Reborn With A Technology System In A Fantasy World-Chapter 291: Against The Concordat (5)

Adrian didn’t choose his destination when he jumped in, he simply fell through the crack in the universe through [Translocation], and physics took him to the last stable anchor point his soul remembered.

He crashed deep into the Space Tunnel.

But it was unrecognizable. The destruction of the Indomitable outside and the shattering of the local Reality Anchors had sent shockwaves through the subspace currents.

The tunnel wasn’t a flowing river of distorted light anymore; it was a chaotic storm of jagged dimensional shards.

Gravity here shifted violently; pulling him left, crushing him downwards, then stretching him thin.

"Move," Adrian gritted out, blood bubbling past his lips. He was breathless, his lungs burning as they tried to process the exotic radiation of subspace.

His first instinct was escape, so he tried visiting the Factory.

[EXTERNAL DIMENSIONAL LOCK DETECTED.]

[ACCESS DENIED.]

"Damn it!" Adrian cursed, slamming a fist into the solidified light of the tunnel wall.

The Reality Anchors deployed by the fleet were far more potent than he realized. They didn’t just lock down normal space; their influence bled into subspace, effectively placing a cage around the entire dimension.

It spoke volumes about the Concordat’s capabilities.

"I can deconstruct it," Adrian whispered to himself. "But I need time."

His heart hammered against his ribs. Through the chaotic noise of the tunnel, he could feel a presence. It was cold, heavy, and orderly. Valdis.

The Arbiter’s aura was scouring the void, hunting for him like a shark sensing blood in the water.

Adrian forced himself to ignore the impending doom. He closed his eyes and triggered his regeneration, pulling in the ambient subspace radiation to stitch his torn muscles and fuse his cracked bones. Once his body was functional, he shifted into absolute focus.

He activated [Omnisense], viewing the tunnel not as a physical space, but as a code. He searched for the nodes of the Reality Anchor; the invisible spikes of energy pinning this dimension down.

His plan was delicate: lay a disruptive weave of Void energy over the nodes. He didn’t need to destroy the anchor; he just need to short-circuit it for a microsecond. That was all the time he needed to slip into the Factory.

As Adrian worked, weaving invisible threads of energy into the tunnel’s structure, his mind wandered to the bigger picture. ’Why is the Concordat so obsessed with Void tech? Their reactionit is too desperate. Are they afraid of something?’

His thoughts drifted to the Galactic Core. If the Concordat got their hands on a source of infinite conceptual authority, the balance of the universe would shatter. It was unfortunate he hadn’t been close enough to harvest it yet.

’Focus,’ he chided himself. ’Survival first.’

He was making progress. He had isolated three of the six anchor nodes. He was just about to begin the disruption sequence when the tunnel screamed.

~KRA-KOOOOOM!~

It sounded like thunder made of glass.

The space behind him twisted violently. A rift of pure, blinding golden light tore open the chaotic currents of the tunnel.

Arbiter Valdis stepped through.

He didn’t stumble. He didn’t float. He walked into the storm of gravity and radiation as if he were entering a garden. His golden aura pushed the chaos back, imposing a bubble of absolute order around him.

Valdis spotted Adrian immediately. A cold, satisfied smile touched his pale lips. He looked at Adrian not as an opponent, but as cornered prey.

"You run to the one place you cannot control," Valdis’s voice echoed, cutting through the dimensional noise. "A rat entering a maze does not escape the hawk. I have you now."

But to his surprise, Adrian didn’t flinch. He didn’t look terrified. He stopped his weaving, turned around, and smiled. It was a sharp, dangerous smile.

"You know," Adrian said, his voice calm despite the circumstances. "For an Arbiter, I expected you to be smart enough to know what a Space Tunnel actually is."

He spread his arms, embracing the chaotic storm around them.

"You think this is a trap for me? No, Valdis. This is my domain."

Valdis frowned. He felt the pressure of the tunnel pressing against his aura. The gravity was immense, trying to crush him into a singularity, but his Starlight barrier held firm.

"Your domain?" he scoffed. "You are delusional. This is chaos. No one controls chaos."

He decided to end this farce. He tried to take a step forward, intending to erase the boy instantly.

He couldn’t move.

Valdis looked down. His feet weren’t stuck. The space around him had simply ceased to obey his command to move. A chill went down his spine. His first instinct, honed over centuries of survival, screamed at him to leave.

He tried to [Shift] back out of the tunnel.

Nothing happened.

"Where are you trying to run to?" Adrian asked softly, his eyes glowing with a terrifying violet light.

Valdis’s expression cracked. "You... you locked the coordinates?" He flared his aura, the golden light turning into a blinding supernova. "You think I am afraid of your parlor tricks? I am a Star-Eater! I consume realities!"

"Then eat this," Adrian whispered.

He didn’t attack Valdis directly. He activated the Spatial Resonance frequency he had perfected in the Factory’s simulations.

The tunnel responded.

The chaotic currents of subspace stopped swirling randomly. They aligned. The entire dimension turned into a weapon, focusing its gravitational crushing power on a single point: Valdis.

~BOOOM!~

Valdis buckled. His golden aura shattered like glass. The weight of an entire dimension slammed into his shoulders.

"IMPOSSIBLE!" Valdis roared. He raised his hands, summoning pillars of concentrated starlight that burned hot enough to melt planets. He fired them at Adrian.

Adrian didn’t dodge. He simply [Shifted], stepping sideways through the tunnel’s geometry, appearing behind Valdis.

Valdis stumbled, coughing up golden ichor. He spun around, unleashing a shockwave of light that vaporized a section of the tunnel wall. "I will unmake you!"

The two clashed. It was a battle of gods in a corridor of storms. Valdis unleashed devastating attacks. But Adrian was the tunnel. He moved through the walls. He turned gravity upside down. He used the environmental radiation to heal himself while draining Valdis.

Finally, Adrian caught Valdis’s arm.

"Resonance," Adrian commanded.

He vibrated his own energy to match the frequency of Valdis’s shield. He phased his hand right through the Arbiter’s defenses and gripped his soul.

Then without a second thought, he crushed it into nothingness. Valdis was no more.