The battle was getting more intense as the two sides were going all-out.A couple of Special Agents had been killed or rendered incapacitated. As for Celestia’s group, they weren’t as lucky as to remain unscathed throughout the fight.Bibi and Maxwell Lepard, whose roles were to offer tactical support, got heavily wounded and almost killed. Were it not for Signora’s timely magic, their bodies would have been blasted to nothingness by the barrage of flashy magic coming from inside the building.Sulong and Signora glanced at each other and nodded. The former then shouted atop his lungs,“We’ll take care of them. You all charge inside!”Thereafter, a pillar of crimson fire burst from his body, followed by an ear-piercing creepy roar, emitted by none other than the flame itself!The ghostly wraith-like silhouette appeared above Velvet Signora’s body, puppeteering her body like a marionette. Her hands were extended forward as they let out a blinding flash of light that split into many lase
“I’ll stay a bit behind. I wouldn’t want to get caught up in whatever is going to happen.” As they rushed into the building, Frederic suddenly halted his feet and muttered those words before dashing to the side. Although his actions were suspicious, Zeke didn’t have the time to chase or stop him. Frederic was weaker than he was, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t have been able to escape if he had wanted to, and that meant that he was willingly following Zeke. Within two minutes, Zeke found General Zhang inside a spacious room filled with the Artificial Ends. Celestia and the rest were also there. “Zeke!” Celestia, Azmer, Xiao, and Ava were inside somesort of translucent bubble that constantly released waves made of Aether. They didn’t seem to be physically injured, but their faces were pale due to the effects of the fog. Zeke moved his eyes to the back of the room, where clashing sounds could be heard. He saw Cecilia moving around and attacking the General from a distance. The
Zeke found himself back in the Extinction Order after confirming the System notification.He wasn’t alone, Velvet Signora and Sulong Braveheart were also there. The couple were startled to suddenly find themselves in this ethereal place.“Zeke? What happened? The sky turned red and there was an earthquake.”As he saw the confused and anxious looks of the two of them, Zeke took a deep breath and explained the situation.Before he got transported here, he was sure that the System had teleported him out of the Department of Defense HQ, but he wasn’t able to see his destination as it happened too fast.“What about the General? And Angel.”“The General isn’t a threat anymore. The real danger is the Dead Ends. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but it won’t be good. You must regroup with Celestia and the rest.”Zeke paused for a bit and frowned, “If the Dead Ends are really upon us, then there won’t be any safe places. You must resist it until I can reach you.”[Time remaining in the Exti
Serey Zhan Empire, Heaven’s End(Imperial Capital)Emperor Ascalon stood atop the castle, his eyes lingering on the scarlet sky. ‘So it has come.”The crimson fog was creeping closer and closer, soon about to engulf the entire planet. However, the Emperor didn’t seem that anxious. He had known about the Dead Ends ever since he was one of the Seats under the Mad Emperor, Edward Heart.When he became the ruler of the Serey Zhan Empire, he had already started preparing countermeasures, which wouldn’t fend off the Dead Ends permanently, but they would buy the empire enough time.The magical pillars positioned around Heaven’s End awakened simultaneously, each giving a distinct and pure magical light. The radiance transformed into a thick and brilliant resplendent pillar that pierced through the crimson canopy and then exploded into innumerable particles of Aether.All the Archmagus were in their respective Magic Pillar, imbuing it with their magic. More than 90% of the Empire’s Mages were
The tablet had a similar effect to the artifact the Zyth had used to temporarily cancel the Paths of Extinction System.“We don’t have to reason with this brat, Jonathan! Let’s just take h-”Before she could finish, Zeke’s body appeared in front of her and his hand gripped her neck. There was an ever-so-slight milky-white aura around his body, different from the usual voltage.“Stop, Zeke!”Jonathan motioned for everyone to stay still as talked to Zeke. He knew more about their quarry than anyone, especially what he was capable of.Moreover, when he saw the tablet not working, he knew exactly what was happening.“She didn’t mean any harm.”“...”Zeke didn’t actually kill her. He released his grip and snatched the tablet from her hand.While everyone was looking, he literally crushed it in an instant.“Those things won’t work with me now, and I’m not going back with you. If you try to stop me for a second time, then…”He swept his cold gaze across all of them. The woman backed away in
“This is worse than I thought.” The trip back to the Sunken Metropolis was swift. With his current stats and [Voltage King], Zeke was able to speed at a speed invisible to the naked eye. He was literally like a lightning bolt, rushing unidirectionally and destroying everything in its path. He stood atop a cliff North of the Sunken Metropolis, a cliff that would have given him a good view of the city were it not for the calm yet ominous Dead Ends. It was an undisturbed sea of malicious fog as high as 300 meters, spread across the entire metropolis. Even the skyscrapers weren’t spared as some of the fog wrapped around them, shrouding them almost entirely. Zeke extended his hand and let out Aetheric Waves, and though they succeeded in extinguishing the Dead Ends around him and up to 100 meters away, it wasn’t nearly enough to make any difference. It was theoretically possible to destroy all the Dead Ends, but more would reappear within a short period of time. To completely get rid
[Blood and Sweat(SS): When in battle, the user’s attack power will increase by 3% for each enemy killed (max: 99%)] [Nezulian Citizen Title: Passive effectWhen the user is within the nation known as the Nezulian Republic, stats are increased by 50% Activation Effect: For a fixed cost of 300PE: the user can put ‘flags’, to which he could teleport back to at any time. The flags can only be put within the Nezulian Republic.] “Hold on, everyone!” The significant increase of Stats allowed Zeke to recover at a much faster rate. Voltage flowed from his hands and formed a thick net that surrounded the group. He kept emitting Aetheric Waves while waiting for Celestia and the rest to slowly recuperate. As more than half of them were incapacitated, he couldn’t move them to a safe place, so he had to wait. Fortunately, with his big reservoir of Aether, he didn’t need to worry about getting tired anytime soon despite, especially since the Nezulian Citizen Title boosted his stats by a whoppi
“And that’s the situation, more or less.”Zeke was in a big meeting room along with a great deal of people. The teachers of Erys, Celestia, Teresa King’s team, and even Frederic Whitefort.Now that the situation escalated this much and the doom had come, Zeke had no need to resort to secrecy and duplicity.He told everything to Erva and the others, including the mission the System tasked him.“So, what’s your plan right now?”-ErvaZeke leaned back against the chair and looked outside the window, at the barrier holding off the Dead Ends.“How long will the barrier last?”“A week, probably.”Zeke nodded and thought for a moment before speaking again,“The Witch Queen wants me to come here. It must have to do with the Dead Ends and how to completely destroy it. She sent some System users and a Proto-Demon capable of opening portals. Maybe we can use that to our advantage and take everyone to the Capital of the Witch Association. I reckon it’s safer there.”“What makes you think they’ll w