Chapter 458: End of the Line
The arena was strewn with the lifeless bodies of once almighty Elders. Dozens of rulers of the galaxy painted the sand with their blood. The people watching all over the galaxy were frozen, unable to believe such a thing could really happen, while the B-Grades in the arena—the only ones remaining—were speechless.
The Supreme Ancestor had laid in cryogenic sleep for hundreds of thousands of years to protect his faction in the case of such an emergency. Yet, even after he’d awakened, he’d been unable to help. He had to watch his descendants, the faction he’d spent his entire life building, be demolished before his very eyes.
What was helplessness? This was helplessness!
“I will fucking kill you, Jack Rust!”
More sparks erupted all over his body. He was like an old god clad in lightning, a thunderstorm taken physical form. He threw himself at Jack, uncaring about anything else. Jack charged back, then abruptly disappeared.
He reappeared before the last remaining Ancestor. This was a leonine of the Lonihor family, clad in their tell-tale plate armor and surrounded by divine warriors. He knew this was coming—he braced himself. Half the warriors raised their shields, while the rest charged at Jack to delay him.
Jack pulled back his fist. Reality itself was sucked inside. The energy compacted continuously, becoming so dense it almost collapsed the fabric of spacetime around it, and then exploded right as Jack let loose his fist.
Eva Solvig flashed behind him and smashed a palm of Purity into his back. Jack endured it. His fist exploded on the divine warriors, obliterating them all. Shiny spears and shields flew everywhere. The energy of the Supernova broke through their defenses and fell onto the early B-Grade Ancestor, shattering his armor and Dao both. He flew away—dead.
A rush of power fled into Jack’s body, abruptly stopped. He’d reached Level 380, where the System would withhold any extra energy until he developed his ninth Dao Fruit. He couldn’t get any stronger during this battle, but that was fine. He was enough.