Chapter 1019: Three Deaths in One Day

In battle, Lei En does not become complacent; his mind is intensely focused, and he has only one thought: to kill the Eternal Chosen!

He and the remaining nine mirror images almost immediately followed Aiken, descending onto the crumbling Gordon Bridge.

The ten Lei En do not swarm together; instead, they act with clear roles. Four wield the Soul‑Combusting Heavy Sword, charging into the explosion's aftershock, entangling the gravely wounded, near‑death Aiken. The other six, including Lei En's true form, spread across the bridge, simultaneously activating the Metal Domain.

Boom!

The main structure of the Gordon Bridge is steel, weighing over ten million pounds; it had already been blown into two halves and was falling into the sea when it suddenly halted, suspended in midair.

Under the horrified gazes of countless onlookers—

The bridge seemed to be ripped apart by an invisible giant hand from both ends, and the middle section, over a thousand meters long, was flung upward!

The bridge towers, steel cables, ropes, railings… every steel component twisted violently with the deck, melting into liquid and forming countless arrows, spears, blades, saw‑teeth and iron chains, covering the sky like a hundred‑meter‑high steel wave that crashed toward the center.

There, four Lei En were beating Aiken.

Lei En's All‑Seeing Eye locked onto Aiken, the enemy's condition appearing in minute detail in his mind.

The Eternal Chosen did not die in the first wave; the Moka's Armor was already a Legend Grade cuirass with astonishing defense, and after being blessed by the Plague Lord it gained recovery comparable to the Heart of the Earth—unless killed outright, any wound could heal.

While Aiken was gravely wounded, he had not yet escaped the blast radius of the Electric Blast Orb and the God's Staff, nor even a chance to catch his breath, when four mirror images struck.

His Crown of Dominion can control space; a thought lets it appear anywhere within a few hundred meters.

It can also teleport directly to other planes.

But during the explosion, a mirror image shouted loudly, "Teleportation is prohibited here."

At the same time, the three mirror images besieging him each employed a tactic. One opened an anti‑magic field; although mirror images can only cast up to Eight‑ring spells, the Eight‑ring anti‑magic field's range is small, yet sufficient for close‑quarter combat.

One mirror image cast "Space Lock," and another hurled a Dimensional Anchor at Aiken.

Finally, before maintaining the Metal Domain, Lei En's true form released "Phase Distortion," preventing any teleportation to other planes and entry into the Prime Material Plane within several thousand meters.

The four tactics turned Aiken into a trapped beast.

He had nowhere to run and could only face the close‑quarter assault of the four mirror images.

It must be said that Aiken's combat experience and swordsmanship are among the few in the world, and the Regicide Sword he wields is unmatched in power—heavy, sharp, each swing bearing terrifying heat. His strength has reached Level 20, and even mirror images with titanium‑gold bodies struggle to withstand it.

But two fists cannot match four hands, let alone the four mirror images' eight hands.

Moreover, the mirror images fear no death.

During the brawl, Aiken's crimson greatsword drove into a mirror image's chest, the tip piercing out the back, yet the image showed no pain, tossed aside its weapon, and its hands activated Indestructible Iron Fist, gripping the Regicide Sword's blade tightly.

In just half a second, the image's hands burned like red coals, sizzing and emitting black smoke.

Aiken could not withdraw the greatsword in time.

The other three mirror images seized the chance to inflict severe wounds; the Thousand‑Throat Demon Shield blocked only one Soul‑Combusting Heavy Sword, but his heart was pierced and shattered again.

A Soul‑Combusting Heavy Sword struck his head with a clang, failing to cleave the Crown of Dominion.

However, the terrifying power's shockwave almost turned Aiken's head into mush; beneath his helmet, all seven orifices spurted blood, he felt dizzy and nauseous, the excruciating pain made him scream, his mind went blank.

A final sliver of reason let the Eternal Chosen keep swinging, but the sword suddenly lightened, and the mirror image that had pierced his chest vanished before his eyes.

The other three mirror images also flickered out of sight.

Aiken's vision went black.

A towering steel tide surged from all directions, instantly engulfing him!

Boom…

The impact of the ten‑million‑pound steel raining from the sky is beyond any weapon's capability, scarier than a Ten‑ring Spell. The already gravely wounded Aiken was instantly crushed by the unimaginable weight, reduced to dust‑like particles, and even the Moka's Armor's regeneration could not keep up.

Lei En and the mirror images finally ceased.

Nine identical Lei En hovered midair, jointly controlling the Metal Domain; a massive iron sphere dozens of meters in diameter contracted wildly, crushing the Eternal Chosen's crown within.

Each second consumes a massive amount of soul energy.

But Lei En does not care.

The Pixel World stores vast Soul Diamonds that can be replenished at any time.

