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title: "Chapter 240: Vesper"
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slug: "ch-240"
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novel: "Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100"
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number: 240
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views: 0
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likes: 0
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wordCount: 1009
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createdAt: "2026-04-13"
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---
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The dust settled.
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And Evan…
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Was on the ground.
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Broken.
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His body was no longer regenerating.
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The damage—too severe.
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His right leg was gone.
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His left arm was charred beyond repair.
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His torso—mangled.
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He struggled, clawing at the ground, but his body wasn’t responding.
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His healing factor—had failed.
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The battlefield was silent.
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All eyes turned to Max.
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He pointed his sword at Evan again.
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His voice was calm.
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"You lost."
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Evan didn’t speak.
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He couldn’t.
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His mangled body twitched on the ground, his remaining limb clawing at the dirt, his once-overwhelming aura flickering—weak, unstable.
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Max exhaled, lowering his sword slightly.
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He turned toward Cain, about to speak—
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Then.
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It hit him.
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A feeling of absolute dread.
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Like an invisible blade pressed against his throat.
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Like the hand of Death itself had reached out to claim him.
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Max’s entire body tensed.
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His breath hitched.
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His instincts screamed.
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DANGER!
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MOVE!
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He didn’t hesitate.
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He dashed back—
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One step.
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Two.
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Three.
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Away from Evan’s mutilated body.
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And then—
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It began.
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Evan’s broken limbs twitched.
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Then—they began to mend.
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The black goo covering his form boiled, seethed, crawled.
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His missing leg regrew—piece by piece, reconstructing as if time itself was reversing.
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His severed arm reattached, stretching unnaturally before snapping into place.
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The cracks in his torso sealed themselves.
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And then—he stood.
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Once again.
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Untouched. Reborn.
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But—
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Max frowned.
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Something was different.
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Something was wrong.
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Because this time, Evan’s transformation didn’t stop.
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A small, fleshy bud formed on the left side of his forehead.
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At first, it was nothing.
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Then—
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It elongated.
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Slowly.
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Stretching outward, shifting sharper, hardening—
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Until—
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A horn.
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Max’s stomach dropped.
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His body reacted before his mind could process.
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His fingers tightened around his sword.
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His breath grew shallow.
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His instincts—his very being—warned him.
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That horn—
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That tiny, single horn—
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It was not normal.
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It was dangerous.
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No—far beyond dangerous.
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The sheer pressure radiating from Evan’s newly transformed body was on a different level.
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And the feeling—
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That same suffocating aura from before?
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It was still there.
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No.
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It was growing stronger.
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The thick scent of death pressed down on Max.
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For the first time since the battle began—
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He felt a true, overwhelming threat.
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A threat that his instincts recognized.
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And his instincts never lied.
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Max wasn’t the only one who noticed.
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The leaders watching the battle—the strongest warriors of the East Region—
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All felt it.
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And they were horrified.
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"That horn—"
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Kate’s voice wavered.
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Her usual sharp confidence was gone.
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Her gaze trembled.
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"No… it can’t be—"
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Aurelia’s face darkened, her hands curling into fists.
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"Could that be…?."
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"That’s…"
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Envoy Lucas narrowed his eyes.
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His expression turned serious.
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"A Vesper."
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The battlefield fell into silence.
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The very word sent shivers down the spines of even the most hardened warriors.
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Envoy Lucas exhaled, his expression unusually grim.
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"I thought Vespers could only be pure Nulls."
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His words hung heavy in the tense air.
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Every leader present turned their eyes to Evan, or rather—what Evan had become.
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A Vesper.
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A true monster.
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Lucas continued, his tone growing darker.
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"No matter if humans could transform into Nulls or not, they would only get the basic humanoid form of a Null. They would never—never—reach the evolved form. The form of a Vesper."
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His fingers curled into a tight fist.
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"And yet… here we are."
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Kate clenched her jaw, her usual calm demeanor shaken.
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"This shouldn’t be possible."
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Aurelia’s eyes darkened, her arms folding as she muttered, "Yet it is."
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Lucas’s gaze never left Evan as he continued.
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"Apart from the war ten thousand years ago, there have been… incidents."
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Everyone’s attention snapped to him.
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Incidents?
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Lucas nodded, voice low, tense.
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"Reports. From time to time, a Vesper has appeared in different parts of the Lower Domain."
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His next words sent shivers down spines.
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"But wherever the reports came from… only a crater was left behind."
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Silence.
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A heavy, suffocating silence.
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"No civilization."
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"No humans."
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"Nothing was spared."
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His eyes hardened.
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"All eradicated into nothingness."
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Kate’s fingers twitched as she clenched her sword.
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"A single Vesper was enough to wipe out an entire civilization…?"
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Norton Blade wiped his sweat.
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"No wonder we never had records on them."
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Aurelia’s face remained unreadable, but her fingers dug into her arms.
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"It makes sense now."
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She turned to Lucas.
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"The reason we don’t know about them… is because no one ever survived to tell the tale."
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Lucas nodded.
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"Precisely."
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"Vespers don’t just kill. They erase. They devour. They consume everything down to the last trace of existence."
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The battlefield grew colder.
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And all eyes turned to Max.
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Max’s fingers tightened around his sword, his grip ironclad, yet his palms were damp with sweat.
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His breathing was steady, but his body wasn’t calm.
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Every muscle in his frame was coiled, tense, on the edge of an explosion.
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His instincts screamed at him.
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A deep, primal warning.
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An overwhelming, suffocating sense of death.
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It wasn’t a threat.
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It wasn’t a possibility.
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It was a certainty.
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’If I move closer… I will die.’
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It wasn’t a question.
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It was a truth that his entire being accepted.
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His Three-Dimensional Body, his heightened awareness, his very soul—everything inside him told him to retreat.
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To back away.
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To wait.
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But—
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He saw it.
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The moment.
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Evan—or the thing that had become Evan—was still.
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Not because it was calculating.
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Not because it was waiting.
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But because it was lost.
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Like something was rearranging inside it.
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Like the transformation had triggered something deeper.
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A lapse. A delay.
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Even if just for a second.
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And Max knew.
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’This is my chance.’
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But his fear clashed with his reason.
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One part of him—the survivor, the warrior, the rational mind—said no.
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Said to wait, to observe, to retreat.
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But the other part of him—the predator, the instinctual fighter, the part that never hesitated—screamed at him.
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’GO. STRIKE. NOW.’
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A single moment. A single decision.
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If he hesitated—he would lose.
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If he attacked—he might die.
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The choice wasn’t fair.
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But in battle, fairness didn’t exist.
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So Max decided.
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He moved.
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Lightning erupted.
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His sword flashed forward.
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And he struck. |