Chapter 534
Chapter 534: The Death of Imperius
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
What did Anu’s spine look like?
Before coming to the High Heavens, Roy had seen this term more than once in the books of mortals. But since ancient times, very few mortals could truly go to the High Heavens, so the description of the Crystal Arch and Anu’s spine almost all came from the imagination of mortals.
The Anu’s spine was not a true spine but a super crystal with a size that exceeded everyone’s imagination!
How big was it? Let’s put it this way. Just its height alone exceeded three kilometers, let alone its width. In fact, Roy could only see its full appearance after arriving at the Crystal Arch.
The so-called Crystal Arch was actually just a platform, or rather, it was built on an observation platform at the top of the entire crystal. Part of the floor of the platform was hollow, and Anu’s spine crystal had two symmetrical forks sticking out from the hollowed-out floor. It looked like this platform was embedded in the crystal. In order to accentuate the magnificence of the Crystal Arch, the angels of the High Heavens even had several tall angel statues standing on both sides of the path leading to the observation platform. When Roy walked over, these angel statues seemed to be paying attention to him.
Standing on the observation platform, he could see some vague scenes below. They were the buildings of the Silver City of the High Heavens. But at this height, these buildings looked very small. Occasionally, he could see some small black dots flying past. They were flying demons and monsters wreaking havoc in the city.
However, the most eye-catching thing on the observation platform was Anu’s spine crystal. Perhaps it was the visual error caused by the light. When someone looked at the Crystal Arch from the ground, they would see the crystal emitting green light. But after arriving, Roy realized that the crystal was actually golden!
The crystal did not have any traces of being carved, so its surface looked very rough. The upper half of the crystal was a whole, but the lower half was forked and divided into two pillars to support the entire crystal. Perhaps this was why the Crystal Arch was forked. But in Roys opinion, this crystal didn’t have the appearance of a spine at all. Instead, it looked like a tooth with roots.
Especially when looking at the uneven section at the top, it looked more like a molar…
Roy really wanted to complain about this. Legends from too long ago were indeed not credible. Just from the appearance of this crystal, he couldn’t tell how it looked like the spine of the God of Creation. If it really was a spine, what would Anu look like to have such a spine?
Moreover, judging from the height of this crystal, if it was a spine, then the being with this spine was at least ten kilometers tall! If it was a humanoid upright creature, it was equivalent to standing on the planet’s ground with both feet, and his head had already touched the troposphere!
Other than titans, there were no other creatures with such a colossal body…
Of course, perhaps this legendary God of Creation was indeed a titan or even a world-soul titan. After all, in the creation legends of many worlds, the creation gods were suspected to be titans. For example, the two creation gods of the Ashan world, Asha and Urgash, were, so it made sense if the creation god of the Diablo world was also a titan.
Roy just didn’t know how strange this titan was to have such a spine. He now felt that this crystal might really be just a tooth of a world-soul titan…
Although the crystal didn’t look like a spine, it was brimming with abnormally powerful holy power. The golden light of the crystal was not dazzling but very restrained. But it was probably very difficult for low-rank demons to even approach this crystal.
Roy flew up and observed the crystal for a while. He found that all the holy power was concentrated inside the crystal. When the holy power operated, the entire crystal emitted a unique buzzing sound.
Strange. This crystal.. Roy rubbed his chin in puzzlement. Why does it look more and more like some kind ofdevice in operation?
The reason why he thought this way was that he could sense the angel souls stored in the crystal. These souls were slowly flowing inside the crystal, and at the same time, some changes were happening. The weak souls were being nourished, and the incomplete souls seemed to be fusing and reforming.
It’s like a.. factory? Roy tried to find a suitable word. Or should I say… a repair shop? The moment a repaired soul drills out of the crystal, it can take away some of the holypower in the crystal to create a new angel body?
No wonder this place was called the birthplace of angels. The complicated mechanism inside the crystal didn’t look like a natural function. Even if this crystal was really the remains of the God of Creation Anu, this function couldn’t have existed from the beginning. Roy felt that this might be a function added by angels later on. They were just using the characteristics of this crystal.
In any case, as long as this crystal was still here, angels would continue to be born. If he wanted to eliminate the angels completely, he had to destroy this crystal.
Roy pulled out Frostmourne and tried to cut the crystal. However, the crystal didn’t suffer any damage at all, but his sword was trembling from the vibrations. He refused to accept this and changed to another attack method. Then he found that the hardness of the crystal was beyond imagination!
Roy understood why Diablo chose to corrupt this crystal last time. He probably couldn’t damage it.
However, Roy didn’t intend to use his dark power to corrupt the crystal like Diablo did because it was too slow. The first thing he would have to fight against would be the endless holy power in the crystal. If he used this method, 99% of the dark power would likely be consumed, and only 1% would truly corrupt the crystal.
After thinking about it, Roy raised his right hand, and a black mist circled in his palm. In this mist were countless Desolate Viruses. They devoured his magic power and began to reproduce rapidly, increasing their numbers exponentially. After he felt that the number was about right, he waved his hand gently, and these Desolate Viruses immediately covered a small area on the
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These Desolate Viruses that could rapidly multiply by devouring energy were like rats falling into a rice tank when they landed on the crystal. They didn’t care if the energy in the crystal was holy light power or not. To the Desolate Viruses, it was energy that could be devoured. So in the blink of an eye, the Desolate Viruses began to reproduce incessantly.
