Free Web NovelChapter 154: Fall Of The Sun
Midnight finally arrived in Sunfall Oasis.
The massive celestial array blazed to life with a blinding, corrupted red light.
Ancient runes carved deep into the polished marble floor flared with intense heat.
Scarlet Matriarch stood in the exact center of the glowing circle with Kai.
She pulled him close, ensuring their bodies were pressed tightly together as the dark ritual officially began.
Thick red chains of pure celestial magic materialized from the floorboards.
These glowing tethers wrapped securely around their legs and torsos, trying forcefully to fuse their magical cores together.
"Now," she gasped, throwing her head back in absolute ecstasy.
"Take my power, Kai."
"Give me your ice."
"Bind us together!"
The magical link between their souls ripped wide open.
Kai felt her chaotic, burning star magic flood violently into his own pathways.
It was a desperate, starving energy designed to drain his internal strength and stabilize her failing, corrupted body.
He felt the scorching heat trying to consume his mind and rewrite his free will.
He simply smiled.
’Now,’ Kai thought, his glowing eyes narrowing with lethal intent.
He unleashed everything he had been holding back for the past week.
Absolute Zero poured through the wide-open connection like a catastrophic tidal wave of winter.
His freezing mana surged aggressively straight into her exposed, vulnerable core.
He did not just block her heat; he utterly overwhelmed it.
The pure, biting cold slammed into her stolen star power, turning the chaotic energy into brittle, jagged ice right inside her veins.
Scarlet Matriarch’s crimson eyes widened in sudden, horrifying shock and unimaginable agony.
"What..." she choked out, her breath pluming into white mist.
"What are you doing?" she screamed, her athletic body convulsing violently against him.
"I am freezing you from the inside out," Kai replied coldly.
He gripped her waist with iron strength so she could not possibly pull away from the connection.
"Stop," she begged, thrashing wildly in his arms.
"You are killing me!"
"You wanted my ice," Kai reminded her, his voice devoid of any mercy or hesitation.
"You begged me for it all week long."
"Now you are going to choke on it."
Her glowing red veins rapidly turned a sickly shade of blue.
The color drained from her skin completely until the veins flashed bright white.
They literally shattered like fragile glass beneath her pale flesh.
Sharp, jagged ice crystals bloomed violently across her exposed chest and delicate neck.
She let out a bloodcurdling scream as her own corrupted magic instantly turned against her.
The celestial power she relied on to rule the desert was actively freezing her internal organs one by one.
She tried to summon a blast of fire to push him away, but her hands were already frozen solid.
The massive celestial array cracked violently under their boots.
Ancient stone runes exploded upward in massive, chaotic bursts of conflicting red and blue light.
The bound slaves chained around the outer edges of the room convulsed in unison.
They died instantly as the lethal magical backlash tore through their fragile bodies, sparing them from any further torment.
Scarlet Matriarch dropped heavily to her knees on the ruined floor.
She was still clutching the black silk of Kai’s robe with her freezing fingers.
Thick, jagged ice spread rapidly across her entire body.
It crawled up her jawline, turning her beautiful, tyrannical face into a frozen, permanent mask of terror and absolute betrayal.
"You..." she gasped, her voice cracking with a sickening crunch as dense frost completely filled her lungs.
"You betrayed me."
"You betrayed yourself," Kai said, looking down at her kneeling form without a single ounce of pity.
"You thought you could put a collar on a blizzard."
"You were warned that playing with fire would eventually get you burned."
"But playing with ice just leaves you dead."
"Kai," she whimpered, a single, frozen tear sliding down her pale cheek.
With one final, merciless push, he flooded the broken array with pure, unadulterated Absolute Zero.
The entire ritual chamber exploded outward in a blinding, deafening storm of jagged ice and shattered starlight.
The shockwave knocked the heavy brass doors right off their iron hinges.
Scarlet Matriarch’s body froze completely solid in a fraction of a second.
Then, she shattered. freewebnσvel.cѳm
Her frozen corpse exploded into a thousand glittering, bloody pieces that scattered across the frosted marble floor.
The desert queen was instantly reduced to nothing but red dust and sparkling ice crystals.
The celestial array collapsed completely inward, unable to sustain the conflicting energies.
The massive palace tower shook violently beneath his feet as centuries of stolen, hoarded power detonated in a cataclysmic, chain-reaction blast.
Kai stood perfectly still in the dead center of the absolute destruction.
He was covered head to toe in white frost and the Matriarch’s frozen blood.
He breathed hard, letting his lungs heave as the massive exertion finally caught up with his drained core.
Suddenly, the system flooded his vision with a cascading waterfall of bright blue notifications.
[System: The Frozen Throne – Hidden Quest Complete]
[Target Status: Scarlet Matriarch Eliminated]
[Calculating Experience and Rewards...]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Major Power Upgrade Acquired: Absolute Domain Unlocked]
[New Title Acquired: "The Butcher of Sunfall"]
[Title Effect: Enemies of a lower level will experience paralyzing fear in your presence]
Kai smirked, swiping his hand to clear the first wave of text.
More glowing prompts immediately replaced them, delivering the final, ultimate payoff for his dangerous gamble.
