discover or prove their existence. As such, they remained non-existent and unknown.

That was the realm of nihility.

The realm of nihility wasn't simply about the state of nothingness; it encompassed the undiscovered, unobservable, and unimaginable—Everything that people didn't know was possible or existed.

It was also the key to understanding and interacting with the higher dimension.

Since it was a concept far removed from the third physical dimension, it could only be perceived and understood through the powerful visualization of a creative mind. Only the virtual realm of imagination was not bound by anything like the shackling laws of the third physical dimension.

Inside the realm of imagination, a worthless pebble could suddenly become an object of more value, like gold.

Of course, this could also be achieved in reality and not just imagination.

The power of mana allowed the denizens of Chaos to command magic, the process of imposing their wills on the world and turning the imaginary into reality.

In Chaos, anything seemed possible with the use of mana and a sufficiently high level of existence.

However, due to their heavy dependence on mana, most denizens of Chaos also became shackled in their thinking, treating mana as something that has always existed.

Few would think twice before questioning and looking into its origins.

As someone quite knowledgeable, Hecate had come to realize that while mana was native to Chaos, it was not natural. Just looking into the history of every chaosverse before their integration with Chaos would prove this.

She was led to believe that the mana that everyone took for granted may have been a source of power that higher beings like the Lord of Chaos had refined and drawn from the realm of nihility.

Although everyone understood the power of nihility that lay outside Chaos could erase anyone and anything from existence, Hecate had never really understood the process of erasure until Vaan enlightened her.

The concept of objects disappearing into non-existence when reaching an unimaginably high speed had allowed Hecate to perceive matters differently.

Planets orbited the stars, and stars orbited black holes.

Chaos was filled with galaxies, each having a super black hole that countless stars revolved around.

If a mortal drifted off-planet, they might not feel or realize it, but they were actually traveling at an incredibly high speed as their home planet dragged them along in its orbit around the local star.

Suppose they drifted out of the star system. In that case, they could be moving at an even greater speed as they get dragged into the cosmic shift of their local galaxy along with the rest of the stars that orbited the super black hole at its center.

All the celestial bodies in a chaosverse seemed to orbit something greater. In that case, what did the chaosverses orbit prior to their integration?

More importantly, what was Chaos currently orbiting after tying all these chaosverses together?

Although Hecate wouldn't know what that something was, she could at least assume Chaos was moving at an incomprehensibly and unimaginably high speed that could be thousands or even millions of times greater than the speed of light.

At this level of speed, even a dust particle could turn into the most lethal piercing projectile.

Who knew how much nihility dust smashed into a person to completely obliterate them from existence in an instant once they escaped the protective boundaries of Chaos?

Hecate didn't know the precise numbers, but she believed that simulating the destructive power of nihility in her mind helped her comprehend the Nihility Law.

In the past days or weeks, she had remained completely still in the isolated chamber of darkness, her eyes closed. Solitude surrounded her, and emptiness filled her being, but no loneliness entered her heart.

She was deeply immersed in her visual simulations and couldn't even tell the passage of time.