Apocalypse Forecast

The hurricane swept through in an instant, accompanied by a sharp sound that caused countless eardrums to bleed.

It was as if some enormous steel beasts collided suddenly, bringing turbulence that rolled across the entire Town of Dusk.

Countless steel floors buckled and reverberated, emanating a resonance inaudible to the human ear. Fragmented sounds overlapped, transformed into a tide, and contracted toward the central high tower.

Like this three times!

Everything condensed within a flick of a finger.

— Triple-fold Drum Thunder!

The force exerted was beyond what any physical body could bear, almost equaling the power output of the entire Town of Dusk concentrated in an instant, clashing with Gala’s power, unleashing a terrifying destructive force.

With just this one strike, the approaching opponent was instantly blown away!

It was like hitting a perfect strike in a baseball field, even the Gala transformed by the Supreme Four Pillars couldn’t resist, flying out like a meteor, severely injured, almost disappearing from the Helios, vanishing into the hollow cosmos.

[Extreme Intention·Symphony]!

Huai Shi gripped Resentment Water’s cracked tiger mouth, the blood unable to flow out before rapidly healing, only feeling the ’after-sound’ lingering within his body, vibrating incessantly.

That last strike, perfectly mobilizing the entire Town of Dusk’s power, relied on the support and assistance of the Eternal Frozen Heart, even its bearing capacity.

It was equivalent to having half of Helios suddenly leap up, stamping Gala’s face with its horrifying mass!

Huai Shi shouldered only a trace of the aftermath.

Even so, it almost made that tremendous force explode!

The Soul and Stigma also fractured with tiny cracks under that strike.

Fingers twitched, nearly unable to grasp the weapon.

In an instant judgment, Huai Shi gritted his teeth and made this decision.

The situation had deteriorated to the extreme. During the Trojan Horse’s invasion, the Town of Dusk’s defense completely collapsed. After losing the defender’s advantage, facing an enemy several times their own strength, not to mention Argo’s Army created by Publius having reached the front of the Eternal Frozen Heart.

Along with a Crowned one fused with the Hell Sequence · Supreme Four Pillars!

The current strategy was to eliminate the largest menace before him at the fastest speed. He only hoped this strike could severely wound his opponent, causing effective damage.

But soon, his heart sank to the depths.

Because the intact Gala rose again from the shadows, smiling at him with a grin.

Hell Sequence · Supreme Four Pillars is the Alchemists’ excavation of Hell Power and utilization of calamitous essence, representing the essence of Hell.

A total of seventy-two Hell sequences perfectly cover most forms of Hell Swarm manifestation, and through peerage divide the power among Owners of the Great Mob.

Positioned at the apex, without a doubt, are those comparable to the power of Rulers, the ’Supreme Four Pillars’!

After fusing with the Authority Relic of ’Supreme Four Pillars: Asmodeus’, Gala was forcibly elevated to the limit of a Ruler, although inherently deficient, significantly shrinking when compared to the genuine Rulers.

However, Asmodeus’ ’Authority’ is genuinely authentic!

Heralded as the Demon King of ’Lust’, the head of Evil Spirits, controlling not false ’love’, but temptations sufficient to drag all Souls into the Abyss, plunging into solidification!

Countless methods of manipulating Souls and utilizing Source Substance!

Souls to Him are the most important currency.

Without Souls to utilize, this Authority and setup are meaningless, but as long as Souls are present in his hands, Asmodeus can exert creator-comparable abilities!

And precisely, Gala has plenty of ’Souls’!

On him, in countless Golden Accessories, imprisonment holds all the Souls of his opponents over endless time, all those he defeated, suffering daily torture within the bondage of Gold.

Even Gala himself doesn’t know the extent of his collection.

Too many wars, too many enemies.

Following the Withered King, one will never lack for these exhilarating battles and satisfying victories!

"The Heretic King’s tricks? So nostalgic, a good skill, my friend, but unfortunately, it falls a bit short!"

Gala laughed heartily, treading upon the void, advancing step by step, his eyes ablaze with flames of excitement: "Come, let’s start again!"

In his hand, the Sickle Blade overflowed with the glow of Souls, innumerable blessings and curses cast upon it, rapidly elevating this malevolent weapon into a blade sharp enough to wound anything!

Like a meteor representing disaster.

In the whoosh, Gala descended once more from the heavens.

Huai Shi gritted his teeth, tightly gripping Resentment Water.

— Extreme Intention·Symphony!

The power of the Town of Dusk once again converged with the vast echo, condensed into a singularity, blasting forward, causing that crimson meteor to fly backward.

And Huai Shi also vomited blood profusely.

But almost instantly, the prepared Gala returned again, his smile ferocious.

Looking down at his pallid face, the Solidifier hooked his fingers: "What’s the matter? Refusing to leave that seat? If you wish to sit and wait for death, I don’t mind."

