The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 646 - 381 Source

Chapter 646: Chapter 381 Source

Everyone looked at him in disbelief.

If it weren’t for Rod’s previous achievements, someone would probably have cursed out loud already.

Lothar, struggling to contain his anger, said, "Kid, I’ve heard of you. The Elder Council often talks about replacing me with you. You’ve done so well in Star Town, so naturally, you should be able to solve the problems of Star City too. But let me tell you, that’s impossible!"

Seeing Rod close his eyes and ignore him, Lothar’s anger grew even stronger.

"I know your special Fire Spark gives you explosive power far beyond your current rank, and you’ve created many miracles with it. You’ve even blown up the Fla Soul Devouring Worm Queen, but here, your tricks are useless."

"These monsters are all produced by the distortions of the Dark Abyss. If you don’t destroy the distortion, killing more is useless! But we can’t even find the distortion now, let alone the source causing it!"

Qingyu nodded slightly, "The power of fire simply can’t penetrate. The darkness below is like a silent sea, I’ve never seen such terrifying power. This area has almost completely fallen into darkness; it rejects the Law of fire from its roots. With just half a step more of erosion, this place will become a true Dark World, a silent and lightless world."

Lothar continued, "The Starry Kingdom must have discovered its existence at some point but couldn’t find a way to eliminate it, so they chose to seal it. Star City was built to seal it."

First Commander Herman suddenly understood, "No wonder there’s no trace of the Guardian Fire Sacrificial Ground in Star City; I thought it was completely destroyed!"

Lothar said with a grim expression, "We didn’t know this and still foolishly thought about taking over Star City. That’s the root of our failure. From the beginning to the end, we were doing something that was doomed to fail. This path has no end because it’s not a road, it’s a pit!"

"Now the best solution is to jump out of the pit, fill the pit, restore the Sealing, mark it, and walk around it in the future!"

In the gloomy Black Fog, everyone fell silent for a moment.

They actually already knew this outcome; they just found it hard to accept.

But at this moment, Rod suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Let’s start."

Lothar frowned, "Start what?"

"Start solving the problem."

Lothar exploded in rage instantly, "Did you even listen to what we said? How are you going to solve the problem? Did you find the entity of the Dark Abyss distortion?"

"I found it."

"Yeah, you couldn’t have found... What did you say?"

Lothar leaped three feet high, his eyes bulging like bells, his mouth wide open like a blood basin, his face full of disbelief, "You found it?"

Rod nodded, "When you see anything later, don’t scream."

Lothar raged, "You little brat, what are you talking about? I’ve seen more monsters than you’ve eaten... Ah! Ahhhhh—what the hell is this?"

Rod extended his right hand and spread his five fingers, from which Souls continuously emerged.

These Souls were very strange; their cores were black, indicating that they were Monster Souls. Their Soul Bodies were chaotically disordered, and their Spiritual Bodies were torn and fragmented, like mutilated corpses, and they had an odd pallor, as if they had been soaked in a solution and then taken out.

This eerie sensation was a massive shock to everyone. They were not strangers to the horrors of the world; they had seen monsters and Souls far more horrific, twisted, and dark. But none had been like this.

It wasn’t a battle of blood and fire, not even the dark and twisted erosion, but a cold, cruel act of cutting, processing, and storing Souls.

Mysteriously, they thought of the Sigve Food Factory, where they coldly dissect, break down, cook, and process animals raised in Beast City or botanical gardens into canned goods, waiting to be eaten.

It was precisely this subconscious notion of "waiting to be eaten" that caused everyone’s faces to pale with fear.

No one had ever considered consuming the souls of monsters; it was an indescribable horror.

Unable to control himself, Zhang Bai asked, "What is this? How did they come to be? And how did you bring them here?"

Herman explained subconsciously, "Rubbish bin... It’s normal to hide something in a black rubbish bin... Yes, right! Hiding some specially treated souls for use in special circumstances, that’s quite normal, isn’t it?"

Zhang Bai suddenly realized, "Yes, yes, yes, worthy of being humanity’s rising star! Such thorough thinking!"

With that said, everyone heaved a sigh of relief, and even Qingyu cracked a slight smile; no one could bear the thought that their royal husband was a man who ate such ghastly things.

"So, these specially treated monster souls, can they be used to find the dark distorted anomalies?" Qingyu asked softly, with flickering flames flowing over her body, already in a state of combat readiness.

Here, her strength was unmatched, and it was she who must lead in the forthcoming tough battle, rather than just providing support from the Fire Domain at the rear.

Rod nodded, with souls still effusing vigorously from his hands, spreading on the ground like some sort of soft-bodied creature.

The crowd silently stepped back a bit, no one eager to touch the substances.

"Qingyu, use the power of fire to draw a circle and enclose them," Rod instructed.

Qingyu lifted her right hand, her powerful and restrained spiritual energy gathering above it, and quickly began spiritualization. Bright flames spread downward from her fingertips, and before long, her entire right hand transformed into fire.

A strand of fire streaked out and fell to the ground, drawing a large circle that enclosed the piled-up soul corpses.

Rod ceased his actions, and everyone watched him, holding their breath in anticipation.

In his mind, the Book of Knowledge furiously wrote, "This is all I know; I’m unclear on what to do next! The source of distortion here is definitely not ordinary!"

Rod laughed, "No problem, I’ll use ’Divine Sense’."

The color drained from the Book of Knowledge’s face, as ’Divine Sense’ was ’Spirit Mechanism’ after quantification of Star Energy.

