Chapter 459: A Swarm of Wraith-Kings
"Rumble!"
A golden bolt of divine lightning, as thick as a water barrel, suddenly exploded out of thin air.
Carrying the terrifying power of the 10,000x critical hit, it slammed down hard onto the undead general’s head.
"Crack!"
There was no suspense at all.
That level 85 undead general, strong enough to give countless top experts of the Great Shaw Empire a headache, did not even have time to scream.
Under that one strike, the violent golden lightning blasted it into bone dust that scattered across the sky.
[Ding! Killed level 85 undead general. 10,000x critical hit triggered. Gained EXP...]
Aiden did not even bother to look at the system message.
He clapped his hands lightly and continued forward.
Bella looked at Aiden’s back, and the strange light in her eyes grew brighter and brighter.
A level 95 Venerable had killed a level 85 Mythic-grade undead general in one hit.
This guy was simply a monster.
However, before the two of them could go much farther—
"Thud! Thud! Thud!"
A series of heavy hoofbeats, deep and loud like thunder, suddenly came from the gray mist ahead.
At that moment, the whole ground began to shake violently.
Aiden and Bella stopped at the same time and looked up.
In the rolling death energy ahead, countless ghostly green soul flames lit up densely, one after another.
"Whoosh—"
A strong wind blew the mist away.
Terrifying figures, each giving off overwhelming death energy, slowly appeared.
Every one of them wore heavy armor as black as ink. Beneath them were skeletal horses burning with dark underworld flames. In their hands, huge reaper scythes gave off a cold, deadly light.
Wraith-Kings!
Each one had terrifying strength equal to a human level 89, or even a level 90 Venerable!
And looking ahead, there were hundreds of these terrifying beings, packed together like a black tide.
This was an invincible army made up entirely of Wraith-Kings!
Bella’s expression changed completely in that instant.
"Thud! Thud! Thud!"
The heavy hoofbeats trampled across the burned black frozen ground. Every step sounded like a wail from the depths of the underworld.
Death energy surged like a tide.
Hundreds of heavily armored Wraith-Kings fully emerged from the mist.
In their eye sockets, soul flames of blood-red and ghostly green flickered together. The huge reaper scythes in their hands drew cold arcs through the air.
"How is this possible...? How could the Wraith-Kings of the Ancient Battlefield form an army this large?!"
For once, Bella’s cold voice carried a hint of seriousness.
"What’s special about them?"
Aiden stood with his hands behind his back, looking calmly at the black cavalry charging toward them like a flood.
"When they were alive, they were elite war generals from many different races. After they died, their bodies did not decay. They were corrupted by the malignant energy from the Nine Netherworlds for ten thousand years. Not only did they keep their battle instincts from when they were alive, but they also gained control over broken Force of Laws!"
Bella stared straight ahead, her beautiful eyes cold and sharp. Her white clothes moved even though there was no wind.
"Hundreds of Venerable-level undead above level 80 charging together... even an ordinary god would have to avoid their edge!"
"Broken laws?"
When Aiden heard this, he was not shocked. Instead, he was pleased.
A cold smile even appeared on his lips.
"To me, they’re nothing more than walking law EXP packs."
Before he even finished speaking, Aiden took one step forward.
"Boom—!!"
Nine-colored lightning surged up from the ground like a rising wave.
In an instant, the domain of the Heavenly Punishment of Ten Thousand Thunders spread out.
[Ding! Detected that the host has activated the "Heavenly Punishment of Ten Thousand Thunders" domain. 10,000x critical hit triggered!]
In his mind, the system’s voice sounded like the judgment of a god.
In the next moment, the lightning domain that had originally covered only a thousand meters expanded at an insane speed.
In the blink of an eye, it turned into a golden sea of thunder that swallowed everything within a ten-mile radius.
"Crackle!"
Billions of violent golden chaos thunderbolts fell from the sky like a world-ending divine punishment.
"Roar—!!"
The dozens of Wraith-Kings at the very front did not even have time to scream.
Under the cleansing power of the golden lightning, both rider and horse were blasted into nothingness.
Their black heavy armor, which could withstand a full-force attack from a Venerable, was as weak as paper before the thunder strengthened by the 10,000x critical hit.
However, these Wraith-Kings were not ordinary monsters after all.
Fed by the evil energy around them, several of the shattered undead actually showed signs of reforming.
"Don’t even think about coming back."
Bella let out a cold snort. Her slender hands formed a seal, and a holy angel phantom, over a hundred meters tall, quietly appeared behind her.
"Law of Light—Holy Light Shines Upon All!"
Pure light power turned into a rain of glowing drops that filled the sky, falling with perfect accuracy into the sea of thunder.
Wherever the light rain passed, the undead cores that were trying to rebuild themselves were instantly purified. They turned into wisps of green smoke and completely vanished.
One used lightning, the other used light.
One destroyed, the other purified.
The two worked together so smoothly that they seemed like comrades who had fought side by side for a thousand years.
In just a few breaths, an undead army powerful enough to destroy an empire had been wiped out by more than half.
"Roar—!!"
Just then, an extremely sharp roar suddenly exploded from the rear of the army. It was so piercing that it almost seemed to tear through space itself.
