Hancock yelled at the elf, "What are you doing to my continent?"
"I am stealing it silly." The elf answered as if it is the most obvious information. He even snickered at him.
Hancock exploded again. His body turned into a giant humanoid white flame. The giant flames became a tornado of flames with arms. The flames of the tornado twisted faster and faster as it fed on void energy. The tornado continued to grow until it grew bigger than a plane in the lower realm. The tornado isn't just big, it can burn anything.
This is the concept that he embodies. He fused light, darkness, water, air, and earth into the fire law to create a six-law concept called "All is fire." In reality, all is not fire but this concept upends reality and makes everything succumb to fire.
A loud voice rang out from the tornado. "You scoundrel."
The single eye of the colossal tornado locked onto the realm lord as it closed in on the elf. It produced flame whips that tried to touch the elf. The flame whips are like tentacles of fire extending from the Colossal tornado. A single contact will turn whatever it touches into flames which will make Hancock stronger.
The elf looked at the towering tornado without fear. Size isn't what matters in strength unless you are a world god. For now, only concepts matter and he has full confidence in his concept.
He said to the Tornado. "EXISTENCE REWRITE."
He activated a function of his concept with a simple order. The order changed certain parts of Hancock's existence. His existence was bombarded with intrusive instructions and manipulations seeking to create change within him.
Hancock's existence resisted the change and was able to stop the creation of major changes to his existence but he couldn't stop all the changes. Some instructions entered the fabric of his existence and rewrote seemingly useless pieces of it. These pieces are little but they are the largest amount of components that make up Hancock's existence.
He asked Mother high heaven, "What happens when you tamper with the foundation of a house?"
She deadpanned, "It comes crashing down."
The tornado froze first. It became a statue formed by frozen fire. Then the ice fire began to break. It collapsed and disappeared into the void.
The realm lord smirked, "The bigger they are the harder they fall."
Size doesn't matter, only concepts matter. The fact is that he has a much stronger concept. EXISTENCE REWRITE tries to edit someone's existence by modifying their concepts. A concept is stronger the more laws make it up. But there is the matter of complexity.
Complexity is rarely appreciated but it affects a concept's resistance to change. It is the number of bonds and interactions between the component laws. So a six-law concept will be more vulnerable than a two-law concept if it is not complex enough. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link after all. Small changes can make the heavy structure of the six-law concept collapse or malfunction. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
In the case of Hancock, his concept is made with fire as the base while the other elements are fused into it. The realm lord tried to switch the base to water specifically ice. He failed but the result is still favorable to him. He succeeded in tampering with the bonds between fire and the other laws which caused changes in the foundation of Hancock's existence.
Hancock struggled to speak before he died. "I'll be back."
The realm waved at him as he died and spoke eagerly, "I'll be waiting."
Concepts are not made equally. There is the number of laws that makes up a concept and the complexity of bonds. Neither are realm lords made equally. The minimum requirement to become a realm lord is a six-law concept. There's nothing about complexity.
Monarch high heaven's concept for instance is way out of the league of Hancock's. First of all, it is not a six-law concept. The second difference is that even if his concept were made up of six laws, it will be vastly more complex than that of Hancock's. That was proven by how quickly he died to EXISTENCE REWRITE. The only way to stop the realm lord is to be completely immune to his concept which requires your concept to be more complex than his.
The followers of Hancock didn't take the death of their leader well. They swarmed the high elf fearlessly from every side even though they just saw him kill their leader, a famed realm lord. It is not bravery or courage because there is nothing to fear. The worst that can happen is death and Origin gods laugh in the face of death.
The realm lord glanced at the multitude of origin gods with disdain. He sneered as he said, "A bunch of riff raffs. EXISTENCE DECONSTRUCTION."
A wave of power emanated from him. The wave clashed with every one of them and they began to turn to dust. Their bodies broke down and scattered into the wind of void energy. There are more than ten thousand of them but not one of them survived the order. Their existence was hit with a force that broke through the force binding them together.
EXISTENCE DECONSTRUCTION is unlike the targeted effect of EXISTENCE REWRITE. It is a brute force attack that only seeks to destroy whereas EXISTENCE REWRITE can be used for so much more.
EXISTENCE DECONSTRUCTION is used in the case there is someone with a more complex concept than that of the realm lord. For example, a one-law concept. A one-law concept has no bonds whatsoever so there is no weakness to exploit. EXISTENCE REWRITE won't work in this case.
EXISTENCE DECONSTRUCTION on the other hand uses brute force by utilizing the numerical advantage of laws to overwhelm and crush complex concepts with fewer laws. So the lesser the number of laws that a concept has, the poorer it will fare against EXISTENCE DECONSTRUCTION.
