Chapter 299 : Chapter 299
Chapter 299. “His” Will
Logaris pressed his hands together, then abruptly pulled them apart to either side.
A massive projection of a white dragon, formed entirely from pure primal aether, appeared behind him!
Boundless energy gathered madly at the dragon head of the white dragon projection.
【Super-Ancient Magic · White Dragon King’s Sigh】!
At that moment, the entire world seemed to lose all sound.
Blazing white light drowned everything. The rocks at the bottom of the valley vaporized in an instant, and even space itself seemed to tremble slightly before this ultimate violence.
Boom—!
By the time the white light dispersed, only a bottomless pit with mirror-smooth edges remained where Moran had originally stood.
“He should be dead this time, right?” The Pope landed back on the ground, somewhat drained as he supported himself with his scepter.
Barnabas also descended. He looked at the enormous pit, but his brows were tightly furrowed.
“Something is wrong.” Logaris’s voice broke the brief silence. He quickly walked to the edge of the pit, his gaze sharp as a blade.
At the bottom of the sinkhole, Moran’s remains, which could barely still be called a “corpse,” were lying there quietly.
The lower half of his body had completely vanished in the energy torrent just now. Only half of a charred, ruined torso and a head burned black like charcoal remained.
However, just as everyone was about to step forward and confirm his death, Moran’s charred head suddenly moved slightly.
Immediately afterward, those golden vertical pupils, which had already dimmed and were on the verge of collapse, slowly “opened.”
An extremely strange, profoundly deep black light lit up within those eyes and instantly devoured the original gold.
That was absolutely not a gaze belonging to Moran, nor even one belonging to a human.
An indescribable presence, mixed with the majesty of the primeval ages and an absolute indifference that regarded all things as dust, completely awakened within this dying remnant of a body!
At that moment, whether it was the battle-hardened Aureus, the Pope who held sacred authority, or Logaris and Sylvia in the distance, everyone’s breathing abruptly froze.
Their hearts seemed to have been seized tightly by an invisible, icy giant hand!
A shudder born from the deepest part of the soul, from the very instinct of life itself, climbed madly along their spines, making their limbs turn cold in an instant!
That feeling... was as though a group of mortals were watching an anthill, only to raise their heads and discover that within the depths of the universe, a pair of indescribable divine eyes covering the entire sky had suddenly opened, looking down upon them from above with a gaze utterly devoid of emotion.
“How... wretched...”
An incomparably vast overlapping echo, as though it had crossed tens of millions of years, exploded arrogantly inside everyone’s minds!
There was not the slightest trace of pity in that voice. There was only mockery toward the ants beneath His feet, and indifference toward Moran.
“Stop him!” Logaris’s expression changed drastically. Without even thinking, he raised his hand and cast an extremely condensed spatial lock, attempting to seal off that area.
But it was too late.
“Moran”—or rather, the vast consciousness that had completely taken over this ruined body—did not pay the slightest attention to Logaris’s actions.
With that godlike indifference, He merely raised the only remaining charred right hand and lightly wiped it across the void.
【Secrecy · Causal Concealment】.
Buzz—
An imperceptible and incomprehensible rhythm rippled outward like water.
In the perception of Logaris and the others, the “logic” of “Moran’s” existence, the man who had originally been heavily surrounded by them and beaten into a broken corpse, seemed to be forcibly erased from the endlessly flowing timeline of the world by an invisible hand at that moment!
“What... happened?” Aureus froze where he stood. He discovered that he could no longer lock onto Moran’s location. The man was clearly right before his eyes, yet his mind was telling him there was nothing there.
Immediately afterward, an invisible, sharp agony suddenly attacked everyone’s Sea of Consciousness!
【Cognitive Stripping】!
It was an impact that directly targeted the soul. Even beings as powerful as the Pope and Barnabas experienced several tenths of a second of blank consciousness in that instant.
In a duel between experts, a single instant could decide life and death.
By the time everyone recovered from that agony, the bottom of the pit was already empty.
Dead silence spread through the barren valley.
The violent mana turbulence gradually calmed, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur and scorched earth.
The ground was devastated. The destructive power caused by the joint attacks of several Seventh-Tier powerhouses had completely changed the terrain here. The bottomless pit stretched across the center, silently recounting the brutality of that killing strike just now.
There was nothing at the bottom of the pit.
Aureus carried his door-panel greatsword and strode to the edge of the pit, lowering his head to look down. He circulated his Battle Aura, trying to capture any remaining trace of life, but found nothing.
“He ran?” The Guard Commander’s brows twisted into a knot.
Logaris ignored him and turned directly toward the gray-haired mage beside him.
“Senior, can you still track him?”
Maggie said nothing. She merely raised her hand and gently clenched it toward the empty depths of the pit.
【Truth Retrospection】!
In the void, countless causal lines emerged, interweaving into an extremely complex scroll.
However, at the center of the scroll, the line that should have belonged to Moran was covered by a layer of even deeper, more viscous pure black.
“No.” She withdrew her hand, her voice carrying a rare solemnity. “He cannot be tracked. His causal line has been completely concealed.”
“Black Dragon King?” Logaris revealed a thoughtful expression.
“It should be Him. Noxarum.” Maggie gave a definite answer. “Just now, His will descended.”
She narrowed her eyes slightly, seeming already impatient to return to the tower and verify something.
“I need to go back and properly search through those ancient scrolls. Regarding this Dragon King’s Authority, my database still needs quite a few details filled in.”
“All right, all right, research maniac. I know you are delighted to find such prey, but you still need to look at the situation.”
At the side, Roland’s memory construct sighed helplessly. His broad palm patted Maggie’s shoulder, interrupting her thoughts.
Although his tone was bold, and he even stretched lazily, a barely perceptible seriousness flashed through those deep eyes.
“Still, I did not expect to personally witness a will descending at this level after a thousand years. This trip was not wasted.”
Maggie did not refute him. She merely nodded lightly.
At the end, she took a deep look at Logaris and Sylvia. In that gaze, there was both expectation toward these two outstanding juniors and an obvious meaning of “you can clean up the mess afterward yourselves.”
In the next second, their figures stirred up a dense scattering of silver light particles in space. Like an illusory night breeze, they vanished into thin air within the devastated valley, leaving behind not the slightest trace of mana fluctuations.