Curse Returns, a gamble from the start, I awaken dual spells

Chapter 161 New Spell

I don't know how much time passed.

Rito felt as if his body had been thrown into some kind of scalding liquid, and every inch of his skin was burning.

Consciousness floated in the darkness, sometimes clear, sometimes confused.

He could feel someone calling him and a hand touching his forehead.

But everything seemed to be through thick glass, blurry and indistinct.

Until one moment, a piece of information suddenly appeared in his mind.

That message appeared naturally in his mind the moment he combined "Absolute Zero Coffin" and "Hall of Annihilation".

It was as if some knowledge etched deep within the soul was activated at that moment.

"entropy----"

The rational mind murmured to itself.

"Nothing in the universe can escape the law of increasing entropy."

"From order to disorder, from life to death, from existence to dissipation."

"This is the fundamental law of the universe, and the end of all sorcery—"

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"And my technique—"

"It seems we've touched the edge of this law—no, we've touched the law itself—"

A strange, indescribable emotion welled up in Li Ren's heart.

If his technique truly touches upon the law of "entropy"—

What does that mean?

Does this mean he has mastered a power that transcends conventional magic?

Or does it mean————

Has he embarked on a path of no return?

A hazy, intoxicating feeling, like thick ink, enveloped the rational person's consciousness.

I don't know how much time passed.

A ray of light pierced the darkness.

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Rihito slowly opened his eyes. His vision was initially filled with blurry light and shadow, which gradually became clearer.

What he saw was—a sea of ​​white.

A pure white ceiling, pure white walls, and a pure white floor.

Everything was white, without any decoration, without any texture, and not even a speck of dust could be seen.

Rito slowly sat up, supporting himself on the ground, a dull ache shooting through his head.

Looking around, I found myself lying in a huge white space.

The shape of the space resembles the interior of some kind of geometric solid, with each surface as smooth as a mirror and no gaps at their intersections.

What's even more unsettling is that there are no entrances or exits here.

There is no structure that can be called a "channel".

"here it is----"

"Rational people!"

The sound of Tiger Stick came from not far away.

Rito turned his head and saw Itadori walking quickly toward him, his face showing obvious worry, but his mental state seemed to have recovered quite a bit.

Behind him, Fu Hei also stood up. Although his face was still a little pale, his movements were no longer weak and his breathing was much more steady.

Xiaoye was curled up in the corner. When she saw Rito wake up, her eyes lit up and she stood up, leaning against the wall.

"Are you all alright?" Rito asked.

"Almost." Itari rubbed his shoulder. "I don't know when the injury I got before healed, but now I feel full of energy."

Fushiguro Megumi walked over, her gaze sweeping across the white space: "—Where is this place?"

Rito remained silent for a moment, then slowly stood up.

His gaze swept across the white space, and a strange feeling welled up in his heart.

This is not just a simple space.

He could sense a kind of regular force flowing slowly through this space, like invisible veins connecting every inch of space.

"It should be the third level," Rito said.

Both Itadori and Fushiguro looked at him at the same time.

How did you know?

"I feel it." Rito closed his eyes slightly.

"I can sense the same power in this space as before—an extension of the Death Return Barrier. We've passed the second stage and are now entering the third."

"How do we get out of here?" Xiaoye's voice carried a hint of unease. "There's nothing here."

Li Ren did not answer immediately.

He raised his right hand and carefully examined his palm.

The strange feeling in his heart grew stronger and stronger.

While he was unconscious, he received a message.

That message was like a seed, quietly sprouting deep within his consciousness and growing into something he had never encountered before.

He closed his eyes, sank his consciousness into his body, and began to feel his own technique.

The moment his mind touched the core of the curse, his heart suddenly raced.

changed.

His techniques have truly changed.

Originally, he possessed two independent techniques: "Zero Pivot" and "Withered Rot".

They are like two parallel rivers, independent of each other, each fulfilling its own function.

But now—

The rational consciousness cautiously touched that new power.

It is no longer two rivers, but has become a vast ocean.

That was a completely new technique resulting from the fusion of different methods.

Two completely opposite forces merged together in a way he couldn't comprehend.

Just like the convergence of Yin and Yang, something more fundamental is born that transcends binary opposition.

"Zero Pivot" is the forced imposition of "absolute order".

It forces the entropy of the target to zero through the motion of stationary molecules, achieving an absolute state of stillness.

That is the end where all things return to silence, where time is frozen in eternity.

"Decay" is a forced imposition of "absolute chaos".

It accelerates the motion of molecules, pushing the entropy of the target to its limit, thus accelerating its decay and disintegration.

It is an accelerator that leads all things toward destruction, a decay that corrodes life.

Now, these two have been combined to create a third technique.

Rihito slowly opened his eyes, a deep gray light appearing in his pupils.

He raised his right hand, palm up, and a gray ball of light slowly condensed into shape.

But it was this empty sphere of light that emitted an aura that caused Itadori and Fushiguro Megumi to take a step back simultaneously.

"Riri---What's that?" Itadori's voice carried a hint of wariness.

Li Ren didn't answer; he just stared at the gray sphere of light, sensing the power contained within it.

"Entropy-free————"

He whispered the name.

The name of this technique naturally came to mind the moment he condensed the ball of light.

No entropy.

It transcends simple order and chaos, directly touching upon the fundamental structure of the world—"information".

The effects of "zero pivot" and "decay" are on the physical state of matter.

Entropy-free processes, on the other hand, affect information itself.

In the face of entropy-free conditions, the target is no longer a single object or living organism, but a collection of countless pieces of information.

Its shape, mass, properties, meaning, causal relationships—everything about it is information.

What entropy-free operations need to do is very simple—

It forcibly assigns a causal ending to the target, one that is "destined to return to nothingness".

Like a miniature model of the heat death of the universe.

In that instant, all the information that constitutes the target plummeted from the definition of "existence" into the abyss of "non-existence".

That wasn't physical damage.

Physical destruction involves breaking, burning, or decomposing an object, but the atoms that make it up still exist, only their form has changed.

Entropylessness directly erases the qualification of a target to "exist".

The target did not shatter, burn, or explode.

It simply disappeared.

To disappear "logically" from the world.

It's as if it never existed.

Li Ren slowly clenched his fist and retracted the gray orb into his body.

His gaze fell on the wall of that white space, and he slowly walked over.

Tiger Rod and the others followed behind him, watching him place his hand on the wall.

"What are you going to do?" Fushiguro asked.

"Give it a try," Rito said calmly.

He closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into that gray ocean.

Under his guidance, the magical power flowed slowly, pouring into the white wall.

Then..

hum.

A very slight tremor.

The area on the white wall where his palm was pressed began to become transparent, revealing an equally pure white passage behind it.

"Is this my new technique? If I use it on the prison gates, will it break the seal directly?"

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Thinking of this, Rito's heart began to pound.