Hake's Choice
The Seventh Sequence!
The Eighth Sequence!
The Ninth Sequence!
The Tenth Sequence!
Half-step Celestial God!
First Sequence Heavenly God...
The golden light emanating from Hake intensified, and the golden Short Blade embedded in his chest began to soften and slowly retract. Finally, the Short Blade completely disappeared into Hake's body, leaving no wound on his chest.
Suddenly, Hake opened his eyes, and two Golden Light shot out from them.
In the void before Hake, a golden Short Blade materialized automatically and was grasped in his hand. This Short Blade was none other than the one that had been plunged into his chest earlier.
With the Short Blade in hand, Hake lightly stroked the blade with one hand, and the rubbing of his fingers against the blade produced a rustling sound of metal rubbing together.
After staring at the Short Blade for a long time, Hake suddenly raised his head and his gaze fell on the Fire Feather Phoenix Eagle.
"Die!"
Hake uttered a simple syllable, and almost simultaneously, his Short Blade slashed out. A golden blade aura descended from the sky with tremendous force, carving a spatial rift in the void that resembled a bottomless abyss.
The Fire Feather Phoenix Eagle barely had time to react before the blade pierced through its body, and crimson blood gushed out. In the next instant, the numerous demonic beasts below witnessed a horrifying scene.
The Fire Feather Phoenix Eagle, Eighth Sequence True God, was sliced in half without any resistance.
With the death of the Fire Feather Phoenix Eagle, the hurricane that had enveloped Liliath dissipated automatically.
Hake appeared beneath Liliath in a flash, catching her around the waist. Looking down at Liliath, he found that her body was almost entirely mangled, and she had fallen into a coma.
Hake frowned slightly. After gently placing Liliath on the ground, he looked up again, this time at Baden, who was dressed in white.
That one glance sent chills down Baden's spine. He knew that the young man before him was no longer the little guy he could manipulate at will.
The mere presence of the opponent was enough to make Baden uneasy. Adding to this, the opponent's powerful kill of the Fire Feather Phoenix Eagle demonstrated extraordinary Combat Strength.
"You deserve to die too!"
Hake swung his Short Blade again, creating a thunderous roar in the void. The golden blade energy tore a gap in the air, and the power of this strike was clearly greater than before.
A look of fear flashed in Baden's eyes, and his original human form instantly transformed into a troll.
The troll's entire body was covered in black, scale-like armor. Only a single, blood-red eyeball shone between its brows. It stood upright on two legs, yet possessed six arms. On its back were a pair of purple wings, their surface adorned with blood-red patterns, making it appear utterly terrifying. Below this was a long, black tail, covered in scales and tipped with hundreds of sharp spikes, each several meters long.
If the Sea Emperor were here, he would definitely recognize that Baden was not a monster from this plane at all, but a demon from the Abyssal Plane.
Baden, having revealed his true form, did not linger in battle. Instead, he flapped his wings and flew backwards into the distance.
"Hmph, do you think you can escape?"
Hake stretched out one hand, Liliath's figure was instantly enveloped in a golden sphere. With a powerful push of her feet, she shot towards Baden like a cannonball.
As Hake drew ever closer, Baden's face suddenly contorted into a ferocious grin, and his tail twisted violently. The hundreds-of-meters-long black tail instantly lengthened, lashing out at Hake.
The sudden attack left Hake with no way to dodge, but he showed no fear. He stretched out one hand and caught a spike from the end of Baden's tail, intercepting the attack.
Baden felt as if his tail had struck an iron plate with a rope, failing to budge the other party in the slightest, and a sense of panic rose in his heart.
His panic quickly became a reality, as he soon felt a tremendous pulling force coming from his tail, causing his body to uncontrollably deviate from its original trajectory and plummet towards the ground below.
"Boom!"
The massive troll body crashed into the ground, and a golden figure descended rapidly afterward. A golden blade of energy quickly condensed and plummeted down, carrying an aura of death.
"Boom!"
Another deafening roar followed, and the entire planet began to crumble under the impact, with countless spiderweb-like cracks spreading across the void. The demonic beasts below scattered in terror.
As the smoke and dust dissipated from the ground, the troll's eyeballs and entire brain could be vaguely seen to have been completely pierced, showing signs of intense burning.
The troll's corpse was also visibly shriveling up at an eerie speed, as if it were being devoured by something.
A thin, blood-red line began to appear between Hake's golden eyebrows.
