Eternal Emerald Dragon

Chapter 1264 - 1263 - Fiend Frenzy

Something strange happened 50 years ago. Anyone connected to Lind Frey felt his Qi once more, a thousand years after he died saving the Celestial Fields once more, but after that something even crazier happened.

The Fiends lost their minds.

They were always clashing with someone, Even after their massive defeat, the Sovereign Tiers had quickly dispatched lower realm cultivators to lay claim to empty areas in the Endless Peaks.

Everyone also assumed there were still centers of power none knew about that they were securing as well.

Still, their attempt to make a foothold had not gone smoothly, The 2nd layer was a dead zone to them. The 1st layer was too weak to ascend and they Fiends there seemingly suffered heavy losses that only a stalemate could be maintained after a fierce battle.

Not enough time had passed for more long term plans to bear fruit. That was the consensus of many powers save 1.

The Frey Clan never assumed such a complacent attitude and to avenge many attacks and wrongs on their family members, they always deeply dove into Fiend territories.

They wiped out small enclaves and often discovered nefarious nests that would have become horrific nightmares in the future.

As such, when the Fiends lost their minds and attacked wantonly, many assumed they had a weapon, artifact, or some other revelation to bring to the fore.

Yet, when the chaos subsided enough for evaluation, a strange pattern emerged. Fiends, that normally sacrificed thralls and other allies like so much chattel to stay alive at any cost, now flung themselves into death with a singular purpose.

They were attacking just 1 power on each layer and in the Heaven Realm lands as well.

The Frey Clan, the Sanctuary Empire, and even the Moebius Sects were under attack from the mortal allies of the Fiends.

It did not take long for the pattern to emerge that the Fiends had a strangely singular goal. It was like their lives no longer mattered so long as that power and its branches died. Some savy upper echelons did simple math and came to a conclusion.

Lind Frey was alive. Further, he had done something to truly anger the supreme leader of the Fiends.

Only that being could command all of the Fiends all at once.

The Heavenly Maiden Sect, Divine Sword Sect, Rubyfire Empire, and others swiftly came to the defense of the Frey Clan. They owed them so many times and Lind Frey himself, that it was a no brainer to them.

Further, the crazed Fiends were easier to kill! It was an unprecedented opportunity to eradicate the threat to them all!

Not all powers shared that view. They did want the Fiends gone, but they would rather the annoyingly nosy Frey Clan and its branches suffered enough to be weakened.

Both ally and enemy, however, were left floored as devastating weapons were unleashed on the Fiends! Celestials suddenly appeared in droves in the 1st layer where only a handful had been seen before.

The 1st layer became a killing field for the Fiends but it did not stop them. They were still very difficult to fully kill before moving the battleline forward. No one could grasp what they hoped to achieve as the cost was clearly going to be any hope of recovering their strength once it was over.

Powers that had no interest in the Frey Clan's survival took advantage of the Fiends moving and invaded their lands. The allure of potential techniques and resources to live forever were always tempting.

The 2nd layer was in far worse shape overall. Even with close to 2500 years to recover, the Fiends had only lost the inverted mountain. The myriad lairs hidden across the continent had become deadly sources of attack and danger for all powers.

The Fionan Empire had created squads of elite Crystal Tier Immortals to hunt down any Fiend lair. The Emperor never forgot what happened to his son and daughter. Petryn and Teegan also worked to purge those dangerous places with the effective teachings Lind left behind.

Their daughter, a 6 elemental dragon, was somehow able to instinctively find them if she was close enough even as a Heaven Realm.

Still, the frenzy unleashed all of them at once and the sole target were the various places Lind had touched. The Rubyfire Empire was safe in the sky but the other places were in danger! The Frey Clan had established a new branch as well on another floating continent of beasts and people.

It was not nearly as well established but the defense of floating bought them time. Some of the Mistresses were still present. Lady Kora and Fey were death on 2 legs to the Fiends. Lady Lysanna coordinated their forces as allies from far and wide came to them.

A demoness of terrifying power was nearly a legend joined them. Katerina the Bladeless used all 6 demonic elements as if they were as easy as breathing. She was only a Sliver Tier but even Crystal Tier Immortals feared her power!

