Eternal Thief

With the colossal crimson devil phantom, the Dread Duchess appeared like a devil deity sitting on her throne.

The next moment, the approaching halberd abruptly stopped, not because it struck something, but because the Corpse Puppet itself could no longer move as its enormous body trembled violently.

The Fifth Corpse Commander discovered that he couldn’t even lift his weapon, and a hint of pure instinctive fear surfaced in his hollow eyes as if in utter disbelief.

The Fourth Corpse Commander instantly sensed his partner’s dilemma and the terrifying intent sweeping toward him. Although he had heard countless tales about the Dread Duchess, personally witnessing her style made him realize those rumors had understated her might.

The Dread Duchess remained seated upon her crimson throne as she didn’t even glance at the struggling Fifth Corpse Commander.

Instead, her beautiful eyes shifted toward a distant section of the battlefield, and the next moment, her cold voice echoed directly within Eva’s mind.

”Disciple, watch carefully. This battlefield is no different from your training ground. Galaxy Orbital Archery and the Void Annihilation Trinity Scripture greatly complement each other as if they were never meant to exist separately. Today, I shall teach you how to merge them.”

Eva’s entire body suddenly froze, and her playful expression instantly vanished as her devilish eyes unconsciously turned toward the First Battlefront.

”...Master...”

Even amidst the endless slaughter, she completely ignored every opponent around her as this was no ordinary battle anymore but a lesson.

Ace immediately sensed the unusual fluctuation in Eva’s aura and her focus. Without asking anything, he silently stepped behind her before looking toward the distant battlefield as well.

His sharp eyes instantly locked onto the two gigantic Half-Abyssal King Corpse Puppets standing before the crimson throne.

A faint glimmer of curiosity surfaced in his eyes.

’She’s going to demonstrate something...’ Ace had already heard Eva describe the terrifying Void Annihilation Trinity Scripture and even share it with him secretly.

Now, he would witness its creator’s inheritance used by an Evernight Duke.

...

The Fourth Corpse Commander instantly understood that if nothing changed, the Fifth Corpse Commander would remain suppressed until his puppet was destroyed.

”Don’t even think about it!”

His gigantic corpse puppet suddenly formed countless hand seals, and dense emerald corpse flames erupted into the sky as countless forbidden runes spread throughout heaven and earth.

”Forbidden Corpse Art, Corpse Soul Liberation!”

’BOOOOOOOM!!’

An enormous sea of corpse Qi exploded outward.

At the same moment, the Fourth Corpse Commander threw out an ancient bronze formation plate. The formation plate instantly shattered into millions of crimson corpse runes, then transformed into countless corpse chains.

Every chain pierced through space itself before descending toward the Dread Duchess from every direction. It wasn’t an offensive and sealing formation. As long as she could be restrained for even a single breath, the Fifth Corpse Commander would escape the terrifying suppression.

The Fourth Corpse Commander roared,

”Fifth Commander, NOW!”

The Fifth Corpse Commander immediately exploded with every ounce of his Corpse Qi, desperately attempting to free himself.

The Dread Duchess merely sneered, ”So childish.”

She slowly stood from her throne. The crimson devil phantom behind her gradually faded before an obsidian longbow appeared within her delicate hand.

Its surface shimmered like countless galaxies and the instant her fingers rested upon the bowstring...

’Twang!’

A gentle ripple spread across heaven and earth before Orbit Intent spread, and she used the fifth level of the Galaxy Orbital Archery!

The surrounding space seemed to move and curve into countless invisible celestial trajectories.

Yet this time, it wasn’t just the Orbit Intent; scarlet Destruction Law intertwined with profound Space Law, then instantly transformed into pitch-black Void Annihilation Power.

Countless black spatial cracks silently appeared around the bow, and the very atmosphere began to disappear without shattering or collapsing, simply vanishing.

The surrounding corpse Qi was erased before it could even approach her.

The Dread Duchess calmly spoke,

”Galaxy Orbital Archery, Voidbreaker Star Arrow!”

The bowstring was pulled to its absolute limit, and a single black starlight arrow slowly condensed. Its shaft resembled a miniature galaxy, and its arrowhead looked like absolute nothingness.

Even the surrounding laws instinctively retreated from its existence.

Far away, Eva’s eyes shimmered with a hint of astonishment and realization as if she could clearly see every circulation path, fusion between Orbit Intent, Space Law, and Destruction Law, and on top of all, the faint trace of Void Law!

They were perfectly displayed before her; it was as though the Dread Duchess had intentionally slowed every movement for her disciple to comprehend, for she wasn’t merely fighting, but teaching!

’It seemed she had unknowingly comprehended the Void Law...’ Eva concluded.

Ace, on the other hand, quietly watched everything unfold as his eyes narrowed; even he couldn’t help becoming interested.

...

”Release.”

’Shhhhhhh!’

The arrow disappeared, not because it moved quickly, but because space itself carried it. It instantly collided with the descending forbidden spell, but no explosion occurred.

But the next moment, the enormous Corpse Soul Liberation Formation simply disappeared, and every rune, corpse chain, fragment of forbidden power, and everything touching the arrow’s trajectory ceased to exist.

The Fourth Corpse Commander’s eyes widened.

”Impossible...”

Before his sentence could finish, the black arrow had already arrived before the Fifth Corpse Commander, and there was no time to dodge, react, or defend.

A tiny black point appeared upon the puppet’s forehead, and the next moment...

’BOOM!’

A massive hole instantly replaced the Corpse Puppet’s head, but there wasn’t any explosion, as its head had simply ceased to exist. The gigantic corpse puppet stood motionless for a brief instant before black cracks rapidly spread across its enormous body.

Its corpse bones, corpse veins, and corpse formations, everything rapidly disintegrated into countless particles of black ash, and then even those ashes disappeared, leaving nothing!

”No!!”

The Fourth Corpse Commander screamed in horror as his expression completely changed, for he could clearly sense it.

The split fragment of undead soul the Fifth Corpse Commander had painstakingly refined inside that Corpse Puppet had been utterly annihilated!

There hadn’t even been enough time for it to escape back toward its true undead soul, for it had been erased alongside the puppet itself!