Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 933

Chapter 8-933: Volume 8 - Chapter 933: Extermination

At the critical moment, Linken swung her palms together and caught the luminous feather in a clap .

A thunderous echo reverberated in the void as the feather was half destroyed, yet what remained of the spine still shot out of her palms and sunk into her chest .

Linken let out a muffled groan . Deathly pale, she was flung back several dozen meters before managing to find her footing . She said while glaring at Qianye, “Turns out the Demoness was really injured in your hands . I thought she was faking it at first . Where does your move come from?”

Qianye naturally wouldn’t tell her anything and only maintained his silence .

Linken’s eyes turned cold . “Fine, there’s no need to leave you alive if you’re not going to speak . ”

She arrived before Qianye with a clear whistle, but she flashed back to her original position before she could even attack . The luminous wing behind Qianye lit up once more as his handgun began overflowing with light—a feather of light was vaguely starting to form .

Linken was now clear that there was no way to evade this feather after it was shot . The only thing she could do was to go against it head on . That shot just now had already injured her and the next one was bound to be even worse . This was a dangerous state to traverse the void in .

Seemingly knowing her thoughts, Qianye stood silently without firing the charged firearm .

Qianye was suddenly alarmed after seeing the look in Linken’s eyes . Without the slightest hesitation, he activated Intimidation once more and disabled Linken mid-air . Her protective demonic energy was reduced by thirty percent . Even though she was fairly prepared, the suppressive might of a void colossus wasn’t one she could contend with .

Having gained the advantage, Qianye immediately fired the Shot of Inception at Linken’s forehead .

This time, Linken crossed her arms in front of her head and curled into a spinning ball . Her legs struck the feather of light countless times during the spinning process, but the luminous projectile still entered her body in the end .

Linken stopped spinning and crashed down, but her body bounced back from the impact and flew hundreds of meters into the air . She looked down at Qianye from above with eyes full of anger .

Glancing at her location, Qianye smiled faintly . “You’ve finally discovered?”

Linken smiled coldly . “This ship is indeed mysterious and so is your control over it . The more powerful it is, however, the less you can hold onto it . ”

“It won’t fall into your hands for sure . ” Qianye smiled .

“Is that so?” Linken’s voice grew higher as she made to attack .

It was at this time that miserable screams arrived from the distance . Linken looked back to find a demonkin struggling desperately in the void, unable to endure the corrosion of the environment . His defensive demonic energy had collapsed, and his entire body was turning into a sinister-looking dried corpse .

Linken recognized this person as a fairly reliable subordinate of hers . It was just that his strength wasn’t sufficient to hold out for long in the void . He was unable to return to the airship after being flung out, and there was no expert to help him . In the end, he was fated to die and drift about in the void .

Taking a look around, she noticed hundreds of demonkin flailing about in the area . Most of them were at their limits and would follow in the previous demonkin’s footsteps very soon . After having her airship destroyed, Linken was so overcome by rage that she wanted nothing more than to kill Qianye . But this scene made it hard for her to remain indifferent .

She glared at Qianye once more . Realizing that she wouldn’t be able to take down this opponent immediately, she said with a cold snort, “We’ll see how long it takes for you to be able to use this move again . ”

With that, she flew away, darting about to catch the drifting demonkin and sending them back to the airship .

Qianye secretly praised Linken’s decisiveness and foresight . He was indeed only capable of firing two Shots of Inception, so if Linken refused to leave, he would have to fight her physically . It was just that the demonkin would be greatly restricted while fighting on the Earth Dragon and—as the one in control—Qianye would gain a great advantage . This fight wouldn’t reach a conclusion for at least a couple of hours . Even if she could capture Qianye in the end, several hundred of her crew would’ve died by then .

Admiration was one thing, but Qianye wasn’t about to let her rescue her subordinates with ease . He immediately turned the Martyr’s Palace about and attacked the nearby lifeboat . The thirty-some demonkin inside were all injured and would surely lose their lives if struck .

Furious and shocked, Linken charged over with a loud scream . Her body was shrouded in demonic energy as she pushed the lifeboat several hundred meters away .

“Leave this place, everyone leave!” At Linken’s order, all lifeboats turned about rapidly and left for the adjacent airspace . Meanwhile, a number of warships jumped into the fray . Half of them distracted the Martyr’s Palace with constant fire, while the remainder drove toward the fragmented flagship to save the passengers .

Qianye ignored the buzzing ballista bolts and simply charged for Linken’s flagship . The beleaguerment of the demonkin warships couldn’t move the Martyr’s Palace at all . The airship was like a primordial colossus advancing steadily and crushing everything in its wake .

