Chapter 768 - 524: The Fall of a Legend and the Descent of a Star
Chapter 768: Chapter 524: The Fall of a Legend and the Descent of a Star
It was all over.
Just as this utterly oppressive sorrow was about to erupt into a towering inferno of rage,
"ROAR!"
The Nine-headed Demon Serpent Hydra raised its five remaining heads to the sky and let out a shriek more piercing and frenzied than any before!
At this moment, its eyes held nothing but the purest, most primal will to destroy.
Killing a Legendary Mage had not sated its fury and savagery in the slightest.
Following its piercing roar,
in the distance, the four enormous serpent heads that the Legendary Knights had worked together to sever—heads that had crashed into the swamp like mountains—suddenly began to tremble violently!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Four muffled, titanic booms!
Guided by an unseen will, the four massive heads rapidly coalesced, squirmed, and warped!
Foul-smelling flesh and blood intertwined as twisted bones reshaped themselves.
In just a few breaths,
four slightly smaller but equally terrifying Demon Serpents burst forth from the gore!
Each of their bodies stretched over a kilometer long!
Their auras had all reached the Catastrophe Level!
The Venom Demon Serpent!
The Ice Demon Serpent!
The Hurricane Demon Serpent!
The Gravity Demon Serpent!
These were the very powers represented by the four heads that had been severed!
At the command of its will, the severed heads had transformed into four Catastrophe Level Demon Serpent Avatars!
Witnessing this, everyone’s hearts sank to rock bottom.
A single Half-Step World Destruction Level Nine-headed Demon Serpent had already forced them to give their all, even costing the life of a Legend.
And now,
there were four more Catastrophe Level monsters!
’How can we possibly fight this?’
However, at that very moment,
"That’s enough."
A calm voice echoed across the entire battlefield.
It was Mage Delin.
He slowly raised his head.
He glanced at Gregory, who no longer showed any signs of life.
Then he looked at the black sphere of fog not far away, the one that had swallowed Master Fran, from which there was still no sound.
Master Fran’s fate was unknown.
A flicker of sorrow passed through his eyes.
But this sorrow was quickly replaced by an even more resolute will.
He stretched out a finger and pointed to the sky.
He pointed toward the Starry Domain he had constructed with his Magic Power, which had now grown dim and even somewhat unstable.
"Disperse."
He gently uttered a single word.
HUM!
The vast, gray, starry sky covering the battlefield popped like a bubble and vanished in an instant.
Overhead, the oppressive, dark clouds were driven away.
In their place was something even more vast and boundless... the true cosmos!
Against a pitch-black backdrop, billions of stars shone silently, radiating an ancient, cold brilliance.
A brilliant river of stars stretched across the heavens.
Everyone was utterly stunned by the sight.
Including the seemingly invincible Nine-headed Demon Serpent Hydra.
It, too, stopped its roaring. Its five pairs of enormous, blood-red eyes stared up with a hint of confusion at the unfamiliar, yet fatally alluring, starry sky.
’What did Mage Delin do?’
’Did he dispel the sky?’
No.
He had simply... pulled back the world’s "curtain," shortening the distance to the void and connecting this swamp to the Endless Void!
Mage Delin’s face turned pale.
Maintaining this connection was an unimaginable burden for him.
But he did not stop.
The finger he pointed at the sky crooked slightly,
as if summoning something.
The next second,
in the depths of the cosmic expanse,
a Star that had been utterly unremarkable suddenly burst with light!
It flared to life!
Then,
before everyone’s horrified eyes,
that Star moved!
It broke from its ancient, unchanging orbit and came hurtling toward this world—toward this swamp!
In everyone’s field of vision, the point of light was expanding at an unimaginable speed!
The tiny dot of light became a fist-sized orb, then the size of a millstone, a house, a hill!
A long, brilliant tail of fire, seemingly capable of tearing the cosmos asunder, trailed behind it!
Terror!
An unparalleled, terrifying pressure descended from the heavens!
