jdhmnovel Chapter 412 - 413: Everything Falls into Despair!
Chapter 412 - 413: Everything Falls into Despair!
Realizing the connection between Aster Grant and that terrifying existence who had once sealed the Demon Abyss, the Demon God Valley’s scarlet pupils shrank abruptly.
Immediately after, his gaze locked deathly tight onto the Dragon Emperor’s colossal draconic body.
A fury at having been toyed with and belittled surged within his chest like molten lava!
"You old loach!"
Valley’s voice was like ten-thousand-year ice, carrying bone-piercing killing intent.
"This is the secret you’ve been hiding all this time? This is the confidence that lets you dare block this seat here?!"
Faced with that sky-shaking rage and interrogation, the Dragon Emperor’s gigantic dragon head remained as calm as an ancient well, without a ripple.
His golden dragon eyes were unimaginably deep as he spoke slowly:
"I have never deliberately concealed this matter. It is merely that you failed to notice."
"You—!"
This indifferent attitude of the Dragon Emperor’s was like adding fuel to the fire!
Demonic Qi around Valley roiled violently, as though in the very next instant it would erupt completely, annihilating this "remnant" before him together with the entire Dragon Island!
Yet just as his fury was about to break through the Critical point of reason, the Demon God Valley abruptly grew eerily calm.
That extremity of rage receded like the tide, replaced by a trace of mockery.
"Hehe... old loach, this seat almost fell into your trap."
A cruel arc hooked up at the corner of Valley’s mouth. "Since this child is that existence, you still dare let him appear before this seat?"
"Are you certain he can escape from this seat’s hands, or are you confident that this wretched, barely-holding-together husk of yours can block this seat?"
His gaze coiled around the Dragon Emperor like a venomous serpent:
"Whichever it is, it’s nothing but delusional fantasy!"
"Today, this seat will first crush this remnant soul of yours, then personally suppress and kill him!"
Before the words had even fallen, Demonic Qi around Valley surged to the heavens once more. That thousand-zhang demonic avatar grew even more solid; the Destruction-laden shockwaves it exuded caused the very space of Dragon Island to begin collapsing on a massive scale!
The Dragon Emperor remained silent, a sliver of grim resolve flashing within his enormous dragon pupils.
He knew full well that in his current Status, facing the Demon God Valley in his prime head-on, he had absolutely no chance of victory.
The brief clash earlier had already caused numerous fractures to appear in this body of his forcibly maintained by Law.
However, he still had one final card left to play!
A card that burned the Dragon Clan’s ancestral war souls of ten thousand ages!
"Aooo——!!!"
A tragic and desolate dragon roar resounded through the Ninth Heaven!
The Dragon Emperor’s ten-thousand-zhang draconic form coiled upward. The resplendent Power around him no longer merely circled his body, but turned into countless tendrils that suddenly stabbed into the depths beneath Dragon Island’s earth!
"War souls of Dragon Island, heed my command!"
With the Dragon Emperor’s chant, the entire Dragon Island began to quake violently!
One after another, illusory yet mighty Dragon Souls rose up from every inch of the island’s soil, from beneath every fragment of ruin!
Their forms varied—some were incomplete and broken, some still retained the majesty and might they had before death!
These were the Dragon Clan forebears who, across the endless ages, had died in battle here on Dragon Island, their souls returning to their homeland!
Now, under the summons of the current Dragon Emperor using his own origin as the guide, these war souls that had slumbered for who knew how many tens of thousands of years awakened once more!
They let out silent roars, transforming into torrents of golden light that madly poured into the Dragon Emperor’s body!
"Wong——!"
Empowered by the countless war souls of the Dragon Clan, the Dragon Emperor’s previously somewhat dim draconic body instantly erupted with unprecedentedly dazzling golden radiance!
This was a flood of Power formed from the gathered will of countless dragons!
The cracks that had appeared on his body were rapidly repaired and reinforced, even becoming more solid than before!
An aura far more majestic than before, suffused with a savage and desperate air, exploded forth with a boom!
"Oh? Burning the war soul Power accumulated over endless ages on Dragon Island?"
Seeing this, a flicker of surprise flashed within the Demon God Valley’s scarlet eyes, only to turn into even thicker ridicule.
"Is this your final struggle, old loach? You think that with these thoroughly dead remnants, you can overturn heaven and earth?"
"How laughable! All you’ll do is make this seat spend a bit more effort to erase the last traces of your Dragon Clan from this world completely!"
At this point, Valley wasted no more words.
He formed a Sealing with both hands. Endless Demonic Qi gathered in his palms, condensing into a black hole that devoured all light, carrying a terrifying suction that could annihilate all things as it pressed down fiercely toward the Dragon Emperor!
The Dragon Emperor was similarly unwilling to yield.
The Dragon Emperor’s Power, infused with the strength of countless war souls, erupted in full, condensing before him into a colossal golden wall etched with patterns of ten thousand dragons soaring, heavy as a primordial mountain range!
On that wall, innumerable Dragon Soul phantoms coiled and roared, exuding a tragic will to Guard unto death!
"Boom——!!!!!!!"
The black hole and the Dragon Wall collided once again in a savage impact!
This clash was far more terrifying than the one before!
The Energy storm swept across heaven and earth, and even Aster Grant and the others locked in fierce battle in the distance were struck by a violent shockwave!
Relying on the brief Power gained by burning war souls, the Dragon Emperor actually managed to barely withstand this enraged blow from the Demon God Valley!
But the price was that with every passing instant, vast numbers of Dragon Souls wailed in the collision and scattered, dissolving into nothingness!
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At the same time, the battlefield on the other side had entered a white-hot stage.
Lazuli and Vera had pushed their Laws to the extreme.
Destruction sword-light and Life torrents intertwined, and with Sally’s precise release of her "Time Slowdown" Domain, they just barely managed to fend off the storm-like onslaught of the Totem Ninth Tier Demon Clan.
This Demon Clan’s attacks were simple and brutal, yet contained an absolutely overwhelming Power advantage!
"Pff!"
Caught a fraction of a moment too slow in evasion, Lazuli’s shoulder armor was grazed by Demonic Qi, instantly corroded into a gaping hole as golden blood splattered out!
She gave a muffled groan, her face turning deathly pale in an instant.
"Sister Lazuli!"
Sally cried out in alarm, pouring all her strength into the Time Law to delay the Demon Servant’s next strike by a split-second, buying Lazuli a breath’s time.
Vera was in no better shape.
With each shattering of the Life Vine, she had to expend vast amounts of the Law of Life to reconstruct it anew.
Aster Grant stood behind them, his face likewise pale as paper.
His spiritual power surged toward his three Beastbond companions like a flood released from a broken dam, frantically maintaining their ultra-limit Status.
The tearing agony coming from the depths of his soul grew ever more intense; this was the omen of Spiritual strength nearing exhaustion!
His body swayed slightly, his vision beginning to blur, held together only by an unyielding will.
Yet there was not a shred of despair in his eyes. Instead, a near-mad flame burned within them!
He meant to force himself into a desperate corner!
On the very razor’s edge between Life and death, he would squeeze out every last drop of potential and shatter that long-standing barrier!
"Not enough... still not enough!"
Aster Grant roared within his heart, gritting his teeth as he wrung out his last trace of spiritual power, pouring it into the Divine Rune Resonance!
"Master!"
Feeling Aster Grant’s rapidly weakening aura, Lazuli and the others panicked, their attacks growing even more frenzied.
They tried to force this Demon Clan back as quickly as possible, but the enormous difference in strength rendered their struggles so feeble.
Everything seemed to be plunging into a dead end!
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