[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-bloodline-system":3,"chapter-the-bloodline-system-the-bloodline-system-chapter-1654":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Bloodline System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1076986,1391,"Chapter 1654 1654: Watch Them Perish","the-bloodline-system-chapter-1654",1654,"\u003Cp>Standing in the center of the barrier was a silhouette.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A figure of pure shadow with a terrifying smile was responsible for the breach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis's voice echoed from the clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you really think…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…that your true body was safe within this bubble you created? So long as shadows exist, there is no place impossible for me to breach...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav's face drained of color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His original body was dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ritual was ruined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the shadow clone smiled wider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Checkmate, Outworldly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space vibrated as the glow of the ritual platform dimmed beneath Gustav's broken body. His torso was ripped open, displaying a gaping hole where cosmic heat still steamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His right arm was gone from the shoulder down, the left severed at the elbow. His lower body twitched, mangled and torn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blood which was an unnatural mix of crimson, silver, and cosmic particles, floated in globules around him like a dying constellation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet… he was still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav never died easily. Not even when death was the only reasonable outcome. Not even when entire cosmic beings willed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn't mean this wasn't catastrophic especially when the damage came from a deity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A brutal shudder rippled through Gustav's secondary form, the avatar battling the Overseer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His duplicate flickered, occasionaly as translucent patches broke out across his arms and chest, as if the very idea of him was dissolving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric saw it immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No!\" his voice tore through space with pure telepathic force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric's body vanished from its position in an instantly as he blinked and he reappeared directly in front of the Nocturnis clone that had dealt the blow to Gustav's real body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes blazed with green and gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRRRAAAAACKKKK!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric released a telekinetic burst so condensed it bent the vacuum, sending forth shockwave dense enough to shove celestial fragments aside. The force slammed into Nocturnis' clone like a divine hammer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clone staggered backward, turning into a streak of black distortion that blasted through what was left of the barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric followed his path as he tumbled through space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an instant, Endric seemed to have bought Gustav another second of life. Because if the ritual should resume, there was no doubt that Gustav's broken body would be fixed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that clone was not an ordinary opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though it was weakened... despite it being a fragment of the true Nocturnis, he radiated cosmic malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black runes crawled across his skin like writhing shadows. His smile curled faintly, suggesting he had already imagined one thousand ways to kill his opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recovered mid-spin, exhaled once, then lunged back toward Endric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric gritted his teeth as the greenish mark on his forehead began to glow, brighter, brighter, until the hue spilled across his entire face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Husarius lend me your power,\" Endric commanded inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gladly,\" Husarius responded with a tone if ancient pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric's body emitted a new scale of power as his bones creaked and his muscles contracted. His aura burst forth like a supernova, swirling green-tinted waves rolling from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clash resumed instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric met the Nocturnis clone head-on, slamming a telekinetic fist shaped from compressed space into the clone's chest. Nocturnis did not block, letting it strike him full-force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black smoke hissed from the impact point, but he did not flinch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He retaliated with a swipe of darkness that carved through space, tearing off kilometers of celestial debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric twisted, bending physics to dodge the attack by a hair, then retaliated with a time-folding kick empowered by Husarius—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOMMMMM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blow reverberated across the battlefield, sending the clone spiraling backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he came back again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unrelenting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric kept pushing, kept striking, every motion laced with telekinetic reinforcement amplified tenfold by Husarius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His attacks became a barrage of relentless wave intended to keep the clone from advancing an inch toward Gustav's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for a while… it worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Nocturnis' clone grew faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hungrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He adapted faster than Endric could shift tactics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Endric escalated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stretched out his hand toward a distant moon with a cratered surface cracked like eggshell from previous cosmic clashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Telekinetic chains wrapped around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crushed the entire moon in seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It imploded into a field of molten fragments, then Endric hurled the pieces at Nocturnis like a thousand meteorites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space between them lit up with streaks of fire and molten stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clone raised his hand and black flames erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BWHOOOOOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meteor after meteor exploded before reaching him but Endric seized the opportunity. He folded space, appearing above the clone with both palms pressed together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beam of compressed kinetic energy erupted like a green star detonating point-blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clone blocked with his forearm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force still hurled him backward a full