Duality of Shadows-Chapter 943: Peak

Before the infinite wounded immortal souls, writhing in agony, the whale snorted. His celestial soul attacked, completely sealing them. With a single thought, they were all swallowed by the inventory. He planned to evaluate them individually later to figure out which ones had truly been dominated by the queen. Anizu could surely help him with that task.

Alm made a gesture, and the karmic flames disappeared. There was no doubt: their bodies and souls had reached true immortality. The realization of this left him startled... definitely terrified of the macabre potential he now possessed.

’...we can kill immortals easily with this, without consequences. It was just brute power. If Ruri helps us and we bear the cost alone, we can use an area-wide strike like the World Exterminating Karmic Lotus. We no longer just have single-target power.’ Bruno murmured, equally impressed.

The biggest problem with burning resources and using the celestial soul was that it didn’t solve everything. Their power to eliminate immortals, the Eclipsing Divinity, was only effective against a single target. However, with the karmic flames available, it would be feasible to use a combined strike with Ruri, capable of exterminating entire armies of immortals.

Still, not everything was perfect. They had won because the enemies there were weak and destabilized by the abrupt change. When they stood up and were regaining control of their powers, it was the exact moment the flames struck them. In a normal situation, it would have been necessary to calculate the perfect moment to act.

Furthermore, the cost was significant: 90% of their celestial soul energy had been consumed. Even the system had warned them about the need to supply energy. In fact, they hadn’t even used the new power yet; that was just the celestial soul and their resistance being tested.

"INVADER! DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT ESCAPING!"

A thunderous voice echoed like celestial thunder. Everyone on the planet felt Gaia’s divine immortal consciousness, furious, attacking with everything.

At that moment, the Alpenglow planet trembled violently. God Gaia gathered all his strength and summoned the planet’s laws to his command. A surreal power emerged from the planet, reflecting the essence of a divinity united with the heavenly laws.

Alm and Bruno were surprised. Gaia wasn’t using his own primordial power or Qi, but rather the resources accumulated in his body. Only then did they realize that he was weakened and had no energy of his own.

Caipora spoke from within the inventory: ’He must have used everything after my attack!’

Alm and Bruno nodded. A maximum-level attack from an immortal cultivator wasn’t a joke. The castle had burned all its energy to block it, but the planet couldn’t bear that too.

They hadn’t known this before, as they had little knowledge of powers at that level. Now, they realized that Gaia’s weakened state was an opportunity they could have exploited earlier. They didn’t have time to figure it out, and perhaps that had been Heaven’s Will’s initial plan. In the end, everything unfolded chaotically as always.

"Excellent, I will accept your offering. All this supreme body you cultivated will be mine."

The whale spoke calmly. Suddenly, his body pulsed. They decided to test a little more of their new body and activated the Behemoth bloodline. At that moment, Yinou’s eyes widened as he felt the power flowing.

It was as if a Behemoth at the level of a Chaos Dragon had awakened. The entire bloodline was amplified thousands of times by the power of the Pillar of Primordial Chaos.

Alm and Bruno’s eyes lit up. That body was extraordinary. They barely needed to use the celestial soul. After a sigh, they made another gesture.

The entire planet froze. The earth’s surface was completely dominated, and even the magma and solid core of the planet fell under their control. The power of the Behemoth was the nemesis against Gaia in this state.

Only the immortal soul of the God Gaia remained, completely catatonic. He no longer had internal energy and had now lost control of his entire body.

A pair of eyes stared at him, and Gaia felt imminent death.

The mission to destroy him, given by the system, indicated that he could not be an ally. However, since his Dao had been very useful in the past, Alm and Bruno decided to analyze him carefully.

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’He’s not being directly controlled by the queen. His soul is free,’ Alm said coldly. ’But he chose to serve her, even aware of her actions. Seeing the benefits of this place he was given, his greed prevailed above all. I don’t judge... but I’ve always loved killing greedy bastards.’ He smiled wickedly.

’NO!’

Bruno snorted, and without hesitation, attacked. Gaia’s divine soul was shattered and completely destroyed. Bruno felt no mercy for someone who thought it was normal to exploit others.

Alm and Bruno sighed, feeling that only 1% of their celestial soul energy remained. However, their bloodline was still active, and they had complete control of the planet.

"Ruri."

"Yes," she answered, quickly emerging from the inventory, already aware of what to do.

Without delay, she ran to the castle’s ruins and invoked thousands of multicolored runes. Within seconds, they penetrated the world’s main formation.

Meanwhile, Alm and Bruno focused on sensing the planet. All life forms were within their perception, as was the queen’s power, fused with their souls.

"I found it, master!"

Ruri exclaimed quickly, activating spatial runes. A dimensional channel appeared, connecting to a small world. It was the castle’s treasure. Inside, hundreds of heroic cores were stored.

Unfortunately, the heroes had taken the most valuable items to fuel the formation in the underworld. Those heroic cores weren’t important at all. They were items created and used as rewards for the planet’s inhabitants, to absorb the queen’s power more easily.

Alm and Bruno nodded, quickly absorbing everything. Their celestial souls were ignited to the maximum again. They focused on manipulating the planet and using their souls, moving and collecting all the heroic cores from the treasures stored in the continents.

