Chapter 687

Chapter 687

The black and purple dragon pulses with murderous Demonic Soul Energy, making the room twice as heavy as when the demon released its aura of intimidation, and its eyes lock onto Ember with genuine rage.

"You're an Overseer... We were wrong... The Divine Beasts that reincarnated to this new world for their cycle were not all killed off..."

Ember grins, showing his sharp teeth while responding.

"Yes... I stayed on my last world longer than expected. I wasn't able to ascend in my last life. I managed to make it to this world just in time. But—an Overseer? Don't group me in with those underachievers."

Ember's True Core pulses, sending waves of yellow divine light all over his body. Its unique ability is being manifested for the first time, and a bright yellow fire moves up from his chest into his throat and out his mouth in a blinding display of light before the purple dragon can even process the words he just spoke.

A pillar of bright yellow light, crackling with trace amounts of silver threads, hits the Demonic Dragon's left wing, searing right through with almost no resistance at all.

There have only been a few other instances when an ability like this was used in the past, one of them being when Ember displayed his Soul Energy's unique properties, dissolving a mountain within a dungeon.

His True Core's Divine Flames seem to have a similar property, dissolving through the Dragon's flesh like it's water dripping away.

The pillar of flames hits the back wall of the room, and a wretched dragon's pain-filled roar erupts from the demonic monster.

A moment of terror and realization courses through this beast as it was caught off guard, and the monster turns its head to see the edges of the hole where it was hit expand, dissolving its wing even more.

It lets out a wave of dense purple and yellow divine demonic soul energy from its mouth straight at the wound nonstop, surging high up in the air away from Ember while relentlessly attacking its own wing.

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This collision makes the room fill with even more heavy aura, alerting both myself and the Demon that the battle between our bonded pairs has begun.

The Arch Demon before me doesn't even change its expression as the yellow and purple energy explodes above us; it still swings its sword to kill with no hesitation.

Now, with no incentive to find the Demon's stats, all I have to use my Foresight ability for now is to dodge and get a feel for my opponent's battle style.

I swing my blade upward and jump out of the way to do exactly that.

Red and purple aura collide as our swords meet, and we're both pushed back.

I follow the optimal path, and we collide five more times, blipping all over the room's floor, circling the silver pillar in the center of the room.

Two massive dragons clash in the sky a second time; however, an ominous dark purple Greater Form expands out from the Demonic Dragon in order to block the second pillar of Divine Fire without losing more flesh.

The circular wound in its wing hasn't been healed, but after excessive Demonic Soul Energy regeneration, the spreading dissolving properties finally stop once it doubled in size.

The activation of its Greater Demonic Form makes the Dragon over 150 meters long and creates a new heavy aura in the air.

Another seven exchanges go by between myself and the Demon, circling the pillar of silver light again.

I manage to get a far better feel for my foresight ability, as each dodge and block I act on leads to the next exchange, allowing me to pair up possibilities and dance around the battlefield, missing deadly blows by millimeters over and over again.

Both myself and the Demon know neither of us is using our full power.

However, the third collision in the sky above shifts the tune of this battle from warmup to death match immediately. A wave of Demonic Energy collides with Ember but is completely negated once he begins to expand with a yellow aura to match the purple dragon's size; I know this has to be his Astral Form.

The divine energy density in the room changes again as Ember doesn't stop growing once he's larger than his opponent.

Two monstrous dragon roars fill the air as the Demon before my eyes multiplies, and six of him surround me with swords swinging my way.

All of them feel extremely strong, filled to the brim with mana, demonic energy, and divine threads.

However, I can tell them apart by the sword they carry.

The Demon swaps between its body doubles as my eyes track it; but the Soul Sword in its hand can't be perfectly replicated.

My foresight still sees a path out, but it would result in losing a limb at the very least.

I'm going to activate my Astral Form, but I know it will trigger the Demon to unseal his bloodline on the spot, amping up this battle to its maximum intensity.

I close my eyes for a fraction of a second to prepare, but at the same time, I get a barrage of new notifications from my Rising Emperor's domain coming from outside...

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Half a minute ago, all of the generals received notifications that they are now capable of pulling up to 2% of linked stats.

The bleak situation they were in moments ago has been flipped around once again.

This Demon is decapitated, and its body explodes from the released pressure of its core just a few hundred meters above the ground, creating an enormous crater, leveling the desert down to its bedrock for hundreds of kilometers in all directions.

