Chapter 340: Annihilation
Ethan knelt heavily on his knee, desperately supporting his trembling body with his cracked broadsword. He looked up, his breath ragged, at Carl, who was calmly staring down at him without a single scratch. The demonic aura that had previously surged through Ethan was entirely suppressed by the sheer, imposing presence of his own golden aura.
"You are as crazy as your sister!" He spat at him, his voice lacing with venom and absolute exhaustion.
"Maybe... But don’t you know me?" Carl asked in genuine confusion, staring at Ethan with a slight frown. His now golden eyes tried to pierce through the arrogance to find the boy he once knew.
"Why would I know you?!!" Ethan yelled at him, his pride refusing to accept defeat as he was violently forcing himself back to his feet.
Carl stared at him for a long, silent moment, and moved his calculating gaze around the blood-soaked arena, staring at the torn corpses of the first and second waves monsters scattered across the pristine white stone. Something fundamental had shifted in Ethan’s soul, twisted by the dark energy he had just wielded.
"I don’t know what happened to you, but at least you have more backbone than your previous self. So I won’t kill you..." He turned around, and walked away, his posture entirely relaxed:
"I will repeat what you said to me. Surrender and save yourself."
[Third and Final Wave.]
BOOOOM!!
The dimensional locks shattered. The remaining 20 heavy cages—their bars forged from dense, energy-suppressing runes—violently opened wide, and more than twenty Lv300 and above World Bosses walked out from the dark confines. Massive, grotesque hybrids of scale and shadow, they possessed the raw stats to flatten a city.
Ethan moved his gaze around, utterly horrified by the sheer volume of high-tier monsters, which without hesitation lunged aggressively towards them, the ground quaking under their unified stampede.
Carl calmly closed his eyes, tapping into the absolute depths of his new bloodline. The next moment, two massive, ethereal golden wings burst out from his back. The divine manifestation sent blinding golden energy waves all over the arena, violently throwing Ethan backward, and completely stopping the charging World Bosses dead in their tracks, their primal instincts overridden by his superior authority.