Chapter 53：New Life (1/2)
”Reef, can you handle the subsouls that have escaped into the sea?” Rhachis Ancestor Light paused at a certain spot over the ocean, gazing below at the waves. A small ripple appeared, pulling the waves into a circular pattern and created a hurricane.
A voice travelled out, ”Then, give me that Tier 5 Relic. I don't have any methods to locate her subsouls.”
”Sure,” Rhachis Ancestor Light said, throwing the crystal lens in his hands into the spiralling waters below. ”But, this Relic only works in tandem with my light. You would have to find a suitable method to use it.”
”I got it covered,” The voice replied, dissipating the hurricane, ”One of my enslaved beasts has a similar ability, tough vastly inferior to your own. But, I can manage.”
”If a problem arises, make sure you contact me. I can arrive anywhere in this world in a matter of seconds.” Rhachis Ancestor Light said, turning into a flash of light, disappearing from the scene.
Standing atop a mountain range, he fished out another crystal lens, its edges shaped into a square, looking inferior to the one from before. ”I'll make do with this Tier 4 Relic.”
A blast of light appeared, spreading towards each nook and cranny of the topography, creating a bizarre phenomenon where projections appeared overhead each Frenzy Beast that roamed the land. Failing to find any signs of Gajara Rahi in the projections, he sighed, proceeding towards another area.
After making a sweep across the entire subcontinent, Rhachis Ancestor Light appeared near Marble City once again, planning to observe the battle situation for a couple of seconds.
The dark sphere was still resisting against the miniature sun, trying all sorts of methods to break free. Numerous flames appeared from the dark sphere, resisting the flames, serving to counterattack. A yellow psychic arm emerged, slowly turning the flames yellow, making it solid. A flash of light appeared, traversing through the heat and impacting its centre.
Seeing many familiar Unranked Skills displayed one after the other, Rhachis Ancestor Light sighed, ”It seems you have fused with quite a few Unranked Skills of humanity and Frenzy Beasts. Even though they are all of Tier 5 level, the sheer quantity of them can still pose a bit of trouble.”
A voice travelled from within the miniature sun, its tone showing signs of impatience, ”Light, can you sever her connections with the subsouls that have fused with her main self? It is taking longer than I expected. She has even managed to get a hold of my Unranked Skill and other power skills from my city.”
”Sure,” Rhachis Ancestor Light replied, condensing formless energy atop his palms, making them spin, forming into a triangular-shaped blade. He further infused the formless energy into it, enlarging it until it became as big as his palm. Finally, he coated a layer of light at its centre, sending it into the dark sphere.
Like a sharp needle piercing through a balloon, the triangular blade punctured the dark sphere, entering the body of a grotesque figure hidden within it. It first flashed past a grotesque looking spine of a Frenzy Beast, dicing its soul into millions of pieces in a matter of seconds, dissipating it into the surroundings as pure energy.
Constrained by the miniature sun pressing against it from all sides, Rhachis Ancestor Space could not retaliate against the triangular blade, helplessly watching it destroy one subsoul after another. A beam of light fell on her body, lighting up a massive projection behind her.
In the corporeal projection, there were ten heads in total, the original 10 spines having reduced to 8. Another triangular blade appeared, dicing the outermost head, affecting only the projection. Her fused body remained the same, covered with a multitude of black mist, forming the sphere that tried to mend the gaps formed each time the triangular blades flashed.
”Dawn…Light…my existence is the hope of humanity,” A shrill scream resounded, layered under eight different voices, becoming seven midway, ”Despite your strength, you two can never hope to defeat Parasite.”
”That is our issue to worry about. We would have never initiated this if you had chosen to fuse with only humans. At your present state, are you even human?” Dawn shouted, his voice booming, creating gusts of flames that vaporised the outer surface of the dark sphere.
”Are you confident that my successor will turn out different,” Rhachis Ancestor Space laughed, showing no signs of fear despite the dark mist surrounding her thinning out. ”We have only one path, the very same that I have embarked upon. That is the only way to defeat Parasite.”
”…” The attacks on her further increased in intensity, destroying the projections of her heads and spines one after the other.
”So you chose to remain silent,” Only a single voice boomed out from Rhachis Ancestor Space now, her sole figure existing in the projection behind her. Like a chain reaction, the extra spines and heads that had fused into her body seeped out, revealing a humanoid body from within, leaking out a malevolent aura.
The dark sphere had completely dissipated at this point as she looked at the flames converging around her, ”I ran out of energy.” She then shouted, using the last vestiges of her strength, ”Know this, I have never betrayed Humanity!”
The flames drowned her, burning her body. Despite the high temperatures, her body burned at a slow pace, displaying the terrifying extent the strength her body had accumulated. The miniature sun burned in silence for a good two hours, finally destroying every last bit of Rhachis Ancestor Space's body.