"Yes, if you were a complete king, you'd be kneeling down and crying, calling me grandpa right now." Cheng Xiao got up from the ground, his mocking words instantly enraging the Beast King.
The fierce killing intent coming at him didn't bother Cheng Xiao much; his gaze fell on his crushed wrist. Almost instinctively, he murmured, "Healing and Recovery."
As emerald green healing light appeared on his body, Cheng Xiao's injuries healed at an astonishing speed.
The entire process took less than five seconds. When the emerald green light disappeared, Cheng Xiao's body returned to its peak condition, and his crushed wrist was completely restored. Once again, he could attack with both hands.
"Orc wizard's healing magic?" The Beast King's pupils contracted, its previous rage subsiding. It said with some surprise, "It seems the Shadow King has given you quite a bit. Orc wizard magic isn't something just anyone can learn."
"But, now that you've recovered, do you think you can defeat me?"
"Don't be so naive, human brat."
This time, the Beast King didn't address Cheng Xiao as the Shadow King, but treated him as a weak human.
Cheng Xiao didn't answer. He made a fist, conjuring a shadow scythe from his shadow.
"Cheng Xiao, do you need help?" The Snow Empress, who had been unable to intervene, finally spoke. Her light, melodious voice attracted the Beast King's attention, but he looked away after a single glance. Although the Snow Empress was extremely beautiful in human eyes, to a beast, she was nothing more than prey to be killed at any moment.
"No, I will deal with him myself." Cheng Xiao refused the Snow Empress's request. Now was not the time to use her power, at least not yet.
Suddenly, the earth began to tremble, and Cheng Xiao and the Beast King both frowned.
Just then, an extremely melodious voice came from beside the Beast King.
"Beast King, your efficiency seems to have dropped considerably. It's been so long, and you still haven't dealt with the Shadow King?"
A space opened, and an elegant figure emerged. The space quickly closed again, but the roars emanating from within suggested something far from simple.
"Who is that?" Cheng Xiao's gaze narrowed slightly; the sudden arrival of the Demon King had caught him off guard.
While fighting the Beast King, he had anticipated the appearance of a second king, but he hadn't expected this king to be the Demon King, who had been collectively killed by the shadows.
But then, an uninvited guest's voice sounded behind him.
"Beast, Demon, is it alright if I eat the Shadow's corpse?"
Hearing the piercing, alien female voice, Cheng Xiao instinctively turned around.
What he saw was a spectacular scene that made one doubt their eyes.
Hiss—
a massive swarm of black insects appeared on the ground, gathering together and gradually transforming into a gigantic female form.
"I really want to taste what it's like to be a fellow monarch."
Looking around at the enemies who had suddenly appeared and surrounded him, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress, Cheng Xiao's expression turned serious.
He had to be on high alert now. Three monarchs acting simultaneously—this was definitely the highest level of treatment. He even suspected that the space from which the Demon King had emerged was likely orchestrated by the Illusionary Realm Monarch, after all, that monarch was the strongest in mastering magic. A
four-monarch alliance? It seemed the Star Dou Great Forest had become a trap they had set.
The monarchs had used the Star Dou Great Forest as a hunting trap to kill the Shadow Monarch, who had not yet recovered his strength. Now that the prey had appeared, it was time for these monarchs, acting as hunters, to make their move.
Four enemies of different levels suddenly appeared. Cheng Xiao had long forgotten about them, his black heart, which had been sleeping peacefully as if it didn't exist, began to pound wildly at the sight of these powerful foes.
Thump, thump, thump…
The strong, powerful beating of his heart filled Cheng Xiao with energy.
"Very good." He smiled. He hadn't been fighting alone all along. Almost instantly, he quietly summoned his army.
"Come forth!"
The Shadow Legion surrounded Cheng Xiao, the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and the three monarchs. Amplified by the monarchs' domains, the nearby forest was almost entirely shrouded in shadow, and the summoned Shadow Legion's morale reached its peak.
