Chapter 596

Chapter 218 – Divine War Part Five

Rumble—

In an instant, mountains crumbled and rocks disintegrated.

The massive bony hand, carrying the stench of blood and waves, slapped down on the black rock where the dancer stood. The violent force instantly crushed the rock, and terrifying cracks spread out like a great chasm from beneath the palm, extending to the steep cliff on one side of the peak. Some even reached the waist of the mountain wall. Eerie red light burst forth from the cracks in the rock, almost as if it was instantaneous destruction. Following that, a considerable portion of the rocky peak collapsed under such overwhelming power.

Rumble…

Violent winds swirled, and fragments of shattered rocks flew everywhere. Ashes floating in the sky began to fly backwards under the impact of the spreading force. The four light columns standing around the large pit became as fragile as glass at the moment the dancer was hit, and they shattered with a loud noise amidst the blood tide, turning into fragments of light that scattered across the sky. The chains that had been torn apart were submerged in the blood lake, not stirring the water at all, and immediately sank to the boiling bottom, disappearing from sight.

That woman…

Was she dead?

I felt my body tremble violently, a feeling I had never experienced before when facing any enemy, true fear.

This thing…

“Buzz—”

The corpse in the lake raised its head again and let out a long howl. Its other bony arm suddenly lifted, grabbing onto the collapsing gap along the edge of the pit, pulling most of its huge, grotesque body out of the pit. Blood poured down like rain, splattering over the peak. The red light in the eye sockets of the corpse grew stronger. It seemed to sense something and suddenly turned its head, fixing its gaze on me in mid-air.

!!!

Instantly, a bone-chilling coldness shot up from my spine to my head, my heart racing, as if every hair on my body was standing on end.

“Gulp.”

I couldn’t help but swallow saliva.

The golden light above my head gradually faded away, and my ears were still ringing from the aftermath of the divine being’s roar. I felt dizzy and disoriented, clenching my body tightly. At the moment the corpse directed its attention to me, I fully activated the chaotic power within me, and surging black mist burst forth from my surroundings, instantly enveloping the gray sky for dozens of meters. I hid within the black mist, flapping my wings, adjusting my breath, and my mind raced.

What should I do? What should I do? What should I do…

How do you fight this thing…

This is simply… beyond what I can handle… not anything a human… could possibly handle…

No one else can…

I was so frightened that my limbs were icy cold, my mouth dry and bitter, and I wanted to run away. This was an instinctive physiological response from deep within me, and I almost turned to flee, but I forced myself to stay still, clenching my fists and biting my lower lip until it bled. Under the corpse’s direct gaze, I slowly flew out of the black mist.

I can’t run…

I can’t run…

Stop trembling…

I must face it…

No matter if it’s a god or something else… I cannot let it appear in the outside world…

Absolutely not…

“【Abyssal Language】Labis… Hemos…”

Suddenly, the corpse spoke again.

It did not open its jaw, nor did it have a tongue, yet its ethereal voice, which somehow sounded pleasant despite its terrifying appearance, echoed as if coming from the heavens or whispered in my ear, resonating in my mind.

“【Abyssal Language】Disgraceful… betrayer…”

Boom!

The corpse’s massive bony hand slapped outward, grabbing the crack, and pulled its entire body out of the blood plasma, lying prone at the edge of the deep pit.

It had no lower body.

From the lower part of its spine, only thick, fleshy worms similar to the blood vessels that attacked me earlier hung from the bones, covering the dark red membranes dotted with veins that descended vertically from the sides of its shoulder blades, extending beyond its massive body, resembling newly hatched cicada wings or a bizarre cloak stained with dark red blood, tightly adhering to its back.

A terrifying and disgusting creature…

But it just spoke Abyssal Language, and I understood it.

It was again the name Labis Hemos…

And a betrayer…

Boom!

The second bony hand climbed up further cracks outside the pit.

The corpse completely pulled its body out of the pit. Lying on the edge of the large pit, its skull tilted high, viscous dark blood continuously dripped from its eye sockets, bones, and blood-muscle membranes, winding down.

In the rumbling sound, one side of the peak was still collapsing. Above the corpse, fragments of shattered light columns scattered with the wind, turning into wisps of golden smoke that dispersed into higher skies. Dark red blood had already flowed halfway up the peak, the air was stifling, ashes like smoke filled the air, and a pungent, fishy smell assaulted my nostrils.

I watched the corpse from a hundred meters away in the sky, my pupils dilated, sweat trickling down my temples.

But my fists remained clenched tightly.

Even though the shock and fear deep within me almost constantly threatened to overpower my reason…

I could not retreat.

I would never back down.

“Even if you are a god—”

Above the gray sky, the angry teenage girl wrapped in black armor, her fiery wings fluttering behind her, raised her right hand high amidst the swirling smoke of death. Her palm formed into a blade, chaotic power condensed wildly, countless clouds of black snakes twisting and rapidly swimming towards the girl’s raised palm, then gathering into a ball.

