Chapter 574: The Second Core ( Castle Bonus - )

Chapter 574: The Second Core ( Castle Bonus Chapter )

Lian descended through the spatial rifts.

"That’s enough!"

His voice was harsher than usual this time.

"Both of you, return!"

One put up almost no resistance, because it couldn’t, its strength had reached its limit.

Two also still intended to stand despite its severe injuries, but the Colony Link responded to Lian’s command.

Both creatures disappeared amid the flow of mana and returned to the Colony House.

He checked their conditions through the link.

They were alive, but their injuries were severe.

One was almost unable to move, and Two had lost a large part of its combat strength.

Returning to the Colony House only removed them from the battlefield and improved their recovery conditions.

It did not heal their wounds immediately.

He took a deep breath, anger rose inside him for a moment, but he did not let it change his decision.

The Demon of End was still in front of him, and if he lost control now, One and Two’s sacrifices would mean nothing.

The dragon moved its arm again.

Lian raised his gaze, Seris was still busy maintaining the seal.

The golden flow of the sacrificed Dragon Marks, which had only just been stabilized through the anchor and the new source, had almost reached the final stage, but several main connections still needed to be stabilized.

And the dragon intended to strike before they were complete.

He spread his black wings, this time, he had no intention of simply escaping.

In his perception, the paths of air and mana took shape around his two wings.

It was time to see what creating a storm with the help of these wings would look like.

Black lines emerged from the edges of his wings, and the air around his body began to spin.

At first, a small tornado formed behind him.

Then it grew larger.

The spinning currents overlapped, and a massive pillar of black wind rose into the air.

The young Vorhelm spread both wings to their full extent.

The energy needed to activate the ability gathered within them, and seventy percent of his remaining mana was transferred in that instant.

Heavy pressure spread through his body, but Lian gritted his teeth.

Now.

His wings moved forward with all their strength.

VVOOOOOOOOOM!

The black tornado rushed toward the Demon of End, lifting the broken stones around the platform off the ground.

The sea of red mist parted for a moment along the tornado’s path, and the massive spinning mass of energy collided with one of the rifts of End the dragon had created.

For several moments, the black wind and the spatial rift pushed against each other.

Then the outer part of the tornado split apart, but its dense center continued forward.

Lian focused all his power on changing the attack’s direction, not on directly fighting against the Essence of End, the tornado struck the rift and shifted it a few degrees away from its original path.

Those few degrees were enough.

Instead of hitting the Root of the seal, the Demon of End’s attack passed beside it and struck an empty, damaged part of the prison.

Space turned black for a moment, and then a massive wave of pressure was released in the distance.

Lian remained in the air, breathing heavily, his mana had dropped sharply.

His black wings were still there, but even maintaining his flight now placed greater pressure on his body.

However, Seris had succeeded, the final golden path of the seal lit up.

Her Ancestral Mark shone brightly, and all the energy gathered from the sacrificed Dragon Marks moved along the prison’s chains.

Hundreds of massive rings lit up one after another, and the ancient broken pillars connected to the main structure through golden strands.

The chains that the Demon of End had loosened during the battle were pulled tight again.

But just before the seal could close completely, Lian sensed something else.

A part of the Essence of End had become trapped in the central path, energy that had been separated from the dragon’s body during its attacks and was now caught among the flows of the seal.

If it remained there, the prison’s final command could not be completed properly.

Seris looked at Lian, she had also noticed the problem.

He took a short breath, his remaining mana was now very low.

But if he did not destroy that Essence of End, the seal structure could not start working, but that thing was the Essence of End, the essence of a Demon.

The last time he had touched a Demon’s essence, he had obtained his first Core, and now another essence was right in front of him.

He thought for a moment, this was an opportunity he did not want to miss.

However, before moving toward the remaining Essence of End, he glanced at the Elf, she was secretly doing something and thought she could hide it from him.

He smirked and released a small amount of Eclipse energy to stop the Elf’s trick, then, while moving toward the Essence o End at full speed, he picked something up along the way without anyone noticing.

Then bringing his right hand forward as essence flowed along his fingers.

And then he made contact with the Essence of End,

At first, nothing happened, then, for a moment, his mind became separated from all the sounds of the prison.

