Chapter 1338 Final Battle [8]

Chapter 1338 Final Battle [8]

In fact, the Nox understood that they were going to lose.

Perhaps those lower-level Nox without extremely developed intelligence still held thoughts of bravado, but all those at the head of the army who took over after the Demigods left were well aware of their current situation.

When Hephaestus was blocked off and escape became an impossible ask, they decided to let go of any will for survival they had and do the utmost damage to the enemy before they died.

If they were going to be killed regardless, wasn't it better to bring more people down with them instead of dying alone?

With this in mind, the Nox made two main moves while they were being slaughtered by the universe's forces.

Firstly, they used arrays they set up beforehand to destroy each and every world left in Hephaestus. Secondly, they turned their own bodies into explosives, so that every time one of them died, they would take at least 10 enemy troops with them.

For the people at the peak of the universe like Rose and the rest, this was an easy battle, but for the lower ranks, it was an absolute death zone.

Bloody and guts filled the starry sky no matter where one looked. The screams of Nox and humans could no longer be differentiated through the ringing in their ears, and if one took even a single moment to look at anything but the enemy in front of them, they'd die.

It was spine-chilling.

Or maybe that feeling came from elsewhere?

When Ruyue appeared on the greater battlefields, she was able to save most of the soldiers suffering from tragic fates against the Nox. The explosions caused by the enemy deaths were also quelled by her, which definitely helped with reducing the death toll.

However, the environment wasn't safe. Hephaestus was already ruined, but it was now a land of death without any habitable areas. Some of the impact even leaked into the Infernal Realm and caused natural disasters on the most periphery worlds, though it wasn't to the extent of destroying them.

The war raged on and on and on.

Regardless of whether they were feeling weary, joyous, or sorrowful, the forces of Grand Heavens Boundary fought to their last breath, doing everything in their power. nOve(lb-In

Because as the enemy's numbers decreased, they saw the end.

These were the last of them. When they finished these Nox off, the Nox would never return to the universe.

And that, to these people who had been forced to constantly endure the assaults of the invading race, was the most effective motivator in all of existence.

At this point, the universe could be considered a combination of only three Sectors.

He then went on to explore every other inheritance left on Death Emperor Star.

There were so many that it was impossible to believe they were all created by Dante. They each worshipped a different entity on the same level as the Sea God, and each of those beings had different specialties that Damien would've been able to master if he visited them earlier.

Now that he had Existence under his control, they were inconsequential, but he couldn't help but marvel at their numerity.

It made him wonder.

How did Dante do it?

These mythical figures had existed at very different times in history, ranging from hundreds of millions of years ago to very recently ten thousand years in the past. There were even traces that some of those gods were active just centuries before Damien's birth.

Yet, they were all alter egos of Dante?

He couldn't make sense of it, and his father became an even more mystical figure than ever before in his mind.

The desire to uncover the secrets his father was hiding sprouted in his heart, and as he spent months in an altered time flow to claim each and every legacy without missing anything, he realized something more concerning than anything he was trying to do.

'The universe is dying.'

The truth he'd learned from the Second Primal Sovereign all those years ago.

He thought they'd avoided this tragic fate already. He thought that, with the Nox being eradicated like this, the universe would be able to return to its peak if it was just nurtured properly and given time.

'But I was wrong.'

In fact, he already understood how flimsy that hope was. He was viewing the past, present, and future from the Void even at this very moment.

He wanted to hold it for as long as possible, but it seemed there was no other path for the universe.

'It's good that I've finished this.'

He had just now finished sweeping up everything Death Emperor Star had to offer, and with the war set to rage on for a few more days, he had to begin without delay.

He looked out into the wider universe that he called home for so long with a forlorn smile.

'Let's wrap things up for real this time.'