novelraw Chapter 1130: No Ash Remains
Chapter 1130: No Ash Remains
Ethan gathered his power again, clamped down on the red giant’s throat, and whipped that massive body straight into the ground.
The place he hit was already torn to pieces by the earlier fighting.
The rock layer had collapsed. Rubble rolled and flipped. Crimson energy still thrashed through his chest, and the holes left behind by the blown-apart spheres were charred black, spewing filthy Infernal Abyss stench in ragged jets.
Ethan didn’t give him a chance to crawl back up.
He raised his palm. White lightning rushed together in his hand—
and then, from the very center of that glare, a deeper layer of transparent lightning surfaced.
It was purer than the white light. It moved without any extra flash or noise, yet it made the air around it sink in rings, as if space itself was being crushed.
The power Lily had left behind laid the foundation inside Ethan, feeding the sphere until it swelled larger and larger, turning into a heavy, dangerous orb of light.
The red giant lifted his head. There was no arrogance left in his eyes now—only terror.
Ethan pressed his arm down.
The huge lightning sphere dropped from midair and smashed into the red giant head-on.
BOOOOOM—!
The instant it touched him, the transparent lightning detonated completely.
White lightning sealed his body from the outside, while the transparent lightning drilled deep into flesh, ripping apart the remaining red energy, the filthy aura, and the shattered fragments of his core from within.
The ground collapsed into a deep crater. Cracks tore outward from the bottom in all directions. Several nearby red giants were forced to stumble back under the shockwave.
The red giant’s body disintegrated in the electric light.
Bone, flesh, and the red spheres that hadn’t fully exploded yet all burst into fragments—then got shredded by the transparent lightning into a smear of bloody mist.
But Ethan didn’t stop.
His eyes swept past the gore, and his body turned into a streak of lightning as he shot upward. Before anyone could even react, a shrill, desperate scream rang out from the sky.
Everyone looked up.
The red giant’s soul-body was hovering there—transparent, twisted—trying to escape the battlefield on the last scraps of red energy it still carried.
Ethan was already in front of it.
"Tricks like this are kid stuff," Ethan said, white lightning snapping at his fingertips. "Plenty of people have tried to run from me as a soul. Not one of them made it."
The soul-body opened its mouth—maybe to beg, maybe to curse.
Ethan didn’t give it a second sound.
White lightning exploded from his palm and punched straight through it.
The soul was pinned in midair by the light. Dense cracks crawled across its surface. Then it collapsed from the inside out and detonated into nothing—its remaining traces erased cleanly by the transparent lightning until not even an aftertaste remained.
In the distance, the red giants all went stiff.
The ones who’d been charging forward to avenge their own stopped dead in midair, not daring to take another step.
Others’ expressions twisted. They spun and bolted toward their ships, the blue gems in their chests flashing in frantic bursts—fear finally swallowing whatever courage they’d had left.
Ethan saw them turning.
He wasn’t going to let them leave.
This civilization had already made an enemy of Emerald Castle. If they escaped Elysion and carried the news back, the trouble they’d bring later would only be worse. Ethan had never been the type to leave that kind of threat for "next time."
He lifted his hand, and his voice rolled across the entire battlefield.
"Emerald Castle—full assault."
The moment the order dropped, the Emerald Castle army—already tightened into a defensive core—moved as one.
The Sky Fortress rotated its gun lines toward the red giants’ fleet. Powered Combat Armor rose in waves. The Fallen Star Guard pressed in from multiple directions, boxing them in.
Energy beams tore through the sky—white, gold, blue, and every kind of arcane glow—crisscrossing and slamming down, locking the entire region around the red giants into a hard seal.
The red giants were forced into a corner.
They roared, the blue gems in their chests flashing like crazed heartbeat monitors as red energy knitted into shield-layers and counterattacks across the air.
But Ethan had already executed two of their experts back-to-back, and fear had crushed their fighting spirit. Against Emerald Castle’s charge, their formation started to loosen almost immediately.
This battle hit white-hot from the first second.
No probing.
No restraint.
The red giants lashed out on pure hatred and panic. Emerald Castle pushed down with everything it had under Ethan’s command.
And the moment the two forces truly collided—
the fight tilted fast, turning into a slaughter.
Ethan charged at the very front.
Every time he dropped in, a red giant’s chest gem was crushed under white lightning. Every time he flicked his hand, sheets of red energy were torn apart by that transparent lightning.
Emerald Castle’s army pressed right behind him, widening every breach he ripped open. It didn’t take long before more than half the red giants were down on the battlefield, and the rest were driven—by force—into one corner of the sky.
Their ships were locked by the Sky Fortress. Their retreat routes were cut off by waves of Powered Combat Armor. Above them was Emerald Castle’s layered fire net.
Below them, space itself kept collapsing into jagged fractures.
They had nowhere left to go.
At that moment, a red giant who still looked oddly refined stepped out quickly. He didn’t keep resisting. In front of everyone, he dropped to his knees in midair, and the blue gem on his chest dimmed on purpose.
"This is all a misunderstanding—please, spare us!"
His voice shook so hard he couldn’t hide it.
"We won’t dare again. Not next time."
Hearing that, Ethan let out a low laugh.
It was quiet.
But it made the kneeling red giant’s face drain even whiter.
"From the moment your leader attacked me," Ethan said, his eyes cold, "your civilization chose extinction."
He looked at him like he was already dead.
"Everything that happened is on you. Not me. So accept it."
As the words fell, Ethan’s power erupted without restraint.
White lightning spread out behind him, and transparent lightning threaded through it like living glass. At the same time, Emerald Castle unleashed as one. The Sky Fortress, Powered Combat Armor, the Fallen Star Guard, and every powerhouse on the field poured their energy together—
until a massive dragon-shaped shadow formed in the sky.
That dragon was woven from countless streams of power. Its scales flashed with different colors. Its head lowered, staring straight into the corner where the red giants had been trapped.
The red giants finally broke.
Some tried to run. Some tried to kneel again. Some frantically unleashed the power in their chest gems, trying to block what was coming.
But their resistance was scattered and weak, nothing close to a real barrier in front of that dragon-shaped force.
Ethan lifted a hand and pressed down.
The enormous dragon shadow roared and slammed into the red giant cluster.
BOOM!
A terrifying blast detonated in that corner of the sky, ripping open a dimensional space on the spot.
From deep inside the tear, a violent spatial storm burst out—like countless invisible blades. It caught the red giants and shredded them, grinding shields, chest gems, bone, and flesh into nothing.
Their screams were swallowed almost immediately.
All the red giants—
were wiped out in a single strike.
The battlefield went quiet.
People from the other civilizations all turned to stare at the region that had been torn open by that spatial storm. The red giant civilization—so aggressive that many fleets had been avoiding them just minutes ago—had just been erased by Emerald Castle in one breath.
This wasn’t a retreat.
It was extermination.
Expressions slowly changed across the faces of experts from every faction.
Before this, when they looked at Elysion and Emerald Castle, there’d been that subtle superiority—an outsider’s judgment, a higher civilization’s casual contempt.
But now?
A human from a "low-tier Plane World" had crushed a powerful civilization down to the root, right in front of all of them.
No one spoke lightly anymore.
And right as hesitation spread through the sky—
a terrifying wave of might erupted between heaven and earth.
The entire world shook with it.
The cracks in the sky let out a muffled roar. Deep underground, an answering rumble rolled back.
World-force scattered across Elysion—every last fragment—seemed to be awakened by the same will. Countless streams surged upward. Specks of light, air currents, elemental energy, lingering spatial scars—
all of it rushed toward a single point in the high sky.