Chapter 63: The Regressor VS The Primal King
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The Primal King slowly advanced on top of his titanic steed. His sharp eyes looked into the distance; the “wounds” within space and time that he and his army had come from were three in total. One to the north, another to the south, where he had come from, and the last one, the third "Wound,” was located to the east.
They were all very far away from one another, and two of them seemed to be growing smaller over time. The one where he had come from, however, was maintaining its size. Being a member of the Brute Tribe, he was rather smart; he quickly realized something.
The more the dinosaurs and cavemen that came from the Gates died, the smaller they became. Meaning that the existence of this portal that brought them to another world seemed dependent on the very people and creatures it brought.
Killing enough would probably close them!
And he couldn’t let that happen.
“Ungah!”
With a roar, he commanded a dozen cavemen that were behind him, his strongest warriors, who were at least twice as large as the other cavemen. They all jumped off the giant brachiosaurus, rushing towards battle.
At the same time, he looked at the distance, admiring the chimeric aberration coming from the portal to the north. He was using a very basic strategy, but one that had worked countless times throughout his life.
He was going to do a pincer attack, overwhelming the city from the north and south. With his army of giant Scaled Lords, savage Cavemen, and the monstrous Chimeric dinosaur, he would crush everything and anything.
However, he couldn’t be completely confident in his victory; after all, he had been seeing a strange woman appear and disappear all the time, helping all the little humans that died so easily against his men and beasts.
He squinted his eyes, Primal Power surging through his body, his already enormous muscles beginning to grow larger and stronger, preparing for a clash against her.
Yet…
FLASH!
A black spear suddenly rushed towards him from behind, and his senses heightened. The Primal King quickly twisted his body, stepping backward and grabbing the spear before it could even hit him.
CLASH!
His eyes glanced at a mass of darkness and red eyes. Holding the spear tightly and imbuing it with Mana, a sudden explosion happened before he could even discern who his foe was.
BOOOM!
“Hmph… Weak.”
However, the Primal King was unscathed; the explosion that could easily kill most S-Rank Monsters didn’t even leave a single scratch on his body.
His sharp golden eyes looked upwards. A young man appeared amidst the cloud of darkness, one of his eyes shining with gray light, its iris resembling a clock.
“You took an attack imbued with Abyssal Energy head-on?” The young man wondered.
It was nobody else than Seth, the Regressor.
After having heard of a sudden invasion of New York, he rushed to help, finding the catastrophe that was happening right now.
He rushed across the myriad of giant dinosaurs, wondering what in the world was happening. Killing one after another, he reached who he imagined was the Boss.
The Primal King.
A mighty, muscular caveman stands above the largest brachiosaurus.
“Pitiful… Tiny human.” The Primal King, despite being a Brute who mostly communicated with groans, spoke rather well. “Your tricks… Won’t work.”
“Where did you come from? What is happening right now?!” Seth muttered.
Within the memories of the future, Seth had never seen such an outcome happening at all! There was no such invasion from any cavemen before, nor were there giant, overpowered dinosaurs roaming New York’s outskirts.
“I shall conquer this world... It will be mine!” Laughed the Primal King, kicking the scales where he was standing and pushing the brachiosaurus into the floor.
With a single kick, the giant dinosaur had its neck dislocated, but the ruthless barbarian didn’t care, using his own steed as a platform to fly into the skies with sheer physical prowess.
Seth’s Eye of Time activated, seeing fragments of the future.
His eyes widened.
The Primal King moved his fists at lightning speed; his entire body was hit a dozen times.
He exploded into pieces before he could do anything!
“Shit!”
Seeing the future within a split second, Seth decided to evade, turning his body into Abyssal Shadows, a skill he had acquired from synthesizing the Dark Wyvern Heart, the Abyss Goblin’s Blood, and the Dark Spirit Stone together into a Special Skill Book.
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
The Primal King ended up hitting the empty air as Seth disappeared into an explosion of black smoke. However, his sharp senses activated once more, quickly kicking the air and rushing down, his hands overflowing with the Golden Essence of Primal Power.
BAAAM!
Seth was unable to predict this; his eyes worked on a cooldown of 3 seconds, and his ethereal body was hit instantly, exploding into black smoke. He felt his physical body being hurt, even within his seemingly invincible form!
“What…?! ARGH…!”
He quickly gathered back his shadows as he was forcefully turned back into his original form, finding out several of his bones had broken.
However, how could that even be possible?!
“This transformation turns my body completely ethereal! Unless he used powerful holy light magic, he shouldn’t have been able to hurt me at all!” He thought. “Was I wrong this entire time?! Are there monsters out there capable of ignoring such things with just sheer physical prowess?!”
“UNGAH!”
The Primal King rushed towards Seth once more. His eye of time activated as he saw a glimpse of the future. The Primal King grabbed his head and easily tore it apart from his body, biting it afterward and eating his brain like a savage cannibal.
“Fuck!”
Seth roared furiously, his Spear overflowing with Abyssal Energies. As a dozen magic circles appeared around him, a bombardment of blazing meteors rushed down. The surrounding dinosaurs were immediately roasted and crushed alive, but the Primal King tanked the meteors and punched them into pieces as he kept kicking the air and reaching closer to him!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“What is this guy?!”
Seth had never confronted a being capable of overcoming everything with just strength. It felt surreal because his common sense dictated that everything was always tied to the System and Mana!
Yet the being in front of him had no such Mana!
“Petty tricks… reminds me of Children of Fire… pathetic people! HAHAHA!”
The King of Brutes swung his legs, which were already like lethal weapons, and an immense shockwave was unleashed. His strength was so powerful that he broke the sound barrier and manipulated the surrounding winds, creating a slicing blade that rushed towards him.
