Looking at a frozen Ye Chen and his heroines, Hai kept his calm face with coldness still visible in his eyes.
*RUMBLE*
*CRACK*
*CRACK*
*CRACK*
Looking at Ye Chen, Hai saw that the ice covering him was cracking and trembling.
The dark gray clouds in the sky turned darker and darker until they were black.
*RUMBLE*
*BOOM*
Thunder was heard for kilometers; lightning danced through the dark clouds like a clown trying to entertain their audience.
*SHATTER*
The ice exploded in grand fashion releasing a wave of dark miasma.
The surroundings seemed to get darker, the light dimmed as if twilight arrived.
Looking at the transforming Ye Chen, Hai waved his hand.
Two iron spikes came out of the ground just in time.
One of them was huge and went skyward while the other went towards Ye Chen.
Ye Chen snapped open his eyes and he shouted:
"Enough!"
*RUMBLE*
The thunder screamed in agreement with him and purple lightning descended on him.
*BOOM*
*VRRR*
However, it never hit him.
Hai's iron spike intercepted the lightning mid-air and acted as a lightning rod sending the energy towards the ground.
*PUCHI*
"GAH-!" The air left Ye Chen's lungs and he put his hands on the iron spike piercing his heart.
"…" In a low voice, one which Hai didn't hear, Ye Chen started to murmur something repeatedly while looking at his blood oozing out of his wound and trying to take the iron spike out.
'As expected, this isn't enough.' Hai thought while sending more mana towards the forest.
Earlier, he hadn't just been playing around with Ye Chen and his harem, Hai had created and controlled some small metal spiders that contained a huge amount of energy inside them besides carrying a few things that the system had given him years before.
Hai then took something out of his storage ring.
"HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!! YOU F*CKER!!!" Ye Chen screamed at the top of his lungs and a red aura burst forth leveling a great deal of the forest to the ground.
"I WILL KILL YOU!!!"
*RUMBLE*
Another purple lightning fell from the sky, obliterated the iron spike and hit Ye Chen.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Ye Chen screamed as his muscles started to tear, his bones broke and his mind seemed to melt.
However, Hai noticed that Ye Chen was just getting stronger. In short, this is the legendary powerup scene.
*BANG*
"AH- GUH!?" Ye Chen suddenly stopped screaming.
Then, his eyes turned unfocused and slowly lost their life, his body started swaying back and forth.
A few seconds later, he fell backwards on the ground.
*THUD*
Lowering his pistol, Hai looked at the hole in the middle of Ye Chen's forehead.
'It isn't bleeding.' He noticed that no matter the attack, Ye Chen always receives less damage than what the attack was supposed to do.
'Protagonist's luck, I guess.' Hai thought and waited for what was most likely to come.
*VROOOOM*
And lo and behold, he was right.
Suddenly, an ominous aura started to descend on the forest.
Hai looked at Ye Chen's body and saw him getting up in a manner that his chest was pulling his body off the ground.
Ye Chen then stood up.
*WIGGLE*
With some low sounds, a new left leg spurted out from where Hai had torn the previous one.
Ye Chen slowly raised his head and looked at Hai.
*ZOOOOOOOM*
Hai noticed the world turning gray and everything around him stopping.
The leaves stopped cold mid-air.
The lightnings on the sky stopped amidst their dance.
The winds stopped blowing and it felt as if there was no wind in here.
Looking at Ye Chen, Hai stored away his pistol and stood still.
'So, you finally appeared.' He thought when he saw Ye Chen's hollow eyes suddenly brightening and having a "holy" aura on them.
"Ye Chen" looked at Hai and pointed at him.
{Kneel.} A majestic voice came out of his mouth.
Then, as if the whole world was put on his back, Hai felt a humungous, invisible and indescribable pressure weighting on his back.
However, Hai didn't even flinch.
"I refuse." The reply was swiftly and short, but its tone was deep, unwavering and left no margin for refusal.
The pressure was instantly released off his shoulder.
Hai didn't make the weight simply vanish, but he pushed it away with sheer will.
Few are the ones who were broken, who lost everything and rebuilt themselves.
And even fewer are the ones who could still maintain ablaze the flame of determination.
Hai is one of those.
And extremely few can say that they have a will equal to Hai's.
His sheer will alone can generate enough intent to even negate death.
He could survive without his head just because he was too stubborn to die.
"…"
The silence stretched further.
Both Hai and Ye Chen kept looking at each other without uttering a single word.
The weight trying to squash Hai down increased several folds but Hai's will was unmovable.
Looking at Ye Chen, Hai opened his mouth.
"Aren't you going to introduce yourself? Don't know basic manners?" He asked with his small smile and even colder eyes.
{You aren't worth of knowing my name.} The majestic voice was no more, now an eerie and mysterious voice came out of Ye Chen's mouth.
"If I'm worth or not, that is not for you to decide." Hai answered and felt the weight increasing again.
Then, black miasma started to spread around and slowly encircled him.
Checking on Kryn to see if she is okay, Hai turned to look back at whatever was possessing Ye Chen.
"So?"
{You have already done your role. Be gone, nuisance.}
The thing waved Ye Chen's hand and it seemed as if the world tried to devour Hai.
The dark mist advanced like a hungry wolf towards him.
The weight increased so much that Hai didn't doubt he should be carrying at least the moon by now.
The gray world cracked and some shards shoot in his direction.
Hai looked at it with an impassive face and then back at Ye Chen.
He remembered how this situation was similar to the ones he went through to complete the plot.
How he was powerless and had no choice but to follow someone's orders even when them didn't benefit him in any way.
Putting all his frustration, rage, anger, hate and unyieldingness in a single and brief word, he opened his mouth.
"Enough." This time, it was Hai who spoke those words.
In an even tone; one without any hurry and as if talking to an old friend.
