Defying Fate

What did it mean for Viktor to have nowhere left to hide?

"It's meaningless..." Viktor's voice carried through the air.

Lan Mu roared and cut him off. "Shut up! I don't want to hear that 'meaningless' crap again! Everything I've done has meaning! I told you, no words can ever shake my will again!"

"I'm holding back my laughter! Idiot!"

"You don't even have a personality, yet you're trying to play schemes? Compared to the real Viktor, even if you're countless times stronger than him, you're still nowhere near him in my eyes!"

"You're nothing more than a collection of knowledge containing his memories! A puppet of the contract! Intelligent life is not something so simple!"

Roaring, Lan Mu directly switched into his Beerus form. He then took out the Death Substitute Pen and decisively drew a cross in the air!

Although the inked cross vanished the instant it appeared, that was merely a formality.

The omnipresent air now represented the sole entity of the infinite Quantum Observers! The Death Substitute Pen directly recorded Viktor's most fundamental life information!

Only after doing all this did Lan Mu finally calm down.

He was already invincible!

Even if something happened afterward—for instance, Viktor broke the anomalous information lock and changed from air back into an invisible existence—it would be useless.

Once recorded, it was recorded. As long as Lan Mu died while in his Beerus form, Viktor would die in his place, no matter what he was!

The instant Lan Mu finished drawing the cross, inconceivably high energy erupted from the air and directly destroyed the Death Substitute Pen.

Lan Mu switched forms and tried to stop it with the infinite-energy Five-Colored Divine Light, but he was ultimately too late to save the Death Substitute Pen.

The entire process had taken but