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Chapter 493: Chapter 493: Burning Abyss

Boom!

A blue pillar of light shot up from the teleportation formation, tearing space apart violently.

When the dizziness around him faded, Aiden opened his eyes. In that instant, an indescribably wild wave of heat rushed straight at him.

The space here was distorted.

As far as the eye could see, the sky was a sickly dark red. Countless black cracks in space spread across it like a spiderweb.

Rumble!

In the distant void, explosions at the level of laws erupted one after another. Every blast was followed by a rain of black-purple fire falling from the sky.

There was no oxygen in the air. There was only thick, violent, dark-red fire poison-powerful enough to instantly vaporize a Silver Rank Reclasser.

"Roar!"

Dozens of loud dragon roars exploded behind Aiden.

Faye revealed the massive form of the Heaven-Devouring Mystic Dragon, stretching hundreds of meters long. The original pressure of a Mythic Rank being spread out with a thunderous force.

At her call, dozens of huge Abyss dragons circled through the void. A lava-like glow of law energy flowed over their dark-red scales.

"Raise the Fire Dragon Scale Armor!"

Faye shouted, her golden dragon eyes shining brightly.

The dragons roared together. Layers of dragon-power shields turned into solid red crystal armor, firmly blocking the rain of law fire falling from the sky.

Sharp hissing sounds rang out again and again. It was the sound of dragon scales grinding fiercely against the law fire poison.

Aiden stood at the very front, his black coat snapping in the wild wind.

In his double pupils, this violent world was reflected.

"Law of Thunder-Ultra-Fast Instant Thunder Rotating Barrier!"

Aiden shouted in a low voice and raised his hand, closing it in the air.

Crack!

Millions of purple-gold lightning bolts exploded out of nowhere, forming a huge spherical barrier a hundred meters wide and covering everyone inside.

Across the surface of the barrier, countless bolts of lightning spun madly at millions of times per second, forming a terrifying vortex of thunder.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The law-level physical shockwaves crashing in from all sides slammed into the thunder barrier. In an instant, they were deflected and torn apart by the high-speed spinning lightning, turning into nothing.

"City Lord, something is wrong with the fire poison here. It’s trying to get into my head!"

An elite Earth Dragon let out a painful growl. A strange blood-red color began to appear in his huge eyes.

Aiden frowned slightly.

He could feel the dark-red fire poison, which seemed to slip through every opening, seeping in through the gaps in the thunder barrier strand by strand.

This was not a physical attack. It was corrosion that acted directly on the soul.

Buzz-

His vision suddenly blurred. The black smoke and flames in the void began to twist wildly.

The scene before Aiden changed.

It was not an illusion.

Aiden’s double pupils could see through all falsehoods in the world. But at this moment, he found that what he saw was terrifyingly real.

They were scenes from the deepest part of his memory.

In one scene, he had just crossed over to Earth. As a lowly "Magic Apprentice," he had suffered cold looks and cruel mockery.

The first scene appeared.

It was the ruins of The White City. Countless innocent humans screamed under the claws of the Abyss Demons, while the traitors from the Evil Demons Guild hid in the dark and laughed with pride.

Then the scene changed again.

It was the exam grounds of the Great Shaw Empire. Those noble family heirs looked down at him from above, trying to crush him under their power and Strength.

And then there were the Nameless soldiers who had died defending the Golden Great Wall. Their blood had dyed the wasteland red, while the corrupt politicians inside the empire still enjoyed songs, dances, and comfort.

Betrayal, injustice, oppression, helplessness, loss...

Scene after scene.

Event after event.

All of them had truly happened.

There was not a single lie. Not a single exaggeration.

The Burning Abyss had not created an illusion. It had simply torn open the most real and undeniable pain and anger in Aiden’s life, exposing them in all their bloody truth and playing them again before his eyes.

In his mind, a vast and hoarse voice seemed to echo again and again.

"Look at them."

"They deceived you. Betrayed you. Looked down on you. Took away everything you tried to protect."

"You gave everything for this world, yet this world schemed against you in the dark."

"Tell me, shouldn’t you be angry?"

"Is your anger not justified?!"

Boom!

Deep inside Aiden’s chest, a violent fire that had been buried for a long time suddenly burst into flames.

His breathing grew heavy. Thin streaks of blood slowly crept into his double pupils.

This was completely different from the trial of the Pillar of Envy.

When facing envy, he could sneer and say, "That is fake. I don’t care."

But when facing these real memories from the past, he could not deny them.

Because all of it was true.

He had truly been angry before.

And he was angry now.

"Damn it... calm down!"

Aiden clenched his teeth. In his Inner Spirit sea, huge waves surged into the sky. He forced himself to use all his reason, trying to suppress the anger with everything he had.

