Chapter 5450

Soul Devourer’s laughter ricocheted off the trembling walls-wild, exultant, cruel. “Every last one of you will die. No mortal, no god, can bar my path!”

Outside, the Demonic Cultivator army howled closer. Two hundred thousand demonic souls, flanked by tens of thousands of Demon Cultivators, surged toward the palace like a living tide, drowning courtyards and battlements alike.

Pillars of demonic aura spiraled into the sky, merging with thunder-swollen clouds until the entire Celestia City lay swaddled in a single, suffocating night.

“Behold your fate,” the Soul Devourer sneered. “Today you die, and with you the whole of level six. No one will stand in my way!”

Despair pooled in every gaze turned his way.

Many knew, with a silent finality, that they would likely perish here-and that level six might perish with them.

Yet Onneas, blood streaking her chin, forced herself upright. She wiped the crimson away and leveled a steady glare at Soul Devourer. “Soul Devourer, even if we die here, you will never rule unchallenged. Someone someday—will end you.”