A Night of Desperation-Chapter 268: Endgame

“No matter what, we have reached this point;we have no other choice,” Number Three Lin Handong said coldly. “The Night Pool doesn’t require the President to summon it. We will do it ourselves!”

“But if we summon it like this, without the two hearts merging into the original key, the Black Disaster, the Night Pool can’t physically manifest! What about our wishes?” the burly man hesitated.

“Do we have a choice!? Survive first! There will be another chance!” Lin Handong said.

The few of them looked at the excessively large Agrius, and for a moment, they all fell silent.

Beneath the shimmering gold light, the President was at this moment being brutally beaten. He was already less powerful than his opponent. The punches he threw seemed to have their power halved upon impact, almost as if he were giving the opponent a massage.

To anyone, this looked like a fight he was bound to lose.

“Begin now! We can’t delay!” Lin Handong shouted.

“Let’s do it!” Number Two made the decision.

The others nodded in agreement.

The six of them closed their eyes simultaneously, arms wide open. They began to chant the summoning incantations for the Night Pool from the Mountain Civilization.

The oddly modulating and bizarre tones rose evenly in the cave’s pond, but in the midst of the two colossal creatures’ ferocious battle, they were barely noticeable, completely drowned out by the thunderous noises.

As they chanted the mysterious incantations,

Swathes of thick Black Fog began to emanate from their bodies, clinging to the runes carved into the surrounding stone walls.

One by one, the still intact runes became even darker and more profound.

In the vast and empty pond, it seemed as though something blurred and illusory was slowly emerging, descending.

With the descent of this unknown entity, the Eternal Life President, who had been suppressed and torn apart by claws to the point of being covered in wounds, finally gained the power to retaliate.

The rate of wound regeneration on his body began to drastically increase. Injuries that appeared one second would instantaneously heal the next.

This kind of healing power drove him to ecstatic madness.

But soon, he began to connect the dots.

“No… the Night Pool has come too soon… My wish!! My wish!!”

His expression quickly morphed from joy into anger.

“You’ve ruined my wish!!!” he bellowed.

Enraged to the point of insanity, he abandoned all attempts to dodge and began to exchange punch for punch with Agrius.

More Black Fog, following his movements and fueled by his anger, was drawn in, continuously joining the effort to counteract the golden lightning.

Just as Yu Hong had done before, the President now also started to use massive amounts of energy to offset the formidable power of the golden lightning.

As the hissing rose in intensity, vast quantities of Black Fog, seemingly infinite, began to slowly suppress the golden lightning on Agrius’s body.

Agrius, while still overwhelmed the President, was slowly starting to become injured.

Roar!!

Once again suppressed and wounded by the same method, Agrius, too, became furious.

It increased its strength in a frenzy, biting down on the President’s neck and viciously flinging him against the stone wall.

Boom!!

The wall shattered and collapsed, crushing the President to the point where his bones fractured and his back turned to pulp.

But in the next moment, not two seconds later, all of his injuries healed as if nothing had happened.

“I am invincible!!” The Eternal Life President roared, gripping Agrius’s head, digging his fingers into its eyes, the eyeballs bursting into blood and flesh.

Blinded by this strike, Agrius became even more enraged, biting the President and thrashing about wildly.

For a time, the pond was filled with the roar of tremendous noises.

The President’s body kept cycling between full-body fractures and instantaneous healing.

The immense pain drove him into further madness.

Several minutes passed…

Boom!

Agrius’s colossal body heavily crashed to the ground, drained of strength.

It began to slowly turn transparent, unreal, until it completely lost its outline.

Huff… huff…

The Eternal Life President sat amidst the rubble, panting heavily, his head splitting with pain, scarcely able to move.

Under the blessing of the Night Pool, his body’s ability to repair itself was indeed limitless, but such repair was not without cost.

Each time came with the toll of mental and spiritual strain and injury, and now… he had exerted every ounce of his strength to completely vanquish that monstrous dragon lizard.

“Truly… truly formidable…” he chuckled dryly, clutching his forehead, enduring wave after wave of excruciating pain.

“Died over thirty times… just to resolve this…”

Intense dizziness and nausea assaulted his spirit wave after wave.

He felt like he was porcelain on the brink of shattering, as if just a little more time spent fighting, and he might not need that creature to act—he would collapse on his own, becoming a pile of rotting flesh, losing all consciousness.

Puh.

He struggled to prop himself up one last time, moving toward Lin Yiyi and the others, their faces filled with terror and despair.

“I said… I would establish a world that is absolutely fair and just, where everyone has equal power to decide their own fate…” he said, as his vision swam and the view of the pond seemed to constantly shake and spin.

Even simple walking felt as though he was bearing immense weights, an arduous effort.

“I said…” the Eternal Life President gritted his teeth, “that all the injustices of this world… are because of power…”

“Let those with power establish a new world… Let everyone have strength to influence the tide and everything will be equal!”

“I said… the world selects the weak… and leaves the strong… leaves the strongest survivors, as it is the natural instinct of the universe in pursuit of a new world. I am merely… merely accelerating it all… speeding toward the endpoint of nature!”

