novelGlobal Chapter 1168 1168: Morgrath’s True Master
Chapter 1168 1168: Morgrath’s True Master
Ethan let out a slow breath.
Right as he was about to pull in more power, a sudden heat flared across his forehead.
The white gem lit up.
A brutal presence erupted from that point—bone-white lightning, Infernal Primordial Power, and the strength he'd just ripped from the old man's memories weaving together into an invisible pressure that washed over the entire sky.
The newly formed energy bodies froze mid-motion.
The gems in their foreheads all flared at once. At the same time, vortexes bloomed across their chests in rapid succession. Those whirlpools looked like they'd been awakened by some higher-tier force, and they began to resonate with the aura rolling off Ethan.
Everyone on the battlefield saw it.
Emerald Castle soldiers paused halfway through their movements. The Stone Golems stiffened too. Even the largest one—its sapphire core flickering in its chest—lost control for a split second, its light stuttering.
No one had expected Ethan to be able to directly trigger the cores of those energy entities in a place like Morgrath.
Ethan rose higher.
He looked down at the energy bodies, no longer suppressing his Infernal Primordial Power. Instead, he let it expand outward through the white gem in his forehead.
Bone-white lightning circled him. Under that pressure, the ore-vein energy saturating the world seemed to sink downward.
One by one, the energy bodies lowered their heads.
The few at the front dropped to their knees first. Then more followed, kneeling in waves. Their forehead gems angled toward Ethan, the vortexes in their chests turning slowly, as if they were waiting for an order.
A flicker of realization crossed Ethan's eyes.
The moment he'd seen them, the Infernal Primordial Power inside him had reacted. Now that the resonance had fully unfolded, he could finally confirm it.
The core energy in these things came from the same source as Infernal Primordial Power.
And Ethan—right now—carried an overwhelmingly dense aura of The Infernal Abyss.
It was enough to drown out the old imprints still clinging to the gems in their foreheads.
Enough to seize their obedience.
The Stone Golems went completely blank.
They'd summoned these energy bodies to help crush the invaders.
But now the very things they'd dragged out into the open were kneeling in front of Ethan.
The biggest Stone Golem's sapphire core flashed violently. For the first time, the fury in its eyes was replaced by raw fear.
It tried to pull the mountain's energy again—
Ethan lifted a hand and pressed down lightly.
Every kneeling energy body snapped its head up.
The next instant, they all shot toward the Stone Golems.
Their forehead gems erupted with blinding light. The energy bodies tore across the sky, carrying terrifying force as they came down from above.
They didn't turn on Emerald Castle.
They went straight for the Stone Golem legion that had just summoned them.
The first wave slammed into the golem line.
Gem-light crashed into sapphire cores head-on, and massive cracks tore open between the mountains. Several Stone Golems were driven bodily into cliff faces, their chest gems shattering on impact. Their rock bodies collapsed immediately after, crumbling in huge sections.
Ethan hovered in the air, watching the energy bodies rip into the Stone Golems' formation, his gaze tightening for a beat.
He'd only meant to use Infernal Primordial Power to suppress them.
He hadn't expected that once they switched sides, their killing power would be this disgusting.
At the front, a few Stone Golems barely managed to raise their arms before the sapphire stones in their chests were pierced clean through. Their heavy rock frames split from the inside, like someone had shoved a burning ore-core into their guts, and they started detonating—chunks blasting apart and dropping from the sky.
Between the mountains, debris went everywhere—shattered boulders, crystal fragments, glowing shards. The Stone Golems' footsteps, once steady and synchronized, turned chaotic. The battle formation they'd held together with ore-vein energy was torn open by force.
Emerald Castle's army stood at a distance, watching the reversal with their own eyes. For a lot of soldiers, even their breathing stalled for a beat.
At this rate, Ethan wouldn't even need to lift a finger.
But right as the Stone Golem legion was about to be crushed completely, the entire world seemed to sink.
A burst of energy—violent to the point of insanity—shot up from deep inside the mountains.
The air compressed until it gave off a dull, suffocating hum. In the sky, the spatial rifts that hadn't closed yet were forcibly pried wider by that power, spreading out in ring after ring of dark ripples.
Then, from the center of those ripples, a gigantic figure slowly emerged.
It was something even larger than an ordinary Stone Golem.
His body wasn't just piled stone. Between the layers of rock flowed a deep, dark radiance, and embedded in the center of his chest was a symbol so obvious it looked branded into his very core.
The aura leaking from that mark held no impurities at all—
Pure The Infernal Abyss energy.
The moment he appeared, the battlefield froze.
Stone Golems locked up mid-swing. Even the energy bodies Ethan had just subdued halted at the same time, like an invisible hand had clamped down on their cores.
One by one, the gems in their foreheads dimmed. Even the vortexes in their chests stopped turning.
"My god… this is the purest Infernal Primordial Power."
A low voice pressed down from the sky, carrying a chill straight out of the depths of Inferno. The instant it drilled into their ears, a lot of Emerald Castle soldiers tensed. The weapons in their hands trembled faintly, as if reacting on instinct.
Ethan's body jolted too.
He hadn't expected a monster like this to be hiding in Morgrath. The Infernal Primordial Power on the other side wasn't just dense—it felt like it had settled into these mountains for countless years, fused with the surrounding ore veins into a single, inseparable whole.
But that was exactly why Ethan couldn't back off.
Out of everyone here, only his Infernal Primordial Power could meet the enemy head-on.
Ethan drew a deep breath. The bone-white lightning around him snapped inward, compressing—then his whole body became a streak of light, shooting up into the sky.
Air tore open behind him, leaving a long scar of electricity. Space split along both sides of that trail, only to be forced shut again by the power radiating off him.
"What the hell are you?"
Ethan's voice detonated from above.
"And you dare covet the power of The Infernal Abyss!"
He slashed a hand outward. Infernal Primordial Power spread from his body like a tide, bone-white lightning crawling across the sky and blanketing the entire battlefield in his presence.
The energy bodies that had been frozen began to tremble, like they were hearing a second source of command again.
Across from him, the giant's pupils tightened.
When he looked at Ethan, shock flashed first—then it curdled into naked greed.
The next second, he reached toward his chest and drew out a yellow gem, letting it float in midair.