Chapter 331: Twelve Deadpool
Kaecilius wandered quietly around the World like a viper hidden in the shadows.
The power bestowed upon him by Chthon far exceeded imagination.
That was not merely a surge of pure magic, but a deeper understanding and control of the laws of darkness.
He was able to cross national borders like a ghost without triggering Kamar-Taj's magic surveillance, reaching those forgotten accretion points of dark energy.
The ancient live-sacrifice ruins deep in the South American jungle, the mass graves with countless buried bones beneath the millennium-old battlefield of Eastern Europe, the ruins of the Loki temple buried by yellow sand in the Middle East...
Upon reaching each place, he would spend days drawing dazzlingly complex magic arrays with blood and dark magic.
These arrays were buried deep underground or carved behind hidden rock walls, with no magic fluctuations leaking from the surface.
There was only an extremely faint periodic pulsation, resembling the breathing of the abyss.
Blending into the local chaotic background of dark energy, it was extremely difficult to detect.
However, as the sixth array was nearing completion, Kaecilius encountered a huge obstacle that could not be bypassed—
The three Sanctums established by Kamar-Taj on Earth: the New York Sanctum, the London Sanctum, and the Hong Kong Sanctum.
These three Sanctums formed a triangular posture, acting like three huge nails firmly fixing the reality dimension where Earth was located, resisting the invasion and erosion from other dimensions.
They were not only symbols of Kamar-Taj's power, but also the core pillars of Earth's dimensional defense system.
Any ritual attempting to make powerful entities from different dimensions descend on a large scale must first destroy these three Sanctums.
Otherwise, the descending power would be weakened, interfered with, or even completely blocked outside by the defense network formed by the Sanctums.
In the memory fragments bestowed upon Kaecilius by Chthon, this critical information was clearly displayed.
When the seventh and final "Dark Wedge" array was deployed, he had to simultaneously destroy the three Sanctums in a very short time.
Only in this way, when the seven arrays were activated simultaneously and resonated, could Chthon's true body find that fragile window period, truly tear through the dimensional barrier, and descend His ancient, dark, unnamable existence onto Earth.
Kaecilius stood on the tower of the abandoned ancient castle where the sixth array was located, gazing at the city lights dimly visible on the distant horizon.
That was the direction of London.
"Sanctums..." He whispered, a cruel light flashing in his abyss-like black eyes, "More... chess pieces are needed."
One week later, deep in the Himalayas, a forgotten ancient ruin.
This used to be the altar of a primitive tribe that worshiped darkness, and now only broken walls and ruins remained.
Kaecilius sat cross-legged in the center of the altar, his hands forming bizarre magic seals, surrounded by dark magic so thick it almost condensed into substance.
In front of him knelt twelve figures in black cloaks, all apprentices and followers he had gathered around the World over the years, once sorcerers, wizards, or even ordinary humans full of desire for taboo magic.
At this moment, they were conducting an extremely cruel and blasphemous ritual.
Kaecilius's dark magic, like countless invisible threads, pierced into the center of these apprentices' eyebrows, hearts, and deep into their souls.
Among the knowledge bestowed upon him by Chthon was an ancient dark transformation ritual that transformed mortals into "Dark Deadpool".
Unlike the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, the transformed beings would completely lose their self-will and become walking-corpse-like puppets.
But at the same time, they would gain powerful strength far exceeding their lifetime, their bodies permanently modified and strengthened by dark magic, with extremely tenacious vitality and no feeling of pain.
They were perfect consumables, perfect vanguards.
Inhuman roars came from the throats of those apprentices.
Their bodies twitched violently, as if countless insects were crawling under their skin, and magic poured out from their seven orifices like boiling asphalt.
Their eyes turned into pure pitch black, cracks resembling ancient stone carvings appeared on their skin, and a faint dark red light emanated from the cracks.
Their flesh and blood were reorganized, their bones strengthened, their souls extinguished, leaving only the most primitive killing will and absolute obedience to the caster.
When the last apprentice's struggle stopped, the twelve Dark Deadpool knelt quietly in the ruins, like twelve gargoyles crawling out of hell.
Their aura was cold and dangerous, exuding a faint stench of corruption and the smell of scorched magic.
Kaecilius looked at his new creations with satisfaction.
Twelve, enough.
Four allocated to each Sanctum, plus himself holding down the Hong Kong Sanctum.
That was the most important link in the triangle, and also where reinforcements from Kamar-Taj headquarters were most likely to arrive first.
"Go." He commanded in a low voice, his voice carrying unquestionable coercion.
"Hide your tracks, arrive near your respective targets, and stand by. When I signal, at all costs, destroy the Sanctums and kill all the sorcerers inside."
The twelve Dark Deadpool dissipated into the air silently like twelve pillars of black smoke.
Chapter 332: Raid from Dark Forces
Kamar-Taj, Sanctum Sanctorum.
Stephen Strange, Doctor Strange, was standing in the center of a massive circular observation deck.
In front of him was a real-time global dimensional energy monitoring map suspended in mid-air, composed of countless golden threads of light.
His cloak floated behind him like a loyal companion.
For the past week, his intuition had been sounding alarms.
Some extremely subtle and elusive anomalous energy fluctuations appeared Zero-scattered around the globe and quickly disappeared.
He had sent people to investigate several locations, but found nothing, as if they were merely random disturbances in the natural energy field.
But as the successor of the Sorcerer Supreme, he knew deeply that the most dangerous enemies often lurked beneath the most inconspicuous details.
"Wong!" he shouted toward the lower part of the observation deck.
A stout, bald man wearing yellow monastic robes poked his head out from the library area.
It was none other than the librarian of Kamar-Taj and Strange's most trusted comrade-in-arms—Wong.
"What is it, Strange?"
"Look here." Strange waved his hand to enlarge several of the most suspicious points on the monitoring map, and then connected them with lines, instantly revealing a faint, curved arc.
"South America, Eastern Europe, Middle East... These locations present a peculiar periodic resonance on the energy fluctuation map."
"Although weak, the synchronization rate is extremely high; this doesn't look like a natural phenomenon."
Wong floated up, stared at those light spots for a long time, and his brow furrowed deeper and deeper: "You're right... This looks more like... the energy base of some large-scale ritual. Someone is setting up a formation!"
"A formation?" Strange's heart tightened, "What formation? And for what purpose?"
"I don't know," Wong shook his head, "but to be able to hide so well under our surveillance, the strength of the person setting up the formation... is probably far beyond you and me. We must..."
Before he finished speaking, a harsh alarm suddenly sounded outside the observation deck!
The entire energy defense system of the Sanctum Sanctorum was triggered simultaneously, and the golden and red warning lights flickered intertwined!
"The Sanctums are under attack! All three Sanctums are under attack simultaneously!" A young mage stumbled in, his face full of horror.
Strange and Wong looked at each other, their expressions changing drastically.
They immediately rushed toward the nearest portal device, simultaneously activating the spatial passages leading to the three Sanctums.
But just as they were about to step in, the three portals fluctuated violently at the same time, and then collapsed with a bang!
The passage was forcibly blocked by some powerful interference force!
"Someone has sealed the space!" Wong roared.
Strange didn't waste time and immediately switched strategies: "Activate all available mages, divide them into three groups. If conventional portals don't work, traverse on foot! No matter what, we must support the Sanctums!"
While giving orders, he tried to contact the resident mages of the Sanctums.
What came through the communication magical artifact was only blurred static and faint, intense explosions and screams...
New York Sanctum.
The ancient brownstone building looked peaceful on the outside, but inside it had already turned into a tragic battlefield.
