Returning to the Mysterious Era-Chapter 687 - The Battle Ends!

Annihilation Disaster hung in the air under the blood moon. Its grim skeletal hands thrust out from the cloak, the left bearing the Book of Deathly Stillness and the right gripping the Extinction Wand. Dreadful annihilation energy poured from its core, revealing terrifying perfected power.

Heaven and earth alike seemed to blanch at the ripples of its energy.

Annihilation Disaster's two core abilities were exceedingly formidable. Each activation of the Book of Deathly Stillness required Annihilation Disaster to expend a vast quantity of energy. However, once activated, each page produced a rune ability similar to the law of causality, with world-toppling destructive force.

The Extinction Wand could absorb life force and calamity within a certain range with each tap, replenishing the energy Annihilation Disaster had consumed. One refilled energy reserves while the other unleashed attacks. The two were a near-perfect complement.

"So you actually got out? Then... Book of Deathly Stillness!"

Annihilation Disaster opened the black tome again. Energy surged into it while more than a dozen tentacles withered and snapped. A second eye on the book's surface opened, and it turned to the second page. The twisted black script soon formed a rune.

"Falling Star."

As its name suggested, a star was falling! A spark flared in the distant dark sky. It left a flaming tail in the air as it plunged toward the land. As the meteor neared, its true form and shape emerged.

It was a massive metal meteor with a lustrous silver-black surface; its long profile was like a sky-piercing arrow. It was a lance capable of piercing through stars. Every move in the Book of Deathly Stillness had the power to permanently alter the terrain. It was truly terrifying.

Even an Ultimate Dark Form the size of a mountain would be hard-pressed to withstand a single blow. Such was the horror of perfected strength!

On the ground, Cassius looked up at the meteor. His blood was boiling.

Perfected power? Who doesn't have it? Compared to a newly born Ultimate Dark Form, his fists were harder, his heart stronger, and his body sturdier! Even his Qi would surely be more vast and majestic than its calamity energy!

"Southern Dipper Red Falcon Fist, Blood Vulture King, Blood Vulture's Beak!"

The steel Golem assumed an opening stance. Surging scarlet Qi erupted from every crevice of its armor. Cassius leaped skyward in a single step, his hands spreading like wings. A colossal steel beak tore through the air, blasting a vacuum corridor. This was the ultimate Secret Technique created by Blood Fist Feng Liusi!

The difference was that a grim crown of entwined bone appeared on the beak. It signified the use of Blood Vulture's Beak while in the state of Blood Vulture King. It was a killing move Cassius had refined after he stepped into the Holy Fist realm, created for astonishing penetration power.

Whoosh!

Blood Vulture's Beak shot skyward like a ferocious red dragon.

Boom!

Meteor and vulture collided, triggering a massive explosion.

Qi and Death's Fang Force versus calamity energy and annihilation energy. The four frantically canceled each other out, creating a black vacuum. In that night-like abyss, a human figure shot forth like a cannonball and slammed into Annihilation Disaster.

"Southern Dipper Waterbird Fist, Steel Wings, Soaring Celestial Bird!"

Cassius's body was shrouded by a pure white waterbird phantom that exuded a holy aura. Steel wings fluttered lightly, making a pleasant sound. However, a dense killing intent lurked within that lovely sound. The arc of the waterbird's flight was like a dragonfly skimming across water. The white line of its passage purified everything it touched. The trembling of its wings left black rifts in the air.

"Book of Deathly Stillness! Descending Dark Moon!" Annihilation Disaster pointed its grim skeletal claw at Cassius and, without hesitation, burned over twenty tentacles to frenziedly pour energy into the book.

Descending Dark Moon was extraordinarily strong. The pages flipped thrice, and the black script gathered together to fuse into a mysterious and fearsome rune. A giant, hazy phantom formed around the World of Calamity's blood moon. The phantom flickered and arrived to shroud Annihilation Disaster like a huge, dim disk.

Suddenly, the blood moon disk bulged with the outline of a grotesque human face with coursing chaotic calamity auras.

"Suppress him!"

Holding the decayed Extinction Wand, Annihilation Disaster pointed at the rapidly swooping waterbird phantom. It tapped the wand's tip to the ground, clearly using the cover of Descending Dark Moon to draw calamity from the environment to restore itself.

Meanwhile, Descending Dark Moon had already met the waterbird phantom. Red moonlight spiked from it. From afar, it seemed like a huge red sea urchin.

Boom!

A white meteor plunged ferociously into the sea urchin. The Celestial Bird swiped out with a claw, tearing apart the endless moonlight around it. Its wings quivered and a second and third claw attack struck out in an instant.