And this was no magic at all; this was merely a ridiculous display of overwhelming prowess.
BAAAM!
“Uagh!”
Seth was unable to evade; his Abyssal Shadow Transformation was on cooldown; he took the hit head-on; his armor was broken instantly; his chest was sliced; and blood splattered everywhere.
“Pathetic little rat.”
The Primal King appeared behind him, his fist rushing down towards Seth's head.
“Ah?!”
Seth widened his eyes, suddenly feeling fear.
He, the Regressor, was afraid!
A single punch blew him away; his entire body fell from several hundreds of meters in the sky down into the forests below, leaving a huge crater behind.
BAAAM!
“Graargh…!”
Seth vomited blood; he felt his innards twist and turn; most of his bones broke; his legs were twisted; and his arms were torn down.
“F-Fuck…!”
He bit something he had attached to his teeth, a white pill, swallowing it.
FLASH!
His entire body was quickly restored within seconds, and not only that.
Ding!
[You have consumed the [White Flame Phoenix Pill (SSS Rank)], and all your wounds have been instantly healed!]
[All your Stats have increased based on the amount of damage your body has taken x100 for the next 5 Minutes.]
The White Flame Phoenix Pill is synthesized by combining twenty different types of lesser phoenix bird magic cores, blood, and souls.
It took him so long to make it, and he had prepared it only for his very last resource, but right now, he couldn’t spare resources.
“UNGAAAH!”
The Primal King rushed down after noticing he was still alive, his foot about to crush Seth to death. The young man turned into Abyssal Shadows, evading a powerful attack, before appearing behind the Primal King, his spear flaring with phantasmal flames and abyssal flames.
“RAAAH!”
With a furious roar, Seth unleashed a barrage of attacks. The Primal King attempted to intercept them, but Seth surpassed his reaction speed, and above all, the strikes began to hurt!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“UGH?!”
The Primal King opened his eyes wide as he felt pain, feeling wounds behind his back and blood slowly dripping. He was utterly shocked. It has been over a hundred years since the last time he ever felt pain. Since he reached the pinnacle of his world, he has never been challenged!
Yet now…
He smiled!
“Hahahaha! GOOD!”
He intercepted Seth’s attacks, his fists flaring with his Primal Power, resembling golden flames. Fists against spear attacks and magic spells. Constant explosions of darkness and golden aura erupted with each blow, and the landscape around the two began to quickly change shape.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Primal King only laughed and smiled as his arms were covered with wounds. Seth was much worse. Despite the immense boost of power, his muscles were already slowly being torn apart. To intercept and block one of the Primal King’s blows was to feel his muscles being torn one after another!
“Fuck! What with this motherfucker?!”
Seth was growing desperate and furious, quickly kicking the Primal King’s chest and throwing him away a few dozen meters before jumping into the skies himself and taking out another trump card.
A Regressor must have as many trump cards as possible!
“Fuck this! {Sacrificial Ritual}!”
He took out of his Inventory a white jewel, shining with Divinity. An item he acquired by digging into the ruins where Bing Xue had killed a giant Angelic Spirit, and then harnessing all the leftover ambient divinity into this crystal.
It took him a lot of effort and resources as he required many specific gadgets, but this divinity crystal was something that he could use as yet another trump card, but only when sacrificed with his Skill: [Sacrificial Ritual].
A Skill that could seal and overpower a foe the higher the quality of the thing you sacrificed was!
And Seth sacrificed nothing else but a divinity crystal.
“As strong as you are, you can’t be stronger than a God.”
Seth smiled as the Primal King rushed towards him, but the ritual had already started.
FLASH!
“GUH?!”
The Primal King saw himself surrounded by white chains, wrapping around his entire body and pushing him back into the ground. The divinity crystal disappeared as the Primal King felt his strength being slowly sapped away.
“GRAAAH!”
[You have sacrificed the [Divinity Crystal (SSS Rank)] using the [Sacrificial Ritual (S): Lv10] Skill!]
[Your target has been affected by the highest-level divine rank, {Chains of Divine Sealing}!]
[Your target’s stats have decreased drastically!]
[Your target is paralyzed!]
[Duration: 10 Minutes.]
“Game over, motherfucker.”
Seth smiled triumphantly, rushing down towards the Primal King, aiming his spear towards his head. The Primal King kept roaring like a beast, his entire body swelling up more and more, steam coming out of his sweaty muscles as he began to overexert his physical limitations.
CLASH!
But Seth’s spear hit his head as an explosion of abyssal flames engulfed the barbaric caveman.
“It should be done by now... I better get enough EXP for this- Huh?”
Seth suddenly felt his spear stuck in something.
The smoke dissipated, revealing something terrifying.
The Primal King caught his spear’s blade with his own teeth and began to gnaw at it, slowly shattering it.
Crack, crack…
CRASH!
“What…?!”
Seth saw the future, a fist piercing his chest.
He quickly jumped back as he heard the chains breaking down.
He turned into shadows.
Or, well, he tried.
“UNGAAH!”
The Primal King’s entire body had become completely red, his eyes glowing gold.
Within a split second, he caught up to Seth, and before he could even turn into shadows, his fist reached his head.
CRASH!
And Seth’s entire skull exploded into pieces.
His headless, lifeless body dropped to the floor.
With little time to prepare, the Regressor was unable to overcome this challenge.
And failed.
“Worthy human, forcing me... to push my limits.” The Primal King smiled as he grabbed a piece of Seth's brain and was about to take a bite.
Before a flash of golden light covered his face.
“Guh…?!”
And both of his hands were sliced off.
“I’ve seen enough.”
The Primal King looked into the skies.
A beautiful woman, made of pure light, appeared.
“The Primal King, was it? You’re dying now.”
“RAAAH!”
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