Four Dark Deadpools, like black Gods of Death, shuttled through various rooms of the Sanctum.
Their speed was astonishingly fast and their strength terrifyingly great. The magic whips of ordinary mages whipping against them only left a faint White scar, which was then quickly repaired by the dark magic.
They wielded distorted blades condensed from dark magic, and every strike could easily cut through the mages' protective magic, taking a life.
Master Daniel Drumm, who garrisoned the New York Sanctum, was an experienced old mage.
He held two fan blades composed of magical energy, entangling in combat with two Dark Deadpools.
The fan blades fluttered, severing an arm of a Deadpool.
But the moment the severed arm hit the ground, it turned into black smoke. Without pausing, the Deadpool grabbed Drumm's neck with its other hand and violently smashed his head against the wall.
"For... Kamar-Taj..." In suffocation, Drumm used his remaining magic to detonate the magical artifact at his waist, the Impact blowing the two Deadpools away, while he himself fell to the ground spitting blood.
But only a few seconds later, those two Deadpools, blown to pieces...
Their bodily remains began to wiggle and piece themselves together on their own, and the dark magic surged wildly, actually recombining into two incomplete yet still operational monsters!
Roaring, they lunged at the other surviving mages.
Fire was burning, bookshelves were collapsing, and precious magical artifacts were smashed.
Blood splashed on the ancient murals, staining the holy patterns depicting the Vishanti turbid and unrecognizably filthy.
In less than ten minutes, the resistance force of the New York Sanctum was nearly wiped out.
The last Deadpool fiercely stabbed the distorted giant blade composed of dark magic into the core of the Sanctum.
That huge Water crystal ball suspended in mid-air and rotating continuously.
"Click—crack—!"
A crack appeared on the surface of the Water crystal ball. Following that, the crack spread rapidly, covering the entire sphere like a spider web.
Amidst a deafening roar, the Water crystal ball shattered into countless fragments, and the golden energy poured out wildly from the fragments, then was quickly swallowed by the dark magic.
The protective barrier of the New York Sanctum completely collapsed.
Chapter 333: The Variable Has Arrived!
London Sanctum.
The situation was equally tragic.
The resident mages of the London Sanctum were a pair of siblings, Clive and Emily.
They worked together seamlessly, excelled at combination magic, and had repelled quite a few dimensional invaders.
At this moment, they stood back-to-back in the central hall of the sanctum, surrounded by four slowly approaching Dark Deadpools.
Lying on the ground were the corpses of seven or eight young mages, blood flowing across the ancient stone slabs.
"Little brother, are you afraid?" Emily's voice trembled, but she tried her best to remain calm.
"Afraid." Clive tightly gripped the magic whip in his hand, "But I am even more afraid of failing the teachings of the Ancient One."
"Then let's go together!"
The siblings simultaneously erupted with their strongest magic power, and the golden light violently collided with the dark red power of Deadpool!
Emily released a binding spell array, temporarily freezing two Deadpools.
Clive's whip wrapped around the neck of the third Deadpool, and his magic erupted, shattering its head!
But the fourth Deadpool broke through their defense line and pounced from the side, its black blade piercing Clive's ribs.
"No——!" Emily screamed, giving up on maintaining the array and pouncing toward her younger brother.
The two frozen Deadpools regained their freedom, instantly pouncing forward and pinning Emily to the ground.
The blade was raised high——
When Wong brought the first batch of reinforcement mages and finally arrived by foot through space-shuttling from Kamar-Taj, all he saw were burning ruins and corpses covering the ground.
The core of the London Sanctum, that Book of Cagliostro suspended on the altar, recording countless ancient spells...
Had already been torn into fragments and turned to ashes.
The embers of the core energy source were still glowing faintly, like a dying firefly, before completely extinguishing.
Hong Kong Sanctum.
Kaecilius personally presided over this place.
The timing he chose was precise and ruthless.
The resident mage of the Hong Kong Sanctum, Master Yu, was a half-blood Master proficient in Eastern metaphysics and Western secret arts.
When the news of the Dark Deadpool surprise attack arrived, Master Yu immediately organized the defense.
At the same time, he sent out distress signals to the Kamar-Taj headquarters and potential external allies, including the one he had heard of...
But had never contacted, that mysterious force, Loren, who was said to possess extraordinary technology and powerful followers.
Kaecilius did not let all four Deadpools commit to the attack.
He only sent two to spar with Master Yu and his disciples, while he himself stood quietly in the shadows on the outer perimeter of the sanctum, perceiving the surrounding energy fluctuations.
He was waiting, waiting for the news of the fall of New York and London, and also waiting... for the possible appearance of variables.
His perception was not wrong.
The moment the sanctum cores of New York and Londoncollapsed, he sensed the violent energy vibrations coming from those two distant directions.
At the same time, he also sensed several extremely powerful energy auras in the distant sky.
Approaching the Hong Kong Sanctum at an astonishing speed!
They're here!
That "variable" force had indeed made a move!
Time rewound fifteen minutes ago.
Manor.
Loren was conducting preliminary combat system integration training with Astraea when suddenly, Doctor Strange's urgent and clear voice came from the void.
"Loren! The three sanctums of Kamar-Taj are under attack simultaneously! The attackers are extremely powerful, and we cannot teleport reinforcements! I am asking... asking for your help! Whatever price you need, we can discuss it afterwards! But the sanctums must never fall!"
Loren did not hesitate. The sanctums of Kamar-Taj were related to the stability of Earth's dimension; once they fell, the subsequent trouble would be immeasurable.
"Location." Loren responded concisely.
Strange immediately reported the coordinates of the three sanctums.
Loren cut off the communication and turned to face the women who had gathered.
"The situation is urgent. The Kamar-Taj Sanctums are under attack." His gaze swept across the people in front of him.
"Wanda, Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, Mai Shiranui, you five, set off immediately for the Hong Kong Sanctum.
Strange said the enemies might be very strong; the five of you working together should be able to handle it.
2B, you and Ikaros lead the team; Astraea, A2, Tifa, Marie Rose, the six of you go to New York.
Android 18, Hinata, Commander White, you go to London.
Nymph, stay behind at the manor to monitor the overall situation. Act immediately!"
"Yes, Master!" The women chorused in response, and then each took action.
Chapter 334: Chthon, Descent!
Wanda cast Chaos Magic, directly tearing through space, and taking the five of them—Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, and Mai Shiranui—teleporting rapidly toward the coordinates of the Hong Kong Sanctum.
When Wanda and the others tore through space and appeared above the Hong Kong Sanctum, what they saw were ancient buildings burning.
Half a step too late!
Two Dark Deadpools were entangled in battle with Master Ng and his three remaining disciples, while at the sanctum's core, an ancient bronze cauldron suspended in mid-air had already been half-shattered by Kaeciliuspersonally, with golden source energy crazily leaking out from the crack.
"Stop right there!" Hancock was the first to react.
She stood suspended in mid-air, Conquerors Hakisweeping down like a tangible substance!
The powerful coercion caused the movements of the two Dark Deadpools to stall for a moment, and even Master Ng felt a wave of suffocation.
"Sweet Captivation!"
Hancock formed a heart shape with her hands, and a pink petrification beam swept toward the Deadpool below.
One Deadpool failed to dodge in time, was swept by the beam on half of its body, and instantly began to petrify.
But the Deadpool felt no pain, and actually directly shattered the petrified part using Dark Magic, its maimed body still crazily pouncing toward Hancock!
"Mai Style Secret Art: Super Deadly Ninja Bee!"
