Chapter 686 - Then I Will Fight You, You Mongrel! (2)

Ultimate Dark Forms were not born all-knowing. Those existences born as concepts within calamity, though their rank may be higher than step-by-step evolved Ultimate Dark Forms, especially lacked experience.

This inexperience was invisible when it crushed ordinary Holy Fists, but it would always suffer heavily against a crafty and seasoned peer. Of course, for beings with perfected power to decide victory, the key was overall strength and the potency of their origin energy.

Cassius could feel that Annihilation Disaster's origin was not ordinary. It felt unusually overbearing. Once both sides entered a life and death battle with their origin abilities, combat sense and experience would matter less.

Abyssal, oceanic might diminished the edge of technique. Annihilation Disaster was absolutely not something Cassius could defeat with just a few blows. Despise the enemy strategically and value them tactically. That was the way to win.

The Golem's massive body leaped out of the crater, steel feet stamping heavily upon the ground.

"Next, I should get serious..."

The broad black mantle on its shoulders hung down, plowing the earth. Its head turned as the two blood-red eyes blazed hotter.

"Come! Let me see how much you're really worth!"

As if in answer to Cassius, Annihilation Disaster roared up into the sky, punching through the heavy black clouds. Its vast body seemed to stand shoulder to shoulder with the blood moon.

Swish.

The black cloak of deathly stillness opened bit by bit. A huge pale beast skeleton turned within the dense black miasma, and two scale-covered skeletal hands reached out. The grotesque knuckles and razor-sharp tips formed a pair of beast claws.

"Book of Deathly Stillness..."

A murmur like a dream echoed again and again above the clouds. An exceedingly dreadful aura descended like a flash flood.

Bzzzz...

The deep vortex in the left half of the hood of Annihilation Disaster's cloak began to spin rapidly, reversing its course. Its bottom grew shallower as a pitch-black book rose into view. A scale-covered skeletal hand seized it in a death grip.

Dense ant-like white specks writhed eerily on the Book of Deathly Stillness, like countless closed eyes.

"Eye of Deathly Stillness, Undead Rune!" Annihilation Disaster's Will vibrated strongly, rising like magma on the verge of eruption. Its origin energy of annihilation howled forth like a vast sea and flooded into the Book of Deathly Stillness. The black book gradually trembled, but only responded when five black arms withered into ash.

An eye squeezed out of one white speck on its surface, staring fixedly at the Golem on the ground.

Rustle.

The first page opened to reveal a twisted black script that looked like crawling ants. The characters flowed like water, writhing and merging to form a mysterious rune sigil. Its surface was the epitome of annihilation.

The rune's meaning was "Earth's Rift."

Boom!

Disaster fell the instant the book opened. It was as if words had become law. The ground beneath Cassius suddenly caved in, as if two continental plates were being yanked in opposite directions by some huge unknown force! In an instant, a deep rift valley formed, sucking the Golem down.

Whoosh!

The suddenly unleashed force yanked the Golem's enormous body down. He accelerated sharply toward the deep darkness. Far below lay heat enough to annihilate everything.

"Interesting. Its origin ability is entirely different from the Totem King's. Not an overwhelming totemic might, but eerie, mysterious runes like insubstantial causal laws..."

Clang!

Huge metallic crashes echoed through the abyss. The Golem powered up and drove its limbs into the rock plates on both sides like a pile driver, resisting the suction. Steel hands and feet tore through the rocks, throwing off dreadful sparks. The intense heat even melted some rock into flowing red magma. The Golem's fall slowed and was about to stop.

High above the rift, the watching Annihilation Disaster clenched five grisly bone fingers into a fist.

"Rift close! I’ll use the mass of the Silent Rain Zone and the Pitch Black Mountains' continental plates to crush you alive!"

Of course, that was an exaggeration. The Book of Deathly Stillness merely borrowed the ground's mass in the surrounding region to slam into the Golem. However, hundreds of millions of tons of rock was frightening enough.

Rumble...

The ground on both sides of the rift slammed inward.

Boom!

The world seemed to fall still. Annihilation Disaster bent down, the two spiral vortices examining the land where Cassius had fallen.

"No matter how strong a body, it shouldn't be able to withstand continental plates... Was he finally crushed to death?!"

It was about to withdraw the Book of Deathly Stillness from its bone palm when...

Boom, boom, boom! Swish!

Muffled detonations caused the ground to swell. The rocky ground blew apart, forming a charred, deep tunnel. Soil and stones rained down, clinking against a vast silver steel body.

The Golem had chiseled its way through the earth and withstood the crushing continental plates! Its grim armor was warped and both fists were riddled with cracks.

Then, a searing current surged and white steam billowed. In a few blinks, the Golem's damage was wiped away.

Two scarlet orbs stared at Annihilation Disaster and landed on the Book in its hand. "An interesting ability. Can it still exist apart from your annihilation origin, to be used by another?"

Clearly, Cassius had set his sights on Annihilation Disaster's prize. Annihilation Disaster grew grave. It was going to use its full strength.

"You think you’re the only one who can heal quickly?"

The vortex of its right eye also began to spin in reverse as it raised a wooden staff. It gripped the decayed staff in its hand and pointed it at the earth.

"Extinction Wand, Devouring Ghost Seal!"

Vumm...

A sigil lit at the staff's tip. It was a skull mark that looked exceptionally hideous.

The wand tapped the ground, and a breath of deathly stillness swept across the area. It was as if life-eating insects had gnawed on the land, turning the black mountains deathly pale. A vast tide of life force and calamity was drawn toward the wand and into Annihilation Disaster's body. In a blink, a dozen tentacles grew back.

"The Extinction Wand plus the Book of Deathly Stillness is a perfect pairing... I already stand in an invincible position!" Annihilation Disaster roared like a mad dragon.

Hurricanes reversed, heaven and earth changed hue, and drizzling black rain poured down. On the ground, Cassius remained cold and silent, as he stared at the skull atop the Extinction Wand.

"That is... an Ao Yin rune... A rune representing the power of death... When did Annihilation Disaster obtain an Ao Yin rune?"

Two ultimate existences faced off from afar, each using their own means to restore their wounds. The Golem's aura grew ever more formidable.

An Ao Yin rune... No matter where it was or who held it, he would obtain it without fail! Annihilation Disaster was no exception. It had chosen death!