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Chapter 16 - Chapter 16: The Logic of the Null Strike ‎

‎The command from the paralyzed Celestial Demon Assembly (CDA) was the only functional sound in the war room. I was airborne immediately, moving with a quicker, deadlier efficiency gained from the Blivixis Gradient.

I. The Collapsed Reality

‎The capital district was a nightmare of failing Order.

‎The world was invisible to me behind the cloth of my blindfold, but my Echo Mapping painted a three-dimensional map of pure frequency.

‎The buildings were crumbling not visually, but acoustically—their structural integrity wailed in a rising, destructive frequency as the Law of Mass was overwritten.

‎The source of the devastation stood in the intersection.

‎The Denvigorix—the terrifying, humanoid host abomination—stood still.

‎Its voice, a high-frequency, grating vibration that tore at the conceptual anchors of reality, attempted to engage my consciousness.

‎"Contractor's host," the Denvigorix's sound grated across my mind, demanding comprehension. "You hear the chaos. You are blind to the lie of Order. Join the collapse."

‎I registered its pitch, its spatial location, and its intent instantly. The conscious, intelligent speech of the Denvigorix was merely a complex wave of sound that needed filtering.

‎My duty was the necessary equation.

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II. The Surgical Anti-Thesis of the Blind Inverter

‎The Denvigorix lifted a warped humanoid arm and began to gather the surrounding distorted spacetime, the process manifesting as a massive, rising crescendo of chaotic noise in my hearing.

‎I moved—not with the sight of a demon, but with the speed and sharpness of a being who heard the fabric of reality fraying.

‎I waited until the chaotic energy was milliseconds from impact, using my heightened perception to map the sonic flow.

‎Then, I struck.

‎The attack was guided by my mastery of Existence Threading, targeting the Chaos Core—the singular point where the Fold infection met the host's life force.

‎I located this point purely by the difference in frequency between the host's residual energy and the Fold's chaotic invasion.

‎I used Hush's Silent Strike (the perfect transference of my Inversion Energy) to apply a lethal mathematical paradox to the Core's structural definition.

‎The Null Strike was executed in total silence.

‎The intelligent consciousness of the Denvigorix shrieked in conceptual terror as its own logic turned on itself.

‎Its corrupt, finite form was instantly forced to reconcile contradictory cosmic rules.

‎The conflict was instant and internal.

‎The creature inverted itself into a column of inert, non-local energy particles, leaving behind a perfectly formed, human-sized silhouette of silence where the abomination had stood.

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III. The Weapon of Necessity

‎The battlefield fell silent.

‎The surrounding Demidemons witnessed the defeat of a reality-corrupting threat by a calculation that could only be achieved by a consciousness that perceived only pure, unadulterated frequency.

‎I ignored the observers.

‎My enhanced consciousness confirmed the immediate stability of the local spacetime.

‎Then I turned my attention to the single, consistent frequency I cared about.

‎I focused on the distant pulse of Elysa in the Observation Wing, confirming the stability of her rhythm.

‎She was processing the data—functional, and necessary.

‎I had proven my High Supreme Divisor status.

‎I was the weapon of necessity, armed with the cold, lethal logic of chaos, perceived only through the darkness.

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