He was a god.

A god should not be controlled by emotions.

However-

The moment Aiden tried to seal away that anger with absolute reason, something suddenly changed.

Boom!!!

The entire Burning Abyss seemed to feel deeply provoked. The void within ten thousand miles instantly went berserk.

The dark-red flames suddenly turned into a dead, pitch-black color.

The temperature began to soar-ten times, then a hundred times higher!

"Pfft!"

Several weaker Earth Dragons spat out blood on the spot. Their Fire Dragon Scale Armor cracked open in an instant, and their Inner Spirit suffered a violent backlash.

"City Lord! Don’t suppress it!"

Faye’s anxious voice came through the roar of thunder.

A thin line of blood ran from the corner of her mouth. She was protecting the Dragon Clan behind her with all her strength as she turned to look at Aiden.

Aiden’s whole body was trembling. Faint black flames were even burning on the surface of his skin. Countless cracks had already appeared in the thunder barrier.

The Pillar of Wrath had sensed his suppression.

To it, suppression meant rejection.

And rejection meant betrayal of "wrath."

So it began a mad counterattack. It wanted to burn this strange being, who was trying to stay rational, completely into ash.

"When the Dragon Clan is angry, we tear the enemy apart!"

Under the overwhelming pressure, Faye shouted at Aiden.

"City Lord! Stop caring about that damn thing called reason!"

"Just try... accepting it first!"

Accept it?

At that moment, the words Bella had spoken before leaving exploded in Aiden’s mind like a great bell.

"Wrath means accepting it... accepting that your anger is justified."

Aiden’s body shook violently.

He looked at the countless real scenes before him, each one enough to make his eyes burn with rage.

The traitors who had betrayed the Great Shaw Empire.

The Demon Gods who treated human lives like weeds.

The enemies who had once tried to erase him from existence.

Why should he suppress it?

Why should he act like some saint, forgiving everything and keeping so-called absolute calm?

To hell with absolute reason.

Aiden slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, the bloodshot lines were gone.

In their place were two burning clusters of dark-golden divine fire.

He no longer held it back.

He allowed the rage that had been buried for countless days and nights to rush wildly through every part of his body.

Aiden looked at the scenes replaying again and again in the void. The corners of his mouth slowly lifted into a cold, relieved smile.

He stopped using the laws to suppress it. He let the black flames spread across his entire body.

Then, word by word, his voice calm but loud enough to shake the heavens, he said,

"Yes."

"Those disgusting things really did happen."

"This anger, this urge to tear everything apart, truly exists."

Aiden raised his head and looked straight at the faint giant pillar that reached into the sky from the deepest part of the Burning Abyss. Then he spoke calmly.

"I am angry."

"This anger..."

"Is fair."

"Is reasonable."

"And is justified."

Buzz.

The moment his words fell, the black flames that had been raging like mad froze strangely for a tiny instant.

Then-

In this deadly land, where even gods could be turned into vapor, the terrifying heat suddenly dropped by one degree.

When Aiden spoke the final word, the entire void of the Burning Abyss seemed to be muted.

The black flames, which had been roaring and trying to tear apart Aiden’s Inner Spirit, froze strangely in midair.

The sharp hissing sound vanished at once.

Instead, the temperature of this deadly place began to drop like crazy.

One thousand degrees.

Ten thousand degrees.

One hundred thousand degrees.

That terrifying heat, strong enough to vaporize a Lesser God, vanished in just a few breaths.

"This... how is this possible?"

A badly wounded elite Earth Dragon widened his eyes and stared in disbelief at the void around him, which was slowly becoming calm and gentle.

The Burning Abyss, which had once been hot enough to burn through space itself, was now as quiet as an ancient stove whose fire had gone out.

The pressure on Faye suddenly eased. She withdrew her hundred-zhang true form, her golden dragon eyes fixed firmly on Aiden.

Aiden stood at the center of the void.

His black windbreaker still snapped loudly in the wild wind.

But the aura around him had changed.

The dark-red fire poison, which had been violent and almost out of control, was now flowing slowly along his skin like a gentle tide.

He no longer suppressed his anger.

And so, his anger became his robe.

On the purple-gold thunder barrier, the cracks repaired themselves in an instant. There was even a faint trace of dark-red fire law within the flashing lightning.

Buzz-

Deep in the void, the giant pillar that covered the sky suddenly began to tremble violently.

Circles of dark-red shockwaves exploded through the void.

Then, a will that seemed to come from ancient times, heavy as a mountain, thundered directly inside Aiden’s mind.

"You are the first one to enter this place and not try to control me."

The voice had no warmth, but it carried a power that could make all things bow.