Silent Annihilation

Silent Annihilation, Nirvana, or Jeokmyeol is an important sub ability in **Reawakened Man**. It is an ability that derives from the Revivalist, one of the prophets.

## Description

There are two stages: semi-awakening and a full awakening. When activated, his eyes turn bright red.

### Semi-Awakening

The power to become a superhuman for a limited time. This power is activated when the user believes that death is imminent and that knowing that people close to the user is hurt or killed can increase the chance for the power to activate. This power makes his pupils turn red but the irises can be seen and gives him enhanced abilities:

* Enhanced Strength - Has the possbility to kill a person in one shot. However, it seems to depend on the user's mood and/or control as Taewon Jang was hit but was not killed while Seonggyu Choi was hit with a bat and is immediately killed.
* Enhanced Durability - for the period of activation, the body can take large amounts of damage. When shot or stabbed, there will be little to no blood.
* Enhanced Speed and Agility -
* Enhanced Senses - His perception against attack are very fast; the motion of the attack seems to be in slo-mow, allowing to dodge easily.
* Pain Suppression - During the activation, there is no sense of pain. Such as being stabbed,

### Full Awakening

A power that depends on life force. The user's eye will glow bright and completely red with a fiery aura. It can be activated accidentally without the user's knowledge. It pretty much an increased and limitless version of the semi-awakening. It can easily decimated a huge bunch of people as there seems to be no time limit besides needing life force.

* Instant One Shot Kill - It would seem that anyone that is hit by the user, regardless of the force of the hit, is instantly killed.
* Nullification - Large attacks like explosions are nullified and absorbed by the annihilaiton. However, this will decrease the state of being in full awakening.

## Limitations

### Semi-Awakening

This power is said to only last for up to a minute but it is seen lasting for what seems to be less than that.

### Full Awakening

Though Silent Annihilation provides a huge boost in power and resistant to pain, there are some limitations:

* Side effects includes intense headache, mood swings, and death.
* It will only be activated for a short time.
* It depends on the accumulated life force. Can only use half of it. Furthermore, if the user is female and pregnant, she is forced to use her baby's life force, killing it.
* It does not heal wounds, thus, if there was severe injury before the activation, there is a high risk of death after the effects wear off.
* When users of Silent Annihilation fight each other, the one with weaker mental strength will be on the losing and is able to feel pain caused by the other user.

## Users

While there are other people who've partially obtained the powers of the Revivalist, at the moment only the people listed below have displayed the ability of Silent Annihilation:

Acting leader of the White Snakes. It seems he may also be able to partially activate Silent Annihilation as his eyes do turn red.

## Plot Overview

### Marco Polo's Travel to the Multiverse

Hwan Seok is seen briefly activating in his quarrel with Suchan as his eyes turn red.

## Trivia

* The term comes from Buddhism (寂滅 in Chinese), which is essentially equivalent to Nirvana, escaping from the state of suffering by extinction.