An ethereal yet profound wound stretched across the "Demon Prince's" abdomen, tearing through its scales, "muscles," and bones, sending torrents of black, corrosive blood gushing and dripping out, exposing the constantly squirming innards within—each one writhing like a lesser demon.
The "Demon Prince" unleashed a scream that shook the entire plane, its mouth suddenly yanking open, its stomach heaving as it vomited out a humanoid figure completely enveloped in slime. Twin horns, unique to demons, protruded from its head, and a terrifying pressure at the peak of the Legendary realm radiated outward. This immaterial aura alone was enough to split the "Blood Plains" open with crack after crack, revealing rivers of molten magma below.
It could still take this form?
A true body that only appeared after sustaining sufficient damage?
But no matter what it was, everything was already a fraction too late.
"Eternal Blazing Sun!"
As Lucian extended his left hand, a searing, blinding light erupted from the wound in the "Demon Prince's" abdomen—so hot and so brilliant that it defied imagination, as though ten thousand suns had descended upon this place all at once!
Far across the ground,
Natasha raised the "
Faint ripples of void spread outward from the "Shield of Truth," utterly separating her from the real world, as though she existed in a different plane of time and space—transcendent, untouchable, beyond all reach.
The Sanguine Lord's human-faced goat head, stripped of most of its magical items and enchantments, desperately flicked out a serpentine crimson tongue, wielding it alongside two great swords to block the onslaught of the silvery-gray sword light. But with the "Demon Prince" having seized control of the Blood Plains—robbing it of the plane's feedback and power—its tongue and great swords cracked apart bit by bit, illusory fissures spreading toward its body.
"Idiot—attack now!" it roared within the mindscape at its other head.
The hound head was just about to unleash its spell-like abilities when it noticed the flash of blinding light and instinctively turned toward its "lord." In that instant, the searing, terrifying radiance stabbed into its eyes.
"My eyes!" the hound head screamed.
Then it felt an endless, infinite torrent of pure light, carrying extreme, terrifying heat, surging toward it—engulfing everything.
"No!"
The "Demon Prince's" entire abdomen was vaporized on the spot. The erupting light and the superheated temperatures—hot enough to melt anything—swallowed the slime-covered humanoid, swallowed its tail, swallowed its head.
In the sky, it was as though a dazzling, magnificent sun had risen, scattering the darkness and blotting out the original dark crimson.
Then, an energy storm equivalent to who-knows-how-many volcanic eruptions began to rage, annihilating everything in its path. The "forest" was destroyed, the "Nature Altar" was destroyed, the stone circle was destroyed, and even the distant "Castle of Flesh" seemed to suffer a catastrophic earthquake, beginning to shatter and collapse.
The scorching energy storm didn't just annihilate everything on the plain—it melted anything in its vicinity, igniting everything across the wide expanse of plains that could possibly burn.
Demons were torn to shreds, chunks of corpses bursting into flames of various colors.
BOOM!
After the blinding light, the thunderous roar of the explosion finally erupted like a bolt of lightning, and the entire "Blood Plains" plane began to quake violently, as though it had plunged into the apocalypse!
In midair, a roiling mushroom cloud rose slowly, its ring-shaped, peculiar cap giving an overwhelmingly stunning impression, brimming with a kind of destructive beauty—drawing a perfect final stroke over the preceding explosion and leaving behind a symbol worthy of being etched into memory.
Watching the enormous white cloud ring that seemed to have been formed by displaced air currents, Malfurion finally understood why the Parliament called the "Eternal Blazing Sun" the purest spell of brute force. Natasha gazed upon it in admiration, wondering when her own destructive power would ever reach such heights.
Patter, patter, drip, drop—chunks of body covered in scorched black scales mixed with the rain of black blood as they fell to the ground. But without the demon lord's terrifying regenerative ability, they were nothing more than lifeless objects, utterly devoid of vitality.
Lucian adjusted his monocle and looked toward the vicinity of the mushroom cloud. There, the "Demon Prince's" body—stretching several kilometers long—lay in ruins, shattered beyond recognition. Yet at its core, there was a dark, sinister hole radiating an aura of alien chaos, within which one could faintly make out a surface of bubbling water.
The blackness of the "great hole" faded, and the scene within rapidly clarified. It was an ocean glowing with a greenish light, gurgling and belching white bubbles. Upon its surface sat scattered reefs and small islands, but under the combined effect of the churning ocean and the pale-red space constantly rippling and squirming around it, they were slowly disintegrating and dissolving.
"The '
Lucian felt no regret. After all, he was only at the third tier of the Legendary realm, had no materials prepared in advance, and this was the Abyss to boot.
The surface of the "Abyssal Maw" continued to belch white bubbles, and vaguely, one could make out a dark, sinister castle beneath—the "Demon Prince's" palace.
The bubbles on the ocean's surface grew more and more violent. Suddenly, a baboon-like face bulged upward, peering through the still-fading overlap between the two planes at Lucian, its color-shifting eyes burning with bone-deep hatred:
"Mortal, you will pay for this!"
Its voice carried unmistakable weakness—an undeniable sign. Ambushed by the "Nature's Arrow" and then struck directly within its own body by the "Eternal Blazing Sun," it had come perilously close to complete annihilation!
But even though it had ultimately escaped, it was forced to abandon its main body, relying on the "Demon Core" pre-positioned within its palace to regenerate.
The instant the "Demon Prince's" words fell, Lucian's eyes suddenly widened. From within the underwater castle, a mass of dark, heavy shadow had surged forth—moving with lightning speed, it engulfed the face in one swift motion!