The Witch Hunter System

In the sea of stars, Vaan fled further and further away from Planet Pangea and the moon as Abaddon pursued him. Surprisingly, Vaan wasn't given a chance to turn around, not with Abaddon hot on his tail.

Abaddon had given up on his other laws and completely focused on using the Asura Law, knowing it was the most effective to deal with Vaan.

With each Asura-powered attack wildly launched at him, the space destabilized.

Space itself seemingly wanted to fracture like cracked glass, causing passage through it to become more difficult. In most cases, it shouldn't have been easily affected by such casual attacks unless it possessed the power of space.

However, they were in the sea of stars, which appeared split by the long, fragmented dimensional crack stretching into its boundless depths.

Space was already unstable in this dark region of the void.

As such, it was more easily affected by the power of Origin Laws, especially since the ancient wars of the distant past had already ruined it countless times.

It didn't take long before Vaan was chased to a small region of space debris he had once visited and fought his battle with the Earth Spirit Worm.

Unfortunately, this region of space debris wasn't particularly useful against Abaddon besides hindering his sight periodically. Even so, that was enough for Vaan to sneakily construct another hydrogen bomb and catch him off guard.

Abaddon figured he didn't need the Asura Domain's protection as long he pressured Vaan with his close pursuit and prevented him from freely constructing the hydrogen bomb.

However, that would be his undoing.

Vaan quickly weaved through the space debris, periodically disappearing out of Abaddon's sight before he further leaped through space, making it even more difficult for the latter to keep track of him.

In those instances, he constructed parts of his hydrogen bomb and hid them inside his Heaven-Swallowing Space.

He repeated the same steps until he gathered everything besides his hydrogen isotopes of deuterium and tritium, his fusion fuel, leaving them for last.

Meanwhile, Abaddon continued to chase him madly, smashing through every piece of space debris in his way.

After Vaan sneakily completed his hydrogen bomb, which had the power of one megaton of TNT, he hid it behind another space debris and disappeared through space.

Just as Abaddon smashed through it, Vaan gave him the surprise he deserved, detonating the hydrogen bomb lying in wait.

Ka-boom!!!

The entire region of space debris quickly lit up like a white sun, with specks of blue, green, and purple here and there as the intense heat from the explosion burned up the scarce air in the area.

At the same time, the space debris in the region shattered into bits, scattering off into the far reaches of the dark void by the powerful explosion.

Like before, Abaddon sensed the imminent danger from the hydrogen bomb's internal reactions.

However, he had little to prepare for such a close-contact explosion.

Although Abaddon covered himself in the power of the Asura Law to the best of his ability in such a short time, the hydrogen bomb still stripped away most of his defense and scorched him with the fiery might of the sun.

Even a highly-condensed Asura Domain would not fully protect him.

At the same time, the Earth Spirit Worm that faithfully tailed behind him also dived head-first into the radiant region of scorching air, obliterating into earthen dust.

Vaan watched the bright spectacle from over 200 kilometers away but still felt the effects of the hydrogen bomb explosion as debris fragments flew past him with incredible speed.

'He wouldn't survive a hydrogen bomb explosion in such close proximity, would he?' Vaan wondered.

Not even three minutes into the big blast, a second round of explosion suddenly erupted, blowing away everything from the affected region.

Vaan's gaze quickly sharpened.

After noticing a large mass of muscles and crystalized blood emerge from the explosion, his gaze became more serious.

Surprisingly, Abaddon had survived the explosion.

However, he no longer shared any resemblance to his former appearance. In fact, his appearance had undergone a complete metamorphosis during the explosion.

His body mass had increased over thirty times, and he had grown several more limbs and heads. At the same time, he didn't have a single layer of skin, just pure muscles and blood spores keeping his body together.

Furthermore, Asura Runes were seemingly fused into his ghastly body.

'Did the nuclear fusion power force the Asura Law to assimilate into his body and undergo a rapid mutation in his divine blood?' Vaan wondered with a serious look.

Abaddon had turned into an ugly, disgusting, bloody abomination of a being.

However, it was also this unsightly form that made him look like a real devil, one with the most devilish nature and capable of instilling infinite terror with its mere presence.

Despite being so far away, the Blood Devil Abaddon still managed to lock onto Vaan's location.

As the Earth Spirit Worm reformed nearby, Blood Devil Abaddon immediately grabbed it. Tendrils of dark blood quickly wrapped around the humongous Earth Spirit Worm and constricted, siphoning away its strength.

The Earth Spirit Worm issued a never-before-seen painful roar, creating various spacequakes in the region.

For the first time, the Earth Spirit Worm finally showed fear. It managed to break free from Blood Devil Abaddon's bloody tendrils by sacrificing a part of its true form.

Afterward, it fled the region, no longer daring to pursue him.

At the same time, Blood Devil Abaddon didn't pursue it; his gaze was still locked in Vaan's direction.

His scalps immediately tingled.

He burned Abaddon with the power of the sun, but instead of killing him, he created a more fearsome opponent.

Although there no longer seemed to be a shred of intelligence in the Blood Devil Abaddon's eyes, his power had undoubtedly increased, especially after assimilating a part of the Earth Spirit Worm's fourth-dimensional body.

Blood Devil Abaddon's mind seemed terribly twisted to the point that only malice and wrath remained.

This was a result outside of Vaan's calculations.

Several variables had coincided to produce such an unprecedented and unimaginable result.

Vaan knew his tribulation would come with surprises… But this? This was something else.

What was the main trigger?

Ding!

<You have detected a scarce amount of Fourth Dimensional Energy in the area>

<Your proficiency in perceiving the hidden information from the void has slightly increased>

"…"