[Loot Recovered from Shattered Core]
[Item Obtained: Kingdom Core Fragment (Sunfall Oasis)]
[Description: A fragment of pure authority. Holding this fragment grants control over the city’s ancient defense wards.]
[Item Obtained: Corrupted Celestial Spark]
[Mythic Weapon Upgrade Initiated...]
[Voidglass Dagger has absorbed the Celestial Spark!]
[Weapon Evolved: Void-Star Fang (Mythic Tier)]
[Weapon Effect: Strikes now deal absolute cold damage that ignores standard magical barriers.]
Kai reached into his hidden sheath and pulled out his dagger.
The purple glass now pulsed with a terrifying, frozen starlight core.
It hummed with an undeniable, mythic power that sent a fresh thrill of adrenaline straight through his tired veins.
"Perfect," Kai whispered to the empty, ruined room.
The royal palace began to physically collapse all around him.
Massive chunks of the vaulted stone ceiling crashed down onto the frozen floorboards.
Red magical lights flickered rapidly in the corridors before dying out completely as the corrupted wards unraveled.
Kai casually walked out of the ruined ritual chamber.
He stepped carelessly over the frozen, glittering remains of the woman who thought she could own him.
Loud brass alarms rang wildly throughout the entire palace complex.
Surviving guards and terrified servants screamed in pure panic as the central tower started crumbling to the ground.
Nobody even tried to stop him as he navigated the falling debris.
The Sandguard Elites were too busy dropping their weapons and running for their miserable lives.
Kai looked out through a shattered stained-glass window toward the lower rings of the city.
He knew exactly where Yena was waiting for him in the shadowed alleyways.
’Time to go,’ Kai thought, feeling a cold, deeply satisfied smile stretch across his face.
The tyrannical desert queen was finally dead.
Her twisted harem was broken, and her stolen power belonged to him now.
Sunfall Oasis would absolutely never be the same again.
The grand marble staircase crumbled directly beneath Kai’s boots, sending massive chunks of polished stone plunging into the dark abyss of the lower levels.
The royal tower was tearing itself apart from the inside out.
Centuries of hoarded celestial magic violently decompressed, ripping through the ancient structural supports with deafening, thunderous roars.
Thick red dust choked the hot desert air, but Kai moved through the falling debris with a relaxed, predatory grace.
His newly evolved mythic dagger, the Void-Star Fang, hummed eagerly at his hip. Whenever a collapsing pillar threatened to crush his skull, he did not even bother dodging out of the way. He simply snapped his fingers. A localized pulse of his Absolute Domain flared outward, freezing the massive stone blocks solid in mid-air just long enough for him to casually step past them.
He finally reached the grand courtyard. The once-pristine royal gardens were a chaotic war zone.
Terrified nobles and surviving Sandguard elites scrambled toward the heavy iron gates, trampling each other in a desperate, frantic bid for survival. A squad of loyalist guards spotted Kai walking out of the main keep, covered in white frost and their queen’s blood. They raised their gilded spears, though their hands shook wildly.
"Move," Kai ordered, his voice echoing with an unnatural, chilling resonance that cut right through the panic.
His newly acquired system title, The Butcher of Sunfall, activated instantly. The guards took one look at his glowing, starlight eyes and dropped their weapons. They fell to their knees on the ruined grass as a paralyzing, unnatural dread seized their lungs. They could not even form the necessary words to beg for mercy. Kai walked right past them without sparing a second glance.
Outside the inner palace walls, the lower rings of Sunfall Oasis descended into absolute pandemonium. Adobe buildings shook violently as the central tower finally gave way, collapsing upon itself in a massive, apocalyptic cloud of red dust and crushed marble.
Through that thick, choking haze, a familiar figure sprinted toward him.
Yena wore her stolen servant’s tunic, holding a curved desert sword tightly in her right hand. She skidded to a sudden halt a few yards away, her amber eyes going wide as she took in his blood-soaked, frost-covered appearance. She looked at the ruined, smoking tower behind him, then stared right back at his face.
"You arrogant, reckless bastard," Yena breathed out, dropping her heavy sword straight into the sand. "You actually did it."
"I told you I was not leaving until she was dead," Kai smirked, brushing a thick layer of white frost off his bare shoulder.
She did not hesitate for another second. She closed the distance and threw her arms tightly around his neck, burying her face against his cold, scarred chest. Kai caught her effortlessly, wrapping his strong arms around her waist, letting the lingering adrenaline of the massacre finally begin to fade from his veins. freewebnøvel.coɱ
"The whole city is going crazy," Yena murmured against his skin, her voice muffled but filled with relief. "The slave pens broke open down in the fighting pits. The rebel factions are already taking over the wealthy merchant districts. Who is going to rule this giant mess?"
Kai pulled back slightly, reaching into his pocket to retrieve the glowing Kingdom Core Fragment.
The jagged piece of crystal pulsed with a steady, obedient golden light resting in his palm.
It was the absolute authority over the city’s ancient defense wards.
"I think we need to establish a brand new set of rules," Kai mused, looking out over the chaotic, sprawling desert oasis.
"The desert has been burning for way too long, Yena. It is time they learned to appreciate the winter."
