Divine Emperor of Death

Chapter 4673: Quickly Fleeing

After Mythic Riftveil Serpent Spirit fled, Davis didn’t bother to revel in his victory either.

The spatial rings the Starry Corps had all shattered. Amidst the terrifying spatial storm, he quickly managed to collect their soul essence and stole their karmic sin as well before they could dissipate. After all, these two aspects were unimpeded by most attacks since they would return to the Reincarnation Cycle.

He quickly fled before his danger alarm could go off could blaringly.

Within thirty seconds, a twenty-kilometer-tall silhouette landed in the area from nowhere.

The land trembled, and mountains shattered. The forests began decaying and slumped to the ground like mud. Cast in a humanoid shape, it possessed the head of a lion but appeared drooped and slimy as though it was aging. Its upper body was split in half, revealing a huge vertical mouth with a long and wide tongue extending out. Its lower body was extended outward with dark blue tentacles, smashing and altering the nature of the ground and atmosphere.

It turned to look around and opened its mouth, engulfing the spatial storm within as if devouring it.

By this time, Davis had already gained distance from it.

He trembled as it projected its aura everywhere. Attracted by the commotion they had created, it appeared. He didn’t find it strange since they lit up over fifteen beacons in this place, consisting of the Starry Corps corpses, which exploded into smithereens.

’Phew...’ Davis inwardly sighed, ’A Mid-Level Primarch Stage Realm Calamity... possibly Level Five or above...’

He guessed this space-decay attributed Realm Calamity was what actually made the Mythic Riftveil Serpent Spirit flee. Otherwise, it would’ve at least spat out some curses or communicated with him.

A few explosions might not have attracted it since there were Calamities battling everywhere, but the repeated explosions had certainly caught its attention. Hence, he decisively chose to escape. As for the Mythic Riftveil Serpent Spirit, he wasn’t bothered about its retaliation since it was just hired help.

While Davis was on his way to the Wrathful Aeons Shard Region’s entrance, he couldn’t help but gloat.

He felt like he had cleanly ended the Starry Corps without making a single mistake.

The moment he plundered Awudan’s identity and became aware of Awudan’s self, memories, behavior, lifestyle, and much more, everything else became easier. He recalled how he used the new technique and tackled the Starry Corps, wanting to reflect on it so that he wouldn’t forget it and see if he had missed anything.

Everything was over within thirty seconds, after all.

At first, he combined his insights that he had gotten from comprehending Karma Laws and Judgment Laws, and included the insights he gained from listening to Ophirya Kaelis’s conjectures on fate, and based it on the Karmic Impersonation Technique. This allowed him to imagine a structure for the tangible flow of fate, which he could use to exploit using the scarlet bundle, which he could see while possessing the scarlet thread.

In other words, he inserted himself into the target’s fate, allowing him to usurp their identity.

Even if he changed forms, people would still perceive him as Awudan. His aura was impeccably the same as Awudan’s. His soul was one of Awudan’s. His body was Awudan’s. But in reality, everything was just Davis beneath the garb that was known as Awudan.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to use his powers like Misdirection and Enigmatic Heart Laws.

The terrifying nature of this usurping technique left Davis breathless.

Regardless, he went over the battle to see if he had missed anything.

As soon as he usurped Awudan, he planned to strike them when they split up again. In the meantime, he measured them in secret.

After provoking the first suicide bomber, he knew he would get the attention of those who waited to ambush him. The problem was the Mythic Riftveil Serpent Spirit, who was hired to seal the Eternal Eclipse Bird.

But with the Eternal Eclipse Bird’s illusory darkness ability, which was quite preliminary in terms of usage, he was sure he could fool the Mythic Riftveil Serpent Spirit for some time. He didn’t care if it found out later since he only needed to fool it for a few seconds.

Next was to defend against the onslaught of the suicide bombers.

He already knew they were going to use nothing but suicide attacks since they were quite afraid of him. One, due to his unknown ability to revive and possibly escape, and two, due to the Temporal Voidplane Ring that could seal them instantly if they were to come closer.

Hence, to disallow him from using the Temporal Voidplane Ring, they were bound to make repeated suicide attacks to first throw him out of balance and then annihilate him in an instant. Even if he used its defensive ability, they were confident in being able to brute force their way through it with their lives. He knew this was their battle plan from plundering Awudan’s memories through usurping his identity, so it aligned with the battle plan he had concocted.

Next, all he had to do was hold out against the suicide bombers until the members of the Starry Corps gathered towards their captain.

Suddenly, he would regain balance and display a middle finger to enrage them, but most importantly, bring out the Eternal Eclipse Bird from the Temporal Voidplane Ring to show that he still had the upper hand. It would undoubtedly stun them all. The middle finger was an added bonus.

Then, using that moment, as ’Awudan’, he would strike from behind and put the nail in the coffin for their captain, who could probably turn the tide. At the same time, he would make the other members initiate self-destruction by provoking them using Enigmatic Heart Laws and using Misdirection to make them recognize that he was Davis despite the effects of the usurpation technique, disallowing them to recognize ’Awudan’ as Davis.

After they were provoked into committing suicide with him, the rest was self-explanatory. Even if they wanted to stop themselves, a chain reaction of unstable and uncontrollable dantians was bound to erupt when caught within.

The battle cleanly ended, although it was quite stormy as a result.

He had also planned for contingencies like the Starry Corps trying to surround him instead of gathering by their captain’s side.

In that case, he would’ve used Misdirection as ’Awudan’ earlier to gather them together. However, he imagined he wouldn’t have the need to do so since spreading out would only wreck their chances of obtaining the Temporal Voidplane Ring. After all, they were also aware that suicide bombing would invite trouble, so they couldn’t surround and wait for him to slowly die. They had to be quick while trying to make him surrender so as to fool him into quickly dying.

As Zealots, they never had any intention of leaving him alive. They would lie through their mouths. Even if they had said the truth, they had probably planned to restrain his movements so that the danger that came later would devour him.

Finally, even if his plan went haywire and he was cornered, he was prepared to use the Cursed Artifact, Malevolent Demon Erasure Fan. With a single wave of the fan, he could get rid of them all.

Although he would suffer the negative effects, he didn’t think it was unendurable for him.

If the Mythic Riftveil Serpent Spirit really did dare to fight him, he didn’t mind unleashing the Cursed Artifact for the third time and dying together with it.

Utmost, it would take him some time to revive within the body of that terrifying Realm Calamity that came afterwards. However, he also thought otherwise, thinking that it could be scared of the Cursed Artifact as well, like the False Dawn Harbinger.