Chapter 625 Combined Might of All Things (2/2)
It was inconceivable, but was also the conclusion Joshua got. The dark mist was a weapon that a certain powerful being or supremely advanced civilization created or controlled. Its true form was a black, nanometer-class particle condensation linked together through electromagnetism into a single general body. Inside the mist, those black particles would shape countless attacks out of the Void with an ability similar to 3D printing, while the nanometer class black particles would weaken the enemy's attacks by absorbing energy around for its own uses.
As long as the enemy's energy did not exceed a certain threshold, any being that fell into the Darkness would be caught by the huge net due to the exhaustion of their energy. As long as they did not act like Joshua and forcibly absorbed the black particles with Nuclear Heart while converting it into fuel materials that made it semi-permanent, even Legendary champions might die from exhaustion.
The only question was—who was controlling the mist?
Just as the other Legendary champions wiped out the dark mist around them, the black sea of fog paused for a moment—as if the controller behind it was considering how to handle the current situation.
Soon, it got an answer.
In the very next instant, the once dark mist suddenly detonated in a blaze of light that blanketed half the Void. The abrupt offense prompted several of the alert Legendary champions to fall back and waited vigilantly for its follow-up blow. Only Joshua who stood fearlessly at the center realized that the burst that seemingly could incinerate all things was actually the intense radiance produced from a scarce few black particles destroying itself. Apart from pure high-energy rays, it had utterly no power—and with the mist having succeeded in temporarily forcing each Legendary champion back, it simply and decisively dropped down into the world of Kronos!
And at that moment, a vein of silver thunderbolt shot out at the descending Darkness, striking it from below.
”Grooowl—”
The gaze of the Ancient Dragon that was controlling thunder was burning with fiery rage. On its great wings, its green-blue bony spikes that were jutting out was quickly turning red and then purple before finally taking the darkest of black hues. Dim and threatening lightning bolts were spreading all over the dragon's body as it broke through the world barrier and into Void, advancing without stopping toward its nemesis.
The rising Ancient Dragon thus met the descending Darkness. The dragon knew very well what it faced, gaping its maw after having prepared for that very instant, while the Darkness never expected that its foe would intercept itself at that very spot.
How large was the Ancient Dragon? Its wingspan was more than thousands of meters, whereas its hundreds meter length body, effectively forged from steel and far heavier than most substances, would even be more incredible if its tail was accounted for. Additionally, such a massive and heavy body could fly easily not because of some flapping wings, but its natural and unparalleled that manipulated the power of magnetic field.
In ancient times, that magnetic field once stirred thunder and wind while quaking worlds. It once worked together with other Ancient Dragons to split and fuse lifeless micro-substances, granting primeval life in deathly continents and oceans. It was the power to create and give life, a power that combined matter so that they would not split.
It was also the first spawns of Steel.
And now, the lightning of creation began to whirl in the Ancient Dragon's gaping jaw, reversing and turning into the power that destroy all things—
Lightning was condensing, as the bolts began to dull visibly and turn into infinite translucent photon particles akin to soap bubbles. In the Void beyond worlds, an incomparable magnetic field was being contracted and driven, just as space itself began to tremble when the Ancient Dragon quaked the roots of material existence in its very desire to pulverize every being that were kept together with electromagnetism.
Joshua, who had been tightly pursuing behind the dark mist suddenly froze, his eyes picking up the threat of death. As a wielder of Steel Strength, he naturally knew the terror of that single Ancient Dragon onslaught—using its electromagnetism manipulation, the Silver Dragon would disintegrate all the van Der Waals forces within the boundary of its magnetic field breath!
But more importantly, the warrior realized that the Ancient Dragon had placed him within its boundary of attack! He was being awarded a portion of that violent rage!
Nevertheless, the dark aberration that was facing the blow directly was in a dilemma.
To turn behind and face eight pursuing Legendary champions, or to take one solid magnetic field breath that the Ancient Dragon had held onto, as it awaited the right moment to unleash it?