Chapter 76: Twilight Stained with Blood

"'Termination' and 'Slaughter'?" Badehaier walked up to the Iron and Blood greatsword, his body seemingly trembling.

A certain eerie power even gave Badehaier a terrifying sensation that his own existence was about to be erased.

"You possess my power, you can approach it." The Giant King urged Badehaier to step forward and take the sword.

"Yes!" Badehaier stepped forward with heavy footsteps; the next instant, a blood-colored single eye seemed to open on the sword, staring fixedly at Badehaier.

His "weakness" was completely exposed under this sword at this moment.

If this sword were viewed as a Sealed Artifact, it would certainly become one of the most dangerous Sealed Artifacts with the greatest side effects.

But this sword did not attack him, perhaps suppressed by the power of "Twilight."

Badehaier stepped forward and grasped the hilt.

For an instant, Badehaier even had the illusion of holding the fate of the universe; in his vision, all things became imperfect, all possessing "weaknesses."

"Such powerful strength..." Badehaier was even somewhat intoxicated.

But a certain more powerful desire overcame this illusion, causing him to sober up.

"Very good! Go find 'Misfortune' and destroy his ritual to ascend to godhood!" The Giant King's voice echoed in Badehaier's ears.

"Yes!" Badehaier held the sword with both hands and knelt on one knee.

The Giant King nodded in satisfaction; he was already very exhausted, the twilight in his single eye nearly dissipating, his single eye slightly narrowed, dozing like a human.

"Father God, I have one more question." Badehaier raised his head and looked directly at the Giant King.

"Ask." Ormir did not even open his single eye.

"Why does the Decaying Forest linger with a sense of guilt that has not dissipated for a thousand years?"

"And who is the identity of the skeleton in that tomb?"

Badehaier's voice had no magic, but these two sentences themselves were a kind of awakening of Ormir's memories, causing the mentally unstable Ormir's body to stiffen, his mind muddled for an instant.

That was a past he was unwilling to touch, now easily laid bare.

"You..." A surge of unimaginable tyranny and desire for Destruction welled up in Ormir's heart; even his eldest son had never been allowed by him to enter the Decaying Forest!

Pfft!

Ormir opened his single eye, and a blood-colored "Twilight" exploded, causing the entire Giant King's Court to fall into unprecedented turmoil.

Twilight churned, and blood color permeated the air.

But the next moment, everything went still.

The twilight solidified like amber, trapping everything; the King's Court became a cage, and the giants within the cage were merely insects.

That greatsword, mixed with blood color and Twilight, easily activated "Termination," directly piercing into Ormir's chest.

This greatsword also possessed living Characteristics; after gaining Insight into Badehaier's thoughts, it also made its own response.

It wanted to deliver the most fatal blow to this Giant King who had oppressed and modified it for hundreds of years.

"Termination!"

This fatal blow, mixed with the implications of Decay and war, was something even the Giant King could not use, or it would cause terrible consequences.

But now it was activated under the greatsword's own will, terminating its creator.

"I am different from you; I will not harbor guilt."

Badehaier's voice echoed in the Twilight Palace.

Oumibeila struggled to escape from the pursuit of the Underworld's subordinate gods and rushed toward the Giant King's Court.

She had brought the Giant King's crown in advance, otherwise she would not have been able to escape from the Underworld.

Because of her status as the Giant Queen, the subordinate gods of the Underworld hunted her like madmen, leaving her in an extremely poor state, needing to return to the King's Court immediately to stabilize herself.

"Where is the King?" Oumibeila asked the "Silver Knight" guarding the gate.

"The King has already returned to the Twilight Palace, and the God of 'Dawn' has already gone to the palace to stand guard." The two "Silver Knights" replied respectfully.

"Dawn..." A trace of unease suddenly rose in Oumibeila's heart, and in an instant, she thought of many things.

Such as "Honor," such as the "God of Knowledge"—these all came from that stone tablet exchanged at a huge price, which recorded the Potion Formula for the "Giant" Pathway.

She did not know when it started, but as a mother, she faintly sensed that Badehaier's thoughts had undergone some bad changes.

She was very worried about this and used various methods to suppress certain thoughts of Badehaier.

But now...

Oumibeila's Godhood intuition jumped wildly, and she rushed to the Twilight Palace at the fastest speed.

"I am different from you; I will not harbor guilt."

Badehaier's voice reached Oumibeila's ears, causing the life force in Oumibeila's single eye to fluctuate violently; she sensed the passing of a powerful life!

Oumibeila broke into the Twilight Palace; the Barrier set up by Ormir was already a mere formality, having lost all its power.

The blood-red greatsword pierced through Ormir's chest, having already terminated all his hope of life.

"Badehaier!" Oumibeila saw the two giants in the depths of the palace, and a great chill enveloped her; even when facing "Death," she had never felt such powerlessness.

Oumibeila's intrusion seemed to allow Ormir's final spirit to linger for a while, not being directly annihilated by Badehaier.

Badehaier had not expected his mother to return in such a short time, causing him to panic for an instant, but he soon calmed down.

The Giant King was already dead.

Ormir glanced at Oumibeila, then turned his gaze to Badehaier; in his single eye, an extremely complex emotion was surging.

Hatred, remorse, or perhaps an even more indescribable emotion.

Because of "Termination," the Characteristics on his body had completely disintegrated at this moment, unable to support the madness of an Ancient God.

This gave Ormir a trace of illusory humanity; this last remnant of spirit seemed to have rich emotions.

"Will you not feel guilt?" Ormir looked at Badehaier, not asking for the reason, but just whispering softly, "You will not feel guilt..."

Boom!

Something exploded, and several bright things carrying a sense of Decay crumbled from the Giant King's body, surging toward Badehaier's body because of the convergence of Characteristics.

The Twilight lingering throughout the entire Giant King's Court underwent a strange change; it... lost its life.

Before the eyes of all Giants, and even Beyonders of the "Giant" Pathway, a patch of Twilight suddenly went lifeless, stained with a heavy blood color.

The Twilight was still Twilight, but it had lost its vitality, lost its life.

That deity representing Twilight and Decay had fallen.

All Beyonders of the Giant Pathway had this realization, shocked beyond words.

Hum!

Those few rays of bright Twilight Light approached Badehaier.

Materials flew out from his body, forming a mass of viscous Twilight Potion with one of the rays of light, which surged into Badehaier's body.

"God of Knowledge"... Badehaier had always been Ormir's most trusted right-hand man, having already acted the role for a thousand years.

As for the ritual, Badehaier had already completed it in secret.