Chapter 7
While I absorbed the planet I thought back to the ability I just created
"That ability is too dangerous, if I was in a cramped space using it could have potentially killed me."
"When creating It I envisioned an ability that would destroy anything no matter what"
"And now the ability destroys any concepts in existence, of course there are entities that exist outside of existence. The truly terrifying ones, I'm not exactly sure if it would even do anything to beings like them"
As I finished absorbing the planet it granted me a great deal of power, not only did I absorb the literal energy of the planet itself but also the energy of the beings that inhabit the planet. By merely absorbing Terrible Tornado's power I managed to create the most powerful ability in my arsenal.
* sigh *
Gaining all this extra power just makes me even more annoyed that I couldn't either get Saitama's adaptability for myself or gain his body as a permanent vessel.
Now the only person left in this universe that could potentially kill me is the entity calling himself GOD. Even now he hasn't made a move to attack me which is weird since now would be the perfect time when im recovering from my fight with Saitama.
But no matter, I'll just go back to that universe where the incompetent vessel is. I haven't fully analysed the energy that is present in the air in that universe.
The beings of that universe seem to all have the same energy, however they are incredibly bad at manipulating it. To use their abilities or what they call jutsus they need to perform hand signs, they cant just consciously will their energy to move where they want.
" well whatever it doesn't matter, after the world gets conquered if it doesnt have anything that can boost my power or be useful in some way then It will just get absorbed."
After saying that I connected to the connection my dimension had with this universe ready to leave this universe and head back to my dimension.
* CRACK *
Just as I was about to go back to my dimension space cracked, five meters from my position a gray tentacle emerged erasing space as it tried to get to me.
The moment I saw it so casually erase a concept such as space so easily while I could only crack it and only with my recent ability could I erase it, the moment I saw that I instantly ran, trying to use my connection my dimension had with this universe to instantly appear back in my dimension.
Before I could though the tentacle latched onto my connection which greatly shocked me since my connection wasnt a physical one or even a mental one but a conceptual one.
With every pull my connection connection with this universe destabilized, if the connection was broken before I reached my dimension then I would be stuck in this universe with whatever this….entity was.
I couldn't sense it with my soul sense, It was as if there was nothing infront of me. If I wasnt directly looking at it, I wouldn't even know it was there, this fact greatly shocked me and made me even more cautious.
This doesn't mean I wouldn't try though.
"[Concept Corruption: Matter]" I said
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Nothing happened.
"[Concept Corruption: Existence]" I said once more as this time I targeted it's very being, everything that makes it what it is, was targeted ...…..nothing happened, it still latched onto my connection not receiving an ounce of damage.
"Yup, im out." I said.
"The only thing that could potentially even harm this fucking thing is my concept eradication."
"And using that while he is latched onto my connection would be dumb."
"Only GOD can take this thing down now, luckily I won't be here to see what it does to him." I laughed as my dimension pulled me through the connection and before the tentacle could pull me back I decisively cut the connection, finally arriving back in my dimension.
"Nothing I had worked on it…..it's like it existed but it didn't exist at the same time…..my ability couldn't identify it as a concept…..it's like it wasn't there." I said
I knew I wasn't that powerful, with my full power I could destroy an entire galaxy and if I got a suitable vessel that could hold my power then my power output triples. And if that vessel had any powers then I would take it but…..thats still nothing compared to what I just saw.
"....How does one go about being able to interact and influence existence yet at the same time not being apart of existence!?" I said to myself in annoyance.
I stood there in my dimension bound by my eternal chains, trying to quantify and analyze what I just saw in the One Punch Man universe. My mind came up with many ways that I thought I could achieve non-existence, the same thing that tentacle had.
But I knew everything my mind came up with was nonsense, even when I thought about the most difficult thing possible like absorbing beings like TOA or merging with the bleed from DC...
Even if I did all of that I would still be considered a being in existence….it made no sense to me. In fact I could feel that the longer I thought about this topic the more my soul starts to break down.
Realising that I calculated how long it would take for my entire soul to be destroyed and forced my soul to stopped thinking about it.
"10 years, 10 years is how long it would take for me to just die by thinking about this thing."
"Well then."
"Apart from me breaking out of this dimension, my new goal is to become a [Non-existent entity]." I said
"Which means Sayota is gonna have to handle things for a while longer, I'm not coming back to this dimension without finding a powerful vessel that can actually handle my power." I said as I prepared myself to head once again."
"With how weak that world is, Sayota should be good with just calling upon the 1% of my power."
While Adrian decided to go to another universe to gain a suitable and powerful vessel that could handle his power and to also study on how to become a non-existent entity, Sayota was still trying to figure out how he would go about creating a hack.
"Hmm, a hack." Sayota said
"My two strongest affinities right now are fire and water, if I were to try and combine them I would get steam…..but how exactly could I turn a steam based technique into a hack?"
"Something unfair to others and unique to me and me alone."
"Because of me being master's vessel, my attacks directly target the enemy's essence, which is their soul." Sayota continued.
"That in itself is already a hack, it completely ignores an enemy's durability and will target their soul as long as it hits."
"Which means my main focus on creating this technique should be making it extremely hard to avoid, and increasing the damage I can deal on an opponent's soul."
Sayota sighed, he merely had basic ninjutsus and with the boost from becoming Adrian's vessel his physical strength, speed and durability were on par with an S rank ninja.
His arsenal was basic, his talent and ability to understand jutsus was average at best before he became Adrian's vessel, now his talent still hasn't increased but he has more options.
"I wont dissapoint master, I'll create a technique that I can rely on and not have to call on master's power!" Sayota said with a maddening determination.
Sitting alone in the dark room, Sayota abruptly stood up. His eyes were blank as his hands moved to form an unknown handsign.
Sayota's body started to rapidly disappear and reappear, everytime it disappeared it would reappear through steam. This continued for five minutes until the steam created from him mixing water and fire affinities started to slowly turn black, his skin fell off and his organs fell out of his body
Every body part that Sayota lost however would turn to black steam as they reconnected back with him. The steam rapidly expanded then came back trying to form into a humanoid figure, until finally Sayota's figure emerged bearing some slight changes.
His otherwise white hair now had a few strands of black hair in it, his body had this perpetual swirling black mist around his body, giving him a certain aura that would make most normal people look away.
"I...didn't expect this." Sayota said
"My body…..is just steam now, I have no organs, no blood, nothing."
"This is good very good!" Sayota said excitedly
"I can see how this could my hack, my own unique ability." Sayota continued as he smiled eerily.
"According to master anything that is corrupted by [corruption], the ability that I have because of master will target the entity's soul as long as it hits, so this means ....if I just adjust my steam to be of extremely high temperature."
".....by merely touching me they would be receiving damage directly to their souls."
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"AHAHAHAAHHA, THIS IS GREAT THIS IS REALLY GREAT." Sayota laughed as he shouted in happiness
"I have to test this."
Sayota, attempting to test his newfound powers used the same handsign he had remembered his body instinctively doing when he was creating this ability.
Pitch black steam flew out of his body slowly moving according to it's master's will.
"Well…. It's still new afterall, the speed at which it moves is slow, terribly slow."
"But."
"I can see it's potential." Sayota said as he smiled
"If I train this ability enough I could probably reach a point where I could cover entire villages with my steam and by merely covering them with it they would eventually die due to my uniqueness of being master's vessel and my abilities directly targeting the soul."
"In the future I could even create constructs out of steam that could help me fight."
"With this, recruiting people to join master's cause shouldn't be much of a problem anymore." Sayota said