Chapter 611 - 591: Victory!
Chapter 611: Chapter 591: Victory!
"Your soul looks quite delicious."
Thanatos’s voice did not travel through the air; it exploded directly within the Skeleton Duke’s Soul Fire.
That was... the aura of a Law! And there were two of them! One was [Decay], but what made his Soul Fire shrink violently was another power that filled him with extreme disgust—the [Soul Law]! Laws also had their hierarchy, and this [Soul] was the ultimate bane of his [Undead Law]!
So what if it had mastered the Soul Law?!
The sickly green Ghost Fire in the Skeleton Duke’s eye sockets churned madly. He too wielded dual Laws, both fully realized, and he pushed [Boneification] to its absolute limit! This three-hundred-meter-tall behemoth was his painstakingly tempered divine body—indestructible and capable of infinite regeneration!
BOOM!
The White Bone Giant Statue gave up pursuing the nearby No. 18. Its hundred-meter-wide jagged bone claw swept up a chilling death aura that blotted out the starry sky, crashing down head-on toward Thanatos like a falling cloud!
Thanatos stood in the void, not retreating half a step. It simply, quietly raised the Soul-Trapping Lantern in its hand. A ring of dark purple halo spread out silently with it at the center.
[Death Domain] - [Decaying Withering].
The instant the halo swept over the White Bone Giant Statue, a sudden change occurred! The bone surface, originally crystal-clear like jade and indestructible, quickly lost its luster as if splashed with potent concentrated acid. Large patches of grayish-black spots emerged, and its structural integrity plummeted rapidly. It even began to peel and weather, turning into handfuls of pale gray dust.
The Skeleton Duke’s hyper-regenerating bones completely stalled at this moment. The newly formed bone matter, having just grown out of the cracks, was immediately eroded by that invisible power of Decay, becoming incredibly fragile and impossible to sustain.
His [Bone Transformation] Law had also been countered!
However, what truly made this immortal old monster feel a bone-piercing chill was the heavy sound of chains coming from the depths of his soul. The Soul Fire jumping ability granted to him by the [Necromancy] Law failed at this very moment! An invisible chain woven from Soul Power coiled around his soul.
Ever since he fully realized the [Undead] Law, he had survived countless sieges. But now, this escape route—which had allowed him to transfer his Soul Fire to other bone vessels the instant his body was destroyed every single time—was severed.
Soul Law, Soul Lock!
Decay Law, Bone Softening!
The combination of these two Laws was like a guillotine tailor-made just for him! His consciousness extended outward, attempting to establish a connection with other skeletal remains in the void to transfer his Soul Fire.
Failure! Failure! Failure!
With his soul trapped inside this vessel, he was like a rat in a cage! His illusory "immortality" was instantly exposed for what it truly was.
Thanatos’s mental fluctuations echoed within his soul. "Your era is over."
"Arrogant!"
The Skeleton Duke descended into complete madness. He exerted all his strength to operate the Bone Transformation Law, causing every inch of bone on his body to frantically proliferate and harden. He abandoned all attacks, turning instead to use all his power to reinforce the defenses around his cranial cavity.
Layers upon layers of pale bone shells formed a solid bone sphere over eighty meters in diameter around the Soul Fire carrying his soul. It was like an iron egg desperately protecting its yolk, its density reaching the absolute peak of his entire existence!
But the power of Decay followed like a shadow.
The newly proliferated bones began to yellow and turn to dust before they could even finish hardening. The mad speed of proliferation faced forceful Suppression, dropping to less than thirty percent of its prime. The Skeleton Duke was horrified to discover that his bone sphere... was gradually shrinking.
The speed of decaying and crumbling was beginning to overtake the speed of regeneration.
"No. 18, it is your stage now," Thanatos faintly reminded the tiny Golem beside it.
Blue light suddenly flared brilliantly. The countdown for No. 18’s engine overload had seventeen seconds left.
That was enough time.
"Received."
From deep within the chest cavity of the petite Golem, initially suspended in the void, came a terrifying, high-frequency engine shriek. The Storm Airflow acceleration system and the Anti-gravity Array were simultaneously pushed to maximum load, and the surface of her Spiritual Remains Steel skeleton erupted with blinding light.
BOOM!
The void trembled as she transformed into a cold white comet piercing through the gloom. A straight-line collision at a hundred times the speed of sound! She violently charged toward the decaying and crumbling outer bone walls of the White Bone Giant Statue.
First layer, shattered! Second layer, pierced! Third layer, blown apart inch by inch!
The defenses that had previously been infinitely regenerated by the Bone Transformation Law were now incredibly fragile under the erosion of the Decay Law. The hardness of each bone wall was not even half of its peak, rendering them like rotten wood before the Spiritual Remains Steel Fists.
No. 18 no longer sank into a quagmire like before. Every time her fists crushed a layer, only pitifully thin new bones emerged from the cracks, already an ashen, defeated color before they even formed.
Fourth layer, fifth layer, sixth layer—
No. 18 swept through everything with irresistible force, her mechanical body not stalling for a single moment, carving out a perfectly straight hollow of destruction!
[Engine Overload Countdown: 9, 8, 7—]
"Stop right there!" the Skeleton Duke unleashed a hysterical soul roar.
"6—5—4—"
The 7th Floor.
The Spiritual Remains Steel skeleton emitted a piercing, abnormal friction sound within the extremely compressed hard layer. However, under the simultaneous infiltration of the power of Decay, the bone matter biting onto her fist armor instantly turned to flying ash.
"3..."
The eighth layer, the final layer! Between the Spiritual Remains Steel and that eerie green Soul Core, less than two meters of bone wall remained.
"2..."
No. 18 twisted her waist and hips, bringing her fists together into a mountain-cleaving sledgehammer. Relying on the kinetic inertia of a hundred times the speed of sound, she fiercely smashed through the final bone barrier!
BOOM—!!
The final layer of bone wall exploded. Billions of bone fragments shot out in all directions, forming a pale Storm ring with a radius of dozens of kilometers in the void as the grotesque, massive skull spectacularly disintegrated in deep space.