Chapter 398: Kronos Continent
Zarius did not wait a second before waving his hand, filling the basin with all the resources in his space ring. The Scarlet King sent those he could not directly consume into the [Devourer Dimension] before manipulating the others like wave crystals with his Ego Wave.
After emptying every resource and treasure he had spent his life collecting, Zarius’s eyes twitched as he cut his forearms, making streams of his blood fill the basin. His body only had a few liters of blood, but as it fell into the basin, he consumed his energy and life force to make more, generating a constant stream that filled the basin in less than thirty minutes.
Zarius fell to the ground beside the basin, and his heartbeat and vital signs were weak. His vitality as a Wave King kept him alive, but his life force had suffered dramatically due to the depletion of his blood.
Shortly after that, Orphin and the Abyssal Clan’s Wave King returned with the corpses of several King Beasts. The duo made holes in the beasts before draining their blood into the basin, only for the desiccated corpses to be embraced by a red force field and vanish the next second.
The blood had not even filled the basin before it began to diminish at an alarming rate, and the duo went back to their mission, collecting more corpses of King Beasts and draining their blood into the basin. Zarius remained on the edge, vigilant to any newcomer that could stomp around.
Days passed, and the basin continued draining and being refilled as its life force grew more and more powerful. Finally, after a month, Orphin and the other two Wave Kings froze and adopted a silent stance.
The blood drained faster and faster until nothing remained, leaving only a young man with an extremely well-defined body and a red metallic mask covering his face. The Scarlet King’s eyes radiated with red light as he clenched his fist and assessed the state of his body and inner organs.
Using the blood essence of over one thousand King Beasts, the Radiance of Life, and the energy and vitality granted by the [Gluttony Module], the Scarlet King was able to heal nearly all of his wounds. Still, one organ could not recover, at least not entirely. Stay tuned for updates on
The battle with the Blood King had left him severely wounded, but the worst injury was the one he took right before entering the intercontinental teleportation formation, the palm strike that managed to reach his Rebirth Heart.
Even at this moment, there were several deep lacerations on the Scarlet King’s Rebirth Heart. The only reason he could stand without a problem was his constant use of Radiance of Life while simultaneously transmuting his Astral Wave into a stabilizing substance.
The combination of those two abilities allowed the Scarlet King’s heart to work fine, even during a battle, but it also carried a severe problem since, for all intents and purposes, the Sacred Organ was crippled. If the Scarlet King attempted to revolve his Astral Wave, his heart would suffer greatly and could cause his death.
In essence, the Scarlet King’s Astral Path of Power, for which he had always strived for perfection and gone through over a dozen life-and-death trials in order to reach a flawless foundation, was now useless.