Raven reappears into reality but doesn't give back her stats just yet.

She swaps out the fire magic skill on her status for telepathy and stares toward the tower, zeroing in on the battle taking place and the third-class Demon that is about to explode.

As the strongest General outside the tower, she yells out orders through their links, appointing Lydia and Fisher as her commanders, and even giving Arie battle plans on how to best take care of this situation.

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A chain reaction of orders is given and followed out, as Arie does exactly as told, appointing Monk as his second Commander.

All four commanders on the battlefield appoint every single member of the Crimson Army as Knights, giving the entire human race a massive boost in power that makes all of the Demons fighting shiver with fear.

Lydia and Fisher leave their formation at the front lines of the Crimson Army, as they aren't needed for protection anymore. They flash over to assist Arie by creating a massive mana and Divine Energy shield in front of him right after he releases an arrow at the monstrosity coming his way.

The corrupted third-class Demon is growing and shrinking in size, spewing Demonic and Divine Energy everywhere it looks, even killing over a dozen Demonic Knights and even a Demonic Commander that is too close by.

It screeches, moving in random directions, and seems as though it's lost all intelligence. The General has turned itself into a brainless Demonic Bomb to get its revenge by any means necessary.

Arie uses the maximum power he has available to him in a single shot, zeroing in on the center of the corrupted Demon's Core. On impact, the violent tendrils of dark black energy cease for a fraction of a second, as instead, they pour into the crack that Arie managed to make in its Divine Core.

Before anyone can blink, the detonation of this angered Demon kills another two dozen of the demonic Knights and three demonic commanders nearby.

It decimates the desert for over 20 kilometers in all directions. The only thing protecting the Crimson Army, the Saint, and even the demonic troops fighting the humans is the unbreakable barrier that Fisher and Lydia created using their enhanced orange cores with trace amounts of yellow threads.

The shock of this blast and massive increase in power from a majority of the troops on the battlefield now using the Rising Emperor's stats has put the Demonic army into chaos.

One of their generals just killed itself. The Saint clashes with the only remaining general left, holding it off using a massive white pure Qi form powered by a high-level Yellow Core.

Arie turns his attention to this last general, pulling back an arrow while Fisher and Lydia unsummon their defensive wall.

The three dozen elite troops in the Crimson Army all go on a rampage, borrowing supreme fire summoning as the most destructive skill at their fingertips. The result of this boost in stats and morale is horrendous for the Demonic forces.

The Red Core Demons needed to be handled by multiple army members before, and they were constantly being saved by Arie in the background.

Now, each of the elemental Elites with over a million base stats in each attribute slices through the Demonic Knights with ease, burning them to ash, killing with no remorse and even challenging some of the orange-cored demonic commanders that scramble to give orders to their knights.

Monk and the two orange cored followers of The Saint join in, targeting the few Demonic Commanders that remain.

From outnumbering the Crimson Army eight to one moments ago, the Demonic forces are cut in half in seconds, and it looks like their full extermination is near.

This all-out slaughter allows Arie to focus on aiming for the perfect shot, pulling back his Greater Form's bow many kilometers away with Luna's eyes guiding his shot.

The Saint also assists in moving the last remaining general into the perfect position, and Arie releases his black arrow to soar over the battlefield.

Fisher and Lydia speed through the masses, slashing through the final remaining Demonic commanders with ease while traveling beneath Arie's shot.

They yell out right before its collision with the general.

"Brace for another impact, this is it!" Putting up massive mana and divine energy defenses while the Saint jumps backward and the final arrow pierces the General's Divine Core.

A massive blast of purple, black, and yellow energy makes a seven-kilometer-wide crater in the desert floor again as this general is killed.

The entire Crimson Army takes this sound and vibration through the desert floor as a final war horn to tear through the remaining enemy troops, not leaving a single Demonic Knight behind.

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Just seconds later, the entire desert below the Silver Dome goes quiet.

Every single Demon under the Vermillion Lord's control has been killed by the humans under the Flame Emperor's command.

The last remaining 4% of stats is relinquished by Raven, Arie, and their underlings, as their job is done, and this power is needed much more elsewhere...

All of the Generals' spectator feeds are cut off as well, and the 51,972,081 pairs of eyes from the growing links of loyalty around the world look at one remaining live feed.

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It shows me pulling an additional 8% of stats while activating my Astral Form.