Chapter 227 - 182 : The Last Struggle 4 (2/2)

This was only the beginning for the Sovereign, the chilling beastly voice invaded his mind, bringing with it fear, terror and desperation.

He could only think of escaping this, even retaliation was deemed as useless in this situation. He spat more than ten drops of Blood Essence, not caring about the high cost or the backlash he may suffer later.

The old man's aura became majestic, pushing a bit of the darkness away but the darkness was still trying to consume the light? With two opposite energies were colliding with each other, coupled with the different environment the old man was currently at, the space was nonexistent, the other attributes were nonexistent, there existed light and an overwhelming quantity of Darkness.

”This is impossible!”

The Sovereign shouted angrily, his face became pale white from the sacrifice of this precious Blood Essence, what's sadder is that he could barely fight off the darkness, moving would weaken the light and cause him to be consumed by this hell.

Another minute passed slowly and now the light emanating from the old man weakened, only a small dot of light was left, barely enough to protect the old man, however, this ended when the darkness concentrated on that light.

The radius of the darkness shortened as Arthur focused on the old man, this resulted in having only half of the city covered by the nightmare.

Fortunately, Amidel was able to activate some kind of mechanism that allowed the darkness to not affect neither the city or its citizens. He stood outside of this terror, gazing at it with a fearful expression, even a Sovereign such as himself felt nothing but dread, if he was the target, he knew that it was almost impossible to escape.

The darkness' rage shortened every second until it only encompassed a small area, where the old man and Arthur were. Its shortening continued until it became a dark orb with the old man still trapped inside, the growling noise finally ended but the calm winds started howling and raging, the atmosphere became eerie, rocks started floating and trees were forcibly rooted from the earth.

The process was slow but the explosion finally occurred, like a thermonuclear bomb being detonated. The ear-deafening sound was enough to create ravaging sound waves that obliterated the already destroyed mountains. The main explosion sound followed, making the previously created crater to disappear, transforming into a bottomless abyss. The ground turned jet black and the sunny day turned into a gloomy night.

The city was barely protected a shiny blue barrier defended against the main explosion, there were cracks all over it but it still managed to protect the inhabitant from the impact.

The old man, who was at the center of it was nowhere to be seen, the only thing left was a pool of blood. Arthur made use of the two minutes the darkness was present to enter retreated a safe distance, with a Dark Barrier still up and his immunity to Dark Magic, the only damage he suffered was from the explosion.

Whether it was the sneakily fleeing Gargoyles or any cultivators which were curious enough to come to watch this fight, they were all injured, many were killed on the spot and countless were heavily injured if not crippled.

Rose was protected by Tarathiel, who didn't hesitate in taking out a treasure to protect his people. She was the one who was least injured as her white armor played a huge role in keeping her alive and well.

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An enormous dark dust cloud could be seen from hundreds of miles away, it stretched high up in the sky, making the area look like hell had risen there.

Arthur was not in a good state either, despite being the one who cast Rizaki. He lost an arm, that was blown off by the explosion and his legs were severely injured, rendering him useless, not even able to walk.

His body leaned on a broken tree and a couple of meters in front of him was a humongous cliff where the bottom could not be seen. The earth was jet black and chilling winds twirled, a couple of big tornadoes resulted from Rizaki could be seen deep into the abyss, each of them was strong enough to instantly kill a peak Immortal.