I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 920

Decay, ingrained in the blood, even every inch of blood and flesh was rotting violently, the pain brought was more than ten thousand times more painful than slicing.
This was the “Abyss Sword” from Hodrea, which corrupted Ig’s spirit and soul.
He couldn’t even feel the sign of his physical body’s existence, touching only the rotting decaying flesh of the abyss itself, which was already nauseating. He tried to raise his head, but his vision was a silent darkness, the spreading abyss also deprived him of his sight and hearing.
However, Ig could feel Hodrea approaching and the excitement in his heart.
“You won…?”
Ig muttered, the sword that defeated him still echoed in the empty darkness before his eyes.
That was the swordsmanship of the abyss, the fusion of Hodrea’s will and the sword saint Geon’s swordsmanship. Ig was defeated by this sword, but this was not because Verafia’s swordsmanship was inferior, or eternally inferior to the abyss.
The opponent still had a gap of a major realm from him, even if the entire abyss world almost compensated for the perception of demonic power, it did not change the fact that this swordsman had already approached legend.
Hodrea’s aura was like oil in a raging fire, extremely strong, not only was the abyss sword almost complete, but his aura was also at its peak. As long as he swung the sword representing the abyss, there was no doubt that he would become a true legend!
“Hodrea, your swordsmanship comes from the former sword saint Geon. You are his disciple, and you witnessed him fall into the abyss – ridiculous, you actually created the abyss with his swordsmanship?”
Ig’s hoarse voice came, mocking. His vocal cords were completely corroded by the abyss, and every word he uttered felt like tearing pain.
Hodrea stopped. “My teacher did fall into the abyss, but he touched the truth. If my teacher could see me interpreting the sword of abyss will with his swordsmanship, he would surely be pleased.”
Despite having no sight or hearing, Ig could still see the other’s face and hear his voice. “In the abyss, what exactly did you see?”
“Such a question… Ig, you still haven’t surpassed worldly prejudice, and opened your eyes to see the true abyss? No wonder you lost to me.”
Hodrea said, the dark red luster like the abyss flickering in his dark pupils.
“I gaze at the abyss, and it presents the origin of this world.”
The swordsman’s face twisted into a sarcastic smile. “Ig, have you ever thought that what you’ve experienced, what you’ve loved, is nothing more than a fake game?”
“Is that just a stage set by bored people to entertain themselves on this world, a chessboard divided for their amusement? Even your life’s legend, you don’t know it’s just a simple dice roll?”
“Fake curtain… The master of the game?”
Ig thought of Verafia and Sylvia’s conversation in the Sky City: “A god, or destiny?”
“Don’t you know that so-called gods and destiny are just one ten-millionth of that existence?” Hodrea’s mocking voice came.
“Then, you and the Saintess of the Abyss, are you trying to borrow the power of the abyss…”
“The Abyss Saintess and what I pursue are never the same. She just wants to use the power of the abyss to create the kingdom of her dreams. But this is not what I want – perhaps, in her eyes, I just resent my teacher for being swallowed by the abyss, but that’s a big mistake. How could I hate him for seeing the truth?”
A hint of madness flickered in Hodrea’s eyes, like the dark abyss shining on his greatsword.
“I will bring the tide of the abyss – this world should be submerged by the abyss. In the tide of the abyss, false rules will be broken, and this concealed world will return to its true and complete form before it was divided!”
Conceal the world and return to the chaotic state of the past?
Even though his body was decaying and his heart had turned into a pool of pus and blood, Ig still felt his heart pound heavily.
In anyone’s eyes, his words were insane. This madman’s words were no different from world destruction!
“In the abyss, why wouldn’t it be a beautiful world? Ig, like me, you are the vessel of the abyss, we are fellow travelers, you should open your eyes and see our beautiful world!”
Hodrea threw away a greatsword, the remaining flan greatsword surging with dark red abyss, extending his hand to Ig, as if inviting him, but his eyes surged with hysterical madness:
“I didn’t deceive you, nor did I exaggerate! The world after the abyss, warm sunlight shines, nurturing all living beings, and all things born are equal – that is a perfect world!”
Ig’s fingers trembled heavily. His arm had long been cut off from his body, his flesh rotted, and even his bones were decayed, but when he touched the hilt of the Sword of the End, it felt like he was holding the sword again, forgotten through countless years.
His eyes were also rotten, leaving only empty sockets. He opened them again, and the azure blue color surged back.
What he saw before him was an abyss. But it was not the usual silence and decay. Ig saw a rich vitality, colorful light everywhere, and the gentle golden dawn shone on the earth.
This was not an illusion. Ig was certain that what he saw was the truth.
