"Darren, you can make your move now!" Luo Ao's unreachably lofty figure stood motionless in the air as he smiled faintly at Darren.
Since Darren and Korno shared a hatred that could not coexist beneath the same sky, Luo Ao did not mind leaving Darren the chance to finish him off.
"Thank you, Lord Luo Ao!" Although he did not know why Luo Ao's strength was so astonishing, Darren could not be bothered to think about it now. Instead, his eyes fixed on Korno like a vicious wolf's.
"Darren, Miss Helen is still alive and well in the Dark God Plane. She isn't dead. You'll definitely have a chance to meet again someday..." Seeing that Luo Ao refused to spare him, Korno immediately began begging Darren for mercy.
But how could Darren possibly spare him?
"Even if we meet again, she won't be Helen anymore. This is all your doing!" Darren's eyes were bloodshot. The longsword in his hand thrust out in an instant, and he charged at Korno, man and sword as one!
"Shadow Clone!" Korno's face paled, and he immediately unleashed his ultimate move, splitting into one clone after another.
"Hm?" Luo Ao's gaze turned icy, and he immediately strengthened his lock on Korno's true body. With his God-level soul strength, how could Korno's Shadow Clone possibly deceive him?
"This is...!"
Korno's true body immediately felt the space around him tighten its restraints. Clearly, that mysterious young man was using his "God's Domain" to restrain his true body with all his strength. Even though Korno excelled at speed and clones, at this moment... restrained as he was, he could not move quickly even after forcing his own God's Domain into existence, and obvious flaws had appeared in his clones.
I'm finished!
As he watched Darren's sword strike, powerful enough to cleave space, sweep toward him like a blade splitting bamboo, nothing remained on Korno's face but terror.
Besides comprehending the Wind Elemental Profound Mysteries within the wind elemental Laws, Darren had also comprehended the "Windwalking Technique," a move that allowed him to merge into the wind elements. He had not yet fully mastered the Windwalking Technique, but even so, his speed now surpassed Korno's.
Watching the gleaming sword sweep through the air toward him, Korno smelled death.
Previously, Darren had been unable to distinguish his true body from his false ones and could only break through with brute force. But Darren could not destroy all sixteen of his clones in one go, which was why he had been unable to do anything to him.
Now, however, his clones were riddled with flaws under the pressure, and Darren's sword was aimed straight at his true body!
Panic crossed Korno's face, and he hurriedly used Dark Divine Power to form a layer of defensive armor over his body.
Boom!
Darren's longsword hacked viciously into Korno's true body. With a crack, the divine-power armor shattered, and Korno himself was sent flying backward, vomiting blood.
After finally managing to steady himself, Korno lowered his head to look at his chest, where a deep sword wound had appeared.
"Let me go, or you two will regret it!" Korno used Dark Divine Power to heal his injuries, glaring at the two with a fierce exterior that concealed his weakness.
How could he fail to understand the situation now? This mysterious young man was deliberately holding him in place so Darren could slowly torture him to death.
After all, for a deity, the head containing the Divine Spark was the vital point. No matter how severely other parts were injured, he could heal them with divine power.
If Darren kept deliberately tormenting him like this, even dying would probably not be so easy.
"What, do you still have some trump card?" Luo Ao's mysterious black eyes turned toward Korno once more.
This is bad! Darren's heart immediately lurched. He could not tell what Mr. Luo Ao meant. If Korno really managed to bluff him, wouldn't Darren lose his chance to take revenge today?
At this thought, Darren could no longer concern himself with torturing Korno. He would simply give him a quick death. Letting him die so easily really was letting him off cheaply!
"Korno, don't think you can deceive Lord Luo Ao. I've already investigated every backer and trump card you have thoroughly. If you really had a trump card, you would probably have come to kill me long ago!" Afraid that Mr. Luo Ao would let Korno escape, Darren immediately refuted him loudly, while striking with his sword once more!
Die! Darren roared inwardly as he charged.
With this move, Darren no longer sought speed. It was purely his most powerful ultimate attack, and visible azure wind elemental energy gathered and surged wildly around him.
"This bastard!" Although Darren's attack was somewhat slower than before, Korno was now as though trapped in a mire and still could not dodge it in time. He could only swing his dagger desperately, trying to block the move!
"Damn it!" Trapped within Luo Ao's two overlapping domains, Korno discovered that even the dark elemental power he could gather had grown much thinner. He had completely lost confidence in whether he could withstand Darren's vicious move.
Boom!
Korno's black dagger and Darren's azure longsword, the two Divine Artifacts, collided in an instant!
Azure and black divine radiance swirled, then exploded violently!
In the blink of an eye, the tremendous force actually punched through the Material Plane, revealing a black hole in space!
Korno was once again sent flying. The profound mysteries of the Darkness Law he cultivated were already poor at direct combat, and now he was further restricted by Luo Ao.
Darren, on the other hand, cultivated the Wind Law, whose physical attack power was already terrifying. Now that he was unleashing his strongest ultimate move, how could Korno possibly withstand the terrifying offensive power it released?
The portion of Korno's body below his chest had been reduced to ashes in the explosion of divine power just now. That single strike had cost him most of his fighting ability.
"Cough, cough..."
Coughing up a great mouthful of blood, Korno understood that he was doomed today.
"Darren, and you! You two will regret this!" The black-robed old man, Korno, stared balefully at Darren, then fixed his eyes on Luo Ao, his expression defiant.
"Regret? Even if I die, I won't regret it!" Darren also feared that a long night would bring too many dreams. Before Luo Ao could change his mind, he immediately rushed over and delivered one final sword strike.
"Die!" Darren coldly brought his sword down. This strike cleaved toward Korno's head, leaving him no possibility of survival.
With Luo Ao restraining him, and with Korno already gravely injured, he naturally could no longer resist.
That terrifying sword strike landed on Korno's head without the slightest suspense.
Bang! Korno's head burst apart instantly, and a black Divine Spark radiating an inky glow fell out.
"The first Divine Spark!" Luo Ao gently extended his hand and caught the flying Divine Spark.
Darren had no intention of trying to seize this Divine Spark. Without Luo Ao, how could he possibly have killed Korno? Besides, this was the payment they had agreed upon earlier.
"He's finally dead." His eyes bloodshot, Darren glanced at Korno's corpse, which had fallen and been smashed into a mangled wreck.
Now that his great vengeance had been fulfilled, he no longer knew what meaning there was in staying alive.
"Lord Luo Ao, thank you." If he had simply not bothered to think much earlier, now that he had come back to his senses, Darren understood clearly: Luo Ao's strength was not on the same level as his or Korno's at all. He was someone on an entirely different plane.
As troublesome as Korno was, he had been easily suppressed before Luo Ao without being able to stir up the slightest wind or wave. If Luo Ao had acted personally, he could probably have killed Korno in a single strike.
"No need. I received payment, too." With that, Luo Ao also collected Korno's Space Ring and Divine Artifacts.
Although these Divine Artifacts were nothing special, they were still a sum of wealth.
"Mr. Luo Ao, do you think there's still any hope of rescuing a mortal whose soul has been sacrificed to a Sovereign?" On the way back, Darren could not help asking this wildly fanciful question.
"It should be impossible, shouldn't it? A Sovereign is a supreme existence even in a Divine Plane. How could anyone rescue someone from a Sovereign's hands?" After asking the question, Darren felt he had been foolish.
What sort of existence was a Sovereign? How could anyone possibly...
"Hope? Perhaps there is still a little." Luo Ao smiled faintly, the figure of that legendary young man coming to mind once again.