Free Web NovelChapter 1181: A Shadow Answers
Of course Ethan didn’t want to let this chance slip.
But his body was in Lily’s hands now. He couldn’t move it—couldn’t even force a finger to twitch.
Lily had already spread that snow-white lightning across the surrounding world, and Caldrath’s body was completely wrapped inside it. The pressure came from every direction, not like a simple attack, but like the entire sky was collapsing inward—forcing Caldrath’s enormous dragon body lower, inch by inch.
Caldrath roared, trying to break free.
Every time he pushed his power outward, the snow-white lightning surged along the flow and drilled straight back into him, shredding his resistance from the inside.
At the same time, the aura on Ethan’s body climbed to the limit.
The forces between heaven and earth kept pouring in. The snow-white lightning swallowed them—then turned around and pressed them into Caldrath even harder. Caldrath’s body began to deform in midair. Bones and flesh were compressed brutally. Scales popped and burst apart in sheets. His massive frame kept shrinking under the pressure, forced smaller and smaller.
"Ha... ha! This power—" Lily sounded almost drunk on it, excitement edging into madness. "It’s so pure!"
The snow-white lightning continued to tighten.
Before long, Caldrath’s gigantic Abyssal Dragon body had been squeezed down into a tiny lump of meat. Flesh, bone, scales, and all six attributes had been forcibly crushed together into one dense mass. The surface bulged and pulsed, trying to spread back out...
But it couldn’t.
Ethan felt a chill crawl up his spine. freёweɓnovel.com
He knew Lily was strong. He’d seen her move before. But he hadn’t realized she could erupt to this level. Caldrath had just pushed Ethan to the brink—now he’d been reduced to this, stripped of even the right to run.
Before Ethan could shake off the shock, Lily floated his body forward.
She raised a finger and tapped the "forehead" of that writhing meat ball.
The snow-white lightning at her fingertip went quiet for a single heartbeat.
Then it detonated. ƒreewebɳovel.com
A violent surge of thunderlight punched straight into Caldrath from the inside, ripping apart every strand of flesh and energy that had been compressed together. A thin line split across the surface first. Then cracks raced outward in a spiderweb, and the entire mass exploded midair into chunks of gore and shattered dragon scales.
The snow-white lightning didn’t spare his soul.
The fleeing glimmers of soul-light were dragged back by arcing electricity and crushed into nothing inside the thunder.
At the same time, Lily reached out and grabbed—ripping the most central energy core straight from Caldrath’s remains and holding it in her hand.
Ethan finally let out a breath.
And then his stomach dropped.
The power inside him was chaos.
Snow-white lightning, translucent lightning, Dragon God bloodline, Infernal Primordial Power—and even the leftover energy Caldrath had shed—were all slamming into each other inside his body. His meridians throbbed with pain, stretched to the point of tearing. His consciousness dulled in waves, like he could black out at any second—or be ripped apart by the turbulence before he even hit the ground.
In the haze—
A golden light flared between heaven and earth.
A golden figure appeared high above.
The moment he arrived, domineering ripples rolled across the sky. Golden power expanded outward from him, crushing down over Caldrath’s lingering aura—and even pressing back the snow-white thunderlight that had still been roiling. Space above the city trembled in concentric waves, and even the distant mountain range began to rumble low, like it was being forced to bow.
Lily stepped out of Ethan.
Her form was no longer a vague shadow. She condensed into a real body again, snow-white lightning coiling around her like living silk. Her clothes fluttered lightly in the energy storm as she lifted her eyes to that golden figure—her expression turning serious for the first time.
"Didn’t expect this," Lily said. Quiet, but cold enough to cut.
"This world actually has a supreme Infernal Abyss king."
Ethan’s heart clenched.
He instantly opened the system and ran a full scan on the golden figure.
The interface unfolded—
And turned completely blank.
No name.
No level.
No race.
No data at all.
Ethan’s breathing stalled.
It didn’t happen often—when the system couldn’t return anything. And when it did, there was only one meaning.
The being in front of him was so far beyond the system’s current scanning limits... that Ethan was looking at someone who stood vastly above him.
Ethan was still pinned under the pressure of that golden figure, his mind drawn tight to the breaking point—
When an even more ferocious presence suddenly cut in between heaven and earth.
It arrived too fast to track.
