Chapter 151: Zar Tek's Curse

The black energy, as heavy as flowing sand, coalesced into a sphere and gathered in Ipaña III's hand; he lightly blew on his exposed, blackened, rotting lips outside the gauze, and the dark energy instantly began to spread outward.

The energy sphere in his hand was like an endless doorway, continuously pouring out black energy; the first to be touched was the ten‑headed primordial snake lizard formed by Peng Peng, whose massive, sturdy body could not resist the energy at all and was instantly devoured clean, leaving not even a bone.

Naimi Xisi frowned at the sight; he had never seen the spell wielded by the Mummy of the ancient Maztek empire, and could only infer its likely effect from the intense necrotic energy.

"Devouring living beings?"

After swallowing the ten primordial snake lizards, the dark energy spread even faster, raging toward Naimi Xisi at the top of the steps.

"Hahaha, behold the power beneath Zar Tek's crown!!" the Mummy laughed wildly.

Naimi Xisi extended his clearly knuckled, jade‑white, slender fingers and pointed at the tide formed by the dark energy.

Gale, lightning, flame, ice—various Evocation spells surged out under the effect of Super Magic Instant, yet the black tide remained unmoved.

The gale could not blow, the lightning could not stir a ripple, and even flame and ice were kept beyond the surface of the black tide.

Naimi Xisi then tried force field, thunder, psychic, and positive energy attacks; the first two were thwarted by the black tide, while the emergence of positive energy caused a large, visible chunk of the black tide to evaporate.

"Oh? Afraid of positive energy, then it's simple."

A silver moonlight‑formed cloak hung behind him, and Holy Light descended from the heavens; the black tide, upon touching the light, began to bubble and evaporate like boiling water, and Naimi Xisi could faintly hear wailing sounds emanating from it.

The light solidified into a blade of light and swept toward the Mummy; wherever it touched, the black tide shattered and vanished without a trace. The Mummy roared, and a mass of black sand abruptly materialized before him, forming a massive shield that barely blocked the Holy Light.

"Damn! You actually destroyed Zar Tek's Curse?! That's impossible!" Ipaña III exclaimed in shock.

Naimi Xisi continued to sustain the Holy Light, steadily eroding the black shield before Ipaña III; in his mind, the Holy Light was already an Eight Ring Divine Spell, and with his amplification it reached twenty times its normal strength—any necrotic energy that met this light would likely turn into a wisp of smoke.

The shield formed by this so‑called Zar Tek's Curse, lasting this long, was already an extremely powerful spell.

Ordinary necromancy, though fearful of Holy Light, also fears flame, and even other elements can harm and impede it.

But the spell wielded by this Mummy was unusual; aside from positive energy, all common elements had no effect on it, so practitioners lacking positive‑energy attacks would truly be at a loss.

Although Naimi Xisi did not understand the spell's mechanism, his Magic Net perception allowed him to vaguely guess that the dark energy seemed to be forged from an enormous amount of tormented souls.

This displeased the law‑neutral Juan Ce Long. He had learned from the Rain Dragon that, aside from the two guardian goddesses worshipped by the Paiite, the deities revered by these Niksalan were each more evil than the last, all tyrannical gods who squeezed their followers' flesh for sacrifice.

The divine spells mastered by their shamans were each more wicked than the previous.

The only relatively civilized area among the Niksalan was the Kurtaka Kingdom in the northeast; the shaman expelled for practicing necromancy was once a subject of that kingdom.

The refugees came from the Huakli Alliance, which was even more ruthless; the deities they worshipped—the Ruler of Sun and Fire Tizka and the Giver of Rain and Breath Azul—demanded fresh adult hearts and newborn infants as daily offerings.

In comparison, the Golden Legion's treatment of the Paiite could be called merciful; even disobedient Paiite were merely driven away to become labor slaves for city construction.

Moreover, they were always free to renounce their faith and shed the slave status.

"Foolish great dragon!! How dare you oppose Zar Tek's radiance!! I am Ipaña III, a loyal devotee of the War Messenger, the ancient one entombed within the golden pyramid! Damn intruder, I will make you pay!!"

The shield fractured piece by piece under the Holy Light, and this seemed to enrage the Mummy, causing him to roar loudly, as if destroying the black tide were a grave disrespect to the deity named Zar Tek.

The dark energy on his body surged suddenly, and the black shield instantly disintegrated into a spread of sand; but just as the Holy Light was about to strike the Mummy, his bandages fell away, revealing a rotting, dark‑blue corpse with a blood‑red maw lined with fangs at his chest.

Except for the fangs, his skin bore strange leopard‑like markings, and with the dark‑blue flesh it looked grotesquely sickly; the blood‑red maw emitted a sharp sound, then a black Energy Cone radiated outward, colliding with the Holy Light.

The black Energy Cone and the Holy Light engaged in an evenly matched duel, neither yielding; Naimi Xisi sensed that, although the colors were similar, this attack differed entirely from the so‑called Zar Tek's Curse. The black energy now brimmed with a Berserk element and extreme heat, appearing to be a rare Plastic Energy Divine Spell.

!

The Holy Light clearly could not suppress flame, and soon Naimi Xisi's Holy Light was extinguished.

"Hm!"

Naimi Xisi let out a cold snort, then extended his index finger again, gathering massive positive energy at its tip; this time, however, flame energy also coalesced alongside the positive energy.

Six‑Ring Evocation — Solar Flare Ray!

With a brief incantation completed, a thick, incandescent white energy column nearly a meter wide shot out, bombarding the Mummy like an energy cannon; the pure high temperature also carried an extremely high concentration of positive energy, instantly crushing the black Energy Cone and enveloping the Mummy's body within it.

Ipaña III let out a harrowing scream; his body slowly faded within the light column, the result of being devoured by pure positive energy and flame.

"No!!! I will not die!!! I am immortal!!!!"

Ipaña III wailed within the flames; with a violent explosion, the Mummy inside the white energy column was blown to pieces, leaving no whole corpse, and the largest fragment was reduced to ash by the combination of pure positive energy and flame.

(End of Chapter)