Chapter 532: Heart of the Behemoth
’This madman!’
He gritted his teeth as the emperor’s grating laughter echoed in the chaotic noises engulfing his kingdom’s every corner.
Simultaneously, the ground gave way under his feet, the endless abyss below gazing straight into his eyes like a ravenous beast eying food. It devoured the falling boulders and would devour him too in a second if he did nothing to stop his fall.
Yet, his eyes only narrowed in focus, the fear that should have seized his heart in its icy grip and made his limbs tremble, unable to creep its way to his emotions. Instead, he scanned the debris falling with him.
Eyes flaring and boiling blood coursing through his veins, he blurred into motion a split second later.
"The citizens had nothing to do with our battle! Because of you, millions will die, and the surrounding countries will bear the scars of your spell. Millions more will die, and then dozens of millions will follow. Don’t you have a sliver of conscience, or are your disproportionate ambitions weighing more than their lives?"
A defiant roar overwhelmed the ambient noises as he leapt from one rock to another in a show of extreme wit. Like a dragon scaling a waterfall, he pushed upwards and emerged in the darkened sky.
"They’re not my people. They’re yours! It was your duty to protect them, and you failed! Curse the day you landed in MY world, die in regrets and witness my powers!"
The emperor roared in response, the brown gem encased in his staff spinning as he continued.
"Cataclysmic eruption, earth furies, mineral halberds!"
With the path open, lava burst from the abyss in a pillar of doom spanning several kilometres. The air became burning and hard to breathe, the toxic smell of sulfur replacing oxygen.