lerbook Chapter 530 Slaying Rhea's Spiritual Body
Chapter 530 Slaying Rhea's Spiritual Body
Chapter 530 Slaying Rhea's Spiritual Body
boom!
A roar that seemed to tear the heavens and earth apart resounded as the two-headed dragon Amphispina spewed out red and blue flames from its gaping maw. Wherever it passed, the hard ground was melted, and the flames crashed down on Hycintos.
Hyacinthus was terrified.
He scrambled and rolled on the ground, fleeing desperately. His magnificent robes were torn, and his handsome face was covered in mud and blood. Gone was his former dignity; only deep-seated fear and panic remained.
Hycintos himself was also LV5, and although he was in a sorry state, it wasn't difficult for him to avoid the dragon's flames.
However, just as he narrowly escaped death by grazing the edge of the two-colored breath, in that instant...
It's sizzling!
Spatial fluctuations spread, and Roy's figure shifted, blinding golden lightning erupting from his palm, crackling and solidifying into a sharp sword that drew a cold golden arc in the void.
Hyacinthus was completely caught off guard, even with the divine perspective granted by his powers.
The cold glint flashed across Hyacinthus's knees!
His legs were brutally severed below the knees, his flesh and bones vaporized, and Hyacinthus threw his head back, letting out a shrill, inhuman scream.
"Ughhhhhhh!"
Having lost both legs, Yaxintos staggered forward and fell to the ground. What was worse, the golden thunder sac did not disappear; it brutally drilled into his blood vessels and bones along the wounds of his severed limbs, burning them.
Hyacinthus lay on the ground, convulsing violently and emitting a bloodcurdling howl like a dying beast.
Roy slowly approached Hyacinthus.
"You bastard!"
Hyacinthus's eyes were filled with resentment and desperate madness. His extreme hatred for Roy caused him to unleash his last bit of ferocity. He raised his arm and, with all his remaining strength, threw a punch.
Roy's right leg transformed into a golden whip that tore through the air, leaving a mark on Hyacinthus's cheek.
boom!
A deep, solid thud!
Hyacinthus's head was kicked violently to the side, several teeth mixed with black blood flew out, and all the remaining screams and curses were kicked back into his throat by this kick.
Roy continued to kick, beating Yacintos until he was covered in bruises and looked like a bloodied mess.
With such a disparity in strength, if the opponent weren't still somewhat useful, Roy would have already scattered Hyacintos's ashes with that slash and kick.
Roy crouched down, his calm gaze fixed on the almost paralyzed Hyacinthus. "How did you acquire the ability to control the dungeon?"
Hyacinthus's lifeless eyes regained a glimmer of light, and his voice was weak, "So you wanted to know this? I absolutely will not tell you!"
Roy said calmly, "Isn't it better to tell me? I don't have a penchant for torturing people. Just give me the information, and I'll give you a quick and painless response."
"Don't even think about it!"
Hyacinthus's reply consisted of only three words.
Roy looked down at him with cold, unfeeling eyes, his fingertips crackling with electricity as he touched the center of Yacintos's sweat-drenched forehead.
It's sizzling!
A dense current of electricity surged wildly into Hyacinthus's body, tearing his mind apart and seeping into his limbs, bones, and nerve endings.
Even every single cell.
"Ughhhhhh!!!"
Hyacinthus's face contorted, and he let out an even more agonizing scream than before. He felt as if his nerves were being repeatedly lashed by billions of volts of electricity, and every cell was wracked with excruciating pain.
This is something only Roy can do.
For example, Alphia and Riveria developed their own abilities; the former used "Demon King Valion" in a second way, while the latter used connections to create nine spells.
His LV.9 dexterity allowed him to achieve the ultimate, meticulous control over spells that required no incantation.
Inflict maximum pain on Hyacinthus without killing him.
It's truly worse than death!
At this moment, Hyacinthus wished he could pick up a dagger and end his own life, but he couldn't even do something as simple as that. The fine electric current made him completely powerless.
Moreover, Roy is keeping a close eye on things, and he will not let Hyacinth die before Hyacinth reveals the information!
Hyacinthus was tormented to the point of despair, with images flashing through his mind, even questioning his own existence: Why was he born into this world? Why did he seek revenge on Roy?
In extreme pain and confusion, Hyacinthus's eyes gradually lost their last glimmer of light.
