[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-bloodline-system":3,"chapter-the-bloodline-system-the-bloodline-system-chapter-1650":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Bloodline System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1077120,1391,"Chapter 1650 1650: Nocturnis VS Cosmic Projection 2","the-bloodline-system-chapter-1650",1650,"\u003Cp>High above, Nocturnis spread his arms wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His shadow expanded, covering regions of the cosmos like a black curtain. Stars dimmed instantly. Moons cracked. The vacuum turned murky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You think fifty percent will be enough!? You underestimate ME!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thrust both palms forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tidal wave of shadow ripped through space, massive enough to tear through several solar systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav's projection raised one hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shadow Genesis Sphere,\" Nocturnis roared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav calmly replied:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cancel.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tidal wave shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis froze. \"WHAT!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav tilted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My authority over reality is higher than your manipulation of darkness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved faster than thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A punch to Nocturnis' ribs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second to his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A kick to his abdomen that created a crater in the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis staggered, coughing black ichor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You miserable brat—HOW ARE YOU THIS STRONG ALREADY!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav's clone didn't answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His silence was louder than words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deity of shadows howled in rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine! If I cannot break you with strength—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body dissolved, merging with the surrounding darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"—I will devour the source of your existence instead!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vanished completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The universe went pitch-black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ria screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric clenched his fists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sersi trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did he go!?\" Ria shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric could barely breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He's… he merged with darkness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A chill crept into their bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav's clone blinked once without emotion... without a shred of panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew exactly where Nocturnis was headed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he moved instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sonic boom of cosmic magnitude shattered the emptiness as he raced back toward the planet—toward his unconscious true body—toward the ritual-drenched sanctuary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crashed through several layers of cosmic debris without slowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outerspace trembled, like a living creature realizing something far above its rank had stepped into its territory. The ripples of fear traveled through every atom when Gustav, shot through the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The darkness of space could no longer hide Nocturnis... they parted from him, exposing his position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahead of him, thrashing through collapsing space-folds, wasthe Deity of Darkness and Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A god whose name even the other deities whispered cautiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A being who once feasted on collapsing suns as nourishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A being who ruled the Dark dimensions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was running.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His obsidian cloak of shadow whipped wildly behind him, bleeding darkness into the cosmos as he desperately tried to reform his arm… the arm Gustav had shattered moments ago with a single punch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gustav was already upon him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis whirled around with eyes blazing like negative stars... darkness condensed so intensely they glowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You dare—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav appeared before him without traversing the space between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One instant he was kilometers away…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next, he was right in front of Nocturnis, fist already fired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strike landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thunderclap followed, echoing and ripping through spacetime and causing it to fold over itself. Entire light-years around them warped violently, bending like thick molten glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis was thrown back at speeds that defied calculation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body tore through the crust of a drifting moon and out the other side in a spray of cosmic debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moon shattered behind him, pulverized into a ring of glittering dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav appeared again, without moving before the fragments even finished scattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"ENOUGH!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, Nocturnis stopped running.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The darkness around him erupted outward, turning the void into a pitch-black ocean. Twelve shadow suns rose behind him, each burning cold, emitting anti-light that swallowed nearby starlight whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The temperature of space dropped to absolute zero instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even cosmic radiation vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of death radiated from Nocturnis—an aura that would have ended the existence of entire galaxies if Gustav wasn't there to stop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You think shadows frighten me?\" Gustav asked with an incredibly calm voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His barrier around his unconscious self, far away near the ritual site, did not flicker in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis thrust both hands forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"VOID NECROSIS!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pure and unfiltered beam of annihilation erupted from his palms, swallowing everything ahead of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't an energy attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't even destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was unexistence, the rule Nocturnis commanded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to erase what should never have been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beam engulfed Gustav.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sersi, Ria, and Endric, watching from a safe distance within a telekinetic sphere, flinched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ria whispered hoarsely, \"Did… it hit him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric's lips trembled. \"I don't know...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, Endric couldn't see the outcome of this battke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the death beam cleared, Gustav was standing there in space, completely unaffected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression unchanged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted his hand and flicked a small, glowing marble of white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That tiny ball detonated into a reverse singularity, pulling Nocturnis' attack backward, sucking the darkness through itself, and compressing it into a point the size of a grain of sand before snuffing out completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis staggered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That shouldn't be possible…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's simple,\" Gustav replied. \"I rewrote its attribute.