Huai Shi remained silent, not responding.

Listening to the sounds of combat from below, he finally couldn’t help but sigh, admitting he was no match.

Even commanding the whole Town of Dusk, he couldn’t harness the Sun Caster’s power. Before the Supreme Four Pillars transformed Solidifiers, he could only defend passively.

Once away from the Eternal Frozen Heart, he’d immediately revert to his original form and be instantly one-shot killed.

Unfortunately, Tong Ji was nowhere to be found, and Garand, even with the enemy at his gates, feigned death without moving, tinkering with who knows what.

The current strategy depended solely on him.

He sighed, raised his hand.

Ruins, activate!

Gala’s expression changed slightly as he retreated a few steps in the air, clearly having some prior understanding of Huai Shi—he had already heard about the terrifying threat of this move from Hercules.

If one is not careful and gets contaminated by even a tiny bit of what’s inside, they might face the erosion of the Eternal Beast.

Unless they return to Hell to seek help from the Withered King, even he would be at a loss!

However now, Huai Shi wasn’t planning to use it as a weapon.

In situations where the opponent is already prepared, this move is basically useless and can only scare people.

What he needed to do was not release it, but transfer it.

As the connection between the Eternal Frozen Heart and the Ruins was re-established, the casting furnaces born of the same source began to resonate once more, forcefully stripping away most of the Eternal Beast’s derivative flesh from Huai Shi’s body, sealing it within the Alchemy Fire, and suppressing it with surging divine nature.

Huai Shi, once again returned to his peak strength.

In full form, the Great Priestess.

Slowly, he clenched the Resentment Water in his hand.

If so, then the answer remained only one...

Gala widened his eyes, becoming more and more excited.

"Finally ready for an all-out fight?" he grinned expectantly, "That also..."

Before he could finish, Gala froze in place.

Because Huai Shi hadn’t risen from the Sun Caster’s Seat at all; he simply lifted a broken spear, and with a backhand, tossed it into the furnace behind him.

——Forging, begin!

In an instant, a surging boom like the roar of the sea erupted from within!

Divine nature was madly burning.

Under the cover of the Alchemy Fire, the thunder in the Resentment Water surged up, echoing with the mad screams from eons past.

The glow of the flames illuminated Huai Shi’s smile.

"Did you know?"

He rested his chin on his hand, scrutinizing his opponent’s expression, the corners of his mouth curling into a delighted arc: "In our Heavenly Kingdom Genealogy, we have a splendid tradition..."

——If you can’t win, call for reinforcements!

Known condition one, the Alchemy Fire has the attribute of fully unlocking the potential of any material.

Known condition two, the Eternal Frozen Heart is the world’s top casting furnace.

Known condition three, the Resentment Water was once the Stigmata Relic of the Cloud Monarch.

Known condition four, Huai Shi had a large amount of divine nature freeloaded from Garand.

Known condition five, Huai Shi’s [Nirvana Metamorphosis] and [Bioreconstruction] can bestow activation properties to alchemical works.

Known condition six, Huai Shi possessed the Book of Fate.

So, please, Gala, who knows nothing, explain what might pop out of his furnace next?

At that moment, Gala’s face changed drastically.

The light of a thousand souls covered the Sickle Blade, transforming into a fleetingly fervent glow, descending from the skies alongside him!

Towards Huai Shi, towards the Eternal Frozen Heart where Huai Shi stood.

Exerting all of his strength.

Slash!

But faster than him was the ’darkness’ erupting from the furnace!

A pure and enormous disaster.

Its mere existence was enough to twist the world into a shattered miracle!

Like a volcanic eruption, the darkness spread like clouds, instantly enveloping the entire Town of Dusk, even covering that eternal twilight, plunging everything into darkness so thick one couldn’t see their own hand!

It was... hatred!

Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate!

Under that incredibly pure hatred, even the Town of Dusk resonated!

Unlike the resentments left behind by the Forgers of the past, this was a ’hatred’ that never yielded, never retreated and never regretted!

Filled with an ineffable loathing.

Hatred towards this world, hatred towards all cowards, hatred towards all betrayers, hatred for the death of companions, hatred for one’s own powerlessness.

Hatred for everything.

Even, the most hated...

——was Hell!

Hatred like a tide, enough to fill the Seven Seas, cover the Current Circumstances, transforming into a sea tide of extinction, sweeping away all impurity, dragging all enemies into total destruction along with itself!

It’s unimaginable what sort of soul would leave behind such immense hatred, what kind of obsession would make this hatred pure enough to twist the world!

Now, the hatred became an ocean in the clouds.

From the depths of the sea, the dormant shattered soul frantically devoured the derivative flesh of the Eternal Beast, drawing from its endless vitality.

Once more, in the darkness, eyes opened.

Cast a gaze full of hatred at the earthly world.

Look at it, Gala!

Cold smile.