Chapter 1659: A Defensive Thunderstorm
"Oh well, they defeated them at the end, huh?" the man shrouded in shadows sighed. "Doesn't matter, Surtr's territory is bound to be much more defenseless against them than Drake's..."
The man watched as the other four Abyssal Beast rushed across Surtr's forest territory, quickly reaching the wooden walls. Their claws and tails quickly began smashing the walls, cracks spreading through it.
The Durability of the walls quickly began to drop, the invisible barrier protecting the entire territory continued to grow weaker as well. Several Demons noticed this, purposely buying time while waiting for the defenses of the territory to fall completely.
"While Drake is targeted by Pandemonium, I'll fully concentrate all my forces into destroy Surtr..." the man smiled yet again.
The Abyssal Energies flowing through his body grew stronger and larger, as one of his Abyssal Divine Beasts that he had left behind started scavenging the corpses of the demons.
"Thank you for the suitable sacrifices, Pandemonium, keep making those good materials," he laughed. "{Abyssal Darkness Ritual Arts}: {Abyssal Voidling Summon}"
FLAAASH!
The corpses of the demons littering around began to be consumed by the darkness released by the single Abyssal Divine Beast, slowly disappearing and then leaving behind huge black eggs, which slowly began to crack. And from within, aberrant, tentacled abominations started to pour out...
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CLASH!
BAAM!
CRASH!
The wooden wall's Durability had already lowered by 20% in these last minutes, and the Abyssal Divine Beast couldn't celebrate more as they viciously laughed.
Surtr's forces and strength were being all concentrated outside the forest, fending off the demons and the incoming Monster Wave.
And unlike Drake, he seemed to have no more backup?
This felt like literal free Score Points! The Abyssal Beasts mimicked their master's laughter, their claws tearing through the tough wood shard after shard.
Yet...
FLUOSH!
The skies above suddenly began trembling, the clouds started gathering together, swirling around. Lightning started emerging constantly, rumbling furiously. The winds turned emerald in color, glistening with golden glitter-like energy.
"GRUH?"
The Abyssal Divine Beasts glanced into the skies, shocked to see what was happening, but before they could even respond, a tornado started, and then another, and another, and another!
FLUOOOSH!
The skies raged, lightning strikes struck the beasts constantly, the winds compressed them, lifting them up! The creatures were powerful beings, comparable to Rank 10 Divine Monsters, yet they were unable to fight against the force of the skies themselves!
RUMBLE!
And amidst the winds, there were three figures that could be seen, an enormous dragon with a sharp, golden beak, and two smaller figures, two lizardmen with colorful feathers.
All three of them controlled the skies, the winds quickly unleashed their strongest might, the abyssal divine beasts were lunged away with the raging prowess of nature!
"Get lost."
Emerald spoke, his eyes releasing lightning as his claws conjured a deadly magic spell.
"{Divine Thunderstorm Magic}: {Lightning Catastrophe}"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Thousands of lightning bolts carbonized the abyssal divine beasts into ashes, their bodies exploding and burning until nothing was left.
The mysterious man shrouded on shadows, that was watching the scene calmly while drinking tea, froze. He dropped his cup of tea and spit everything he was drinking.
"W-What?!"
He couldn't believe it!
"Since when... Where did this dragon come from?! A Wind Dragon? And one so powerful?!"
Wind Dragons were believed to be peace-loving hermits that only lived in the skies or in their floating islands, barely if ever interacting with the surface below.
Even now, he thought that they were not capable of unleashing such a high level of divine wind and thunder magic such as this.
However, it wasn't as if the Divine Wind Dragon doing this was any ordinary one.
He was a genius amongst geniuses, beloved by the wind itself, and capable of conjuring its ultimate form, Heavenly Winds!
With Heavenly Winds, manipulating the skies and even the climate was not a fantasy anymore, but real, and completely possible.
Against such an overwhelming force of nature, how could he even respond?!
"Hah... Drake, you bastard, not only you've grown stronger, but you've also even found a bunch of other lizards to team up with, huh?" sighed the man, full of frustration. "But this isn't the end... No."
Black portals opened in front of his territory, as the man glanced the Abyssal Voidling he had created appear in front of him by the hundreds, just in time for the Monster Wave to appear.
"Kill those things, farm me more Score Points, I'll need them."
The man commanded his army of tentacled abominations, as they clashed against the many Divine Monsters, ranging from Rank 7 to 10. The same scene could be seen between all Four Territories. Pandemonium was handling them easily, waving his hand on top of his castle's terrace and tearing through space, killing hundreds of monsters each.
Surtr commanded Emerald and his group to fight, winds and lightning taking down the incoming monster wave with ease, as he started earning more and more Score Points.
And Drake's Undead Army continued multiplying as he took over the corpses of the Demons they had slain to regain more troops after some of the Undead were destroyed.
All while conjuring a strange, cosmic divine ability that spread a colorful nebula of blue, purple, and gold.
Within the Nebula surrounding his territory, stars started to be born, glistening with black, gold, azure, and red colors.
"{Heavenly Abyssal Azure Nebula Domain}"
Thousands of miniature stars moved at his command, rushing down over the monsters and exploding, resembling meteors falling from the sky.
Explosions of light, darkness, fire, and frost continued bombarding the monsters without end!
And it was also what greeted the army of Three Demon Generals comparable in power to Marchosias, and their Demon Soldiers.
"W-What is that?!"
"The skies... They're falling!"
"What sort of technique is this?"
The Demon Generals conjured physical reinforcement abilities and demonic magic shields, defending from the incoming projectiles.
But their Elite Soldiers couldn't do as much, their bodies quickly exploding into countless pieces as Drake's overwhelming might only became more apparent!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"The strongest Demons already dying?!"
"Wait, this is...!"
"Dammit, let's break through and kill that bastard already!"
The Three Generals rushed towards Drake's wall, about to smash it into smithereens with their combined power.
However.
"You're finally here."
A giant black axe descended towards them, as an explosion of Chaotic Flames engulfed them all.
CRAAASH!