Chapter 584: Chapter 43: Frenzied Decay

The dark green decaying flames completely devoured the remains of Anderson’s aberration. The filthy pus evaporated in the blaze, leaving only a few strands of venomous black smoke reluctantly dissipating in the snowstorm. However, just when Lynch thought the dust had settled—

“Ah—!!!”

A piercing soul scream that did not sound human suddenly erupted from the heart of the scorched impurity!

A distorted, dim, crack-filled pure white soul image—

It was Anderson’s last remnant soul!

Like a moth disturbed, it fled the flames with utmost fear! It had completely lost its previous arrogance, left only with pure terror of complete annihilation, flitting madly and aimlessly through the air, trying to escape this Land of Death.

Lynch’s gaze intensified.

Cut the weeds and eliminate the roots!

This is the simplest survival law in the Wizard World. Especially for such a vengeful enemy like Anderson, letting his soul escape would be a future disaster!

Without the slightest hesitation, silver-gray Time power flowed at Lynch’s fingertips, poised to erase this last threat completely.

However, before he could pursue further, an anomaly occurred again!

Just as Anderson’s remnant soul was about to be touched by the Time power bursting from Lynch’s fingertips, a deep, sticky, and seemingly rotting gigantic maw suddenly tore open in the space beside him! The edges of this rift seeped dark green pus, emitting a stench of decay a hundred times more intense than anywhere on the staircase!

“No!” Anderson’s remnant soul let out one last desperate and venomous wail.

But the gaping space maw, like a predatory abyssal beast, suddenly inhaled! The terrifying suction instantly captured Anderson’s frail Soul Body, and without a chance to struggle, he was swallowed whole by that sticky black maw!

“Gulp…”

A chilling swallowing sound echoed in the snowstorm. The spatial rift quickly closed as if it had never appeared.

Immediately after, the closing rift’s location rippled in space, where a stooped, withered figure slowly emerged, not appearing out of thin air but standing atop an immense, suffocating giant serpent’s head!

The serpent was covered entirely with scales as black as ink, glistening with a dark green luster, its body coiled over the shattered icy steps. Its cold, vertical pupils resembled two miniature suns burning with dark green flames, locking straight onto Lynch. The mere aura it emitted, mixed with ancient wildness and extreme decay, caused the surrounding snowstorm to come to a halt!

The one standing on the serpent’s head was none other than the Rotten Wood Elder—Altonia!

Yet, at this moment, his condition was extremely bizarre, even terrifying!

The cloak that was once covered with vines and moss had long disappeared. The exposed body had large patches of skin peeled away, revealing beneath it black masses twisting like millennia-old roots.

These “roots” pierced deeply into the scale crevices of the giant serpent Astod below as if the two had fused into one. His head was even more horrifying, with one side of the face relatively intact but covered in cracks and dark red veins, while the other half was entirely replaced and covered by writhing black roots, leaving only one eye burning with pure dark red flames, like a molten lava pit.

A wildly unstable, seemingly ready to explode chaotic decaying energy surged and roared within him and the giant serpent beneath him like a boiling volcano! The decaying aura seeping from him was so thick it seemed alive, causing the surrounding air to emit a corrosive sizzling sound.

Lynch frowned.

It wasn’t surprising for the Rotten Wood Elder to appear here; after all, he knew from the very beginning that this trial wouldn’t be simple.

However, the current state of the Rotten Wood Elder somewhat exceeded his expectations. He didn’t expect the other party’s state to be distorted and deranged to this extent, with power fluctuations more chaotic and frightening than any previous perception!

“Heh… heh heh heh…” The Rotten Wood Elder—or rather, Altonia deeply eroded by the Heart of Decay—let out a bizarre laugh like a broken bellows, his dark red single eye greedily scanning Lynch, as if admiring a perfect work of art.

“Saphiro…” His voice was hoarse, fragmented, carrying a metallic grating sound yet filled with a pathological excitement, “You… indeed did not disappoint me… Perfect ’fuel’… Perfect ’fuse’!”

“Every step you’ve taken… every trap you’ve deconstructed… every domain prototype you’ve formed… and every ’spark’ released from defeating these ’remnants’…” His claw-like finger pointed to the spot where Anderson vanished, as though it pointed to all the fallen secrets on the lower steps, “Have made the ’heart’… more… delicious! Closer… to that ultimate form!”

His remaining half-face twisted and convulsed with extreme excitement, “Now… only one last step remains! Offering you… your essence as a near-Third Tier perfectly merging Time and decay… along with your Alan’s Mark… in sacrifice… the ’heart’ shall fully mature! It will… transcend the mortal boundary… touch upon that… Fourth Tier… Rules’ imprint!”

Boom!

Substantial pressure accompanied his crazed words, ominously descending! This wasn’t mere energy oppression but a forceful domination of the entire space by a higher-dimension, deeper decaying Rule!

“Decaying Domain!”

Altonia spread his arms wide! Centering himself and the giant serpent Astod, a vast, unmatched dark green Domain instantaneously unfolded over the entire peak platform!

This Domain was utterly different from Lynch’s Domain Prototype! It was stable, immense, filled with an absolute will to end all things! Within the Domain, Time seemed accelerated by billions of times, space decayed and collapsed with wailing, energy forcibly extracted and converted into decay’s nourishment! Even the roaring snowstorm transformed into gray dust, falling silently the moment they entered the Domain! Content orıginally comes from 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚•𝕟𝕖𝕥

Lynch’s pupils contracted violently! Without hesitation, he pushed his Domain Prototype to the extreme! A dim halo valiantly spread to a mere five-meter minuscule space, like a solitary leaf boat amidst a stormy sea!

Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!

Two forces of Decay from the same origin but different levels clashed fiercely! Lynch’s Domain Prototype was instantly suppressed to its limits, the surface fluctuating wildly, countless dark gray runes flickering unsteadily, emitting unbearable moans!

He felt as though he were in a sea of strong acid that could instantly turn steel to rust particles, with every inch of his skin and every shred of his spiritual power enduring terrifying erosion and decomposition! His movements became incredibly sluggish, with even his thoughts seemingly about to be assimilated and frozen by this ultimate decaying will!

“Hiss—!” The giant serpent Astod let out an ear-splitting hissing, its enormous body shooting forth suddenly! It opened its massive maw, revealing an abyss-like throat, filled with dark green decaying Breath, possessing the aura of obliterating everything, savagely biting at Lynch suppressed by the Domain!

This wasn’t an ordinary attack but one infused with pure Third-tier Domain power. In its wake, Lynch’s defenses crumbled like dried branches.

Seeing that devouring maw about to engulf him along with the small Domain—

At this critical moment—

“Buzz—!”

A pure, warm, seemingly able to dispel all the world’s gloom and filth sacred radiance tore open the heavy leaden clouds above the peak and the oppressive darkness wrought by the decaying Domain without warning!

Within the radiance, a blurry figure quietly emerged…

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