Chapter 718 - 501: Ice Wind Demon Serpent vs. Thunderbolt Demon Serpent Avatar
Chapter 718: Chapter 501: Ice Wind Demon Serpent vs. Thunderbolt Demon Serpent Avatar
The Thunderbolt Sea blotted out the sun and sky. Wherever it passed, the heavens were dyed a piercing, ghastly white.
Countless thick bolts of lightning, like frenzied silver serpents, zipped and roared within.
"RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!"
The dull, oppressive roar of thunder, like the beat of war drums, rolled in from the distant horizon. Every clap made the very earth of the swamp tremble.
A pure, violent aura of destruction—the pressure of a Catastrophe Level being—was already washing over the land from a great distance, blanketing everything!
Atop the high ground, the Black King and the Hill Giants Gordo and Ug, who were on watch, stood in grim formation.
The Black King’s massive body was coiled upon the high ground, its enormous draconic head staring fixedly at the approaching Thunderbolt Sea. Its vertical golden pupils flickered with horror and fear.
And behind it, Gordo led the Giant Legion in a steadfast defensive line.
But before that world-ending Thunderbolt Sea, both the Domain Level Black Dragon and the fearless Giant Legion seemed utterly small and helpless.
That was the Power of a Catastrophe Level being!
A divine punishment that no Mortal could possibly withstand!
"Master!"
Upon seeing Raylo appear, the Black King seemed to find its backbone, letting out a draconic roar tinged with relief.
Raylo ignored it.
His gaze was locked on the rapidly approaching Thunderbolt Sea, his expression grave.
He knew he could not, under any circumstances, allow it to get near.
Otherwise, forget Agrean, who was in the middle of his advancement—everyone on this high ground would be reduced to ash beneath the terrifying Thunderbolt!
Raylo took a deep breath. With a mere thought, he retrieved something from his Spatial Bag.
It was a hideous, terrifying head, as massive as a small mountain!
The Ice Wind Demon Head!
The instant the hideous and terrifyingly massive head materialized above the high ground...
...an aura of extreme cold—the polar opposite of the Thunderbolt Sea in the sky, yet equally terrifying—erupted violently!
HUMMMMM!
With the Ice Wind Demon Head as the epicenter, the air temperature plummeted to a horrifyingly low point!
The moisture in the air instantly condensed into billions of tiny ice crystals, which danced about to form a small, gorgeous, yet lethal mist of ice.
On the high ground, the scorching Hellfire spewing from the fissures flickered before this ultimate cold as if it had met its nemesis, its glow rapidly dimming.
Even the Abyssal Power radiating from Agrean seemed suppressed by the chill, becoming much more sluggish.
Raylo watched the approaching Thunderbolt Sea, his eyes as cold as ice.
"Go."
He reached out and gave the massive head a gentle wave.
The massive serpent’s head suddenly shot toward the sky, soaring into the heavens!
In mid-flight, its size began to expand wildly at an incredible speed!
Countless Ice Elements were forcibly drawn from the void, surging madly into its body as if answering a summons.
A serpentine body formed from Ice Elements rapidly grew and extended from behind its head!
Razor-sharp, ice-blue scales covered its newly formed frame!
One hundred meters...
Three hundred meters...
Eight hundred meters...
In the span of a few blinks!
A terrifying giant serpent, over a thousand meters long and radiating an endless chill, appeared in the sky above the high ground! Its entire body was formed from translucent ice crystals.
The Ice Wind Demon Serpent!
Its massive body coiled through the sky, and the shadow it cast enveloped the entire high ground.
It had no eyes, but within its sockets, two motes of ethereal blue Soul Fire burned with cold apathy, radiating a deathly stillness that held all life in contempt.
"ROAR!"
The Ice Wind Demon Serpent roared at the heavens. Under the control of Raylo’s Spiritual Power, its thousand-meter-long body shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, hurtling toward the rapidly approaching Thunderbolt Sea!
