Myths Reawakened

Chapter 357 (1): Three People, Six Hundred Schemes

In the center of the Great Cemetery, two figures collided with crossing blades, unleashing energy without reservation. Occasionally, the Death Knight’s malicious, uncontained laughter would ring out.

The fight between the Darkness Knight and the Death Knight in the inner world had none of the laughter and fun of a fight between their surface world counterparts. Raging desire for revenge had burned away Auston’s thoughts. Whenever he saw ‘Wayne’, he would go berserk and rely on brute force.

That allowed Death Knight Wayne to become smarter than Auston despite his pathetic intelligence. He could always make Auston roar with rage with mocking words.

The two were old enemies who had never stopped fighting throughout the years. Every time they met, a bloody fight broke out. They took turns winning and remained more or less evenly matched.

This Wayne knew Auston well and had long realized that Auston was a powerful enemy he could not defeat even by giving his all. An unorthodox measure was required.

He happened to have a treasured collection that would be of use.

The black and white blades collided. Auston’s crimson eyes met the dancing red light in the skeleton’s skull. The Death Knight let out a strange cackle. The red gem on Shadow Nightmare’s pommel glowed.

Rumble—

The ground suddenly began to shake violently, as if a slumbering beast were awakening and tearing apart the flat land. The thunderous rumbles made the hearts thump, and the environment blurred because of the tremors.

Soon, a deep rift emerged on the left side of the Great Cemetery. Deafening dragon roars rang out and unleashed the bone-chilling coldness of Death.

A massive bone dragon burrowed out of the abyssal rift with a frightening skull and the cold red light of bloodthirst wobbling in its eye sockets. Grey Death energy connected the bones of the dragon and covered the torn wing bones in a layer of skin-like mist, allowing the bone dragon to fly with its wings. Its massive body and wingspan obscured the sky.

The formidable dragon's might carried chilling Death energy. Its piercing roars resounded through the night sky, announcing its arrival.

The bone dragon wasn’t the key, but the dragonrider that came with the dragon. The slim skeletal knight wielded a disproportionately large lance with dancing light in her eyes. She rode the bone dragon toward Auston.

“High Reverend Silvia challenged you to a fight, Auston. What are you waiting for?”

The Death Knight Wayne burst out laughing, in stark contrast with the pain and despair Auston was lost in. Auston’s eyes turned crimson, and he lost his rationality completely, turning into a puppet of revenge.

This would be Megan’s cue to transform into a black dragon and fight the bone dragon, drawing Silvia away. Today was no exception. The sixteen-year-old, underage black dragon with a smaller figure breathed out black flames and radiated her aura to taunt the bone dragon, leading it and Silvia away.

The Death Knight didn’t mind. It was a consistent part of their battle that happened every time he and Auston clashed. It was one of his few sources of fun.

Between having one large feast and filling his stomach at every meal, he knew what the right choice was.

Boom!

While the two knights were locked in a fight, a ray of intense light came down from above. A small blazing sun plunged with incredible momentum and slammed into the heart of the battlefield.

The Death Knight backed away with his sword, summoning his undead warhorse and dodging the subsequent attacks with a portal.

The golden fireball expanded, its waves of golden light sweeping outward and razing the entire cemetery to the ground. Mist evaporated, and Death energy parted, leaving only a scorched, red-hot land under the intense heat.

From the large, ten-meter-diameter crater, William rose with the Sun Armor cladding his burly form. All the light in the world seemed to have converged around him. With his sculpted, masculine facial features, he painted the stereotypical picture of a god of war.

After taking a small-scale strategic bombardment, Auston shook his head and found himself a little more clear-headed. He nodded at William before turning to the Death Knight with an icy look.

“The Sun Knight?!”

The Death Knight’s heart sank. He was shocked by the alliance between the Darkness Knight and the Sun Knight. It was absurd for light and darkness to work together. They had no reason to.

In the inner world, dwelling on reasons was a waste of time since anything could happen, no matter how absurd. Still, finding himself surrounded by formidable enemies, the Death Knight said, “Sun Knight, this is a fight between the Darkness Knight and me. You should not intervene.”

“My boyfriend is the Darkness Knight’s son, and my best friend is the Darkness Knight’s daughter. I have to be here!” William said.

You have a boyfriend?

The Death Knight paused. Still, he was a Windsorian, so he quickly recovered and said with a vicious smile, “This is my first time hearing about Auston’s son. Where is he? I’m going to make his remains part of my collection.”

You really aren’t Wayne! William narrowed his eyes. He had seen the Waynes of both worlds. Though they looked identical, the feelings they gave him were night and day. He fell for one of them at first sight, while the other...

He felt nothing for.

William understood now. His love was about the heart rather than the appearance. Then there was no reason for him to get hung up on that face. This Wayne wasn’t the Wayne he had fallen for. The Death Knight was his mortal enemy for killing Veronica’s mother.

Auston was near his limit. He raised his hand and summoned a blade of Darkness. It had a unique, metallic shine and exuded powerful energy.

