From the end of the world

Chapter 503 Abstraction

The cartographer's appearance had become very different from that of a human. At the same time, his body hidden under his cloak and coat was wriggling and churning, as if undergoing further distortion and mutation.

This was the first time I witnessed a doomsday survivor transform into a karma demon.

This kind of mutation is different from the demonic monsters with goat heads and human bodies that I have encountered in the past. Although the devil is the prototype of the monster, Ma Zao had said a long time ago that the devil of the doomsday era is completely different from the monsters in the modern world in appearance.

As the mutation of his soul and body deepened, the cartographer might also be rapidly losing the ability to speak like a human. He looked at me without saying a word, then pointed at me.

Whether it was the direction in the spiritual sense or the direction in the physical sense, he seemed to be the master of all directions. The large amount of building rubble circling at high speed in the sky was changed by him, and it bombarded me like a tilted waterfall.

With such an unreserved attack, I wonder if he has any consideration for the fact that there are not only me and Tan Xiang present, but also the two children he wants to "save"? And I no longer maintain a passive acting, and raised my hand to point at him.

A fireball formed at a very fast speed, and turned into a cannonball that hit the cartographer. The ruins of the safe house and the surrounding buildings were immediately engulfed in a huge sea of ​​fire. The high temperature, explosion, impact, and the huge waterfall of building rubble that fell towards me were easily blown away by the sudden huge explosion. The cartographer's power was more than one dimension lower than mine, so this result was inevitable.

Tan Xiang, who was lying on the ground, made a panicked sound. He probably thought he was going to be killed by the explosion, but I had already registered him in the white list of my flames. He closed his eyes and opened his mouth. After shouting for a while, he realized that he was not injured. His voice gradually became weaker, and then he opened his eyes blankly.

"I... I'm not dead?" he said in shock.

Then, he looked at the raging flames and the ruins after the explosion, then looked at me, and was shocked again, "Aren't you poisoned? Did you cause this explosion? Are you so strong!?"

Although the other person was not someone I was very familiar with, I couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment of "showing off in front of others" when I saw him showing this attitude towards my performance.

However, the matter is not over yet.

The cartographer disappeared in the explosion, but he was not really dead.

The ground around them suddenly began to shake, and Tan Xiang showed panic again.

This kind of thing should not have happened. Even if the character had reached the mature level after the transformation into a demon, it was still not even at the great mature level. It was so hard to understand that he could survive my attack, just like running over an ant with your foot but not being able to kill it.

Could it be that the other party happened to hide in the gap between the lines of the shoes? Not so. I understand how the other party survived, which involves changes in the realm of fate and cause and effect.

In the modern world, when I use my power as the Great Impermanence, it is always accompanied by all kinds of incredible wonders. When I want to attack someone, the other party's fate will be automatically twisted by my will into a shape that is absolutely impossible to escape. The "result" of the "hit" will occur first, and the "cause" will be supplemented later. In addition to this, there are many more wonders that cannot be explained by common sense, so I will not explain them one by one here.

This can be said to be a kind of "when the time comes, the heaven and earth will be united" achieved by force. However, in the doomsday era, since fate and cause and effect are in a state of chaos, these convenient effects no longer exist. My attack is just a "very powerful attack", and there is no special environment bonus. But the cartographer is different. Most of his soul has been transformed into a demon. He is no longer a human, but a "doomsday weirdness".

Karma Demons are strange creatures unique to the apocalypse era, and can be seen as beings that have evolved special adaptations to the apocalypse space-time environment. In my opinion, the chaotic space-time environment is probably like a fish in water for them.

At the moment I launched the attack, the monster did not flee in any direction of the real world, but fled in the direction of the metaphysical realm. It was like a three-dimensional human suddenly escaping to the second dimension, or escaping to an abstract world composed of words and symbols.

The cartographer had introduced his abilities, saying that the power of "guiding direction" could help him find a way out in times of danger, but even so, forcing himself to find a way out to the abstract world and allowing himself to physically move into it was just a wild idea. No matter how special and superior his abilities were, he could only do this after reaching the Great Perfection level.

And what he did was more than that. In Feng Shui theory, direction - or position - can also affect a person's fortune. Choosing the right direction can make things go smoothly and bring about a destiny of victory in every battle. Just now, when he was escaping, a strange phenomenon similar to "when the time comes, the heaven and earth will work together" occurred to him, which further strengthened the effect of his actions.

This also seems to prove that there is indeed some space-time order left in the doomsday era.

If he hadn't done this, he wouldn't have been able to escape my attack just now. He is no longer a human being now, so he is naturally no longer bound by the human cognitive framework. He can even deal with my high-speed attack without sticking to the concept of reaction speed. Just as Yin Yue, as a strange creature, can make changes that humans of the same strength cannot understand, mana is something that the more abnormal the user's brain is, the wider the scope of its effect.

The wind blew up again.

As we walked along the pedestrian street, all the buildings within sight began to break apart one after another, turning into countless pieces of rubble that gathered in the air.

Tan Xiang watched all this in amazement.

Even if he became a demon, the cartographer himself could not output enough mana to manipulate so many building rubbles. I think it was probably because this pedestrian street was his base. He had done a lot of preparations here in the past and distributed his power in various locations on the pedestrian street in advance. Now, these powers that could have been used to deal with the doomsday monsters have all become spearheads directed at humans.

Combining my experience in the abstract field and my current perception of the environment, I can barely judge the cartographer's current specific state - now he is no longer an "entity", but has become a "possibility". The existence of the cartographer is at this moment probabilistically distributed in the form of mathematics in the ruins of this pedestrian street.

He is everywhere and yet he is not everywhere.

He can rely on his magic power and the ability to "guide" the direction to interfere with the physical world at will, and the characters in the physical world cannot touch him directly. Even if I am the Great Impermanence, it is difficult to directly touch the existence of the abstract realm before analyzing and adapting to the time and space of the apocalyptic era.

However, this petty trick alone cannot be used as a reason for him to save his life from my next attack.

I raised my palms towards the air in front of me.

(End of this chapter)