Chapter 1617 Welcome

Chapter 1617 Welcome

Immortal was feeling terrible.

For the past hour, he had been torturing this bastard, inflicting upon him unimaginable pain in novel ways.

Varian screamed, roared and whimpered.

But he never begged.

He never showed remorse or regret.

Varian suffered brutal horrors that would wilt the heart of the brave at a glance and had the galls to smile, smirk and mock Immortal whenever he could.

Immortal did everything he could think of. And grandly failed to break Varian.

This victory that he longed for the past thousand years did not taste so sweet.

It was certainly cathartic defeating the only man who beat him in the same rank.

But at some point, Immortal realized that Varian was less than a hundred years old.

All positive feelings in his heart dissipated, leaving behind envious, frustrated and ironically, helpless thoughts.

For everyone else, Immortal won and Varian lost.

For the man himself, it was a cruel joke that he could not accept.

He wanted to win, he wanted to see Varian break down and beg for his mercy.

It did not happen after everything and he saw no path for it until he noticed the change in Varian.

'All the pain in the world might not break you. But you dared to hope! Hope is a dangerous thing. It lifts your spirits and makes you believe you could be more.'

Varian's eye sockets glowed with a black and white light.

Immortal loosened his hold on Varian and smiled heartily.

'But when that hope is killed, the pain will shatter your soul.'

The black and white light suddenly turned blindingly bright, rivaling the brightness of stars.

The rank 2 powerhouses except Keman and Yami felt a sense of discomfort watching that glow and turned away for a moment.

It would hurt a little, might need him to regenerate but that's it. So, Immortal waited for Varian to move first so that he could respond in kind and crush him absolutely.

Varian's eyes slowly glowed with determination and Immortal held his breath, waiting for the attack to emerge.

The net of seven powers closed abruptly and Immortal let it strike him with a carefree expression. The power of life, death and soul split him into pieces, drained his vitality and pumped his undead aspect with vitality. The order and chaos tore him apart. Space-time distorted the entire fabric around him, making it difficult for him to escape. "That's it?" Within a blink, Immortal recovered from all injuries and raised his hand at Varian. A lotus of red bloomed from his palm. "I was expecting more." Before he could shoot the flower of death, Varian's figure blurred and he vanished. A smooth teleportation, very useful in escaping. But—

"Not so fast!" Immortal used the power of life he left on Varian, using it to directly transfer his consciousness to that position and create a body there.

Varian blasted out that piece of corrupted vitality and kept teleporting. Naturally, Immortal kept chasing. The distance between them was falling, leaving Varian with only a dozen more seconds until he came face to face with Immortal again.

"Coward? I never expected you to be a coward! Varian, you are spineless! Hahahahaha!" Immortal finally found joy in the subjugation and snorted in satisfaction. "That's it. I've had enough fun with you."

His power soared and the distance between them was cut in half. Varian hurriedly used the power of time to slow down Immortal but the latter had already transferred his consciousness to a newly constructed body elsewhere.

In just three leaps, Immortal was dangerously close to Varian. The divine rankers watching the battle with interest shrugged. The battle had come to a closure.

And now that Immortal had enough 'fun', he'd be killing Varian instead of keeping him alive. Even though they didn't know why, the intuition of these divine rankers said it was a good thing. In the corner of their subconscious, a part of them was afraid. Afraid of this monster who flipped all conventional wisdom. So, they wanted him gone.

On the contrary to the complacent and relaxed divine rankers, Varian's camp was tense but this time, they were hopeful.

Varian gave Sarah and Isadora one glance after regenerating was enough. Sarah was confident, no, she was damn sure that he'd be able to solve this impossible situation.

Isadora, on the other hand, leaned back into her seat and sighed in relief. Even though her heart was still throbbing in anxiety, her mind was telling her to relax. 'Everything is going to be alright. He said so.' The maids were smiling. Helena had a relieved expression and looked at the silhouettes of the distant divine rankers with a vengeful expression.

She remembered every single one of their scornful remarks, especially the ones who laughed when Varian was in misery. Her master might've not paid attention to these things during that state and the ladies were too fixated on him to even register what's happening. But she carefully listened and remembered every single thing.

So, one day, not too far in the future, she'd watch her master and ladies enforce justice.

Their laughters must turn into wails and only screams must leak out of the mouths that made those lowly comments.

Unlike Helena who was planning a revenge, Hazel had to shut her mouth to stop herself from yelling 'Yaaay! Master will win!'

And Primula, who was finally allowed to use her senses, looked at the positive expressions of everyone in their camp.

"You call yourself adults but can't even cheer for brother! Hmph! Adult? More like old ladies! A thousand years? Seriously?"

While a certain girl was dissing off practically everyone in her camp, Varian vanished once again, teleporting into the deep reaches of space. Like the divine rankers, Immortal too laughed at Varian's last struggle and transferred to his position.

...Unlike every other place so far, this one was inside a world.

The doors of the worlds closed and Hortus' sky turned red with thick black lightning falling like rain.

"Welcome to Hortus. This is my world. And this is going to be your graveyard."