Eternal Thief

The moment the Dread Duchess drew her obsidian longbow, it was as if the heavens fell silent.

Across the battlefield, the First, Second, and Third Corpse Commanders did not recklessly charge. Unlike the previous commanders, they knew exactly who stood before them.

”She is indeed the legendary Obsidian Huntress!” Using the spirit transmission, the First Corpse Commander spoke calmly through the Moon Mindfeather puppet, ”Do not engage her individually.”

The Second Commander nodded, ”Suppress her senses. Limit her movement, and never allow her to complete a full draw.”

The Third Commander merely smiled, ”I’ll tear apart the space she relies upon.”

The next moment, the four ancient corpse vessels moved simultaneously.

The Bloody Abyss Barbarian was first. Instead of attacking the Dread Duchess directly, the colossal corpse slammed its gigantic bone axe into the battlefield.

’BOOOOOOOOOOM!’

Ancient crimson runes exploded across hundreds of miles, shattering the earth and multiplying gravity. It was the unique racial ability of the Bloody Abyss Barbarians, awakened: the Blood Tyrant Domain.

Every living being within its range felt their bodies become impossibly heavy, mountains collapsed, and flying cultivators crashed into the ground. Even the trajectories of arrows bent under the crushing force.

Its purpose was simple: reduce the speed of the Dread Duchess’s Orbit Law!

At the same time, the Moon Mindfeather spread countless translucent wings as millions of silver feathers floated into the sky, and every feather reflected a different battlefield, different enemies, different directions, and different futures.

It was the extinct race’s innate ability, the Mind Reflection Realm. Rather than creating illusions, it created countless false possibilities. Even powerful law senses struggled to distinguish reality from fiction.

One moment, there were four corpse puppets, the next, forty, and then four hundred. This way, every arrow the Dread Duchess released would risk striking an illusion.

The Twin-Devouring Nightmare opened both monstrous jaws. The wolf head devoured Abyssal Qi, and the bear head devoured spiritual fluctuations.

Every attack that entered its range was dramatically weakened; meanwhile, the devoured Qi continuously strengthened the other corpse puppets. It became the center of an endless battlefield cycle of consume, strengthen, and consume again.

Finally, the Crimson Netherflame Revenant stepped forward, and its scarlet flames spread silently. Yet those flames carried no heat, but they froze space itself. Every burning ember crystallized into scarlet mirrors.

The Third Corpse Commander laughed, ”You rely upon Space Laws. So, I’ll simply kill space itself.”

Crimson Netherflames erupted, and wherever they burned, space stopped flowing, spatial movement became sluggish, and even dimensional cracks froze. The battlefield transformed into a prison specifically designed against spatial cultivators.

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The Evernight Council cultivators felt their hearts sink.

”They...they prepared specifically for the Dread Duchess...”

”So, this is why they never deployed these vessels before...”

Even the Yin Duchess narrowed her icy eyes with a hint of malicious anticipation, ”Interesting.”

The Corpse Duke silently watched. The Enchantress Demon Duchess stopped smiling ever so slightly.

Everyone now understood that these were no ordinary corpse puppets, as each represented the peak inheritance of an extinct abyss race.

Separately, none could rival the Dread Duchess, but together, they became an army to counter the infamous Obsidian Huntress of the Undead Cradle!

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At that moment, the four unique abilities, gravity, mind, devouring, and frozen space, overlapped, and even Half-Abyssal Kings would become trapped if they dared to step into it.

The First Commander calmly declared, ”Now.”

Four corpse vessels attacked together.

Axes shattered continents, frozen flames sealed dimensions, psychic storms assaulted consciousness, and monstrous jaws devoured every spiritual fluctuation.

The Dread Duchess disappeared beneath endless attacks.

The entire battlefield exploded.

’BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!’

Shockwaves erased mountains, and entire battlefronts retreated. Even Abyssal Grand Lords fled in horror.

For several breaths, no one could see anything.

But suddenly, the Corpse Clan erupted into cheers.

”We got her!”

”Hahaha!”

”So, what if she’s an Evernight Duke!”

But just then, a calm yet dreadful voice echoed from within the dust, ”Finished?”

Silence reigned before a black crack appeared, then another, as it turned into thousands. Thereafter, the battlefield itself split apart as every overlapping domain began collapsing.

The First Commander’s pupils contracted, ”What?”

The answer came immediately, the Dread Duchess slowly walked out completely unharmed, and around her floated countless tiny black stars. Each one quietly erased every law touching it.

It was the Obsidian Space Law of the Dread Duchess, a Space Law that did not bend space, nor freeze or distort it, but it erased competing spatial authority itself.

The Crimson Netherflames, upon touching those black stars, simply vanished before the frozen space resumed flowing.

The Dread Duchess looked toward the Third Commander first.

”You froze ordinary space. But...” She smiled coldly. ”I don’t use ordinary space.”

She gently tapped the air, and every black star expanded before the surrounding battlefield instantly transformed into an endless obsidian galaxy. Invisible orbital paths spread across heaven and earth.

Every corpse puppet suddenly discovered something horrifying. Their own attacks were no longer obeying them as axes curved away, flames bent, and psychic attacks spiraled elsewhere. Even gravity itself began revolving around invisible celestial orbits.

It was a mystic ability of the Orbit Intent, assimilated into the Orbital Galaxy Archery, called the Galaxy Orbital Intent: everything in motion must obey an orbit!

”Impossible!” The Second Commander roared, ”My Devouring Field!”

His Twin-Devouring Nightmare attempted to consume the incoming arrows.

Instead, the arrows revolved around the devouring mouths and then struck from behind.

’BOOM!’

One gigantic beast head exploded.

The Moon Mindfeather immediately activated another illusion, creating millions of false Dread Duchesses. The battlefield became incomprehensible.

The First Commander smiled, ”Now she cannot distinguish reality.”

The Dread Duchess merely sighed, ”...what theatrics.”

Void Annihilation Power gathered upon the bowstring, and she released a single arrow.

”Voidbreaker!”

The arrow didn’t target an illusion, but it targeted space itself. The next instant, the entire illusion world collapsed, and every false reality ceased to exist!

The Moon Mindfeather screamed for half its silver feathers disintegrated into nothingness.

The Third Commander attacked again, and the Scarlet Netherflames became an ocean. He intended to drown her.

Instead, she calmly merged Space Law, Destruction Law, and Orbit Intent into one arrow.

”Black Star Funeral!”

She released, and the arrow disappeared not because it was fast, but because the orbit already existed. It arrived before it had traveled, and the scarlet sea split apart, frozen space vanished, and the Crimson Netherflame Revenant lost its entire left arm as it was erased.

The Third Commander’s expression finally changed, ”She damaged my soul!”