Chapter 551 - End (I)
"¡AHHHHH!"
Zatiel could not stop screaming as his agony was unlike anything he had ever experienced before, even counting his life as the Prima Universe's Strongest Life Form.
The King in Yellow's Primordial Essence manifested as a dark and evil aura that reached the Inner Law Dimension and encapsulated it, practically covering the walls in less than a second.
This dark aura did not attempt to break the Inner Law Dimension's walls. Its effect was much worse, as it unleashed a force that petrified anything near it.
That petrifying force was also influencing the interior of the Inner Law Dimension, with the first ones affected being the Spiritual Endless Ocean and the Soul Celestial Vault.
The Primordial Essence also enhanced the karma flames consuming the Neo-Demon's flesh and blood. It reached the point that they inundated every corner of his body, including his Dream Dimension.
When the karma flames pierced into the Dream Dimension, their destructive power weakened significantly, as if the dimension contained a force capable of resisting the physical manifestation of the Eldritch Universe's Cause and Effect.
Zatiel could have taken advantage of this to improve his chances of survival, but with an evil aura petrifying his soul and his mind plagued by madness and chaos, he could no longer think, much less control the flames that were eating him.
All of the Neo-Demon's power-ups were deactivated, as he could no longer maintain them active, and instinctively his body turned them down so it could focus its energy on resisting the karma flames.
His armor reformed into a leviathan-draconic creature. Myriad stared at the person that gave him his life, and sadness and panic filled his eyes.
"Ahhhhh," Myriad unleashed a soft roar to communicate with the Neo-Demon, asking for a way he could help, but the only answer he received was screams of pain.
Myriad Rebirth Doomsday Avatar was an artificial life form. Still, after receiving the nurturing of the Rebirth Eclipse Bloodline, Absolute Unity Omega Law, and Genesis Drive, he already evolved to the point that his soul could stand on its own, no different from other Prima Universe's children.
Although he was more than one hundred and fifty years old, Myriad's wisdom and intelligence were still that of a small child. That was not uncommon in life forms born at a high Rank, as their gestation and infant stage measure in the thousands of years.
Myriad did not understand the nature of the forces harming Zatiel and could not provide any help against them. Frustration invaded him, and he finally decided to adopt a serpent-like form and surround the Neo-Demon so that no one could take advantage of this one weakened state.
While his intentions were good, the truth was that Myriad's actions were useless. The King in Yellow chose this location because of its solitude, and no one would come here anytime soon.
The Neo-Demon continued yelling in agony, completely unaware of what was happening around him. His Inner Law Dimension's walls were entirely petrified by now, as his Spiritual Endless Ocean and Soul Celestial Vault.
The True Soul and True Doomsday Body were also slowly petrified, with the only part of the Neo-Demon's soul capable of fighting the King in Yellow's Primordial Essence being the True Will.
Golden shock waves with silver seals were released from the golden humanoid as he attempted to destroy the foreign spiritual force.
Suddenly, a gray point appeared in the True Will's chest and gradually extended. Even the golden humanoid failed to resist the corruption of the evil aura.
No weakness appeared in the True Will's eyes as he saw that the petrifying force started to consume him. He stood up and extended his hands, firing silver beams of willpower that clashed against the Inner Law Dimension's walls.
The Inner Law Dimension's walls began to shine with silver light that burned the evil aura, breaking it apart. Feeling the damage, the King in Yellow's Primordial Essence entered a hyperactive state, burning itself so the corruption would become faster and stronger.
Who would survive was uncertain but both, Zatiel's True Will and the King in Yellow's Primordial Essence were unleashing everything to defeat the other.
In terms of physical deterioration, Zatiel's condition was no better. The karma flames already evaporated everything from his blood vessels, and what was worse, they managed to cross the membranes and muscles of his hearts and were harming their interiors.
The Infinity Heart contained the particle of end that originated from a Rank 10 life form. The Elemental Chaos Heart's Chaotic Core had an endurance that could withstand a direct Rank 7 attack. Thanks to those heavenly treasures, they were able to resist.
Unfortunately, the condition of the Bloodline Heart was not that optimistic. Bloodlines were delicate by nature, and damage to their core was even more challenging to heal than soul damage.
The moment the karma flames pierced into the Bloodline Heart, they detected two things. One was the dormant soul of the Tree of Massacre, and the other was an eclipse with purple runes.
Luckily for the Tree of Massacre, the karma flames focused entirely on the quintessence of the Rebirth Eclipse Bloodline and attacked with their full force.
As soon as the karma flames touched the eclipse, this one reacted by unleashing a tsunami of purple fire, immediately pushing back the enemy.
The rest of the karma fire consuming Zatiel froze for a second before all of them converged into the Bloodline Heart.
Those purple flames originated from the embodiment of a First Order Law Bloodline, and their nature was above anything else in the Prima Universe.
Unfortunately, those karma flames also originated from a force that stood above everything in their universe, and in terms of quantity, they were superior.
"AAAAHHHHHH!" Zatiel screams reached a new high as purple and red fire came from his eyes. His entire body shivered as a crimson mist left through his pores.
That mist was his bloodline incinerated under the flames of karma.
As the karma flames did more and more damage to his bloodline core, the Eye of Life and Creation, Eye of Death and Destruction, and Rebirth Eye started to lose their unique powers and transform into crippled organs.
Zatiel's bloodline aura decreased almost immediately from the First Order to the Fourth Order. As the damage continued, it eventually fell into the Emperor level before finally ceasing to exist.
"CRACK!"
The Neo-Demon's wings withered like dead leaves, and his eyes lost their color and light as the eclipse inside the Bloodline Heart shattered to pieces.
To create a bloodline that would open the gate into Rank 10, the Incarnation of Death and Destruction manipulated the flow of time and tricked one of the strongest races of the Prima Universe so that their most precious creation would work as a vessel for the essence of his being.
He annihilated billions of life forms and sealed a corner of the Abyss with a force that not even Rank 9 Archdevils could pierce to secure the other half of this ultimate bloodline.
All of the Neo-Demon hard work and sacrifice vanished under the karma flames.
The Rebirth Eclipse Bloodline, born from two Peak Second-Order Law Bloodlines reaching a unique equilibrium and giving birth to a miracle, ceased to exist.