Chapter 497
Chapter 497
Chapter 497
'The blood moon has risen.'
Zeke's attack came too late.
The crimson ring created by Ramon Jiemens' Ajitahaka power combined with the priest's strength aligned perfectly with the blood moon.
WHOOSH!
The blood moon inside the crimson ring began wailing with an eerie sound, soon transforming into a red vortex.
RUMBLE!
The red vortex grew larger, transforming into a massive gate.
Zeke aimed his sword at the altar again.
But Tantalos blocked Zeke's path, refusing to let him through.
'Damn it.'
Richmond and Bane were engaged with Jiemens' knights outside, drawing attention with shadow spirits.
The Black Sword Knights he summoned still needed time to arrive.
'I must stop them somehow, even alone.'
Zeke caught his breath and pulled out the Green Sword and Eastern Sword from his inventory.
WHOOSH!
The floating swords vibrated, summoning Arataso and Nebilos.
Tantalos frowned at the summoned demons.
"Traitors who abandoned demon pride."
RUMBLE!
As Abyss's executioner, Tantalos was a proud Two-Horned demon who valued demon pride above all.
To Tantalos, Arataso and Nebilos were enemies to be eliminated for betraying the demon realm to serve humans.
Nebilos spoke uncomfortably.
"To be called a traitor when I'm Abaddon's Overseer... Perhaps if we join Tantalos to eliminate Zeke Draker, we could return to the demon realm."
Arataso shook his head at Nebilos' words.
"Think that executioner would listen to us? Besides, if Tantalos loses, we might be sealed in those swords forever."
"Ugh."
At Arataso's words, Nebilos reluctantly raised his power.
RUMBLE!
As Arataso's fighting spirit and Nebilos' magic power clashed with Tantalos' strength, a chaotic storm of power erupted nearby.
Zeke spoke to the two demons:
"Hold him off while I disrupt the ritual!"
Leaving Tantalos to Arataso and Nebilos, Zeke flew straight toward the altar.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse and dark mages stood around Ramon and the priest opening the gate.
Zeke aimed his sword and dove at them from the air.
"HAAAAH!"
Infinite Sword Technique unfolded from Zeke's sword.
Infinite Sword Technique Secret Form
Second Form
Giant Dragon Slash
As the secret form unfolded, the Astral Sword erupting from Zeke's blade dominated the entire domain.
RUMBLE!
The Grand Master Zeke's sword held power to erase the very Origin of things, not mere destructive force.
The Giant Dragon Slash cut through the floating red gate relentlessly.
SLASH!
A fine line sliced through the red gate.
The red gate split like shattering glass, visibly misaligning horizontally.
But then.
Ramon snapped his fingers.
Like when the dragon's breath failed, the split gate restored itself as if rewinding time.
Zeke clenched his teeth seeing this.
'Could Ramon also have the power of reversal?'
Chronos possessed the power to manipulate time.
Zeke could control time with that power, but had to meet complex conditions.
Being clearly different from normal powers, he thought only Chronos had time-related powers, but Ramon seemed to have similar abilities.
Zeke calmed his racing thoughts.
'His power might not be time-related. It's the power of an evil god after all.'
Higher-ranked constellations possess powers with broader applications.
Belial's power of deception could produce various effects depending on usage.
Zeke thought Ramon's power would be similar.
'The important thing is I can't stop the ritual if he uses his power again.'
Zeke decided to take a gamble.
He looked at the Dark Sword Leviathan in his hand.
'Dark Sword Leviathan's inherent power Chaos Technique...'
Chaos Technique's effect was nullifying constellation powers.
It seemed highly useful in theory, but practice revealed a major drawback that made him hesitant to use it.
He discovered Chaos Technique's effects affected himself too.
Using Chaos Technique would prevent him from using all his powers and system effects.
Unable to properly counter enemy attacks, he had to hesitate activating Chaos Technique.
But with the situation like this, there was no time to hesitate.
Zeke raised Leviathan and drew out chaos power.
RUMBLE!
Leviathan, imbued with Holy Spear Longomiant's power, contained chaos power capable of killing constellations.
Sensing the ominous energy emanating from Zeke, Ramon shouted to the priest:
"Priest! Open the gate quickly! We don't know what Zeke Draker will do!"
The priest was connecting the gate to Ajitahaka's dimension trapped in isolation.
The isolation realm existed in a distant layer beyond the abyss, making it difficult even for the priest to open the gate.
Then.
CRACKLE!
Red current flowed from the gate as ominous energy began seeping out.
They had succeeded in connecting with Ajitahaka trapped in isolation.
ROAR-
Strange wails that froze souls echoed from inside the gate.
It was Ajitahaka's soul eaters crying out.
Ramon spread his arms toward Ajitahaka beyond the gate, laughing maniacally.
"Evil god who seized constellation status! End your long imprisonment and descend upon this land today!"
RUMBLE!
As Ramon finished speaking, something began emerging from the gate.
SCREECH!
Ajitahaka's grotesque soul eaters, their bodies covered in patched skin, reached their limbs through the gate with horrible screams.
CRACK!
The soul eaters' limbs tore as they pushed through the gate, shoving each other aside.
Their fallen limbs around the altar writhed and regenerated, restoring to their original form.
SCREECH!
The soul eaters dripped acidic saliva, flashing saw-like teeth.
New mouths formed as their patched wounds burst open.
Their appearance was too horrific to be considered beings of this realm.