"Three to two thousand, the scales of victory are tipping." Cheng Xiao glanced at the monarchs one by one; their expressions were quite amusing, especially the Demon King, who had been killed by the Shadow Soldiers. His handsome face was instantly twisted beyond recognition.
The giant female Plague King, formed from insects, looked at the soldiers surrounding her and couldn't help but laugh.
"Is this the new Shadow Legion?"
"While the numbers are decent, they're nothing but a rabble."
The Beast King stepped forward, seemingly unconcerned. In his eyes, these shadow soldiers were nothing more than ants.
"I will kill your soldiers, along with you!" Before the other two kings could act, the Demon King, the Shapeshifting Monarch, blinded by rage, let out a piercing roar. His elegant, slender body began to change. His handsome
face gradually contorted into a ferocious expression, and his body swelled continuously. In no time, he had become almost a giant, unleashing a ferocious aura.
Crack!
In an instant, the ground began to collapse, and the Shadow Legion was no exception. This ferocious aura directly caused some of the newly transformed shadows to vanish.
The power to render shadow soldiers powerless and completely dissipate in an instant—this was the power of the kings.
Cheng Xiao knew that every king possessed the power to completely annihilate the shadow soldiers, but he was unaware of the Demon King's true strength. After all, this was the only king torn apart by the shadow soldiers...
Even Cheng Xiao's order to dispel the summoning order was ineffective against the soldiers, who were immobilized by the Demon King's aura.
"Mere soldiers, daring to provoke a king!" The Demon King, filled with rage after intimidating the shadow soldiers, couldn't tolerate being killed by them, a shameful history he couldn't bear.
However, in this situation, Cheng Xiao, whom they considered a cowardly human, exuded an astonishing killing intent, which continued to grow stronger.
"This time, you will die at the hands of the shadows again." The tip of the shadow scythe in his right hand pointed at the Demon King. "If the soldiers can kill you once, they can kill you a second time."
The Shadow Legion's combat power was merely supplementary for Cheng Xiao. The current enemy couldn't be overwhelmed by sheer numbers unless he could reach the same level as the King.
However, despite the regret of not being able to use the soldiers, he hadn't given up. He could still possess the power of the Ice Emperor and Snow Emperor, thus briefly fighting the King.
"You bastard!" Perhaps because of the shameful history of being killed by the Shadow Soldiers, the Demon King's face twisted.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Demon King charged towards Cheng Xiao. Through his spirit form, his body was even larger than the Beast King, his terrifying appearance sending chills down one's spine.
At the same time, the Plague King whistled.
At its whistle, tens of thousands of insects coalesced into insect-men, emitting a foul stench, and grotesquely spider-like creatures charged towards the Snow Emperor and Ice Emperor.
In the Plague King's magical perception, she sensed unusual energy fluctuations emanating from the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress. The thought of her children devouring these two would be a truly magnificent sight.
"Don't worry about us, focus on dealing with your enemies," the Snow Empress's ethereal voice echoed. Extreme ice power began to gather in her palm, forming a pure white, gleaming ice sword.
The Ice Empress did the same, her eyes flashing with emerald light. She didn't attack immediately, but instead released her domain—her unique domain.
The moment the extreme cold appeared, the speed of the giant insects rushing towards them halted. Insects are inherently afraid of the cold, so when these insects encountered extreme cold, they were all frozen into ice sculptures without exception.
"How dare you!" the Plague King roared in fury, her entire body surging with magical power, a gigantic fist formed from it beginning to materialize.
At the same time, facing the charging Demon King, Cheng Xiao took a deep breath, then calmed himself and began to regulate his breathing.
Thump, thump, thump.
Listening intently to his own heartbeat, Cheng Xiao closed his eyes. His senses were heightened, not missing a single, minute movement of his enemy. He...captured everything he sensed.
Now!
