Lord of the Truth Chapter 2200 The thing

Woooosh

Asr tore through the gate with monstrous force, his body resembling a blood-soaked cot as he burst out from the suffocating darkness beyond the passage and returned once again to the Realm of Life.

For a fleeting instant, the familiar aura of living energy surrounding the world caused his mind to blank out completely. His body instinctively slowed for half a heartbeat as he inhaled sharply, greedily, almost desperately, as though every cell inside him had been yearning for that single breath ever since entering the other side.

The sensation of breathable life flooding back into his lungs nearly made him forget the terrifying montum carrying his body forward.

Bam Bam Bam

That tiny mont of distraction was enough for his body to smash directly through several nascent space beasts one after another like fragile debris. Bones shattered, dark blood exploded through space, and fragnts of flesh scattered everywhere before his speed finally began to decrease little by little until he violently skidded to a stop across the distant battlefield.

"Hah?" Holak's brows furrowed deeply as he stared toward Asr, who had crashed down near the Royal Soul Masters.

His appearance was horrifying.

Blood completely covered him from head to toe, mixed with strips of torn flesh and remnants of violently unstable energy still surging chaotically around his body. He looked less like a human and more like so savage creature that had clawed its way out of hell itself.

Yet despite that horrific state, Holak recognized him almost instantly. He had spoken with Asr many tis before and could never mistake that aura.

"Heeey," Holak shouted while forcing a grin onto his face despite the tension covering the battlefield, "thanks for the help, but get back to your people now."

"..!!"

Asr ignored Holak's foolishness entirely.

Without wasting even a fraction of a second, he suddenly turned toward the mountain peak where Robin resided, veins bulging across his neck as he raised his voice with such force that the entire region trembled violently beneath the sound.

"Close the gate, close it imdiately!!"

The roar shook the air itself.

Even nearby mountains rumbled faintly beneath the pressure carried within his voice.

"...."

Robin slowly turned toward Asr.

He rely raised one eyebrow while staring at him.

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On the other side—

"You're not going anywhere!!" Morgana scread, her voice overflowing with panic, fear, desperation, and a nearly broken sense of helplessness.

She had already summoned every powerful soul creature under her control.

More than thirty terrifying entities now filled the battlefield around her, each radiating overwhelming pressure capable of crushing ordinary experts into dust. Every single one of them possessed enough power to slaughter a Nexus State without even needing assistance.

And when it ca specifically to soul creatures...

Very few individuals in the universe could stand before Morgana and claim they possessed superior quality or greater numbers.

Because Morgana, the forr Shepherd of Specters, had spent countless years building this terrifying army piece by piece.

Every ti she liberated a specter farm in the past, she would secretly select the strongest one or two specters inside it and absorb them into her collection, nurturing them personally until they beca terrifying soul creatures completely loyal to her.

That was the true foundation behind her terrifying soul domain.

That was how she condensed her first star despite the catastrophic circumstances she had lived through.

And not only that...

Each one of those creatures contained sothing abnormal within them.

Deep inside every beast, every specter, every soul entity under her command, there burned a blazing ember resembling a private crystal embedded into their existence itself.

That was Morgana's personal specialty.

A thod she had researched, invented, and perfected through endless experintation.

A forbidden enhancent technique capable of strengthening specters and soul creatures far beyond their natural limits, making them vastly more savage and allowing them to unleash power far exceeding what they should normally possess.

If a soul creature could ordinarily kill a low Nexus State... then with the ember's support it could easily slaughter a mid Nexus State or even sothing stronger.

And nascent space beasts themselves generally ranged between high World Cataclysm and mid Nexus State depending on age and developnt.

Usually, they were not overwhelmingly stronger than that.

Which ant...

By every possible asure...

Morgana had unleashed an outright massacre.

Dark blood flooded the void around her.

Shredded flesh drifted endlessly through space.

Explosions erupted from every direction as her soul creatures tore through the advancing beasts with rciless brutality. Deaths accumulated with every passing second, while chunks of ruined monsters floated everywhere like shattered planets after a cosmic war.

Yet at the sa ti...

Her reserves of soul units were depleting at an absolutely horrifying speed.

Morgana's eyes remained filled with unwavering determination as she watched one nascent space beast after another get ripped apart before her.

But beneath that determination, her heart was beating faster and faster.

Because she knew.

She knew very well that her spiritual reserves could no longer sustain this battle much longer.

Bang

"..!!"

Morgana abruptly turned toward a specific direction.

There, one of her soul creatures suddenly exploded apart beneath overwhelming pressure.

And this ti...

It did not regenerate again.

That region had suffered terrifying pressure from the invading space beasts. A handful of them successfully forced their way through the defense line and began charging directly toward the passage.

However, the soul creatures stationed beside the fallen one imdiately shifted positions and closed the opening, desperately buying a few more monts of ti.

But—

Bang

Another soul creature exploded.

Bang

Then another.

Morgana's face rapidly turned pale.

Only now did she realize it.

Her reserve of soul units had completely dried up.

She had exhausted everything without even noticing when it happened.

Bang

Morgana quietly drew her sword.

Then she slowly closed her eyes.

Her breathing beca calr.

Her heartbeat began slowing intentionally little by little, because she knew that within monts she would no longer possess enough strength to even force her exhausted body to continue moving.

Even so...

She could not allow those creatures to pass.

No matter what.

Even if she had to stand there alone and fight them personally using the sword gifted to her by Emily.

And strangely enough...

As death approached closer and closer...

Her thoughts beca peaceful.

The last few years of her life truly had not been so terrible.

Even now, while replaying the mories of her life inside her mind, she found herself rembering almost nothing except those recent years.

New friends.

A place where she belonged.

Status.

Purpose.

And soone.

Soone gentle.

Handso.

Considerate.

Soone whose authority carried weight everywhere.

A true man.

A man who had completely changed her life...

Bang

Ignoring the distant sounds of her soul creatures exploding one after another, Morgana revealed a small dreamy smile.

"Hmm?" Morgana's brows imdiately tightened together. "You ruined my beautiful dream."

"Don't speak about the Lord that way!" Morgana replied instantly, sounding completely detached from reality as she argued with the voice echoing inside her mind. "Secondly... I don't want anyone seeing you, especially him..."

She hesitated slightly before muttering in embarrassnt,

"He might think I'm insane... or strange."

The voice inside her mind sounded full of mockery.

Then the voice grew colder.

"I warned you!!" Morgana scread furiously, her voice trembling with genuine panic and rage at the sa ti. "You cannot escape from ! If we survive this, I swear I'll punish you severely, and you know very well that I'm capable of doing it!"

Bang

Morgana's final and strongest soul creature suddenly exploded apart beneath the overwhelming assault of the surrounding space beasts.

The pressure around the passage instantly intensified.