WorldCrafter - Building My Underground Kingdom-Chapter 204: The Twelve Golden Eyes

Chapter 204: The Twelve Golden Eyes

The moment Ben’s dark aether surged outward, the air itself recoiled.

Winds spiraled violently around him, bending to his will.

The battlefield, cracked and scorched, trembled beneath the raw pressure radiating from his core.

Twelve golden eyes gazed down like judgment itself, system code spiraling through their depths like living circuits.

Then the Devourer moved.

One eye blinked. And a beam of law fired down, a line of gold-etched entropy that didn’t simply destroy, but erased existence itself..

“Scatter!” Ben shouted.

The beam struck.

The world behind them ceased to be, no dust, no crater, no sound. Just absence. As if that part of reality had been snuffed out of reality itself.

But then Ben’s eyes widened, he caught it. The other eyes didn’t move.

They glowed, but only the one that fired had reacted.

He locked eyes with Apophis as realization dawned.

“It can’t fire all twelve at once,” he said breathlessly. “It’s limiting itself, only one beam per cycle!”

Apophis’s lips curled into a sharp smile. “Overload prevention. This mean that fucking system still haven’t fully control my body.”

Ben’s grin was savage now. “Then we bait one eye to shoot, while the others go destroy the other eyes.”

He move forward, appendages bursting from his back, reshaping mid-flight into massive claws of dark crystal and coiling gravitational energy. He hurled them upward in a wide spiral, drawing attention.

Apophis flew beside him, wings pulsing with reversed pressure.

Her body shimmered with black starlight, warping space as she rose.

With a snap of her fingers, the water in the atmosphere condensed into a sphere of gravitational needles, a mine of death waiting to detonate.

Below, the knight raised his sword, standing at the ready. “Call the shot.”

Ben locked onto the Devourer’s third eye. He stopped midair, released a violent pulse of aether, and aimed it straight at the first eye. “Come on, look at me…”

The first eye blinked, and fired. A searing beam of gold-white entropy tore through the air, chasing Ben’s afterimage.

But it didn’t matter. The other eyes dimmed. “Now!” he screamed. “Number three!”

Apophis was already there.

“Drown.”

A wall of spatially folded water erupted from her wings, slamming into the golden flame. The collision cracked the sky, sending shockwaves through the storm above.

Ben’s appendages crashed through from the other side, Dark claws raked through the vulnerable third eye.

CRACK!!!

The golden lens shattered in a burst of light and fragmented code, like glass imploding underwater. Sparks of energy rained across the broken battlefield.

The Devourer screamed, a soundless pulse that bent clouds and bled shadows. The other eyes flared with violent fury, writhing and twitching, but still only one fired again.

Ben ducked low, dodging midair as another beam seared past him.

He watched carefully, yes. Each time one fired, the others dulled.

There was a window.”We can do this,” he said.

Apophis landed beside him, panting but smiling. “Seem we have a change master.”

“Knight!” Ben called. “You ready?!”

The knight raised his sword high, lightning trailing off the blade. “Tell me which one.”

Ben pointed. “Six. I’ll draw the fire again. You and Apophis go for the kill.”

He jumped outward again, launching a massive gravitational spike toward the eighth eye. The Devourer reacted instinctively.

FLASH!!

Another beam of gold law cut through the sky. But again, only one eye had moved. The sixth dimmed for just a heartbeat.

That heartbeat was all Apophis needed. She vanished, appearing in midair beside the sixth eye, folding space around it.

The knight blurred upward, sword drawn back, aura flickering with deep violet arcs. His relic pulsed once,

Then he struck.

Apophis released her claws at the same moment. The blade and talons hit the eye in perfect unison.

BOOM!!

Ben’s gravitational lance and the knight’s blade struck the sixth eye,

but instead of shattering like the third, something changed.

The eyelid slammed shut. A wall of scaled armor snapped into place over the golden eye. The attacks hit the plated surface with a deafening impact, sending cracks spidering across the scale, but not piercing it.

Ben’s eyes widened. “Tch, dammit!”

The force of the collision sent a shockwave outward, rattling the air like a gong from the heavens. Below, fragments of scorched earth rose, caught in a spiraling gravitational current.

Up above, the sixth eye’s protective lid trembled, then began to heal. Cracks sealed themselves with glowing light, like time itself was reversing just over that spot.

“It’s learning…” Ben growled, fury flashing in his eyes.

Apophis reappeared beside him, panting, wings frayed and smoking. “Of course it is. Do you think this is all my body can do? It still haven’t scratched the surface.”

Ben’s appendages coiled behind him like the limbs of a storm beast. “We can’t just stay here! Send more pressure! We need overwhelming force before it become even stronger!”

The Devourer let out another low-frequency roar, one that buzzed through the bones like a dirge. Its remaining eyes began shifting, scanning in every direction. It’s eyelids flexed, some already partially sealed.

“It’s preparing another attack,” the knight shouted as he landed below them. His armor was cracked “Either we blind it fast, or we die.”

Ben didn’t wait. “Apophis! Collapse its vision, target the fourth eye!” freewёbnoνel.com

Dark aether burst from his chest, flooding the sky like a supernova of void. His body pulsed with heat and gravity as he blinked forward, appendages shifting into spears tipped with gravity.

Apophis raised both arms, dozens of water spheres formed in the sky, each rotating in reverse flow, pressurized to collapse into detonation upon contact.

The knight leapt once more, sword trailing lightning. Ben shot past the Devourer’s right horn, forcing the second eye to focus on him.

A massive beam fired, erasing the clouds. But again… only one eye could shoot.

And in that instant, “Now!!” Ben roared.

Apophis and the knight struck together. The fourth eye began to blink, but it was too late. Ben had baited the beam. The lid hadn’t closed in time.

CRACK!!

A rupture split down the side of the eye as Apophis’s water detonated on contact, tearing through space. The knight’s blade followed a millisecond later, cleaving a vertical line through the golden sphere.

The eye exploded into broken glyphs, code fragments, and black blood.

Two down. Nine remained.