Chapter 690 - 487: The Ice Wind Demon Serpent Appears, the Demon Monarch’s Heart
A stream of dark red Dragon Flame, filled with an aura of destruction and scorching heat.
A blast of pure white Frost, freezing all in its path.
Flame and Frost intertwined and merged mid-air, becoming an even more terrifying breath of ice and fire that shot toward the bone-chilling, grayish-white Ice Wind!
Two Catastrophe Level powers violently collided in the sky above Dragon’s Fang Peak!
The moment the Two-headed Chimera’s breath of ice and fire met the grayish-white Ice Wind, it was like snow cast into a blazing fire—silently melting and disintegrating!
It held on for less than ten seconds.
The powerful breath, a fusion of the two extreme powers of ice and fire, completely collapsed.
Meanwhile, the grayish-white Ice Wind swept onward, continuing its unstoppable advance toward the Two-headed Chimera below!
"ROAR!"
The Two-headed Chimera let out a terrified roar.
It finally realized the chasm-like gap between itself and a true Catastrophe Level being.
In the face of death, its pitiful pride was utterly crushed.
It abruptly spread its wings, its massive body turning to flee with an agility that completely defied its size!
Fortunately, it was fast enough.
The grayish-white Ice Wind grazed its tail as it swept past.
Its venomous snake-like tail, along with the vicious serpent head on its tip, was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture. Then, with a BANG, it shattered into a cloud of icy dust.
The Two-headed Chimera let out a pained shriek and vanished over the horizon without a backward glance.
On the summit, the still-trembling Demon Tiger saw that even the Domain Level Peak Two-headed Chimera had fled and finally snapped to its senses.
It let out a wail and scrambled frantically down the mountain.
In its pathetic state, it had lost all the imposing presence of a Domain Level Magical Beast.
With that, all the Magical Beasts on the summit had fled.
Raylo’s gaze fell upon the Two-legged Flying Dragon King.
It was spreading its wings, apparently wanting to escape as well.
"Trying to leave?"
A smirk played on Raylo’s lips.
"Too late."
Raylo had no intention of letting this exceptionally talented Two-legged Flying Dragon King get away.
"Ice Wind."
He issued the command to the Ice Wind Demon Serpent through his Spiritual Power.
The giant serpent coiled in mid-air opened its massive maw once more.
But this time, it didn’t spew the world-destroying, bone-chilling Ice Wind.
Instead, it released a vast wave of cold air.
The cold air, like a thick white fog, instantly enveloped the Two-legged Flying Dragon King, which had just spread its wings to take flight.
"CRACK! CRACK!"
A series of crisp freezing sounds rang out.
A thick layer of Frost quickly formed on the surface of the Two-legged Flying Dragon King’s body.
It let out a defiant roar as the Domain Power within its body surged wildly, attempting to break free from the icy restraints.
But it was all in vain.
In the face of Catastrophe Level Power, its resistance seemed feeble and futile.
After struggling for about ten seconds, its movements grew stiff and sluggish.
Its newly spread wings were frozen in mid-air, unable to move.
Then.
The Ice Wind Demon Serpent’s enormous, several-hundred-meter-long tail moved.
The tail carved an arc through the air.
It didn’t smash directly into the Two-legged Flying Dragon King’s body.
It whipped against its head instead.
"BANG!"
A dull thud rang out.
The Two-legged Flying Dragon King’s body swayed and then, with a THUD, it collapsed heavily to the ground, completely knocked out.
With that, all the "flies" on the summit of Dragon’s Fang Peak had been cleared away.
The entire mountain peak fell into a dead silence.
Only the blue Energy Shield remained, still stubbornly flickering with light.
Raylo’s gaze finally fell upon his ultimate goal.
Inside the Energy Shield was the heart of a Catastrophe Level creature, the size of a house, beating slowly.
The dark red heart’s surface was covered in arcane blue patterns.
Each beat seemed to synchronize with the pulse of space itself.
Waves of immense Life Energy radiated from the heart, full of temptation.
No wonder those Domain Level Magical Beasts were guarding this place like madmen.
A Treasure of this caliber was a fatal temptation for any living being.
If one could devour and absorb it, the immense energy might be enough for a Domain Level Magical Beast to ascend in a single step, directly crossing the threshold into the Catastrophe Level.
For the Energy Shield on the summit to have held for so long under the siege of more than ten Domain Level Magical Beasts, one could only imagine how solid it was.
But how would it fare against true Catastrophe Level Power?
"Ice Wind."
Raylo looked up at the enormous metallic Demon Serpent in the sky.
"Attack that shield."
"HISSS!"
The Ice Wind Demon Serpent let out a hiss, its massive head aiming at the Energy Shield on the summit below.
It opened its massive maw once more.
The grayish-white Ice Wind, like a celestial river bursting its banks, poured down, instantly blanketing the entire summit of Dragon’s Fang Peak!
"BUZZ!"
The moment it came into contact with the Ice Wind, the blue Energy Shield erupted with a blinding light.
The blue patterns on the shield’s surface began to flow wildly, forming arcane runes in an attempt to resist the Catastrophe Level Power.
The Ice Wind continuously battered the shield.
The shield, in turn, frantically consumed its energy to resist.
"CRACK..."
A minute later, a tiny crack appeared on the shield’s surface.
It was followed by a second, then a third...
More and more cracks appeared, spreading rapidly across the entire shield like a spiderweb.
「Three minutes later.」
"BANG!"
A crisp sound, like shattering glass, rang out.
The Energy Shield, which had been indestructible even under the siege of more than ten Domain Level Magical Beasts, finally disintegrated into a cloud of blue light particles in the Catastrophe Level Ice Wind, vanishing into the air.
The shield was broken.
A flicker of joy flashed in Raylo’s eyes.
However, things were not as simple as he had imagined.
The instant the Energy Shield disappeared,
a terrifying and immense will erupted from the energized heart!
That will was filled with an aura of chaos, madness, and destruction.
It was like the most primal malice from the deepest layer of the Abyss.
"BUZZ!"
The entire Dragon’s Fang Peak trembled violently under the impact of this will.
Boulders shattered, and the earth groaned.
Halfway down the mountain, Gordo and the hundred-plus Hill Giants could barely stand in the face of this terrifying will.
Their faces were pale, and their bodies swayed.
"This is..."
Raylo looked up, staring intently at the dark red heart on the summit, his eyes filled with horror.
"BOOM!"
A colossal surge of energy shot up from the heart toward the sky!
The dark red energy rapidly gathered and condensed above the summit.
A massive, thousand-meter-tall phantom slowly began to take shape.
It was... a Demon.
A terrifying Demon with a pair of huge bat-like wings, two horns atop its head, and a body wreathed in black flames!
Its body was not solid, but composed of pure, chaotic energy.
Its face was a blur, its features indistinct. Only where its eyes should be, two clusters of eerie green flame burned.
Within those flames was a hatred for all life and a desire to destroy everything.
"Mortal..."
A hoarse, deep voice, as if twisted from the wails of countless souls, resounded directly in Raylo’s mind.
"Was it you... who awakened me?"
The voice carried a lofty indifference, like someone inspecting an ant.
Raylo did not answer.
His expression was more solemn than ever before.
He could sense that the phantom Demon before him, formed of energy, was the remnant will of this Catastrophe Level creature.
At this moment, the Demon phantom appeared astonishingly powerful, but no matter how he looked at it, it seemed to be all bark and no bite—fierce on the outside, but weak on the inside.
An existence that was barely clinging to life with only a heart remaining, even if it was Catastrophe Level, had long since lost its former might.
"Human, submit to me, and I shall forgive you the crime of your disturbance!"