Novel Full Chapter 1808: Perfectly Like Him
Chapter 1808: Perfectly Like Him
Aooouu—!
Emperor Dominar turned around at the same time as a howl blared.
He didn’t know what Rex meant by what he said, but it sparked a sinking feeling in his stomach.
As if there was something he missed.
Like something big was going to happen.
“The Reap and Sow Echo can create a myriad of things,” Emperor Dominar said with a cutting edge to his voice. “No sound can penetrate this invisible dome I created. Even the traitorous Althea beside you wouldn’t be able to hear you howl. What do you even think of doing? Who would even dare to answer your call?”
All odds are against Rex.
He’s not only far weaker than Emperor Dominar, but he was also suppressed—and is at the heart of the enemy territory. Even if there were ten of him right now, there’s still no escaping his situation. His death was final.
But impossibility is nothing more than the weak’s noise to explain what they cannot see.
Rex’s lips curled into a grin when he stopped howling.
“How long has it been since you sat on your comfortable throne?” He asked, turning his vicious eyes to the emperor, who was always calm like a deity. Now, there was mild concern plastered on his face. “How long has it been since you dirtied yourself with a true battle to the death? How long have you thought that you’re entitled to the lives of the people around you?”
Emperor Dominar didn’t answer.
And frankly, Rex didn’t need him to answer to know that it must’ve been eons already.
He was among the strongest in this realm, and a battle with an equal was rare for him.
“You’ve dulled your senses,” Rex’s grin split his face—like a crescent moon. Devilish. “My howl isn’t the only way I can spill your empire’s doom.”
Emperor Dominar’s brows dipped further.
Rumble…
Everything began to shake.
Nobles faltered. Servants stumbled and fell into the stream. Tableware shattered. Even the crabapple trees couldn’t maintain their extensions as leaves swept across the Milky Garden like pouring rain. It was the end of the world.
Considering the layers of suppression that were hugging Rex’s body, this caught everyone off guard.
He couldn’t even channel his energy, and yet, the world trembled around him.
Then, Emperor Dominar caught sight of a black flicker that curled from Rex’s suppressed body.
It was strands of voidal energy.
Nobody could wield voidal energy. Even if one could, the voidal energy that came out of Rex was far purer than even the Voidal Princes. A burning violet mark that was shaped as a mass of coiling snakes announced itself on Rex’s chest, and it was see-through even through the cocoon.
“I’m weaker than you,” Rex declared, catching the attention of Emperor Dominar among the chaos. “I can’t do anything to you, and that’s a fact. I can admit that. But doesn’t that mean I only needed to find somebody who could?”
“You—?!” Emperor Dominar’s heart skipped a beat.
A thrill of grim satisfaction washed over Rex as he read the emperor’s face. Executing is not personal, he says. He set the term: no line, no restraint. In that case, obliterating the empire until nothing of it was left was simply the next logical play.
“Empress Morgana made me acquainted with him,” Rex continued. “This is all thanks to her.”
“You made a deal with a mona—?!
Swoosh—!
Emperor Dominar tries to reach for Rex, but it is already too late.
From the very center of the rooftop, in the middle of the sea of nobles, a pool of shadow detached itself from the marble floor, swirling upward into a rapid vortex of alien energy. The stronger nobles spotted it, muscles tensing for a fight, only to be brutally reminded of their helplessness.
The silver bracelets on their wrists hummed with suppression.
A binding only Emperor Dominar could disable.
Thus, they were too late to react.
Linthia’s shadowy form emerged from the vortex. Her gleaming obsidian eyes, charged with the power of the untold, reflected the Blood Moon above as she let out a banshee scream. A pulverizing soundwave swept across the rooftop, bursting the nobles’ eardrums.
Blood leaked from their ears.
Only the royal knights and Emperor Dominar weren’t that affected.
None of them wore the silver bracelets, so they could protect themselves.
Even so, it was not perfect as the scream rattled them for a few seconds.
In the middle of the chaos, Liliana, with only one eye open, saw a passing royal knight with the keys.
She tripped the royal knight and stole the keys before rushing towards the prisoners.
Her ears were ringing. Every sound that entered was muffled, and it also caused a sharp pain that made her flinch. Stemming from only her willpower, she fought the pain and stumbled towards Althea. But a few steps away, the floor cracked.
Liliana tried to keep her balance, but the floor collapsed under her.
In the nick of time, she managed to throw the keys toward the tower.
Emperor Dominar was the first one to recover from the banshee scream. His ghostly body flared with a spark of green that dispelled any crippling effect he was suffering. Now, there was no more grace in his movements.
Only that of frantic urgency as he raised his gaze again.
His reflex is fast.
Faster than anyone Rex has ever seen, other than werewolves.
Swoosh—!
His long hair shot forward, turning into nature’s fury, as they tried to bind Rex and kill him in an instant. A barrier, purple in color, blocked the attack. This forced Emperor Dominar to grit his teeth. This stunt caught him completely off guard.
That attack could kill a Divine Spirit rank in an instant, but it was deflected like it was nothing.
Rex howled in amusement, laughing at the emperor. Duke Lorcan and the other nobles, who had only recovered, paused as they beheld the monstrous spectacle that is Rex’s true form. A monster beyond reckoning, seething with a reddish aura that seemed endless.
Some who already seen the form noticed a difference.
