They emerged from the Kenos Hill, Rowan asked David, "how to reach the outer realms?" David replied, "it's impossible to go to the outer realm." Rowan asked, "but haven't you fought Safak, the god from the outer realm?" David answered, "yes, indeed, I have fought one of the gods of the outer realm, Safak, but you must know I didn't fight Safak in the outer realm, but rather in a place beyond the realm of mathematics and dimensions, a place called the Void." Rowan inquired further, "but how could you defeat Safak if you couldn't interact with the place where he resides, the outer realm?" David explained, "the outer realm in Zephyria is just a manifestation of the true outer realm that might exist beyond the world of Zephyria. Nonetheless, it's still impossible to interact in the outer realm in Zephyria. Safak whom I defeated is a paradox of the outer realm and the Tyesh hole whose end is uncountable. This destroys the highest mathematical levels and the paradoxical atmosphere itself, including time and hyperspace. So, Safak whom I defeated is merely a paradox or a shadow of himself, perhaps even just a paradox creating paradoxes in every way to establish an infinite paradox hierarchy."
David continued, "anything surpassing the outer realms will be trapped in a paradox within a paradox and within yet another paradox representing the highest Cantor attic, even surpassing it. This paradox is called the 'ceiling reduction,' which means anything surpassing it within the outer realm in Zephyria might be defeated by lower beings of the outer realms regardless of having surpassed them because of the ceiling reduction paradox." David and Rowan arrived at the house. Rowan, opening the door, was astonished to see David's house transformed into a luxurious and spacious place. David said, "this is one of the powers of my domain authority." Walking down the corridor of David's house, which seemed endless, Rowan found himself unable to move forward or backward as every number he saw was the same, the number one, continuously repeating. As Rowan turned back, he found the door he entered the corridor from only four or six steps away from him, leaving him bewildered and unable to comprehend the situation, where everything seemed like an illusion, challenging to imagine and predict, even for Rowan himself within the corridor.
Rowan turned back to the door to exit the corridor. As he exited, he found himself behind the last unnumbered room. At the last room's door, there was a knocking sound from inside, growing louder until it stopped. Rowan remembered it as the same paranormal phenomenon he had faced before, but it wasn't. After the knocking ceased, the entire beginning to the endless corridor turned into a red darkness, the last room's door seemed to crack, emitting red light from the door's cracks. The door of the last room vanished, revealing an entity with a single glowing eye on its face, wielding a dark red glowing sword. The entity had wings that seemed shattered and emitted dark dust. Without uttering a question, Rowan prepared to face the threat. True enough, the entity attacked Rowan with its sword, and the impact caused the endless corridor to vanish, door one appeared close, door two seemed distant, door one thousand vanished, the entire illusion of the endless corridor and the space within it succumbed to destruction and chaos.
Rowan swung his sword towards the entity, only to be surprised when it seemed to pass through the entity's body without causing any impact or injury. Goza exclaimed, "I sense this power to be similar to the Khuttuk power but weaker!" The entity emitted a shockwave that sent Rowan flying far away. Its eyes turned into a glowing orange color, and all around them, the space, illusions, and David's house transformed into another world or pocket dimension. The reality within that dimension summoned terrifying creatures with bizarre forms. Rowan thrust his sword into the ground and activated the power of the ring given by Zeus, channeling it into his sword. A powerful electric wave flowed through the earth, obliterating everything into dust. But it didn't end there; this time, the entity emitted a dark red lightning aura. As the lightning from its aura struck the ground, the entire dimension trembled and vanished. They returned to David's house, but Rowan was neither victorious nor defeated.
The entity pointed its index finger towards Rowan, shocking him as the entity's finger emitted a superior radiance. Goza, Haval, and Bob, with their swift instincts, immediately created a barrier using a mix of natural and mystical materials, but it was futile. The barrier only held for a brief moment after the radiance touched its surface, nearly hitting Rowan's heart. However, David arrived, and the superior radiance attack halted in mid-air, as if restrained. Indeed, someone was holding back the entity's attack; it was the black figure, the guardian of David's house. David went beside Rowan and said, "watch the battle between them." Rowan remained silent, merely observing the clash between the two beings, each possessing paranormal and supernatural abilities.
