Chapter 839 Celestial Domain (1/2)

The Flame of the Multiverse would die and ignite repeatedly, just as civilization cycles between glory and destruction. In time, there were no things eternal, no unlimited possibilities and no absolute power. Even galaxies would wither unexpectedly, not to mention all that intelligent life created—those were perhaps the most beautiful yet most fragile and breakable of things.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

But with lacking comes yearning. Unlike ordinary sentient creatures that lived in normal worlds and yet seek brutal powers that destroy themselves endlessly, the demons that naturally grasped the ability for ruin yearn instead the power to create worlds, the power of life that restores Flame.

In the boundless Void around the Sixth Abyss, two profound powers, bright and sinister, sacred and horrific—clashed once again. Devastation that could reduce all life into nothingness tangled with the dazzling fiery light that could shine over a thousand stars, the shockwave quaking the dimensional turbulences, engulfing even distant abysses.

”I see.” The gigantic demon's form throbbed as it clenched its twin scythes, silver fiery light shooting out of its body from time to time intermittently while it laughed coldly—it was the laugh of a demon: as greedy as locusts and as searing as the magma of the depths. ”You are that person who wields the power of Life!”

Just when Goliath ascertained the fact, it promptly spread its wings, boundless shadow hence spreading like a dark mirror. Countless unusually formed demonic shades seemingly of different species darted out of that mirror, burning in scorching flame when fact, each shade could drain every heat and mobility it touches, leaving whatever everything in stillness.

Thus, countless pieces of world fragments, touched by the shades lost at motion energy, before being pulled into the shade and vanished within the dark mirror that Goliath's wings had turned into.

Joshua, nonetheless, made no move to defend himself. He simply looked up and glanced at the shades with the corner of his eyes—light, carrying anti-entropy comparable to stars instantly piercing the thousands of those demonic forms. Although it appeared to be light injuries, like a single point burnt out of paper, the blaze began to pierce those demonic forms and spread, swiftly reducing them to ash.

Even in the face of Goliath's very bizarre attack, Joshua did not panic and calmly directed the most insignificant amounts of his power to counter each assault. On the other hand, whenever the warrior waved his fist, Goliath would face it all vigilantly at full power.

That was not actually unusual. The skill and combat ability that Joshua's present clone had was no different from his true form, apart from the aspect of 'yield'. Still, given that the matter of yield could be easily solved by self-summon and how serious the warrior was in facing him, the Demon King's attack that used particles to steal the enemy's heat, mobility and other abilities were neither unusual or mysterious.

There was no question that Goliath was formidable. However, it could not stand against Joshua, whose very strength had been refined to perfection, not to mention that it was not revealing its trump card and just using basic attacks. Each time the warrior fought an enemy that was his equal, the warrior always exerted a bit more power to learn about his foe. Goliath, meanwhile, could only learn meaningless information, such as how his foe was 'powerful', 'defensively strong', 'swift' and 'possess a lot of energy'—in other words, that its enemy has explosive basic attributes. After all, Joshua only attacked normally from start to end, while it had to use one Extraordinary power after another.

Seemingly feeling that he had a handle on things, the motionless Giant God of Steel jerked his body. That faint movement warped the surrounding dimensions visibly, but Goliath guffawed unusually when it noticed that. The Abyssal Liege halo over its head enlarged, flickering in dark luster while the demon itself slashed its scythes, drawing a dark-red circle frame where endless unfamiliar runes materialized.

Then, Joshua moved.

His body vanished, leaving a streak of silver flow as he shot towards Goliath in a straight line. Distorted space appeared to be a single streak of an extended groove in dimensional turbulences, the gathering energies forming a belt of myriad colored stars visible even in other worlds.

The momentum that the charge carried could blast a planet into pieces, or planetary disaster if it was a sun. But that terrible energy was all gathered on the warrior's four fists, the violent silver light downing Goliath and its spell.

But that dash was fruitless.

Joshua stood where Goliath was, touching a black scar that suddenly appeared over the chest of his neutron armor and flattening it. Frowning, the warrior then looked around—the Abyssal Liege's massive body had vanished at once when his heavy fist swung at him, leaving him punching nothing. Indeed, Joshua himself never realized what it had done to achieve that counterblow.

Although his opponent counterattack which had been charging barely pierced his defenses, Joshua knew that the slash would drain most of the light and heat on a continent in an ordinary world. It would at once harvest countless souls while killing the planet's core, a true scythe of that death that destroyed worlds and civilization.

Still, perhaps it was not that he could not see it—he could not understand it.

Joshua remembered the unusual spell and runes the demon conjured before vanishing. Those were things he had never seen before, and just as he watched his surroundings carefully while pondering, he suddenly raised his hands, catching a giant dark scythe with three fingers in a vice grip.

The scythe had abrupted appeared out of the darkness and was slashing at Joshua's head, but with Joshua's perception and reflexes having reached the very limits of the physical realm, he sensed the ambush and countered—by adding more power without break into his fingers, cracks appeared over the black scythe. In the instant that half the blade was crushed by Joshua, it turned into shadows and disappeared.

”So that's what it was.”

That little opening and information enlightened Joshua immediately about many things, and he laughed quietly at the lightless Void around him. ”No wonder your form had changed so drastically, as if you're no demon…”

”Goliath, you've actually mastered the power of Shadow!”

The Giant God's information flow extended over the Void that anyone within surrounding Abysses could hear his voice. The Void, meanwhile, had neither sound nor echo, only silence.

[Shadow]

Joshua had once discussed world migration with the Mycroft world's most powerful spellcasters, including Nostradamus, Barbarossa, Barnil, and William. They sensed that the essence of the Great Mana Tide might have come from the heart of the Multiverse—an energy wave that took shape after countless worlds were destroyed. It was they who had uncovered a whole-new Extraordinary power of this Multiverse through data from Simboa and many other worlds.

And that power was Shadow.