Chapter 1619 Hero Title

Chapter 1619 Hero Title

Immortal didn't even bother to defend himself properly.

Varian's power bombarded him back to back, from the bits of order and chaos to the chaos of space and time.

Immortal's smile remained when he was sliced into two or was torn asunder by the brutal winds of space.

Varian fully used his artifacts, used his paths in unison and unleashed the power of slivers, leaving no stone behind to shatter Immortal.

"Hahahaha, I like this! I like it a lot!"

Eventually, Immortal started to fight back but his body was already too injured, his condition too bad to actually give Varian proper resistance.

In a matter of minutes, Varian slashed him into pieces, burned every inch of his body and broke his soul.

"Haa! Haa! Haa!"

Through the power of Hortus, he could keenly feel Immortal 'resurrecting' despite the destruction of his soul.

He tried to stop the process using Heaven's Will but it simply did not work.

"You know, I think this world is a bit more special than it seems." Immortal, back in his peak form, commented with a curious smile.

Varian gripped the handle of his sword and looked at him with a vigilant gaze. For an enemy like this, there seemed no other method than sealing him off. It might've it on someone else.

But Immortal could not be sealed. The bastard must've spread his vitality power all over the place and should be able to escape any confinement if push really came to shove.

Moreover, the duel wouldn't end if one got sealed. It would end only when one of them gets killed.

'If I can seal him, use that time to improve my proficiency in slivers, I can beat him.'

But doing so would need Hortus to lift its current ban on all 'divine' places—the three forbidden places.

If that happened, chances were that Keman and Yami would call off the match for violating the rules and might even kill him with that excuse.

"Now that I look at it again, this world has an old scent. I've visited some very old synthetic worlds but this...this has a scent of..." Immortal narrowed his eyes and suddenly raised his hand.

The sword Varian threw was caught in his hand with an effortless grip and began to creak as he flooded it with the power of life and death.

Crack!

Immortal's power exploded outward blasting Requiem into pieces and reached Varian before the latter could properly react.

Crack! Crack!

The two other artifacts were deliberately targetted and unfortunately couldn't last against the power of slivers.

Varian clutched his bleeding chest and tried to create some distance.

Heaven's Will was already doing its best to suppress Immortal's powers and knocked him down to 80% of a divine ranker.

But even that was very difficult to face for a 63% like him.

The worst of it all—

"Give up, Varian." Immortal clenched his fist and Varian's arm exploded.

Immortal's body and soul was disintegrated at the same time. And this time, a tiny bit of sliver power was also drawn out. The power of life-death slivers—the source of his Immortality.

Once the extraction of that power started, a fundamental change occured in Immortal.

His regeneration stopped and the mystical aura around him fell.

"No! No, you can't do this! This is a divine power! You ca—mff!"

Varian punched him in the face and cleaned the blood on his fist with a kerchief gifted by Primula.

"Do you think I'm a donkey to accept unfair fight and abide by the rules? I have to win, that's all. Doesn't matter how it is done."

Varian patted the cheek of his dear enemy whose body was fast disintegrating like sand.

"Th-They'll find you! They'll know! They should've already known by now! They're coming! My mother wi—mfff!"

"You really are a cave man without any social interactions." Varian shook his head. "I took care to cover up any suspicious power fluctuations from Hortus. They still think it's just better than average synthetic world.

Aphosis knows it's not. If he speaks up even a little bit, they will want to open this world and watch the battle for the sake of fairness.

But guess what?"

Immortal's eyes widened and his consciousness began to fade.

In the heart of Nexus, Aphosis silently turned to Aridam and conveyed a news in his ever calm voice.

'I put out a few fields to defend Hortus. All the defensive ones were broken by Yami. But the stealth fields, they're still there.

They are aware of what's happening inside but with less accuracy.

As long as direct divine power isn't used, Varian can use Hortus as he pleases.'

Aridam crossed his arms. 'And you call yourself a fair judge by withholding such crucial information?'

'I am a fair judge. So in an unfair battle, I have to be unfair for the sake of fairness.'

Inside Hortus, Immortal struggled to hold onto his consciousness, trying to survive for at least one more second.

"No, no, no...it shouldn't be like this. I am the Hero, I was supposed to...I....arghhh!"

Varian watched with an indifferent gaze as the last bits of 'Immortal' died off.

The sacrifice ritual withdrew and the 'Undead' Varian collapsed right away.

Varian sighed heavily, strengthened the seal on Hortus and stepped out.

The injuries on him healed by the time he reached Nexus and the divine rankers who were waiting for the arrival of Immortal were dumbfounded.

"S-Son, why did you take on the form of that wretched soul?" Yami's trembling voice greeted him.

"Son?" Varian had a strange smile on his face as he gave the woman a mocking glance before raising his arms.

"I am not the son. I am the savior of the alliance, the prophesied hero.

You can kindly refer to me with my Hero Title—call me 'Daddy'."