My attributes are increasing infinitely Chapter 431: Attacking the executioner

Ethan seized the handle of the Sword of Infinity.

He gazed upon the glittering void ahead, the barrier dividing the familiar realm from the territory ruled by the One Above All.

Ethan showed no delay.

He wielded the Sword of Infinity in a mighty swing.

No noise echoed, just the feel of existence ripping apart like damp fabric.

From the irregular tear, he glimpsed it—a gigantic, blood-red orb that appeared to cover a secret realm completely.

This was the Eye of the Executioner, the One Above All, overseer of the positive plane.

The orb expanded.

It wasn't merely observing Ethan. It was assessing his essence, searching for the means to wipe out his very being.

"Who are you? Do you wish to be erased?"

The words bypassed his hearing.

They resonated deep in Ethan's core, an icy, oppressive force that insisted on total obedience.

It resembled a deity addressing a mere grain of sand.

Ethan refused to kneel.

He stayed steady, without a quiver.

Instead, a rush of rebellious energy coursed through him.

He stared at the enormous, sacred orb, lifted his arm, and flipped it off with a smile blending insanity and brilliance.

"Fuck you, scum. Take this!"

Ethan charged forward.

He held back from full strength. He aimed not to claim victory in a battle beyond his current reach.

He deployed precisely 51%.

The Sword of Infinity unleashed a ray of untainted, white annihilation that crashed into the scarlet center of the vast orb.

Ethan skipped checking the impact.

Before his strike's glow dimmed, he cleaved the space behind and leaped through a fresh tear, disappearing into the layers of dimensions.

For an instant, quiet reigned.

Then, the whole positive plane howled in fury.

The One Above All had endured since the cage's creation.

It remained untouched.

It endured no slights.

Being gestured at rudely by a "speck" and then seeing that speck flee was an outrage too vast to grasp.

"DIE!"

The utterance was an order to the fabric of existence.

The One Above All activated "Erasure."

This formed no material assault. It served as a fundamental decree declaring Ethan no longer part of the plane.

The area Ethan had occupied morphed into a void of utter absence.

Ethan, now shifted across three dimensions, sensed the chilling grasp of Erasure clawing at his back.

His flesh started crumbling into oblivion.

"Not today," Ethan growled. "Extinction!"

He whirled his blade in a sweeping arc.

If Erasure meant "remove," then Extinction commanded "obliterate the remover."

The pair of supreme principles clashed within the emptiness.

Erasure got nullified.

Ethan's form rebuilt in a flash, his Grade 1 Absolute Continuum ability forming a protective barrier.

"What a dumbass!" Ethan bellowed into the emptiness, aware the One Above All could perceive him. "You missed! Is that the best the 'supreme' ruler can do? My grandma hits harder than you!"

He leaped once more.

This formed the strategy.

It resembled a perilous pursuit game.

To observers in the plane, it seemed like two deities waged war using stars as pawns.

Whenever the One Above All attempted to pinpoint Ethan's essence, Ethan altered his "location" across the multiverse.

He became a phantom within the system.

A stone lodged in the giant's vision.

For hours, the pursuit raged on.

The One Above All shed his composed oversight.

He transformed into a furious tempest of scarlet power, ripping apart his own realm to hunt the irritant that had prodded him.

Worlds fell victim to the chaos, pulverized to powder by the Executioner's mere transit.

"Master, your energy use stands at 40%," Yumiko cautioned. "The One Above All approaches 'Singularity Rage.' He starts disregarding the cage's rules to locate you."

"Good," Ethan breathed heavily, brushing perspiration from his forehead. "The madder he gets, the sloppier his thoughts. If fury blinds him, he'll overlook the other 'visitor' nearby."

Deep beneath, in an ordinary settlement of the lizard race, the air grew thick and oppressive.

The lizard people cowered in their basements, frightened by the celestial rumbles.

Yet in a modest, grimy inn, a figure clad in shadows kept devouring his meal of beef.

This was the envoy from the neutral plane. The interloper.

He ranked as a Grade 2 Absolute Continuum entity, a hunter far deadlier than the native overseers.

