Chapter 605 (Spoiler, Title at the Bottom of the Chapter)

Watching the intense battle that was taking place, Marcus felt the urge to go back and help.

He could not simply give up on the fight simply because he had blown himself up in a last-ditch suicide attack.

Yet as the went to open his status and click the return button, he found that it would not open.

Glaring at the administrator, he said, “What did you do? Why can’t I go back?”

However, instead of answering him, she summoned a bucket of popcorn and began eating as if she was watching a movie instead of a battle with millions of real lives on the line.

With his frustration going Marcus wanted to lash out at the administrator, but he knew in the rational part of his mind that was not going to get him anywhere.

“Oh, I thought for sure that time you would try and attack me this time. Still, I am surprised that you treat me with so little respect. I could erase you with a single thought.” The administrator said with a cold voice

But in return Marcus just scoffed, and said, “You are not going to do that. You have put a lot of work into keeping me going and have left Roxene in my care. I can tell that at least you care for her.”

Smiling, the administer was happy that Marcus had seen through her bluff, and said, “To answer your question, I am not letting you go back to prevent you from doing something reckless again. If you destroyed yourself again that would be it. There would be nothing could do to help you then. Anyway, the battle is about to get really interesting, so just sit back and relax.”

After saying this the administrator leaned far back in her chair and watched the battle continued to unfold.

With nothing else to do Marcus did the same, at least wanting to watch as his friends and allies did battle against the Doomsday Worm.

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With the imminent threat still at hand the shock of Marcus having died would have to wait..

All those that were fighting the Dread Burrower knew that this was their chance to take it down, and if they missed it Marcus’ sacrifice would be in vain.

If it somehow managed to get that barrier up again they would be unable to stop it until they were able to recruit another spirit or ethereal being, and that would not be an easy task.

However, as they all went about destroying the enormous monster and were close to succeeding something unforeseen happened.

The ground began to shake, and thousands of beams were fired out from under it surprising all of those who were fighting.

They had not expected such a high-powered attack from the Doomsday Worm after it had been blown apart from Marcus and damaged further by their own attacks.

Even Jaela was caught off guard and had to go on the defensive as these beams shot up from below.

Then as if to mock all of their efforts, rising up from the ground was the Dread Burrower, having regenerated most of its body underground.

As it rose up out of the ground nearly back in its peak condition it finally became apparent as to why it was called the Dread Burrower.

It had sent thousands of its tendrils underground and they had been draining the life from below the earth.

Not only that but even as it was being destroyed above it could regenerate itself anew underground.

At the very least it seemed that it was not able or was not going to once again put up its impenetrable barrier.

Once the barrage of beams began to end the Dread Burrower let out a viscous roar and its body started pulsing.

Its flesh began to compress around it and its massive form began to get smaller.

Soon it was only around seventy percent of the size it had once had, but it seemed far more dangerous now.

Then with a quick flash its mouth shot out like chameleon’s tongue, and it swallowed one of the knights under Darius’ command.

“Vorpal Fang.”

“Light Speed Slash.”

Just a second after the knight was eaten Jaela and the Sword Savant went in for the attack using some of their best skills.

Yet the previously sluggish Dread Burrower was now moving with speed unnatural for its size.

It wiped the back part of its body around with enough speed and force to create a high-speed windstorm and smacked into Jaela.

At the same time thousands of its tendrils merged together and intercepted Asher who plunged into the viscous liquid and was caught.

A huge explosion then shocked through the ground over a hundred miles away as Jaela was launched by the Doomsday Worms attack. And following that, multiple huge plumes of water shot up high into the air as she skipped across the surface of the ocean.

Still her attack had not been for nothing, and a large portion of the Dread burrower’s body was sliced clean through and slammed into the ground with a devastating crash.

The Sword Savant however was most certainly not in the best situation having been engulfed by the colossal tendril made from thousands of smaller ones.

His ability to fight back was quickly drained away, and all he could do was sit motionless in the liquid as it sapped his life and dragged him back towards the Doomsday Worm’s body.