Mai Shiranui swooped down from mid-air, and the flames pushed out by her palms were no longer the orange-red of the past.
Instead, they were a newborn Hellfire interwoven with dark red and molten gold, with pale white light flames leaping at the edges!
The flames transformed into a giant fiery phoenix, roaring as it rushed toward the Deadpool that was pouncing at Hancock!
"Boom!"
The phoenix and the Deadpool collided, and the Deadpool's body was instantly swallowed by Hellfire.
This time, there was no reorganization. The soul-burning property of Hellfire burned away the residual soul fragments within the Deadpool that had been completely polluted by darkness, along with the Dark Magic, completely to ashes!
The Deadpool turned into a ball of black smoke, and was then thoroughly purified by the flames, dissipating into nothingness.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!" Mei Terumi formed hand seals, and a giant dragon composed of high-pressure water currents generated out of thin air from the space behind her, roaring as it rushed toward the second Deadpool, tightly entangling it.
The Deadpool struggled desperately, but the Water pressure grew larger and larger.
"Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique!"
Mei Terumi formed hand seals again, spitting a scorching acidic mist from her mouth that instantly merged into the water dragon.
The water dragon wrapped around the Deadpool, and with the pressure of the Water combined with the corrosion of the strong acid, the Deadpool's body began to melt and disintegrate, emitting a harsh sizzling sound.
In less than ten seconds, the second Deadpool also completely turned into pus.
But right at this moment, a low and malicious sneer came from deep within the sanctum.
The figure of Kaecilius slowly walked out from behind the half-shattered bronze cauldron.
The Dark Magic surrounding his body was even denser and older than Wanda and the others had anticipated. It was not just ordinary Dark Dimension energy, but carried Chthon's exclusive imprint—chaotic, cold, and seemingly capable of polluting any entity that approached.
"Kamar-Taj's reinforcements?" His voice was like the echo of the abyss, "No, much more interesting than those pathetic mages. Several beauties... and there is one..." His gaze fell on Wanda, his pupils slightly contracting.
"A user of Chaos Magic. Interesting."
Wanda looked at him coldly. She could sense that hidden within this man's Dark Magic was a trace of aura that she extremely loathed yet inexplicably found familiar—an aura of the same origin as the darkhold, it was Chthon!
"Chthon's lackey." Wanda's voice was as cold as frost.
"Lackey?" Kaecilius laughed aloud, his laughter filled with the arrogance and distortion after a surge of power.
"I am the vanguard of darkness! The writer of a new chapter of darkness! And you shall become the first batch of sacrifices I offer to the great Chthon!"
Before his voice faded, he suddenly spread his hands wide!
Vast Dark Magic surged out from his body like a tsunami, instantly shrouding the entire sanctum hall!
That magic was cold and heavy, carrying malicious intent that eroded the will. Except for Wanda, who could protect herself with Chaos Magic, Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, and Mai Shiranui all felt a strong sense of oppression, as if invisible tentacles were attempting to invade their souls!
"Lady Tsunade!" Hancock let out a low cry, and Conquerors Haki erupted once again, forcibly dispersing part of the oppression.
Tsunade took a deep breath, and the Strength of a Hundred Seal instantly covered her whole body. Purple patterns spread like living things, her aura surged, and the coercion of her monstrous strength was released without concealment: "Spare me the nagging nonsense, watch me twist off this bastard's head!"
"Raging Heaven!" Mai Shiranui raised her hands, and countless dark red flames shot toward Kaecilius like shooting stars, each carrying the soul-burning property of Hellfire!
Kaecilius sneered, drawing a bizarre dark rune in front of him with both hands.
The moment those flames came into contact with the rune, they were swallowed like a black hole, disappearing without a trace.
"Too weak." He shook his head contemptuously, "Let you all witness the true power of darkness!"
He raised a hand and pointed, and an extremely condensed black beam shot out from his fingertips, targeting none other than Mai Shiranui!
Wherever the beam passed, space seemed to be corrupted, leaving a distorted black trajectory behind!
Mai Shiranui's pupils shrank sharply, and she wanted to dodge, but the speed of the beam was too fast, and it seemed to have locked onto her aura.
"Bang!"
But right at that moment, a figure instantly blocked in front of Mai. It was Tsunade!
Crossing her arms with the power of the Strength of a Hundred Seal fully activated, she met the black beam head-on!
"Haa—!"
Monstrous strength and Dark Magic collided with a crash!
The floor beneath Tsunade's feet shattered inch by inch, veins bulged on her arms, and the Strength of a Hundred Seal flickered wildly as she resisted that corrosive dark power.
After a stalemate of several seconds, the beam was finally blocked by her brute force, but shallow black burn marks were left on Tsunade's arms.
"You bastard, your strength is not small." Tsunade grinned, the fighting intent in her eyes growing even more intense.
"Sister Tsunade!" Mai Shiranui cried out in alarm.
"Don't get distracted!" Hancock struck again, "Captive Arrow!"
Countless pink light arrows shot from her fingertips, shrouding Kaecilius like a rainstorm.
Kaecilius waved his hand to prop up a black barrier. The light arrows hit the barrier and turned into specks of light to dissipate, but the petrification power of the Mero Mero no Mi still penetrated the barrier, making his movements slightly sluggish for a brief moment.
At this very instant, Mei Terumi seized the opportunity!
"Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique!"
She opened her mouth and spewed a large amount of viscous, scorching acidic liquid like magma, pouring it head-on onto Kaecilius's black barrier!
The acid and the barrier reacted violently with a sizzling sound, and holes were corroded into the barrier at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Now!" Tsunade roared, her figure rushing forward like a cannonball, her right fist tightly clenched with the power of the Strength of a Hundred Seal gathered to the extreme, punching straight toward Kaecilius's chest!
"Monstrous Strength: Heaven-shattering Strike!"
This punch was enough to shatter mountains!
A trace of surprise flashed in Kaecilius's eyes, but his reaction was likewise astonishingly fast.
His figure suddenly turned into a ball of black fog, disappearing from where he stood. Tsunade's fist brushed past the edge of the black fog, slamming heavily onto the already half-shattered bronze cauldron behind him!
"Rumble—!"
The sanctum's core, which was already on the verge of collapse, was completely smashed to pieces by this punch capable of shattering mountains!
The bronze cauldron turned into countless fragments splashing in all directions, and the last trace of golden source energy contained within it flickered and vanished like a dying sigh!
Wanda's expression changed drastically!
It's over! The core of the Hong Kong Sanctum is gone!
Kaecilius re-condensed his figure from the black fog. Looking at the shattered bronze cauldron, the smile on his face became increasingly ferocious and terrifying.
He spread his arms and let out a long roar toward the sky.
"It's done! All three sanctums have been destroyed! My Lord, the great Chthon, your vanguard has paved the way for you! Descend! Descend! Descend!!!"
Along with his roar, in the distant horizon, it was as if something... had been touched.
The seven Dark Wedges magic arrays across the globe were activated simultaneously the moment the three sanctums of New York, London, and Hong Kong collapsed!
Seven immensely thick, nearly black dark-red pillars of light soared into the sky from seven different corners of Earth, piercing through the clouds and reaching straight into space!
The pillars of light converged and intertwined in mid-air, forming a huge, extremely complex and bizarre magic array pattern that covered half of Earth!
The pattern slowly rotated, emanating an evil coercion sufficient to make any mortal's soul scatter and fly apart!
The center of the magic array faced Earth—to be precise, it faced directly above the ruins of the Hong Kong Sanctum!
Space began to tear apart.
