Zeus's face turned deathly pale. "Unless... unless Nothingness had been implanted into the reshaping process from the very beginning."
The Lord of the Void's form stopped trembling.
That mass of black existence stabilized, then erupted into earth-shaking laughter.
"Hahahahaha! You finally figured it out!"
His laughter brimmed with triumph and mockery.
"Perfect Creator, do you think you're saving them?" The Lord of the Void's voice echoed across the battlefield. "No, you're merely creating more Void Anchors for me."
"Every existence you 'perfectly reshaped' has become one of my pawns."
Lin Ye's expression changed drastically.
He immediately activated the Perfect Creation Scepter, sweeping the corrupted regions with golden light. The results of his conceptual analysis sent a chill through his entire body.
Nothingness Seeds.
Thousands upon thousands of Nothingness Seeds had been hidden within the reshaped structures. They had disguised themselves as the foundational framework of space, as nodes in the flow of time, as the components of matter.
And all of it had been implanted during the reshaping process.
"How did you do it..." Lin Ye's voice was low. "My Existence Reshaping rejects any anomaly."
"Anomaly?" The Lord of the Void laughed even more freely. "Who said Nothingness was an anomaly?"
"You pursue perfection, absolute completeness. But have you ever considered what true 'completeness' should include?"
"Space needs boundaries. What lies beyond those boundaries? Time needs a beginning. What comes before that beginning? Existence needs definition. What is the opposite of definition?"
"The answer is Nothingness."
The Lord of the Void's voice deepened. "Existence and Nothingness have always been two sides of the same coin. Your perfect creation pursues absolute completeness, so when you reshape, you instinctively fill in every missing part."
"And all I needed to do was make Nothingness into a 'missing part,' an indispensable link in the