At first, it was just a small black spot on the crystal. But a minute later, the area of the black spot doubled. Then it became faster and faster, and the area of the black spot continued to spread.
Due to the rapid proliferation, many Desolate Viruses piled together and even formed a sticky feeling. At first glance, it looked like the spread of the Zerg’s creep. The only difference was that the creep tumors were missing.
As the creep of the Desolate Virus spread, the holy light power in the crystal was continuously being absorbed. This holy light power didn’t resist the dark power but was directly devoured. This efficiency could be said to be more than ten times faster than Diablo’s method.
Roy floated in the air, crossed his arms, and waited. He suspected that the reason why the crystal was so solid was that the holy light power contained in it was too immense. After the energy density decreased a little, the hardness of the crystal might decrease, and it would be convenient to destroy it.
But at this moment, a figure rushed into the Crystal Arch in a fiery red light. It was Imperius. He roared as he charged straight at Roy!
With a loud clang, Solarion’s spear blade slashed at Frostmourne!
Roy held his sword, blocked Imperius’s spear blade, and grinned sinisterly at him. “What? Are you here to witness the collapse of the Crystal Arch with your own eyes?”
“Shut up, demon!” Under his helmet, Imperius’s eyes were burning with raging flames. As he increased his strength to suppress Roy, he roared, “As long as I’m here, don’t even think about succeeding!”
“Then come!” Roy didn’t care. “Although I don’t know what Mephisto and the others are up to to to let you go, the result is the same…”
The two of them began to fight in the Crystal Arch. Imperius was fighting with all his might, so Roy was also fighting seriously. Every time the two of them collided, immense energy shock waves erupted. These energy waves spread out and impacted the surrounding space, causing the various sturdy structures around them to collapse continuously.
Not long after the battle, the entire Silver Spire trembled. At first, Imperius thought that it was caused by the battle, but then he realized that something was wrong. He looked down and found that the upper half of Anu’s spine crystal was already covered by the sticky black creep!
How is it so fast?! Imperius was shocked and wanted to rush over to purify the black creep, but Roy intercepted him halfway, making him roar anxiously.
After a while, the shaking of the Silver Spire became more and more intense. At this moment, Roy and Imperius could confirm that this should be caused by the energy decrease in the crystal. Anu’s spine crystal was the foundation of the Crystal Arch, and its energy was supporting the entire magnificent arch. Once the energy disappeared, the arch wouldn’t be able to hold on.
Imperius had never been so anxious. At this moment, he could no longer care about fighting Roy and wanted to save the crystal, but Roy kept obstructing him. In a moment of desperation, Imperius actually threw his Spear of Valor at Roy.
But at this moment, Roy’s back was facing the crystal. He flashed to the side, and the Spear of Valor brushed past him. The rapidly moving Spear of Valor turned into a stream of light and pierced the crystal.
With a soft crack, the Spear of Valor pierced a small part of the crystal that was originally so solid that it couldn’t be cut!
Imperius was stunned, and so was Roy. Both of them saw a crack appear where the Spear of Valor had pierced!
The crack was continuously expanding with cracking sounds, and soon, cracks covered the entire surface of the crystal. Even the viscousness of the Desolate Virus’s creep couldn’t stop these cracks from expanding.
“Imperius… you did this!” Roy turned around to look at him and said something heartbreaking. “You personally shattered Anu’s spine…”
Plop! Hearing this, Imperius could no longer hold on. He fell from the sky and knelt on the platform.
He stared blankly at the expanding cracks, then suddenly hugged his helmet with both hands and let out a heart-wrenching scream.
“No!!! Not like this!!”
Under Roy’s gaze, Imperius, who was full of anger and regret, had nowhere to vent. His enormous fiery red wings began to transform bit by bit into pitch-black ink-like color…
What he should have protected was finally shattered by him personally. This extreme negative emotion that was like incompetence and anger caused Imperius to finally take the last step. After being completely devoured by anger, the dark power in his body began to grow and conflict with the original holy light power in his body. He howled miserably, and his light wings were full of dark flames. The golden archangel armor on his body seemed to be squeezed by immense force from all directions, making cracking sounds as it began to collapse violently inward.
In just ten seconds, Imperius’s entire armor had collapsed into a pile of scrap metal, and even the elemental body in the armor was squeezed out. The burning black light wings covered the pile of scrap metal and ignited it. As the black flames burned, the armor finally turned into ashes.
A gust of air blew past, raising countless particles of dust…
Imperius died just like that. Even his soul didn’t fly to the crystal but dissipated together. Roy watched this scene without saying a word. When he saw the black light wings appear just now, he thought that Imperius would fall and become a dark angel. He didn’t expect this outcome.
This proud fellow probably didn’t allow himself to fall, so he simply chose to die completely…
After three seconds of silence for Imperius’s death, Roy turned his head, raised Frostmourne, and threw it at the crystal like throwing a knife. When the tip of the sword stabbed into the crystal, it pierced in like a hot knife through butter. The already cracked crystal could no longer hold on, and the entire crystal erupted with an earth-shaking explosion. Intense light spread out from the top of the Silver Spire and instantly illuminated the entire High Heavens!
It was as if a new sun had appeared in the High Heavens, illuminating the entire sky.. With the appearance of this light, the magnificent Crystal Arch began to collapse…