504: Tenacious bug!

The long spear instantly pierced through two Skeleton Mages, then exploded violently in front of the third mage!

Boom!

A huge distorted force field instantly spread, engulfing dozens of undead units around it!

Everything within the force field, whether skeletons, ghosts, or death energy, was torn apart and annihilated by chaotic power in an extremely short time, clearing out a small vacuum zone!

But after unleashing this attack, Su Han's aura visibly diminished by a large margin, and his body swayed.

Lord Kugu Maleg, high on his throne, watched all of this with indifference.

He saw that Su Han was already at the end of his strength, and such an outburst could not last.

"Stubborn ant. But in the face of absolute power, it is meaningless."

He finally slowly rose from his throne.

As he rose, the undead energy of the entire battlefield boiled and cheered!

On his dark, glazed bones, dark gold patterns lit up one by one, exuding a suffocating pressure.

He raised his hand, and the Dark Heart at the top of the scepter stopped beating, instead beginning to contract, as endless death energy frantically converged and compressed towards the scepter's tip!

A spherical mass of energy, black as ink, as if it could swallow even light, began to form.

Around the sphere, space violently twisted, and even fine black cracks appeared!

The energy contained within it far surpassed the Bone Dragon Mo Lin's Dragon Breath, and even far surpassed the giant axe phantom from the legion's combined attack!

This was Lord Kugu's destructive strike, condensing his own power!

"Feel true death, little ant who stole forbidden power."

Lord Kugu's voice was cold and merciless.

He locked onto Su Han below and gently pushed out the death orb, compressed to its extreme.

The death orb flew out silently, and wherever it passed, space seemed to freeze and then be annihilated.

Its speed seemed not fast, yet it gave a sense of despair, of being unable to evade or resist.

Su Han, who had just cleared an area and was panting heavily, suddenly looked up, and the shadow of death instantly completely engulfed him.

This attack, he couldn't dodge! He couldn't block!

The Chaos energy within him was already running low and extremely chaotic, even beginning to backfire on his body.

Was it really going to end?

No!

There was one last thing!

A look of extreme madness flashed in Su Han's eyes.

He remembered the Chaos Core's characteristic of devouring and transforming!

Instead of trying to defend or dodge, he spread his arms and actively met the death orb!

At the same time, he frantically circulated the Chaos Core within his body, not to output, but to… devour!

"Come on! Let's see who devours whom!"

He let out a hysterical roar!

Under Lord Kugu Maleg's slightly startled gaze, and Karen's despairing eyes, the death orb, capable of destroying a hill, directly slammed into Su Han's chest!

There was no explosion!

The moment the death orb touched Su Han's body, the Chaos Core in his chest, like a black hole starved to the extreme, erupted with an unprecedented suction force!

It frantically pulled and devoured the death orb's energy!

"Aaaahhhhhhh—!"

Su Han let out an agonizing scream of extreme pain!

The energy contained in the death orb was too vast, too pure, too cold!

It far exceeded his current limits of endurance and transformation!

His body seemed about to be instantly frozen, burst open, and annihilated!

His skin instantly became covered with black ice cracks, and blood, as soon as it seeped out, was frozen and evaporated.

His Meridians were as if pierced by countless ice needles, and then torn apart by a raging torrent of energy!

The Chaos Core spun wildly, desperately transforming the surging death energy, forcibly assimilating it into Chaos energy.

But the speed of transformation was far from keeping up with the speed of influx!

This was an extremely dangerous gamble! Either be burst open, or… be reborn in destruction!

Lord Kugu Maleg showed surprise for the first time: "He's actually devouring my Death Origin?! Madman!"

He immediately tried to control the death orb to explode, but found that the orb's connection to him was being rapidly severed and corroded by an extremely chaotic, overbearing energy!

Su Han's body became a battlefield!

Death energy and Chaos energy fiercely clashed, annihilated, and transformed within him!

His consciousness almost collapsed in extreme pain, but an unyielding will stubbornly supported him!

Just as he felt his body was about to completely disintegrate—

Buzz!

His Chaos Core, after devouring a massive amount of Death Origin, seemed to undergo some kind of qualitative change!

It suddenly expanded by a circle, and its rotation speed abruptly increased several times! The transformation efficiency instantly soared!

More death energy was forcibly transformed into a deeper, more violent, gray-black Chaos energy, mixed with traces of death characteristics!

"Roar!"

Su Han suddenly looked up and let out a roar that was completely unlike a human! His eyes completely turned into a chaotic darkness!