Back then, Rex’s form was already menacing. Now, it was pushed to an even greater height.
Furs of liquid black sheen erupted from his skin, weaving itself into a living armor. The bones that make up his face shattered and realigned with wet cracks, forging an elongated, ferocious snout. His body, once merely over six feet, swelled violently, shredding the cocoon to emerge as a ten-foot giant of pure muscle and shadow.
Curving horns break through his head, a characteristic uniquely exclusive to him.
Rex flexed his muscles and broke free from the cocoon.
Every lance that struck him fractured into useless shards, raining down like dead leaves. Though the pink flower doubled its draining pull, it meant nothing. Beneath the full moon, beneath the Blood Moon, his power was a vast and rising tide; the suction was merely a sparrow drinking from a hurricane.
<Notice: the Blood Moon Blessing has arrived!>
<Blood Eclipse skill has been bestowed upon the user!>
<Please choose one energy to eclipse!>
Eclipse all life energy.
<Affirmative!>
Rex’s eyes gleamed with a murderous intent. A mist of red swirled out of his nose with an exhale.
And with a deep inhale, his royal roar thundered.
Roar—!
Crack—!
Like an electromagnetic blast that deactivated all electronics, the blast from his roar knocked the life energy out of everyone around. All life energy in the area was eclipsed, rendering that energy useless in this moment.
Even Emperor Dominar wasn’t spared from this.
However, the resources of the empire are vast.
In the face of a phenomenon stemming from a God-like entity, he can still stand his ground.
An invisible pale-green crown of thorny vines and twelve sharp spines appeared on Emperor Dominar’s head, and its light dispelled the Blood Eclipse skill, allowing him to tap into his life energy again. Even in such an endearing situation, his mind was still levelled.
He quickly tapped into the Reap and Sow Echo and attacked Rex again.
But the ground underneath Rex collapsed suddenly.
Instead of falling, he was thrown upward, and the lashing energy from the Reap and Sow Echo slammed into a hard skin. Emperor Dominar looked up and witnessed a massive black serpent. Voidal energy licked its skin, protecting it from the Reap and Sow Echo—and the radiance from the Citadel-class Obelisk of Life.
A Voidal Prince.
Such a thing should be pulverized for entering the royal bubble, but it didn’t.
Rex happened. And he was prepared.
“Meet my new friends,” Rex looked down at the emperor and the nobles like a God among men. He was standing on the head of the hissing serpent, and the shock was evident on the nobles’ faces. He was a madman for siding with the new Voidal Monarch—the White Mask. “I reckoned a Voidal Monarch is more than strong enough to fare against you, Your Majesty.”
Despite the reveal, the chaos didn’t stop.
Linthia was fending against the constant attacks from the royal knights.
It was a relentless, coordinated attack that rendered her defense meaningless.
She was exerting the essence of the Well of the Untold right now.
Being in this state, she called the Drifting Nymph state; she became the extension of the well. Other than gaining a boost in strength, she also gained access to the well’s unnatural dominion. However, this was her first time using it, and she was groggy at best.
Even without life energy, the royal knights are a formidable foe. Highly trained and coordinated.
Linthia circled the area, leaving a trail of smoke as she avoided attack after attack.
Her Soul Artifact, a pair of dark fairy wings were throbbing with the alien energy inside her.
A blade gleamed and cut from above—grazing her cheek as she tried to avoid the attack. She stumbled to the marble floor, rolling until she slammed into the marble railing. Her eyes were closed. Her focus was solely aimed at her wings.
Not even a few seconds later, three royal knights were over her.
In their hands is a longsword that was coated with a sticky substance. Toxic substance.
As the hissing sound of parted air seeped into Linthia’s ears, and the three sword-tips touched her brows, her eyes flew open. Her wings throbbed with power once, a sudden reflex, and she vanished instantly from the kill-zone.
No, not vanished. But transformed into a non-physical form.
Behind her, the long swords hammered into the marble floor with a deafening, metallic crash.
Linthia’s form drifted into a mass of dark smoke.
Her body turned into nothing more than a ball of darkness that moved quicker than the eye can see.
She charged into the closest royal knight, who was surprised at her stunt, and phased through his armor and body like a Ghost. The alien energy stiffened the royal knight’s body, but without pausing, Linthtia went through the other two royal knights.
All were frozen in time.
Linthia returned to her normal form, and with the sound of clanking metal, the three royal knights crumbled to their knees. Ink-black energy gushes out of the crevices of their armor like water. It was overflowing, drowning them from the inside.
None of them is dead.
Despite her bloodline, she wasn’t as strong as she needed to be to properly kill them.
But all three were out of the count for good.
Linthia raised her gaze at the spectacle before her, eyes gleaming with marvel and fierce devotion.
“So, that’s where he went,” she murmured, her eyes locked on the impossible sight: Rex standing atop the Voidal Prince’s head like a conqueror surveying a fallen kingdom. It was a move beyond her wildest reckoning. “Insane… and perfectly like him. But how in Mother Nature’s name did he broker a deal with a Voidal Monarch?”
The ambush wasn’t a part of his plan; that was for sure.
Even then, Linthia knew that she could trust Rex to get out of his situation no matter what.
And she was right to believe in him.
But still, she couldn’t help but wander. ’What’s he going to do next? How is he going to go about destroying the empire?’ An excited smile crept to her face. ’Thinking about it is making me excited.’