Chapter 1642 - 123: Calamities Gather (Part 3)

The cold permeates Serey’s body, completely enveloping him.

What unfolds before him now is boundless darkness, like a vast void, engulfing all of Serey’s awareness, making him unable to discern direction, unable to see anything ahead.

Serey feels like a solitary boat amidst this dark surge, his heartbeat uncontrollably accelerating, each beat a mad drum echoing in his ears.

His breath is rapid, each inhale feels like a struggle in a pitch-black ocean, each exhale a war declaration against the endless darkness.

"Come on!"

Serey swings the Ether, roaring into the darkness.

He cannot hear his roar, but he is certain he shouted it out.

Ether morphs into a storm, rushing in all directions, in the absolute darkness, Serey finds no target to strike, thus he burns the darkness entirely.

But no matter how hard Serey tries, the individual amount of Ether remains too little, facing this Devil’s Power darkness, Serey seems foolish, attempting to fill an ocean.

Piercing pain strikes again, Serey is hit by some force, but in the murky darkness, he cannot see his body, let alone inspecting his wounds or the assaulting entity.

Serey only feels his flesh torn by an irresistible force, ghastly blood holes appear on his body, and then these holes seem to come alive, violently writhing, each wound convulsing painfully, and in no time, Serey’s body is riddled with holes in the darkness.

This is absolute Dark Void, naturally, there is no blood for Serey to crystallize, the rampantly unleashed Ether finds no target to kill, only passively bears the pressure.

In agony, Serey wonders how Nesanel survived under the Night King’s assault, is the Alchemy Matrix’s differential so crucial?

Indeed, very important, the complex traits of Alchemy Matrix allow Condensers to handle more difficult battles, unlike Serey, when faced with bloodless inorganic forces, his power is halved.

"No... you definitely still have a nature of flesh and blood," Serey clings to his sanity, enduring the pain, "Is it in the Origin Tower? Your true body?"

Serey is called Executioner because his Secret Energy targets blood’s traits. Thanks to this Extraordinary Power, Serey can ignore regenerative abilities, directly draining Night Race’s blood, leading to their death, and in the past Aisha crafted the Bloodthirsty Dagger, mimicking Serey’s power.

The surrounding Ether concentration rises again, when Serey, another Seeker of Glory, intervenes in the war, the originally slow, stagnant realm overlap is once again accelerated by Serey’s power.

A radiant mass completely covers the Butcher’s Pit, then swallows most of the Royal City, the Origin Tower stands at the edge of the overlap, though not entirely in the Ethereal Realm, the collapsing reality already loosens the Night King’s seal, the Dark Void simultaneously invades the Material Realm and Ethereal Realm, persistent clouds brew within the Ethereal Realm.

Serey also notices the change in Ether concentration, he loudly berates, "You still retain some intellect, right?"

If the Night King truly despises him, with such overlap, he fully has the ability to break the shackles’ seal, personally kill to the Butcher’s Pit to solve him.

But the Night King doesn’t do this, he remains atop the Origin Tower, releasing tidal darkness, swallowing himself, unwilling to confront him in true form.

The Night King is afraid!

As soon as the thought arises, Serey can’t help but burst into mad laughter, he knows his father too well, knows this weakness engraved in the bloodline.

The Night King fears death, fears so much that even falling to this world’s Calamity, the fear of death remains embedded in his underlying logic.

He stays in the Origin Tower to avoid someone destroying the Dark Iron Curtain, letting sunshine fall, refusing to face Serey in true form out of dread of Serey’s Secret Energy. Though ancient and outdated, Secret Energy·Prison of Coagulated Blood is also one of the few forces that can directly kill the Night Race.

Serey sneers, "So, that means even though you’ve become this world’s Calamity, the Night Race’s fatal weakness still affects you, right?"

No response in the darkness, only continuous corrosion.

The Dark Void created by the Night King is like a swamp that can annihilate "existence", it doesn’t just block light and sound, but devours their existence entirely, so are the numerous wounds on Serey, not from arrows shot in darkness, piercing his flesh, but his physical existence being gradually eroded.

Invisible maggots gnaw at Serey’s flesh.

Serey still laughs silently, during the Dawn War, he didn’t think he could kill the Night King, let alone now, when the Night King has transformed into this world’s Calamity.

Serey doesn’t need to kill the Night King.

He only needs to persist here, using the Night King’s hatred against him, tightly focusing the attention here, easing the pressure for Bologue and others.

Bologue and the others not only possess the Radiant Scour and Bloodthirsty Dagger, Bologue himself wields tremendous destructive power, he might directly destroy the Origin Tower, fundamentally ruining the Dark Iron Curtain’s ritual.

As long as he holds on.

Ether converges, completely reinforcing Serey, Immortal Armor flickers dangerously, broken body heals rapidly, counteracting the darkness’s erosion.