Free Web NovelChapter 567: Chapter 485: Calm and Domination
Buzz...
A deep humming sound, as if the whole world was trembling, suddenly echoed without warning.
The Chaos Secret Sect Wizard froze abruptly.
He looked up in astonishment, glancing around.
Only to see the light within a ten-kilometer radius centered on the Magma Basin begin to twist eerily.
The sky became blurred, the ground turned illusionary, even the energy he had been condensing in his palm started to oscillate uncontrollably and dissipate.
It was as if an invisible giant hand had gently lifted this region out of "reality" and then... casually kneaded it.
"What?!"
The Chaos Secret Sect Wizard’s pupils contracted, and the smile on his face disappeared for the first time.
Replacing it was an indescribable astonishment.
Because he felt a presence.
An aura, cold and calm, yet carrying a certain absolute "sense of dominance," was slowly descending from an extremely distant direction.
That aura wasn’t strong — at least judging by its energy intensity, it was at most Fifth Level, absolutely not Sixth Level.
But for some reason, the moment he was locked by that presence, the hairs on his body stood on end, and his soul screamed alarms:
Danger! Danger! Danger!!!
"Who?!!"
He jerked his head, looking in the direction the aura was coming from, and screamed in fury.
Simultaneously, his body instinctively began to distort; it was his preparation to activate the life-saving Space Jump Magic and flee these grounds at once!
But it was too late.
At the very moment when he turned, screamed, and began casting...
A light appeared.
Dark golden light.
Blazing yet cold.
It silently emerged from the distant skyline, initially just a tiny glimmer, like the first star of the morning in the darkest moment before dawn.
Then it appeared just like any ordinary light.
In an instant, it crossed at least hundreds of kilometers and appeared in front of the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard.
It gently "touched" the body of the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard, which was in the midst of twisting.
Sizzle.
A sound of understatement.
Like a hot knife cutting through butter.
All the Protective Magic, all the ongoing Curse Ceremonies, all the distorting space ripples on the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard’s body...
Stopped the moment they came into contact with the dark golden light.
As if those witchcraft, ceremonies, and ripples were illusions all along, effortlessly dispelled by the touch of true "reality."
Then the light proceeded forward.
Pierced through protections, pierced through the flesh, pierced through the soul.
The expression on the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard’s face froze.
It was a mixture of astonishment, confusion, and in the final instant, realizing... despair.
He wanted to say something, but his vocal cords had vanished.
He wanted to do something, but his body no longer existed.
The dark golden light "swept" across his body, and wherever it passed, flesh, bones, organs, energy, soul... every element constituting his "existence" silently "disappeared."
As if someone had lightly erased a pencil line from a sketch.
Simple, clean, thorough.
When the dark golden light faded, the place where the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard stood was left empty.
No bloodstains, no remains, no energy remnants.
Silence.
Above the Magma Basin, only the bubbling sound of roiling magma and heavy breathing remained.
The Tower of Annihilation Wizard was now rigidly turning his head, his neck emitting a "clack clack" sound as if rusty gears were moving.
He looked toward the direction from which the dark golden light had come.
In the extreme distance, a figure was slowly flying over.
Then it stopped about a kilometer away from the Tower of Annihilation Wizard.
It was a young-looking male wizard.
Gray battle wizard robe, devoid of any decoration, black hair, black eyes, his features ordinary among wizards, the kind that would be lost in a crowd.
But at that moment, no one would consider him "ordinary."
The Tower of Annihilation Wizard instinctively looked into the other’s eyes.
Because those eyes... were too calm.
Calm like a deep and bottomless ancient well, reflecting no emotions, no waves.
He stared at the Tower of Annihilation Wizard, there was no hostility in his gaze, no intent to kill, not even a sense of "watching."
It was as if he wasn’t seeing a Peak of Fifth Level foe, but rather an insignificant item placed there.
That absolutely indifferent calmness sent a chill from the depths of the Tower of Annihilation Wizard’s soul.
Monster...
He screamed inside.
This was definitely not an ordinary Fifth Level Wizard!
Definitely not!
But before he could react...
That gray-robed wizard raised his hand again.
Stretching out his index finger, aiming at the Nolun Workshop Wizard below, who had already transformed into tentacles.
"Wait... no!"
Amidst the female wizard’s exclamation, the young wizard’s fingertip once more gathered a dark golden glow.
Yet the light beam shot was slightly off; the target wasn’t the tentacle itself, but the area beside it.
There was a small cluster of inconspicuous dark red flesh quietly seeping into the ground.
