Feeling the drain of mana, Ash smiled madly. As he spoke, Creara and Elysia appeared on either of his shoulders.
"Good... Hyperversal Infinities... how neat." With those words, his long-sleeved shirt faded away, revealing a perfectly sculpted torso adorned with black and red tattoos.
The Infinite Weaver wore a constant frown, never pausing his work on the threads even while Ash talked.
His eyes narrowed the instant the spirits appeared, as if heâd been pulled onto the same Layer of Reality as Ash, even after shifting upward again.
No, that wasnât quite it... it was more like Ash himself had stepped onto the 122nd layer of reality. In that moment, it became far harder for his weavings to touch him.
And Ash... he was smiling, not in his usual way, but with something almost Asura-like.
"I just hope you wonât die too quickly."
Those were the final words before the battle rose to a level few could ever dream of reaching.
For Ash, on his path toward omnipotenceâor better yet boundlessnessâone thing mattered: having truly great battles.
Sure, he could destroy realities on a whimâbut that was only impressive if he wanted to make a statement of absolute power.
In his eyes, nothing compared to a good battle, one that could genuinely threaten his life.
And this one was exactly that.
He knew it well, having seen countless possible outcomes.
Which is why, for the first time in a long whileâor maybe everâAsh decided to go all out.
After all, it wouldnât be a truly great battle if his opponent couldnât handle everything he had to give.
The only problem was, Ash didnât even know the full extent of his own power. So, perfect timelines or not, perhaps none of them would come to pass after all.
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HUMMMMMMM!!!!!
In an instant, he shed his form and expanded to the size of universes, matching The Weaver perfectlyâand that wasnât all.
All the mana that had faded and drained from him surged back at once.
The reason?
Elysia had just finished assimilating the Infinitinance for them, turning Ashâs infinity into something beyond the ordinary.
She had also reworked his trait; before, his understanding of infinity was limited, so his trait simply reflected thatâjust plain infinity.
But now, he and everyone else with the Infinite Mana trait could tap into the power of Hyperversal Infinities.
All of this happened in a mere instant too, and by the time Ash had moved again, he activated multiple Talents.
|Null Crown Affirmation (Hyperversal)|
|Apex Genesis (Hyperversal)|
And in that moment as Ash instantly appeared before the Weaver, who was five light years away... Nothing external could define or limit him whatsoever... as it would just be nulled.
Which went for these Layers as well.
"Any Talent you after this point... cannot be willed more than once."
Using Apex Genesis... he rewrote a truth while also using his essence from being the God of Truths. This effectively rewrote The Weaver down to the core.
BOOOOOM!!!!!
Ash threw a punch, his fist wrapped in the essence of Fatality, stacked across 150 layers of reality.
But The Weaver didnât so much as blink at the incoming blow. Instead, he shifted to the same level and invoked a trans-concept of protection.
|Infinite Weave - Wardiance|
In an instant, countless thin barriers materialized in the narrow space between Ashâs strike and The Weaverâs face.
The concept flowed through his Strata, magnified by Hyperversal Infinities. Without hesitation, he continued, activating a talent in the next moment.
|Infinite Weave - Hyperversal Ascension (Hyperversal)|
HUMMMMMM!!!!!!
In that instant, a new infinity bloomedâone that held the previous Hyperversal Infinity as nothing more than a finite fragment.
The battlefield flipped once again as he simply willed Ashâs boundless Hyperversal Infinite into something finite, and the mana drain surged anew.
BANG!
Ash was hurled backward through the endless void.
The Weaver hadnât thrown a punch, hadnât even moved beyond tugging on a single blue thread.
The thread was, Recursionâa trans-conceptâhad reflected Ashâs last attack back on itself endlessly until it converged to a single point.
As Ash tried to regain his footing, the Weaver began ascending through the Layers of reality without the faintest sign of a limit.
From the 150th Layer to the 160th, it was absurdâhe was operating far beyond the reach of ordinary 11-Dimensional Beings.
And Ash felt the pressure multiply exponentially.
Every strike he had thrown â every Sever, every Finality pulseâ was suddenly operating on a Layer that was now
below
the Weaverâs current position.
Yet, as he flipped to a halt, he smiled as Elysia had already finished writing into the Codex.
"And so, every time the Infinite Weaver spins a new infinity, the Primavus Origin instantly surpasses it."
It was simpleâwhatever the Weaver tried, Ash would become it and surpass it.
That was who heâd always been, even from the very start of his journey.
He took pieces from reality and made them better.
His story was never meant to be one of endless trauma; from the beginning, Ash was the Ever-Becoming... long before he defined his race.
As a rush unlike any other surged through him, he faced a battle where he could truly test his skills, talents, and powers, and in that moment, he felt alive.
"Youâre not bad, Mister Weaver... but whatever you can do, I can do better!" he declared, laughing like a madman.