Of course, his allies were not just going to let him be dragged away to his doom, an Gwyneira flew in fast with ice already forming around her as she began freezing the giant tendril.

While she did this, to take some pressure off of her, both Retharin and Ardea prepared their biggest attacks.

A huge mountain as big as the enormous monster appeared over Ardea’s head, and a raging storm of lighting and wind formed around Retharin.

The two of them quickly launched their powerful attacks, but the second they did, the Dread Burrower released a massive blast of energy from its mouth as it fired off a single concentrated beam.

This blast smashed right through Ardea’s mountain, and it moved too fast for her to evade before she was completely engulfed by it.

Retharin’s attack at least did connect, but for the first time the Doomsday Worm actually tried to dodge and leapt its huge body to the side in order to not be hit by the powerful storm directly.

It was like they had suddenly started fighting an entirely new monster, as the Dread Burrower moved far fast and with more ferocity than it had before.

This was due to them pushing it so far that it could no longer brush them off and had to finally get serious.

It was a slothful creature by nature, but now that its life was in danger after having its barrier broken, it was using all of its power to fight back.

Nevertheless, Retharin and Ardea’s distraction had been successful in garnering the gigantic monster’s attention, and Gwyneira managed to free Asher who had been trapped in its tendrils.

Unfortunately, he was now unconscious after having all of his energy and some of his life force drained.

Along with him, Ardea had not come out unscathed from the attack she had taken, and there were numerous parts of her body that had been heavily damaged, including a large hole in her left lung.

With them having been suddenly overwhelmed they tried to retreat and regroup with Aria and her mages providing cover fire, but Gwyneira who had gotten close to rescue the Sword Savant was in danger.

The Dread Burrower had begun launching its mouth out at her and she was doing all she could to avoid it.

But that along with its tendrils surrounding her and cutting off her escapes at every turn, were slowly backing her into a corner.

Even with Darius and Aria using all of their powers, they simply were not strong enough to get the Doomsday Worms attention away from trying to eat Gwyneira.

Within just a few seconds the worst happened and Gwyneira was just barely caught on the edge of the Dread Burrower’s mouth, as a dozen of its sharp teeth pierced into her,

She tried flying away but the teeth themselves closed down on her and began draining her energy.

In one last ditch effort she tried freezing the monster with her supreme skill but found that already her power had been drained to the point that she could not use it.

With her final attempts to struggle being unsuccessful, Gwyneira was reeled back in at a blistering speed with no hope of escape.

Before she was ultimately swallowed and shredded though, she tossed the Sword Savant away, hoping that by some miracle he might survive.

Then she braced herself to be eaten, since help just could not get to her in time, as the Doomsday Worm held off her allies with its innumerous tendrils.

Yet right before its mouth was pulled back into its body along with Gwyneira, a huge blade of wind shot down from the sky and cut her free.

She suddenly felt her body become weightless right before she began falling, still trapped on the teeth of the severed part of the Doomsday Worm’s mouth.

Looking up towards Retharin she was certain that it must have been him that had saved her, but when she looked in his direction, she could see that he was currently caught up in trying to protect Ardea as they were being mercilessly attacked by thousands of tendrils and had certainly not been the one to save her.

However, before she could recover, the Dread Burrower lurched forward and aimed to swallow her again with its already regenerating mouth.

“GET AWAY FROM MY WIFE!”

With a resounding voice booming across the battlefield everyone’s attention was drawn to it, and from the direction it had come from a colossal twister began falling down from the sky.

This twister that easily the same size of the Doomsday smashed right into it before it could eat Gwyneira.

And while an attack of this size should have caught her up in it as well, it instead of sucking her, it harmlessly blew her away.

A figure then descended out of the sky and caught her, and a gentle green light enveloped her body to begin healing her.

“Sorry I am so late. It was difficult to get out from where I was, but I came over as fast as I could once I received your emergency message. I hope you can forgive me for being gone so long and leaving you to deal with this kind of threat alone.”

Tears began to fall down Gwyneria’s face as she craned her head up and looked at the man who caught her, and with a voice filled with more emotions than she could process, she said, “Boreas!”

Chapter 605 The North Wind Returns