In an instant, the black light stretched and made Twilight Despair seem thousands of times bigger, sweeping down like a falling mountain range. The chilling, deadly blade devoured all Death energy it passed through in an instant, leaving waves of black mist in its wake. It reached the Death Knight immediately.

The Death Knight realized to his shock that Auston had become even stronger. He wielded his sword with both hands and created a massive black hole with him at the center, his grey cape fluttering in the wind.

Death energy converged on him from all directions. There was no shortage of death in the inner world. Londan alone housed millions of dead individuals, making it a favorable domain for the Death Knight. He could tap into an endless supply of energy even without doing anything.

The view from above was magnificent. Endless grey rose from different parts of Londan and gathered in one place along roaring rivers of Death energy, the aura threateningly chilling.

The grey rivers twisted into grey pythons and erased all life, recombining matter and leaving trails of ashes as they moved to the Great Cemetery.

The Death Knight raised Shadow Nightmare with his cape of Death energy connected to the environment, injecting him with endless energy. Shadow Nightmare cut into the black sword aura with radiant whiteness.

The bisected black light separated. The black tides swept over with the nonstop momentum of a tsunami, cutting one grey python and devouring it.

Death and Darkness had different strengths. Whether the Death would corrode Darkness or the Darkness would devour Death would depend on which knight had a greater reserve of power.

The Death Knight’s eyes flashed with caution. He didn’t understand why Auston could get increasingly stronger. If it was because Auston had lost his loved one, Wayne had killed his love, too, yet his growth was far from as rapid.

It wasn’t a serious problem, though. There would never be a shortage of death in the inner world. The Western District Great Cemetery was his base and an endless well of spirits and remains. Even on his own, he could drive the alliance of Darkness and Sun away.

Grey currents soared toward the sky, projecting a massive pale image above the cape of Death. The mountainous skull had no eyes. On the left side of the skeletal face was a glaring slash scar.

From up in the sky, the skull shook the air and made it boil, letting out piercing shrieks that made one shudder and instilled fear in the depths of one’s heart. Death energy soared as the white skull generated waves of grey mist, shaking the entire cemetery.

Countless remains emerged from the ground. Green fluorescent light burst in dots. All of Londan was responding to the summons of Death. The phenomenon spread until the remains in suburban Londan were rising to their feet. In an instant, Death became omnipresent.

The head of the eight million undead soldiers in Londan was none other than the Death Knight, Wayne!

Auston took in everything with his crimson eyes. He never considered the underlings as threats. With a swing of his sword, he unleashed magnificent Darkness energy and rendered countless remains into powder in an instant. Rows of skeletons collapsed like barley, and their white skulls flew and scattered.

Rather than being crushed by Darkness, the skulls ended up pulled toward the massive skull projection in the sky by its gravitational pull. Slowly but surely, they filled the projection and made it into a tangible entity.

Clearly, the Death Knight was going to use his ultimate attack!

Raising Dawn Doctrine, William teleported along a path of light and reached the mountainous skull, radiating violent waves of radiance. A blinding sphere inflated with him at the center.

Boom!

A golden and red mushroom cloud rose from the shaking ground. It was clearly a bad idea to team up with the Sun Knight. Every single Sun Knight had adopted the fighting style of making mushroom clouds everywhere. Their friendly fire was as powerful as their hostile fire.

Auston dodged away through Darkness, while the Death Knight had escaped through a portal on his mount at the last second. The scorching sphere hovered above ground like a heartless sun that cruelly unleashed its might, evaporating all the remains in the Great Cemetery and leaving only a crater of several kilometers in diameter.

Scorching red rivers flowed. Heated air that distorted vision was everywhere. Under the now red sky, it seemed that the entire world was burning in fierce fire.

***

Wayne stepped on air and rushed toward the bone dragon. His target wasn’t the Death Knight, but Silvia. Only after he took Master’s remains back for safekeeping could he take on the Death Knight. He had to remember his priority.

In the air, the black dragon brandished her fangs and claws at the bone dragon. Hit by the skeletal tail, she slammed into the ground and brought up swathes of dust.

Wayne watched with fury. His second mother had been raised by his mother, and she never had the heart to hit his second mother.

That sounded wrong, but with the Lando family, no family tree was too absurd. Anything made sense for the family.

Amid dragging shadows, Wayne launched himself up and landed on the back of the bone dragon. Putting away his greatsword, he took a deep breath and silently called out, “Master.”

His black hood fell back to reveal his face. The skeletal rider raised her lance, but stilled when she saw his face, perhaps triggering a recognition mechanism set up by the Death Knight.

Wayne’s eyes glowed red. He knocked the lance out of her grip with heat vision.

Raising a hand, he conjured green vines from the tips of his fingers. They grew against the wind and wove into a massive hand to grapple the bone dragon by its skeletal wings and limbs, dragging it to the ground.

Amid the rumbling impact, Wayne went up to the skeletal rider. She struggled to decide whether she should attack. She raised a fist, but lowered it in the end.