235 Chapter 235: Life and death mage, Defeated!

Its been a decade since the final battle between the new inhabitants of the continent and the four ancient elemental dragons, within this time the territories of the new inhabitants and the magic beasts have been shared equally. For this reason, the environment has remained relatively peaceful and only small internal conflicts have occurred, battles between the new inhabitants and high leveled magic beasts which possessed high intelligence stopped as well, only low leveled beasts remained aggressive but it didn't bother anyone since the recruits and military used these magic beasts for training exercises.

Its been five years after the empire civil war event where the death mage murdered over thirty thousand people in a single day just to break the rebellion! Ever since that day, the relationship between the death mage and the elf representative Elsa deteriorated, leaving both sides in a very awkward situation but this did not affect the relationship between the humans and the elves since both sides were both casualties of the death mages ruthless attacks, instead, the event brought them together since they have one common foe and their relationship deepened. The popularity of the palace of the dead pummeled to the ground and it became the most hated sect in the empire. Since the members of this sects were mostly supernatural beings and humans with evil magic, the people loathed them deeply and in some situations took actions against them, some tossing stones, some tossing food, and raw egg but each time this happened, Derik always appeared and completely wiped out everyone in the area! After this happened like five times and close to five hundred more people have died at Derik's hands, these people's hatred was replaced with fear and no one dared to speak against the palace of the dead publicly.

To everyone's surprise, none of the empire's major powers houses tried to stop Derik with only the moon cosmic spirit host and the elf representative Elsa! Both prominent figures engaged the death mage in a heated battle above the empire and were promptly defeated quite easily. Both of them gravely injured and would have lost their lives if the life guardian spirit host, Cyrus did not directly come over to heal their injuries and purge the death aura lingering in their body, yet they still needed close to one year and six months to recover. In reply, the elves gathered their forces and marched towards the mountain where the palace of the dead was established, joining hands with some humans who disapproved of Derik's method, with the human military head Creed and the elven military head Isabel leading the joint forces, they matched towards the palace of the dead.

This was a force most of the civilians praised and cried out too as they marched forward confidently but when they got to the foot of the mountain, the five commanders of the death palace appeared with a horde of demonic-looking supernatural beasts and numerous hooded dark mages behind them. The battle which was expected to be a fierce battle turned into a one-sided beat down! The forces of the death mage did not even lose a member, whereas the joint forces were decimated and numerous lives were lost on their part, ultimately adding to the undead forces of the death mage! Even Creed and Isabel suffered fatal injuries and are yet to recover up till now.

With this, Derik and the palace of the dead became known as one of the most powerful forces in the Aldemar empire, only the palace of life could rival it in power, fortunately, the two palace masters were very tight friends and supported each other's decisions at all times, forming a powerful bond even among their members. For the first time in history, Life and death stood on the same side and supported each other fully!

As time passed by there were no more conflicts which may seem to be a good thing for Derik and Cyrus it was a bad thing. From the very beginning, they have always broken through very quickly by stealing the souls of their victims and using it to strengthen their realm and forcibly push themselves to the next level! They only grew stronger in a chaotic environment and now the chaos is gone their cultivation stagnated while the other gold realm experts progressed at a visible rate. The others were close to the breaking into the mid-grade of the gold realm but Derik and Cyrus were still stuck at the low grade of the silver realm! Their cultivation has reached a bottleneck, and it was only a matter of time before the other surpassed them. This greatly disturbed them!

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Booom!

Derik's violent aura destroyed the mansion and a black beam shot out, fiercely flying towards the green spear with a resounding roar following him tightly. His eyes narrowed and his eyebrows were knitted as he felt the threat of death for the very first time in a long time. He was greatly astonished by this development, he never expected to meet a power which could threaten his life in this continent, even if the other gold realm masters in the empire should breakthrough to the mid-grade of the gold realm, Derik was still sure he could still defeat them thanks to the unique nature of his element. But the power heading towards him felt so foreign and lethal that he was a hundred percent sure that this power is enough to kill him.

Derik's first instinct was to flee but realizing the palace of the dead was right behind him, filled with thousands of disciples looking up to him, he gritted his teeth and charged forward fearlessly. He had already lost his original family, even now he doesn't know much about their current location in the kingdom and he has not bothered to check. He has created a new family, a group of people who were not too different from him they all shared the same vision with him!

There is no way he is going to let them die here!

"KALOS!!!" Derik bellowed gathered all his strength not daring to hold back.

For the first time in a very long time, Derik used his limiter path, taking off his limiters while utilizing his necromancer path to gather his undead souls into his body!

Booooom!!!!

An explosion erupted from Derik's body and his body was covered by a dome made of a combination of numerous elements!

Boooom!!!

Booom!!!

Booooom!!!

"AAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH!" Derik out in pain as his chest exploded and a green spear shot out of his body still heading towards the palace of the dead! His body swayed in the skies a bit before pummeling towards the ground.

"DERIK!!! WHO!!!!" Cyrus' furious cry shook the whole empire, scaring everyone that heard him and his figure above of the palace of the dead.

"I COMMAND THEE… STOP!" Cyrus utilized the power of his third path, the word!

Numerous golden letters shot out of his mouth but it couldn't even slow the spear down! Seeing this, Cyrus' eyebrows furrowed as he pushed his hood back, revealing his glowing majestic face.

"Guardian weapon path: DIVINE BROADSWORD!"

Just like Derik, he too removed his limiters as the massive divine broadsword appeared above his head. His expression turned frosty as he crouched slightly before leaping towards the green spear fearlessly, with his guardian weapon leading the way!

"SPLIT THE SKIES, SHATTER THE HEAVENS!!!" Cyrus bellowed and the size and power of his weapon rose to a whole new level.

Bang!

Bang!!

Boooom!!!

"AAAAGGGGGGHHHH!!!!"

Right before everyone's eyes, the life mages guardian spirit exploded upon contact and the life mage was a tad too slow when reacting to attack, losing his right hand in the process. Just like Derik, he was covered in his golden blood and fell from the skies like a bird shot down by a hunter!