Divine Emperor of Death

Chapter 4809  A Huge Step

Davis sucked in a cold breath.

The Time Divergent, Kronos Alistair, was a menace.

Unlike him, Kronos Alistair couldn't be sealed in time-frozen spaces, which made him all the more threat to Heaven's Warriors. He looked into the Temporal Voidplane Ring more closely and saw the Time Divergent moving very slowly within it.

In a few seconds, Kronos Alistair made his way to his wife Queen Nadija, who was just beside him, and touched her, causing her eyes to quiver, her gaze full of fear as though she couldn't see anything. His black-viridian darkness energy seemed to be filled with the complexities of time, even allowing her to move within the Temporal Voidplane Ring.

Just as Davis was wondering what Kronos Alistair was doing, he finally stopped, holding her and remaining silent.

Davis went into silence.

'I see… Kronos Alistair might be able to move within, but he necessarily can't get out without overpowering the Temporal Voidplane Ring or me, although without an owner, it is possible that he could even bind it from within…'

'Since he created a time-moving zone within the time-frozen space, it should be possible to communicate with him…'

Davis tried sending him a soul transmission through the Temporal Voidplane Ring.

"Don't move around and cause trouble. It is better to stay still than wake up all the denizens within the time-frozen space."

"Ah! It's you. It's great that we can communicate." Kronos Alistair replied.

"Stop encompassing Queen Nadija with your energy. You're only scaring her." Davis advised.

"Right… right."

"Darling, just a few moments. Since this space is frozen in time, the next time your eyes clear up, you will be outside. Don't worry." Kronos Alistair soothed Queen Nadija's thoughts.

No matter how she whimpered, her voice didn't echo out of their range, but with the black-viridian energy encompassing them, she was able to transmit her soul transmission.

"Understood. I'll… meet you then…" Queen Nadija said tremblingly.

Kronos Alistair moved away, and Queen Nadija froze again.

Davis observed for a few more minutes before he sighed.

"It seems like you can't will yourself to stay frozen."

"My body and soul instinctively resist getting frozen in time and space… there's no way around. Even if I get sealed in another time-frozen space by Heaven's Warriors, time will pass for me perpetually, eventually dying of old age. It's a curse rather than a boon."

"…" Davis felt some pity.

However, he would never lower his guard. There was Nadia, Eldia, Calypsea, his son Lucian, and many more unknowns inside.

For safety reasons, he threw Kronos Alistair and Queen Nadija all the way to a corner of the vast space inside. It wasn't possible without the black-viridian energy throwing the time-frozen space into a minor disarray, which was almost negligible since Kronos Alistair didn't retaliate with his full power.

Davis no longer tarried and summoned the Exalt Grade Flying Boat. He went towards the Wrathful Aeons Shard Region. Fortunately, the Exalt Grade Flying Boat was also imbued with a minor concealment formation, so Davis didn't encounter any trouble, unlike the time he moved within the Shard Regions.

While returning to the Shard Continent with Jade Aurora and the others, plenty of spirits blocked their path to attack them. The case was severe since they could recognize that all humans had left, and since Davis and the others didn't return the attack due to how powerful they were, they were besieged from all sides occasionally.

However, neither Davis nor the others gave any attention to these groups.

Without doing anything, they tanked the entirety of the attacks and finally reached the Shard Continent.

He especially held hands with Jade Aurora, protecting her from all attacks.

Ivy Aries then revealed to him that they were about to exit either way since the spacetime in the Time-Attributed Mid-Level Shard Region had different flows of time in different tunnels. It appeared that they could travel to the future and then return to the past, or rather, the present, which is the current time period of the Three-Layered Universe.

Hence, within that spacetime, they had a lot of tries to return to the current period of the universe as long as they didn't mess up.

Nevertheless, she repeatedly thanked him for pulling them out since they couldn't afford to waste time as the threat of closure loomed over them.

Davis felt a bit guilty because the only reason the secret realm was closing so fast was because of him. Otherwise, he would've just let them be and later met them when he actually had time to himself and listen to Tia's pleading voice.

[Everything would be for naught if you didn't accept them! Even if they found happiness with someone else, then it would be nothing but falsehood for me!]

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[If I said that I would be happy but never reach the peak of happiness without them by my side, would you reconsider?]

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He still remembered Tia's outburst and her worried expressions. If she hadn't incessantly harped on him to give them a chance, he was sure he wouldn't have taken Jade Aurora's hand now. He didn't feel the urge as he did for Aila or Xiu Juili. But since he had taken her hand, he had no intention of letting it go, even wanting to greedily keep it.

Jade Aurora still seemed to want him even after spending thirty years in that timespace. She even lied to him, which he never thought he would. He didn't activate Heart Intent since it might trigger resistance, which can be seen as him attacking others. Jade Aurora had totally flipped his mind at that moment, making him feel amused.

An honest and sincere Sect Master like her actually lied to make him accept her.