First, a swath of dark storm was torn open in the distance. Then, carrying a crushing blend of Shadow, Storm, Venom, Chaos, and Demonic Power, it rolled straight across the battlefield’s sky. The lingering energy shockwaves outside the city were swept aside like dust. Even the domineering ripples the golden figure had been releasing... stalled for a brief instant.
A system prompt rang out inside Ethan’s head.
[Ataneya]
Gender: Female
Tier: 36
Race: Abyssal Shadow Fox
Rank: Crimson Ultimate Hero
Divine Rank: Mythic-tier Deity
Magic Power Attributes:
Shadow, Storm, Venom, Chaos, Demonic Power
Hero Classes:
Shadow Vixen Deity, Eclipse Warden
Attack: 2,585,000 (2,742,000)
Defense: 2,482,000 (2,548,000)
Spell Power: 2,208,000 (2,253,000)
Knowledge: 2,251,000 (2,304,000)
HP: 870,000,000
Damage: 31,540,000 ~ 34,810,000
Magic Damage: 28,840,000 ~ 30,890,000
Hero Skills:
Offense (Master), Resistance (Master)...
Hero Talent:
Umbral Detonation (Mythic)
Condenses shadow energy into wind blades or shadow blades, dealing mixed physical and shadow damage across an extremely wide area. Damage output is terrifying.
Sanctified Darkness
Possesses Light, Darkness, and Primordial Death Energy at once. Can instantly annihilate an enemy’s soul, or devour and purify enemy power.
Magic Immunity
Immune to all forms of magic.
Shadowstorm Domain (Mythic)
A Shadowstorm Domain derived from Shadowfang Strike. Greatly increases short-term spell burst, movement speed, and assassination mobility.
Foxfire Ascendancy (Mythic)
Increases own Attack and Defense by 12%.
Base Attack and Defense of Tier 13 Legendary Units under command—shadow-type, assassin-type, shadow creatures, and related units—+60%.
Each cycle, recruitment count from Shadow Den, Assassin Hall, and similar shadow-type dwellings +80.
Recruitment cost -80% stacks with territory effects.
Ace Unit appearance rate +80%.
Cunning Beyond Despair
Can still exert 100% combat power when heavily injured or trapped in desperate straits. Can also exploit the surrounding environment to trigger additional ambush effects.
Shadowbound Pact
A shadow pact with her master. When a lethal blow targets the master, Ataneya can use a shadow body to take the hit in his place, or split part of the damage onto her shadow clones.
Demonic Fox Frenzy (Mythic)
Fixed Damage +100%.
HP +100%.
Physical Resistance +60,000.
Magic Resistance +900,000.
Adaptive magic damage reduction: 60%–80%.
Critical Rate +40%.
Lethal Strike Rate +100%.
Attacks inflict Chaos and Deadly Venom damage.
Domain clash damage +100%.
Duration: 80 minutes.
Overall Evaluation:
S-Rank Crimson Ultimate Hero! (99%)
Ethan’s pupils dilated.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t have imagined Ataneya arriving now.
And what hit him even harder—her panel had become this terrifying. Those numbers—Attack, Defense, Spell Power, Knowledge—every single one had leapt far beyond the Ataneya he remembered.
In the sky, a streak of fiery-red energy tore the battlefield open first.
It wasn’t ordinary flame. It was a special energy stream wrapped in Shadow and Demonic Power. It carved across the heavens from far away and shot straight at the golden figure. The moment it touched his body, it didn’t explode on the surface—
It seeped in through the gaps in his bones.
For the first time, the golden figure’s expression changed.
That power inside him—the one that had been pressing Ethan and Lily until even they found it difficult—went unstable the moment the crimson energy invaded. Fine, rapid crackling sounded from deep within his skeleton, and the golden light coating him was stained, bit by bit, with dark red.
Fear finally surfaced in his eyes.
He hadn’t expected it. In a tiny world like this, besides Lily... another existence this strong had appeared out of nowhere.
In the next instant, Ataneya was already in front of him.
She stepped out of the dark storm, dragging a trail of crimson and black interwoven light behind her. She didn’t give him a chance to speak. Her palm snapped up and clamped around his throat.
Her five fingers tightened.
And that fiery-red energy surged straight down his neck, forcing its way into his body like a brand being driven into living bone.