They needed as many as possible, since the system had said that with this, they could use miracles without cost. So, they burned everything. Their souls kept absorbing more and more energy until they stopped. Then, their bodies began to pulse and absorb energy too.

When everything was done... they felt something terrifying: they were only at 50% capacity. They thought about the system, but no notifications appeared.

"Master, I got it!" Ruri exclaimed excitedly. "I can feel that bitch’s will at the core of the formation; but she’s not focused here. If she doesn’t concentrate directly, we can move everything secretly without her noticing."

Ruri had completely mastered the unbelievable formation of the place. The God Gaia and the castle were the foundations, and with both eliminated, this became easy for her. Thanks to the Dao of the God of Formation, she could even deceive the queen’s will, who was probably entirely focused on the underworld and wouldn’t notice this easily.

"Great, let’s do everything quickly," they said, looking at Ruri with satisfaction, which made her smile happily.

She focused, and with a wave, opened another channel. From within, two golden rune spheres emerged.

One was a mirror; the other, a huge cauldron; they were the two items of primordial chaos. Inside that channel, Alm and Bruno could feel the queen’s will. That was the exact place where she had deposited much of her will, to avoid any problems. Moreover, both items were completely sealed by the heroic power.

The whale waved, and everything was silently moved to the inventory. They had completed their mission’s objectives. Now, they needed to resolve all the other issues.

Ruri spoke quickly: "I can seal each little world and the entire place with the mutants, master. They can be taken into the micro-universe and remain there indefinitely, as long as the place is kept sealed."

They agreed. Then, Ruri took a deep breath and, using every drop of energy and concentration, covered the entire horizon with multicolored runes.

Manipulating the formation, Ruri sealed each world that was a valuable space from the past war. The place where the immortal tree and the dark elf were, was one of them, but there were many others.

Soon, the entire region where they had first arrived and where all the mutants from the universes were kept, was moved and sealed as a small world. In a matter of seconds, thousands of multicolored spheres, surrounded by spatial runes, appeared.

Ruri also didn’t forget to move and seal the world where the specters were. These were souls captured and enslaved by the queen, all those who had died in the past war. Those who appeared at the convention had been freed. Now, there was the core of all those souls, which would finally be freed permanently.

Hundreds of piles of spatial runes moved closer. Alm and Bruno waved, placing everything in the inventory without hesitation. So, they stole everything for themselves.

Then, they turned their attention to the immense primordial sun. It was the size of a thousand Alpenglow planets. This planet was as big as an entire solar system; the sun, however, was indescribably colossal. It was formed from a pulsating and unique energy, nonexistent in any universe of the present day. Without a doubt, it was the greatest treasure of that place.

Ruri trembled, clenching her fists. She wouldn’t waste it, not for a second. Then, the entire formation of the place moved, and countless runes covered the sun. Using the entire formation, she managed to seal it. After that, Alm and Bruno also placed the primordial sun in the inventory.

It was official now: the only thing left in that place was the body of the God Gaia.

Ruri staggered, but the whale moved and caught her, gently placing her into the inventory. She had used everything she had and had been extremely helpful. Now, it was up to them.

With a sigh, they jumped into the sky. They needed more energy to reach 100% of the new body’s maximum capacity. Fortunately, an immense energy source was right before them. After all, the holy power inside everyone on that planet was practically the same energy found within the heroic cores.

In the sky, they left the planet and closed their eyes.

The entire planet stopped, and all life forms, already frightened, sensed that indescribable figure and turned toward it.

On the Tarrasque continent, Carod, Arki, Jilina, and Florien saw the figure and recognized it. At that moment, an unprecedented emotion overtook them. There, they beheld its true face and instinctively felt that it had been responsible for everything recently.

"He... he won’t abandon us..." murmured Carod, trembling.

They all felt he could simply leave, but wanted to free them. However, they still didn’t understand from what.

Suddenly, the round figure opened its eyes. At that instant, all the power of the celestial soul pulsed. Billions of mortals on the planet saw its eyes as two celestial beacons. Their hearts beat uncontrollably. This image was permanently etched into their memories.

It waved...

And, in that second, everyone lost consciousness at the same time.

The entire planet was covered by a golden aura. Violent explosion sounds echoed through all the imperial cities of all continents. The statues of the queen disintegrated into dust and disappeared.

All the sacred power was drawn in. And, in everyone’s soul, that power was brutally ripped away. This would result in the complete death of 99.9% of the main cultivators at the location. Only a small portion, whose level of assimilation wasn’t very high, would survive; but they would still suffer significant damage to their souls and never wake up.

Alm and Bruno ripped that sacred power from their bodies, but at the same time, they sealed what was left of their original soul in their bodies, preventing complete death and keeping the laws from taking them away.

It was like an endless golden ocean pouring out of the planet. Then, the whale waved, and its body turned into a black hole, swallowing everything.

That sacred power was an excellent energy source for them. Minutes passed until everything disappeared.

[The Pillar of Primordial Chaos is at its peak.]

[You can now use your willpower of the heavens. All celestial miracles are now unlocked for use.]