A crack thousands of millions of times larger than Kaecilius's previous dark beam, large enough to obscure the sky, was slowly opening.
The edges of the crack flowed with an eerie light resembling a mix of blood and ink, while the inside was an endless darkness so profound it could not be probed, seemingly capable of devouring everything.
From that darkness came a low and grand ancient voice, as if originating from the dawn of the Universe's birth.
That voice pierced through the dimensional barrier, directly echoing deep within the souls of every life form on Earth:
"I... Chthon... the writer of darkness... today... descend..."
Above the ruins of the Hong Kong Sanctum, the spatial crack grew larger and larger. An indescribable ancient and evil entity was slowly seeping out from the depths of the crack, like the thickest ink, beginning to dye the entire sky.
Kaecilius knelt on the ground, fanatically prostrating himself in worship toward the crack.
The five—Wanda, Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, and Mai Shiranui—were awed by that terrifying coercion, their expressions solemn to the extreme.
They could sense that the entity about to descend far surpassed any enemy they had encountered so far.
That was a true, ancient god-level entity, the source of Dark Magic.
Chapter 335: He is darkness itself!
The sky tore apart.
That was not a metaphor, but a real, ongoing fact.
Above the ruins of the Hong Kong Sanctum, the dimensional rift torn open together by the seven Dark Wedge magic arrays had expanded to a degree sufficient to cover the sky of the entire city.
The edges of the rift were like a bleeding wound, continuously dripping pitch-black energy droplets.
Every drop that fell to the ground would corrode pits several meters deep, and twisted inferior demons condensed from pure darkness would immediately gush out from the pits.
That was the extension of Chthon's power, and proof that before he had even fully descended, he had already begun to erode and transform this World.
The sense of existence oozing from the depths of the rift was as heavy as a mountain and as vast as the sea.
That was not a power tier that any mortal could understand; it was an ancient will that had existed since the birth of the Universe, the source itself of the concept of Dark Magic.
His will of merely "wanting to descend" had already caused the magic network of the entire Earth to tremble violently, made countless sensitive magic creatures tremble in fear, and made every existence that perceived this aura feel a tremor from the depths of their soul.
Wanda stood atop the ruins, looking up at the still-expanding rift, her face as pale as paper.
The Chaos Magic within her body was crazily sounding alarms, a threat level she had never felt before.
Even when facing the Dark Dimension erosion of Dormammu back then, she did not have such a strong ominous premonition.
Because Dormammu was merely a lord of a certain dimension, whereas the one about to descend at this moment was Chthon.
The true Master of that darkhold which she had flipped through and whose whispers she had listened to.
The remote ancestor of Chaos Magic, the writer of darkness, a single-Universe-level deity in the true sense.
"Wanda..." Mai Shiranui landed beside her, her voice carrying a rare tremor.
The Hellfire within her body instinctively contracted and defended, like a young beast encountering its natural enemy.
That was the natural suppression brought by a higher-tier dark power.
Tsunade clenched her fists tightly, her Strength of a Hundred Seal fully activated, purple patterns spreading all over her body.
She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the nameless unease in her heart.
"Don't panic! We haven't even fought yet, who knows how strong that thing really is!"
"Tsunade is right," Mei Terumi said in a deep voice, the posture of her hands forming seals not trembling in the slightest, but the fine beads of sweat on her forehead exposed her nervousness, "The five of us... No, adding the other sisters, we might not lack the power for a battle."
Hancock did not speak, only standing proudly at the very front of everyone, Conquerors Haki expanding outward like substance, confronting the dark coercion pervading heaven and Earth; her pride did not allow her to show weakness in front of anyone, even the deity about to descend.
"They are coming," Wanda suddenly spoke.
Before her words fell, the dark droplets dripping from the edge of the rift had gathered on the ground into hundreds of inferior demons of various forms.
Some were like twisted human figures, some were more like deformed hybrids of multiple creatures, and some were simply a mass of crawling dark flesh covered in fangs and tentacles.
They roared, rushing toward the five people on the ruins like a black tide.
"Clear out the small fries first!" Tsunade roared, taking the lead and charging into the enemy group!
"Monstrous Strength: Heavenly Kick!"
With a single stomp, the ground shattered, and the Impactspread forward in a fan shape, turning dozens of inferior demons into fragments wherever it passed!
But those fragments were still wriggling after hitting the ground, attempting to re-aggregate.
"It's useless!" Mei Terumi flew up to catch up, forming hand seals, "Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique!"
The scorching acid mist covered the battlefield, corroding those wriggling fragments along with the surrounding inferior demons to nothingness.
This time, they failed to regenerate; the acid mist destroyed the basic structure required by the dark energy to maintain their physical forms.
"Captive Arrow!"
Hancock flicked her hands repeatedly, countless pink light arrows pouring down like a rainstorm, petrifying and shattering patches of inferior demons.
Mai Shiranui's dark red Hellfire turned into a sea of fire, burning the inferior demons attempting to approach into ashes.
Wanda's Chaos Magic turned into an invisible noose, instantly twisting dozens of inferior demons rushing at the very front into twists and then tearing them apart.
In less than three minutes, hundreds of inferior demons had been slaughtered completely, and the surroundings of the ruins were filled with the charred stench and the lingering aftermath of scattered dark energy.
But no one showed a relaxed expression, because the real threat had just begun.
The expansion of the rift had stopped, which was not a bad thing, but meant that... the entrance of the descent had stabilized enough to allow certain "parts" to pass through.
A foot stepped out from the rift.
That was a "foot" difficult to describe in words, if that could even be called a foot.
It was black, but so thoroughly black that light falling on it was completely absorbed.
Its shape changed constantly, sometimes like the foot of a giant, sometimes turning into a collection of countless tentacles, and sometimes scattering into a mass of crawling shadows.
The moment it landed, all electronic devices within a radius of ten kilometers malfunctioned simultaneously, all magicartifacts dimmed simultaneously, and all living beings felt something violently grip the depths of their souls.
Then came the second leg, the third, the fourth... countless "legs" or "tentacles" gushed out from the rift, supporting a gradually forming, huge, constantly changing dark contour.
That contour was too huge, so huge that merely its upper body manifesting already obscured the entire sky.
He had no fixed form, or rather, his form was "darkness" itself; inside that contour, one could see the destruction of countless Worlds, the wails of countless souls, and the end of countless eras, like a looping slideshow, endless.
When that "face" emerged from the darkness, Wanda and the others finally saw part of Chthon's true face.
That was a face composed of countless painful faces.
Every single face was twisting, wailing, struggling, attempting to escape yet being firmly fixed within the darkness.
Countless pairs of eyes opened simultaneously, looking simultaneously at the five tiny figures on the ground.
That gaze, like a substantive abyss, completely enveloped the five people.
"Puff—"
Mai Shiranui was the first who couldn't bear it, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood, her whole body staggering backward.
That was not a physical attack; merely the Impactcontained in Chthon's gaze, directly facing the origin of darkness, was enough to mentally injure a sub-Godfather-level powerhouse!
Tsunade gritted her teeth and stepped forward to support her, her Strength of a Hundred Seal flashing wildly, forcibly dispelling the dark erosion invading her body.
But within just a few breaths, the Strength of a Hundred Seal on Tsunade's own forehead also dimmed a bit; resisting that invisible coercion consumed an astonishingly huge amount of energy.
Hancock fully unleashed her Conquerors Haki, confronting that gaze head-on, her complexion likewise as pale as paper, but she gritted her teeth hard and did not retreat half a step.