It was the last "fallback" left by the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard, a high-tier flesh rebirthing witchcraft, capable of reconstructing a body elsewhere as long as even a small piece of flesh escaped.
But at that moment, the dark golden light reappeared.
It gently "touched" that cluster of flesh.
Poof.
The flesh turned into a wisp of smoke, completely obliterated.
"No..."
A cry of despair flashed and then sank into complete silence.
The Chaos Secret Sect Wizard was... utterly annihilated.
From flesh to soul, not a trace remains.
Having done all of this, the gray-robed wizard slowly turned his head.
Those terribly calm eyes glanced indifferently at the Tower of Annihilation wizard.
It was just that one look.
Making the Tower of Annihilation wizard go completely... insane.
"Aaahhh!!!"
He let out a beast-like roar, his face beneath the mask contorted to the extreme.
Fear? Anger? Despair?
No, it was a mix of all these emotions, along with a final... madness.
"I don’t care who you are! I don’t care what monster you are!!!"
He screamed, pressing his chest fiercely with both hands:
"You’re just a Fifth Level wizard!!!"
"Die!!!"
Boom!!!
Violent energy exploded from his body.
Left hand, blazing light.
Right hand, deep darkness.
Two completely opposite, conflicting energies were forcibly compressed and mixed together, then... all injected into his body.
His body began to glow, the two energies clashing madly inside him, annihilating, releasing a terrifying stream of chaotic energy.
Skin cracked, muscles swelled, bones deformed.
His figure expanded several times within just two seconds, transforming into an eight-meter-tall, half-light half-dark "energy giant".
The violent stream of chaotic energy rampaged across his body, forming destructive energy storms that scattered the surrounding magma into flying splashes.
The terrifying presence shot to the sky, even causing small-scale space disturbances, producing ear-piercing sonic booms.
"Do you see?!!"
The "face" on the head of the energy giant, already unrecognizable as human, split open with a deafening roar:
"This is my power!!!"
"Have you witnessed?!!"
"Fear it!!!"
"Tremble!!!"
With each roar, the energy fluctuations on him grew more violent, the surrounding space warped a bit more.
"That’s right!!! Such power, even I must feel fear!!"
He raised his now energy-formed giant hand, aiming at the gray-robed wizard three hundred meters away:
"This is the true..."
Word, cut short.
Because the gray-robed wizard interrupted him.
Not with an attack, but with a single sentence.
A very light, very calm mumble:
"Is it merely increasing one’s own energy intensity..."
Jeming slightly tilted his head, looking at the formidable presence of the energy giant, seemingly capable of destroying heaven and earth, a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes.
"Boring."
He softly uttered two words.
Then, raised his right hand.
Extended index finger.
Aimed at the energy giant.
At the fingertip, a point of dark-gold light quietly glowed.
The energy giant froze.
He stared blankly at Jeming, at the gray-robed figure steadfast amid the raging energy storm, at those terribly calm eyes, at that finger seemingly capable of "erasing" everything at any moment.
An absurd feeling of unreality surged in his heart.
This guy... what did he say?
Boring?
He said... boring?!
"You!!!"
The energy giant wanted to roar, wanted to scream, wanted to unleash all the energy inside him at once, to blast this arrogant wretch to dust.
But, the dark-gold light already descended.
This time Jeming chose to change Fire Extinction Divine Light to range attack mode.
Thus, a field of dark-gold light like an overturned ocean poured down from the sky, completely engulfing the energy giant.
The energy giant roared in an attempt to struggle, but to no avail.
Where the light reached, energy extinguished.
The massive energy body, like snow in sunlight, silently and noiselessly melted away.
From fingertips to arm, to torso, to head.
Piece by piece, transformed into basic light particles, dissipating in the air.
The whole process, terrifyingly quiet.
The last sight the energy giant saw was that endless dark-gold light, and deep within the light... those calm eyes.
Then, consciousness extinguished.
The light dispersed.
The sky above the Magma Basin returned to calm.
Where the Tower of Annihilation wizard once stood, nothing remained.
Jeming slowly withdrew his hand.
The dark-gold light at his fingertip quietly vanished.
He turned around, looking below.
The female wizard was now staring blankly at him, face full of disbelief, shock, and... fear.
And the male wizard still maintaining a tentacle state, yet with a huge hollow remaining on the chest, was also staring vacantly at him.
Jeming met their gaze.
Then, gently nodded.
"Task complete."
He calmly said.
"Enemies cleared, you can retreat now."