Before long, the troll's massive corpse completely withered, and a golden light shot out from its body, directly entering Hake's body. The troll's withered corpse then completely turned to dust after a gust of wind.
The faint blood-red line between Hake's eyebrows began to appear and disappear, and Hake's face began to look ferocious at times.
Hake glanced at the torn sky, then fixed his gaze on the golden cocoon of light not far away. After a moment of dazedness, he called out a name, "Lily..."
He then flew towards the golden cocoon of light. Upon arriving in front of it, he waved his hand, and the cocoon gradually dissipated. Liliath, who was encased within it, had almost fully recovered from her injuries and regained consciousness, slowly opening her eyes.
Liliath was taken aback when she saw the golden figure before her, but quickly recognized it. "Hake? Why have you changed like this? Where's the big bird?"
"Don't ask so many questions now... My conscious mind can't last much longer, I have to get you out of this Dream World as soon as possible." Hake was starting to have some difficulty speaking.
"I came in to save you so we can leave together. If we're going to leave, we'll leave together." Liliath was even more surprised when she heard Hake say that he didn't seem to be planning to leave himself.
"I cannot return to the Real World now. Once my consciousness returns to my body, the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade will find me, and I will become its puppet. Only in the Dream World, where my consciousness is in a deep slumber, can it not pinpoint my location. The Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade is the Main God Artifact inherited by our family, imbued with boundless killing power. Right now, in the dream world, even just a projection of its consciousness descending is already beyond my control. If its true form were to descend, my consciousness would instantly become its puppet, powerless to resist. At that time, I would kill every living being I could detect, becoming the medium for the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade, providing it with all the nourishment it needs to grow. At the same time, I would slowly be assimilated by it, becoming its Blade Heart."
"Every Direct Lineage descendant of our family undergoes a sensory test on the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade at the age of sixteen. From the first time I sensed the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade -Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade, I knew it needed me as a medium. If the Dess Dees Family had known this, they would have definitely chosen to sacrifice me to obtain this weapon of mass destruction. They knew I sensed the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade, but they didn't know that my sense of it had reached the point where it desperately craved me. I concealed the truth and told the elders that the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade only had a very weak sense of me, but the Blade Spirit didn't react to me at all. But the reality is that the Blade Spirit has bewitched me more than once, making me its medium, promising to grant me endless power."
"In this Dream World, I actively summoned it, and it sensed my presence, which is why its Will Projection took over my body. With this Will Projection present, as long as my consciousness awakens, no matter where I am, it can lock onto my location and instantly take over my body."
"So, I can't leave this Dream World. I'm sorry, Lily, for making you go through all that trouble for nothing, and for almost getting trapped in this world."
"Hake ..." Liliath's eyes welled up again after three years without shedding a tear. "We will definitely find a way to save you. Gu Ding said that there is a solution to every problem in this world. We will not give up on you, and please don't give up on yourself and let yourself be controlled by that thing."
"I know, I will wait patiently..." Hake nodded silently, then took Liliath's hand and casually slashed a black rift in the void beside him.
"Trust us, we will definitely find a way to save you..." Liliath slowly stepped into the black rift. Her voice was swallowed by the spatial rift, but Hake could clearly see that she was saying these words.
Hake smiled and nodded, watching the spatial rift close before shaking his head with a wry smile. "To expel the Will Projection of the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade's will, at least Main God Level powerhouse would be needed... But my time is running out. Even just a Will Projection is constantly eroding my consciousness. When my consciousness is completely eroded, the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade's true form will also lock onto my location, making me its Blade Heart. I'm sorry, Lily, I kept this a secret to avoid worrying everyone..."
"The deeper into the Dream World, the weaker the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade's control over the Will Projection will becomes. The only option now is to enter a sufficiently deep level to weaken the Soul Slaughtering Blood Blade's Will Projection to the point where it can no longer erode my consciousness. As long as my consciousness remains clear, everyone is safe. I'm sorry, Lily, Captain, and everyone else, I know the deeper I sink into the Dream World, the harder it will be to return to Real World. But returning to Real World is no longer something I should be considering..."
After muttering to himself for a while, Hake looked down at the ground beneath his feet, and the golden Short Blade reappeared in his hand. He gripped the hilt with both hands and plunged it into the ground.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The seemingly indestructible planet collapsed with a deafening roar after that single strike, shattering into endless fragments that scattered in all directions. The entire Dream World began to crumble along with the planet's collapse... and Hake's figure vanished completely... (To be continued~^~)