Chapter 297 : Chapter 297
Chapter 297. The Black Dragon King’s Roar
Maggie tilted her head.
This Mad King, who had nearly blasted through the world a thousand years ago, was currently standing with her arms crossed, sizing up the monster in the deep pit that radiated endless destruction with a gaze that made one’s back turn cold.
There was no fear.
No shock.
In those eyes that looked down upon all living beings, what flickered was an almost pathological fervor.
It was like a mad collector suddenly discovering a one-of-a-kind treasure at a street stall.
“Interesting...”
Maggie ignored the terrifying pressure rushing toward her, and the corners of her lips even curved upward slightly.
“As expected of the power of ‘Secrecy.’” She murmured to herself, lightly tapping her chin with her index finger. “Even my ‘future sight’ failed to see this scene in advance... Sacrificing half the soul of a Seventh-Tier powerhouse...”
She paused, and a trace of thought flashed through her lightless black pupils.
“This should be the power of Black Dragon King Noxarum...”
At the side, the corner of Roland’s memory construct’s mouth twitched.
—A thousand years had passed, and this woman’s bad habits had not changed at all.
At the center of the deep pit, Moran slowly lowered his head and examined his left hand, which had completely transformed into a hideous black-scaled claw.
An endless power like a vast ocean surged and roared through every inch of his shriveled flesh.
“This feeling...”
His voice had become low and hoarse, as though two rusted pieces of metal were grinding against each other, carrying an inhuman texture.
“It is truly wonderful...”
His golden vertical pupils, burning with dark Dragon Breath, swept indifferently over everyone.
“Now, it is my turn!”
Before his voice had faded, a stream of dark Dragon Breath tore through the sky like the scythe of death!
Pope Gregory VII snorted coldly. His entire body transformed into a beam of Holy Light that pierced through heaven and earth, colliding head-on with the Dragon Breath.
Hiss—!
The Holy Light and Dragon Breath frantically eroded each other. The Pope’s figure faltered in midair, and for the first time, a strained expression appeared on his arrogant old face. “Aureus! Elena! This thing corrodes sacred power!”
Before he could finish shouting, the earth had already shattered!
Aureus transformed into a golden meteor, carrying the destructive might of 【Starfall Annihilation Slash】 as he drove straight toward Moran’s chest!
Yet Moran merely extended his hideous black-scaled left hand and lightly pressed it toward the void.
【Domain of Decay · All Things Wither】.
The golden sword aura from Aureus, which was powerful enough to sever mountains, actually began to dim and disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye the moment it entered the three-zhang range around Moran.
“What?!” Aureus’s pupils shook violently.
His Battle Aura was aging.
This unreasonable rule suppression made him feel as though he had crashed into an invisible wall of time.
“Within this domain, I am the sovereign.” Moran’s overlapping and ethereal voice rang out, as though another ancient voice were echoing inside his body.
But at the very instant he was savoring the enemy’s astonishment, a silver line, swift to the extreme, flashed in the blind spot of his perception!
【Instant Shadow Flowing Light】!
Elena’s figure had long since vanished. Only a sword aura condensed to the extreme remained, stabbing toward Moran’s right eye, which still retained human features!
But the moment the sword aura entered the 【Domain of Decay】, its light also sharply weakened, and its speed slowed.
Moran merely tilted his head slightly, allowing that fatal strike to graze past his cheek and leave a shallow bloodstain.
Her attack missed. Elena’s figure condensed again in the distance, her brows tightly furrowed.
But she had not returned empty-handed. That strike just now had allowed her to precisely test the range and approximate strength of this strange domain.
If they fought him alone, any one of them would be countered to death by this bizarre power. But if they joined forces...
Although Moran had blocked the first wave of attacks from three Seventh-Tier powerhouses, there was not the slightest panic on the faces of Barnabas and the Pope. Instead, there was a trace of understanding.
They had seen through it. Moran’s power had not truly stepped into the Eighth Tier and reached an overwhelming level. Right now, he was probably at the peak of the Seventh Tier, but he had also obtained an extremely troublesome special mana.
His mentality had inflated, but his strength had not yet reached the point where he could cover the sky with one hand!
At the same time, Logaris, who had not moved all this while, spoke.
“Teacher, everyone, the Royal Capital cannot withstand this kind of destruction. If he is allowed to fight freely here, Astrelia will have to change its capital tomorrow morning.”
The three gemstones on Logaris’s right-hand glove lit up at the same time.
His left hand suddenly clenched.
A deep-blue spatial fluctuation instantly swept across a hundred-meter radius with the Black Iron District at its center.
The next second.
Everyone vanished from the originally noisy ruined factory.
When they set foot on solid ground again, the surroundings had become a barren valley. This place was at least fifty kilometers from the Royal Capital, located at the border between the Northern Territory and the central region.
The Pope lowered his head to look at the tips of his shoes, then looked at the surrounding environment. The expression on his old face was extremely vivid.
Moran looked at the desolate surroundings, and the violence in his eyes grew even more intense.
“Dying somewhere else is still dying!”
He abruptly spread his wings. That enormous pair of bone wings formed from rotting mana blotted out the sky.
Immediately afterward, endless dark death energy gathered madly around him. In midair, it actually condensed into a pure-black dragon energy body dozens of meters long! Deathfire symbolizing destruction ignited within its hollow eye sockets.
【Black Dragon King’s Roar · All Things Fall Silent】!
Along with Moran’s roar, the black dragon energy body suddenly raised its proud head. Then, from its massive dragon head, it unleashed a stream of dark Dragon Breath ten times thicker than before.
This Dragon Breath carried the dead silence of the end of all things. Like a world-ending black waterfall, it pushed horizontally toward the people below!
Wherever the Dragon Breath passed, the airflow was sucked dry, and the rocks on the ground rapidly withered, turning into flying ash.
This power made the hearts of Elena, Aureus, and Barnabas tighten. The corrosiveness contained within the Dragon Breath far surpassed the ordinary. Even as Seventh-Tier powerhouses, they had no desire to withstand this force head-on.
“【Spatial Spellcraft · Reality Warp】.”
Seeing this, Logaris swiftly used a spell. A deep-blue light shone around him, and countless pitch-black threads instantly appeared in front of the Dragon Breath. Like parasitic poisonous vines, they wrapped around and dug into the Dragon Breath.
The black threads spread wildly along the mana nodes. Amid a tooth-aching twisting sound, the pure destructive energy was divided and displaced, then finally dragged into the turbulent flow of the void and dispersed.
The entire process was smooth and flowing, even carrying a strange sense of artistry.
Moran’s golden vertical pupils abruptly contracted, and his already twisted face became even more ferocious.
“Logaris!”
He wanted to curse.
He truly wanted to curse! Who could understand this?!
This move, 【All Things Fall Silent】, had nearly consumed one-fifth of the mana reserves in his body!
That was precious power he had obtained by sacrificing over a thousand fanatics and burning their souls and lives!
And the result?
The result was that the other party’s hair was not even disturbed, and he had casually “moved” his ultimate attack away?
Disgusting! Too disgusting!
Fighting this kind of unreasonable grand spatial mage was simply every spellcaster’s nightmare!