By the time he finished previewing the future, Kanzaki Rei had already arrived in the deepest reaches of the Abyssfall.
Swoosh!
Almost the instant the preview began, accompanied by a shrill metallic screech, hundreds of fragmented crimson beams pierced through Kanzaki Rei's body and exploded outward!
BOOM!
Yet those hundreds of crimson beams failed to inflict even the slightest damage on him.
"Azure Path — Fourth Principle: Eternal Void Displacement."
An attack against the soul. An attack against the flesh.
That was all this strike amounted to.
It failed to touch the Kanzaki Rei existing within phased space, and it also failed to strike the Kanzaki Rei residing within mental space, consciousness space, and every other dimensional layer.
It had not simultaneously hit Kanzaki Rei across every type of space.
Which meant—
The attack was invalid.
"What a lively welcome."
The moment he arrived during the future preview, something had already attacked him...
Judging from the situation—
He seemed to have entered an isolated ruin where monsters packed the surroundings so densely that, through perception alone, they resembled swollen tumors of flesh.
"I didn't kill them?"
"Or did I just arrive?"
"Whatever… I'll just kill them."
Once one reached overwhelming strength, there were far fewer things worth worrying about.
Kanzaki Rei slightly lifted his gaze.
Splurt!
Black radiance flickered within his eyes. Though his body never moved, tangible slashes had already burst forth into reality!
A rain of blood poured from the sky.
With nothing more than a casual glance, every monster within a radius of one billion kilometers was completely annihilated.
"There really are a lot of them…"
"But unfortunately, they're far too weak."
Many of these monsters possessed the characteristics of Fifth-Tier and Sixth-Tier creatures and could indeed be classified accordingly.
But in terms of actual combat power, Kanzaki Rei estimated they only possessed sixty to eighty percent of the strength of normal monsters of the same tier.
It didn't matter how many evolutions they had undergone.
The result was the same.
Kanzaki Rei casually hummed a tune while pulling out his records from his storage pouch.
He had long developed the habit of keeping records.
Everything he saw. Everything he did.
He documented it all constantly so that when previewing the future, he could review the records and understand what had happened.
"The monsters of Abyssfall…"
"They seem to originate from the Nest of Aberration?"
"Rifts connected to the Nest of Aberration are everywhere throughout Abyssfall. It almost feels as though the entire place has already been completely consumed by the Nest of Aberration… And although these monsters are far weaker than ordinary monsters, they share numerous identical traits…"
While rapidly processing the information his future self had left behind—
His perception continued spreading outward at astonishing speed.
Swoosh!
Suddenly, something strange happened!
Bangbangbangbangbangbang!
The monsters he had just killed instantly reformed.
In less than two seconds, their bodies regenerated completely, and within five seconds, every single one of them had fully reconstructed itself!
What the hell was this?
Kanzaki Rei frowned immediately.
They could regenerate within five seconds of being killed?
Wasn't that level of healing and recovery comparable to the God-Tier Talent, Eternal War Divine Body?
Although Kanzaki Rei's own regeneration was far superior to theirs—
His regenerative ability was the result of multiple recovery abilities stacked together.
It wasn't dependent on a single method.
But these monsters—
Possessed this kind of regenerative power while also being mass-produced.
That was horrifying to an unreasonable degree.
Whoosh—
In the next moment, Kanzaki Rei's perception surged outward like a tidal wave.
His nearly tangible senses swept across every monster present, and massive quantities of complex information flooded into his mind.
"Divine Authority Mutation… Wild Life."
The source was…
Sophia.
The Divine Authority extracted from Sophia had become the source of mutation. Every monster born within the Nest of Aberration possessed overwhelmingly powerful regenerative abilities.
And in addition to that—
They each possessed a single resurrection opportunity after death.
At the same time—
Kanzaki Rei's perception also read the information his future self had recorded.
"These past few days, I investigated numerous rifts within Abyssfall that connect to the Nest. Every one of these rifts leads directly to the Nest of Aberration."
"And within those nests, I found substantial information related to Moonstar: Sophia and Jua."
"It can now be strongly suspected that Sophia and Jua are deeply connected to the Nest of Aberration."
"These monsters have already undergone powerful mutations."
"But they still seem unstable and incapable of leaving the Nest. They can only operate in the deepest regions…"
"It also seems that because of Sophia, the birth rate of these monsters is unbelievably fast. There should be an enormous incubation source somewhere within the Nest, constantly spawning monsters throughout the entire region."
"And furthermore, within these aberrant nests, I found traces connected to Kuromironi."
"Part of the information indicates that Kuromironi is currently inside the Nest of Aberration…"
Swoosh!
The amount of information was staggering.
Originally, he had only intended to use future previewing to obtain the Eighth Forbidden Magic—Fate.
Yet unexpectedly, the additional gains had reached an unimaginable scale.
"So they only get one resurrection opportunity…"
"In that case, I overestimated you."
A moment ago, Kanzaki Rei had instinctively assumed these monsters possessed true immortality like himself—limitless regeneration and endless rebirth.
Turns out he had simply scared himself.
Kanzaki Rei stepped forward.
With a casual motion, another invisible ripple slashed outward!
BOOM!
This time, the entire space trembled violently!
Within a radius of ten billion kilometers, every monster instantly shattered into dust.
"Seventh-Tier Sonic-Lightning Fusion Magic — Dissociation Wave (LV: 701)."
Countless particles drifted downward.
This time, the monsters no longer regenerated.
Under normal circumstances, Kanzaki Rei rarely activated the Talent "Eternal Erasure."
Because once something was killed through Eternal Erasure—
It was truly, completely dead.
Even Kanzaki Rei himself had no way to reverse it.
Even if he disabled the Talent afterward—
There would still be absolutely no method to bring the target back.
To avoid accidentally killing the wrong person, Kanzaki Rei usually exercised some restraint.
After all, even though resurrection was difficult, methods of revival still existed somewhere in the world.
…
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
Kanzaki Rei strode forward like a dragon in motion. Every step shattered vast portions of space itself, and all monsters along his path died in waves the instant his feet touched down.
With the perception range these monsters possessed—
They couldn't even detect Kanzaki Rei's existence before exploding into dust for no apparent reason.
This ruin was enormous…
Aside from monsters, there were also planetary corpses floating high in the air—planet-shaped monsters that were already dead.
Kanzaki Rei's perception swept across them and learned they originated from the Astral Realm.
They had once been planets born naturally within the Astral Realm.
But after arriving in the Nest of Aberration, they had been transformed into planet-like monsters. Originally, they were lifeless matter until Sophia injected life into them—
Turning them into living beings.
Everything pointed toward Sophia's existence.
It was almost as though she actually lived inside the Nest of Aberration itself.
None of these things caused Kanzaki Rei to slow his pace.
Using phase traversal, he advanced at incredible speed.
In merely a few minutes, he arrived above a spiraling, distorted vortex-like chasm that twisted downward into the earth itself.
According to the map given to him by the Fishfolk Sage—
The Eighth Forbidden Magic, Fate, should be located within this vortex.