The flaming tunnel at Shan Zhi was blocked by an Extreme Warrior, deliberately left intact so the Demon Legion could charge out to their deaths, continuously harvesting electricity.

After a few breaths, the steel tide dispersed, turning into chunks of scrap iron that fell into the sea.

The Eternal Chosen vanished, his helmet, greatsword and shield, along with fragments of the Moka's Armor, fell with the scrap.

Some people near the Gordon Bridge who saw the relics couldn't help but scream in shock.

"He's dead!"

"The Eternal Chosen was killed by the Consul!"

In the sky, the hellish three‑headed dragon Dolgiha, locked in a frenzied bite with Boleqi, let out a mournful roar: "No! My master, this cannot be…", then Boleqi seized the chance to bite it several times, dragon blood raining down.

Both sides fighting for the Eye of Xilian paused, looking toward Lei En's battlefield with doubtful faces.

Lei En narrowed his eyes.

He does not believe that the Eternal Chosen, blessed by the Abyssal Four Gods, could be slain so easily.

With that thought, Lei En extended a telekinetic hand toward the Regicide Sword, while two other mirror images locked onto the Crown of Dominion and the Thousand‑Throat Demon Shield, ready to seize them. If Aiken loses these three Legend Grade pieces, even resurrected he poses little threat.

Suddenly, a sigil blazing with four colors of flame materialized in the void.

Four distinct phantom silhouettes circled the sigil.

Lei En glanced at it, his spirit jolted, his soul involuntarily trembling—the projection of the Abyssal Four Gods!

Lord of Darkness, Lord of Chaos, Plague Lord and Lord of the Dead.

Their projected power is less than a billionth of their true forms, yet the aura they emit makes the entire Albert Bay tremble; at that moment, as if time and space themselves stalled, everyone saw a towering figure reborn within the burning sigil.

Aiken has revived!

The fragments of the Moka's Armor gathered onto him, reconstituting a flawless cuirass, and the Regicide Sword and Thousand‑Throat Demon Shield returned to his hands.

In an instant, the Eternal Chosen was back!

People watching the scene were shaken, terrified, and thought to themselves: Is this the power of the Abyssal Four Gods?

Lei En had a grim face.

He now understood that the strongest thing on Aiken wasn't those few Legend Grade items, but the "Abyssal Mark" jointly bestowed by the Abyssal Four Gods. As the first Eternal Chosen in history, the prophesied destroyer of the world, the Abyssal Four Gods' favor toward Aiken was like that toward a beloved son.

The illusory forms of the Abyssal Four Gods dispersed, and Aiken hovered unharmed in midair.

The reborn him opened his eyes and met Lei En's gaze.

"The great power of the four gods is something a mortal like you cannot comprehend even a fraction of." Aiken raised his sword pointing at Lei En, his face a mix of frenzy, confidence, arrogance, and contempt for the powerful enemy before him.

Lei En gave a cold laugh, "Is this what you call 'either you die or I perish'?"

For someone who can revive thanks to the Abyssal Mark to swear a "you die or I die" oath sounds utterly ridiculous and shameful.

Aiken said in a low voice, "Revival is also a kind of power."

"Every gift of fate has its price secretly marked." Lei En said calmly, "I can kill you once, naturally I can kill you twice, ten times, a hundred times. The Abyssal Four Gods loom above; I don't know if they tolerate a wasteful trash squandering their power."

The first half of that sentence made Aiken's expression freeze, his eyes flickering; when he heard the second half, his face suddenly changed.

This slowed his reaction by half a step.

Lei En moved to attack!

Still, four mirror images flashed over, melee-encircling Aiken, while simultaneously using the "Wish Spell", "anti-magic force", "Dimensional Anchor", and "phase distortion" fourfold means to prevent Aiken from leaving the battlefield, forcing him to fight head-on.

Meanwhile, another five Lei En were casting, releasing a psychic force field, Electric Blast Orb, and God's Staff together...

This time, Aiken no longer tangled with the mirror images; he used the Thousand-Throat Magic Shield to block his vital points, decisively triggered the Abyssal Mark on his forehead, and shouted loudly:

"Great gods, grant..."

The projections of the Abyssal Four Gods appeared again; in the bottomless abyss, four gazes crossed the vast distance to gaze upon him, falling on Aiken's body. The gods' projections drew near his form, and with a single breath they would possess the Eternal Chosen.

However, Aiken's plea was cut off mid-sentence.

Time Stop!

Among the four mirror images that rushed forward first, one was Lei En's true body; he used the time while they spoke to cast, the magical fluctuations also masked by the fierce battlefield, approaching Aiken to enter the spell's range and immediately completing this cast.

The world instantly fell silent; time stopped flowing.

