Reborn With A Technology System In A Fantasy World-Chapter 303: Against The Lord Of Darkness

The Vassals didn’t waste time. Using the overridden access codes from the now-deceased High Council, they Warped their way to Sector XA-6.

Lady Lunu had stayed behind, her divine essence spread thin like a golden net over the Sparkborn Tower to shield the refugees.

The other nine Vassals meanwhile floated before an entity they could never have imagined, even in their worst nightmares.

Towering at the size of ten combined stars was the Lord of Darkness. His form was a swirling nebula of vantablack vapor, his presence so massive it occupied almost the entire visual spectrum of the Sector.

The corrupted Galactic Core, once the prize of the universe, now looked like a mere marble orbiting his wrist.

As they watched him from afar, the courage to attempt fighting him left instantly. It was like ants contemplating war against a hurricane.

But then, they saw the spheres. Orbiting the entity were balls of condensed grey entropy, each one pulsing with the power. The Lord of Darkness raised a hand, about to pluck one and release another death wave across the galaxy when...

"NO!"

The turning point was Karl.

He didn’t wait. Instead, launching himself to the entity like a meteor.

"LARK! WAKE UP!"

The spear in his hand screamed with joy, the overwhelming aura of the death-god doing little to intimidate it. [Big bad! Big bad! Break!]

Karl became a calamity. As he fell toward the Lord of Darkness, he channeled every ounce of his mana into the Spear.

"GROW!"

The spear expanded and grew until it was the size of a star itself, a pillar of golden light cutting through the void. An onlooker would be surprised to see that Karl actually stood a chance against the enormous entity.

Now glowing bright golden, Karl swung the Spear with a roar that shook the vacuum.

The Lord of Darkness, still toying with the grey energy ball in his right hand, didn’t blink. He simply flicked his left finger.

A wall of grey energy materialized in the path of the spear.

~BOOOOOOM!~

The impact shook the entire sector. For a second, it looked like Karl had done it. The grey wall cracked under the sheer weight of the Spear. But then, the entropy seeped into the metal. The golden light of Lark dimmed. The spear shrieked in pain and reverted its size instantly to save itself.

"No!" Karl gasped.

The Lord of Darkness turned his gaze to the ant that had dared to strike him.

He clenched his fist and gravity inverted.

Karl was slammed into the wall of the Space Tunnel with the force of a colliding planet. His power armor crumpled like tin foil. Bones shattered. Blood sprayed into the vacuum.

"KARL!" Serena screamed from afar.

But Karl wasn’t dead. Lark’s golden glow intensified, washing over him with a restorative light that knitted his bones back together in seconds. He still felt the pain, but seeing the Lord of Darkness distracted was worth every fracture. He dragged himself up, spitting teeth and blood.

"Is that... all you got?" Karl laughed with a bloody grin. "I expected more from a fat god like you."

The Lord of Darkness tilted his head one more time. He pointed a finger, and a beam of concentrated dark energy shot down.

Before it could hit, a dome of hard-light materialized over Karl.

Serena landed beside him, her Valkyrie’s Hilt blazing with white fire. She was in full Valkyrie Form, clad in wings of radiant light that expanded until she was the size of a small moon.

"Get up, idiot!" Serena yelled, parrying the entropy beam with her lightsaber. The blade held strong, hissing as it fought back the void. "We do this together!"

Mara appeared on the other flank, her Death Amulet pulsing like a second heart. Behind her, a legion of hundreds of millions of spirit-warriors surged forward.

"Attack!" Mara commanded.

The spirit army crashed into the Lord of Darkness. Due to their sheer scale, they surprisingly managed to cause a nuisance, swarming his legs and torso like gnats.

But it wasn’t meant to last. The Lord of Darkness released another wave of energy at them. This one was noticeably bigger than anything Karl had experienced, designed to wipe out all of them at once.

~FWOOOSH~

But as the wave washed over Mara’s army, nothing happened. If anything, the dark glow surrounding the army intensified. Because they were already creatures of the Void, the entropy fed them. They grew in strength and size, clawing at the entity with renewed vigor.

Realizing what was happening, the Lord of Darkness reacted quickly. He sent out a far bigger wave of dark energy. This one was fierce, thick, and moved slowly, erasing every creature it touched from existence.

But he wasn’t given time. The Vassals took their chance as he was occupied.

Damien and Eli dropped from above like meteors. The World-Shaper and Tide-Breaker hammers slammed into the ground simultaneously, creating a shockwave of tectonic force that sent tremors threatening to shatter the Tunnel walls.

"For the Spark!" Damien roared, his beard flowing with blue energy.

"Begone!" Eli roared.

Von, moving faster than light, flashed around the entity, striking nerve points with precise bursts of Void energy. Jeffery used the Architect to reconstruct the shattered reality around them, building barriers and platforms for the others to fight on. Nyra stood at the center, the Queen’s Band amplifying everyone’s power ten-fold and hers.

The Vassals gave it their all. They fought with the desperation of a dying family.

But they were fighting a concept.

The Lord of Darkness got bored. He had enough.

Raising a hand, a wave of grey energy, denser than before, rippled out in a perfect circle.

Mara was the first to get hit. Her Death Amulet pulsed wildly, trying to absorb the energy, but the crystal cracked under the strain. It filled instantly. No one could help her as the energy permeated her body, corroding it slowly.

She looked at Nyra one last time, a sad smile on her face, before she dissolved into nothing.

"Mara!" Charles screamed in shock as he was closest to her.

He was using the Pax Scriptura to write protective runes that would shield them. But the power they just felt was unlike anything they’d been fighting against. He didn’t see this one coming.

The Lord of Darkness turned to him. Another dark wave slammed into him. Three golden runes flared to life to form a protective light barrier over him. But it wasn’t enough. The wave smashed through the script as if it were paper.

Like Mara, Charles suffered the same fate. The dark energy corroded him from the inside. He fell, his quill dropping from his hand, and was no more. Dead.

Seeing the current situation, there was no time to understand what was happening. Despite the fear and despair in their hearts, their first thought was to flee. Survival was the only victory left.

They all sped away at a speed close to that of light, aiming for the nearest node point to make a warp jump.

But the Lord of Darkness, despite his low effort, didn’t let them off that easily. He looked back, and his violet eye spotted one of them trailing behind.

Serena.

Another wave of energy was sent forth. Before it struck, a shield made of golden light covered her, but it could only stall the inevitable. The shield got corroded quickly.

The energy was about to latch onto her when she saw a certain someone hovering next to her.

"Run!"

Karl shoved her violently into the others, sending her flying.

The energy latched onto him instead. It first began with Lark. The sentient spear screamed as it wrestled with the entropy, fighting to save its master, but it shattered into golden dust. Then, the grey wave ate Karl alive.

In the blink of an eye, three of the Sparkborns were no more.

Tears streamed down Nyra’s face as they raced away, the empty spaces beside her screaming louder than the battle. They were gone. Just like that, they had all died.

The Lord of Darkness slowly turned to meet the remaining Vassals, who at this point had created a lot of distance between himself and them. It had long decided to stop playing with its prey.

Opening his palms, all the dark balls floating around him began combining into one. He didn’t stop there. He imbued more energy into it, making the sphere grow larger and larger until it eclipsed the stars outside.

Finally, he hurled it forward.

This time, his intention wasn’t just to wipe out the Vassals. It was to wipe out the entire Galaxy at once.

The energy sphere accelerated, catching up to them. It cast a shadow over their souls. It seemed it was all over for them.

But then, within a moment’s notice, the Vassals that were formerly running away seemed to vanish completely, totally gone from the entity’s perception.