While Klaus’s friends prepare for their second battle, he and the three ladies were also holding their ground against the Void-stage snake.
Nari, Queenie, and Queen Lunara have defeated their targets and are now trapping them while they wait for Klaus, who seems to be in deep thought.
He is the only one who can kill them.
When he arrived at the battle, it was a single Void beast. But now, they are fighting four Void-stage beasts and winning.
However, Klaus wasn’t okay with what was going on.
He could tell everything wasn’t right. Something was amiss, and if he was not careful, he would end this battle in tears, so he was being cautious.
This is his first scheming contest with his enemies, and as such, he knows that being careless is the last thing he wants.
Naturally, he could sense something was changing about him, too. Whatever the change was, he could tell it would be determined the moment the heavens revealed themselves.
He could even tell they were not aware of the power building within him.
Inside his fifth core, the diagram with the 25 smaller diagrams was still activating, with 8 smaller diagrams left to go.
However, the more the diagrams awaken, the more visible the bigger diagram appears, creating a terrifying sight for all to see.
Klaus would be terrified if he saw it for the first time.
But now that he hadn’t fully awakened it, he could only keep attacking the snake while the ladies held their respective targets down.
Until then, the triplets are harnessing the power of ice, lightning, and fire as they wait for Uncle Mark to drop the containment he created, which was trapping over 700 Lava Lions.
But that is them.
The others are still clearing the last remaining monsters while Old Lu and Miriam are now handling the Brute Elephant, and Kathy, alongside Aoi, are also handling the Lava Lion.
Though one is a supreme human and one is a divine beast, their opponents aren’t weak at all, so the quick death one was expecting wouldn’t be achieved that easily.
“Be ready, everyone,” Uncle Mark said before flying back down, landing hard on the ground. The moment he did, the shield vanished, and the Lava Lions charged forward.
Lucy’s vines latched onto his body and pulled him back.
“Do it now, ladies,” she ordered, and the triplets formed a seal.
“Elemental Fusion,” they shouted, commanding a giant spear into existence.
It’s made of blue ice and coated in both white flames and red lightning.
“World Piercing Spear.”
The moment they said that, the giant spear descended, stabbing hard into the ground and then exploding.
However, instead of exploding outwards, the explosion only expanded for a second before it started to contract, pulling itself in.
“Elemental Fusion,” the triplets said again, forming another seal. The three spell diagrams spin and point to a new, smaller circle forward.
“Devouring Elemental Black hole.”
They activated a new skill, twisting the contracting flame to form a black hole of three colors and elements.
“Everybody should move back,” Uncle Ziggy commanded, making everyone closer to the battlefront run back. The moment they did, they felt the air around them being sucked toward the dark hole.
The monsters that are closer to the black hole were devoured after they were sucked in, and the more monsters that are being sucked in, the more violent the sucking force becomes.
The monsters are getting sucked in, and those who manage to get far enough before the black hole was created are being killed by Hanna and her fellow archers.
The more they fire, the more monsters they kill until their arrows start to hit nothing.
“This—”
Stella muttered as she felt her control over the black hole weakening. It wasn’t just her; Aria and Nova felt the same. Their control was being taken away.
“What is happening?” Lucy, who started to sense the devouring force of the black hole, asked.
“Something is taking control of the black hole from us,” Stella answered, looking as if the black hole, which wasn’t even a meter wide, had started to grow.
“Everyone, move back now!” Lucy shouted and took to the air, flying toward her sister, who was still recovering. The moment she reached her, she started flying far away, carrying her in her arms.
Her teammates and soldiers who heard her order also started flying back. Even Kathy, Old Lu, Miriam, and Aoi abandoned their battles and flew away.
But the farther they flew back, the more powerful the pulling force kept tugging on their bodies.
“Resist and fly away. Abandon the camp!” Lucy shouted, increasing her speed as she held her sister in her arms.
However, while most were escaping, not all the soldiers and the Paragon Force were fortunate. Some couldn’t get away fast enough, so they were pulled in and devoured.
But she could not control this, so she could only give orders and hope that the number that managed to escape this disaster would be enough to report to Klaus.
It was chaotic as the camp, built over 30 years ago, was being devoured, and the only thing they could do was fly away.
Thankfully, they managed to get far enough away for the devouring force to stop affecting them, but by then, three Paragon Force warriors had been devoured, and seven soldiers also couldn’t make it.
But the camp and every last monster were also gone. The moment everything was devoured, something happened that made everyone’s blood run cold.
The sucking and devouring force stopped, but then the black hole turned into a portal, and from within the portal, a figure appeared wielding a large black sword, a giant horn sitting on its forehead, and an aura that surpassed the Tier 10 stage.
The figure looked toward Lucy and her teammates, and a chuckle spread across its twisted demonic mouth. It raised its hand and snapped its fingers.
Lucy, who held her sister, vanished at once, making Anna fall from her hold. Lucy was pulled and appeared in the figure’s grip, its palm around her neck.
“Lucy…” her sister charged, but before she could get anywhere, a powerful force descended on them, causing all of them to crash to the ground, their bones breaking upon impact.
“How delightful. There is a lot of potential to destroy,” the figure said, pressing its arm around Lucy’s neck.
Klaus, who was waiting for what he suspected, suddenly turned his head toward the direction of the camp.
“They dare.” His aura exploded as he gazed into the distance, meeting the gaze of the figure holding his woman in its grip, squeezing the life out of her.
He recognized the figure, for he had met and killed many of them in the past. However, instead of getting angry, a cold smile appeared on his face as he muttered the words he had been waiting to say.
“Death’s Chosen”
Boom, a powerful aura exploded from his body, sending the three ladies and the snakes flying.
The snakes they were fighting and the one he was fighting were all thrown back, falling down on all four snakes.
They were immobilized, and Klaus, who had just activated the heir of death transformation ability, smirked again.