A huge figure, nearly ten meters tall, broke through the sea of lightning and charged out.
The skeletal horse beneath it burned with pale bone flames.
Its heavy armor was dark gold, and in its hand was a massive Skeleton greatsword filled with endless hatred. The soul flame in its eye sockets had already turned into solid blood-red fire.
"Level 93... Undead King!"
Bella’s eyes narrowed, and she quickly warned him.
"Be careful. It still has all the combat skills from when it was alive, and it has mastered the complete Law of Death!"
"Boom!"
The Undead King swung its Skeleton greatsword down hard.
A gray sword beam, a thousand meters long and wrapped in the Law of Death, tore a huge gap through the golden sea of lightning.
Led by it, the remaining dozens of high-level Wraith-Kings released their last burst of power. They formed a charging battle formation and rushed madly toward Aiden and Bella.
The aura of death covered the sky and earth.
"Good! Come on!"
Aiden laughed loudly, his eyes burning with fighting spirit.
"Bella, help me suppress its Law of Death!"
"Alright!"
Bella did not hesitate at all.
She brought her hands together, and the angel phantom behind her instantly turned into a platinum spear of holy light, shooting straight toward the Undead King.
"Buzz!"
The holy light spear crashed hard into the Skeleton greatsword.
Pure light and death power melted against each other like two opposite forces, forcefully stopping the Undead King in midair.
"My turn."
Aiden’s eyes turned cold as he clenched his right hand in the air.
The phantom of the Transmutation Altar flashed briefly in his palm.
At that moment, the endless Law of Thunder gathered to its absolute limit.
"10,000x critical hit—Ancient Thunder Emperor Slash!"
[Ding! 10,000x critical hit triggered! The power of Ancient Thunder Emperor Slash has increased by 10,000 times!]
"Rumble!!"
A terrifying giant sword, several thousand meters long and made entirely of golden chaos thunder, slowly descended from the sky.
Its divine power felt as if it could split the entire Ancient Battlefield in two.
"Fall!"
Aiden held two fingers together like a blade and slashed downward.
"Boom—!!"
The golden thunder sword came down with unstoppable destructive force, instantly swallowing the Undead King and the remaining undead behind it.
At that moment, the whole world was filled with blinding light.
A short while later, the lightning faded.
The undead army that had once filled the land was now nothing but scorched earth. Not even a trace of ash remained.
[Ding! Level 93 Undead King killed. 10,000x critical hit triggered. Reward obtained...]
Aiden had no interest in listening to the system’s reward notification.
Because at that moment, in the place where the Undead King had fallen, among the shattered dark-gold bones, an extremely strange wave of law power suddenly erupted.
"Buzz—"
A half-transparent gray beam of light shot into the sky.
Then, in the air, it slowly gathered into a strange rune-like pointer.
The pointer trembled and aimed straight toward the deeper part of the burned black wasteland.
There, a huge spatial vortex was slowly spinning, giving off an ancient aura that made the heart tremble.
"That is... the entrance to the core area!"
Bella looked at the pointer, and a hint of joy appeared in her beautiful eyes.
As for Aiden, he could feel the aura inside him—an aura from the system and also from the Golden Great Wall—beginning to resonate wildly.
The core of the Golden Great Wall was behind that entrance!
Aiden bent down and lightly touched the ancient rune pointer with his fingertip.
The pointer trembled slightly, then turned into a streak of light and disappeared into the void.
The next moment, countless blue, blood-red, and golden lights lit up across the burned black wasteland like stars.
They were the law fragments and Inner Spirit fragments left behind after hundreds of Wraith-Kings and the level 93 Undead King had fallen.
The lights shone brightly, like a river of stars that had fallen to the mortal world.
"So many..."
Bella’s eyes widened slightly.
Even someone as experienced as her could not help taking a deep breath.
"Since they came to me, I won’t leave a single one behind."
Aiden waved his sleeve.
The sub-mark of the Transmutation Altar above his head released thousands of streams of clear light.
A terrifying suction force erupted.
The fragments filling the sky rushed toward Aiden like countless rivers flowing into the sea, pouring madly into his body.
[Ding! Detected that the host is absorbing Inner Spirit fragments and law fragments. 10,000x critical hit triggered!]
[Ding! Absorption speed increased by 10,000 times!]
Boom!
A deep roar came from inside Aiden’s body, like raging waves crashing against the shore.
Deep within his soul, the soul power that had nearly dried up began to rise wildly.
[Ding! Your soul strength has increased from 85% to 92%!]
Right after that, his understanding of the laws poured into his mind like sudden enlightenment.
[Ding! Understanding of the Law of Space has increased from 3% to 10%!]
The space around Aiden twisted slightly, and a faint space storm seemed to be forming.
[Ding! Understanding of the Law of Thunder has increased from 2% to 8%!]
[Ding! Understanding of the Law of Slaughter has increased from 1% to 7%!]
[Ding! Understanding of the Law of Fire has increased from 1% to 6%!]
Four Forces of Law circled around Aiden, weaving together into a terrifying law avatar.
Aiden slowly opened his eyes.
Thunder and fire flashed deep within them, and the pressure of a Venerable around him became even deeper and harder to read.