The Epic Tale of Chaos vs Order - Chapter 1566

Chapter 1566: Meteoric Star Fall
“BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!” “BOOOOOMMMM!”

“BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!”

The concussive blasts continued unabated, shaking the fractured mountain as waves of energy annihilated ice, rock, and anything else unfortunate enough to be in the way.

“ARRHHHG!” Cain’s roar pierced the cacophony. Halberd in hand, he severed a charging Divine Transcendence Master cleanly in two. In the next instant, Karun streaked across the battlefield and slammed his bastard sword into Cain, sending him hurtling backward in a streak of crimson light. A fresh cut appeared on Cain’s shoulder, oozing blood into the wind.

It was neither the first nor even the tenth injury he had sustained. By this stage of the battle, Cain’s body bore numerous wounds, almost all inflicted by Karun.

The lesser fighters struggled to so much as scratch Cain’s nigh-indestructible flesh, but they still had an effect on the battlefield. Their spells and ranged attacks bombarded him ceaselessly, forcing him to rely on the Absolute Life Form System’s virtual battlefield map to maintain awareness. Even so, every barrage created split-second distractions, leaving him open for Karun to exploit.

Inch by inch, the battalion was nipping away at Cain’s vitality, wounding him and draining his energy, pushing closer and closer to a state that even if they could not break his body, they would be able to seal it.

Teeth clenched, Cain steadied himself mid-air. A solemn light flickered in his eyes as he felt the necrotic energy in his wounds intensifying, trying to saturate his body. The relentless onslaught was pushing him toward a dangerous precipice, straining even his regenerated flesh.

Still, the damage did not come without a steep cost to Karun’s side. Of the more than ten thousand Divine Transformation Masters who had started this battle, fewer than three thousand now remained. And from the once-mighty host of Divine Transcendence Masters, barely two hundred still fought. Karun’s army—painstakingly built over decades, fueled by untold wealth—had been reduced to a shadow of its former strength.

Karun understood the implications. Even if he somehow emerged victorious over Cain, his chances of winning the greater Gu Contest were now near zero. The bitterness in his heart surged, fueling the malignant edge of his sword as he fed it more and more of his life force. Every slash carried the weight of his hatred and his desperation to salvage something from this catastrophic fight.

Amid the swirling chaos, Cain caught sight of yet another barrage of spells arcing toward him. He raised his halberd, preparing to counter—when suddenly, a flicker of urgency glimmered across his face. His gaze shifted beyond the battlefield, and recognition sparked in his eyes.

Without hesitation, Cain channeled the Royal Supernova Space-Time Eye to its limit, bending the spatial fabric around himself. In an instant, he teleported—dodging both Karun’s sword strike and the lethal spells that had been aimed his way.

Cries of frustration rose from the ranks as they lost sight of him. When he reappeared, Cain hovered higher in the sky, adopting a calm yet resolute expression. Then, in full view of every combatant still alive, Cain ignited both his life force and soul force once again. Glowing embers danced over his skin, and the Shooting Star Dragon Halberd vibrated in his hands as if resonating with his life and spirit.

A tremendous surge of Unified Origin Force coursed through the weapon, causing it to shine like a newborn star. The phantasmal outline of a colossal extradimensional dragon head appeared, its maw opened wide in a silent, awe-inspiring roar.

Karun and his surviving warriors gaped at the spectacle. They watched, hearts pounding, as the translucent dragon’s head bared its jaws.

“Meteoric Star Fall!” Cain’s voice thundered across the heavens.

From the dragon’s mouth, hundreds of meteors materialized, each one forged of concentrated Star Power guided by the Laws of Fire. Like a blazing meteor shower, they streaked toward Karun’s battalion, their descent marked by tails of scorching light. The power behind each meteor was nothing short of apocalyptic, unleashing shockwaves and scorching the air before they even landed.

The Divine Transcendence Masters mustered their courage, unleashing barrages of their own. Searing flames, devastating bolts of lightning, and swirling gravitational fields, among others, met the meteors mid-flight in a colossal collision. Some rocks exploded harmlessly, their fragments vanishing in mid-air. Yet many remained intact, hurtling downward with cataclysmic force. The Divine Transformation Masters, meanwhile, could do little but scatter in terror, hoping to dodge those meteors.

Confusion gnawed at Karun’s mind. Although these meteorites wreaked havoc, many of them were indeed intercepted or avoided. For an attack that required such an extensive sacrifice of Cain’s life and soul force, the damage it did to the battalion was very small. Karun destroyed the last meteor aimed his way with a well-timed slash, then glanced around, trying to discern Cain’s motives.

That was when the un-destroyed meteors finally struck the ground, erupting in brilliant plumes of destructive energy that billowed outward, consuming everything in their radius. These subterranean explosions tore away the earth, wiping out entire swaths of land. Along with those areas fell the injured Divine Ascension Masters who had been knocked out earlier in the fight. They lay helpless at the battlefield’s fringes, too wounded to defend themselves, and they all die.

Karun’s eyes flashed in grim comprehension, but before he could fully articulate his thoughts, Cain teleported once more, reappearing at ground level. Amid the wreckage of the Frozen Peak, under the aghast stares of the survivors, Cain lifted his left arm. The Star Sealing Runic Formation upon it began to blaze with fierce intensity, drawing in a swirling tide of Gu Insects scattered across the battlefield.

These Gu Insects came from every corner of the conflict—the tens of millions once belonging to the countless Apoteosis Masters who had died in the initial mountain collapse, as well as those left behind by the Divine Ascension Masters killed in the meteor shower. One by one, the lost insects gravitated toward Cain’s formation, captured as if by a black hole’s inexorable pull.