“You won’t…”

The black sphere solidified in an instant and floated higher into the sky. The sphere drifted amidst the endless surge of smoke.

The rapidly expanding sphere below quickly grew in diameter, surpassing ten meters, fifteen meters, twenty meters… until it reached nearly thirty meters.

Here, thirty meters was already my limit…

A huge black ball floated above my head, emitting pale white light, as if a symbol of death in this dim world. My hands trembled more violently, and the power within me began to become chaotic. The shape of the black ball started to disperse. I bit my tongue hard, my eyes wide, and at the moment I realized I was nearing my limit, my right arm suddenly swung down.

“Harm anyone—!!”

In the girl’s roar, the black sun, trembling and resonating, charged toward the corpses atop the rock peak. The black sun flew extremely fast, hitting the peak in an instant.

Then came a devastating explosion.

Boom——!!!!!!

The rock veins shook, the earth quaked. The instant the black sun touched the peak, blinding white light instantly shone, turning the entire world into a blazing white. The surging black fog then erupted, devouring the large pit and the towering peak in a single breath, rising like a dark mushroom cloud from a nuclear blast.

A terrifying storm swept outward, and amidst the deafening sound, the peak that had been half-crushed by the corpses exploded and collapsed completely. Countless huge rocks shot out hundreds of meters in all directions and into the sky, turning into countless black meteors falling towards the scorched earth below.

“Pant… pant…”

I’m so tired…

I panted heavily in mid-air, concentrating, suppressing the turbulent chaos within me. Amidst the fierce wind, I raised my hand to shield my face, my hair fluttering behind me. Through the gaps between my fingers, I stared intently at the completely destroyed peak.

Will it have any effect…

After a long while, the black fog over the peak began to dissipate.

The blood-red corpse reappeared before my eyes.

It didn’t even move.

Even though the entire mountaintop had been blown away, the collapsing boulders, wrapped and eroded by the dead smoke, disintegrated quickly before they could even touch the ground, leaving only half of the peak still billowing with black fog. The corpse had no place to land, but it did not fall, instead remaining suspended in the air in its previous crouching position.

Its blood-red eye sockets still stared at me.

“……”

My face turned pale, my lips trembling.

How could this be…

My body was thoroughly drenched in icy coldness, and the fear, despair, and numbness that enveloped my heart were bone-chilling. It wasn’t even injured… not at all…

It was completely unaffected…

How could this be…

Dazed for a moment, I hardened my resolve, my expression turning savage.

Then I’ll just charge at it!

“Ughaaaaa—”

With a desperate shout that seemed to dispel fear, I controlled the chaotic power, flapping the flame wings to initiate a dive toward the corpse. Dense dead smoke condensed around me into black fire, swirling entirely into my right fist.

Compression, concentration…

Again, a full-power strike…

Two hundred meters, one hundred meters, thirty—

Several explosions sounded, and in an instant, the corpse was right in front of me. The air became unbearably hot, as if in a steamer, the heavy stench of blood making it hard to breathe. The enormous skull, as big as a mountain, reflected in my eyes, with dark eye sockets like deep caves, where flames flickered inside.

I swung my fist at its brow ridge.

Ten meters.

Suddenly, a thin, semi-transparent golden shield appeared in front of me when I was about ten meters away from the skull.

“Let’s see this—!”

I couldn’t react in time and crashed straight into it.

Clang-clang-clang-clang-clang—

It felt like hitting an unbreakable steel wall.

I couldn’t throw that punch; I couldn’t even touch its body. The instant I hit the shield, my neck snapped, and I could hear my bones breaking. Then my shoulder went numb, the power concentrated in my fist dissipated instantly, and my body was sent flying backward by the roaring wind.

At that moment, I felt no pain, only numbness, endless numbness.

I almost lost consciousness, flying backward in the air, my mind muddled, with no thoughts, only knowing that I was flipping in the gray sky. Through my hazy vision, I faintly saw the large corpse’s eye sockets, where the red flames seemed to turn golden.

In the next moment, the entire sky turned golden.

A brilliant golden sphere, like a blazing sun, appeared in the misty sky, far surpassing the black sun I had created. Such power truly broke through the gray sky, dispelling the mist and flooding the entire world with light.

That was no longer faith power.

That was the true power of a deity.

Buzz—

The golden light showering down from the sky trembled violently, the buzzing spreading suddenly. The golden sun hanging above the world silently exploded without any overwhelming force.

But the strange rocks and rock veins standing on the scorched earth seemed to experience another earthquake, crumbling entirely amidst the humming of the aura. Countless hidden creatures, covered in golden light, kneeling in submission under divine power, were like squashed bodies under a mountain, unable to struggle, exploding instantly into a sea of meat.

Above the gray sky, the girl’s petite body, flying backward, seemed struck by an invisible giant hammer. Her armor shattered, and she fell toward the ground at an incredible speed.

“…”