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title: "Chapter 180: Null, A Vesper"
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slug: "ch-180"
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novel: "Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100"
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number: 180
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views: 0
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likes: 0
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wordCount: 1221
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createdAt: "2026-04-13"
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"Wait! Look at Veylin… Something is happening to him!"
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Bruce’s sudden shout shattered the tense silence, his voice sharp with alarm.
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Every genius snapped their attention toward Veylin—and what they saw made their blood run cold.
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Crown Prince Aelric, Amelia, Revenna, Jack, Arthur—all of them stared in horror, their battle-hardened instincts screaming at them to stay away.
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Max was no exception. His entire attention on Veylin as he suddenly felt a very creepy aura from him.
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Veylin’s body twitched violently, his hands clenched into unnatural angles, as if his very being was rejecting something inside him.
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His breath turned shallow, his skin paled, but what sent a chill down everyone’s spine was his eyes—
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They were empty. Hollow. As if his soul had already been consumed.
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And yet, from that void within him, an aura more twisted than anything before began to rise.
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Max’s expression darkened.
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A strange, eerie aura was pouring out of Veylin’s trembling form, wrapping around him like an unseen force of corruption.
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It wasn’t rage.
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It wasn’t hatred.
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It was something deeper. Something darker.
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Then—
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Suddnely Veylin’s transformation accelerated, and what followed froze everyone in pure terror.
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His skin darkened, shifting into an abyssal black, consuming every inch of his body. His features—his face, his eyes, his mouth, his nose—all vanished, swallowed by the creeping darkness.
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And in their place—
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A mask of pure blackness formed, smooth and featureless, an eerie void where his face had once been.
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"AHHHHH!"
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A bloodcurdling scream erupted from Veylin’s throat, raw and inhuman, as if something far worse than pain was consuming him from the inside.
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Yet—
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The transformation wasn’t finished.
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The air around him twisted, reality itself warping as something unnatural took form.
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At the very center of his black mask, a single glowing white ring appeared, pulsing with an eerie radiance. It wasn’t an eye. It wasn’t light.
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It was something far more sinister.
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Then, just as suddenly as the screams had begun—
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They stopped.
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A suffocating silence descended upon the battlefield.
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And then—
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"I have finally been born into this world…"
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A voice—low, twisted, filled with a sinister amusement—rumbled through the air.
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It came from Veylin, but at the same time, it was not him.
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His posture shifted, his presence no longer human. The energy radiating from him was wrong, and unnatural.
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A cold, chilling chuckle followed, reverberating like a whisper from the abyss.
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Every genius watching knew one thing—
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This was no longer Veylin, at least, not on the surface.
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"That—That is a Null Monster! A Vesper!"
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Crown Prince Aelric’s voice cracked with terror, his usually composed expression twisted in shock.
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A Vesper.
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The mere mention of that name sent a chill through the Battle Realm.
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Most of the geniuses blinked in confusion, tilting their heads, unaware of what Aelric was talking about.
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But those who did understand—
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Amelia. Revenna. Arthur, Bruce.
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Their faces darkened instantly, their expressions grim.
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"But how?" Arthur muttered, his voice laced with unease. "How did Veylin become a Null? A Vesper?"
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He felt a cold sweat forming at the back of his neck.
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"Though I hated this guy—because, well, everyone hates him—how does a human even turn into a Null? That doesn’t make sense!"
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Aelric shook his head, his face pale.
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"I have no clue ei—"
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He suddenly stopped, his breath catching in his throat.
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His eyes widened as he pointed toward Veylin—or rather, the thing he had become.
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"He’s moving. He’s taking action—I think." Find your next read at freewebnovel
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Every genius present snapped their eyes toward Veylin.
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The blackened form, the featureless mask, the single glowing white ring pulsing ominously in the center of where his face should have been—
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And then—it moved.
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And vanished.
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Max’s entire focus had been locked onto Veylin—or whatever he had become. He had been watching, ready to react, but—
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He never saw it happen.
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One moment, Veylin was there.
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The next—
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A cold, clawed hand had wrapped around his throat.
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Max’s pink eyes widened as he suddenly realized—
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He was in the creature’s grasp.
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A single clawed, pitch-black hand—as if carved from the void itself—held his neck in an iron grip.
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The black mask with its single glowing white ring stared at him from up close.
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It was featureless. Inhuman. Wrong.
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And then—
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A sound.
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"Fascinating."
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A whisper. A chuckle. A voice that didn’t belong to this world.
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A chill ran down Max’s spine as his gaze locked onto the glowing white ring embedded in that featureless black mask.
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The way it stared at him—not with eyes, not with emotion, but with something far more unsettling—sent a deep, primal instinct of danger through his very soul.
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’Damn… what is he?’
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The terrifying aura radiating from the creature made it abundantly clear—this was not Veylin anymore.
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Max’s instincts screamed at him to act.
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Without hesitation, his right hand ignited, surging with black flames that roared to life like a feral beast.
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With a tight grip, he clamped his flaming hand over the blackened claw gripping his throat.
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Ssssshhh!
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The flames sizzled violently against the unnatural flesh, burning deep, causing the Vesper to recoil slightly.
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Its grip loosened—just for a moment.
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And that was all Max needed.
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With explosive speed, he broke free from the grasp, and in the very same instant—
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He vanished.
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Pushing all three of his agility skills to their absolute limit, he blurred backward, retreating as far as possible from the abomination before him.
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When he finally stopped, standing several meters away, he steadied his breath, his gaze locked onto the creature.
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For the first time in a long time, Max felt something strange.
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Not excitement. Not challenge.
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Something close to… unease.
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"Why are you running so fast?"
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The blackened face creature spoke, its voice laced with a sinister amusement, the tone both mocking and unnervingly calm.
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As it spoke, its other hand traced over the burns left by Max’s black flames—a slow, almost lazy caress.
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Then—
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The injury vanished.
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Completely erased.
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Max’s eyes narrowed.
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’Regeneration? No… It’s something else.’
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His body remained taut, senses on full alert, every fiber of his being prepared for whatever this thing was about to do next.
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"Who are you? What happened to Veylin?" Max demanded, his pink eyes sharp, his energy coiling within him, ready to strike at any moment.
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The creature chuckled.
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"Who am I? Doesn’t matter."
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It tilted its head, the glowing white ring on its face pulsing ever so slightly.
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"Just know that you… you are going down."
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The space around it twisted, an eerie, almost imperceptible disturbance warping the air.
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"Even if I can’t kill you in this strange realm we are in…"
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The creature’s voice lowered, its tone turning from mockery to pure menace.
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"I will make sure you taste the same feeling as my dear friend is going through right now."
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With those words—the creature vanished.
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This time, Max was ready.
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His Three Dimensional Body skill caught a trace of its movement, an unnatural distortion in space that left behind a faint ripple.
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His instincts kicked in.
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Without hesitation, his sword surged with power— 20% Fusion State Aura, roaring like an unstoppable force. Level 2 Lightning Aura, crackling wildly across the blade. Level 1 Space Aura, distorting reality itself around his attack and also pure raw strength from all his 15 Draconic Essences concentrated on his sword.
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"Drag Sword!" |