Rise of The Anti God (Web Novel)
chapter-547

Right as Damien threw his jet-black lighting bolt, Irene had sent out a substantial amount of her ethereal energy towards Damien's lighting bolt, which upon contact amplified it to the point where it multiplied in size to form a lighting bolt as tall as a 10-meter building!

And the next second, when it struck against Ruthren's smaller water dragon, it instantly got vaporized!

"Impossible…" Ruthren's expression couldn't be more stunned. In fact, he had never felt so shocked in his entire life since he never had to.

What he couldn't digest was how a boy with inferior cultivation at the Early Levels of the Sky Ethereal Realm was able to take down an attack from him who was at the Peak Level of the Profound Ethereal Realm. This whole thing seemed even more exaggerated than the myths written down in ancient records.

Of course, he knew that Irene's help made a big difference in destroying his attack, but still, it wouldn't have been possible without Damien's own attack, and just her ethereal energy shouldn't be enough to take down his ethereal manifestation even if it was a weaker version.

Damien had already got a mental transmission from Irene, saying that she would help him take down the second water dragon after realizing that Damien's lightning element was a lot more fatal to cultivators possessing the water elemental seed.

And as he expected, with Irene's help, he was able to take down the water dragon as if it was nothing.

But in the eyes of the men in the imperial army, it seemed as if Damien destroyed their emperor's attack! Not even in their wildest dreams could they imagine such a thing.

"Ugh!" Irene got blasted away by a water beam from the original water dragon as she had to shift her attention temporarily to help out Damien, and it obviously came at a cost as the angry Xeton Emperor took advantage of this.

"Senior!" Damien's expression became grave as he saw Irene vomiting blood as she got blasted away, and her water swan already had half of its body destroyed.

It was apparent that she wouldn't be able to last long and was literally on the end of the line.

Reva couldn't just simply sit and see her grandmother getting struck down again and again. So she appeared before Shania, where she and the other experts were charging up another attack using the large ethereal formation.

"This time, direct the attack towards him. I will modify this formation real quick to accommodate Damien's powers," Reva hurriedly said as she got down to work while Damien instantaneously appeared before a surprised Shania.

Damien and Reva together came up with a plan quickly, and Shania was able to put two and two together as she instructed all the other experts to stop charging the formation and wait for Reva to finish.

"Senior Irene, please hold on for just a minute," Damien frantically sent a mental transmission towards Irene, who was trying to hold her ground even after sustaining serious internal injuries.

Blood was trickling down her lips, nose, and forehead as she swiftly moved around with her frail body to defend herself against Ruthren's attacks using her ethereal defense skills.

She was literally running on fumes while Ruthren didn't seem to be tired in the least, but instead, he was enraged as his attacks were brutally crashing down on Irene while her water swan was only able to reduce the strength behind his attacks by sacrificing itself.

The moment her ethereal manifestation breaks down, she would surely suffer from ethereal energy deficiency for a while, and in other words, this could mean her imminent death before Ruthren.

"Why are you still clinging onto your pitiful life, Irene? To save your people from extinction? They were already doomed from the beginning!" Ruthren said with a frenzied glint in his eyes as he moved his hands to manipulate his water dragon to attack Irene and corner her.

"You have no idea who is the one going to be wiped off the face of this world!" Irene clenched her jaws as she moved her hands together to weave a thick water rope made out of her ethereal energy and tried to buy more time by trapping Ruthren's water dragon.

The ethereal water ropes wrapped around the water dragon over its entire body, stifling its movements and even forcibly closing down its mouth to the point it looked as if it got trapped.

However, Ruthren scoffed as his water dragon immediately broke out of its restraints and lashed its tail at Irene, who had the bones in her right arm fracture as she got struck down towards the ground.

*BOOM!*

His attack was too fast for even her deformed water swan to react quickly to shield her and the earth shook as Irene's body made a huge crater on the ground. It was as if a meteor crashed on the earth and not a frail old woman.

This was how strong the body of a Profound Ethereal Realm cultivator was, yet the brutal impact had caused Irene to feel as if her entire body got numb while Reva was profusely tearing up as she heard the sound of impact but didn't dare to look as she continued to focus on modifying the ethereal formation.

"Die!" Ruthren roared as his water dragon shot out a powerful beam of water right at a fallen Irene who could only summon her water swan to come near her to defend herself, but it immediately got destroyed, making her ethereal core left with little to no ethereal energy.

She was now a bloody mess because of the impact since her water swan wasn't able to absorb the entire attack before getting destroyed.

However, there were still strands of ethereal energy flowing within her body, keeping her barely alive.

But Ruthren was determined to finish what he started as he raised his hand again to launch another powerful beam of water right at her, "This will be your miserable end, Irene."