Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 1171 1171: Siblings Join Forces

With the Thunder Sword unsheathed, Pierre stood in the Saint Luo Mary council hall. The tension reached its peak.

"Sigh..."

With a sigh full of regret and inner turmoil, Jin felt so embarrassed he wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

At that moment, Pierre acted as if he were following a pre-rehearsed script, moving quickly and decisively. He gripped a pale greatsword that emitted a faint light, looking as cold and heartless as the first light of winter. With Shadow power pouring out of his body like a broken dam, the violent energy gathered on the pale blade. The greatsword was suddenly covered in terrifying, violent lightning. With terrifying power twisting the space around it, the sword hummed.

It had to be admitted that Pierre had grown. In the past, with his impatient temper, he would have launched a hysterical attack the moment he saw Jin without caring about his surroundings. But today, even with fury burning inside him, Pierre controlled his emotions and didn't attack immediately. He waited until the council members and guards had evacuated before he made his move. With the large-scale teleportation arrays already set up around the hall, Aya and the others could be sent to the Winter Forest in an instant. Once they were gone, he would have no more worries.

While the red-haired man was still sighing with his hand on his forehead, Pierre narrowed his eyes. With a powerful and fluid motion, he swung his sword at Jin without hesitation. As the blade sliced through the air, it created a loud whistling sound that made the entire hall shake. In an instant, the lightning flared up as if the world had paused for this single strike. With the greatsword cutting a brilliant arc through the air, the thunderous power exploded, drowning the massive council hall in a sea of lightning.

Even the mere shockwaves of the attack were incredibly fierce. The leaking lightning swept through the hall, and nothing remained still. With the pillars and walls collapsing under the force, statues and decorations were swept up like dust and instantly destroyed. Light and thunder combined into a scene of the apocalypse. With world-ending power, the massive sword hacked toward Jin's head.

"Hmm?" Jin grunted.

At the same time, on the other side of the Ancita continent, Yumo was sitting in a pavilion on the edge of a cliff in the Winter Forest northern border. With a steaming cup of tea in her hand, she was enjoying a quiet afternoon. The snowy landscape around her looked calm and pure.

However, the silence was suddenly broken. With a light frown, Yumo felt a slight disturbance in the distance. The blood-red butterflies that had been resting quietly on her shoulder began to flutter restlessly.

"Hmm? This aura is...?"

With her tea cup set down, the black-haired girl looked through the lush cedars toward the distant Saint Luo Mary Empire. With a deep look that seemed to pierce through the mountains, she sensed what was happening there.

"Pipi... why is he suddenly making such a big fuss? And that other aura... it feels so much like Maya..."

But it was much more powerful and deeper than Spirit's aura. At that moment, the relaxed look in Yumo's eyes vanished, replaced by a heavy seriousness.

…

Boom! Boom!

With Pierre releasing his thunderous strike, the violent lightning and savage Shadow power tore through the council hall with destructive force. With rubble and dust flying everywhere like waves in a storm, the scene looked like the end of the world, showing just how terrifying the attack was. Even the lingering sword energy had such an amazing effect.

However, as the dust cleared, Pierre saw something he couldn't believe. Jin, the Dragon Sovereign who called himself the Primal One, stood there calmly without moving an inch. Even more shocking was that with one hand in his pocket, he had caught Pierre's massive sword using only two fingers of his other hand.

Pierre had known the moment he saw Jin that the man was extraordinary. Because of that, he hadn't held back at all with his Thunderous Judgment. Facing a man who seemed to have bad intentions toward his mother, Pierre had intended to wipe him and the Wisteria out of existence in one go. But this terrifying strike and the Pale Moon Thunder Roar Sword looked like a harmless toy between Jin's fingers. With a relaxed movement, he had neutralized Pierre's full-power attack and dispersed the exploding Shadow power as if it took no effort at all.

"How is this possible?!"

With a face full of shock, Pierre stood there staring. For the first time in his life, he let out such a bewildered cry. With disbelief in his eyes, his heart raced like a storm. He never imagined his strongest attack would be stopped so easily. With Jin's power and calm attitude putting immense pressure on him, Pierre's body began to tremble instinctively.

"Heh..."

With a calm expression, Jin acted as if what just happened was a common occurrence. With a deep look that contained both assessment and warning, he looked at Pierre.

"Little brat, don't be so rowdy. My main goal in coming to this world is to show, ah, I mean, it's to test your mother, not to play around with you."

As he spoke, Jin gave a casual flick of his hand. With that simple move, he sent Pierre and the Thunder Sword flying hundreds of meters away. Pierre was still Pierre; though he wasn't the smartest, his talent for battle was extraordinary. He snapped out of his shock almost instantly, adjusted his posture to land on the ruins, and took a defensive stance against Jin.

"Test my mother? You... you really are one of those bastards from the Alliance."

In Pierre's eyes, Jin was a threat to his mother, and any threat to his mother had to be destroyed. With that thought, the suppressed power inside Pierre began to swell, and dark purple cracks appeared on his skin.

"Hmm?"

With his eyebrows raised, Jin tried to persuade him. "Stop it. You're no match for me."

"I know that..." Pierre gave a cold smile. As the proudest and most stubborn of Yumo's children, he admitted his opponent's strength for the first time. However, there was no sign of backing down in his voice. "I am indeed no match for you, but..."

"Oh?"

With his brow furrowed, Jin suddenly understood what Pierre meant. At that moment, he felt a presence just as strong as Pierre's rushing toward him.

Boom!

With a blast of hot air, a sudden flash of fire streaked across the sky like a meteor, diving toward the ground from tens of thousands of meters up. With an unstoppable momentum, the red meteor slammed toward Jin. As the fire cleared, Kalina appeared behind Jin in the blink of an eye. With her long sword glowing with intense fire, she gathered destructive Shadow power and scorching heat into the blade.

"What if you add me to the mix?"

With those words, Kalina lunged forward. With her sword tip aimed perfectly at Jin's neck, she delivered a fast and lethal strike.

With the terrifying power coming from behind him, Jin raised his eyebrows. With a face full of regret he sighed.

"Sigh..."

Such overconfident little brats... Demons really are obsessed with fighting. Fine then. I'll play with you a little. I'll teach you that there is always someone stronger out there.