No longer did blood seep from the cracks on his body, but rather gray-black energy currents spewed forth!

His aura, at this moment, not only completely recovered but even Broke Through his previous limits, reaching a brand new, even more terrifying height!

Although his body was still broken, his power had returned!

And it was even greater than before!

He suddenly clapped his hands together, forcibly pressing the death orb, which had shrunk by nearly half, into his body! Completely devouring it!

Then, he looked up at Lord Kugu Maleg on the throne, whose expression finally became solemn.

"Now, it's my turn!"

Su Han stomped his foot, and the ground exploded!

His body transformed into a gray-black lightning bolt that tore through space, actively charging towards Lord Kugu!

His speed was far greater than before!

The soul fire in Lord Kugu Maleg's eyes surged, and he finally became completely serious.

He waved his scepter, instantly placing layers of bone shields and death barriers in front of him, each layer strong enough to withstand a legion's charge.

At the same time, his empty left hand reached forward, and a giant bone claw, composed entirely of pure death energy, appeared out of thin air, grabbing at the charging Su Han.

"Grasp of Wither!"

Su Han did not dodge or evade; on his right fist, the highly condensed Chaos energy was no longer pale white, but a deep gray-black, as if containing endless destruction and death!

"Break!"

He threw a punch!

Chii—!

The giant death bone claw, the moment it touched the gray-black fist, was like it met its nemesis, rapidly disintegrating and annihilating from its front end!

It couldn't even block for a moment!

Su Han's figure penetrated the dispersing death energy, and he slammed his fist heavily onto the first layer of bone shield set up by Lord Kugu!

Boom!

The shield instantly shattered!

Second layer! Third layer! Fourth layer!

...

Su Han, like a human armor-piercing projectile, in the purest and most violent way, continuously smashed through a total of seven powerful defenses set up by Lord Kugu!

Finally, he appeared before Lord Kugu Maleg's throne!

Between the two, only the last dark barrier, twisted with countless vengeful spirits, remained!

The shock in Lord Kugu Maleg's eyes had turned into utter fury and a hint of imperceptible dread. He could not understand why the opponent's power had undergone such a bizarre and terrifying transformation in such a short time!

"You deserve to die!"

Lord Kugu roared, gripping his scepter with both hands, aiming the Dark Heart at Su Han, and a highly condensed, dark red death ray suddenly shot out!

This was his Origin attack!

Su Han also let out a roar at the same time, pushing his palms forward, unleashing the newfound, gray-black Chaos energy, infused with Death Origin, without reservation!

One gray-black, one dark red!

Two torrents of energy, representing different ultimate destructive powers, fiercely collided right in front of Lord Kugu's throne!

There was no sound!

Or rather, the sound had exceeded the realm of what common sense could comprehend!

Only an ever-expanding, twisting, light-devouring energy sphere erupted between the two!

The next moment!

Rumble rumble rumble—!!!

An indescribable, terrifying explosion erupted from the throne as its center, spreading violently!

The skeletal beasts pulling the chariot were the first to bear the brunt, annihilated before they could even let out a wail!

The undead legion below, like a wheat field swept by a hurricane, turned into ashes in swathes!

The earth rolled like waves, shattered, and then was vaporized by the energy!

Karen was violently thrown away by the shockwave, his fate unknown...

At the core of the explosion, energy turbulence raged.

Lord Kugu Maleg's throne was completely shattered, his king's robe turned to ash, his dark, glazed bones were covered in cracks, and the soul fire in his eye sockets dimmed by more than half. He let out an angry and unwilling roar, his body flying backward in the explosion...

And Su Han, likewise, was thrown back by the terrifying force of the explosion, his body like a meteor smashing into the distance, blood gushing, his newly recovered strength rapidly declining again, his consciousness plunging into darkness.

Before he completely lost consciousness, his blurry vision saw, on the distant horizon, what appeared to be the outline of a towering black city wall, and countless energy lights targeting the undead, lighting up above the city wall...

Blackstone City... reached...

The aftershocks of the explosion slowly subsided, leaving behind a giant crater over a thousand meters in diameter.

Lord Kugu Maleg's figure condensed in the distance; he was severely damaged, his soul fire flickering, as he looked in the direction of Blackstone City, then at the direction where Su Han had fallen, letting out an incredibly furious roar.

But he did not continue the pursuit; Su Han's final burst of power had made him feel a serious threat, and the defenders of Blackstone City ahead were clearly already alerted.

"Human... and that strange power... I will remember you!"

He hissed in a low voice, beginning to gather his remaining troops. (End of Chapter)