Roy frowned. This was a bit troublesome. As expected of an adventurer who had achieved several great feats and reached LV.5, he could easily kill Hyacinthus, but getting information from him would be many times more difficult.
Hyacinthus's life force was growing weaker and weaker.
Just then, something unexpected happened!
Sizzle—Sizzle—
Wisps of deep, eerie black mist emanated from the cracks in Hyacinthus's charred skin and from his wide-open mouth and nostrils spewing white smoke.
The black mist flowed slowly across the broken surface of Hyacinthus's body, and the originally raging golden lightning seemed to be swallowed up, becoming dim and lifeless.
Roy's usually calm eyes turned serious.
Then, Hyacinthus's charred and mangled body, enveloped in black mist, stiffly stood up like a puppet suspended by invisible threads.
"Gurgle!"
Mary looked nervous, her petite body trembling slightly in Roy's arms. It wasn't fear of power, but rather the higher-level aura she sensed from "Hyacinthus"—the will of the dungeon!
"Roy!" Mary buried her face in Roy's chest, her cold little hands clutching his clothes.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here!"
Sensing the deep-seated fear in the mermaid girl's bones, Roy gently patted her trembling back with his steady, powerful hand.
At the same time, Roy's gaze, sharp as a hawk's, locked onto the eerie black figure, his eyes filled with cold vigilance and scrutiny.
And then the dark figure moved!
Roy felt like he was being watched. The dark figure, like a sleepwalker, stiffly raised its hands and reached towards Roy's face. The movement was so slow that it even had a gentle quality to it.
hum!
Roy dared not be careless, for the person before him was not Hyacintos! A violent golden lightning erupted from his body, instantly covering his entire body.
But the moment the shadowy figure's outstretched hands touched the raging golden lightning, Roy's LV.9 lightning annihilation did not cause the slightest ripple.
The hands continued to reach towards Roy's cheeks.
"What?!"
Roy's mind was filled with alarm bells!
Without hesitation, he initiated a teleportation, and a spatial ripple pattern appeared. He and Mary's figures were swallowed up and teleported dozens of meters away.
The dark figure remained in the "reaching out" posture.
Roy stared coldly at the other man and demanded, "Just who are you?!"
The question, like a thunderclap, jolted the other party awake. The shadowy figure's words and actions finally lost their "dullness," and the voice sharpened, "Why? Why do you possess this power?"
The voice was filled with resentment and indignation, as if it were angry at someone who wasn't there.
Before the words were finished, the dark figure raised his hand high.
Rumble! Rumble!!
The entire earth emitted a deafening wail, cracking open countless bottomless fissures, from which sharp, black stone spears shot forth, their target Roy.
It wasn't over yet. Tens of thousands of aquatic monsters surged out from the ceiling, stone walls, and underwater, their sheer number instantly obscuring the view.
Stone spears and monsters attacked Roy relentlessly.
Roy held Mary tightly in his arms, his eyes deep. With a flick of his wrist, he took out the Elven Holy Sword from his spatial ring. After activating it, the slender blade trembled, and ancient and complex runes lit up.
Then, he swung the holy sword forward.
By combining development capabilities and equipment effects, and utilizing the "Afterglow" technique, a dazzling flame-colored slash engulfs everything in front of it, with stone spears and monsters gradually melting away.
Wherever the arc of light passes, everything is destroyed!
boom!
The icy slash extended outwards, tearing through the cave and the water's surface, creating a fissure that stretched for thousands of meters, a magnificent and awe-inspiring sight.
Seeing the monster he had summoned using the terrain to attack being defeated by Roy with a single sword strike, the dark figure was visibly stunned: "This power—"
"Looks like you're a bit out of touch with the times!" Roy vaguely guessed the other person's identity.
The seal of the seventy-two layers is bidirectional.
Adventurers cannot enter the deeper levels, and the monsters and certain terrifying beings in the deeper levels cannot reach the upper levels, thus creating a gap of thousands of years—the other side is unaware of information about the Orario adventurers.
The only thing the other party knows is—
"So that's how it is. No wonder that black dragon was defeated." The dark figure murmured, its gaze never leaving Roy. Through the system of blessings, the gods had actually nurtured such an outstanding child from the lower realm, far superior to those ants who borrowed the power of immortal essence.
Fortunately, the gods were unaware of the other party's thoughts, otherwise they would have been furiously complaining about how they were so capable of nurturing an adventurer of Roy's caliber.
