NOVEL NEXT Chapter 371: The Sun Extinguished, the Gods Watch
Noah faced the being emerging from the cocoon of flesh and blood, responding with no unnecessary words. He spread his wings, and the scorching golden radiance surrounding him began to expand, sweeping across the battlefield, lifting countless severed limbs, embers, and Flame Sun followers into the sky. They burned in the flames and turned to ash.
For followers worshipping the Flame Sun Sovereign, this disaster was more terrifying than the descent of Hell, as even in the molten lava of Hell, creatures could survive and thrive.
But on the battlefield where the powers of the Divine and the Ancestral Golden Dragon clashed and tore at each other, unless one sided with one faction and received protection, no one could survive.
Roar——
In the dragon's roar that made heaven and earth tremble and quake, Noah charged proactively towards the avatar of the Lord of Flame Sun. Majestic magic power surged from his body, and the powerful pressure was unbearable even for space itself. As he passed, the sky rippled, waves spreading and reverberating.
"Arrogant reptile!"
Seeing Noah completely ignore him, the Flame Sun Sovereign, Heliers, erupted with anger. His wrathful intent unleashed a fearsome storm of flames. He raised his hand, with each fingertip, a Sun Essence burned, distorting the space, melting under this terrifying heat.
"Repent under the eternal flame!"
The golden dragon's eyes slightly contracted as Noah sensed a hint of threat. He turned, flicked his tail, cutting through the atmosphere and traced out an arcane line. Runes formed from thin air, transforming into a twelve-layered barrier before him.
The Sun Essence suspended between the God's avatar's fingers erupted instantly, transforming into a solar storm able to vaporize the earth, obliterate mountains, and collide with the barrier before Noah's life. It split, surging towards the rear of the battlefield, leaving a ghastly and deep Glazed Valley Abyss underground, stretching for miles without end. Countless beings were reduced to ashes under that strike.
At the moment the flame wave split, the barrier before Noah shattered and dispersed. The peak of this attack's power had passed. Though the remaining aftershocks remained frightening, grazing Noah's scales only served to make his dragon scales shine brighter.
As the earth burned, Noah dived over the head of the God's avatar, swinging his dragon claw down like the scythe of Death, delivering death and destruction to this God's avatar.
Strictly speaking, this was his second confrontation with this deity. Yet Noah was completely unfamiliar with this deity's mode of attack, in a state of complete bewilderment.
For the first encounter responding to this deity's threat was his body, his consciousness asleep, his combat instincts at play. So when Noah awakened, he had no idea of the events of that war.
Though Ophelia assisted in recalling, memories were merely descriptions. To Noah, it felt like listening to something unrelated, not leaving any impression. At the time, not even the Great Angel thought to record the battle scenes.
However, such a level of battle is challenging to record with crystal, only more specialized Legendary Magic or Divine Arts could replicate and record the images.
Noah had no memory of battling the Flame Sun Sovereign, but the Flame Sun Sovereign had experienced the resilience of Noah's dragon body. Around this God's avatar, the Corona Divine Light erupted, its radiant gleam like one golden sword after another. It resisted Noah while counterattacking.
Crack～
Sticky like lava yet exuding terrifying heat, gold-plated Divine Blood sprayed into the air. Under Noah's claw, the light akin to a Golden Divine Sword shattered. He tore apart the shoulder bone of the God's avatar, extracting a segment of scapula, inadvertently severing the arm of this God's avatar.
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The battlefield froze for an instant; neither Noah nor the avatar of the Flame Sun Sovereign anticipated this scene. Noah did not expect the protective divine light of this God's avatar to be so fragile.
The Flame Sun Sovereign did not foresee that this dragon's body had become stronger, both sides underestimated each other's strength, though the results of the misjudgment were not the same.
As a figure who ascended to a Divine Position through endless battles, becoming a medium-level Divine Power Flame Sun Sovereign, his reaction was swift. The severed arm did not fall, but burned, disintegrated mid-air, and transformed into billions of scorching Sun God Patterns, forming Yang Fire Meteors, blasting towards Noah's nearby dragon body like stars flowing in reverse.
Having re-established knowledge of his dragon body's resilience in the fray, Noah, facing such an attack, adopted no evasive tactics, merely folding his dragon wings, crossed in front, forming a Wing Shield.
One Yang Fire Meteor after another exploded on Noah's dragon scales, and like maggots on bones, they clung to the scales, fiercely burning, trying to melt through his scales, gnawing at his flesh, eroding his marrow.
A Sun God Fire, born from a God's avatar sacrificing part of its body and Divine Power, soon enveloped Noah's dragon body, as expansive as a mountain range.
This was a fire similar yet fundamentally different from Noah's, fire imbued with divine might enough to scald all evil in the world.
The Deep Abyss's evil demons, the infamous Deep Prison Refining Demons, or Balrog Flame Demons, if touched by even a spark, would not even leave a trace of residue.