My Dragon King System-Chapter 258: War In Eden Pt. 4: The CounterAttack

While Jorus spoke arrogantly above them, Aiden’s body had already returned to peak condition, and Zero Effect had nearly stripped away the last remnants of the Curse of Death that had been inflicted upon him.

But it was in that very moment, as Jorus continued his mocking monologue, that an idea formed in Aiden’s mind.

Against an Archon, none of his authorities could deal any decisive blow. He hadn’t reached his full potential that would allow him absolute dominance.

But even so, his authorities still achieved some effect on an Archon, and what if those few seconds were exactly all he needed?

Jorus’s voice had then interrupted his thoughts.

"By the way," the god said casually, "who do you think suggested and taught Lucina the spell she used to curse your shit wife to death?"

Aiden’s grip tightened furiously around Excalibur’s hilt.

The revelation didn’t come as a surprise, not really. If anything, it only made things add up more.

But knowing it intellectually didn’t make it any less aggravating to hear spoken aloud with such casual cruelty.

And somehow, Thera reacted even more viscerally than Aiden did.

Her amber eyes blazed with so much fury as she stared up at her brother hovering in the sky above them.

Jorus was more than capable of fighting dirty. Thera knew that better than anyone. When he chose to, he could sink to any depth to achieve something truly despicable.

But she had always known him as someone who only resorted to those methods for purposes of vengeance. Which meant that Jorus had to feel genuinely wronged first before unleashing that kind of cruelty upon someone.

But this wasn’t that.

This wasn’t a feeling of being wronged at all. He had orchestrated that evil against Aiden’s wife even when he hadn’t been wronged in the first place.

Not by the dragon, not by either of his wives, not by anyone involved.

And realizing this fact, made Thera absolutely furious.

Her divine energy began gathering violently around her form, and the entire ground within the Mirror World started experiencing violent tremors under her vexation.

The very earth beneath their feet began trembling and shaking as if Eden itself were trying to tear apart at its seams.

Aiden looked around at the trembling ground and saw pebbles and chunks of rock being lifted into the air, suspended by Thera’s overwhelming power as it radiated outward from her body in uncontrolled surges.

Thera was done holding back now.

Although she had been mostly on the defensive against Myria up until this point, because in truth, she really didn’t want to fight seriously against her siblings.

But all that consideration be damned now!

"You’re truly despicable, Jorus!" she screamed upward toward him.

Her form lifted off the ground as she rose into the air, and different rocks and pebbles were violently ripped free from the earth below.

They mashed together rapidly, gathering around Thera’s ascending figure like iron filings drawn toward a magnet.

More and more stone pulled free from the ground, boulders, all of it converging on Thera’s position until it began forming into something massive.

A gigantic golem of rock and molten lava took shape around her.

It towered upward with each passing second, growing larger and larger until its head reached high into the sky of the Mirror World. Veins of glowing orange magma pulsed through the cracks between massive stone plates that made up its body.

Thera positioned herself at its core, piloting it from inside.

The golem’s eyes blazed with the same amber light as Thera’s own eyes, and when it took just one single step forward, the entire ground shook so violently that fissures spread outward for kilometers in every direction.

Myria’s grin faltered for just a moment as she looked up at the towering construct her sister had created.

She raised both hands as several multiple mirrors began stacking together rapidly in front of her, forming another massive reflective surface meant to block or deflect whatever attack was coming.

But Thera didn’t hesitate.

The gigantic golem pulled back one enormous fist, and swung forward with devastating force.

The punch connected with Myria’s stacked mirror before she could even finish reinforcing it.

The impact was catastrophic.

The mirror exploded outward in a shower of reflective shards that dissolved into light before they hit the ground.

The shockwave rippled outward so violently that Myria who was behind her shattered defensive construct, was sent flying backward through the air.

She tumbled end over end through open sky before finally disappearing from sight entirely, either crashed into some distant part of this reflected Eden or simply too far away now to be visible anymore.

Jorus’s eyes widened as he watched his sister obliterate Myria’s defense.

The massive golem turned its head toward Jorus now, with its glowing eyes locking onto him.

The golem brought down its humongous palm, trying to slam him down from the skies like swatting a fly.

But Jorus flew out of its range, then the palm clenched into a fist mid-swing, following up with a devastating punch that tore through the air toward him.

Jorus swung his forked staff toward the incoming fist, and the moment the golem’s gigantic fist connected with the staff, its entire hand withered instantly.

The stones that made that up its forearm crumbled to sand, all the way up to its elbow area before the entire limb simply burst into more sand.

But even then, new stone particles

immediately gathered from the ground below and grew in place almost instantaneously.

The arm reformed completely within seconds, and the attempt at another swing continued without pause.

"Tch." Jorus clicked his tongue in annoyance.

He flew some distance away, putting space between himself and the relentless golem, then stretched his hand toward the massive construct. A magic circle appeared before his palm as he whispered:

"Burial of Skulls."

Immediately, the golem’s legs were trapped.

When it looked down, both of its massive limbs were caught within a sea of skulls that had materialized beneath it.

Thousands upon thousands of skeletal remains forming an ocean of bone that pulled at the golem like quicksand.

The golem thrashed violently, trying to free itself from the grip of countless dead hands reaching up from below. But the more it struggled, the deeper it sank into the endless sea of skulls.

At that moment, a mirror materialized beside Jorus in midair.

From within it floated out Myria, brushing dust off her robes with a deep frown on her face, still clearly irritated from being blown away so violently by Thera’s earlier attack.

Jorus glanced at her briefly before turning his attention back toward both Aiden and the struggling golem below.

"It’s time we put them both out," he said coldly, "and bring this to an end."

He let his forked staff float beside him as he raised both hands, positioning his fingers into peculiar hand seals. He was preparing to use his Law.

Myria’s expression became troubled as she watched him form the seals.

"Are you going to use that against Thera too?" she asked. "Even with Gaia’s healing, it would still take decades until she’s truly okay."

Jorus’s eyes didn’t waver from his targets below. "Wake up to reality, sister, after today, we shall no longer be siblings to them. And I am done being here, Mother may need our help out there."

Myria said nothing more.

Right in that instant, when Jorus was about to complete the final seal and activate his Law...

Time stopped.

By Aiden’s calculations, this would last about four or five seconds at most against opponents of Archon-level strength.

But that was enough time.

Right after time had stopped, Aiden appeared instantly before Jorus using Void Step.

And with one swift swing of Excalibur, both of Jorus’s wrists were severed cleanly.

His hands, still holding up the seals for his Law, fell away from his body and tumbled to the ground.