Chapter 556 - Chapter 556: Chapter 510: Slaying Heavenly Enlightenment! (2/2)
Destiny?
“Hahahahaha!”
Following a moment of silence, the Ether Dragon burst into wild laughter.
“Servants of the End, if you wish to take my life, come forth! I will not bow to you or to destiny; instead, I will bring you destruction!”
Karl thought for a moment—if it was just fighting the Ether Dragon alone, he wouldn’t need to use those two trump cards.
Chris Fischer alone was enough.
With a flash that almost defied the laws of physics, Chris instantly appeared above the Ether Dragon, his white skeletal hand transforming into a bolt of silver lightning, aiming directly at the dragon’s head.
The Ether Dragon manipulated space at will—twisting, folding, even tearing it apart, and could speed up or slow down the surrounding flow of time, making itself appear as swift as lightning to its enemies while, in its own eyes, its opponents’ movements seemed slow and clumsy, as if mired in a swamp.
In critical moments, it could even briefly rewind time to undo an unfavorable moment—like avoiding a lethal strike or rearranging the battlefield setup.
A more formidable ability was that the Ether Dragon could locally or globally pause time, creating an absolutely still space for itself; in this space, it could move freely while everything external appeared as if frozen in a painting.
However, Chris’s reactions were beyond imagination; it was as if he could foresee the future. His body flashed again, almost at every moment an attack was about to connect, already reappearing hundreds of meters away, leaving behind afterimages that made his true position elusive.
As the battle deepened, Chris gradually mastered the rhythm of the fight, using each teleport not only to attack but also to induce the Ether Dragon to expend energy, creating breaches in time and space.
Finally, after an exquisitely timed teleport, Chris appeared at the Ether Dragon’s underbelly, its most vulnerable spot.
Instantly, both the Ether Dragon’s body and soul were severely damaged!
“Aow!”
In terms of combat mechanics, the Ether Dragon nearly reached the pinnacle of the Lower Level of Apocalypse. Though in numbers, like strength, speed, life force, spiritual power, and others, it was at the bottom tier within the Apocalypse, this didn’t hinder its extraordinary might in a battle.
However, no matter the space or the time powers, the “Burier Breath” could render them intangible.
Chris gradually overpowered the Ether Dragon, which could only use its spatial and temporal powers on itself in order to continually escape from the terrifying “Death God”!
“It truly is a terrifying Death God, but whether it be destiny, Death God, or even the End, I will not easily submit to you; let me bring you destruction instead!”
When the Ether Dragon resolved to finally weave together the powers of space and time, its combat artistry reached its zenith.
It unleashed the formidable power of a Forbidden Rare Artifact, sensed in advance by Karl!
It was a translucent dagger stored deep in the Ether Dragon’s stomach, its interior flowing with a substance resembling the Milky Way, labeled number ten and named “Destruction Surge,” possessing the power to temporarily boost its own strength for a few seconds!
Compared to other artifacts that boost one’s own strength, “Destruction Surge” offered an unprecedented increase, and the cost was enormous.
That is a full thousand years of lifespan!
But for the Ether Dragon which had lived over ten thousand years, that was a price it could completely afford!
In the next instant, the Ether Dragon’s power briefly reached the Apocalypse Upper Rank.
It could feel that although only a few seconds had passed, it now possessed unimaginable strength!
“Enough! Enough! Even if it’s only for a brief few seconds, the current me is virtually invincible, not even the God of War Emperor could match me!”
Thus, the Ether Dragon leapt through the river of time, picking the most advantageous moments to launch attacks, using spatial distortion to create unpredictable attack paths, and ultimately creating the terrifying “Time Vortex,” attempting to pull all from the Fischer family, including the Spiritual Dragon, into a perpetual loop of spacetime maze, turning them into dust of time!
At the critical moment, Karl made his move.
Suddenly, everyone from the Fischer family, including the Spiritual Dragon, were taken away by thick black mist to the real world, leaving only the “invincible” Ether Dragon in the Spirit Realm.
It froze for a moment, as the key few seconds boosted by the “Destruction Surge” passed, and it would need to wait another ten years to use it again.
The nearly “invincible” power promptly decayed back to its original state.
The next moment, Chris appeared in front of the Ether Dragon.
The white skeletal blade, converging all energy, transformed into a ray of light that pierced through the world, striking directly at the core of the Ether Dragon!
“Aow!”
With a deafening dragon’s roar, the enormous body began to tremble, the light gradually dimming, eventually turning into specks of ether lights, dissipating into oblivion.