Chapter 321: Three Punches to Shatter the Dark Fog

At that moment, Drake felt a relentless torrent of power surging through his veins. The overwhelming urge to unleash it outward filled him with exhilarating release.

Lifting his hands to the heavens, he hoisted up the entire shroud of dark fog that had blanketed the Holy Land.

The colossal spatial distortion across the sky stretched like a horizontal horizon, radiating a blinding white light that instantly locked the battle in a stalemate!

"What?!"

Standing high in the air, Im registered a flash of absolute disbelief in her eyes. She had already been deeply shocked by the energy barrier deployed by the Demon Warder.

She had never imagined that her apocalyptic Sky-Burying Dark Tempest would actually be blocked.

How could this be possible?!

"Impossible! This is impossible..." The Five Elders muttered frantically, their eyes bulging as they stared up in horror.

According to everything they knew, the moment Lord Im's Sky-Burying Dark Tempest was unleashed, everything was supposed to be reduced to nothingness, paving the way for the world to begin anew.

How could such a thing happen?

Someone was actually single-handedly lifting Lord Im's Sky-Burying Dark Tempest off the ground! Such a feat was beyond anything they had ever dared to imagine.

In an instant, the Five Elders felt as though their lifelong faith had been shattered. They collapsed limply onto the ground, entirely devoid of strength, stripped of all their previous arrogance and grandeur.

Even when the World Government's military had been routed and they faced the threat of execution, they had never fallen into such a state.

Because deep within their hearts, they had still possessed a final line of defense.

That defense was Lord Im.

As long as Lord Im stepped forward, the tide of battle would inevitably turn—that was a conviction they had held with absolute certainty.

Yet that conviction had been steadily chipped away ever since Im entered the fray.

The moment Drake stepped forward to directly confront the Sky-Burying Dark Tempest, that final pillar of faith was struck down and pulverized into jagged pieces.

"Is this... Drake-senpai's true power?!" Bartolomeo's eyes rounded to the size of saucers, his jaw dropping slack.

He was struck entirely dumb.

An eerie silence fell over the plaza as everyone stared upward in stunned awe, none of them expecting that massive construct to catch and halt every single attack single-handedly.

Witnessing Drake's overwhelming display of dominance, Weitian first froze, then a soft smile touched her lips.

Everything... is in your hands!

"Break for me!"

Drake threw a punch into open space, sending a violent shockwave rippling across the entire fabric of reality.

The spatial layers fractured sequentially. In a fraction of a second, the firmament split cleanly in two, allowing the sunlight blocked by the dark fog to shine down once more, bathing the scarred earth in fresh warmth.

Light piercing through the darkness heralded new hope—an eternal truth of the universe.

A world once more touched by falling rays signaled a rebirth. At that exact moment, every person present felt the returning tide of victory, knowing a luminous future was truly within reach.

"Scatter!" Drake threw another punch. Concentric ripples of spatial fissures erupted and spread outward instantly.

In the blink of an eye, the fractures compartmentalized the oppressive dark fog, with spatial rifts tearing open inside the mist layer after layer.

The shroud that had previously blanketed the sky was carved into isolated fragments. This time, light didn't just leak through a single fissure spanning the firmament;

dozens of golden beams pierced through the gaps, causing the dark fog to rapidly dissolve as piercing radiance illuminated the world before everyone's eyes, filling every field of vision.

"Vanish!"

Drake brought his palms together, sending a kinetic shockwave rippling outward from his frame in cascading concentric rings.

With a forward thrust of his hands,

a ten-thousand-meter-wide spatial barrier plowed forward, shoving the remaining dark fog violently toward the upper atmosphere. Simultaneously, the raw spatial energy gushing from the wall continuously dismantled the lingering mist.

Swept clear by the spatial wall, the dark fog receded far beyond the horizon, fading from the vision of the gathered armies.

Watching the incoming tide of force, Im's expression darkened with lethal chill. She had never dreamed that her Sky-Burying Dark Tempest would one day be batted back at her.

BOOM!

With a deafening crash, Im closed her bloodless, pristine hand into a fist, instantly absorbing the surrounding remnants of the dark fog into her palm.

Then, she unleashed a devastating punch!

Drake soared upward into the sky to meet her, the mechanical fists of the Demon Warder grinding together with a metallic screech that resonated deep within his bones, filling him with a strange, surging rush of power.

BOOM!

The two forces collided with zero reservation. A sharp, searing pain shot straight up Drake's arms as the terrifying kinetic impact reverberated through every inch of the Demon Warder's frame.

He felt the shockwave right along with it.

This power... So this is the true depth of her strength... But still!

I can keep going! Drake's eyes widened sharply, a hoarse roar tearing from his throat as he poured every ounce of strength he possessed into the clash.

The space surrounding them began to collapse. Drake exerted absolute mastery over the spatial forces, channeling them directly into his fists to multiply his output exponentially.

"What?!" Im's eyes widened in shock as the monstrous, peculiar energy transmitting from Drake's strike battered violently against her knuckles.

The strain was mounting—growing heavier by the second.

Suddenly, Drake's fist pressure surged with raw spatial energy. She... was no longer able to block it!

In the eyes of the onlookers below, the colossal fist of the Demon Warder clashed directly against Im, who looked utterly minuscule by comparison.

It was like a mayfly attempting to shake a massive tree!

BOOM!

Drake's fist connected squarely with Im's cheek, unleashing a violent tear of spatial distortion that drove her straight down into the depths of the Red Line.

RUMBLE...

The gargantuan impact shook the entire Holy Land to its foundations, sending tremors rippling so violently that many felt the entire Red Line plate trembling beneath their feet.

Following the strike, Drake accelerated in a blinding spatial warp. He knew a single blow wouldn't be enough to put her down for good.

Supreme King Domain!

Unleashing his Supreme King Haki, Drake experienced an unprecedented amplification of power. Spatial energy gushed forth in an inexhaustible torrent, bending the surrounding environment entirely to his will.

Clenching his single fist, he plummeted straight toward the earth and smashed downward.

CRACK! BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!

The cataclysmic force carved downward like a descending avalanche. The Red Line vibrated furiously as the surrounding space shattered into dust, instantly expanding the already bottomless crater below.

Countless boulders fractured from the upper rim of the Red Line, tumbling down into the ocean below and churning the white-foamed waves into a churning frenzy.

The Demon Warder hovered suspended in mid-air over the depths of the abyss, Drake gazing down calmly at the scene below.

As the dust settled and gentle winds swept the haze away, visibility returned to normal.

The bottom of the crater was laid bare to view. Im, whose identity had remained shrouded in mystery beneath a massive cloak for centuries, now lay in tatters.

Her pale skin was exposed, and her delicate facial features had suffered a gaping fracture. What sent a chilling jolt through Drake's chest, however, was that not a single drop of blood flowed from the wound.

That anomaly defied every basic law of biology.

"Hm?" Drake furrowed his brow, inspecting the figure sprawled at the bottom of the crater. The smooth skin of her face was covered in a web of cracks, as though it were made of brittle porcelain on the verge of shattering.

"What's going on? What is that?"

CRACK!

A piece of Im's face suddenly flaked off and tumbled away, causing Drake's eyes to widen in sheer astonishment.

Her face was literally peeling off?!

"System, what is going on here? Is she... even human?"