As soul eaters poured from the gate, suddenly.
CRACK!
A massive hand shot out, grabbed the soul eaters, and squeezed.
SQUISH!
The soul eaters instantly turned to bloody water, flowing down the platform.
Ramon immediately recognized whose black arm emerged from the gate.
"Evil God Ajitahaka!"
The arm retracted, then red eyes appeared in the gate.
The evil god's ominous eyes darted around, seeming to look beyond this realm.
The eyes retreated, then both hands appeared, grabbing and tearing the small gate opening.
CRACKLE!
As the stabilized gate energy destabilized, causality storms erupted everywhere.
Deceiving karma's eye was crucial for an irregular being like Ajitahaka to descend.
If the causality storms couldn't be handled, karma would reject and close the gate.
The priest chanted, using bloodstone power to stabilize the storms.
CRACKLE!
Horrible sounds echoed as Ajitahaka tore the gate.
The gate had widened considerably, with Ajitahaka's main body now trying to push its head through.
CRACK!
Stronger causality storms erupted as Ajitahaka's body tried entering this realm.
The priest realized his assumption about the bloodstone being sufficient was gravely wrong.
'When the blood moon ends, karma's law will normalize and resistance could increase greatly.'
They had to bring Ajitahaka down while the blood moon remained.
As the priest calculated and exerted power, half of Ajitahaka's head had emerged.
SCREECH!
The evil god opened its mouth wide and screamed.
The horrible scream alone could kill those with weak aura or magic power, making them collapse bleeding from their ears.
Then.
TZZZZT!
Everything suddenly began turning grey.
Ramon and the priest maintaining the gate were startled by the changing scenery.
Small vortexes formed in the greyed areas.
"What is this?!"
Zeke's Leviathan's Chaos Technique was gradually consuming the domain.
No constellation could use their powers within the Chaos Technique domain.
Ramon felt Ajitahaka's gate-maintaining power gradually dispersing.
"Priest! Hurry!"
The priest raised his hands.
Black energy explosively burst from Abel's heart.
Abel's body jerked up, spewing black energy from his eyes, nose, and mouth.
"KUAAAAH!"
Using Abel as a medium, he resonated with Solomon's power that dwelled within his body.
The gate opened wider.
KAAAAAAH!
Suddenly, Ajitahaka began inserting his body, pushing in one arm and his head.
But at that moment.
CRACK!
Ajitahaka's main body fell to the floor like a beheaded corpse on the guillotine.
As the gate closed, it severed only the parts that had protruded outside the physical realm.
KUGUUUU!
Ramon raised his head, his face turning pale.
The surroundings were filled with a chaotic vortex.
Ramon realized he could no longer feel the power he had received from Ajitahaka.
'How could Zeke gain such power?'
He knew from the priest that Zeke possessed both dragon power and immortal power.
However, he didn't know he had the ability to erase even the power of constellations.
Ajitahaka's severed arm and half of his head were rolling grotesquely below the platform.
As he stared blankly at it, Zeke, enveloped in a gray vortex, slowly approached them.
Zeke's pupils weren't the golden dragon eyes, but rather the swirling chaos itself.
Ramon shouted while looking at Zeke.
"Zeke Draker! How Dare You?!"
It was a long-cherished wish he had waited and prepared for decades.
He thought that if he could just obtain Ajitahaka's power, he could bring everyone to their knees beneath his feet.
Just as that glory was about to be achieved, Zeke ruined everything.
Zeke was using all his strength to maintain Leviathan's chaos energy.
He couldn't let his guard down even slightly, as it felt like both his body and mind would be sucked into the chaos vortex if he lost focus.
'If I release the chaos energy here, Ajitahaka's summoning will begin again.'
Zeke struggled to maintain the chaos energy while steadying his breath.
Then he spoke while looking at Ramon and the priest.
"Ramon Jiemens, Harvey West. Your plans have all come to nothing. Surrender without futile resistance."
At Zeke's words, Ramon gritted his teeth and shouted.
"That will never happen even if I die!"
WHOOSH!
A sword made of fire appeared in Ramon's hand.
The Jiemens family was known for crafting and handling the most powerful magical weapons during the Seven Kingdoms era.
That secret art had been passed down until now.
Although he couldn't use Ajitahaka's power, Ramon was still not an opponent to be taken lightly.
Ramon swung his magic sword toward Zeke.
BOOM! BOOM!
Dozens of flame arrows shot out from the magic sword and flew toward Zeke.
WHOOSH!
When Zeke swung Leviathan, the storm of chaos energy enveloped the flame arrows and erased them completely.
Ramon's face contorted upon seeing this.
Chaos was a greater category of destruction and extinction.
Since it was chaos power that could erase even constellation powers, it could naturally erase magic as well.
However, the chaos energy, despite having absolute power, had a weakness.
It required tremendous mental power to maintain the chaos energy.
If it weren't for the passive skills of Indomitable Will and Infinite Stamina, Zeke wouldn't have been able to properly maintain the chaos energy.
Just as Zeke was about to take another step forward.
The priest, who had been quietly watching this, spoke to Zeke.
[You always surprise me, Zeke Draker.]
"Stop being surprised and die, Specter of the Abyss."
At those words, the priest shook his head.
[That won't happen.]
Suddenly, the priest took out a blood stone that he had been hiding and threw it upward.
WOOONG!
Light emanated from the blood stone, then exploded greatly, bursting out in all directions.