Chapter 568: The Power That Shouldn’t Belong to a Human

"Eclipse...?"

Lian raised his head, the Demon of End had stopped the movement of its claw.

Its huge red eye was no longer focused on Seris, it was not even looking at the newly repaired chains.

All of its attention was on the black and white lines moving through the golden light of the prison.

For a few seconds, it did nothing.

Then it pushed its neck forward as far as the chains allowed.

"This..."

Unlike before, there was no anger in the dragon’s voice, instead, there was something close to disbelief in it.

"Is this Eclipse energy?"

The young Vorhelm did not lower his hand.

There were still several corrupted threads left, and he had to destroy them.

"How?!" the Demon of End said louder this time.

Its huge head moved forward, and the chains around its neck were pulled with a terrifying sound.

"How can a human use Eclipse energy?!"

Lian gave it a short look.

Even the Silver Elf stopped controlling the corruption for a moment and looked more carefully at the corrupted light.

Apparently, neither of them had expected to see something like this.

But the dragon’s reaction was different, to it, this was not just some unknown energy, it knew it, and it knew it very well.

"That power belongs to a Demon!"

This time, its voice shook the entire prison.

"Impossible! Where did you get it?!"

Lian sent one of the Eclipse threads toward another center of corruption.

Tess!

The center collapsed, and then he calmly said.

"I don’t think now is a good time for questions and answers."

The Demon of End stayed silent for a few moments, and then anger returned to its huge face.

"Arrogant human..."

He gave a faint smile, but something else was going through his mind, so the Demon of End knew the original owner of Eclipse energy.

But that was not strange either, and it was something he could easily guess, he was more curious about how well these two knew each other.

And more importantly, how a Demon would react to a human who could use the power of Demons.

The Silver Elf moved again, this time, there was no smile on her face.

"Enough."

The corruption spread at a much faster speed.

The threads that Lian had not yet had the chance to destroy suddenly separated from the secondary paths and moved toward one of the main chains.

Lian saw the change, all the energy gathered in the corrupted sections was being moved to one point.

The chain connected to the free arm of the Demon of End, the elf wanted to give the dragon more freedom of movement by destroying that chain.

"Seris! The left arm’s chain!"

The girl moved at that exact moment, but the distance was too great, and before she reached it, the corruption rewrote the main command of the chain.

The golden light at the connection point went out, and a loud sound came from the huge metal.

KRRRRRAAAAAACK!

One of the main rings broke away from its anchor.

The chain moved freely through the air for a moment, and then struck one of the pillars with great force.

The upper part of the pillar broke, and the Demon of End let out a victorious roar.

Its arm was freer, and now it could move it much farther than before, and this was very bad news.

Its huge head also rose several dozen meters, and the pressure of its presence increased.

One unconsciously took several steps backward, and Two let out a short roar.

Lian immediately understood that the situation had changed.

If the dragon’s arm reached the platform again, there would be nothing left of the center of the seal for them to repair.

The Demon of End opened its mouth, and red energy gathered inside it, its target was Seris.

The girl was standing right beside the broken connection point.

Lian did not even wait for the attack to fully form, and gray lightning flared around his legs.

He reached her in one movement.

He put his arm around the girl’s waist, and before the red wave was fully released, he moved both of them away from the area.

BOOOOOOM!

The dragon’s attack passed beside them, and the pressure wave hit the plates of his armor, breaking part of his shoulder armor, and a sharp pain moved up to his neck.

He landed on a lower platform with his teeth clenched.

The young Pendragon immediately moved away from him, and her eyes stayed on Lian’s injured arm.

"Your arm."

He closed his fingers once, it hurt, a lot, but he could still make a fist.

"It works."

The girl said nothing, and Lian turned his eyes back toward the broken chain, he could no longer solve the problem with only speed and physical strength.

"What should we do now?" she also frowned.

He needed something that could restrain the Demon of End’s movement, and suddenly, he remembered an artifact.

A crown came out of his storage space.

[Crown of Eight Paths]

[Rank: S]

[An artifact created by the followers of the God of Chaos]

He had already read its description.

The requirement for using it was at least three thousand Spirit attributes, and he now had 4,000 Spirit attributes.

But the more important power of the crown was something else.

The [Eightfold Seal] that created eight independent seals, and each one could suppress a target.

And when all eight seals were placed on one creature, the restraining power increased greatly.

Of course, even this artifact could not imprison a Demon at the peak of its power for a long time.

But the description of the crown had pointed to something important, fixed anchors and prepared arrays could greatly increase the power of the seal.

He looked around at the huge pillars of the prison, there were many arrays, different seals, and various mechanisms here, and if this place was not suitable for something like this, there was nowhere else that could be.

He turned his head toward Seris.

"Keep the connection of the chain on the right active."

Seris nodded and, without asking why, immediately activated the Ancestral Mark and made the golden path connected to the anchor flow again.

Lian raised the crown, and mana flowed through it, eight seals separated from the surface of the crown and spread through the air one after another.

The first seal appeared on the free arm of the Demon of End.

Then the second.

The third.

The fourth.

The dragon noticed their presence.

"What is this—"

The fifth seal formed.

The sixth.

The seventh.

And finally, the eighth seal.

All eight seals were placed on one point of the dragon’s arm.

Their lines connected to each other, and a huge structure of ancient symbols formed around the arm.

The young Vorhelm transferred the restraining pressure to the anchors that Seris was keeping active. Golden light passed through the crown’s seals.

And then... BOOOOOOOM!

The Demon of End’s arm stopped in the middle of its movement, and for a moment, the entire prison became silent.

Even the dragon itself had not expected it.

It pulled its arm back angrily, and the eight seals shook, but they did not break, the ancient chains took part of the pressure.

Lian felt something extremely heavy being placed directly on his soul.

The pain started behind his eyes and then spread through his entire head, as if a creature with an impossible weight was trying to pass through his mind.

The difference in power was far too great, even with the eight seals and the prison’s help, he could not hold it for more than a few seconds.

But these few seconds were enough.

"Seris! Now!"

The girl placed her hand on the main path without any hesitation.

The Ancestral Mark lit up strongly, and golden threads rose through the pillars and moved toward the broken connection point.

At the same time, Lian used the last prepared reserve of Eclipse energy to target the remaining silver threads.

TSSSSSS!

The corruption collapsed, and the real command of the seal appeared again.

Seris activated it, and golden light flowed along the chain.

The separated ring returned toward the connection point under the pressure of the old arrays, and huge mana threads connected the two damaged sections again.

The chain was pulled, and the Demon of End’s arm moved several meters backward.

The dragon let out a terrifying roar.

KRAACK!

One of the eight crown seals broke under the pressure of that roar!