Chapter 393: Severing Sun Fire (Part 2)
Douglas’s voice wasn’t loud, but in the instantaneous silence of the arena, it was exceptionally clear.
Ig’s pupils trembled, his palm tightened around the End Sword Blade, and his mind flashed with the image of the slender young girl and her exquisite face.
Even though the young girl had entrusted Flarn to inform him that morning that she had gone out to play, Ig always found himself looking back, wanting to see if she would be by his side.
However, he forcibly suppressed such an action. Ten meters away, but separated by only a sword qi distance, the killing intent in Douglas’s eyes was not fake.
Such a thing was not difficult to understand. Given Douglas’s character, would he still display a magnanimous attitude as before after deeming Ig a threat?
Ig had no doubt that the other party would use the pretext of the duel to thoroughly eliminate him before he could attain the Saint Rank!
Almost in the instant Ig’s thoughts flashed, a sinister grin suddenly crossed Douglas’s handsome, jade-like face, and he abruptly pulled his right hand, which was gripping the Sun Flame Sacred Sword.
In an instant, the fiery curtain of the sun’s flame suddenly erupted from the ground, and the divine light of the sun’s corona shot out. The ubiquitous intense sunlight seemed to have settled into Douglas’s spirit, and then transformed into substance!
“This is… a Domain!”
Duke Cambell suddenly stood up, an incredulous voice erupting from his mouth. The shock on his face was even greater than when Douglas had revealed the God’s Chosen mark.
As a Saint Rank himself, he naturally understood what the domain, which was constantly manifesting with Douglas’s spiritual will, truly meant. It was almost the epitome of the secular world, synonymous with a “Sacred Domain”!
“No, Duke… look closely. Douglas isn’t just using his will… he’s borrowing the authority of the Sun Goddess.”
Boone, a Saint Rank beside him, spoke up.
Duke Cambell steadied himself and discovered that on the “domain” that was constantly spreading with Douglas’s spirit, the divine power of the golden sun was continuously flashing, and the reflection of the sun’s radiance maintained the stability of the Sacred Domain.
Just as Boone said, Douglas’s domain was less of a “Domain of the Saint Rank” and more like a powerful spell formula, creating a sufficiently comparable solar domain for a certain period.
However, even so, Douglas’s use of the sun’s divine power and authority to fully manifest a substantial domain within the crystal realm could still be considered astonishing!
Compared to Boone and Duke Cambell and the others, Ig, who was almost instantaneously enveloped by the solar domain, his perception was undoubtedly much more intense and obvious.
Ig’s hand gripped the End Sword Blade, but he didn’t know how to react: the brilliance brought by the solar flame domain, which seemed to contain the heat of the entire sun, was everywhere. Even a single ray of sunlight would be enough to burn him to ashes.
However, the sun’s domain only isolated him, while the seemingly endless sunlight continued to gather, and an even more scorching, terrifying prestige continued to escalate.
Ig’s heart sank. Given Douglas’s killing intent towards him, even this solar domain was merely his prelude… and being isolated by it, there was no possibility for him to willingly surrender.
“Surrender? How is that possible?”
Ig suddenly turned his head and smiled. He forcefully raised his eyes, and even though the extremely intense light caused ghosting in his pupils, he did not avert his gaze for a moment.
What he mastered was not just Oran’s sword-severing intent, nor the two sword techniques of Lord Lothel…
Ig’s palm suddenly grasped the hilt of the End Sword Blade deeply.
Within the entire domain shrouded by the sun’s flame, everything that could be touched and felt was the burning heat brought by the rolling light flames. Only the sword edge in his hand could maintain a trace of the coldness of metal.
But Ig knew very well that within the End Sword Blade, there was a trace of even hotter flame.
A smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his lips:
“Douglas, tell me, since I am also a God’s Chosen, then the Young Lady…”
At this moment, thunderous rumbling approached. Douglas’s face turned slightly pale, presumably because it was very difficult for him to forcibly wield this solar domain with his golden demonic power.
—Although Douglas had clearly shown killing intent, even with his identity as provincial governor, if he openly killed Ig beyond the scope of the duel, he would surely be charged with murder.
If that were the case, even the King could not protect him in Marquis Mays’s territory.
However, even though Douglas wielded it with great effort, his blood-gold pupils were shining brightly, and the loud laughter was filled with extreme confidence:
“Ig, I know what you’re thinking! Even if you are also a God’s Chosen, how can you compare her might and will to the eternal blazing sun?”
“And this domain is the immortal blazing sun divine kingdom of Surtur, the Sun God!”
The sun’s corona sacred sword moved in the air, and infinite light and fire converged. The blazing sun rose into the sky, and the phantom of Surtur, the Sun God, driving the sun chariot and holding the golden sacred sword, brought nearly endless radiance, dispelling all shadows and burning everything.
It was as if, in legends, the incarnation of the sun, the eldest daughter of light and fire, riding an eight-winged Pegasus, brought infinite light and heat to the perpetually dark earth: thus, darkness ceased to exist, and light burned forever!
Ig’s pupils suddenly snapped open, a pure radiance like starlight flashing within the azure blue.
This was the first time Ig had used the “True Eye” in the real world: in his eyes, all the scenes formed by flames faded away, leaving only the lines and points that constructed everything.
At the moment Ig opened his eyes, Douglas raised his hand, and the colors in the entire brilliant gold domain turned into pure gold, and the infinite sun rose.
—In legends, the scene of the blazing sun burning the sky, the Sun Goddess Surtur melting away the eternal night and bringing infinite light and heat to the entire world, all converged on Douglas’s Sun Flame Sacred Sword!
Douglas was fully confident that he could completely obliterate Ig.
Even if he was unable to perfect the power and structure of his techniques due to his realm, it was enough to deal with Ig in front of him.
Even if Ig was also a God’s Chosen, what could he do under the oppression and momentum of his solar domain?
Suddenly, a brilliant gold light, but of a completely different hue, flickered. Douglas’s face suddenly changed.
Douglas clearly saw that the black-haired young man, enveloped within the golden sun curtain and seemingly about to be burned to ashes the next second, suddenly drew his right hand’s golden flame sword and cut through a space of “Surtur’s Blazing Sun Divine Kingdom.” Suddenly, the trace of the sword light precisely severed a thin, but infinitely concealed trace caused by his realm.
And in just an instant, the sword light of the End Sword Blade, like a straight line, swept across the blazing sun’s light curtain. Hundreds and thousands of intricate and dense rune chains, hidden beneath the magnificent power but extremely fragile due to demonic power, were shattered by a single sword!
“Wasn’t that a coincidence?”
Douglas’s expression changed as he felt the trend of the entire “Surtur’s Blazing Sun Divine Kingdom” collapsing, even affecting his solar domain.
He raised his eyes and met Ig’s pupils through the dense flame light, and in the young man’s azure blue eyes, a wave of fluctuation that he could not understand was evident.
“Young Master Ig, you’re hiding quite a lot… but that’s far from enough!”
Douglas suddenly grinned sinisterly, flipped his hand, and the scorching sun behind him, as well as the golden divine kingdom and solar domain, all collapsed. All the pure gold divine power surged into his sword, and he raised it, slashing down at Ig below him!
“This is your burial place: Collapsing Great Sun, Solar Starburst Sword!”
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The next chapter will definitely end it…
