Chapter 215 - Valley End. (1/2)

The figure on the throne slowly lowered his head, meeting Hao Xuan's gaze. There was no sound nor movements from him.

The group behind Hao Xuan fell down to their knees one by one. They were already exhausted from the previous fight and now that the urgency of the situation had passed, the adrenaline wore off and it all came crashing down at once.

Zeng Wu hurriedly walked over to Zeng Yu and emptied the contents of the glass bottle in his mouth.

Zeng Yu really wasn't doing very well. There was a hole the size of a fist in his chest. The flesh around it was burned to a crisp with smoke still rising from it.

Blood continuously fell from the wound as he struggled to breathe.

Hou Chin, Hyson, Shi Chun, Yin Da, all 20 or so people left alive looked at Hao Xuan expectedly. Hoping that he could pull off a miracle.

Hyson looked at the rift that was surrounded by the black barrier and sighed. The energy coming off it was enough to shred him into pieces upon contact.

There was nothing any of them could do anymore. It was all in Hao Xuan's hands.

The figure looked back at Hao Xuan for a good minute or so before raising his hand. A surge of Qi erupted from his body and a claw appeared out of nowhere, clashing with the electric field, making it slightly tremble.

Hao Xuan remained expressionless. He stood rooted in one place, staring at the figure.

”How much longer?” he asked telepathically.

”Soon!” Fortis's voice echoed in his mind.

”Hurry up, the rift won't last forever,” Hao Xuan replied.

He then smirked at the figure, ”It's not going to work. These batteries were made to power something much MUCH bigger than this little thing. You won't be able to destroy them anytime soon. Why don't you tell me why you're here?”

The figure relaxed and leaned back on the throne. It stared for a few seconds before a sharp voice echoed in the valley.

”Keusagf fheutghs Jhdraufgne.”

Shi Chun peered at Yin Da but was met with a shake of his head. He was the chief science officer on this expedition and thus the most knowledgeable about foreign languages, but even he had no idea.

Hao Xuan's brow furrowed upon listening to the creature's words. Other might not know, but he understood it all.

It was one of the languages that Poriverse had implanted in his mind.

'Why are they here?'

Hao Xuan looked at the figure with a deep frown. He opened his mouth and vocalized the language according to the information in his mind. A similar noise to that of the figure came out, startling everyone around.

”Why is the tribe of 'Volucris' trespassing here?'

It was a mix of clicking and raspy gasping sounds. Like someone was getting choked to death. Hao Xuan's throat actually hurt just from speaking that small sentence.

The figure who was sitting on the throne without a care in the world suddenly straightened up in shock.

”You speak...our language. How?” it asked while leaning forward.

Hao Xuan shook his head, ”That doesn't matter. This planet does not belong to you. It already has an owner. Who gave you the right to trespass upon this land?”

The figure tilted its head in confusion before replying.

”This world has no owner, not anymore. There are no living beings left. The dark gods have already corrupted everything. By the laws of the void, after five thousand years of silence from the original owner, this world is fair game.”

Hao Xuan guffawed at the statement. The figure looked at him in bewilderment.

”Why? Do you not agree?” its tone becoming more and more annoying.

Hao Xuan laughed for about 10 seconds straight before looking at the figure sympathetically, like he was looking at an idiot.

”I am the owner of this planet. Who says it is ownerless?!”

The figure stood up abruptly, looking at Hao Xuan with clenched fists.

”Impossible. The planets last owner was a powerful being. You....are nothing. How could you make this claim?!”

”Of course I am! How else would I know about the laws of the Void? Or the planets history or....”

he mentioned one thing after another, making the figure more and more uncertain.

Right now Hao Xuan was just trying to buy time. Before coming here he already got the gist of the situation from the P.O.G. (Planetary Observational Grid).

This was just one of over 500 gates that appeared all over the planet. It was connected to another place and its inhabitants were spilling over like cockroaches. And it wasn't just undead either. On the other side of the planet, there were several other species.

The reason there were only undead here was because all the nearby gates connected to their homeworld.

This wasn't an uncommon thing in the universe.

Powerful beings could own entire planets or galaxies and do whatever they wanted on them. But once the owner died or simply moved away, the dark races of the universe would come to inhabit it for any number of reasons.

It could be because they wanted to expand and needed a planet that was habitable for them or just to sell it later on. These races were like scavengers. To them, it wasn't anything odd. Just another day at work.

The undead here were like the mindless worker bees, released on this world to change it and cleanse it of any living beings still left. Unfortunately, Hao Xuan's group was part of this cleanup process.

*BAM*

The figure punched the throne's arm in anger.

”Enough! You have no evidence for your claims. How dare you waste my time!”

Finally having had enough of Hao Xuan's BS, it attacked.

It raised its hand and another claw formed in mid-air. It looked ethereal but was giving off a deadly energy.

It was several dozen meters in size, big enough to cover the entire electric field.

The figure closed its hand and the claw clamped down on the barrier, making it shrink several feet.

*Bzzzzt*

Sparks of electricity erupted from the barrier, leaving holes in the claw.

”Argh!” the figure quickly pulled back his hand and the claw vanished into thin air.

Hao Xuan smiled nonchalantly, ”Is this your first time seeing electricity? What backward a*s world did you come from? Your power can't do anything to this barrier. Just undo the barrier and we will depart. You can do whatever you want afterward.”

The figure was now standing above the throne, glaring at Hao Xuan resentfully.

”Human, you are the one trespassing. You have destroyed many of my underlings. Who will pay for them? Do you really think I would allow you to leave so easily?”

It raised its hand above its head as soon as it was done talking. Another surge of Qi came from its body and something started taking shape in the dark sky.

A claw, a wrist, a forearm, an elbow joint, another extension of the forearm, another elbow joint. Within a few seconds, a hundred-meter long insect-like arm appeared in the sky. It had three joints, was completely black and had a hard carapace on the outside just like the figure itself.

Hao Xuan's expression hardened. He knew exactly what that was.