Great, we're doomed now!

Before she finished speaking, she leaped into the air, her dark golden whip transforming into a sharp blade, precisely severing a thick tentacle that was attacking Ye Shou. Dark green venom gushed out, but she paid no heed, landing directly beside Ye Shou and standing shoulder to shoulder with him.

“Trigger On!” Carmilla said, taking out the palm-sized trigger from her bosom. The fragment instantly glowed with a faint red light.

In the distance, Yu Sha Lei raised her hand, revealing the crystal ring on her fingertip. The light flashed and resonated strongly with the [Trigger].

hum~ hum~ hum~

The trigger suddenly became agitated, releasing powerful energy fluctuations that, like an invisible vortex, began to draw in the surrounding energy.

"Ridiculous! You think you can turn the tide with these fragments?" Hitram scoffed, his tone full of contempt. "Before, I might have been a little wary, but now I've established a connection with the [Eternal Core] itself, and can use it directly without even looking at the fragments. I don't know what you're wasting your time on!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly froze, his body surging with violent energy.

The air began to stir uncontrollably, like a powder keg that had been ignited!

What terrified him even more was that the free energy that had been flowing towards him from the atmosphere suddenly changed direction, was firmly attracted by the [trigger], and converged along an invisible trajectory.

"No! Impossible!" Hitram panicked completely, screaming madly, "This is trying to take my money... You, do you want to detonate me?"

He finally understood that the [Trigger] was not only plundering energy, but also disrupting the balance of energy within his body. Once the balance was disrupted and he lost external replenishment, his body would explode!

In the blink of an eye, they went from being invincible to being at their wits' end.

Extreme impatience turned into rage. Hitram ignored the surrounding monsters, and countless tentacles and beam cannons simultaneously locked onto Carmilla, unleashing a dense barrage of attacks like a torrential downpour—

"Carmilla! Are you insane?! We are Dark Giants! Why are we protecting this core instead? Is it just for the sake of humans?!"

Ye Shou raised his hand and opened a light and dark shield to block the incoming attack.

Carmilla gripped the trigger, the red light of the shard growing ever brighter, as she charged forward to meet Hitram's attack: "The meaning of darkness is never destruction, it's that you've strayed from the right path!"

Hitram roared madly, its newly grown tentacles and giant claws exerting force simultaneously in a final counterattack—

"return!"

But Ye Shou's body was filled with golden light, and his scattered clones instantly merged into one, all his power converging into his main body.

Gripping the golden longsword tightly in both hands, he slashed down fiercely at Hitram—

*Sizzle!*

As the sword flashed, dark energy and flesh splattered everywhere. Hitram's massive body trembled violently, and its thousand-meter-tall form shrank at a visible speed. The tumors and tentacles on its body withered away, and its aura instantly weakened and was greatly diminished.

"No! I can't lose!"

Hitram's eyes were filled with resentment, his remaining rationality being consumed by madness. He violently tore apart most of his body, splitting it into six distinct clones—

They fled frantically in six different directions!

"You want to break through from multiple directions?"

His determination to make tough decisions is truly admirable, but Ye Shou will not give him that chance.

Hu~hu~hu~

Just as the clone was about to burst out of the sinkhole, pale golden ripples spread out from the location of the golden sword, sweeping across the world like a tide and enveloping the entire space-time!

A private realm called the "Space-Time Realm" was fully opened, with distorted light and shadow forming an invisible barrier that blocked all escape routes.

The six clones crashed into the ripples as if they had hit an impenetrable wall, and were bounced back... They were horrified to discover that no matter which direction they ran, they could not break free from the pale golden restraints and could only spin around in a limited space.

"What the hell is this thing!" one of the clones roared, trying to break through the barrier with lasers, but the light couldn't even touch the seemingly thin barrier, let alone cause any damage.

Ye Shou slowly stepped forward, the golden sword spinning in his hand, the pale golden energy fluctuations growing stronger. "In the realm of time and space, nothing can escape my control."

Normally, maintaining such a vast spacetime realm would require an unimaginable amount of energy, but Ye Shou in his [Truth] state, backed by the Eternal Core, possesses virtually limitless energy, enough to completely envelop the entire sealed space!

"...Damn it!"

Perhaps realizing the gap between himself and Bayeri from the absurd strength of the barrier, Hitram had lost his confidence in victory. But now he had no choice but to launch another fierce attack on Ye Shou and Carmilla, while others lunged to the side, trying to seize the [Trigger]—

Clang!

Ye Shou's figure flashed, and his golden sword danced like a stream of light, moving endlessly. From a distance, it looked like a swimming dragon frantically wreaking havoc!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Amidst countless overlapping screams, the Demon King's clones were successively slain!

"Damn it! Damn it... Damn it ahhhhhh!"

call!

A massive amount of dark energy gathered like a storm, and in the eye of the storm materialized a giant seventy meters tall, entirely black with blue markings, and with dull, lifeless eyes—

It is Hitram's true form!

He was still surrounded by lingering dark energy, his mind was in disarray but he remained fierce. He suddenly took a stance and swung his arms, and the arm blades that gleamed with cold light instantly sprang out, their edges faintly glowing with dark purple energy.

"Since we can't escape, let's die together!"

Hitram completely lost his composure, acting without any plan or restraint, relying solely on his anger and resentment to launch a preemptive attack, behaving in a way that was completely unlike his usual self!

It roared and lunged forward, its arm blade whistling through the air, aiming straight for Ye Shou's throat. But Ye Shou merely sidestepped slightly, easily dodging the attack, and with a swift flick of his golden sword, it precisely struck the arm blade.

clang!

