WorldCrafter - Building My Underground Kingdom-Chapter 202: Fighting The Devourer Of Light

Chapter 202: Fighting The Devourer Of Light

The system’s energy flared. A burst of golden light erupted from the crack, so intense it turned the world white. The battlefield vanished in its brilliance. Every shadow was burned away.

Ben staggered back, shielding his face as his vision went blank. Apophis screamed beside him, her voice drowned in the radiance.

A moment later, the light vanished, than the ground shook. A low rumble echoed from deep below, growing louder with each second.

The land cracked. Fissures split outward.

Apophis backed away, her body trembling. Her voice turned sharp. “No. No no no, damn it!”

She cursed, stumbling as the shaking worsened. Then, suddenly, her voice broke. And for the first time Ben could hear her genuine emotion.

Her eyes slowly turned to him. “You wanted to be my master, didn’t you?” she said, her voice cold and shaking. “Then fine.”

She bared her teeth, desperation twisting into rage. “Congratulations, master. Now go prove it.” She pointed toward the crack, toward the darkness spilling out. “Defeat my true strength, or all of us die here.”

Then the world screamed. A wave of black aether burst out from the ground, swallowing the last remnants of golden light.

The air turned heavy, dense, suffocating. And then it emerged.

From the broken earth below, something vast slithered up from the depths,

A body that stretched across the horizon. Scales blacker than night, with starlight veins. Teeth that gleamed like blades. Eyes that burned not with fire, but with void.

Its presence devoured all light, turning everything into pure darkness. If they’re normal human they will not be able to see anything..

Ben’s heart pounded. Before him rose the being from the myth. Apophis, the true Devourer of Light.

She had the shape of a giant snake, Her head was long and sharp, with a wide mouth full of sharp teeth. Curved horns grew from her skull, dripping black mist that vanished into the air. Her eyes, deep, swirling pits of darkness, looked like they could swallow everything.

But Ben could tell… She wasn’t at full strength.

Her body shook slightly as she rose higher. Pieces of old, broken seal still clung to her skin. Deep cracks ran along her horns. Some of her eyes were still closed, flickering weakly.

Her power filled the sky, but it wasn’t steady. It was wild, Unstable. She let out a deep, rumbling hiss. The sound was so loud it felt like the world was ripping apart.

And yet this is barely ten percent of her true power. Apophis had been sealed for a long time. Trapped, starved from any energy.

Ben stared up at the body, than gulped down, “what’s your weakness!?”

Apophis smiled bitterly. “You probably think I’m arrogant,” she said quietly, “but I’m not. If I did, do you really think they would’ve sealed me?”

Ben’s lips twitched. He wanted to respond, to throw back something sarcastic, but the system moved.

Thousands of scales ripped free from her body, launched like a storm of blades in every direction. Each scale sharp enough to cut through stone.

Ben threw up a gravitational barrier around himself and apophis beside him.

The first wave hit hard, slamming against the shield with deafening force. The impact threw dust and debris into the air, sparks flying from every point of contact.

Beside him, Apophis make her move. She raised her palm and launched a wave of dark water upward, knocking away a dozen more scales before they could reach her.

Across the field, the knight finally moved. With a flicker of white lightning, he blinked forward, slashing through the falling scales with clean and precise strikes. Each cut released a burst of lightning.

Then the scales began to change. Wherever they landed, they shifted transforming.

Ben’s eyes narrowed.

The shards grew long, reforming into black serpents, each one as tall as a man, eyes burning gold, bodies wrapped in system glyphs.

There’re thousand of them, and they charged all at once. Ben moved first.

He launched forward, a burst of gravitational force erupting from beneath his feet. The shockwave tore through the first wave of serpents, sending dozens of them flying back with shattered glyphs trailing behind like sparks.

His appendage lashed outward, crushing two more into paste. The force of his movement bent the ground beneath him, cracking stone and splintering air.

From behind, Apophis make her move. She raised both arms. Twin jets of black water twisted into needle-thin spears, pressurized to their limits. She shoot it forward, and each projectile exploded with a mix of gravity and acidic corruption.