Aiken could exempt himself from Time Stop, and having already triggered the Abyssal Mark, the four gods' projections were utterly unaffected.

But Lei En's use of Time Stop was not to control Aiken, but to conceal this attack.

To those outside Time Stop, what they saw was a frozen frame.

As the spell was completed, the Blazing Soul Heavy Sword in Lei En's hand turned into a dark-gold war hammer; lightning flickered on the hammerhead, dense dwarven runes forming winding lightning, under the blessing of the Thunder Lord, exuding a vast, heavy aura.

Thunder God's Hammer!

Lei En's body instantly swelled to fifty meters tall, and the Thunder God's Hammer grew accordingly, its head as large as a locomotive, as heavy as a mountain.

His muscles bulged; with Level 20 strength amplified by his massive frame, he hoisted the war hammer high and brought it down upon Aiken's head.

Aiken's face drastically changed.

In his Titan Giant form, Lei En stood like a towering wall before him; the erupting power and aura made him feel an unprecedented danger.

But his plea had not yet finished, and the Abyssal Four Gods had not yet completed possession.

The Eternal Chosen's figure violently retreated.

Boom!

A soundless explosion; in Time Stop sound cannot propagate, the massive thunder hammer struck the Eternal Chosen, who had nowhere to dodge.

The war hammer's weight instantly surged to millions of pounds, bursting forth countless lightning.

The sky-filling golden lightning condensed into substantive plasma, but before that, the Eternal Chosen had already been hammered into dust.

He was like an egg under a crushing boulder, not even uttering a scream; his body and soul evaporated, weapons and equipment destroyed together, leaving no trace of his existence.

In less than a second, the Eternal Chosen died again.

A true instant kill!

Lei En shrank his body back to over three meters tall, put away the Thunder God's Hammer, and lifted Time Stop.

The people of Albert Bay saw a space of several hundred meters freeze for a second, like a frozen frame; Lei En, his mirror images, and the Eternal Chosen remained motionless, not yet understanding what happened, when their eyes were stung by a sudden burst of intense light.

A golden sun rose in the high sky.

Every ray of this sun's burst was lightning, swift to come and swift to go; when the light faded, people saw only Lei En still in place, the Eternal Chosen gone.

Also disappearing were three of Lei En's mirror images; now only five remain.

No one knew what was going on.

Only Lei En himself knew that the three mirror images died from the Thunder God's Hammer explosion's "Thunderous Might", while Aiken died from the hammer's triggered "Devastating Strike".

At the center of the golden sun's explosion, the Abyssal Mark burning with four-colored flames appeared.

The illusory forms of the Abyssal Four Gods surrounded it.

Only then did the people realize what had just happened; the Consul had slain the Eternal Chosen again, and he was reviving!

Lei En observed the Abyssal Mark up close, coldly watching Aiken's body regenerate before his eyes.

As soon as Aiken opened his eyes, he saw Lei En's expressionless face.

His heart gave a hard thump.

Then boundless rage and hatred surged up, along with deep shame—he had actually been killed twice in a row by Lei En in a single day!

Lei En seemed to see through his thoughts, coldly laughing, "This won't be the last time."

The Eternal Chosen gave no response, directly triggering the Abyssal Mark.

The terrifying aura of the Abyssal Four Gods descended.

This time, he did not shout loudly; instead, at the moment of revival he silently prayed in his heart, received a response from the Abyssal Four Gods, and their projections swiftly descended to possess him.

Lei En and his mirror images had no time to stop it.

In a single breath, Aiken's body swelled, his aura surged, rising steadily.

The terrifying aura enveloped all of Albert Bay; seas of blood and mountains of corpses, along with eerie illusions, unfolded around the Eternal Chosen. Anyone who saw him, no matter the distance, had their innermost worst nightmare awakened, plunging them into boundless fear and madness.

Thousands of people with weak willpower triggered the Blood Soul Curse, becoming fallen ones.

"Die!"

Aiken's roar trembled the void, like a thunderclap.

His eyes spewed blood flames several meters long; a pair of huge demon wings unfurled on his back, his whole body burned with evil energy flames, his face sank in like a skull, and he fiercely slashed at the enemy before him with his raised, blazing Regicide Sword.

Lei En stood there motionless, neither fighting back nor casting spells, as if he had given up resistance.

Aiken felt a flicker of doubt, but he still brought down the slash.

The sky suddenly darkened.

A beam of light pierced the sky, instantly crossing a distance of tens of Chinese miles like a sharp sword splitting the sky in half, shot from the horizon to the skies above Albert Bay, turning into a huge bluish-purple beam over ten meters in diameter, and accurately striking Aiken.

The Eternal Chosen turned to ashes in an instant; he died again!

(End of chapter)