“No!” Linken screamed in pain . The Martyr’s Palace crashed headfirst into one of the airship segments, causing the surface to cave in with flames spouting out of the gaps . This segment of the vessel was home to the engine and fuel compartments—flames broke out immediately upon impact, followed by a series of violent explosions . It wasn't clear whether or not the crew inside could survive this ordeal .

Qianye naturally wouldn’t go easy on the demonkin . Letting even one of them go would mean an extra foe on future battlefields .

The nearby warships launched numerous small assault vehicles, which relied on their high speed and defensive prowess to crash through the defensive field and land on the Earth Dragon’s body . Over a dozen demonkin warriors emerged from these assault vehicles and circled around Qianye .

Landing ships were the primary means of gaining control of an enemy ship, especially when large enemy ships had lost the ability to defend themselves . If the Martyr’s Palace were to be completed, the countless cannons on its sides would be able to mow down these boarding airships . However, the only two ballistae on the palace had been destroyed, and this emboldened the enemy boarding parties .

Nonetheless, how could ordinary demonkin be Qianye’s match when even Linken couldn’t succeed? The demonkin general had still dispatched them anyway, which meant that they weren’t expected to return . If they could obtain the Martyr’s Palace with this suicidal assault, it would make up for the loss of Linken’s flagship many times over .

The crew aboard Linken’s flagship were far superior to their peers in terms of talent and status . In the eyes of the demonkin leaders, the ordinary sailors on her ship were more valuable than ordinary ship officers .

The demonkin warriors had Qianye surrounded in the blink of an eye . Before they could even attack, however, they felt their bodies sink down . It was as though they were carrying a giant, ten-thousand-kilogram rock; they could hardly take half a step forward . Soon, a meshwork of sanguineous threads appeared before their eyes—that was the last thing they saw before their vision went dark, their bodies fell limp, and they collapsed one after the other .

These demonkin elites couldn’t last even half a minute against the might of the Oceanic Domain and Life Plunder .

Qianye opened his eyes and sighed at the sight of all the corpses strewn across the floor . With the gradual regeneration of the Earth Dragon’s skeleton, all of Qianye’s powers also received an upgrade while on the Martyr’s Palace . Not to mention his domain, even the range of Life Plunder had increased by fifty meters . Those even remotely close to Qianye were destined to suffer .

After destroying all enemies on the ship, Qianye once again focused on controlling the Martyr’s Palace .

The Martyr’s Palace spun about and suddenly fired a bolt from its mouth, accurately striking down a demonkin warship . Apart from the earliest phases, the airship had never fired any form of ranged weaponry, so much so that the enemy had started neglecting this capability altogether .

Linken ordered all damaged airships to retreat and the intact vessels to enter a formation . The entire squadron then fell into a gradual retreat while peppering the head of the Earth Dragon with suppressive fire . At this point, the demonkin floating in the void had turned into corpses and were already beyond salvation . The flagship had also been destroyed completely .

Because they had Linken’s flagship and the journey itself was a long-distance expedition, the airships in their lineup were mostly geared toward speed and distance . They didn’t have any heavily armored battleships with heavy firepower . These high-speed vessels mostly relied on mist concealment for their defense . Now that Qianye had proven the ability useless, their weak points became grossly evident . A single ballista bolt would badly damage an airship and two would destroy it .

Despite bleeding inwardly, Linken had no choice but to order a retreat . She stood in the void with eyes full of fury . “Qianye, let’s see how fast you can recover . You only have half a day’s time . Any slower and you will die!”

“I’ll be waiting,” Qianye replied coldly .

Linken flew to the closest demonkin warship and drove away into the distance . Only when that airship had receded over the horizon did Qianye retract his gaze .

That wasn’t an empty threat . She was proving that she could recover from her injuries in half a day, at least up until she was capable of a fight . Meanwhile, Qianye had used up two Shots of Inception . If he couldn’t condense a new shot within half a day, he would be deprived of an ace with which to keep Linken in check . The outcome was destined to be quite miserable .

Qianye closed his eyes, and the Book of Darkness appeared in his consciousness . The demonkin warriors from just now had provided a vast amount of essence blood . All of them were elites, so despite their small numbers, the quality of the harvest was high . A few dozens of them was enough to fill him .

There was no essence blood in the Book of Darkness at the moment . A single thought of his activated an absorptive force in the book, which sucked away the essence blood in Qianye’s body . Only when he was almost empty did he stop the draw .

After absorbing the essence blood, the Book of Darkness produced a wisp of refined essence blood for his use . Soon, the left second feather on the Wings of Inception started to glow faintly as it absorbed the provided energy .

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