’Spirit Mechanism’: Consume 10 points of Divinity to gain divine wisdom, trigger a spirit mechanism, and attempt to resolve all problems past, present, and future.

This ability was extremely powerful, but the catch was its consumption of Divinity.

Ever since the last invasion of the Dead Soul Nightmare, the Book of Knowledge had contracted a strange ’use Divinity and die’ disease. It was reluctant to use any abilities that consumed divinity.

The most critical point was that ’Spirit Mechanism’ wasn’t infallible; there was a chance of failure.

points of Divinity were buying a possibility.

The Book of Knowledge hesitated significantly, but Rod didn’t care in the slightest. With a thought, he immediately triggered the Fifth Star.

Divinity -10

’Spirit Mechanism’ activated, Rod instantly felt a powerful surge of clarity infuse the top of his head. His blood boiled instantly, his soul radiated a fierce red light, and his thoughts flashed like lightning, a multitude of ideas assaulting him.

"Darkness, erosion, distortion, anomalies..."

Suddenly, a flash of light illuminated the dark night of his soul.

"I’ve got it!"

"This is a colossal Calamity Seal. The surface part is the seal’s facade, while the underground is the essence of the seal. Human exploration has damaged it, awakening the twisted darkness that had settled!"

"It isn’t due to the deepening encroachment of darkness that this distortion occurred—it’s the polluted Sea of Source, the pollution origin manifesting in the Main Material World. It signifies that the world has entered a deeper layer of erosion, the fundamental laws of all things are altering, a new Dark Law is being written, and the world is accelerating its plunge into the depths of darkness."

"To find and eliminate it, we need the crumbling Black Fog, sharp Fire Sparks, boiling Spirituality, and a piece of Source Material that represents the Source."

The thought flashed by, and the "Spirit Mechanism" had already vanished, everything returned to normal.

But the knowledge it provided remained in his mind.

Rod returned to the Main Material World and opened his eyes; everyone was looking at him.

In the flickering gazes of every person lurked hope—the more afraid of disappointment, the deeper it was hidden; the more they believed in Rod, the brighter their eyes shone.

Qingyu’s gaze, clear like a mirror, reflected the light of the fire and she asked softly, "Have you figured it out?"

Rod nodded and opened his hands wide; translucent Spirituality gushed forth like tons of jelly, covering the corpse of the soul.

Herman said with envy, "Space ability users sure are convenient!"

Zhang Bai, biting his finger, said, "I want to be a leech too!"

Rod gave them a glance and said indifferently, "Heat it up."

With a wave of Qingyu’s hand, the flames flew onto the semi-solid Spirituality; the blood of these souls began to boil under the fire’s roasting.

Rod finally stretched out his hand.

In the Dream Realm, there was still a piece of Source Material, which he had acquired after the Fla Soul Devouring Worm Queen emerged through the Abyss Rift when he went to support Miss Qingyu in breaching the twelfth defense zone.

"The Dark Abyss."

A small, semi-translucent object fell down.

Lothar’s pupils contracted: "Source Material? How do you have Source Material?"

Zhang Bai exclaimed, "That’s the rarest and most valuable thing in the Royal City... How can you carry it with you, did you anticipate all this? Truly a rising star of humanity! Your wisdom is extraordinary indeed!"

Rod smiled faintly, his morals did not allow him to take credit not his own.

"You’re right,"

he replied.

"Everything was within my expectations."

Crack!

A Flower of Humanity fell into the Dream Realm.

It came from the second Defense Chief, Deputy Commander Zhang Bai.

Rod chuckled inwardly, indeed, confidence is the source of strength.

True victory is bringing hope to others.

With the addition of "The Dark Abyss," the final piece of the ritual puzzle fell into place.

Invisibly, something had changed.

Unconsciously, the world became extremely quiet, with the subtle and noisy background noise completely disappearing, even the whooshing of the wind passing over broken walls was gone.

Everyone’s spirit tensed to the extreme, their Spiritual Energy operating at full power, their attention highly focused.

Suddenly, from the depths of the cliffs, a distant rumbling was heard, some unknown presence was rapidly approaching them from below.

Qingyu stepped forward, positioning herself in front of everyone.

The next moment, Black Fog surged into the sky, and a strong wave of Spiritual Power hit them head-on; the heavens and the earth trembled, loose stones rattled down, and the massive vibration quickly traveled from the ground up to the surface.

The entire Star City trembled.

Faces of every person paled with fear, the horrific Spiritual Power fluctuations rendering them nearly uncontrollable.

"What kind of monster is this?"

"Have the Commanders found the source?"

"Isn’t this too terrifying? What kind of being is hidden beneath Star City?"

"Retreat! Retreat, a message from First Commander Herman! Everyone out of the underground, out of Star City’s range!"

"Hurry, retreat! This place is going to collapse!"

"What about the Commanders and the Commander himself? Can they win?"

"They can win, with the Guardian there! No matter what the monster is, they can destroy it!"

"That’s right, with the Guardian there, everything will definitely be fine."

Within the shattered Ancient City, a deluge of warriors surged out, scattering in all directions, quickly leaving the confines of Star City.

But underneath Star City, a Dark Giant unlike any before climbed up from the broken walls; it extinguished the burning fire with a slap, grasped the shattered souls and boiling Spirituality, together with "The Dark Abyss," and stuffed them into its mouth.

Boom!

The Dark Giant let out a terrifying roar; massive Wind Blades accompanied by a powerful Spiritual Power Shock came hurtling forth.

Pfft!

A gigantic flame barrier unfolded, blocking the Giant’s attack, while Qingyu transformed into intense flames, confronting it head-on.

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