Zeus's face turned deathly pale. "Unless... unless Nihility had been implanted into the reshaping process from the very beginning."
The Lord of the Void stopped trembling.
That mass of black existence stabilized, then erupted in earth-shaking laughter.
"Hahahaha! You finally figured it out!"
His laughter brimmed with smugness 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 only creating more Void Anchor Points 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 areas with golden radiance. The results of his conceptual analysis sent a chill through his entire body.
Nihility Seeds.
Thousands upon thousands of Nihility Seeds had been concealed within the reshaped structures. They disguised themselves as the foundational framework of space, as the nodes through which time flowed, as the elements that composed 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 wildly. "Who said Nihility was an anomaly?"
"You pursue perfection, absolute completeness. But have you ever considered what true 'completeness' should contain?"
"Space needs boundaries. What lies beyond those boundaries? Time needs a beginning. What came before that beginning? Existence needs definition. What is the opposite of definition?"
"The answer is Nihility."
The Lord of the Void's voice deepened. "Existence and Nihility have always been two sides of the same coin. Your Perfect Creation pursues absolute completeness, so when you reshape something, you instinctively fill in every missing part."
"And all I needed to do was make Nihility into a 'missing part,' an indispensable link in