After the first exchange, Roy felt relieved.
The resources the opponent can mobilize are limited to the Water City. No matter how many terrain attacks or level 2 to 3 monsters there are, they can't do anything to him.
The dark figure seemed unwilling to give up, wanting to manipulate the floor again and summon a deeper nightmare, wanting to drown Roy in endless filth.
hum!
Roy, however, showed no mercy to the other party. With a thought, an even more vast and profound mysterious power seized control of the floor.
The result was that the cave remained completely still!
There were no new stone spikes or emerging monsters!
The dark figure's world-changing will seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall.
"It's you!"
The other party immediately sensed the presence of the "culprit," and their eyes, hidden in the black mist, blazed with furious rage as they stared menacingly at Roy.
"You must never use this power again!"
The shadowy figure let out a hysterical roar, and the thick, deep black mist instantly boiled over! It transformed into a dark tidal wave that blotted out the sky, devoured light, and carried endless malice, pressing down on Roy with overwhelming force.
The opponent used Hyacinthus's weak body to cast spells, so Roy's movements were obviously faster.
Clang!
An even faster golden arc of sword light suddenly flashed from the elven holy sword, slashing out fiercely and tearing the incoming deep black mist in half.
Hyacinthus, who had already lost consciousness, was revealed.
Opportunities are fleeting!
A cold glint flashed in Roy's eyes. At the same time, he grabbed the golden lightning with his other hand, transforming it into a long spear wrapped in lightning and with dazzling plasma leaping at its tip.
step!
Roy's figure moved forward as if by teleportation, and the Thunder Spear was thrown out like a golden meteor, tearing through the remaining black mist and piercing Hyacinthus's heart without any deviation.
Penetrates! Explodes!
Hyacinthus's body stiffened abruptly, his eyes completely lost their luster, and a charred hole appeared in his chest cavity, from which violent golden lightning surged wildly.
Faced with Roy's unwavering resolve, Hyacinthus, at only LV.5, was instantly killed and reduced to ashes.
As the vessel of Hyacinthus perished, the thick, eerie black mist began to dissipate, leaving only a faint, nauseating smell of decay.
Just as the black fog was about to dissipate completely.
A deep voice, seemingly emanating from the depths of the netherworld, echoed in Roy's mind: "—We—will—meet—again—!"
Roy, his body still enveloped in golden lightning, his eyes sharp as knives, said, "Next time, I'll finish you off completely!"
A reward panel popped up in front of him.
From the information provided by the system, Roy confirmed the other party's identity, verifying his guess.
[Successfully defeated the spiritual entity of Earth Mother Rhea. Congratulations on obtaining 2000 attribute points, Dungeon Heart (fragment), and Mother's Prayer (quasi-god level)!]
Name: Heart of the Dungeon (Fragment)
Level: Undetermined Description: After use, enhances the power of the earth, increasing control over dungeons to level 65, including but not limited to manipulating terrain and controlling monster spawning.
Note: You must be inside the dungeon to activate this power!
Name: Prayer of the Holy Mother Level: Quasi-God Special Effect (Prayer): Doubles the effect of healing magic and greatly reduces mental energy consumption.
Special Effect (Heart of the Earth): Standing on the ground automatically triggers a magic shield, granting continuous recovery of stamina and mental energy.
Durability: 99%
A dungeon, a floor in an unknown area.
Inside the silent cave, flowers and plants filled the air with birdsong and fragrance, creating a lush and verdant atmosphere. A colossal female deity, with snow-white skin and exquisite features, sat in the center, her beauty breathtaking.
As the spiritual entity was destroyed, Rhea slowly opened her eyes. She had only sent out the spiritual entity to investigate the situation at the upper levels, but unexpectedly ran into Roy.
"To raise a child from the lower realm to fight us, what an idea you have. And then, that child becomes their ultimate weapon, possessing the power of the earth. Is this the idea of the gods, or...?" Rhea muttered to herself.
She is the Earth Mother Goddess, possessing the power to control the earth, but Roy's powers are different.
The other party is practically the embodiment of the dungeon!
To put it bluntly, she's stronger when it comes to deeper levels. Within the same floor, if it comes to power and authority, she might not be able to beat Roy, since the latter is the "most legitimate heir" of the dungeon and has higher authority than her.
So much so that when she first saw Roy, she almost thought she was seeing things.