Awakening a 10,000x Skill Proficiency Multiplier in the Apocalypse

The Abyssal Chimera was airborne. Its massive lion jaws were unhinged and dripping with venom that melted the air itself.

It was a Level 45 Elite Boss. It was a creature composed of millions of lines of highly optimized code designed to instil absolute terror in the player base.

It was exactly five feet away from the face of Sebastian.

Sebastian did not flinch. His silver tinged eyes remained cold and mathematically detached. He did not see a monster. He saw an equation that needed to be balanced.

’If I just use Solar Flare, the blast radius will incinerate Valerie and Wraith.’ Sebastian thought. His mind operated at a hyper accelerated speed.

’If I use Gravity Domain, I will flatten the bosses, but the shockwave will definitely shatter the spectator dome and crush the crowd.’

He needed something perfectly contained. He needed absolute localized destruction.

He needed to combine them!

Sebastian raised his right hand. He extended his index and middle fingers. He pulled on the conceptual law of nuclear fusion. It was the raw blinding power of Solar Flare. His fingertips glowed with a terrifying incandescent white heat.

Simultaneously, he raised his left hand with his palm facing the sky. He grabbed the invisible heavy fabric of Gravity Domain. It was the conceptual law of absolute mass.

The system overlay in his vision violently glitched. Red and blue error codes aggressively overlapped each other. The logic of the game struggled to process the dual invocation of two conflicting Conceptual Laws.

[System Warning: Conflicting Conceptual Laws Detected.]

[Action Registered: Attempting Spell Fusion.]

Then, the 10,000x Nexus Glitch woke up. It did not just multiply his proficiency. It forcefully bridged the gap between the two concepts. It forced the server to bend to his will.

[Nexus Glitch Activated: Fusion Proficiency x10,000.]

[Spell Fusion Successful.]

[WARNING: Fatal Architecture Error. Singularity Law Unlocked.]

[New Skill Generated: Event Horizon.]

Sebastian slammed his hands together.

CLAP!

There was no explosion. There was no blinding flash of light.

Instead, the exact opposite happened.

Right in the center of the arena, floating ten feet above the sand, a sphere of absolute perfect nothingness tore itself into existence.

It was about the size of a basketball. But it was so purely black that it physically hurt the eyes to look at it. It was not just a dark color. It was the complete and total absence of light, sound, and data.

The Abyssal Chimera was still in mid air. It hit the invisible gravitational sheer of the sphere.

It did not bounce off. It did not burn.

”RRRAAA... gkkk!”

The roar of the monster was instantly silenced.

The physics of spaghettification took hold. The gravitational pull on the front of the face of the Chimera was exponentially stronger than the pull on its hind legs.

In a horrifying display of broken physics, the massive beast was violently stretched!

Its digital flesh pulled like warm taffy.

SQUELCH! SNAP!

The sound of its massive bones breaking and elongating echoed through the arena. The jaw of the Chimera was ripped forward. It stretched ten feet long. Its teeth popped out of its gums like gruesome little bullets before being sucked into the black hole.

Its eyeballs bulged out of their sockets. They stretched into long thin red strings of optic nerve and jelly before snapping and spiraling into the void. The entire massive body of the monster was pulled into a stream of atomized screaming meat. It spiraled down the drain of the Event Horizon.

It was gone in less than a second.

Then, the singularity really started pulling.

VWOOOOOM.

A low terrifying hum vibrated the teeth of everyone in the pocket dimension. The air in the arena was violently sucked inward. It created a massive localized hurricane that ripped the ruined marble temples right from their foundations.

The fifty Elite Boss Mobs did not stand a chance.

A towering Bone Goliath tried to dig its massive iron anchor into the sand to hold its ground. The sheer gravitational force simply ripped the arms of the skeleton right out of their sockets.

CRACK!

The ribs of the Goliath snapped. They stretched outward in a spiral of white bone dust as the monster was pulled into the black sphere. It was dismantled piece by piece.

The Brood Mothers shrieked. Their fat bloated bodies ripped open as the gravity sheared their abdomens in half. Thousands of the explosive tick monsters were sucked into the air. They swirled like a horrifying buzzing river of bugs directly into the singularity.

”Holy shit!” Valerie screamed. She dug her staff deep into a crack in the floor. Her azure robes whipped violently toward the center of the arena.

Wraith was beside her. His daggers were buried to the hilts in the marble. He held on for dear life.

”Boss! Dial it back! We are gonna get sucked in!”

Sebastian stood exactly thirty feet from the black hole. His black leather coat snapped violently around him. He had anchored his own boots to the ground using a microscopic sliver of his gravity magic. This kept him perfectly rooted while the world around him was eaten alive.

”Note to self,” Sebastian muttered. He squinted against the hurricane force winds. ”Indoor black holes are a really, really bad idea.”

Up in the stands, the hundred thousand spectators were screaming. But the sound was entirely devoured by the singularity. They clutched their seats as the magical barrier separating them from the arena bowed inward. It groaned under the immense gravitational strain.

The Apostle was no longer laughing.

The glitching horror was frantically typing into his corrupted UI. He was trying to find an admin command to stop the absolute erasure of his summoned army.

”Error! Error!” the distorted voice of the Apostle shrieked as his tattered cloak was sucked forward. ”This violates the parameters! You cannot edit the core architecture!”

”I am not editing it,” Sebastian yelled over the roaring wind. ”I am deleting it!”

The last of the Elite Bosses was a massive heavily armored Obsidian Golem. It was lifted off its feet. The incredibly dense armor did not protect it at all. The gravity sheared the metal plates off one by one. It stretched the core of the golem into a long thin wire of molten rock before sucking it into the void.

Fifty World Class bosses. Completely eradicated in ten seconds!

But the Event Horizon did not stop there. It began eating the arena map itself.

Massive chunks of the sand floor were ripped upward. The bedrock beneath the arena cracked and shattered. The skybox of the pocket dimension began to tear. It revealed the raw grey wireframe mesh of the empty background of the server.

The system was having a catastrophic meltdown.

[CRITICAL ERROR. MEMORY OVERLOAD.]

[ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE IMMINENT.]

Sebastian watched the red warning boxes flood his vision. The pocket dimension was about to crash. If it did, everyone inside would be dumped into the digital void and erased. That included Valerie!

”Alright, fun is over,” Sebastian grunted.

He closed his hands into tight fists. He violently cut the mana supply to the spell.

POP.

The Event Horizon vanished as abruptly as it had appeared.

The hurricane winds instantly died. The pieces of debris and sand that were swirling in the air rained heavily back down to the ruined floor.

The Grand Arena was unrecognizable. A massive perfectly spherical crater sat in the center of the map. It was a hundred yards wide and fifty yards deep. There was no blood. There was no loot. There was just a terrifying smooth bowl of nothingness where an army used to be.

Sebastian let out a long exhale. His breath was visible in the suddenly cold air. He brushed a speck of dust off his shoulder.

He looked across the crater.

The Apostle was still standing there. He clutched a ruined pillar. His glitching avatar was trembling. His army was gone. His grand spectacle was entirely ruined by a single spell.

Sebastian took a step forward. His boots crunched softly on the remaining stone.

”You know,” Sebastian said. His voice carried effortlessly across the silent ruined arena. ”I am getting really tired of your face.”

The Void proxy let out a furious static laced roar. The real fight was about to begin.