The entire domain shook violently, as if it would completely collapse in the next moment.
Noah steadied himself on the trembling ground and fixed his gaze toward the direction where Celestial Court Radiance had struck.
Hecate's figure had already vanished. In the newly blasted giant pit, only a golden Dreamless Echo remained.
"To think you escaped using Hecate's second life. Phrolova, you bastard."
Noah extended his perception. After confirming that no trace of Hecate remained in the domain, he flicked out his terminal and collected the Dreamless Echo.
[Echo: Dreamless (Havoc Eclipse).]
[Quality: 5-Star Calamity Class.]
[Main Attributes: Crit DMG 44%, ATK 150.]
[Substats: Crit Rate 8.3%, Crit DMG 18.2%, ATK 80, ATK 10.1%, Basic Attack DMG Bonus 7.9%.]
After briefly scanning the attributes of the Dreamless, Noah raised his head and looked at the enormous eyeball suspended high in the air.
As expected, behind that giant eyeball, a spatial vortex was slowly forming.
"Phrolova can run! Let's see how you escape!"
Noah pinched an incantation with both hands, mobilizing his Resonance power once more.
Without 50 layers of Dawnlight or 4 layers of Jingzhe, this attack might not be enough to kill the Threnodian Ovathrax, but... it would at least collect some interest from the Threnodian on behalf of Jinzhou.
A beam of white light, like divine punishment from a god, ruthlessly struck the enormous eyeball in the sky, piercing a pitch-black hole through it.
He heard an extremely pained Whisperin wail echo throughout the domain.
Black-purple liquid slowly dripped from the hole in the eyeball.
"Did I beat the egg white out of you, little brother?"
Noah sneered.
After consecutive intense battles, the Resonance energy belonging to Jinhsi's character within him had been completely depleted. At this point, he was already at the end of his strength.
But that did not stop him, now thoroughly fired up, from spouting arrogant words:
"Ovathrax, I'll let you off this time. If you dare cause trouble in Jinzhou again, I'll fucking shake your yolk to pieces!"
As his words fell, the Whisperin within the [Sky-Suspended Beacon Fire] domain first faltered, then, as if thoroughly enraged, became incomparably violent.
The vortex behind the giant eyeball suddenly froze. Terrifying energy, dark as an abyss, materialized and rose from both sides of the domain.
In just a few breaths, the materialized dark energy nearly covered the entire domain, leaving only a narrow straight passage in the center.
Gulp.
The fanaticism in Noah's eyes gradually faded, and sober rationality once again took control of his mind.
He swallowed hard, nervously watching the enormous eyeball in the high sky that continuously leaked black-purple liquid.
Even without [Perception], he could tell that terrifying energy was frantically accumulating in front of that eyeball, as if it would blast toward him in the next second.
No... wait... what did Ovathrax mean by this? He was just trash-talking a little. Were Solaris's Threnodians really this sensitive?
In an instant, Noah regretted it so much he wanted to slap himself twice.
Other Threnodians would concede and prepare to flee, yet he went and taunted It. Now that It actually stayed, he wasn't happy about it.
Silently switching his character from Jinhsi to Verina, Noah's heart sank.
It's over. The once-every-ten-minutes "famous sword" hasn't cooled down yet!
While Noah wallowed in regret, Ovathrax's heart was also bleeding with pain.
After years of war, It had finally managed to recover some energy and was on the verge of awakening Its consciousness.
Then Jinzhou's general led troops straight into Norfall Barrens and even invaded Its domain.
That was fine. With Its assistance, two replicas with unlimited energy should have been enough to deal with intruders.
But then one of the intruders went all out and defeated both replicas.
That was fine too. The greatest threat—the general—had been teleported away by It. The other intruder perished together with a replica. It finally managed to reconstruct Its proudest ultimate weapon: Dreamless.
But then the intruder who should have died revived at full health, became ridiculously strong, and paralyzed Its proudest weapon in a single round.
That was still fine. Victory and defeat are common in war. One failure would only make It prepare more thorough strategies later. Moreover, It had accumulated so much energy from this war.
Ovathrax had already prepared to retreat, only for another Calamity-class Hecate to join the fray.
It thought: one Calamity-class Dreamless couldn't win, but adding a Calamity-class Tacet Discord should do it. So It exhausted Its strength to heal Dreamless.
Then... both Calamity-class Tacet Discords were killed together!
Hope dashed again and again, Ovathrax had long been furious.
It endured humiliation for the greater good and gritted Its teeth to retreat, only to suddenly take a "shot" that pierced a hole in Its "battery," causing the energy inside to leak wildly.
So after enduring for so long, not only did It lose soldiers and generals, but even the tiny benefit It gained had to be fully compensated.
Who the fuck could tolerate this!
No more tolerating!
Rather than watch Its energy drain away for nothing, It would gather the remaining energy and kill this guy who claimed he would shake Its yolk to pieces.
That was what Ovathrax thought, and that was what It did.
Malevolent energy continuously converged. All the chaos, fear, and madness generated on the battlefield became the source of infinite power, compressed without limit.
Finally, after extreme compression, the black-purple energy exploded with a boom, transforming into a hemispherical energy wave that spread wildly outward.
The energy wave rapidly approached Noah along the only straight passage left in the center of [Sky-Suspended Beacon Fire], leaving him no escape route at all.
The soil overtaken by this infinitely terrifying attack was annihilated inch by inch, reduced to particles too tiny for the naked eye to see.
One could imagine that anyone hit by this strike would not even have ashes left.
Even Ovathrax Itself was extremely satisfied with this all-out attack.
As the terrifying beam drew near, the intruder's face indeed showed unprecedented panic and confusion.
Such an expression was truly pleasing to Its sight!
Just as the black-purple energy wave representing infinite destruction was about to engulf Noah, a tall cyan figure suddenly blocked in front of him.
"Surpassing a Thousand Peaks!"
The winds of the world were summoned into countless cyan dragons, roaring as they confronted this heaven-and-earth-destroying energy wave.
The domain resounded with an enraged Whisperin roar. The terrifying energy wave completely dissipated.
The enormous eyeball hanging high in the sky drilled into the vortex and fled, and along with it, the entire domain quieted down.
Jiyan, covered in blood, could no longer support the long spear in his hand and collapsed powerlessly. Behind him stood Noah, safe and sound.
===✧✦✧===
Outside the domain—
A Deep Abyss Guard loomed high above, its heavy fist about to land on Yangyang. Yangyang's trembling hands barely raised Overture to block.
She closed her eyes tightly, already prepared for death.
One second, two seconds... She opened her eyes in confusion. The Deep Abyss Guard in front of her had already turned into broken frequencies and dissipated.
A ray of setting sun pierced through the thick clouds, gently falling on the feathered girl's face, illuminating her smile of joy mixed with tears.
Further away, the young Taoist who had been desperately holding on amid countless Tacet Discord waves suddenly felt the pressure lift. The star-flower girl healing the wounded looked up in delight. Countless soldiers let out excited and fervent roars.
"We won!"
They shouted.
"We won!"
They were moved to hot tears.
More and more sunlight broke through the clouds. This land stained with blood and fire was no longer shrouded in gloom.
[Main Quest: Grand Warstorm - Part 2 has been completed.]
[Currently possessing Radiant Tide *20, Lustrous Tide *55, Astrite *10600, Shell Credits *880000.]