Her father flitted between the shadows and killed as many Fiends as he could!

The 3rd layer was just chaos. The soulless had been bad but they would stop once defeated. The Fiends just kept flying onward! Losses meant nothing to them and the tears in the sky meant the Sovereign Tiers were acting as well!

The 4th layer had been caught totally off guard as all the Fiends there seemingly lost interest in them!

The Sovereign Tiers, usually simply observing and keeping their counterparts in check actually had a panic as they realized the Fiends were forcibly tearing portals into the lower Celestial Fields.

The Fiends may not be able to go there normally but they had already seen the limit of the Void of Heaven was enough for one or 2 attacks. For them that was more than enough. If they succeeded, the only survivors would be in the 4th layer!

While some may want their rivals to suffer, even they knew that the 4th layer was essentially fixed in power balance. Only fresh blood from below could help break it. Thus, an a rather unspoken move of solidarity for power, the Sovereign Tiers moved as one to attack the Fiends!

They expected defenses, complex traps, or at least some kind of response, but instead, they won. They killed the Fiends with ease! It was only at the last Sovereign Tier Fiend died that the true horror was revealed.

All the artifacts, lower realm Fiends, and their monstrosities were gone! They could not save the 3rd layer!

They quickly opened their own portals to see if they could save anyone but were shocked by what they saw. Massive flares of strange formations and cultivators wielding strange Qi they had never encountered.

Rumors many had heard were quickly pieced together and they realized they were seeing 6 elementals! Their effectiveness against the Fiends was astounding.

Sadly, they were too few. Some Sovereign Tiers wanted to snatch them up but strangely, Heaven suddenly pressed down on them. Why? They were not harming but helping! Surely saving lives was allowed no matter the motivations?

The Fiends were dying in droves. Creatures that were similar to the soulless but made for more specific uses were assaulting defenses, walls, and anything in between. Souls and blood were fleeting things in that chaos.

The peak power of the Celestial Fields could only watch in resignation as so many promising seeds were about to fuel the rise of the Fiends when a shift occurred.

It was slow at first but they all felt a shiver down their spines. Power far beyond them but not yet on their layer made a vortex of energy in the blue skies.

The pressure built until a roar shook the various worlds. It was not just the 3rd layer, but all worlds down to even the mortal realms!

A massive sinuous emerald dragon appeared to manifest in the sky. A manifested aether beast in the 3rd layer? That was supposed to be impossible.

The world was too strong to allow it.

Yet, all their eyes narrowed in shock as the aura came flying off the beast. Peak high Radiant Tier! It was an Immortal manifested aether beast?! How?!

They looked on as the pure emerald eyes narrowed at the vista of carnage.

Its 4 claws lit up suddenly and they watched in even more shock as sigils appeared but they were unlike anything they had ever seen before.

Law Grade! Peak Law Grade and even more profound in sensation!

The traces connected in an instant as an emerald glow spread along them. Nets of powerful Qi flowed like lightning along them until it encompassed the entirety of the battlefield.

[DIE!] A voice reverberated but the net did not drop. Instead, it seemed to pierce the Fiends where they stood! All their creations, artifacts, weapons, anything that had Fiend QI was lanced by a delicate looking net of emerald Qi.

Further, the lines created portals. Sigils flared as power shot down through the various worlds! How could a manifested aether beast know how to reach those worlds?!

How did it know how to speak?! So many questions formed but a woman in pristine white robes lined in gold narrowed her pale green eyes as a report surface in her mind. It was relayed via the Serenity Sect over a thousand years ago.

It couldn't be?!

In the various realms and worlds, the Fiend forces that were assaulting the Frey Clan and its branches found themselves getting wiped out! A familiar effect that had been seen in the 3rd layer once before occurred again.

Fiend Qi became the fuel that created a larger effect. They were too close together and thus the devastation spread as the was turned into natural Qi. All powers froze at the terrifying display and many that had harbored ill intentions to the Frey Clan or its associated powers abandoned them in that instant!

Far above in the 3rd layer, the massive dragon looked down grimly. He had stopped the attacks but billions had died.

He floated as he looked desperately for those he cared for. Had he been in time?