That alone conveyed her evergrowing desire to be with him, and he properly responded and even greedily kept it. If they were at fault for choosing a married man, then he was also at fault for growing his harem without properly taking care of the previous ones.

He was still feeling vexed over not treating Juili right, much less Aila, who already waited for a long time. He didn't have much time to spend with them, and then Zenova Artoria popped in as she broke her way through, trying to forcibly get into his life and suppress the others.

'Sigh… if only Zenova could be sincere and harmlessly approach me instead… then there would've been no need for me to feel this hateful, even though I like her so much…'

Davis raised his hand, clenching his palm before he threw his complicated romantic life into the back of his mind. Having arrived before the Wrathful Aeons Shard Region without encountering trouble, he felt exhilarated.

There was nothing that could trouble him within the Shard Regions.

He descended and made his way into the Wrathful Aeons Shard Region and then headed to the location where Azariel, Nadia, and Eterna's avatars previously visited. It was in a Shard Region three Shard Regions away from the Wrathful Aeons Shard Region. After making his way there, he searched for the hidden spatial vortex and actually found it.

"Holy elements… it still didn't c-" Davis closed his mouth.

He had thought that it would've closed by now, trapping him in the secret realm, but it didn't.

Looking at the way out, Davis's exhilaration grew into a mix of excitement and solemness. After entering this space, whether they were unprepared or prepared for him didn't matter. Depending on the circumstances, he would quickly attack the bottleneck and summon his Empyrean Stage Tribulation.

"Upper Realms other than the Hexadra Clan… don't fuck with me."

Davis's voice was low, almost as though talking to himself, "I have no enmity and have already warned you all that you won't be able to handle it if I were to survive, so don't blame me for being utterly ruthless when I retaliate…"

His gaze sharpened as he saw the innumerable battles he would be embroiled in the future, "Unless you stop hunting us down, it's an all-out war from here on out, Supreme One of the Human Race…"

Davis moved, jumping, exercising, simulating a few scenarios upon exit where he could be ambushed or ignored, before rubbing the chill away from his hands, before he swooped into the spatial vortex.

It swallowed him whole and then spat him out.

He landed, taking the first huge step into the vast space of the Second Layer and looked around, quickly searching for any formations ready to trap him.

Simultaneously, something bubbled and burst within his soul space.

The Covenant!

A pure white sword was already stabbed into his soul essence by the edge. The moment it manifested, it began to drink, siphoning his soul force in vast, merciless torrents. It grew increasingly bright, absorbing an extreme amount of soul force from him.

Inside the soul battle encounter, a white-robed man appeared holding the said sword, standing in the air yet grasping everything. He held the hilt of the sword with serene dominance, his form so radiant that devils would turn tail in his presence.

He was too radiant to be glimpsed, too radiant not be recognized as the wielder of the sword of judgment.

"Hmph!"

Witnessing this scene unfolding within the soul, Davis coldly harrumphed, his voice full of disdain.

He didn't use any form of reincarnation energy, obliteration energy, chaos-destruction energy, or even mystical karmic means for that matter.

Instead, his terrifying Will manifested.

His own Will formed in front of the white-robed man like a terrifying beast, a pair of eyes overlooking the entirety of the radiant white-robed man who swung down with his pure white sword.

Even within the extremely minute moment of the soul battle, time seemed to still.

Pitch-dark eyes opened within the soul domain, gazing down as though observing something already dead. Those eyes contained no hatred, no fury, but only exuded an absolute, suffocating pressure.

The white-robed man with the radiant sword still struck down at the menacing eyes.

However, before he could even finish the swing, he froze. The moment the blade descended, the space between intention and action seemed to have collapsed. The radiance cracked as though the concept sustaining it had been broken down into fine motes of light.

Fine fractures spread across the white-robed figure, lines of void crawling through his form before he shattered and faded away, dispersing into the soul mist.

The Covenant holding Davis's soul essence hostage shattered without a sound.

"…" Davis heaved a breath as he felt seventy percent of his soul force gone in that instant, mostly drained by the Covenant.

As for what attack he had used, it wasn't even an attack.

It was his Will, clad in Level Three Obscure Intent of Enigmatic Heart Laws. He couldn't use it, but he learned that it would definitely act when provoked. It reacted to the activation of the Covenant after he stepped into the Upper Realm and utterly destroyed the Covenant.

Nevertheless, he didn't let his guard down, looking around for threats while he totally ignored the Covenant as if it were some minor inconvenience.

However, when he gazed behind, he saw the spatial vortex quiver and recede into the void.

"…"

At the same moment Davis had gone speechless, many supreme geniuses who hadn't made it out trying their luck or were totally unaware got stuck inside the secret realm, possibly never to make it out in this era.

Across all the galaxies, the Heaven's Warriors, the innumerable races, and all those who were in front of the known dimensional pathways leading from the secret realm went dumbfounded.

The Elemental Dimension Secret Realm had come to an abrupt closure