Mei Terumi could no longer maintain the posture of forming hand seals, and could only support her knees with both hands, panting heavily.
Only Wanda, her Chaos Magic surging wildly, protected herself and the few people around her, barely confronting that gaze.
She could feel that Chthon was "looking" at her, scrutinizing the power within her that originated from Him, yet mutated due to Mutant genes and acquired polishing.
"Child of Chaos..."
That grand voice resounded directly in the depths of the five people's souls, carrying endless antiquity and arrogance.
"You use my power... yet you stand on the opposite side of me... How ironic... How pathetic..."
"Shut up!" Wanda shouted sternly, her Chaos Magicturning into a scarlet blade of light, slashing toward the dark contour in the sky!
Flying halfway, the blade of light was blocked by an invisible barrier, and then dissolved into nothingness as if it had never existed.
Chthon let out a low chuckle, a chuckle filled with absolute control over the entire battle situation and banter toward these ant-like existences in front of him.
"Struggle... Let me see... how long the living beings of this era... can support themselves in front of me..."
Chapter 336 Loren Has Arrived!
Before the words even faded, a mass of darkness condensed into the shape of a giant palm descended from the sky, slamming down toward the location of the five people!
The area covered by that palm was as large as several football fields, and every single pattern on the palmprint was composed of countless writhing tentacles of darkness.
Before the palm even arrived, the wind from it had already caused the ground to sink by several meters, and the remaining architectural debris in the ruins was crushed into fine powder!
"Scatter!" Wanda roared, and her Chaos Magictransformed into five crimson chains, simultaneously throwing the four people in different directions!
"Rrumble—!"
The giant palm struck the ground, and the entire Hong Kong Island trembled violently!
In the area covered by the palmprint, the ground was forcefully driven tens of meters into the earth, forming a huge deep crater.
All matter inside the crater—rocks, metal, and magicresidue—was completely decomposed and turned into nothingness!
The five people who were thrown out landed in a sorry state, looking back at the palmprint with eyes full of shock.
If it hadn't been for Wanda reacting in time, the five of them would have been completely wiped out by that palm strike just now.
"Bastard... I'm going to kill you!"
Mai Shiranui panted, wiping away the blood from the corner of her mouth, but there was not the slightest bit of retreat in her eyes.
Instead, a more intense fighting spirit ignited. She raised her hand, and Hellfire ignited once again.
The dark red and molten gold flames leapt wildly around her body.
"Shiranui-ryu: Phoenix Dance!"
Her entire body transformed into a huge flaming phoenix, soaring into the sky and lunging toward that dark outline!
The soul-burning property of Hellfire might be equally effective against an existence like Chthon!
The phoenix crashed into the dark barrier on Chthon's outer perimeter, burning fiercely!
Hellfire frantically eroded the barrier, actually burning a small gap on it!
"It's effective!" Mai was ecstatic in her heart, continuing to increase her flame output!
But the next second, that barrier suddenly rebounded!
The darkness shrank abruptly like a living creature, wrapping, entangling, and dragging the flame phoenix along with Mai inward!
"Careful!" Tsunade roared, unleashing her monstrous strength.
She stomped the ground to pieces with one foot, using the force to rush into the darkness like a cannonball, grabbed Mai Shiranui's ankle, and pulled outward with all her might!
Mei Terumi gritted her teeth and formed hand seals: "Melting Release: Dissolving Jutsu!"
Magma-like acid spewed out, frantically corroding the dark tentacles entangling Mai Shiranui!
Hancock's Conquerors Haki transformed into a substantive shock, impacting that barrier again and again in an attempt to weaken its stability!
Wanda's Chaos Magic transformed into countless sharp blades, cutting at those tentacles, with every cut able to sever a portion.
But as soon as those tentacles broke, new ones grew back immediately, as if endless!
Just as the five of them were desperately fighting against that devouring force, Chthon's other hand quietly attacked from the side!
"Careful!"
Wanda sensed the danger, but it was already too late; that giant dark palm, with a sweeping momentum,
swatted Tsunade, Mei Terumi, and Hancock, who were pulling with all their might on Mai Shiranui, along with Mai Shiranui herself, fiercely away like swatting flies!
"Bang bang bang bang—!"
Four figures fell like shooting stars, crashing into the distant group of buildings and kicking up a sky full of smoke and dust!
Wanda hovered alone in mid-air, facing that darkness that blotted out the sky,
and countless pairs of painful yet greedy eyes staring at her simultaneously, feeling a despair deep into her bones for the first time.
It was not cowardice or timidity, but the most instinctive reaction when the gap in strength was so great that it could not be bridged.
The existence of Chthon far surpassed the so-called strong ones on the market, such as Dormammu, Mephisto, and Zarathos.
In front of him, they were merely ants with a little bit of power; after all, the opponent was an ancient Dark Demon God.
And Wanda at this moment, although she had already stepped into the Godfather-level,
compared with the ancient single Universe-level gods, the gap was still like fireflies compared to the bright moon.
"Child of Chaos..." Chthon's voice sounded again, this time carrying a hint of pitying banter.
"Your power originates from me... Your fate has long been destined... Return to the darkness... Become a part of me... That is your only destination..."
"I... refuse!" Wanda roared, her eyes turning red, and her Chaos Magic surged wildly, transforming into countless crimson spikes that shot out in all directions simultaneously!
But those spikes, the moment they approached Chthon, melted away silently like ice and snow under the blazing sun.
The gap was far too vast.
Just at this moment, in the distant ruins, several figures soared into the sky once again!
Tsunade was covered in blood, the Strength of a Hundred Seal frantically flickering with its final energy, but the fighting spirit in her eyes was more intense than ever!
Mei Terumi's clothes were tattered, and her right arm was twisted weirdly, obviously broken, but she still gritted her teeth and barely formed hand seals with her left hand, preparing for a final attack!
Blood spilled from the corner of Hancock's mouth, and her Conquerors Haki was almost exhausted, but she still stood proudly, without the slightest intention of retreating!
Mai Shiranui was covered in injuries, and her Hellfire was nearly exhausted, but the unyielding light in her eyes was more dazzling than any flame!
They landed beside Wanda, the five of them standing shoulder to shoulder.
"Wanda..." Tsunade grinned, revealing bloody teeth, "Don't panic, we are still here."
"This bastard is strong, I know," Mei Terumi said, panting, "but to make me just surrender like this... I can't do it."
"In this concubine's dictionary, there are no two words like surrender." Hancock raised her head and puffed out her chest, even though that lofty posture was already tottering.
"Even if I die, I will die on the path of charge; this is the Ninja Way of Shiranui-ryu." Mai Shiranui clenched her fists tightly, the remaining flames beating weakly at her fingertips.
Wanda looked at them, her eye sockets slightly warm.
These four sisters who fought side by side with her, clearly every single one of them had been heavily wounded, clearly their powers were nearly exhausted.
Yet the light in their eyes did not dim in the slightest.
"Good." Wanda took a deep breath, and her Chaos Magicsurged once more, although it was now less than thirty percent of her prime.
But that determination was purer than ever, "Then let us... fight to the bitter end!"
The five of them looked at each other and smiled simultaneously.
In that smile, there was trust in each other, unyieldingness against fate, and even more calmness in the face of death.
However, right at this moment—
The distant sky suddenly ripped open!
But this time, it was not a dark crack, but a stable and orderly silver-gray spatial ripple!
From that ripple, figure after figure descended like shooting stars; those were precisely Loren's other harem members.
Ikaros spread her snow-white wings, her body surrounded by a pale golden energy glow, her gaze as cold as frost.
