Extra's Perfect Ending-Chapter 315: Night emperor

"Duck!"

Egul’s instincts urged him to dodge the attack. He quickly glanced around for Athan, but a split second later, he realized that the man he was trying to save was immortal. Athan, who had much slower reflexes than Egul, only heard the tribesman’s warning a little too late.

The immortal’s body flew backward, hitting the smooth marble wall, and generating a big crack on it.

All the bones on Athan’s body were shattered, the impact was too much to bear and he died on the spot. Even though the mystic ice shield was protecting him, the two forces of mystic were crushed against each other, so much so that his body could not withstand the aftermath.

If there was no shield then Athan’s body would have been sliced in half.

Egul backed off and put more shields on himself. His right hand quickly brought out a beef jerky and ate it. His eyes never left the skeleton, watching every movement of the piles of walking bones.

"That’s a good stretch... however it seems like I’m too rusty"

"Who are you?"

Egul didn’t like to talk when fighting; it detracted from the fighting itself and often landed you in a fetal position. However, just this time he had to talk.

The being in front of him was too powerful for Egul to simply subdue; likely a demi-god at least. That means he would likely lose in a battle. The power that someone got from moving from 5 circles to 6 circles was described by his ancestor as divine.

That’s why some even called it god on land.

"Me....?" The skeleton looked at Egul with a slight amusement "You don’t know me? The night emperor?"

"Never heard of you" Egul felt a wave of fear inside himself. Where did this being come from? As far as he knew there was only the empire that could produce this kind of monster. However, that monster wouldn’t be here out of all the place.

"HAHAHAHA" The skeleton laugh harder and harder. Egul’s face became more tense, ready to strike at any weird movement that the night emperor might make.

"What’s so funny?"

"It’s funny because it pissed me off!!"

The skeleton held a sword in one hand and slashed at Egul. The tribesman could feel it coming and dodge to the side. The slash sliced through the marble wall, making the room uglier by the second.

"You don’t even know the night empire?"

"No idea..." Egul answered honestly and he regretted it the next moment because there was another slash that came at Egul. Each strike made the marble room more fractured.

"Then I’ll let you know" The night emperor came right up to Egul, the red light that was his eyes was shining from the darkness of the skeleton’s eye socket. Egul punched that thing the moment it came close, however it felt like he punched a wall.

Never before after he became the fifth circle powerhouse that he couldn’t hurt anyone with a mere punch. The skeleton mirk when he received the punch with his bony hands.

"I see, you’ve also regressed..." The skeleton raised the sword with his right hand, the rusty sword that must have been here for a malanium looked so intimidating for Egul at this moment. He swore it was as if he was facing his first animal when he was a kid. But this time he would not be getting away with his life.

Egul clenched his fist and tried to pull it out of the skeleton’s grasp, the word came on with frightening speed. Ready to separate Egul’s arm. The tribesman reinforced his arm with as many ice shields as he could afford.

The blade shattered the shield like glass a it goes through 4 layers of it. leaving only one layer between Egul’s arm and the shaped edge of the sword. Egul face distorted as he pulled his hand harder and harder. His other arm puch the skeleton hoping to delay it. However, the piles of bone were just standing there taking all hi hits like it was nothing.

Egul screamed as the grip on his hand loosened, the skeleton seen to be losing some power. A split second later, the blade went through the last layer of his ice shield, right as his hand got free from the grasp. The blade sliced through the air, missing Egul’s arm by an inch.

The tribesman quickly regained his balance after he got free. His eyes glanced at the skeleton that almost cut his arm in terror. The monster’s mystic power was so great that he felt like it was endless, but something changed the moment he could get his arm off.

The skeleton’s mystic power had reduced at a rapid rate. And the skeleton seemed to notice it too

"I thought you were riling me up but it seems like you’re right" The night emperor looked at Egul "What year is it now?"

"...." Egul views it as a positive if the skeleton is wasting time. "I don’t know, we tribe people don’t use years, he used to cycle. But the empire does"

"What empire?"

"Eyre Empire"

After Egul answered that the night emperor’s blood boiled, even though he had no skin anymore, Egul could feel the rage.

"They there claim themselves as empires!? Such audacity...." Again, the skeleton clenched his fist "You... you’re not with this Eyre place right?"

"No"

"Then join me," The night emperor said with confidence "I will offer you a position in my army, be my general, and conquer the land with me. As you can tell, I needed people to support me, and with your help, I will rise above the god and demi-god and become the one that rules them all.

Egul couldn’t help but feel like this guy was delusional, however, his power display was real. He guessed that this must have been a prominent figure from the past or from somewhere else.

"What’s in it for me?" Egul was content to waste more time

"Everything" The emperor again, said with confidence "I’m the night emperor, the ruler of the night empire, and the conquerer of all lands. I could give you everything, including victories against this "Empire" you hate?"

Egul squeezed his eyes, he didn’t reveal any fact that he was at odds against the empire.

"As an emperor, I have many jobs, and listening to my subject was one of them... I know a hatred when I hear one."

"Can I think about it for a minute?"

"I know you’re wasting my time, so I’ll give you only three seconds to decide. Consider it mercy from this emperor."

The skeleton held out three of his fingers and started the count.

"Three" One of the fingers slowly went down

"Two" He lowered his finger until there was only one left

"One"

Egul wouldn’t take the chance and quickly vaulted out of the room. The skeleton was much more powerful than him, even with his mystic power leaking there’s a chance that the night emperor have something up his sleeve.

As a hunter, it’s never favorable to hunt something far stronger than you without a good plan. If he could not overpower someone, then he would run. Out of the door, Egul expertly avoided the traps and went out of the room leaving only Athan and the night emperor inside.

"It seemed like you’re not on good terms bless one"

Atahn who just finished regenerating began hearing the night emperor.

"He already goes what he wants after all"

"And you?"

"I got mine too"

Atahn didn’t reveal what he wanted but it’s pretty clear that he was holding the book of heaven.

"Do you know what you’re holding?"

"special item that would lead me to a special place" Atahn answered

"It’s more than it... It’s my treasure. I will give you the same mercy, join me and help me conquer the world." The night emperor extended his hand again, however, Athan didn’t look too interested.

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"No, I’m not under anyone"

"Natural intelligence is truly rare in this world." The night emperor rolled his hand not a ball and Atahn’s body began contorting into a ball shape. however, Athan with his regenerating power was still alive, baring breathing.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

The immortal screamed in pain, his body trying to regenerate itself back to its original state. However, his body stayed in a ball shape. Athan in his confusion manages to deduct that it’s properly the emperor mystic that directly causing this.

When people became demi-gods, their mystic power was ingrained into their bodies and naturally they had an option of controlling raw mystic power. The emperor likely was using the power of the raw mystic to hold him into a ball.

"There are many ways to deal with a blessed one, this was the best one if you got mystic power to spare."

The skeleton walked over and picked up the Book of Heaven that Athan dropped when his body got balled. He traced his hand over the book. He slowly walked out of the room that they were in, into the hallway, and finally out of the cave.

For the first time in his life, he saw something that shouldn’t be there...

"HAHHAHAHAHAAH.... this would be interesting"

The blinding light of the sun hit his face.