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis roared and condensed himself into pure shadow, losing physical form entirely. In that state, he could not be touched... no matter, no force could interact with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rushed at Gustav only as an endless onslaught of tendrils, claws, blades, and shadow storms, capable of slicing through neutron stars like butter with each one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav lifted his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reality froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not Nocturnis himself… but everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broken moon fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cosmic dust clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shockwaves radiating from their last clash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the flow of local spacetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the deity remained unfrozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What trickery is this?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav answered by snapping his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Matter Reformation...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stray energy around them reshaped itself instantly, forming colossal crystal pillars, thousands of kilometers tall, which shot toward Nocturnis like living spears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tip of each pillar emitted blinding lights that were a thousand times brighter than that of shooting star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis countered by re-manifesting his physical form and unleashing a wave of death energy, shattering the pillars into dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gustav was no longer there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Nocturnis...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within his blind spots...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Outworldly appeared in eight positions simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were neither illusions nor clones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav just folded layers of existence like paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All eight threw a punch and the universe trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis was hurled across parsecs, smashing through asteroid belts and tearing through a dwarf star whose eruption painted the darkness with violent light. But Gustav caught up instantly, flying beside him as he rag-dolled through space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed Nocturnis by the face and slammed him downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deity smashed into the crust of a lifeless planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire world shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis rose from the debris, burning hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened both arms, and space behind him cracked open like breaking glass, revealing the Realm of Eternal Night, his dimension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Billions of shadow souls screamed from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive, eldritch beasts made of pure darkness surged outward. Each one was a god-level entity in its own right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"OUTWORLDLY!\" Nocturnis thundered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I AM THE END OF ALL LIGHT!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shadow army rushed at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav sighed softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Annoying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He extended his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Matter Reconstruction Burst...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dome of inverted energy expanded in a flash, touching nothing… but erasing everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shadows evaporated instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eldritch beasts imploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the entrance to Nocturnis' realm shrank violently before collapsing into a void-point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis gasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You destroyed the gate… to my dimension…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I removed its 'darkness' property,\" Gustav replied. \"You can rebuild it later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he kicked Nocturnis so hard his physical form distorted into ribbons of shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav couldn't seal the dark dimension away while fighting Nocturnis at the same time so this was the best he could do in the meantime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rushed forward again with his fists turning into miniature blackholes that spun rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not destructive enough to ruin the universe, but easily potent enough to harm deities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each punch he sent hurling at Nocturnis, some of his godly essence was ripped out and consumed by the swirling singularities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis shrieked, backing away in sudden panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You… you dare drain ME?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am draining your shadows,\" Gustav corrected casually. \"You'll live… or not...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis lashed out, using Darkspace Freeze, an ability that locked the movement of anything within a ten-light-year radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gustav didn't even slow down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped out of the freeze like walking through fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Nocturnis could react, Gustav raised his hand—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This single gesture changed the surroundings entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space inverted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up became down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forward became inward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vacuum became dense matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stars nearby rearranged their positions like chess pieces shuffled by a bored god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis blinked rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"STOP WARPING REALITY AROUND ME!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I like the aesthetic,\" Gustav replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis pulled his power inward, compressing all of it into a single sphere of pure death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ball of swirling darkness, colder than the concept of cold, throbbed with the ability to end existence entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You force my hand… OUTWORLDLY!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a scream, he hurled it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Veil expanded, tearing through the layers of existence like ripping paper. Entire sections of spacetime collapsed into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric gasped while Ria's knees buckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sersi whispered, \"An attack that could erase us from existence even at this distance…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gustav simply raised one finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He touched the incoming wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It reversed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Entropy Veil imploded backward, collapsing the destruction into itself until it vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" Nocturnis breathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no, no—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav appeared before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Relax. Like I said, I changed its attribute. It returns things instead of erasing them now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1553,"2026-06-03T10:34:20.960Z",1,"novelbin.me","280024df04caf0aeb7f202e538b481879cd1c1543e09c90e63ff0fd31bb992ba",null,"the-bloodline-system-chapter-1649",1688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-bloodline-system-cover.jpg"]