Before the figures engaged in battle, David said, "the figure I possess is named Zarafil, while the entity he is fighting against is Zahir." Their battle commenced, with Zarafil easily destroying the radiance attacks unleashed by Zahir as if they were glass. Enraged, Zahir attempted to manipulate reality and abstract concepts around him to kill Zarafil, but it was in vain. Zarafil's arrival had created an absolute defense that connected everything to prevent unconventional attacks from going unchecked. Zarafil raised his hand, and a wave of black crystal emerged from the ground, piercing through Zahir's body, which couldn't be touched by solid objects like Rowan's sword. However, Zahir managed to recover and used his eyes, which now glowed black with a white center. Zahir pounded the ground, shattering Zarafil's defenses and creating distortions and destruction in the surrounding area. With Zarafil's defense shattered, Zahir regained the ability to manipulate reality and dimensions around him, causing every object to move at his will.
The two immortal beings battled fiercely, Zarafil unsheathed his sword named "Khalam AL Fasal Alsif," a powerful weapon capable of altering the storyline and even the upper reality levels. With a swift strike from Zarafil's sword, the entire space split apart without leaving any dust. Zahir's sword was equally formidable, capable of negating the concept of death and shattering his opponent's powers, which Zahir then imbued into his own sword. Each swing of their swords resulted in widespread destruction. Zarafil attempted to manipulate the storyline to ensure his victory, trying his best to break through Zahir's defenses, which could nullify his powers. Both beings unleashed their reality-altering powers against each other, with Zahir cutting through the unconventional power of reality alteration, and Zarafil erasing those changes from existence.
"The storyline of this chapter is in Zarafil's hands, Zarafll will undoubtedly win— " The text of the chapter changed due to the power of the Khalam AL Fasal Alsif sword, but that statement was broken. Yes, the text and statements within a chapter could be broken by Zahir's sword. They continued to fight relentlessly, with each swing of their swords producing abstract effects. Zarafil drove his sword into the ground, causing everything to crumble except for Rowan and David, as they found themselves in a void, where only they could witness Zarafil and Zahir's battle. The two possessed extraordinary powers over controlling the storyline and breaking narrative statements, and the entire surroundings of their world and dimensions were obliterated, with nothing limiting them except each other.
A booming sound echoed from the sky, and it was apparent that "Azrael and Khuttuk were still battling." Here, you might assume that Khuttuk had been sealed in Azrael's created world, but in reality, that had already happened in a previous chapter. In that chapter, during Azrael and Khuttuk's battle, their spacetime was unpredictable, whether it was moving backward or forward in time. When they clashed, Zahir was utterly shattered, unable to withstand Azrael's aura of power. Azrael and Khuttuk vanished once more, still in combat. The victory in this battle was claimed by Zarafll, although it wasn't Zarafil himself who secured the win. David stood up and placed his hand on the ground, uttering, "Zetrorsium!" Instantly, everything was restored in the dimension, space, time, even the world, and David's house along with the endless corridor and its illusions.
This left Rowan pondering, "what just happened?" From within his heart, Chen answered, "this is an event of uncertain time's existence within its own time system. If it happens to an entity, that entity might create a new timeline or alter an existing one, and this is where the multiverse begins. There are many aspects that can create a multiverse, but this is one of the most common ones, concerning time."
Zahir's presence here is particularly striking because of his sword, Khalam AL Fasal Alsif. This sword is a representation of the terrifying dreams of creatures, manifesting from the power concept of "everything is void." The concept of everything being void encompasses all concepts, laws, supernatural phenomena, and more. While emptiness and the anti-principle for all of it is "void." The connection between Zahir's sword and the concept of everything being void lies in its power to create statements for itself within an active and inactive narrative. The active aspect being everything, and the inactive aspect being the anti-principle. Everything is contained within the blade of the Al Fasal Alsif sword.
What is "time" within the system of Azrael and Khuttuk when they are in battle? It's a non-systematic system because it contains an abstract arrangement of time, as it's unpredictable whether it's moving forward or backward in time. This renders all laws of time and space useless. Azrael is actually just a manifestation or incarnation of the real Azrael, who might transcend the outer realms and the insane paradoxes kept within. Khuttuk, on the other hand, has no form above him; it could be said that Khuttuk is a regular creature without manifestation or incarnation of anything.