He halted, fork midway to his lips.

He glanced upward through the roof, his sight penetrating timber, skies, and spatial weaves.

"How intriguing," the Messenger murmured. "A native being has attained the Absolute level. And he's... toying with the overseer? Such audacity. Such utter stupidity."

He attempted to lock his focus on Ethan, to discern the spirit capable of such daring.

But his sight struck an obstacle.

It felt like peering into a shadowed reflector.

"A hiding artifact?"

The Messenger's curiosity sharpened.

He set down his utensil.

The meal lost all appeal.

"I must seize him. A essence that evades my sight merits examination."

In the void once more, Ethan experienced an abrupt, freezing dread.

It differed from the scorching wrath of the One Above All.

It carried a detached, analytical scrutiny.

It evoked a researcher eyeing an insect through a lens.

The outsider had detected him.

"Shit! Yumiko, he's watching! He's staring straight at us!"

[Master, the force surpasses safe thresholds! If he acts now, escape proves impossible!]

Ethan held his composure.

One final ploy remained.

He ceased his flight.

He positioned himself amid a crumbling stellar cluster, the One Above All barreling in from one flank, while the unseen weight of the outsider pressed from the opposite.

"Come on, you big red eye! Over here!" Ethan shouted, infusing his cry with 60% of his strength.

He loosed a flurry of blade assaults, aimed not at the One Above All, but toward the concealed spot of the outsider.

He sought no direct strike on the intruder.

He aimed to mark him as bait.

The One Above All, consumed by prolonged irritation and taunts, detected the power ripples there.

He ignored the identity of the presence.

He viewed only prey.

"ERASE EVERYTHING!" the One Above All thundered.

A torrent of crimson destruction, dense enough to engulf a galaxy, barreled ahead.

Ethan wasted no moment.

In a burst of silvery radiance, Ethan withdrew his whole being into the Cube's inner realm.

He erased himself from reality's "grid."

The crimson surge of Erasure pressed onward.

It collided straight into the intruder's position.

The Messenger, poised serenely to ensnare Ethan, abruptly confronted the unbridled, desperate wrath of the positive plane's protector.

"Insolent native," the Messenger snarled.

He remained motionless.

He merely lifted a palm.

"Begone."

The impact proved devastating.

"Erasure" clashed against the Messenger's "Void Hand."

The blast yielded no illumination.

It tore a rift through existence.

The One Above All suffered a backlash so fierce that his corporeal shape—the immense orb and its stellar frame—fractured into countless shimmering crimson fragments.

For a brief span, the One Above All perished.

Yet the positive plane forbade its core to fail.

From all edges of the plane, aureate flows of power converged on the blast site.

The cage's principles commenced mending the One Above All.

This compelled revival, a torturous and savage ordeal, drew screams of torment from the guardian.

The Messenger lingered at the turmoil's heart, his shadowy attire barely disturbed.

He appeared let down.

The "vermin" he pursued had slipped away, leaving him entangled in conflict with an unkillable regional entity.

"A pointless endeavor," the Messenger grumbled.

He directed his attention to the distance, probing for Ethan's path, but the Space Cube fulfilled its role.

Ethan had vanished completely.

Within the Space Cube, Ethan slumped to the ground, his chest heaving.

Sweat chilled his skin, yet laughter escaped him.

"Did you see that, Yumiko? It succeeded! They're clashing now!"

[Master, your pulse races perilously. But... indeed. The One Above All undergoes reassembly, and the outsider stands diverted. You have endured the initial encounter unscathed.]

Ethan eyed the Status Panel hovering in the cube's faint glow.

[Time until Power Synchronization: 11 Hours, 42 Minutes]

"Twelve hours," Ethan murmured, his gaze alight with keen, hunter's intensity. "In twelve hours, Grade 1 power becomes mine forever. And wielding the Sword of Infinity, I'll ascend to Grade 2. I'll match him."

He rose, steadying himself against his blade.

He realized eternal seclusion in the cube was impossible.

The Messenger would eventually breach the veil.

But temporarily, he had secured what wealth and cultivation rarely afforded.

He had gained time.