Who Said the Abyss Had No Sixth Step Countermeasure? I Can Call for Backup

The Abyss Core Layer was deathly still.

In the projected image, that Blank Symbol still hung above the No. 3 Mining Zone.

It gave off no light.

Nor did it have any definite shape.

Yet anyone who looked at it felt a piece of their mind go missing.

It was as if an invisible hand had reached into the depths of their True Spirit, crushed a name that should have existed—along with every memory, connection, and trace of it—and tossed the pieces into a bin from which nothing could ever be recovered.

Yang Yu leaned against the Throne, his fingers resting at the edge of its armrest.

He watched the block of data on the screen dissolve into gibberish, his gaze growing colder by the moment.

That gibberish had once represented a person.

A Path-Severing Realm powerhouse who had just entered the Fifth Step and, only moments ago, had been taking the Polyhedron Council of Elders' Triacontakaihexagon head-on in the No. 3 Mining Zone.

But now, the system did not know him.

The Abyss Employee File did not know him.

The Player Party List did not know him.

Even the Players who had just been calling him "boss" could only stare blankly at a mass of black squares.

The Polyhedron Council of Elders.

Those old bastards had kept their secrets well.

They really had stolen a Sixth Step technique.

This was not simple suppression by a higher realm.

This was Concept Erasure.

Stripping away a name, rewriting history, erasing Causality.

The Fifth Step's Path Severing could cut the paths along which a world operated.

But the Sixth Step's Name Holding could take away the answer to "who are you?" at its very source.

The Abyss System, as it stood, could not withstand a clash of authority at this level.

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