Chapter 345: Parents arrive
The 9th-Order Demi-god raised its star-forged halberd. The weapon dripped with the silent, colorless magic of absolute conceptual erasure.
Damien knelt on a floating chunk of obsidian bedrock, surrounded by a crater hundreds of miles wide. The Imperial Capital, the pinnacle of human civilization, had been wiped from the face of the earth in a fraction of a second
Millions of lives were gone. Blood leaked steadily from beneath his cracked silver mask, pooling on the dark stone
The halberd began its descent.
Damien’s immediate problem was not the descending god. It was the weapon in his own hands.
The Pantheon Sword was screaming. The crystalline blade had absorbed the apocalyptic wave of 9th-Order erasure to keep Damien alive, but the sword was a Universal Conductor with zero resistance. It possessed no internal filter. If it absorbed energy without immediately discharging it, the blade would drink the wielder’s soul to fuel the containment before detonating entirely
The blade turned a violent, unstable white. It vibrated with a frequency that threatened to atomize the very atoms of Damien’s flesh.
Damien forced his battered 8th-Order Eclipse Core to spin. He ignored the shattered bones in his chest and the tearing of his muscles. He funneled every remaining ounce of his Golden Dragon Aura and Hollow King’s Shadow down his arms, wrapping the turbulent energies around the hilt of the sword to act as a directional barrel.
He aimed the overloaded blade directly upward at the descending Demon General.
[Pantheon Art: Giga Full Counter.]
A colossal beam of inverted destruction punched into the sky.
The river of erasure, mixed with Damien’s own tyrannical Eclipse mana, struck the Demi-god with the force of a supernova. The 9th-Order entity, expecting to execute a defenseless mortal ant, was caught completely off guard.