Cheng Xiao snapped his eyes open. The Demon King's fist, imbued with terrifying magic, was upon him, filling his vision.
In the slowed time, his right hand, gripping the Shadow Scythe, swung. Cheng Xiao moved, his speed like lightning, leaving only a blur.
Clang! Bang, bang, bang! Sizzle!
Various sounds emanated from the Demon King's body, each swing of the Shadow Scythe sending sparks flying.
Easily dodging the Demon King's incoming fist, Cheng Xiao gripped the scythe and with a sudden burst of force, severed the Demon King's right arm.
Thud...
The sound of the arm hitting the ground rang out abruptly, and the Demon King roared with terrifying magic.
Cheng Xiao reacted instantly, his Shadow Scythe blocking horizontally across his chest, the violent airflow blasting him away.
Launched like a bullet, he flew backward at astonishing speed. The next moment, Cheng Xiao used "Dominator's Power" to propel his body towards the Demon King.
"What?" The Demon King's pupils contracted. He seemed to have not expected his opponent to use such a method, and the instantaneous reduction in distance astonished him.
Cheng Xiao swung the Shadow Scythe forcefully, his target being the Demon King's heart, which he hadn't immediately defended against.
However, things didn't go as smoothly as he had imagined.
With a clang, before the Shadow Scythe could pierce the Demon King's heart, something even harder blocked the trajectory of the Shadow Scythe's blade.
The Beast King, reacting to Cheng Xiao's sudden movement, used its hard wrist to block the Shadow Scythe.
"King of Demons, you're getting worse with age." The Beast King mercilessly mocked his fellow king, revealing sharp, ferocious fangs and laughing maniacally, "Your combat reflexes are good, but your strength is too weak."
"Just as I said, how can an incomplete king defeat a true king?"
The Beast King laughed, but Cheng Xiao also laughed.
"Still laughing?" As the Beast King sensed confusion, an ominous feeling welled up inside him. Suddenly, Cheng Xiao's shadow scythe changed from being held in two hands to one, and a black halo flashed across his left hand.
*Crack!*
The Beast King's strong arm remained unharmed. The Beast King was startled, then its eyes widened in shock as intense pain shot from its right eye into its brain.
It flung Cheng Xiao away with a furious roar, gripping the black short sword embedded in its eye with one hand and then violently pulling it out.
Blood instantly trickled from the sharp blade of the black short sword—the very same black short sword Cheng Xiao had unexpectedly plunged into the Beast King's eye, a special short sword directly condensed from shadow power.
Casually brushing off imaginary dust, Cheng Xiao coldly stared at the Beast King clutching his right eye. While the king's body could heal quickly with magic, the recovery time for his eye was much longer.
Suddenly, sensing a powerful force approaching, Cheng Xiao turned around to see the Plague King's enormous fist, formed from magic, hurtling towards him.
*Bang!*
In the instant it struck, Cheng Xiao tried to use the power of "Dominator's Authority" to push the Plague King's magical fist back, but the Plague King's strength was far greater than he had anticipated; he could only barely block the fist.
While desperately resisting, Cheng Xiao noticed that the Snow Empress and Ice Empress were being held back by several enormous spiders. Their attacks couldn't even harm these special spiders, especially when the Snow Empress's ice sword severed their bodies; the insects generated from the Plague King's magic quickly filled the gap.
"They're not bad, but to think they can contend with the King, or even the commanders under his command, is too naive," the Plague King scoffed.
*Clang!*
The shockwave from the collision between the barrier formed by the Dominator's power and the Plague King's magical fist snapped all the surrounding trees, sweeping away the Plague King's commanders as well.
The Ice Empress immediately shielded the Snow Empress, successfully blocking the impact with a barrier condensed from her extreme ice power. However, even so, the magical shockwave shattered the ice barrier.
But besides the spider monsters that were swept away, even more insects coalesced into giant insects, surging towards the Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
They can't be killed off completely unless their mother, the Plague King, dies...
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