Just as Hodrea said, it was a perfect world, with no conflict and inexhaustible material resources… He even felt that for the beings born from the abyss, every ray of abyssal light was incomparably beautiful, it was the pure sunlight that brought them life.
Hodrea wanted to submerge this continent with the abyss, so that they could return to a pure world.
“Indeed, you did not lie, it is a perfect world, few would not be moved by it.”
Hodrea showed an expectant look. Ig suddenly let out a laugh, his hand tightly gripping the hilt of the Sword of the End:
“However, this world, in everyone’s eyes, represents destruction… You will destroy all lives, destroy the history of all civilizations, just for the so-called perfect world?”
“That is the world we should truly possess!”
Hodrea roared from his throat, his eyes filled with anger:
“Life originally came from the division of the world – we reintegrate into the abyss, and the world will create us again, what is so unacceptable about that!”
“No. This is just your delusion. Moreover… how can I let Veer, and the future Veer looks forward to, be submerged by the world you fancy?”
Gripping the Sword of the End tightly in his hand, Ig actually stood up again in the sea of abyss, opened his azure blue eyes, and met Hodrea’s gaze without any concealment.
The other was a tall and majestic swordsman, whose heroic temperament was difficult for even legendary heroes to match. As for Ig, eroded by the abyss, he had warped into an ugly monster, even his flesh rotting from his skeleton, emitting a nauseating stench.
However, the two of them represented opposite madness and rationality. The abyss interpreted them in completely different ways.
Hodrea roared, raising his greatsword condensed with dark red demonic power. The “Abyss Sword” slashed down in his hand. At this instant, his aura soared, and the entire abyss sea churned, stepping from the Sacred Domain into the realm of legend!
Ig witnessed the world Hodrea depicted. The abyss gazed into his pupils.
The Sword of the End was also drawn from his hand, the chaotic black flames bursting forth with the golden brilliance of a sacred sword. At the same time, an incomparably brilliant eternal light was released.
Where the light touched, the abyss disintegrated, Ig’s decaying body was reshaped, and even the corrosion of the abyss was erased. The black-haired youth’s azure blue eyes surged with eternal light, his aura instantly entering the Sacred Domain!
Like Hodrea, the golden brilliance in the abyss world also gave Ig power beyond that of gods!
“Boom boom—”
As the greatsword was swung down, Hodrea’s “Abyss” fell before his eyes, like the madness in his eyes.
The eternal sword’s dazzling brilliance cut through the darkness, and as Ig swung his arm, the colorful light of “Eternity” converged, condensing into a white light and slashing, cutting through the abyss before him, countless darknesses danced wildly, and were instantly devoured by the dazzling brilliance!
Ig slashed down with one sword, and pure white sword light pierced Hodrea’s body, abyss flesh and blood falling like rain all over the world.
The collision of the two swords, in an instant, whether it was the abyss or eternity, the light that burst forth instantly submerged the entire world. The abyss demonic power surged, the ocean evaporated, and even the spatial planes melted and annihilated!
It was as if the world was completely solidified for an instant, then transformed into an unmoving eternity. Finally, a row of shadows was cast in the eternity, merely illuminating the youth’s figure.
Ig tightly gripped the long sword in his right hand and slashed down, the abyss evaporated completely, half of the world turned into pure crystals, like a mirror, reflecting the eternal brilliant sword light.
And Hodrea also stood before him, the greatsword of the abyss in his hand was destroyed, he let out a muffled groan, and on his tall body, the tattered armor that once belonged to the Flan Overseer shattered on the ground. He knelt down, his body like abyss blood coughed out, disappearing continuously under the eternal sword light.
This was the sword technique that Ig used last time to cut off the abyss, almost to his throat.
Hodrea, reshaping his body with the abyss, and even on the edge of the world, using Ig as a whetstone to forge the sword technique that truly represented “Abyss,” was still completely destroyed by that single sword.
“This sword…”
Unlike before, with a completely indifferent and mad tone, Hodrea only uttered a weak sound.
Ig remembered that he had never told Hodrea the name of that sword technique, so he smiled: “Originally, I thought of calling it Abyss Slash, simply meaning to cut off the abyss. However, that little girl Verafia disliked the name and named it Eternity.”
“Eternity…”
Hodrea seemed to murmur slightly, suddenly, his continuously disappearing face gradually lifted, and the dark red or dark luster in his eyes disappeared, revealing the dark blue eyes he had before he plunged into the abyss and shaped his abyssal body.
“You are the abyss… If you are the abyss, then it is good.”
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Finally, little Huo is offline…
PS: In fact, I wrote him like the Ashen One in Soulslike (In fact, I originally planned to have the decisive battle in the Fort of the Fallen, but unfortunately, there was no opportunity, so I combined the abyss line and the elf line.)