Nymph hovered in mid-air with her petite figure, her four light wings fully unfolded behind her, and countless electronic warfare and energy interference waves spread wildly with her at the center.
2B, holding a Tang dao, had the pale light of the Eternal Flame flowing across her right arm, perfectly blending with the coldness of machinery.
In A2's eyes burned a fighting spirit just as cold and intense as 2B's; that was the ultimate combat will of the YoRHa unit androids.
Tifa assumed a martial artist stance, the freezing power of the Casket of Frost and her martial arts Qi perfectly fused, her gaze as sharp as an eagle's.
Marie Rose's petite figure had now entirely turned into an unknown golden metal, her entire body exuding sharp murderous intent.
As for No. 18, she hovered in mid-air with her hands in her pockets, wearing her habitual expression of impatience.
But the Ki circulating around her body had already expanded to a terrifying degree capable of distorting the surrounding air!
Hinata fully opened her Byakugan, veins bulging on her temples, perceiving every single detail of Chthon's energy flow, her hands forming seals as the Gentle Fist starting stance was already ready.
The Commander White turned into a pool of formless liquid, covering the sky and earth!
Aside from the group of harem members, the final figure slowly stepped out from the center of the ripple.
His figure was calm as always, with no energy leakage and no pressure released.
Wearing merely a simple black suit, he stepped onto this sky shrouded in darkness.
But the moment that figure appeared, that heavy despair in everyone's hearts,
that fear of the unknown, that tragic heroism before a heroic death... all vanished like smoke in thin air.
Because their Master, Loren, had arrived.
Chapter 337 Everyone, prepare for battle!
Wanda's eyes instantly moistened, and she saw the man she willingly served as her master, the man who always spoke the most unbelievable words in the most casual tone.
The man who would always appear in her most desperate moments.
Tsunade grinned, smiling exceptionally brightly: "Ha, you're finally here."
Mei Terumi let out a sigh of relief, her whole body nearly collapsing, but she immediately forced herself to stand straight.
A brilliant glint flashed through Hancock's eyes, and amidst that arrogance and firmness, there was an added touch of unique softness.
Mai Shiranui wiped away the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes filled with fanatical worship.
The moment the others saw Loren's figure, their fighting spirit unanimously surged to the absolute limit!
They now had a backbone.
Loren's gaze first swept over the five women who were covered in blood yet still standing tall, a trace of gentleness flashing through his eyes.
Then, his gaze shifted to the heaven-covering dark outline in the sky, shifting to that giant face composed of countless painful faces that was staring right at him.
"Chthon, after destroying one of your consciousness avatars last time, it seems... you didn't learn your lesson." He spoke, his voice calm yet resounding through the entire heaven and earth.
"Damn brat, you've finally appeared, I've waited for you for a long time." In Chthon's voice, for the first time, there was a hint of solemnity.
He recognized this aura, the human who had once completely annihilated one of his consciousness avatars. The so-called "variable" he had "seen" through Kaeciliusearlier was none other than him.
"Just right, I've also been waiting for you for a long time. This time, you came in person, which is great, saving me the trouble of hunting you down one by one." Lorennodded, and a powerful aura emanated from his body.
"Arrogant!" Chthon's voice carried anger, and the entire sky trembled as countless chains condensed from dark energy descended from the sky, sweeping toward Loren and the women behind him!
But Loren merely raised his hand and waved it gently.
An invisible force field instantly expanded, isolating all the dark chains outside. The chains crashed against the force field, shattering inch by inch and turning into nothingness.
"No. 18." Loren said faintly.
A sneer curled the corner of No. 18's mouth, and her figure suddenly vanished on the spot!
The next second, she had already appeared directly in front of Chthon's massive outline, raising her hands. Between her palms, an energy ball compressed to the extreme was frantically spinning and expanding!
That was the Ki Blast, an extremely terrifying blow fusing the full output of the infinite energy engine inside No. 18, sufficient to destroy a small planet!
"Don't be too arrogant, old monster!" No. 18 shouted coldly, pushing her palms forward!
The giant energy ball, exceeding a hundred meters in diameter, slammed into Chthon's giant face composed of countless painful faces like an artificial Sun!
A trace of surprise flashed through Chthon's eyes.
This method of attack, this energy level, was not within his scope of cognition.
But he did not dodge. As an ancient deity, the posture of dodging was in itself a desecration of his majesty.
He opened his "mouth" and spewed out a torrent of darkness as pitch-black as ink, condensed to the absolute limit!
The two strands of energy crashed violently against each other in the sky!
"Rumble—!!!"
The sky was torn apart! The two completely different energies frantically eroded and annihilated each other, and the resulting Impact instantly evaporated the clouds within a radius of a hundred miles, causing the entire Hong Kong Island to tremble violently!
After a stalemate of several seconds, No. 18's energy ball was ultimately suppressed and swallowed by the dark torrent.
But her attack was not completely ineffective.
A corner of Chthon's massive outline was blasted open by the aftershock of the energy ball. Although that gap was instantly mended by darkness, his power was indeed weakened by a fraction.
"Tch!" No. 18 pouted with dissatisfaction, but her figure did not retreat as she prepared to condense energy once again.
But Chthon no longer wanted to give her the chance. Countless dark chains surged from all directions at an astonishing speed. No. 18 was too late to dodge and was entangled by one of the chains around her ankle!
"Oh no!" Her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately mustered her energy in an attempt to shatter the chain. However, the toughness of the chain far exceeded her imagination; instead, it tightened even further, dragging her violently toward the ground below!
"Sister Lazuli!" Hinata cried out in alarm, her Byakugan fully activated as her hands gathered Chakra, "Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
She instantly rushed into the battle circle, her palms striking like raindrops against the chains wrapping around No. 18!
The Gentle Fist's Chakra invaded the interior of the chain, attempting to cut off its energy supply, but Chthon's power tier was too high. Every one of Hinata's attacks was like an ant trying to shake a tree, yielding negligible results.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
Mei Terumi formed hand seals, and a huge water dragon rushed toward that chain. However, the moment the water dragon touched the chain, it was eroded and assimilated by the dark energy, instead becoming a boost to the chain!
"Conqueror's Haki!" Hancock gritted her teeth, her last shred of Haki transforming into a physical Impact that fiercely crashed against the chain. The chain trembled slightly, yet still did not loosen!
"Hellfire!" Mai Shiranui desperately urged the remaining Fire flames, the dark red light scorching the chain. The soul-burning property of Hellfire finally caused the chain to loosen slightly!
"Right now!" Wanda roared, Chaos Magic transforming into a crimson blade that fiercely slashed at the loosened node of the chain!
"Snap—"
The chain finally snapped!
No. 18 broke free and instantly teleported back to the side of the other women, her expression extremely ugly.
After just a single clash, she had deeply realized the gap in their power levels. That was a qualitative gap, a gap in status, an insurmountable chasm that could never be bridged by mere numbers no matter how hard one tried.
Chthon seemed to have grown tired of playing. His massive outline began to shrink and condense, ultimately transforming into a humanoid figure.
A humanoid figure over three meters tall, surrounded by endless darkness throughout his body, with a blurry face, and only those eyes being soul-stirringly abyss-like.
This form was more suited for battle, and it also meant that he was finally starting to get serious.
"Interesting little bugs, the farce should come to an end." Chthon's voice carried a chilling murderous intent. He raised his hand, and a mass of darkness condensed, transforming into a bizarrely shaped black longsword.
The blade was not physical, but composed of countless writhing dark runes, each rune representing a destructive Dark Magic.
