“You…. look angry… uncle…..”
“Don’t you dare call me that!”
Angered, Zeus summoned his final assault.
Hundreds of bolts combined in the sky.
Their light illuminated the battlefield like a second sun.
Zeus brought the combined lightning down without hesitation.
The impact was cataclysmic.
A deafening roar consumed the world as a torrent of mana obliterated everything in its path.
The ground heaved violently, splitting open, while the resulting shockwave flattened what little remained of the surroundings.
When the light faded, silence reigned.
Neo was gone—not even his ashes were left.
The battlefield was no longer recognizable.
Nothing remained but a smoldering crater devoid of life.
Zeus and Apollo stood in the aftermath.
Apollo coughed, blood staining his lips, and his expression was one of a horror.
“I told you.” Zeus said as he stared at the empty crater. “You can’t regenerate if there is nothing left.”
He was about to turn away and leave when suddenly he noticed two rings of red lightning crackling deep inside the crater.
One ring was as wide as the wrist, and the other one was half of its size.
“…?”
Zeus frowned.
“What’s that—”
He stopped speaking and swiftly jumped back.
His senses warned him of a powerful danger in the vicinity.
Under Zeus’ confused eyes, the rings of red lightning became erratic.
They flickered wildly, illuminating the crater’s depths with an eerie, pulsing glow, and…
You can’t kill what is dead.
The red lightning changed its shape, barely becoming humanoid.
….
Jack wiped the blood from his forehead and steadied his breath.
The overwhelming pressure of the three Sovereigns was suffocating.
But after Neo increased the output of his Black Dawn of Despair Spell, a constant surge of power amplified Jack’s every move.
“This ends now,” Jack said.
He had to hurry.
Not only was Neo burning the little Divine Energy he had left for the Black Dawn of Despair Spell, he had to gone to fight Zeus too.
‘I need to get out of here and help him.’
Jack didn’t understand why the Sovereign were letting Zeus and Neo fight unhindered.
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He raised his hand, summoning the remnants of his necrotic energy into a single, massive construct.
Bones from the battlefield shot toward him like iron to a magnet, swirling and fusing until a colossal necrotic dragon formed behind him.
Its hollow eyes burned with dark flames, and its roar reverberated through the forest like thunder.
The Sovereigns hesitated for a moment.
“That’s… interesting,” Charybdis mused, his voice was tinged with amusement and concern. “But do you really think this will save you?”
Jack didn’t respond.
He dashed forward, faster than before, closing the distance between himself and Charybdis in the blink of an eye.
His blade, now strengthened with Neo’s power, cleaved through the wind barrier Charybdis summoned.
The Sovereign of Winds barely managed to sidestep the attack.
Jack didn’t let go of the opportunity,
He pressed forward relentlessly.
He swung again, his strikes faster and more precise, forcing Charybdis to retreat.
Meanwhile, the necrotic dragon lunged at Jagaan.
Its massive jaws snapped around the elephant’s tusks.
The two colossal creatures wrestled fiercely, and caused ground to shake beneath them.
Oni, seeing an opening, unleashed a torrent of fire toward Jack.
The flames roared, but Jack turned toward the attack, raising his free hand.
“Necrotic Barrier!”
A wall of Darkness erupted around him, absorbing the flames and dispersing them harmlessly.
“You’ll have to do better than that,” Jack eyes locking onto Oni.
His cold stare caused the Sovereign of Flames to flinch.
The Sovereign of Flames froze, realizing it had been intimidated by a mere human.
Surge of anger exploded inside him.
Oni swung a massive flaming fist, aiming to crush Jack.
Jack ducked under it, and slashed upward.
His blade cut deep into Oni’s arm, extinguishing the fire momentarily and eliciting a deafening roar of pain from the Sovereign. Explore stories at empire
Charybdis tried to intervene.
He summoned a vortex of slicing winds to trap Jack, but Jack was faster now. He leaped into the air, dodging the attack with ease, and hurled his glowing blade at Charybdis.
The weapon struck true, piercing through the Sovereign’s chest and pinning them to a nearby tree.
“Not so smug now, are you?” Jack taunted, landing gracefully on the ground.
Jagaan roared as it finally managed to push the necrotic dragon away, but the beast was visibly weakened.
Jack wasted no time.
With a gesture, he commanded the dragon to unleash its full power.
The skeletal creature opened its jaws, releasing a beam of necrotic energy that engulfed Jagaan.
The Sovereign of Beasts howled in agony as the energy consumed it, leaving behind only ashes.
Charybdis pulled himself free from the tree.
“You… won’t… escape,” Charybdis hissed.
His once-mocking tone was now filled with desperation.
Oni, too, staggered back, its flames dimming.
Jack’s aura flared, and he charged once more.
With blinding speed, he struck Charybdis down, his blade severing the Sovereign of Winds in two.
Turning to Oni, Jack summoned the last of his necrotic energy.
“It’s over.”
The necrotic dragon lunged at Oni, tearing into the Sovereign with ferocity.
Oni’s flames flared one last time before extinguishing completely.
The battlefield fell silent, save for the crackling of dying embers.
Jack stood amidst the carnage, his breaths heavy but victorious.
“Neo…. I have to go and help him…..”
His bravado collapsed after defeating the three Sovereigns.
There was no one around him and he didn’t need to act like he was fine.
His limbs trembled and he could feel exhaustion threatening to drown him whole.
Jack had pushed himself too far to defeat the three Sovereigns as quickly as possible.
He was about to move towards the direction where Neo was when suddenly he felt a huge surge of Death elementals.
Flickers of red lightning from Neo reached as far as Jack.
“Huh?”
Jack, stunned, blinked.
“Did he just…..”
He chuckled in stupor and soon his laughs turned into loud laughter.
“That crazy team leader. So this was his plan.”
Death elemental users all had a severe debuff on them.
Their flesh body.
The presence of life elementals in the body weakened their Death elementals.
It was why Necromancers and Liches were all monsters with nothing but bones.
Removing the flesh body allowed them to unleash full power of their Death elementals.
“I guess he doesn’t need my help anymore.”
Jack sighed with a smile.
He shook his head and moved towards the remains of the three Sovereigns.