NOVGO.NET Chapter 698: Victory
Chapter 698: Victory
Amelia nodded back without speaking.
Neo’s gaze flicked between them.
Their quiet exchange didn’t escape him.
Jack’s eyes shifted once more.
He looked at Earth, just for a fraction of a second. His expression turned cold yet bitter.
Then, finally his focus returned to Neo.
“So, this is the help you were waiting for,” Neo said to Amelia.
The one to answer him was Jack, not Amelia.
“Before we start, I want to know one thing. Who are you, and why are you attacking our planet?”
Neo didn’t bother replying.
He raised his hand, then snapped his fingers.
The air shuddered.
He had abandoned the idea of calming down the moment he saw Jack.
Red lightning exploded out from his body.
The bolts expanded into colossal streaks, ripping through the ranks of undead with terrifying speed.
The radius of the lightning explosion kept expanding as if it wanted to swallow the whole battlefield.
Jack remained calm.
“You can’t kill the undead with Death. They are already dead.”
“If they were truly dead, they wouldn’t be able to fight for you.”
The lightning lashed again, and this time the undead it touched didn’t just collapse.
Their forms convulsed violently.
They were no longer able to regenerate.
Then they exploded, one after another, filling the battlefield with shockwaves.
Jack was surprised, but he acted quickly.
He used the moment of chaos to dash forward.
“The World!” Amelia said quickly. “I will help too.”
The blood-red sky appeared once more.
The insides of the coffins were now connected to the Blood Sea.
The red blood surged, leaking from the coffins that dotted the graveyard world.
The colossal goddess rose once again.
Her towering figure formed behind Amelia as though answering her call.
“Fall,” Neo said.
Just one word.
An immeasurable pressure crushed down on the battlefield.
The air thickened.
Reality itself seemed to bend under the weight of his command.
Jack’s body snapped violently.
His bones broke under the impossible force.
He was crushed to death on the spot, along with the undead nearest to him.
Amelia staggered.
Her body threatened to collapse under the same suffocating weight.
The goddess behind her moved without hesitation, covering her with its massive frame.
The giant’s form trembling as fractures spread across it, but it managed to keep Amelia from being flattened completely.
Far from Neo, one of the undead shuddered.
Its form twisted unnaturally before breaking apart, reshaping into Jack.
He stood again, taking heavy breaths, and hunched over.
Neo’s eyes narrowed.
He watched black mist and sickly green flames rise around Jack, swirling in coils of deathly energy.
“Necromancy Divinity,” Neo muttered.
Jack lifted his hands, beginning another chant.
The air vibrated faintly as the undead around him started merging together.
Their forms collided into larger, and more grotesque creations.
“Too slow.”
Neo grabbed the air, crushing the undead far from him as if the distance between them had disappeared
He yanked the long spear from its grip, spun it once, and hurled it toward Jack.
Amelia reacted instantly, chanting under her breath.
The blood sea surged upward, splitting into countless streams that wove together into a dense shield before Jack.
The waves hardened, forming a crimson wall in front of him.
“Bypass,” Neo whispered.
The spear phased through the shield as though it wasn’t even there.
It struck Jack cleanly through the chest.
His body jerked back, pinned midair, before it collapsed lifelessly.
Another undead shuddered and twisted.
Its skin split.
From its broken shell, Jack emerged once more, coughing as he straightened.
“So that’s how people feel when I keep reviving myself. It’s really annoying,” Neo muttered.
He raised his hand again, intent on ending it all at once.
A destructive pulse gathered at his palm, spreading outward, carrying enough force to erase the entire battlefield.
Amelia’s eyes widened.
She recognized the attack.
If he completed it, everything here would be obliterated.
Her heart pounded as she threw herself forward, desperate to interrupt him before he could release it.
Jack barked an order.
Above them, the legion of skeletal dragons shifted in unison.
Their jaws opened wide, and waves of necrotic fire poured downward, bathing the battlefield in green-black flame.
Neo ignored the onslaught.
His gaze never left Jack.
He tilted his head slightly, lips curling, and began to lower his hand.
Then—
A tiny portal opened near Neo’s temple.
A single bullet tore flew out of the portal, and pierced his skull.
His head exploded.
The gathered energy dissipated instantly, scattering harmlessly into the void.
Amelia and Jack’s attacks landed at the same time, though they barely scratched him.
They hadn’t expected to kill him with those blows.
They were only aiming to keep him occupied, to prevent him from regenerating or counterattacking immediately.
With someone like him, who might possess the power to revive himself, it was the only chance they had.
Neo’s body didn’t move.
His headless form stood stiffly in place.
Jack let out a long sigh, lowering his hands.
“He is dead.”
Amelia steadied her breathing.
Her shoulders rose and fell.
She turned her head to the side. “Thanks, Layla. Felix.”
“No problem,” a voice answered from the void.
The plan had been simple.
Amelia and Jack would keep Neo distracted, knowing full well they couldn’t defeat him directly.
Layla’s role was to protect Felix.
And Felix was their weapon.
[Venyth].
Felix’s soul weapon.
Its Blood Sea powered bullets could kill anyone, no matter how strong, as long as they landed.
They had put all their efforts into creating one opening. That one chance had finally arrived.
Jack frowned as his eyes settled on Neo’s corpse.
The body was perfectly still, frozen in place.
“Why are you frowning?” Amelia asked, noticing his expression.
Jack’s gaze slid downward, toward the sword that still rested in its sheath at Neo’s side.
“It’s just… he didn’t even use his sword. Not once. He was going easy on us, and yet the battle ended so quickly.”
“He must have let his guard down,” Felix’s voice echoed from the emptiness.