Read Novel Full Chapter 590 - 49: Rules and Despair
Chapter 590: Chapter 49: Rules and Despair
"What is that?!"
Lynch looked at Altonia, who was in a frenzy ahead, and the strange substance resembling a heart in his hand. While unsure of its exact nature, he could sense the intense elemental fluctuations emanating from it.
"Quick, stop him! That’s the Heart of Decay! He must not be allowed to fuse with it!"
At this moment, a sharp voice rang out. Jeraf, who had appeared on one side without anyone noticing, shouted urgently at Lynch.
Lynch’s gaze hardened; he exchanged a look with Messiah, and together, they unleashed their domain power without restraint, launching an attack toward Altonia and the Heart of Decay!
But it was already too late!
Altonia violently pressed the pulsating, ominously dark red Heart of Decay into his withered chest!
"Squish!"
A teeth-grinding ripping sound was heard! The skin and roots on his chest broke open as easily as rotten mud! The dark red heart, like a parasite finding its home, instantly burrowed in, forcibly merging with his shattered body!
"Aaaahhhh---!!!"
Altonia let out an inhuman scream, a mix of extreme agony and ecstasy! His body swelled and twisted violently, like a balloon being inflated! The black tendrils covering him proliferated madly, entangling with the blood vessel-like veining extending from the dark red heart!
The half of his face that was still relatively intact was instantly covered with writhing tendrils and dark red streaks! The single dark red eye now burned with substantial, soul-burning dark red flames!
An indescribable terror, a blend of ultimate decay, chaos, and a hint of... eerie rebirth, exploded from the body that had fused with the Heart of Decay, like a cosmic storm!
"Attack! Don’t stop!" Jeraf’s hoarse warning echoed amidst the snow and wind, while Lynch and Messiah’s assault crashed in like a furious tide!
Lynch fully activated his "Decaying Domain." A gray-green beam, merging time acceleration with the power of decay and annihilation, pierced through space like a Judgement Spear, targeting Altonia’s chest where he had fused with the Heart of Decay!
Simultaneously, he formed a virtual grip with his left hand, attempting to create a "black hole" trap around Altonia, where the flow of time was so disrupted it reached a chaotic extreme!
Messiah’s Light Domain erupted with unprecedented purifying holy radiance! Countless blazing white spears, condensed purely from Holy Light, descended like a storm of light, with an absolute will to purge all filth, blocking all of Altonia’s escape routes!
She chanted ancient sacred prayers, trying to invoke higher Light Rules to suppress that nausea-inducing decayed essence!
Facing this combined strike, strong enough to immediately inflict severe damage or even destroy an ordinary Third-tier Domain, Altonia, who had just completed the fusion and whose body was still twisting and swelling violently, merely raised his arm, covered with dark red veins and black tendrils.
No earth-shattering energy collision, no dazzling explosion of light.
Only a kind of... soul-chilling, silent "rewrite"!
Lynch’s gray-green beam, powerful enough to pierce through mountains, suddenly had its time acceleration rule... reversed when it was just a few meters from Altonia! It was no longer accelerating decay but transformed into an eerie "Time Reversal!"
The energy structure of the beam crumbled into chaos, the decay power within flowing backward like an hourglass, eroding the beam itself in reverse, causing it to dissipate and vanish silently before Altonia!
As for the black hole trap he tried to create, the spatial rules in that area seemed to be forcibly "smoothed" by an invisible giant hand!
The disordered time flow was forcibly reset to "zero" and corrected! The forming singularity, meant to swallow everything, burst like a soap bubble, leaving not even a ripple behind as it disappeared completely!
Messiah’s light storm became more bizarre! The spears of light imbued with Holy Purification Power, upon entering within a hundred meters of Altonia, had their core "purification" rules forcibly twisted and rewritten!
The holy white light was instantly tainted with a layer of dirty dark red, the sacred purification will replaced with chaotic decay erosion! The spears of light, meant to purify the enemy, turned upon the Light Domain of Messiah, carrying the polluted power of decay to strike back!