It all stopped.
Not because Hai stopped everything using mana or his will.
Not because he wrestled with Ye Chen to control everything that was happening.
But because Hai simply froze his problems.
The gray world, the dark mist, the shards, the surroundings, every single thing was frozen.
When Hai's words fell, the world was painted white.
1/3 of Hong Kong was instantly frozen.
Ye Chen looked around with clear annoyance in his eyes.
{You truly are a cockroach.} Those words left Ye Chen's mouth before he raised his hand skywards.
*RUMBLE*
*RUMBLE*
*RUMBLE*
With several loud thunders and lightnings of a myriad of colors, another crack opened in this gray world.
There, stood pure darkness.
Pitch-black darkness that even light feared going close to it.
Then, it happened.
An eye appeared in that crack and looked directly into Hai's eyes.
Hai's eyes twitched while he felt a hellish pain inside his head.
It was like it was being split open and then minced while he was alive.
Several images flashed through his head.
Death.
Blood.
War.
Disease.
Debauchery.
Betrayal.
Poison.
Greed.
Arrogance.
Every single one of them had several moments of different races but they all were the same.
Those races destroyed themselves over something.
Hai closed his eyes.
Those memories were doing more than just appearing in his mind. They were evoking foreigner but powerful emotions inside him and this was annoying Hai.
*INHALE*
*EXHALE*
Hai opened his eyes.
"Get the f*ck out of my mind." He intoned while fusing his will in his voice.
The eye in the crack twitched and closed.
Hai felt the pain going away and turned to look at Ye Chen.
With a bored face, Ye Chen sighed slightly before starting to concentrate a dark energy in his hands.
"Just out of curiosity: you are the one who made my system and brought me to this world, aren't you?" Hai said with his lips still forming a small smile.
He fought hard to not show any trembling of his body.
Doing everything he did wasn't easy by any means.
Whatever possessed Ye Chen was limited due to being in his body and as such, Hai had some leeway in this showdown, but it took everything he had to not be overwhelmed.
Specially when he froze everything. He nearly fell on his knees for doing something so out of his rank like that but he held on through pure will.
{...} The thing said nothing and stopped concentrating the energy in its hands.
"Huh, I see. And I guess you are a god, right?" Hai pried for more information since he knows nearly nothing about the gods and divinities in general.
The thing obviously knew about it but it felt its pride being hurt by being called a god.
{No. I'm something far superior than them.}
Hai looked at its face and noticed a trace of pride.
"And I'm your dad." He spoke and finished positioning his spiders.
Ye Chen's face twitched for a split second but went back to calmness in the next one.
Moving his hand towards Hai, he shot a beam of white light towards him.
"Null magic, huh." Hai noticed that although strong in raw power, this beam lacked any type of finesse.
*SNAP*
Snapping his fingers, Hai stood still.
A few kilometers away from them, some small iron spiders with a blue gem on their back suddenly lit up and started to glow.
The artifacts on them activated and a huge magical circle formed on the sky.
*VOOOOOOOOOM*
A loud sound echoed far and wide.
Then, in the next instant, the gray world cracked.
*CRACK*
*CRACK*
*CRACK*
*CRACK*
*SHATTER*
The gray world shattered and both Hai and Ye Chen arrived back on the "real" world.
Hai kept watching the beam coming towards him with a smile on his face.
Meanwhile, Ye Chen's face instantly turned dark.
His "holy" eyes emitted unbridled rage and he looked at Hai as if wanting to tear his existence apart.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM*
A bright light suddenly came from the sky followed by a loud sound.
Hai closed his eyes while raising his head towards the sky.
'Oh boy, you sure are fast.' He thought while squinting his eyes.
{BEGONE!} Hai heard that being's enraged voice and felt a strong gust of wind blowing against him.
Using a bit of the small amount of mana that he still has, Hai protected him and Kryn while taking out another artifact from his storage ring.
Hai took out a small wooden card with a symbol engraved in the center.
{GET OUT OF MY WAY! WE HAVE A DEAL!}
Hai felt two humungous presences where Ye Chen was.
His knees nearly gave in but he held himself together.
Feeling some small movements in his arm, Hai looked at Kryn and saw blood coming out of her mouth.
He reinforced the barrier around her and weakened his'. Then, he willed his mana and made Bing Qing appear besides him.
The time where he touched her wrist he did more than just transmit mana.
Infusing mana on the artifact, the engraving started to glow brighter and brighter until it turned black.
Hai looked back to where Ye Chen was and saw his figure amidst the light.
He seemed to be tossing and struggling around, as if fighting against something invisible.
Not wasting time, Hai broke the wooden card and his field of vision started to distort.
The corners of his vision started to get more and more distant and the center of his field of view widened and stretched.
When his vision was darkening, Hai felt a gaze on him.
He looked at Ye Chen and saw he was facing his direction.
Although he couldn't see his face due to the light, Hai was sure that right now, that "superior being" was glaring a hole through him.
Hai raised his right hand towards it.
He smiled innocently and raised his middle finger.
Then, he mouthed:
'You need to respect your father, son.'
And vanished an instant before the place where he stood was obliterated.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
-----------
A/N: Hello there, I hope you are having a wonderful day!
So, what do you guys think about this chapter?
Comment what you thought about this chapter. If you liked it or not, I want to read your opinions and interact more with you guys.
Also, join our Discord community, there you can interact with other readers or with me in case you have questions or ideas about/ for the novel.
Discord server: https://discord.gg/NZV2EtdJY8
(The link is also on the novel's synopsis).
...….
Power Stones' rewards:
100 Power Stones = 1 bonus chapter;
200 power stones = 2 bonus chapters;
500 power stones = 3 bonus chapters.
...….
That is all for today, thank you all for reading! 🍷😎