CHAPTER 325: FLIP HEAVEN AND EARTH

Everyone was completely stunned. Darian was radiating such a powerful, sinister aura it felt like it had turned into a physical force.

Tir, Awel, and Eleri stared at him in a whole new light, eyes wide in shock. Until then, in their minds, that "hybrid" was just someone who relied mostly on hidden weapons and his sharp mind to pull off miracles. But now...

Darian waved his hand again. All the black runes pulsed.

*BOOM!*

The black cage exploded violently, leaving the beasts and the Golden Monkey dumbfounded. Space itself rippled chaotically for a few seconds, and when everything calmed down...

...at the center of it all, only a pair of crimson eyes stared back at them coldly.

The beast leader reacted instantly, waving his hand.

"DIE!" a deafening roar blasted from behind.

"Brother Darian, watch out!" Awel shouted desperately.

The three youths’ hearts clenched. A leopard-shaped beast had suddenly appeared bizarrely right behind Darian. Its razor-sharp claws were just inches away from his head.

It was one of the most feared assassin-beasts of all. Using its bloodline power, it blinked through space for a sinister strike. On top of that, it was level 4 — one of the strongest in the whole city.

Its blink ability was insanely bizarre. It all happened so fast that not even an experienced fighter like the Golden Monkey had time to react or even notice the move.

The moment the claw was about to pierce Darian’s skull...

...his hand, wrapped in a dark power, intercepted the strike, grabbing the claw and stopping the beast cold. His speed and physical power were completely abnormal — but only that beast got to realize it.

Then, his other fist shot forward.

*BANG!*

A rain of blood sprayed before everyone’s eyes.

They couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Darian’s hand had just grabbed that deadly attack? And then... then he simply punched and turned the beast into a bloody mist?

"Hmm? Was that a mosquito?" Darian mocked calmly.

At that moment, the three youths’ hearts started pounding like frenzied war drums.

"Free all your brothers here and wait for me. I’ll finish this quick."

His voice was steady, and then the only sound was his footsteps moving forward. With a flick, two strange daggers appeared in his hands.

The Golden Monkey swallowed hard and drew his saber, trying to grip it firmly... but his hands were slightly trembling.

Darian smiled as he looked at him.

The beast leader, face pale, instantly crushed a crystal in his hand.

An alarm rang across the entire city, summoning every beast. At the same time, the ground beneath them began to tremble.

The structure above the forge pulsed. Every wall of the city shook and lit up. Everything was connected through the materials, bending to the leader’s will.

In less than ten seconds, the underground area was exposed. The ceiling split open, revealing a massive hole where the forge stood.

**ROAR!!**

Countless primal roars thundered like storms.

Suddenly, a sea of thousands of colossal beasts filled every visible direction.

The three youths couldn’t even breathe. But then...

A small humanoid figure shot up like a black lightning bolt into the skies, wielding only two daggers.

"KILL HIM!"

Eight figures lunged straight at Darian.

They were the strongest — all level 4, only slightly weaker than the leader himself. There had been ten of them before, but Darian had already killed one. That fact alone terrified the rest, and now they all attacked with everything they had, together.

They surrounded Darian and struck from every side. The three youths on the ground clenched their fists... when suddenly...

*BOOOOM!*

A powerful explosion shook the skies. The three youths looked up, eyes wide in shock.

They saw Darian at the center of a black sun, wrapped in countless fire runes. It had appeared out of nowhere, and the moment those beasts attacked, they were swallowed by a violent power.

"Brother..." Awel muttered, clenching his fists.

The three of them looked up with eyes shining in awe. Until Tir snorted and activated his power.

In the skies, four level 4 beasts were killed outright, the others surviving only with terrible wounds.

Darian let out a breath — this was absolute dark power, mixed with the explosive force of fire in perfect harmony. He had stored every fire rune from the system, and now he unleashed them all at once, fusing them with his dark power to create a terrifying defense and attack in one.

In a normal battle, this would be insane, since he couldn’t leave the prison of his own power. But in a fight against thousands, this was the perfect invention.

At that instant, he waved his hand.

The fire runes shot out like missiles, exploding among the beasts all around.

*BOOM! BOOOM!! BOOOOM!!!*

From earth to sky, everything was chaos. Blood and corpses rained down, soaking the ground in red. The beasts’ lives seemed as worthless as blades of grass.

In a frenzy, they roared and charged at Darian. But wrapped in that black-and-red sun, anything that touched him instantly exploded.

The dark power reacted only to direct contact, but the fire runes spread in every direction, blasting and exploding into the beasts from afar.

"He can’t hold that forever! ATTACK!" the beast leader ordered, noticing the fire runes were starting to dwindle.

Massive explosions swallowed the entire area, leaving no escape. Anyone who dared to get close was obliterated without a trace.

But... as minutes passed, the beast leader’s expression began to change.

From above, Darian looked straight at him and waved.

"Run!"

The leader roared furiously, spreading his wings and using his bloodline together with all the wind runes from the system. He wanted to shield the weaker ones attacking from a distance, from Darian’s direct strike.

But suddenly...

Their bodies froze in place. Only their eyes still moved, horrified as they noticed a subtle black dust swirling around them.

*BOOM!*

A wave of fire rained down on them like exploding fireworks, not even giving them time to scream.

Darian smiled. His control over that black dust and the system’s powers was absolute. After spending days stockpiling runes in his inventory, he had plenty of fuel to burn. His power was enough to flip heaven and earth upside down.

In just a few minutes, more than 80% of his stored runes had been consumed, but he had wiped out over two-thirds of the beasts. The city was reduced to rubble, blood-soaked ground everywhere.

That Golden Monkey, of course, was nowhere to be seen. He had fled the moment the slaughter began. But he wouldn’t live long, and Darian was in no hurry.

The three youths, meanwhile, were perfectly safe underground, where Tir had sealed the entrance with his earth power.

At that moment, a pair of wings slowly spread over the charred ground. Then, hundreds of surviving beasts stared at the city’s devastation in horror.

"Ah, hey there, everyone!"

Suddenly, Darian appeared above them, smiling and waving cheerfully.

"HEAVENS!"

The beasts trembled uncontrollably. Darian had stepped out of the black sun, now holding a blazing mass of fire runes in his hand.

"This isn’t good!"

The beast leader’s face went pale, and he hurriedly spread his wings again. But that burning mass of runes was already falling right in front of him.

**KBOOM!**

A terrifying explosion erupted, leaving no time for anyone to react.