Chaos Heir

Chapter 1356: Patriarch

What followed was a one-sided beatdown.

Liiza watched everything from her spot in the sky, silently inspecting the battle. Her husband never summoned spells or relied on martial arts, but the mana beast remained powerless to do anything against him.

The mana had merely summoned a replica of the Great Old One’s species’ might, while Khan wielded a fusion of the true version of both. Size or other details couldn’t matter when his energy was several qualitative levels above the azure snake’s.

Therefore, Khan could kick the snake down endlessly, engaging in a pointlessly prolonged trend that his opponent had no chance of breaking. Its monstrous resilience also worked against it, preventing it from dying in a reasonable time, forcing it to endure that beatdown until its body finally broke.

By that time, the cross-shaped canyon had turned into a massive cavity with deep fissures littering its edges and the surrounding areas. The environment had transformed beyond recognition, and those changes weren’t limited to its topography.

As the azure dust lifted by Khan’s attacks settled, Liiza was able to see the battlefield more clearly. Her husband was on the giant cavity’s bottom, his glowing gaze inspecting the huge and maimed reptilian head before him as it lost its structural integrity and turned into fumes of energy.

Of course, the reptilian head was unrecognizable. Khan had kicked most of its upper half into a pulp, squashing the fake skull and brain the planet’s mana had created. The damage was so deep that part of the creature’s mouth had fallen off, taking its two massive fangs with it.

The destruction of that crucial organ had ultimately triggered the mana beast’s death. Its body split apart, seemingly wanting to return to its previous state of fake air, soil, or mountain as it rose to the sky.

Except that energy never had the chance to fuse with the world again since tiny sparks occasionally flashed among it, deepening the destruction of its dwindling structural integrity.

Khan broke the mental rule he had devised for that battle to accomplish his ultimate goal. The mana the planet had used to create the gargantuan snake completely dispersed, leaving behind a vast, empty, and black cavity in that otherwise azure environment.

The cavity was bigger than anything Liiza and Khan had created in the previous battles. It expanded over the cracked ground while stretching high in the sky, as if a pillar of emptiness had grown from the battlefield and had attempted to reach orbit.

The pillar of emptiness never got close to that, but Khan didn’t care. He only considered how deeply his chaos’ effects had spread. Part of him wanted to remove any memory of the Great Old One’s species from the planet’s records to prevent it from replicating them any longer, but he didn’t really know how to go about it.

Meanwhile, Liiza kept watching her husband, partially captivated by his serious, pensive vibe. Khan was always at his sexiest in those moments, unfairly so, but Liiza also sensed other reasons that made that scene quite hard to resist.

The birthright inherited from the Great Old One had prompted Khan to indulge the fake snake in that one-sided battle. However, he had also acted as the Patriarch of his unique family, the leader of a powerful bloodline that only featured him and Yeza for now.

Liiza had always known that Khan would have obtained power. It suited him too much for him not to seize it. Yet, she didn’t predict how appealing his authoritative sides would have been, nor how confidently he wore them.

As someone who always pushed Khan down, Liiza felt a bit annoyed at how her brain betrayed her so easily. Part of her even blamed Yeza’s birth to justify that relatively rarer reaction, but the truth was evident. Khan could also sense it through the mental connection. Liiza was simply hopelessly in love.

Knowing that Khan knew made Liiza roll her eyes in annoyance when she eventually descended toward him. Predictably, Khan turned to show a confused frown that inevitably fell on Liiza’s flushed cheeks.

"[What]?" Khan asked, and Liiza sensed a joke forming in his mind, so she struck back before she could lose the initiative.

"[I want to give you another child]," Liiza sighed, shaking her head.

Khan’s frown vanished, replaced by wide eyes that darted left and right to inspect his surroundings before refocusing on Liiza.

"[I’m down for a quickie if you are]," Khan claimed, shrugging his shoulders in innocence.

Liiza exploded in a laugh. The two were on the planet at the center of the Nak’s universal mission, but still found the time to flirt around. If anything, the fact that Khan could engage in that proved how much he had matured.

Still, the couple had a mission to complete, so Liiza limited herself to clinging to Khan’s arm, teasing him by rubbing herself on it before asking a serious question. "[Where to]?"

Khan threw a knowing look at Liiza before glancing at the horizon. He still heard the Nak’s call, but it didn’t get any closer despite the previous sprint. The couple still had much of the planet to cross, but that detail remained odd.

"[I’m starting to doubt whether it’s something we actually have to find]," Khan revealed.

Liiza instantly understood what Khan meant and started studying the environment to look for clues she might have missed.

Nevertheless, the environment acted before the couple could do anything, air and ground moving on their own to amass and transform. The amount of displaced energy was even greater than what the planet had used to create the gargantuan snake, so Khan and Liiza got ready to fight or set off again.

Yet, that transformation had nothing to do with mana beasts now. The environment past the massive cracked cavity opened, taking the shape of a vast and deep valley that turned its edges into proper mountains.

That nature-altering ability could make people gasp in disbelief. Still, Khan and Liiza never had the chance to remain surprised since something even greater hit their senses at the same time, making them jump out of the cavity.

Once the couple reached the cavity’s edge and stared down into the valley, they finally saw what they were looking for. A spinning, unfathomably dense, and blinding sphere of mana hovered at the gorge’s center, seemingly containing more energy than the entire planet.

Also, a three-meter-tall humanoid figure stood next to that spinning sphere, its hidden face radiating three blue lights at it, the same, identical color of Khan’s eyes.