As Reign and the leader of the enemy organization were stuck in a deadlock with one constantly destroying the cloud of chaos energy and the other giving up his mana and life force in order to repair it, the situation back in the territory was slowly getting resolved.
Without the interference of the other Tier IV monsters, Aelrinder and Greenie were able to gain the upper hand against the demon and centaur. Both of the enemies were powerful and were able to stand their ground against the two, but only for a limited time before getting pushed back by the two.
Aelrinder used his power of the stars which increased his overall strength significantly. Even in his usual state, he was a match for the demon, with him going all out, he was stronger than him and was able to suppress the enemy with his incredible strength.
After using the power of the stars again, but this time in order to deliver a powerful attack, Aelrinder was able to break through the enemy's defense and leave a gaping hole on the left side of his chest.
Demons have incredible vitality, and even this kind of wound would not kill them, but it would heavily injure them, however.
With such a wound on his body, the demon was unable to fight back much longer and was in the end captured by Aelrinder who used the mana-blocking cuffs and chains to bind him.
Greenie was able to defeat the centaur after the latter had spent a lot of his mana. Without holding back, Greenie was able to use all of his skills and deliver earth-shattering blows to the enemy who was unable to dodge all of them.
Even his gravity manipulation failed to help him as Greenie's raw power was simply overwhelming when the latter stopped pulling his punches back. After he had spent most of his mana and was unable to continue using his gravity manipulation effectively, it was relatively easy for Greenie to catch him and start beating him up before doing the same thing that Aelrinder did to the demon.
The enemy forces had been given a blow thanks to all the traps and turrets that Reign had suddenly activated. With so many of them dying suddenly, the players, together with the orcs and elves, were able to charge forth and suppress the enemy army completely.
As Greenie and Aelrinder were helping them out, both suddenly stopped before looking up at the sky. A smile blossomed on their faces before they resumed destroying the remnants of the enemy army.
The leader of the enemy army, however, didn't have it easy at all.
'Dammit!' The leader thought to himself as he stared at Reign with bloodshot eyes.
'He tricked us, but how, how did he know?!'
'And his power, just what kind of power is this, I have already used most of my mana and given 20 years of my lifespan in order to boost and sustain the cloud, and he is still able to destroy it!'
Chaos energy was one of the most powerful, and volatile energies in the universe. Rarely would one gain the ability to control chaos energy, those that did, however, were called 'Chaosborn' and every single one was destined to become a powerful entity in the universe.
Chaosborn were not a race, they were simply beings that had been tainted by chaos at birth, a microscopical amount of chaos energy would enter the fetus and it would gain the power to control chaos energy at birth.
Surprisingly, even early on, the Chaosborn could control chaos energy without suffering any consequences. Those that did not have an innate ability to control chaos energy would suffer through all kinds of problems when attempting to use it.
Losing their life span, losing control over their emotions, and being disfigured, one would open themselves to many things when trying to use chaos energy, but Chaosborn had no such issues. Their tempers were normal, they looked the same as others of their race, they had the same life span if not a longer one than average, and were very good at controlling their emotions.
To this day, Chaosborn were a mystery to the universe and nobody knew just how they were selected by Chaos and why.
As for the leader of the enemy organization, he was one that had luckily stumbled upon a small trial near their base at the very beginning of the game. The trial was actually made up of multiple trials, and he had managed to go through them all. He had only managed to do so a couple of days ago, after finally becoming a Tier IV being.
The items the two elders used, the bone staff given to Carlos, and even the cloud of chaos energy were all things he had gained from the trial. He had suffered a lot to go through it, and he had finally thought that there was nobody that would be able to go against him, only to be proven wrong by Reign whose power was above what he had ever imagined.
His skin started wrinkling and his muscles started deflating as even more of life span was taken from him. Finally, the leader decided to stop sustaining the cloud and a crazed expression appeared on his face.
He extended his right hand and clenched it into a fist as the chaos energy inside the cloud suddenly gathered together. Reign's eyes constricted as he quickly went back, only to be caught in the blast that ensued.
Knowing that simply healing the cloud would do nothing and that if he was to continue doing so, he would turn into an old man and die from old age before being able to do anything to Reign, he had taken a drastic measure.
The leader had decided to destroy the cloud, and by doing so, he had set off the chaos energy inside of it, creating a powerful explosion that destroyed everything in a radius of 500 meters. Even though he was swallowed up by the explosion, he, of course, had protection against it.
The moment he set off the cloud, he took out another item from his spatial ring. The item was a small badge that he placed on himself. The moment he did so, a red barrier appeared around him, one that could block an attack from a high-grade Tier IV being.
After the explosion ended and the now red lightning of chaos that had appeared in the area was gone, the leader could be seen, down on his knees as the explosion was more powerful than he anticipated and the barrier was unable to fully defend him.
"Haaaa, I almost died, but it's fine, I survived." The leader said before coughing some blood and shakily standing up.
As he did so, his eyes opened wide as Reign was mere meters in front of him.
"That was … quite something." Reign said as blood was flowing down from the top of his head and dyed his entire face red. His body was injured, some places were charred and there were even some areas where his flesh was gone thanks to the explosion.
'Without using the light to heal me and copying Shadow's [ Darkness Implosion ], albeit in a different manner that he uses it in, I would have been a goner.' Reign thought as he pointed his sword at the enemy leader.
Both men were at the end of their ropes, heavily injured and with barely any mana left. Still, Reign was the one that was much more powerful in hand-to-hand combat and he was certain that there was nothing the enemy could do to save himself now.
He stepped forward, and under the astonished gaze of the leader, lifted his sword up before suddenly falling down to his knees.
His wings suddenly went back to his body as his hair and body returned to normal. The transformation had ended, and Reign suddenly found himself in a much-weakened body. His vision was blurry and pain assaulted him.
Transforming himself for a long period of time had taken a great toll on his body, his muscles were in incredible pain and he felt as if his bones were breaking. The pain was so great that Reign was barely able to move right now, and he even had trouble lifting his head to look at the enemy leader that was now spotting a crazed smile on his face.
"Ahahahahahahaha, it seems I am the winner at the end, mister Reign!" The leader laughed maniacally before summoning a dagger from his spatial ring.
"Whatever you did to turn yourself into what you were mere moments ago must have cost a lot, I can see it by looking at you and the sorry condition you are in."
"I have to admit, you have shocked me more than once today, I never expected that it would be so hard to take you down, but in the end, it's my victory, mine!" The leader shouted out maniacally as he raised his dagger up and attempted to stab Reign.
Boom!
A sonic boom was heard as a sword suddenly fell from the sky and stabbed through the leader's chest. He stared at the giant sword that had impaled him to the ground before looking up and seeing a blonde man with fire coiling around him.
He was using small controlled explosions to keep himself in the air.
One look at the cold face and eyes of the blonde man was enough to let the leader know that this was finished, in the end, he had lost the battle.
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