Chapter 315: Family Battle!
"Get ready to pay!"
The words left Damien’s lips, laced with the absolute authority of the [Greedy King’s Intent].
But words did not kill Demigods.
The clash between Damien’s [True Severance] and the Rotting King’s execution strike had sliced the 9th-Order decay perfectly in half, but the sheer kinetic recoil of opposing a Law of the World did not simply vanish.
BOOM!
A shockwave of violently displaced air and mana slammed into Damien’s chest. Even with his 8th-Order Eclipse Core burning at maximum output and his [King’s Mantle] flared, the physical blow was devastating.
Damien was launched backward like a cannonball. His boots carved twin, smoking trenches through the black ice of Layer 9, screeching for fifty meters before he finally managed to dig his heels in and grind to a halt.
He didn’t fall, but his chest heaved, and a thin line of black blood trickled from beneath his mask.
Damien looked up, his twilight-purple eyes narrowing.
Fifty meters away, the Rotting King hadn’t moved an inch. The severed halves of his decay magic had vaporized the glaciers behind Damien, but the Demigod’s massive, shifting form of grey rot simply rippled, instantly neutralizing the residual shockwave of Damien’s strike.
The gap was terrifying.
’So this is the 9th Order,’ Damien thought, his pulse hammering a frantic rhythm against his ribs. ’My 8th-Order Eclipse Core is a roaring fire. But his Domain... his Domain is an ocean, it’s like I just threw a match into the sea.’