WorldCrafter - Building My Underground Kingdom-Chapter 203: Law, Power Of Concept

Chapter 203: Law, Power Of Concept

Apophis let out a heavy sigh, but still helped. Her entire body glowed as she sent the last of her energy into the attack.

The knight descended into the center.

BOOOM!!!

A wave of annihilation erupted. The serpents were dragged upward, shrieking, flailing.

The gravitational field tore their bodies apart. Dark water slashed them into ribbons. Lightning ripped their cores from within.

The earth cracked. The sky dimmed. Ben staggered, panting. His arms trembled, smoke rising from his shoulders.

Apophis dropped to one knee, wings folding in. A faint, tired smile flickered across her lips.

The knight sheathed his sword with a sharp click.

Then, all three of them looked up, toward the Devourer of Light.

“The system has adapted…” Ben muttered, a deep frown shadowing his face.

Even without Apophis’s earlier warning, he could tell. Those serpents had been nothing more than a distraction, fodder to buy time while the system worked to take over her true body completely.

But there was nothing he could do but try to kill them faster.

Their situation was grim.

Ben had just severed himself from the system. He was now relying solely on Dark Aether, along with whatever fragments of system energy he had devoured. He didn’t even know what functions were still usable, or how long they’d last.

The knight had only recently broken free from system control, using the relic’s power. He could barely stay on his feet.

As for Apophis, she had been consumed by Ben. Now both of them drew from the same energy source.

All three of them were exhausted, running on fumes. And the enemy only grew stronger.

“A-Apophis,” Ben muttered, turning slightly, “Where did you put the rest of the Nephirid?”

Deep down, he knew it was a long shot. The Nephirid wouldn’t stand a chance against this kind of monstrosity. But even a sliver of support might help.

Apophis just laughed, dry and amused. “Where do you think?” she said with a tilt of her head. “I ate them.”

Ben’s eyes narrowed. “What!? You ate them all?”

Apophis gave him a crooked smile. “What were you even planning? You think they’d make a difference against that thing?”

Ben’s lips twitched. He wasn’t sure if it was anger or despair.

She hadn’t even answered him clearly. Did she kill them? Absorb them? Preserve them somehow? They were his people. He didn’t have the strength to probe her memories now, but if he did…

“Stop fighting,” the knight suddenly spoke.

His voice now changed. It sounded… human. Worn and tired. Ben looked at him.

“Ben,” the knight said, “you might feel like we’ve lost, that we don’t stand a chance. But you never know. Just like us, the system is wounded. It can’t survive long without a host.”

Ben pointed up at the massive body, twisting in the dark sky like a celestial horror. “Don’t you see that thing? Isn’t that its new host?”

The knight shook his head slowly. “No. It’s not that simple. The system doesn’t just need a body, it needs a soul. Without one, it can’t fully function.”

‘Damn it…’ Ben cursed inwardly. ‘That means it’s using the twelve souls to fuel the body now.’

“So I guess this is a survival game,” he muttered. “Just last long enough until it runs out of energy.”

Apophis let out a dry, bitter laugh. “You’re joking, right? You really don’t know what my true body is capable of?”

The Devourer of Light let out a roar.

A vacuum scream that erased all noise in its path. The sky trembled. Then, it moved.

The colossal form descended from the clouds like a living eclipse, its body stretching impossibly long across the sky. Space cracked as it opened its maw.

“Move!” Ben shouted, just before the sky collapsed.

A tidal surge of pure darkness poured forth, not just swallowing light, but devouring it, burning it away at a conceptual level. The sun above cracked, flickered, and dimmed. Even the system glyphs floating midair dissolved as if ashamed to exist.

The trio scattered, Ben leapt back, dragging gravity in his wake. Apophis rose into the sky on instinct, already forming a barrier of black water laced with gravitational repulsion. The knight slid into position, raising his blade to deflect the backlash.

The black wave hit. Ben’s shield cracked instantly, the aether melting under the assault.

Apophis’s wings curled in, absorbing most of the blast, her figure vanishing into the beam. The knight vanished in a flash of light and shadow, flung into the distance like a leaf in a storm.

When the darkness faded, The horizon was gone. The land itself was missing, just a gouged scar in the world, miles deep, still oozing residual entropy.

Ben slammed into the ground, coughing hard. His armor was cracked. The appendages on his back had been torn away, twitching and reforming slowly. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

Apophis reappeared beside him, barely standing, face pale, lips bloodied. “This space, won’t hold any longer. A few more attack like this than it will break,” she spat.

Ben pushed himself up, vision blurry. His concern right now is something else. “That wasn’t magic. That wasn’t mana, not even aether.”

Apophis shook her head. “No. That was law. It erases anything that shines. Anything that gives light. That includes fire, star, hope everything.”

The knight limped toward them from the far side. “We… can’t take another hit like that.”

Ben stared up at the coiling monstrosity in the sky, the Devourer of Light.

“Law…,” Ben whispered. “A power of concept.. To think this kind of power really exist.”

Apophis gave a grim nod. “This isn’t the time for explanations. Just think of it as a higher form of power, one that uses the primordial energy reality is made of.”

The Devourer roared again. All it twelve eyes now open locking into them. They shine in gold, each marked with flowing system code.

“That eyes, let’s try destroying it.” Ben announced.

Energy spread out from his body, as dark aether rippled outward.