True Cosmic Annihilation!

The Great Emperor's earlier probing had been to determine whether Annihilation could be sealed in his current state. If his true body had been here, then of course he could have done so at any time. Other than the Abyss, he had never feared anyone on his path of conquest...

Unfortunately, there was no if.

Not only did he currently possess energy reserves only slightly greater than Lowett's, but as the core controlling that power, his soul—interwoven with the Light and Dark Law—was in truth merely a false Soul Body constructed from a strand of Divine Sense.

Neither the hardware nor the software was complete.

Even if he forced the seal open with his wealth of practical experience, insufficient control would almost certainly cause the spell to spiral out of control.

After all... his opponent was, at the very least, a pseudo-"Law Form Dual Ruler."

"Law Form" referred to a Great, Supreme, Omniscient, Omnipotent Lord of Creation like the Great Emperor—one who could not be spoken of, heard, or named. The "Law" here did not refer to any one individual law, but to all of them.

It was obvious that upon reaching his realm, racial labels such as "human" and "mage" could no longer encompass such greatness and inscrutability. Only the word "Law" itself could summarize the form of his existence.

If "Ruler" corresponded to "king," then "Law Form" corresponded to "human."

And "pseudo-Law Form" was a form beneath his perfected realm of Law, yet one that had genuinely grasped that realm, equivalent to...

An upright ape?

In any case, it was more advanced than ordinary beasts and had already undergone a qualitative transformation.

Then came the "Dual Ruler"!

Dual Ruler was actually easier to understand. Just as the name implied: 1 + 1 = 2; single plus single equaled