This was not the pressure of energy.
It was a pressure that came from the very essence of the universe and material existence itself!
It was as if the Power of the entire cosmos was bearing down on this one area!
In the distance, Raylo watched the rapidly falling "Star," his mind completely blank.
That was...
a real Star!
Mage Delin had summoned a real Star!
He had heard the legends about Mage Delin, but seeing this happen for real still left him breathless with shock.
’Is... is this really a Power that humans can master?!’
The shadow of the falling Star blanketed the land.
The wind stopped.
All sound vanished.
Even the air itself seemed to have been frozen solid by an invisible force.
Terror!
A terrifying pressure, born from matter and the cosmos itself, enveloped every living being present!
All things fell silent.
Their eyes were all glued to the sky,
fixed on the Star that was falling from the cosmic void, dragging its brilliant tail of fire!
It wasn’t an illusion of light and shadow created by Magic.
It wasn’t a phantom image formed from drawn-down energy.
It was a genuine, cold, heavy... Star, carrying with it the Laws of the universe!
"Roooar..."
"Aaaargh..."
The five remaining heads of the Nine-headed Demon Serpent Hydra let out incomprehensible roars simultaneously.
The savagery and madness from before were gone from its cries.
All that remained was the most primal... fear!
The shadow of death, like a physical tide, completely submerged its massive, kilometer-long body.
Its instincts were screaming, warning it!
’It will die!’
’It will be utterly obliterated!’
’Not even a shred of its soul will remain!’
"HISS!"
Driven by the Hydra’s frantic will, the four Catastrophe Level Demon Serpent Avatars that had just formed from its heads let out shrill screeches!
They were extensions of the Hydra’s will; they felt no fear, only the absolute drive to execute its commands.
’Protect the main body!’
’Destroy the enemy!’
BOOM!
The four kilometer-long Demon Serpents surged with power, their massive bodies tearing through the frozen air as they soared toward the heavens!
They were like four bolts of Lightning shooting upward against the current!
They flew to meet the falling Star that had descended from Beyond the Heavens!
The Venom Demon Serpent opened its cavernous maw.
In an instant, a torrent of dark green, venomous breath spewed forth like a bursting dam!
This was no ordinary venom.
It was a primordial poison, capable of corroding space and annihilating Laws!
Wherever the venomous breath passed, space itself emitted a SIZZLING sound, as if the poison was melting it away!
The Ice Demon Serpent began to glow with a deep blue, ethereal light.
What it spat out was not frigid air, but a nearly transparent current of cold.
Absolute Zero!
A terrifyingly low temperature capable of freezing everything in the world, even temporarily solidifying the flowing Laws themselves!
The Hurricane Demon Serpent’s body transformed into a tornado that reached from the earth to the sky!
Countless cyan Wind Blades spun at high speeds within the storm, each one capable of easily tearing mountains apart!
Meanwhile, the Gravity Demon Serpent radiated an invisible force field of Twisted Light!
It focused all of its Power into a single point and unleashed it at the Star in the sky!
It was attempting to use its distorted Gravity to alter the Star’s trajectory!
Four completely different types of the Power of Calamity.
Venom, Frost, Storm, Gravity!
They converged with a roar in midair, forming an incredibly chaotic and violent torrent of energy!
This torrent was so powerful that the Space Barrier along its path groaned under the strain, showing web-like cracks!
It had only one target!
To shatter the falling Star that brought with it endless fear!
Far away, Raylo tilted his head back, watching the world-ending scene unfold.
Catastrophe Level Demon Serpent Avatars!
Four of them!
A single one was enough to decide the fate of an entire Kingdom!
Now, they had joined forces to face the... Star!
The falling Star showed no reaction.
It simply... continued to fall.
At its leading edge was a searing cloud of fire over a thousand meters thick, generated by the intense friction with the world’s atmosphere!
CRACKLE!
The torrent of energy, which combined four types of the Power of Calamity, slammed head-on into that searing cloud of fire.