"Everyone, prepare for battle!" 2B shouted coldly. The Eternal Flame instantly covered her entire body, and together with Ikaros and A2, she moved forward simultaneously, forming the first line of defense!
Nymph frantically released interference waves, attempting to weaken Chthon's perception, while Tifa, Marie Rose, and the Commander White all entered their optimal combat states!
Only Loren remained standing in place, calmly watching all of this, watching his women fighting to the death. At this moment, Chthon moved.
Chapter 338: Activating Super Saiyan Form Again!
His figure was too fast to catch. With just a single teleportation, he had already appeared in the center of the women's formation!
The black longsword swept horizontally, and 2B and A2 raised their swords to block simultaneously!
"Clang—!"
The pale light of the Eternal Flame collided violently with the dark runes!
2B and A2 were sent flying back dozens of meters at the same time. After landing, they staggered backward before barely steadying themselves!
"Hah!" Tifa's fist struck from the side, the power of ice condensed to its absolute limit, transforming into an ice sword that slammed toward Chthon's ribs.
Chthon didn't even look, casually waving his left hand to conjure a dark barrier out of thin air. Tifa's fist slammed into the barrier, and the counter-shock force instantly shattered her ice sword!
"Ah!" Tifa cried out in pain, but she gritted her teeth and refused to retreat, continuing her onslaught with her left fist!
Marie Rose seized the opportunity to approach from below, grabbing Chthon's ankles with both hands and unleashing all her monstrous strength in an attempt to flip him over!
But those ankles were as unmoving as if they had taken root. Chthon lowered his head and kicked out, sending Marie Rose flying like a cannonball, crashing through several buildings!
"Target locked! All missiles, fire!" Ikaros's Uranus System was fully activated, and countless energy arrows poured down like shooting stars!
Nymph's interference wave outputted at full power, attempting to sever Chthon's energy connection with the outside world!
However, Chthon merely raised his left hand and spread his five fingers.
A massive dark vortex formed before him, sucking all the attacks into it, and then returning them twofold!
"Oh no!" Ikaros's pupils shrank abruptly. Before she could dodge, she was struck by a torrent of energy several times greater than her own attack, her wings snapping as she plummeted from the sky!
Nymph was likewise heavily wounded by the backlash and fell directly!
Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, Mai Shiranui, Hinata, No. 18... Everyone was heavily injured, knocked away, and sent plummeting in Chthon's divine-punishment-like counterattack!
In just a few short minutes, more than a dozen immensely powerful harem warriors were completely defeated.
Wanda hovered in mid-air, looking at her sisters scattered everywhere below with presences so weak they were almost imperceptible, and looking at Chthon standing proudly in the sky. Her eyes were filled with despair.
A true, thorough despair without a shred of hope.
They... had tried their best.
Everyone had given it everything they had.
Everyone had displayed an unyielding will and fearless courage.
But the gap was too vast, so vast that it made one despair.
"Child of chaos, your struggle... is over." Chthon looked at Wanda, his voice filled with condescending pity as he raised his sword and aimed it at Wanda.
Wanda closed her eyes without dodging; she no longer had the strength to dodge.
Her Chaos Magic was completely exhausted, every part of her body ached, and the call from Chthon deep within her soul was growing stronger and stronger.
Perhaps... it should just end like this...
Many images flashed through her mind.
There was the frolicking with Pietro in their childhood, the battles after becoming the Scarlet Witch, the perseverance when facing countless formidable foes... Finally, all the images froze on the figure of one person.
Loren.
The man she willingly called Master, the man who gave her direction and a sense of belonging when she was most lost, the man... to whom she had long since completely surrendered her body and mind.
"I'm sorry, Master... I... tried my best..."
Just at the moment when Chthon's sword was about to descend, a figure blocked in front of Wanda.
That figure was not tall or sturdy, and could even be said to be somewhat frail.
Just a simple black suit and a head of black hair.
Loren.
He stood just like that in front of Wanda, facing the dark sword capable of destroying stars, without any defensive measures, without any energy shields, just standing quietly.
But it was precisely this seemingly frail figure that instantly reignited the fire of hope that had already been extinguished in Wanda's heart!
"Master..." she murmured, her vision blurred by tears.
Loren did not look back, merely speaking with a smile, "The tempering given to you is already enough, and I am very satisfied with your performance. Therefore, heavy rewards will be given tonight, and everyone gets one!"
Hearing Loren's words, Wanda, who was still crying, let out a chuckle. She never expected that even at a time like this, her Master would still have the leisure to think about such things.
This showed that her Master had absolute confidence in cleaning up the mess before them. Thus, she no longer felt despair, but instead was filled with hope.
"Mhm, the sisters and I will wait for your reward together!" Wanda nodded and said.
Chthon's sword stopped abruptly less than an inch from Loren's forehead.
It was not that Chthon voluntarily stopped it, but rather that the sword seemed to have been completely solidified by an invisible force, unable to move at all.
"You... you are not an ordinary human... What on earth are you?" In Chthon's voice, for the first time, gravity appeared, and even a hint of... dread.
Loren did not answer.
He merely raised his hand and grasped the sword composed of countless dark runes.
"Crack—snap—!"
In his hand, the blade broke inch by inch!
Those runes imbued with endless Dark Magic shattered and dissipated like paper the moment they touched his palm!
Chthon's pupils shrank abruptly!
He felt it—the moment Loren grasped the sword, an incomparably terrifying aura abruptly awakened from that seemingly ordinary body!
That aura was pure, domineering, and completely unreasonable; it was the ultimate sublimation of pure fighting will and life energy!
Right at that moment, Loren's hair turned from black to golden, and the aura around him surged wildly, every breath causing the surrounding space to produce subtle distortions!
His eyes grew increasingly profound, as if they could see through all illusions and look straight into the source!
He activated the Super Saiyan form once again!
Chapter 339: Nothing Is Impossible!
"That sly bastard, he's finally making a move. Tonight, see how I'll deal with him!" Watching Loren make a move only now, Android 18 crossed her arms over her chest and said angrily.
"Tonight we'll take him on together and make him experience the feeling of exhaustion just like us. It's simply going too far," Tsunade also spoke up at this moment.
"Master said this is a tempering for us. He said that only after going through tempering can we become stronger. He is doing this for our own good," Ikaros said softly at that moment.
"Is that so? Then tonight we'll also give him a little tempering so that he can become stronger. We're also doing it for his own good. Remember, tonight no one is allowed to show mercy!" Tsunade said.
"Alright then, let's see how this concubine handles him tonight!" Hancock said coquettishly, her eyes carrying a hint of eager anticipation. Clearly, she was very dissatisfied with Loren's earlier act of standing by and watching.
"This power does not belong to this World. Who on earth are you?" Chthon was an ancient demon god and knew far too much about this World; he immediately sensed the anomaly.
But Loren completely ignored him, saying in a calm voice, "You talk too much."
Although Loren's voice was calm, beneath that calmness lay an absolute self-confidence capable of crushing stars.
He raised his hand and closed his five fingers into a void grip.
With just this single action, Chthon's body, composed of countless painful faces, unexpectedly developed dozens of cracks!
"This... impossible!" Chthon was shocked. He was a single-Universe-level deity and the source of Dark Magic; how could he possibly be manipulated by a mere human?
Loren did not give him time to think.
He disappeared.
The next instant, he appeared in front of Chthon and threw a punch!
That punch had no fancy techniques, no complex energy manipulation, just a simple, straight punch.
But this punch contained the full power of a Super Saiyan, containing pure destructive power capable of shattering stars and tearing dimensions apart!
