Aftermath of the Battle
This Volcano Giant really is tough as nails. Unless I use Thunderquake Break, my most powerful attack, I can't seriously wound him. It's time to unleash it! The Lightning Shadow Thousand Strikes Rog was using was astonishingly fast, but it could hardly seriously wound Aolade. Once Aolade realized the move posed no threat to him, he gradually let his guard down as time passed.
Now! When Rog attacked from behind once again, Aolade paid little attention this time. He was waiting for the moment when Rog had expended too much divine power at once and had no choice but to stop using the move.
"Thunderquake Break!" But then, the unexpected happened!
Rog had deliberately ended his previous move. As he closed in behind Aolade, he suddenly switched to the far more powerful Thunderquake Break!
Splurt! Like a knife cutting through tofu, the blow sliced through Aolade's neck at an angle! His red-haired head fell from his shoulders!
As it turned out, a Volcano Giant's defense was not absolutely invincible. Without a weapon to block it, Rog's strongest blow was enough to pose a fatal threat to him!
"Die!" With a bang, Rog caught up to Aolade's flying head and kicked it apart. His entire head had clearly burst into fragments, yet, strangely, not a single Godspark fell out.
Whoosh! The headless Aolage swung the great axe in his hand, eerily resembling the war god Xingtian himself! Fortunately, Rog had been prepared and immediately put some distance between them.
This big guy is a Volcano Giant, not a human! In human form, his head is indeed a vital point, and his soul is inside it. But in his Volcano Giant form, his vital point is his heart core! His soul is in the heart core, and so are his Godsparks! Aolade was a difficult opponent. Rog had finally managed to break through his defense, only for Aolade to shift his heart core and avoid the fatal damage.
"It's no use. Unless you can blast my entire body apart in an instant, you can't kill me!" Aolade's fiery red eyebrows flew wildly as he looked thoroughly pleased with himself.
For metal-and-stone lifeforms like Volcano Giants and Earth Giants, the most important part was the heart core. Only by destroying it could one kill them. But as for blasting Aolade's body apart, Dimont might have been able to do it easily, while Rog's strongest material attack was only at the level he had just shown.
That really is a troublesome ability. Unless I happen to hit his heart core, it'll be hard to kill him. Rog had to admit that the innate ability of such a special lifeform was formidable, making it virtually invincible among those of the same level.
"In that case, take my Soul Annihilation Blade Formation!" In the end, he still had to rely on a Soul Attack to win.
Whoosh! Invisible soul power formed soul blades like wind blades that flew through the air. The flying soul blades arranged themselves into a formation and shot out together, covering Aolade's head, limbs, and torso! This time, no matter how he moved his heart core, it would be useless!
"What?" Aolade had never expected Rog's killing move to be a Soul Attack, much less one so powerful. Block it! Aolade roared inwardly, able only to marshal his soul power and do everything he could to resist the terrifying soul blades!
Pfft! Pfft! But within Aolade's Soul Ocean, the merciless blades pierced his soul one after another. Soon, all color vanished from his sight, and his consciousness sank into endless darkness.
With a thunderous boom, Aolade's body crashed onto the volcanic rock, sending sparks flying. With his soul gone, he could no longer wreak havoc, nor could he serve Lord Fulaite anymore!
Although I didn't kill Aolade with the Laws of Lightning, I still managed to achieve my goal of testing the results of my cultivation in them. If he hadn't been testing his new moves,
Rog would have killed his opponent with soul techniques long ago. Over the previous five hundred years, he had mainly made progress in soul defense, but his further development of Soul Ray was no longer limited to the Soul Annihilation Arrow alone. ...
Elsewhere, the burly Ghost Clan man Tedun had regretted his decision as soon as he exchanged blows with Dimont. Although he wielded a divine artifact warhammer while his opponent was barehanded, the power bursting from those fists was more than he could withstand!
Bang! The first punch sent him flying, and he couldn't even hold on to his warhammer!
"How?!" Tedun was dumbstruck. He was usually the one who overwhelmed others with brute strength, but today he had been utterly outmatched in strength!
Bang! The second punch landed. Tedun had drawn on the Laws of the Earth to form Pulse Armor around his head, but that pitiful defense couldn't stop his opponent's iron fist.
The Six-Star Fiend of the Ghost Clan, Tedun, was dead!
"Tch, he really couldn't take a beating." If Dimont hadn't held back as much as he could, he might have killed him with the first punch. He had wanted to fight a little longer.
"Master, there are only a few Six-Star combat missions in Dragon Mountain City. The next one will be more troublesome. We'll have to go to some tribe and wait for them to start fighting." Six-Star Fiends were nothing much in the Infernal Realm as a whole, but in the area surrounding a single Sovereign city, a Six-Star Fiend could already be considered a local powerhouse. To complete a large number of Six-Star Fiend missions quickly, they might have to visit several more cities.
"Something doesn't add up about this Volcano Giant Aolade's wealth. Why does he have so little?" While collecting their spoils, the two discovered that they couldn't open the Ghost Clan expert's interspatial ring at all, so they crushed it and let its contents enter the Spatial Turbulence.
They could open Aolade's interspatial ring, but the wealth inside was no more than what an ordinary Six-Star Fiend possessed. It was nowhere near what Aolade should have gained from so many years of robbery.
"Where did Aolade's wealth go?" Rog had a bad feeling. Bandits in the Infernal Realm naturally couldn't have hidden treasuries; all their wealth was kept in their own interspatial rings. Since it wasn't there now, there was only one possibility: he had offered it to someone else!
Fireworks Island.
It was a small island with beautiful surroundings, home to a famous estate called Clearwater Manor.
The scenery at Clearwater Manor was truly lovely. Flowers of every kind bloomed in a riot of color on both sides of the paths. Viewed from above, a winding stream circled the entire manor. Its water was so clear that one could nearly see the bottom, and even the fish and shrimp in it were plainly visible.
Yet this beautiful place was an eternal nightmare to many.
"Master, you have to avenge me! This time, I went to help Aolade, but then a terrifying, burly black-haired man with only the aura of a Midgod..." A one-horned man in red armor knelt on the ground, tearfully telling his supreme master what had happened to him. If Rog and his companion had been there, they would have noticed that the one-horned man's soul aura was identical to that of the Ghost Clan man named Tedun.
"That's enough. Aolade is already dead." The black-robed old man waved a hand, cutting Tedun's complaint short. Having killed two of his capable subordinates, those two had earned their deaths. But since they could easily kill Tedun, and even Aolade had died, both were probably close to the level of Seven-Star Fiends.
"Leave. I'll send Li Wei and Anna to hunt those two down." Two people at the threshold of becoming Seven-Star Fiends weren't worth him personally chasing all over the world. Sending those two capable subordinates would be enough.
"Yes. Thank you for your benevolence, Master." As soon as Tedun heard their names, he fell silent. One of them was a Seven-Star Fiend who cultivated the Edicts of Fate, while the other was an even rarer expert with a Soul Mutation, who also possessed Seven-Star Fiend strength. With those two lords taking action, his hopes of revenge were much greater!
He only hoped those two wouldn't wander off anytime soon. Otherwise, even with those two lords taking action, it wouldn't be easy to corner them in the vast Infernal Realm. If the two were determined to flee, even Lord Fulaite would have trouble catching them himself. Fortunately, though, they probably didn't know they had been targeted.