hundred kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric panted heavily as blood streamed down the side of his nose. Husarius whispered caution, but Endric ignored it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't about survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was about keeping his brother alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he died doing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Gustav's other form, the luminous avatar battling the Overseer, flickered again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vision doubled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His senses blared static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His limbs trembled with failing connection to his dying core body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer saw it and seized the opening instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pure incandescent creation-light—shot from the Overseer's palms, striking Gustav in the stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BLAAAAAAMMM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav's avatar skidded through space, carving through several collapsing asteroids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could stabilize—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHAM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another blast struck him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a beam of cosmic light pierced him and sent him spiraling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pathetic,\" the Overseer hissed while appearing behind Gustav in a burst of golden glare. \"Even now you cling to weakness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He drove a foot into Gustav's back, blasting him downward into a drifting tectonic slab the size of a continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav crashed, carving a crater deep enough to swallow cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer hovered above him with starlight eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should never have created bonds. Your mortal connections will be your undoing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final word echoed like a sentence across all the realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Watch them perish.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav's breath hitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through his fragmenting sight, he saw Endric surrounded by explosions of dark energy, struggling to fend off Nocturnis clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Husarius' boost gave him enough to kept up but his body was tearing apart. His shields flickered like dying lanterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav felt a spark of horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'No… Endric…'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to move but the Overseer grabbed his throat and pinned him to the shattered earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Struggle,\" the Overseer whispered, cold and ruthless. \"It changes nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nocturnis clone finally gathered dark energy into a single fist, causing it to swirl like a compressed singularity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slammed it into the transparent ritual platform beneath him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>KA-THOOOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blast was cataclysmic, sending out a wave of intense dark energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric's created ten layers of telekinetic shields but they shattered instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His chest caved in slightly as he was hammered backward by the concussive force with blood exploding from his mouth. His lungs nearly collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body spun into space as his bloodline energy flickered like a dying spark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to breathe but there was no air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was only agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then his body descended from the sky and landed back onto the ritual platform with a loud thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clone advanced slowly began to advance but this time, Endric couldn't rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Husarius screamed warnings inside his mind, but Endric's limbs wouldn't move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And beyond him…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nocturnis clone gathered a swirling bomb of dark energy which happened to be a massive attack broad enough to wipe out everything in a ten-thousand-kilometer radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ritual stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ria and Sersi who hid nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Gustav's broken, bleeding body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All would be disintegrated the moment Nocturnis clone launched this attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav saw the attack forming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saw Endric bleeding, floating helplessly, unable to raise even a finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saw the glowing black sphere expanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And something inside Gustav snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer tightened his grip, holding Gustav un place so he could witness their ruin but Gustav did something unexpected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He relaxed causing his body to go limp for a half-second and then he twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using one of the oldest, strangest techniques he possessed, his avatar slipped from the Overseer's grasp like liquid light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Overseer could comprehend it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FZZZTTT!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav blasted backward toward Endric... toward the ritual site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer roared and followed but Gustav already had a headstart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thrust one palm forward and a beam of white-gold energy erupted, enveloping Endric's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric's eyes widened in silent disbelief as light wrapped around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not today,\" Gustav whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SHWOOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endric vanished just in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark explosion unleashed by the clone struck the ritual stone and the world ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shockwave ripped through the transparent planet where the ritual was ongoing and the entire platform turned to dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space around it shattered and Gustav's broken body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—was blasted apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His severed head drifted one way...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mangled torso drifted in another direction...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood scattered like a crimson nebula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with that…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other Gustav began flickering as cracks appeared along his form.\u003C\u002Fp>",1511,"2026-06-03T10:34:21.839Z",1,"novelbin.me","4effef2ce0ec74dfe626000dff24deb395eca27e93be05d1c2c6510b64405517","the-bloodline-system-chapter-1655","the-bloodline-system-chapter-1653",1688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-bloodline-system-cover.jpg"]