He took step by step toward Lin Yiyi and the others.

Extended his hand.

“For the endpoint of natural evolution!”

His fingers violently clawed downwards.

Hiss…

At this moment, his massive Black Giant body could no longer maintain itself. His hand, still in mid-air, dissolved into black smoke that dissipated into nothingness.

Within the Black Fog, the Eternal Life President gently landed, returning to normal human size, standing in front of Lin Yiyi and the others.

“Can’t maintain it any longer? That’s alright… Now, it all ends.”

He reached out again, grabbing for the similarly exhausted and weak Lin Yiyi.

Xue Ningning, Power King Ou Li, and the others wanted to speak out, but they had also suffered severe injuries, with broken bones all over their bodies, and after struggling a few times they had no more movements.

In the distance, Leiya and the others wanted to rush over but were intercepted by six people, again plunging into a bitter fight.

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“Yiyi! Run!!” Xue Ningning croaked desperately.

Lin Yiyi let out an angry roar and threw a punch forward.

But her fist was easily blocked by the President, who brushed it aside.

She launched a kick, which was just as easily blocked with a knee-on-knee collision by the opponent.

“Ah!” She mustered all her strength in a mad flail at the adversary.

Bang bang bang bang!

Sadly, the gap in strength between her and her opponent was too great.

All her attacks were effortlessly deflected.

But…

Boom!

Even the sure-footed horse could stumble, let alone the strangely debilitated Eternal Life President. As he blocked attack after attack, he eventually missed one.

His left cheek was smashed with a heavy punch that sent his head reeling back and blood spilling from his mouth.

Though the injuries vanished in an instant under the Black Fog’s healing powers, the severe pain in his head only intensified.

“Resistance is futile!”

Knowing he was nearly at his limit, he rallied all his consciousness, increased his power recklessly, and reached for Yiyi’s neck.

This time he decided not to delay any longer. His arm swollen and enlarged in an instant, displayed half of the Black Giant’s strength and speed as it forcefully broke through Yiyi’s defense and grabbed her.

Whoosh.

But this time, he grasped at thin air!

The Eternal Life President’s vision had started to double.

‘Am I seeing things…?’ He shook his head with difficulty.

He continued reaching forward, grabbing for Lin Yiyi.

“You look,”

“quite weak, don’t you?”

Suddenly, a stranger’s voice sounded from behind the President.

He shuddered, hearing what seemed like leiya and others gasp in shock, hearing Number Two and Number Three emit involuntary exclamations.

At the same time, he saw the anger and despair on the faces of Lin Yiyi and others turn into bewilderment, confusion, and a mysterious sense of joy.

He struggled to turn his head.

To look behind him.

There…

A perfectly unharmed Agrius, covered in golden sparks, stood silently behind him.

Atop the thirty-meter-long black beast, a towering figure stood with blue runes flickering across his cheeks.

From his elevated position, he was watching this scene. It was Yu Hong, who had long since arrived.

“It seems you have no other cards to play.” His voice was calm, the slight echoes carrying in the vast underground space.

“Now, I can safely finish you off.”

“….Heh…” The Eternal Life President, looking at the huge, unscathed creature bathed in golden light, was completely dumbfounded.

His mind went blank, as if he had lost the ability to think.

In the last moment,

He saw Agrius lift its massive claw, bringing it thundering down on him.

A great shadow pressed down in an instant.

Boom!!

The rock walls burst, cracked, and caved in.

Lin Yiyi and the others were flung through the air by the tremendous impact, and while still midair, they were caught by black dragon lizards shooting out, one after another, and gently placed on the ground.

And the body of the Eternal Life President was completely pulverized under the weight of the claw.

Hiss…

The pulverized flesh tried to wriggle and reform.

But Yu Hong pointed from afar.

A blue beam burst from the ground, hitting the mass with precision.

The blue light froze the pulp as the Condensing Water Technique absorbed and drained the water within it.

Three seconds later.

The pulp managed to vaguely form a face, looking at Yu Hong with difficulty opening its mouth.

“….The source, disaster… Yu Hong… you… will one day… be like me…”

“What is the greatest difference between humankind and insects?” Yu Hong asked calmly.

“You…?”

“Desire.”

Yu Hong’s eyes moved, another blue light surged from the ground, covering the face and freezing it completely, then snap—a sound as it shattered.

The fragments turned into countless points of light, disappearing from sight.

It was only then that Yu Hong turned back to look at Lin Yiyi and the others on the ground.

The massive form of Agrius turned into a wraith and vanished;the dragon lizards also retreated into the shadows on their own.

He descended gently and approached Lin Yiyi.

He reached out and tenderly rubbed her face, wiping away her tears.

“I’m sorry, I saw that you could still hold on, so I hid for a bit longer.”

Lin Yiyi stared blankly at him, and in her once desolate eyes, the image of Yu Hong was gradually reflected.

“Don’t blame me,” Yu Hong said. “After all, I’m too afraid to die.”