The impact melted serpents mid-attack, splashing them into pools of twitching sludge. She didn’t pause, her claws tore into the air again, to conjure another barrage.

Then, the knight appeared. He dropped into place beside Ben. His blade gleamed white-hot, burning with a searing flame that cut not just body, but the glyphs stitched into each serpent’s soul.

He didn’t speak. He didn’t need to. The look they exchanged said everything. They had to cooperate, or die.

Ben slammed a serpent out of the air with his fist, then jumped again, twisting in midair. His gravitational field detonated outward in a dome, pulling a cluster of serpents together, right into Apophis’s waiting strike.

“Scatter,” she whispered.

The air collapsed inward. A black sphere bloomed between the serpents and devoured everything inside.

She followed up with a dive, wings snapping open behind her. Twisting between writhing bodies, she left destruction in her wake.

Her claws move with pressure, ripping through enemy after enemy, water and shadow erupting in vicious arcs.

At the center, the knight became an immovable bastion. Every serpent that got close was cleaved in a flash. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

One serpent come from above. He raised his arm and the blade rotated mid-grip, reversing its edge, stabbing the attacker through the skull mid-air.

Another serpent attacked from behind, but his shoulder slammed into it before it even struck, hurling it into one of Apophis projectile.

Ben landed again, now surrounded. “Apophis! Clear path!” he shouted.

She answered instantly, a energy ripple shot outward. Gravity bent space. The air create a shockwave.

Dozens of serpents were lifted into the air as the ground inverted, forming a crater in the middle of the battlefield.

Ben clenched his fist and focused all his power into one devastating blow. The aura around him distorted, folding into a single point.

“Die, ” He punched.

A gravitational collapse detonated in the center of the crater. Serpents were crushed from every direction, their glyphs shattered, turning into pulp of dark water.

Apophis swept past him, leaping off his back mid-jump, twirling through the air like a dancer of death. Her body left a trail of dark liquid that exploded behind her into a net of spears. She landed with her claws forward, driving them into the head of the largest serpent, pinning it to the ground. It howled, then imploded.

They’re wining, but the enemy feel never ending. Ben grabbed a serpent by the jaws as it come for his throat. He twisted and slammed it into the ground, then used it as a springboard, leaping high into the sky.

Above it all, his eyes glowed, He raised both arms. A spiral of gravitational force formed overhead, like a black halo, and descended like judgment itself.

Every serpent below screamed, dragged upward and crushed into the descending spiral as if reality itself no longer allowed their existence.

When he landed, the earth cratered beneath him. Then, the last wave of serpents come.

Ben, Apophis, and the knight stood shoulder to shoulder. Ben’s arms glowed with swirling dark aether. Apophis’s wings pulsed, dripping black starlight. The knight raised his sword, now glowing with crackling dark lightning.

The last wave surged, a tidal flood of serpents, even larger and more violent than before.

Ben, Apophis, and the knight moved as one. Ben attacked first, exploding forward in a blur of warped gravity. His appendages tore through the air like black comets, carving a path through the charging serpents.

Apophis took the skies. With a single flap, her wings released Spears of black water. Each one folding space around it like knives through silk. She spiraled through the horde, dragging a ring of exploding darkness that shredded anything in her wake.

A serpent coiled around her, trying to crush her mid-air. She smirked and let it. Then whispered, “Collapse.”

The serpent imploded, reduced to a black sphere smaller than a fist, then detonated, sending others flying.

On the ground, the knight moved like a swordmaster. His sword left trails of molten lightning that arced across the battlefield. He spun once, then again, releasing a flurry of slashes.

A serpent charged. He raised his hand. The rune exploded, splitting the creature clean in half.

Ben stomped the earth. His gravity field twisted again, pulling in dozens of serpents from all directions.

Apophis landed beside him, crouching low. “This is pointless, you know killing this won’t hurt my main body right?”

Ben nodded. “I know, but what you want us to do? Let them just attack us?”

The knight leapt over their heads, his sword transforming mid-air, stretching into a massive glaive made of concentrated dark lightning.

Ben than raised a finger to the sky. The spiral returned. , bigger, louder, denser. It spun above like a collapsing black star.