The space around him changed, everything, even Seris, disappeared, and another scene formed in front of him.

It was not difficult to understand that, just like when he had come into contact with the Essence of Eclipse, he was now seeing the memories of the Demon of End.

A massive battlefield beneath a red sky, and a dragon displaying its full, true glory.

The Demon of End.

But this time, it was not imprisoned, its massive wings covered a large part of the sky, there were no chains around its body, and the golden spike had not yet pierced its chest.

Tens of thousands of warriors stood before it, wearing golden and black armor and carrying flags bearing the Pendragon Family’s symbol.

Among the images, he saw warriors whose presence was even greater than that of many high-ranked Awakened he had seen so far.

But they also fell one after another before the Demon of End.

The dragon’s massive claw moved, and a part of the battlefield split down the middle, hundreds of people disappeared in that instant..

All of them vanished into rifts that passed through the ground and space.

Lian saw another moment.

Several Pendragon warriors attacked the dragon with all their strength.

One of them was guiding a massive golden spike toward the Demon’s chest with the help of the others.

Thousands of people died to open a path, sacrificing themselves one after another until the spike finally struck the Demon’s body.

A massive roar shook the sky, and the first golden chain wrapped around the dragon’s neck.

But this memory did not last long, and the scene changed.

This time, Lian was standing in an unknown place, with several massive beings in front of him, none of them looked much like one another.

Some had bodies similar to monsters, while others looked almost human, but their presence was so heavy that even watching this memory created a strange feeling inside him.

He felt like the lowest form of life in the presence of these beings, and each of them had a presence at least equal to, or even stronger than, that of the Demon of End.

It was not difficult to understand that these were Demons.

But before he could clearly recognize their faces or number, the scene changed again.

This time, he was no longer even sure where he was.

A vast space where stars and galaxies floated like bright dots in the distance.

There were no visible boundaries, no ground, and no sky either, only endless space, where light itself moved in strange ways in some places.

On one side of the battlefield, there were beings made of light.

Lian could not clearly see their true forms.

Some were hidden behind auras of light, while others seemed so large that it was impossible to tell how far away they were.

But one thing was clear.

Their presence seemed divine, something like the sacred presence of gods.

On the other side, there were seven massive shadows.

But their forms were unlike anything that could be compared to any other known living creature.

One of them had a body filled with thousands of moving points of light, and the strange thing was that each of those points seemed to be a planet or a star.

Another had massive wings that seemed larger than the entire world, and they looked as if they were made of galaxies, as though every movement of its wings could cause planets and galaxies to collapse.

Another being moved its head, and the reality around it changed direction for a moment, as if all of space-time and the layers of reality were about to collapse under its presence.

The remaining four beings could also be seen among the darkness and broken lights, each of them seemed like a godlike being beyond description.

Lian tried to obtain more information, but there was nothing, the image was too unclear, however, he could make a few guesses.

Those beings made of sacred ... Gods?

Another thought immediately came to his mind, and what about those seven beings? In the known hierarchy of monsters, there was a rank above Demons.

Supreme.

Was it possible that those seven beings were monsters of the same rank?

If that was the case, their level of power was different from anything he had ever seen.

But before he could reach any further conclusions, the images shattered.

Lian heard the sound of the prison chains again, only a moment of real time had passed, and his right hand was still connected to the seal’s main path.

But the Essence of End had now entered his body.

The space where his Cores were located began to tremble, and another space became active beside the Eclipse Core.

The Essence of End gathered at that point, but every time it tried to form a stable structure, it cut off part of its own flow.

It was as if it was unwilling to remain inside any container, as though anything that tried to contain it would be brought to an "end".

Lian felt intense pressure inside his body.

The Ruined Heart beat for a moment.

Thump!

And that alone was enough to stop the aggression and wildness of the Essence of End inside his body, making it calm and quiet, like a well-behaved child.

It immediately gathered at a single point and formed a new structure.

[ New Core Formed ]

[ Name: End Core ]

[ Origin: Demon of End ]

[ Status: Incomplete ]

Special Energy: End Essence.

[ Current Number of Cores: 2 ]