"Pfft!" Messiah was struck hard, letting out a muffled groan, her face turning pale instantly. She was channeling her domain with all her might to resist this sudden backlash. The Holy Light Domain was shaking violently, with even the edges showing subtle traces of decay and erosion!
Lynch’s pupils contracted sharply, and for the first time, there was shock in his gray eyes! He clearly "saw", or rather "perceived" through the [Grid Circuit] that transcended the norms, everything that had happened just now!
That wasn’t a confrontation of energy! It wasn’t a collision of domains!
It was... a direct modification of the rules!
The opponent seemed to become the "scribe" of this space’s rules, casually smearing toying with his proud Time Mystical Level and Power of Decay! Twisting Messiah’s laws of light into his own weapon!
"This... can’t be!" Lynch exclaimed in a low, shaken voice filled with unprecedented tremor. "Domain rules... have been directly overturned?! This is not the power of domains... This is... rule authority!"
"You’ve advanced to the Fourth-tier Rules!!!"
What Altonia was now using was unmistakably the Rule Power exclusive to Fourth-tier Rules!
"Hahahahahahaha——!!!"
From Altonia’s distorted and expanding body erupted a deafening, infinite laugh filled with frenzied joy! His laughter seemed to carry tangible shockwaves, causing the surrounding space to wail and distort!
"Do you see this?! Ants! This... is ’rules’! This is... the power beyond domains... the force of the Fourth-tier!" His eye, completely engulfed in dark red flames, burned with the arrogance of controlling everything, locking onto Lynch and Messiah.
"Domains? They’re just a crude trick of borrowing world rules! But I... Altonia! At this moment... am the rule itself!" He waved his withered claw casually!
Boom!
The gravitational rules of the space surrounding Lynch and Messiah instantly multiplied by thousands, even tens of thousands of times! The two of them felt as if they were struck by an invisible star; their domain shields emitted a groan unbearable to bear, their bodies sunk heavily, and the icy platform beneath their feet shattered into powder instantly! If not for the tenacious support of their domain power, this would have been enough to crush them into mush!
Then, Altonia pointed distantly at Messiah!
"Light? It’s just the prelude to decay! Perish!"
The core "Light" concept of the Light Domain around Messiah seemed forcibly extracted and replaced! The once pure and warm radiance visibly darkened and cooled at an alarming rate! The angelic phantasms fluttering within the domain emitted silent wails, their bodies rapidly falling into decay and disintegration like weathered stone statues! Messiah’s own light dimmed sharply, as though it might extinguish at any moment!
"Ugh!" Messiah groaned again, a strand of golden blood oozing from her mouth, as the domain range was compressed madly, struggling to support.
"Time? A joke! In front of me, even time... must decay!" Altonia turned his focus onto Lynch! His fiery eye locked onto the time rune swirling at the core of Lynch’s domain!
A will of decay, unstoppable and ending all, ignored Lynch’s domain defenses, directly acting on the time rules within his domain!
Lynch felt terrifyingly that the intricately circulating time runes in his domain were being forcibly eroded and dismantled by a higher-dimensional force! The flow of time began to warp, becoming chaotic and viscous, and even... a localized, irreversible "time decay" phenomenon emerged!
The power of time in some areas was like rotting wood, losing activity, becoming desolate!
With just two random "rewrites," Lynch and Messiah were already in a miserable state, their domains faltering! This was the absolute suppression of Fourth-tier Rules! In the face of a power capable of directly defining and modifying underlying rules, Third-tier Domains were as fragile as sandcastles built by children, weakly incapable of withstanding!
Altonia’s distorted giant body floated in the air, like a deity controlling life and death, overlooking the two below who were desperately supporting, with only the desire for destruction left in the dark red fiery eye:
"Struggle! Wail! Then... along with this world, which is approaching its end... become the nourishment for the ’heart’! Your despair... shall be the final movement of my path!"
The shadow of death, like the ultimate decaying aura emanating from Altonia, completely enveloped Lynch and Messiah. They fell into an unprecedented, almost hopeless extremity!