The clanging of metal was deafening, and Hitram felt a numbness in his arm; the blade nearly slipped from his grasp...

"I haven't forgotten!"

He refused to give up and launched a series of fierce attacks. His arm blades were like two afterimages, slashing, thrusting, cutting, and parrying, each move aimed directly at vital points.

But Ye Shou was faster. His golden sword formed an impenetrable defense as he danced. Every parry was perfectly timed, and every counterattack targeted Hitram's weaknesses, giving him a complete and absolute advantage.

"Well!"

Ye Shou moved lightly, as if strolling in a garden, and the golden sword suddenly accelerated, drawing a spark across Hitram's chest.

Hitram staggered back in pain, and just as he was about to adjust his posture, Ye Shou pounced on him and slammed his elbow into his abdomen!

Hitram grunted, his body arching, and Ye Shou seized the opportunity to kick him in the inside of his knee, causing the blue giant to immediately kneel on one knee. Ye Shou's golden sword was pointed directly at his forehead, and the pressure emanating from the sword made Hitram's whole body stiffen.

But Hitram was still not giving up. He suddenly raised his head and swung his arm blade horizontally towards Ye Shou's waist—

Clang!

Ye Shou neither dodged nor evaded; a colorful light shield automatically appeared on his body, deflecting the attack!

Hitram was momentarily stunned, probably also somewhat frightened by the illogical value of "Truth".

—In fact, even Ye Shou didn't know exactly how tall it was; he had been figuring it out during the battle just now.

If he were skilled, Hitram wouldn't have lasted this long!

He raised his foot and kicked Hitram away. The violent light and dark energy surged in like a spiraling steel fork, and Hitram flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily to the ground...

He struggled to his feet, but Ye Shou had already teleported in front of him, a golden sword pressed against his neck. Hitram trembled, his eyes filled with resentment, but he was powerless to resist any longer.

Faced with an absolute disparity in strength, all his struggles were in vain.

Suddenly, despair flashed in his eyes; he was willing to fight with his last ounce of strength—

Blow up!

Chapter 442: Come on, call me Mom (4K)

Hitram's internal energy surged wildly, his veins bulged on his body, and dark purple light gushed out from his pores like magma.

The next second, his body exploded, and the violent energy instantly swept around, as if it would tear the entire space apart!

But in the instant the explosion spread, the surrounding spacetime suddenly froze—

Even the vibrations stopped spreading, the dust floated in mid-air, and the energy impact froze in place, outlining its shape like a solid object, the exquisite scene resembling a piece of crystal-clear golden amber.

Dagon, Carmilla, and Triga all retained a clear consciousness, but were unable to mobilize any power. Their bodies were as if they were firmly fixed by invisible shackles, and they could only watch helplessly as everything in front of them unfolded before them.

Above the sky, a massive golden archway slowly opened, its doors engraved with intricate runes, exuding an aura of holiness and majesty.

The Stand [Prosperous Country] steps out from it!

Holding a longsword burning with golden flames, it flew straight toward the solidified center of the explosion.

The flaming longsword pierced precisely into the energy core, and with a gentle flick of the tip, a phantom blue figure was slowly pulled out—it was Hitram.

His face still bore the madness and resentment of the self-destruction. After being pulled out, he seemed to break free from stillness, realize his situation, and begin to struggle.

But it was useless!

Golden flames spread along the longsword, enveloping Hitram's soul within them, causing it to emit a mournful wail within the flames, gradually being burned and condensed... ultimately transforming into a medal shimmering with a dark blue halo, which gently floated into the Gates of Heaven.

The archway slowly closed, transforming into countless points of light that scattered and disappeared into the horizon.

Call ~

The solidified golden amber melted away like ice and snow, and space and time returned to normal. The energy generated when Hitram self-destructed was forcibly confined into a thick pillar of light that shot straight into the sky!

It dyed the sky a chaotic mix of purple and black, before gradually fading away.

"What...what was that power just now?"

"The combination of light and darkness can produce such an effect?"

“Hitram…”

Dagon gazed in the direction where the clouds had dissipated, slowly loosening his clenched fists, his face filled with complex emotions.

Carmilla lowered her eyes slightly, a trace of melancholy flashing in them. Although it was Hitram's own choice, the fact that her former comrade had ended up like this still made her feel uneasy.

As the leader, she should also reflect on why she didn't discover Hitram's thoughts sooner. Perhaps it was precisely because she didn't care about these things and didn't try to understand others that her companions became disloyal...

"Wait a minute!" Triga and Kenji suddenly warned, "Energy, this energy!"

Wow!

Everyone was stunned. In that instant, the surrounding air began to boil like a thick soup!

After Hitram's death, the free energy that had been attracted and anchored by him lost its anchor point and surged towards the [Eternal Core] like a tide!

This was something no one could stop, and the fireball, stimulated by this, went berserk again, its golden-red flames fluctuating violently, already on the verge of exploding, and could get out of control at any moment!

"No way...isn't this even worse?!"

Everyone looked grave and anxious, but they didn't know how to deal with this unexpected situation.

Ye Shou stood there thoughtfully for a moment, his eyes gradually becoming resolute, as if he had realized something.

He leaped into the air and arrived outside the [Eternal Core]. The [Trigger] hovered a hundred meters away, slowly rotating around the Eternal Core like a satellite. Ye Shou stretched out his hands, emitting a soft power of interwoven light and darkness, and communicated with the core through the [Trigger].