The second claw split the sea urchin, striking straight at its core. But the third claw was special. The fierce steel talons were sheathed in a layer of lustrous white light, as if wearing gloves. It wasn't to protect the bird's claws, but was the sharpest, most fearsome weapon in the world!

Thorn Sonic Death Armament!

Boom!

Descending Dark Moon exploded on the spot, collapsing into a skyful of blood red glimmers. Cassius's figure flashed through that starlight. In the blink of an eye, he was back in close quarters with Annihilation Disaster.

A startled Annihilation Disaster, who was still channeling the Extinction Wand, turned to ward him off. Descending Dark Moon had been destroyed far too fast! The waterbird had obliterated the power Annihilation Disaster had spent over twenty tentacles to summon with only three swipes! It was like turning around only to find the fortress that had stood for over forty years had already collapsed.

Annihilation Disaster bolted back, black pages rustling in its hands. "You!!!"

The waterbird was closing in at extreme speed. Cassius's Will surged violently. "I am the world's thickest shield and sharpest spear! Annihilation Disaster, you are no match for me!"

Rumble...

The suddenly swelling Golem crashed straight into Annihilation Disaster, sending it plummeting toward the earth.

Boom!

The two vast figures tumbled from the sky into the black mountains, smashing who knew how many peaks. At the heart of the massive shockwaves, Cassius mounted Annihilation Disaster and started to throw punches.

Bam, bam, bam!

Dominating fists hammered down on Annihilation Disaster without a shred of mercy. Terrifying shockwaves rippled through the earth, creating dense fissures. Once hovering in the vault of heaven, Annihilation Disaster could now only be brutally beaten. Black tentacles snapped and flew, scaled bones shattered, and even its cloak was torn. For a moment, Annihilation Disaster was wholly at a disadvantage.

"Not enough! Not enough! Not enough!"

As Cassius's Will quaked, his steel fists continued to pound his opponent. "Every attempt struggle is useless! Can you only wail like the weak? Then die... Hahahahaha!"

Vumm!

Cassius's right hand flattened into a handblade with lustrous white light. Suddenly, Annihilation Disaster felt a powerful threat to its life. It went all out, powering the book with vast calamity energy. A massive book enveloped both Annihilation Disaster and Cassius.

It was the book's own condensed rune, Deathly Stillness. Once unleashed, Deathly Stillness could shroud a full third of the Pitch Black Mountains region and detonate all life force and calamity within. Even enemies with perfected power would feel terror!

However, Cassius neither retreated nor defended. He kept on attacking. He seemed to have forgotten everything but slaughter.

"Die!"

The steel handblade bearing the Thorn Sonic Death Armament slashed down. Suddenly, three lights of bronze, silver and gold burst forth. Three mighty ultimate totems lunged straight at Cassius's back. It was Totem King Kassares!

Cassius's battle with Annihilation Disaster had long since drawn Kassares from afar. Now, at the critical moment, it struck to ambush Cassius.

Clang! Rumble...

A huge explosion erupted, releasing searing white light. The Totem King and Annihilation Disaster had joined forces against Cassius! A sixth of the entire mountain region exploded as a flood of calamity ravaged through.

Deathly Stillness had not been activated to the utmost, since Annihilation Disaster had pulled back. Since the Totem King was suddenly lending aid, it had no wish to perish together with Cassius. However, weakness at such a key moment demanded a price!

Two wretched figures were flung out amid the fierce white light. The Totem King was comparatively fine. It had mostly old wounds with a few new ones. On the other hand, Annihilation Disaster was in a miserable state. A third of its body had been torn off and all its tentacles were gone. More crucially, that severed third included its right hand, which held the Extinction Wand. Annihilation Disaster had suffered a grievous loss. For now, its only course was to retreat.

The Totem King Kassares's ambush had not only failed to kill Cassius, it hadn't even grievously wounded him. The Golem was only briefly entangled by Annihilation Disaster's half-executed Deathly Stillness. If he broke free, who knew how it would end?

"Retreat!!!"

Annihilation Disaster and the Totem King thought the same. In the blink of an eye, the two huge figures vanished beyond the horizon.

On the ground, raging flames burned out. The white light membrane suddenly cracked as a steel fist pierced through it, followed by a mighty figure.

Its body was covered with dense scars and nearly melted armor. It even had a deep hole through its right shoulder. Claw marks on the chest even reached toward its heart.

Cassius stood tall, seemingly unconcerned with the wounds all over him. He glanced down at Annihilation Disaster's severed hand that bore the decayed staff, upon which the Ao Yin rune was plainly set.

The Golem slowly clenched his fist.

"I got it... A pity Annihilation Disaster got away. Just a little more and I would have had them. Totem King Kassares, whether in the time-travel eras or the real world, you truly love courting death! Heheheh, two defeated weaklings. You better run! You can't escape death even if you run to the ends of the earth..."