"Boom——!!!"
Chthon's three-meter-tall body, condensed from countless essences of darkness, was blasted to pieces by this punch, and countless painful faces flew about in all directions, emitting shrill wails!
But after all, he was an ancient deity. The scattered darkness instantly reaggregated, attempting to regroup, but Loren did not give him the chance.
He brought his hands together, and between his palms, a golden, continuously expanding energy ball was rapidly taking shape—that was a Kamehameha capable of destroying a planet!
"This blow will send you back home." Loren's voice resounded across the heavens and earth.
The golden torrent of energy, like divine punishment, blasted towards Chthon's reforming body!
Chthon roared, mobilizing all his dark power to transform into a black torrent, colliding head-on with that golden energy!
"Rumble——!!!"
The sky was completely torn apart!
The golden and black energies intertwined frantically, and the resulting aftermath caused the entire Hong Kong Island to tremble violently!
The ground cracked, buildings collapsed, and seawater surged backward!
The women scattered everywhere raised their heads, looking at the scene in the sky like the descent of a myth, their eyes filled with shock, fanaticism, and endless worship.
Their Master, the man who was always as calm as water on ordinary days, the man who gave them strength and a sense of belonging.
At this moment, with absolute power, he was clashing head-on against an ancient single-Universe-level deity!
A deadlock.
Gold and black formed a brief deadlock in the sky.
But just a few seconds later, the golden torrent of energy began to take the upper hand, pushing the black torrent back bit by bit!
"Impossible——!!!" In Chthon's voice, true fear appeared for the first time!
He was Chthon!
He was the writer of darkness!
He was an existence older than this Universe itself!
How could it be... how could he be suppressed by a human who came from nowhere!
"Nothing is impossible." Loren's calm voice came over, "Your era... has ended."
Chapter 340 I will definitely come back!
The golden torrent of energy suddenly surged!
The black torrent completely collapsed, and the golden light overwhelmed Chthon's terrified body, which constantly tried to reassemble and was constantly shattered, as well as his wails and his existence!
When the golden light dissipated, there was no trace of Chthon left in the sky.
There was only a slowly healing spatial rift, and the unwilling and angry echo coming from deep within the rift.
"Don't celebrate too early, I will come back, and then it will be your doomsday!"
The rift completely closed.
The sky returned to clear.
Sunlight fell, and the sky was as clear as washed.
Loren hovered in mid-air, gazing at the slowly healing spatial rift, listening to Chthon's last roar filled with unwillingness and malice gradually disappear into the depths of the dimension.
He lowered his arms, the golden aura of the Super Saiyanslowly subsided, his hair faded from gold back to black, and everything returned to calm.
Below, those women who fought bloody battles were struggling to get up from the ruins, supporting each other, looking up at the savior-like figure in the sky, their eyes filled with adoration and the joy of surviving a catastrophe.
Wanda threw herself into Loren's arms, tears streaming down her face, which was a release after escaping death.
Tsunade lay on the ground grinning broadly, Android 18 rarely showed a sincere smile, and everyone thought this battle was over.
Loren thought so too.
He gently patted Wanda's back, preparing to say something.
Suddenly!
An indescribable, bone-deep chill rose from the depths of his soul without warning!
That was not some premonition, but a crisis warning from a higher dimension pointing directly to existence itself! Loren's pupils shrank suddenly, he instantly pushed Wanda away, and his whole body retreated violently backward!
"Master?!" Wanda exclaimed.
But Loren did not respond.
His gaze locked tightly onto the last spatial rift in the sky that was about to heal completely—that rift, at the moment it was about to close completely, suddenly stopped shrinking!
Then—
It expanded again at a speed visible to the naked eye!
But that expansion was different from before; it was no longer a slow and stable tearing, but a collapse like the generation of a black hole that crazily devoured everything!
In the center of the rift, an extremely tiny, pitch-black "point" that seemed able to absorb all light suddenly appeared!
The moment that point appeared, the sky of the entire Earth instantly darkened!
It was not blocked by clouds, nor was it a solar eclipse, but complete darkness descended.
That darkness, as if it had life, spread and devoured downward from the highest point of the vault of heaven, swallowing sunlight, clouds, and all light completely!
"This is!!!" Loren's expression became unprecedentedly solemn.
That point was expanding rapidly!
It devoured space itself and all surrounding matter.
What was even more terrifying was that it was devouring a kind of dark energy that Loren could not perceive directly, but could clearly feel its existence.
"My... My Dark Magic power... is... disappearing...!" Kaecilius's weak voice came from deep within the ruins, filled with incredible terror.
He was heavily wounded in the previous battle and almost lost his combat effectiveness.
But at this moment, the Dark Magic power from Chthoninside his body was uncontrollably breaking out of his body, turning into streams of black light, converging toward that black hole in the sky!
Not just Kaecilius!
Wanda's expression changed drastically! She could feel that the origin of Dark Magic remaining in her body after fusing with the darkhold was also escaping her control and flying toward the black hole!
"No... This is impossible!" Wanda gritted her teeth, Chaos Magic surging wildly, trying to suppress the abnormality, but the primordial summons from Chthon was simply not something she could resist!
Wisps of black energy were forcibly extracted from her body, like deprived blood vessels, winding and flying toward the black hole in the sky!
"Wanda!" Tsunade exclaimed.
"Don't come over!" Wanda roared, falling to her knees and trembling in pain.
The energy of the darkhold, those powers that she had once fused and used for herself, were being forcibly stripped away bit by bit!
Not just them.
Globally, all mages, wizards, and warlocks who practiced Dark Magic and were tainted with dark power felt at the same time that their power was being forcibly extracted!
Countless streams of black light rose from every corner of the Universe, like a backward-flowing black waterfall, converging toward the rapidly expanding black hole!
That was Chthon taking back his power!
As the source of Dark Magic, all power originating from him, before his will, was like fledglings returning to their nest, completely irresistible!
In the sky, after absorbing countless streams of black light, the black hole had expanded enough to cover the entire sky above Hong Kong City!
But it was still expanding, still devouring, as if it wanted to take back all the dark power of the entire Earth, the entire Solar System, and the entire Universe!
"This guy is really hard to kill!" Loren gritted his teeth, his hair instantly turned gold, and the aura of the Super Saiyanerupted again!
He could not let this black hole continue to expand, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable!
He put his hands together, and golden energy rapidly condensed in his palms, Kamehameha!
"Ha ah—!"
The golden torrent of energy, like divine punishment, slammed into the black hole that was crazily devouring everything!
However—
The moment the torrent of energy touched the edge of the black hole, it disappeared silently like a clay ox entering the sea!
The black hole seemed to have the characteristic of devouring all energy; whether it was matter, light, or pure energy attacks, they were all easily absorbed, transformed, and assimilated by it!
Loren's pupils shrank.
He clearly perceived that his Kamehameha not only did not cause any damage to the black hole, but instead... became its nourishment!
After the black hole absorbed his attack, it expanded even faster!
"Damn it..." Loren gritted his teeth, his figure flashed, and he instantly appeared directly in front of the black hole. He condensed the strongest energy in both hands and punched the pitch-black core.
Still ineffective!
His fist sank into the black hole, like hitting a void, without any real sensation. Instead, there was a powerful suction trying to drag his whole person into it!
Loren instantly withdrew and retreated, his face looking extremely ugly.
At this moment, the black hole's devouring finally stopped.
After absorbing enough dark power, it began to shrink and condense violently! The process, like a collapsing star, compressed all mass toward the center.
Finally, a figure slowly emerged from the collapsed darkness.