Mastering Calamity, Sequence 14

In a distant, unknown space-time.

The silver-haired deity, whose lair had just been blown up, sat cross-legged above a starfield.

Suddenly,

the Silver-Haired Man opened his eyes.

A dark look flashed in them.

"They really did make a move against the Sequence Research Institute!"

"Looks like I was right. The Hell Sequence Bearer and the Hell Lord are connected to the woman whose fate was stolen eighteen years ago."

Countless threads of cause and effect coiled around the silver-haired deity.

Tiny ripples ran along them.

They were rooted in the Nodes of space-time,

binding billions of causes and effects.

Now,

the threads tied to the Sequence Research Institute had been disturbed.

The silver-haired deity sent his thoughts

along those threads to observe the entire Sequence Research Institute.

Then...

"Nothing!"

"Nothing!"

"Still nothing!"

"Why? Where did those two come from?"

The silver-haired deity was close to losing his mind.

Within the web of cause and effect,

neither the Hell Lord nor the Hell Sequence Bearer

was anything but a void.

It was as though neither of them existed in this world!

If the three thousand Hells had not been standing there in plain sight,

if his own lair had not been destroyed by some unknown means...

the silver-haired deity might have thought everything he had experienced was a dream.

"Since you've gone to the Sequence Research Institute and triggered the Natural Disaster Sequence..."

"Damn it! The Natural Disaster Sequence has already accepted a master. Why hasn't it replaced the Hell Sequence?"

"What went wrong?"

The silver-haired deity sprang to his feet.

He stamped in fury upon the void.

Even now,

he could enter any one of the three thousand Hells through Hellfire whenever he wished.

But...

he did not dare!

The silver-haired deity's lair

had cause and effect for its foundation,