In that instant, he shattered the finite barrier the Weaver had set before him.
HUMMMMM!!!!!
For the first time in this battle, the Weaver felt his composure slipping.
"How..." was all he could mutter as he watched Ash surpass his current hierarchy of infinity.
Primordia appeared, coiling around Ash without actually touching him, as if she were shielding or guarding him.
But that wasnât it...
Hum!
She hummed, though it was more like a melody. After all, she was bound to Ashâs very bloodline.
In that moment, as she hummed, she drew upon the power of a certain Goddess of Musical Creationâwhile also channeling Ashâs own infinities.
The void instantly swarmed with countless chains of primordia, each infused with the essence of Ashâs Bloodline, layered all the way to the 225th.
In moments, the dark domain turned into a quagmire of death-laced chains, each capable of ending life in countless ways.
Ash appeared once more before the Weaver, who was still striving to surpass Ashâs infinity.
And then, he tried again...
|Sever|
BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!
He struck out again, Primordia coiling around his fist as her Talent flared to life.
The instant his fist slammed into the barriers, he leapt into the 230th Layer, rendering any reinforcements completely pointless.
The Weaver was hurled back, and as the chainâs looming doom closed in, he... smiled.
WHOOSH!
And almost as if anticipating his next move, Primordia shot from Ashâs arm, whipping toward the Weaver and attempting to ensnare him as she unleashed another Talent.
|Bind|
WHIP!
Countless other chains lashed out as well, but The Weaver simply disappeared as he activated two talents.
|Eternal Recursion (Hyperversal)|
|Weaverâs Horizon (Hyperversal)|
HUMMMM!
In that instant, he materialized behind Ash, over two light years away, and his Aura burst forth with a power greater than he had ever shown before.
BOOOOM!
BOOOOOM!
BOOOOM!!!!
Ash found himself in quite the predicament, yet he wore a smile like no other. The Weaver mirrored all of Ashâs previous attacks and actions.
"To become more than I... the living embodiment of Infinity?" the Weaverâs voice echoed, his smile never fading.
"How foolish."
He kept Ash in a constant state of ascensionânot by directly opposing him, but by mirroring and returning every move, pushing him further along the path of Becoming.
It was a strange idea in simple terms... a being could only evolve so far. And beyond that, his second Talent made it all the more inevitable.
His mana spread across the entire void, becoming his personal horizonâhis domain. A domain that forced all infinities to rank below his own.
Every time Ash ascended to a higher infinity hierarchy, the Weaver matched him, believing that everything Ash became could still be counted.
Yet Ash smiled through it all.
"Pfft, does the Codex seem so simple?" Creara laughed from his shoulder, shaking her head.
If this was his Domain, making all Infinities lower than his, then with Authoring Potential, any new Infinity the Weaver spun would be instantly overtaken.
These little recursions only shrank the Weaverâs arsenal of talents.
CRACK!
With a wave of her hand, Creara shattered the Domain, and the recursion collapsed instantly.
Ash didnât have to keep becoming if he didnât want toâif he wished them to stop, they would. And if he wanted Infinity to become null.... then it would.
She waved her hand again, and alongside her, Elysia wrote into the Codex as Ash drifted higher into the void
|Refusal Draft|
"All Infinities used by the Weaver will become null... instantly."
Creara compounded the effect several times over.
The Weaverâs eyes bulged as he felt something entirely foreignâeverything around him becoming finite.
He plummeted back to 99 layers of reality, while Ash remained now at the 300th. And there, operating at these heights, Ash sensed an impenetrable barrierâone even he could could not refuse.
"WHA----"
SHK!!!!
SHK!!!!!
The Weaver couldnât even form his next thoughts as Primordiaâs chains remained, an endless number lashing out to impale him.
Before he could even think to use the extreme measures, heâd kept for life-or-death moments, she burst forth from around Ashâs body, activating talent after talent in rapid succession.
|Sever|
|Quantum Apotheosis (Tier 9)|
|Restrict|
|Last Dawn (Hyperversal)|
BOOOOOOOOM!!!!
In that moment, countless actions ensured the Weaverâs demise in every possible way. She severed his connection to reality and cut off any potential escapes.
Then, with Quantum Apotheosisâthe power to make anything possible or impossibleâshe simply willed away any chance of his survival.
Finally, as he faded, Last Dawn burned away any semblance of remnants he might have had, including the very transconcept of Infinitance.
After all... Ash had become it.
When everything finished Primordia, she returned as the endless amounts of chains vanished. And instead of going back inside of his body.
She morphed into a small necklace that held an infinity symbol.
Hum!
Ash grinned as he said, "Yeah, I must admit... that was pretty fun." Just before disappearing, he glanced at the invisible barrier marking the 300th Layer of reality.
He couldnât explain it, but it felt like someone had been watching the whole fight.
Not that it bothered himâ whatever... or whomever it may be, heâd handle it with the same ease as always.