Infinity: Kill your way through the movie world.

Dean and the others nodded solemnly, indicating that they understood.

After speaking, Wu Heng did not linger. His figure faded into the dissipating rain, as mysterious as when he arrived.

Dean and Sam stood at the town's entrance, a scene of utter devastation, looking at the wounded scattered on the ground and the belated, ever-present sound of sirens in the distance, while also pondering the message left behind by Wu Heng.

Although both of them were still feeling heavy-hearted, at least they had a direction.

Deep within the Morrick Manor, in a completely isolated laboratory with walls covered in energy-absorbing metal and anti-psychic runes.

At this moment, the air is still, with only a faint humming sound from the flow of energy.

The ring that was taken from the War Knight is now suspended in the center of a transparent analyzer composed of a complex force field.

The ring itself has an antique design, and the dark metal seems to be soaked in the blood and fire of countless eras. Inside the dark red gemstone at the center, there seems to be a miniature battlefield phantom, eternally staging charges and battles.

It's like a cycle.

Wu Heng stood quietly in front of the instruments, his eyes deep, his consciousness completely synchronized with the laboratory's top-notch analytical equipment through the puppet evil spirit.

Countless invisible detection waves scanned the fel energy, deconstructed the power, and observed the characteristics. The person was like a precise scalpel, cutting into this seemingly simple but actually primordial creation containing the concept of 'war' from every dimension.

The analysis results flowed through his mind like a waterfall of data.

"As expected. It's not a complete manifestation of the trait." Wu Heng muttered to himself.

The detection revealed that the ring did indeed contain an extremely pure "quality" related to conflict, fighting spirit, and group confrontation.

However, this trait is like an incompletely developed embryo; although its essence is extremely high, it is in a weak and unformed state.

It's similar to a 'fetus' that has been developing for 20 weeks.

Further investigation led Wu Heng to discover the reason.

The pinnacle of this ring, or rather the War Knight itself, requires large-scale, disruptive warfare to be built upon.

Small-scale conflicts are like drops of water, only able to sustain their existence;

Only when national regimes are overthrown, or even the world order is completely rewritten, can it draw enough nourishment amidst endless war and chaos to fully nurture this fundamental characteristic of law, allowing it to grow from a 'fetus' into a complete 'war characteristic'.

At that time, the War Knight's power will rise to a level that can be described as 'Hellish'.

“To overthrow all regimes in the world at once, or even more than just the regimes of the human world,” a knowing glint flashed in Wu Heng’s eyes. “No wonder it has never succeeded.”

That's too ambitious.

Leaving aside the resilience and resistance of human civilization itself, the two major powers, Heaven and Hell, who occupy the top of this world, would never sit idly by and allow an uncontrolled hellish existence representing the pure concept of 'war' to be born.

That would completely shatter the delicate balance between them, plunging the world into an unpredictable abyss of destruction.

All of War Knight's past efforts inevitably failed due to the intervention of the two major powers.

"In other words," Wu Heng summarized his insight, "this ring contains a 'war' quality that is stuck on the path of growth and has not yet been fully realized."

He further analyzed the existence of the War Knight. "The War Knight is both the embodiment of this trait and the sole bearer of this trait. It is somewhat similar to a kind of abstract 'Tao' or 'rule' that develops self-awareness under specific conditions and takes form."

This discovery gave him a clearer understanding of the nature of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

"By this logic, the situations of famine, plague, the Ring of Death, and the Knight should be similar." Wu Heng's mind raced. "Each of them represents an incomplete 'trait.' To achieve the final advancement, what is needed is not just a single-level disaster, but the corresponding concept throughout the entire world."

This includes changes to all levels of reality, heaven, and hell.

Famine requires everything to wither and energy to be depleted, even the holy light of heaven and the evil energy of hell are 'starved'.

A plague requires all living beings to become infected, the laws to collapse, and both order and chaos to be 'infected'.

Death requires everything to return to annihilation; existence itself comes to an end, and even concepts cannot escape it.

"This explains why, despite their apparent strength, the four of them appear so weak in the story, always confined to a certain range and unable to truly reach the top."

Wu Heng's gaze seemed to pierce through the ring, seeing into the deeper constraints it contained.

“Lucifer can use the power of ‘death’ at will, but the ‘death’ knight who claims to be older than God cannot resist. This is because the death knight himself is also limited by this unfinished path, and his power is inherently incomplete. When facing an existence like Lucifer, he is naturally suppressed.”

“And their form originates from a side of the fundamental laws of the world, making them almost impossible to kill completely.” Wu Heng concluded. “At most, their consciousness will be scattered and they will temporarily go dormant, unless…the fundamental concept of the world they represent is destroyed along with them, that is…the entire world is destroyed.”

Perhaps 'death' will not be completely erased, but he is powerless to resist being used by Lucifer, and he is tired of being used.

If he defies Lucifer's control, he'll only suffer a little; the other side can't kill him.

This perfectly explains why, in the original course of fate, the Death Knight seemed to easily hand over his ring to the Winchester brothers.

For an immortal being, temporary gains and losses are meaningless.

It may even contain a deeper scheme that aligns with its concept of 'death'.

The instruments in the sealed room were shut down, the tentacles retracted, and the research came to a temporary end.

Wu Heng carefully put away the ring that contained the characteristics of an 'unfinished war'.

Its power is already considerable, but more importantly, it provides a valuable sample for peeking into the underlying rules and promotion paths of the world.

For Wu Heng, who is dedicated to gathering countless 'qualities' to gain a path to advancement and intends to plunder this world, their value is immeasurable.

While Wu Heng was engrossed in his research, the apocalyptic disaster in the outside world was worsening at an unprecedented rate.

The opening of the gates of hell and the loosening of spatial barriers have led to an exponential increase in the number and frequency of demons entering the real world.

News of towns falling and villages being massacred came through various channels, most of which eventually converged on the Witcher Guild's online platform.

There is no "internet addiction" in the story; people are overwhelmed by information and have not yet realized the harm brought by the apocalypse.

Just as in the era before the internet and television, people had no idea how many wars were happening around the world, how brutal they were, or how many people had died. (End of Chapter)