Killing logic is the power proven by killing something else . It means that you are stronger than what you kill and weaker than what kills you. Sword logic is the basis in which you gain power through what you kill. The more you kill, the stronger and smarter you become Sword logic is a more important factor than killing logic in Hive culture, but you could not have one without the other. The Darkness utilizes sword logic in a way that allows you to grow to a point where killing enough allows you strength to grow to a point that allows you to defy physics. A blade used to kill many can make the universe shrink away from its edge in fear of its malice and allows Hive to cut holes in reality that lead to the Ascendant Realm. The Ascendant Realm is a place where, once a Hive entity has killed enough, their deaths are hidden because they have proven themselves as something unkillable in the universe. In the Ascendant Realm a Hive is at its most powerful because that is where its power is kept, but if something can kill them in there at their full strength then they have proven themselves more powerful through killing logic and the Hive will die permanently