Chapter 243: World Famous Generals (1/2)
“Xinran, are you really going to kill me?!”
Cardilla abruptly stopped in his tracks and glared at her murderously. He shouted, “Are you really going to give up on your godhood just to keep one Floating Ice City and these lowly humans alive?”
Xinran replied indifferently, “I had given up on godhood the day I destroyed the Holy Domain and saw the suffering of humanity, witnessed Fia’s death at the foot of the Nether City, and saw the souls of the dead being crushed against their will! I will not walk the same path as those abominations!”
Cardilla whipped his hand to the side and pulled out a dark sword from thin air. He laughed sinisterly at her while saying, “Haha, you don’t deserve to be a god, traitor! I, the protector of the Netherworld, shall end your sinful life!”
“Heh…”
Xinran actually smiled a little. “Come at me!”
……
Rumble!
Suddenly, the entire royal palace started shaking, seemingly for no reason. A general on a black warhorse rode in with a brigade of soldiers. He raised his spear and shouted, “Stark of the Black Cavalry Legion at your service, princess!”
Karinshan turned around and stared at the general with complicated emotions of fear and hope. She shouted urgently, “Retreat from Floating Ice City now! This isn’t a battle you can fight!”
Unfortunately, it was too late. Cardilla raised his hand to the sky and shouted, “Meteor, come to me!”
BOOM!
A burning meteorite fell from the sky and landed in the middle of the human soldiers. Almost a hundred poor souls were either crushed into a sticky mess or burned into ashes, and even more people were sent flying by the impact. Clearly, Cardilla wasn’t someone the normal soldiers could fight against.
Normal undead mages were already given leadership positions in the Night Creature faction, but undead magi were given control over entire armies. It was because they had the power to match the authority, and Cardilla was the prime example of it.
Cardilla laughed loudly, seeing the burning flesh and hearing the bloodcurdling screams. “How does it feel, Xinran?”
Xinran merely sneered at him. “Cardilla, do you seriously think that you can weaken my resolve by killing these human soldiers?”
“You!”
Cardilla was shocked. He didn’t expect Xinran to remain this cool-headed even after that gory display. It was almost as if the deaths of those soldiers had nothing to do with her at all.
Suddenly, Xinran acted and tossed out her spear. It turned into a bolt of lightning that looked like it could penetrate anything.
Cardilla gritted his teeth and summoned two dark shields in a row, but the spear penetrated both of them before plunging into his chest.
Swhoosh!
Xinran grabbed the heart immediately and smiled. “Cardilla, your undead soul spark truly is an ugly thing.”
Cardilla’s shock grew even bigger. “You dare to kill me, Xinran?!”
“Why wouldn’t I?!” Xinran clenched her hand around the purple heart, causing it to deform and the circulating souls to screech in pain.
Cardilla couldn’t help but laugh loudly. “Do you know what price you have to pay to destroy an undead magus’s soul spark? It may be nothing when you’re at your full strength, but your godhood is mostly sealed right now! The moment you destroy my soul, the backlash will crush your fragile godhood as well!”
Xinran smiled again. “So what? I—don’t—care!”
Bang!
Xinran clenched her fist with all her might. Cardilla’s soul spark finally exploded with a loud bang, and his body turned into dust as let out his death throes.
However, Cardilla’s death resulted in a hellish scene no one was expecting!
Rumble!
The earth beneath the royal palace suddenly split asunder, and lava started pouring all over the place. The royal palace was crumbling all around us, rubble from the roof falling onto our heads!
I hurriedly grabbed He Yi and Beiming Xue and pulled them out of the building.
But Xinran was immobilized where she stood. Countless bloody tentacles had emerged from the ground—no, from hell itself—and wrapped themselves around her legs. At the same time, a shrill wail resounded beside everyone’s ears, “Come and be destroyed, Xinran…”
“What?”
Xinran’s surprise quickly turned into shock.
After pushing both He Yi and Beiming Xue out of the crumbling building, I hurriedly turned back to save Xinran. However, giant rocks were falling from my head at every second, and blood-red lava was all over the place. One misplaced step, and I would fall into hell and be burned into a crisp!
I swung the Purgatory Sword, shattered a giant rock falling toward me and made my way toward Xinran. She stared at me with grim determination. “Leave me! The cracks of hell are about to open, and if you don’t leave they… they’ll kill you!”
Unbothered by her persuasion in the slightest, I crossed the sea of flames and finally arrived next to Xinran. I tried to tear apart the bloody tentacles with my bare hands, but they were surprisingly tough despite their appearance. I immediately changed tactics and cut Xinran loose with the Purgatory Sword.
The shaking suddenly grew even worse as a deep, dark tunnel appeared beneath both our feet. I could see lightning and an infinite abyss on the other side of it. The terrifying scene made me feel as if the apocalypse was about to devour both of us alive.
“What is that?!” I exclaimed in shock.
“The cracks of hell!”