Chapter 668 Never Retrea (1/2)

”Helm, Saluka. Familiar bastards.”

The atmosphere trembled from the man's voice, jolting the Demon Generals that had taken a few steps back from their instinctive terror in their hearts. Shaking their head and waking up from their shock, both Helm and Saluka kept in mind that that was the best chance for them to defeat Joshua.

The two demons glanced at each other, seeing the resolve in each other's eyes.

Thus, in the very next instant.

The battle began.

Cold light flickered. In the thousandth of one second, a dark specter broke through the atmosphere with divine speed. Turning its body into something that surpassed even 'Thalam Mountain-Devouring Insect' that could cut adamantite armor like a hot knife to butter, Saluke dashed at full power, embodying massive magical power and breaking the fragile space in the Bloodmoon Abyss, revealing the black Void that lay behind it. Around its body, blazing black energy turbulence drew veins of frightening lightning, pulverizing everything.

Meanwhile, another radiance shone as boundless energy cascaded wildly. Helm remained where it was to directly spread its true form: a ten-thousand-meter serpent with mountainous coils. Without hesitation, the demon elevated its full power and caused the colorless illumination rising from within its body to condense endlessly. Hence, energy that was the purest and most terrifying in the world that represented the utter destruction of a planet shot out from its maw, blasting the light of stars without end towards the broken body of the Steel giant.

The two Legendary demon generals—Saluka, King of Insectoid Demons and Helm, King of Beholders abandoned all past dispute and natural disgust of each other, and jointly assaulted that powerful enemy high above the Bloodmoon Abyss!

On the other hand, Joshua took a deep breath. He knew that they would launch a combined attack since that was the best choice and what he would do in their position.

Kanor, Black Dragon King, Dragon of the Nether Sea… There was a saying that soldiers burning with righteous anger would always triumph. Though the black dragon was one that was denied true victory, its callous and flawless melees against Joshua definitely hurt the warrior substantially. Nobody was more aware than Joshua himself of this current state—organs that regulated his body had been clawed out by the Black Dragon. As a result, regardless of how swift Steel Strength regeneration could be, the two Demon Generals would never leave any chance for him: their best chance to kill him was now.

That certainly would be the case if the battle was one against one or one against two, catching the warrior in unprecedented danger. Therefore, it was a pity since the demons made an error in judgment.

This was the Bloodmoon Abyss, Joshua's domain.

And he never intended to only fight one in the very beginning.

Watching coldly as the two demons glanced at each other to ascertain their thoughts and mustered their power in attack, the warrior spat out a breath. Violent gale burst at once, drawing a wild tempest over the skies of the Bloodmoon Abyss while endless stone fragments and dust danced in waves of cascading sandstorms. Now, it was as if Joshua had become the center of the world, and all things moved for him.

It was then that Saluka's internal alarm started to wail after having launched itself toward the warrior. However, despite sensing that something was extremely wrong and that a tremendous threat was building up, the Insectoid Demon General had no path of return, and was only able to keep charging.

Helm felt it too. It was as if some slumbering behemoth has awakened from its slumber, a holiness opening its long-closed eyes. At the same moment, a small luminous orb was happily bouncing around the Cocoon of Light at the heart of the Blood Moon. With a single jingle, it assimilated itself within.

Thus, Light awakened.

High above, the Blood Moon suddenly emitted a white luster, the incandescent white carrying a faint golden beam shrouding Joshua's entire body. The air behind the Steel giant god hence ignited in boundless flames as circles of mysterious black-red patterns of light appeared. It resembled a demonic summon, filled with blasphemous runes of corrupted meaning, but now, those patterns of light slowly changed, a hint of sacredness surging in its core.

The Bloodmoon Abyss favored the warrior. It trusted all he did and gave him the support of its unshakable faith—in this very moment, his wishes were its wishes, just as its wishes would certainly be his wishes in return.

In fact, it was their wish.

The power from a world assembled, turbulent light spawning inside Joshua's body. Instantly, his innards were repaired and he regained Steel Strength in less than a thousandth of a second. Thus, the Steel giant reappeared amidst the world in its most perfect form once again—donning strong silver armor while his fists surged with thick fiery illumination. Joshua walked out from the light with a calm and cold gaze, silently raising its right hand against Saluka that had turned completely into an Otherworld aberration, forming a knife with his hand and chopped down on it!

Boom!

It was clearly a knifehand strike that was bearing down on the demon, and yet there was rumble akin to a volcanic eruption. The two collided with a thunderclap echoing across the entire Bloodmoon Abyss, although it only lasted for only an instant as the crash between the two Legends emptied hundreds of miles of air into vacuum. In the distance, a floating island that was struck by the ensuing raging gales was blown into dust and debris in the very next instant, leaving only a shadow in the eyes of others.

However, the two individuals that collided against each other appeared not to have left the center of the crash. In that battleground now engulfed in dazzling light and thunder, there were no signs of living activity. It was in that moment that Helm did not hesitate to unleash the ultimate spell 'Star Blaze' towards that center.

A burning light, the ultimate radiance that destroyed all things and made all color, senses, and direction meaningless turned into a ray that destroyed planets, causing vacuum to burn, distort, spreading destruction and deathly silence.

Even the thunder and radiance that shrouded the center of the battle were vaporized beneath the brush of that powerful ray, and the state battle was finally clear—shockingly, however, Joshua and Saluka did not separate after crashing into each other: Saluka's huge horn had stabbed the warrior through the abdomen, just as the warrior's knifehand cut apart the Insectoid Demon's skull. However, while the demon struggled in its attempt to escape, the warrior's three other hands held on to it tightly, even as the Demon General's expression turned into one of terror and despair in the face of the oncoming Star Blaze. According to the plan it made with Helm, it was to immobilize the warrior as much as possible before using the momentum of the warrior's counterblow to escape the Star Blaze.

Its plan was a success. Joshua never once moved half a step… albeit with it as well.

However, before the Star Blaze struck, the core by the warrior's chest could be heard humming. Burning Steel boiling inside his body, surging tides of energy hence built into a storm within Joshua's strength and boomed violently. Saluka, still caught tightly in its arms promptly felt—in immeasurable horror—the abundant might emanating from all around its body.

It was the monumental pressure, as if the core of a planet had utterly engulfed it.