On one side was the raging Thunderbolt, incinerating and destroying all in its path.
On the other was the ultimate Frost, freezing solid and annihilating all life.
High above the Jade Swamp, two completely different yet equally terrifying powers, both at the Catastrophe Level, were about to collide in the most direct and brutal way imaginable.
「In the distance.」
The surging Thunderbolt Sea seemed to sense the Ice Wind Demon Serpent’s presence.
BOOM!
A clap of thunder, louder and more furious than any before, exploded from the depths of the Thunderbolt Sea!
Immediately after, the boundless Thunderbolt Sea began to churn violently.
Countless dancing silver serpents of lightning converged, finally forming into an equally ferocious giant serpent, also over a thousand meters long and composed of raw, raging Thunderbolt!
The giant serpent roared to the heavens, and with each cry, the Lightning Elements of the world resonated in response.
The Thunderbolt Clone of the Nine-headed Demon Serpent!
"ROAR!"
The Thunderboltous Giant Serpent locked its gaze on the approaching Ice Wind Demon Serpent, its eyes filled with a tyrannical urge for destruction.
It seemed to have never imagined that its own severed head would be refined into a Puppet!
The next second.
BOOM!
The sky seemed to tear asunder.
The blizzard and the sea of thunder collided violently, ten thousand meters up in the sky!
At the moment of impact, a world-ending energy storm burst forth like a broken dam, sweeping madly in all directions!
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
The sky wailed.
The earth trembled.
The Jade Swamp itself began to quake violently from the collision of these two Catastrophe Level powers!
The sky, which had been merely overcast, was now split in two: one half was consumed by raging Thunderbolt, the other shrouded in bone-chilling ice and snow.
Thunderbolt and ice intertwined and clashed madly in the sky.
At times, enormous hailstones, carried on gales strong enough to tear steel, rained down, smashing bottomless pits into the swamp below.
At other times, thick bolts of lightning, like spears of divine punishment, struck down from the clouds, instantly igniting vast swathes of primeval forest and turning them into Scorched Earth.
The Thunderbolt and the blizzard began to wreak havoc across the swamp!
「Atop the high ground.」
Raylo tilted his head back, his face pale.
Simultaneously controlling the Ice Wind Demon Serpent to engage in such a high-intensity confrontation with a Catastrophe Level entity was placing a terrifying drain on his Spiritual Power.
In the sky, the battle grew more and more intense.
The Nine-headed Demon Serpent’s Thunderbolt Clone controlled all the lightning in the area.
Each of its attacks drew upon the endless Thunderbolt of the heavens, forming assaults of limitless and berserk power.
Meanwhile, every breath from the Ice Wind Demon Serpent unleashed an arctic gale capable of freezing anything solid. Any Thunderbolt that drew near was instantly frozen and shattered.
For a time, the two were surprisingly evenly matched. Their released Catastrophe Level pressures and energies each consumed half the sky, constantly clashing and grinding against one another.
「On the ground.」
Down on the ground, a chaotic and violent energy storm raged, born from the clash of two Catastrophe Level powers. Bathed in its scouring winds, Agrean—who sat cross-legged on the verge of his advancement—suddenly snapped his eyes open!
BOOM!
The instant Agrean opened his eyes, a violent Abyssal aura erupted from his massive body like an awakening volcano!
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
With him at the center, the scorched, Abyssal-corrupted earth beneath his feet began to shatter inch by inch!
From the cracks gushed streams of terrifying, dark red energy that seemed a mixture of magma and blood, filled with the stench of sulfur and destruction!
Agrean slowly got to his feet.
At that moment, his body, which had been composed of charred rock, underwent an earth-shattering transformation.
Scalding magma flowed like coursing blood through the cracks in the rock, flowing wildly and casting his entire body in a crimson glow.
On his broad back, flesh and blood writhed as bones cracked and popped!