LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 387: Too Strong
The Daughter's eyes narrowed as she realized what the Great Ugor was doing.
She knew better than anyone how good his affinity for underworld energy was. She knew better than anyone how his modified body would flourish under a true baptism of underworld energy. She knew better than anyone how the gem would increase his strength even more as he bathed in the underworld energy and embraced it.
If she let him finish, they could forget ever defeating him.
The Daughter gritted her teeth and clenched her fists in rage. This vile, hypocritical bastard would even become what he loathed just because he didn't want to lose. He would do anything to win. He would throw aside whatever shreds of morals and personal ideals he held instead of owning up to his sins.
And he would desecrate the Underworld in the process.
She could not let that happen.
She forced her way through the tornado of underworld energy swirling around the Great Ugor. For the first time, it did not blindly obey her. But it wasn't just that. It even opposed her. The underworld energy being devoured by the Great Ugor sought to protect him.
The Daughter's eyes burned with rage as the Great Ugor corrupted the Underworld—her Underworld. He was taking it from her. He wasn't satisfied with taking her throne and position. He wanted to seize everything and turn the Underworld into one of his making.
The Daughter howled like a banshee as she tore apart the veil of turbulent underworld energy, opening up a path. She would rather die than let the Great Ugor finish or win. Read latest stories on My Virtual Library Empire
The Daughter wasn't the only one who used the path she opened up.
A haggard, bloody Mandra flew in before it closed up. The Daughter, too angry to be surprised, caught and stabilized Mandra.
"I…have an idea."
The Daughter, jaws clenched so hard the muscles on her cheeks were bulging, nodded. She helped Mandra until they were close enough to the Great Ugor to touch him.
The Great Ugor stood with his arms to the side and with his heald leaned back, mouth and eye wide open. Like a funnel, the underworld energy poured into his mouth under the glowing gem's direction.
Mandra took a deep breath to try and stabilize her condition.
She had risked her life for this knowledge.
The roots growing from the gem into the Great Ugor's brain and body were the problem. They were what gave him the strength to move his body. The gem itself did nothing. They were also the reason it was impossible even for the Daughter to remove the gem.
As long as they did something about the roots, they would win automatically.
Fortunately, the Great Ugor was entranced by his transformation and couldn't be bothered by anything else.
The Daughter impatiently reached for the gem, but Mandra grabbed her wrist. When the Daughter glared at her, Mandra instead placed her hand right above the gem. She felt the gem's light and the underworld energy try to burrow through her skin and flesh. If she hadn't wrapped herself in magical energy to protect herself, her hand would have already started to erode.
Unfortunately, she had to put whatever strength she had left into attacking the roots.
She removed her magical protection. Instantly, the skin on her hand blackened, even under the light of a sprouting ball of lightning. The Daughter reached out to shield Mandra from the worst of it, but if she interfered too much, she would wake the Great Ugor.
Still, a hand was a small thing to sacrifice for the Great Ugor's death.
The ball of lightning grew denser and brighter.
It wasn't the strongest spell in Mandra's arsenal. It wasn't even the strongest lightning spell she could cast right now.
But it was a spell that made up for one of the major weaknesses of lightning and lightning magic.
Lightning magic was powerful, but it had two major weaknesses. It didn't have physical force. It was a bolt of pure energy. The other was that it was easily blocked. As long as someone held up something that did conduct electricity, they would have defended against most if not all of the lightning.
Both weaknesses could be overcome with enough power. But sometimes more power wasn't always the answer.
Right now, Mandra couldn't create a spell powerful enough to blast the Great Ugor into oblivion. So, she had to come up with another way.
She had to zap the roots in his body. But the gem, if it was anything like any other gem, wouldn't conduct electricity. The Great Ugor's body also wasn't the best conductor despite having a consistency like steel.
So, Mandra used a spell that made up for lightning magic's second weakness. The lightning bolt carried with it artificial conductivity. It would pass through anything, even things that didn't conduct electricity.
She had to sacrifice power for it, but the versatility and reliability were more than enough to make up for it.
Mandra let it fly straight onto the black gem. She guided the lightning into the black gem and further into its roots. Like tiny snakes, the lightning burst through the gem and crawled along the roots, frying them and the insides of the Great Ugor's body.
The light from the black gem flickered as the roots twisted, contorted, and contracted. The storm of underworld energy surrounding the Great Ugor stalled for a second and returned the sixth layer to a still wind.
The transformation was halted. Mandra's idea worked.
But with the transformation halted, the Great Ugor was released from his trance. And he was enraged. Mandra's idea hadn't just worked. It had blessed the Great Ugor with a profound understanding of pain.
As soon as he came to, he lashed out. His rock-solid fist crashed into Mandra's chest, caving it in and sending her flying into the wall again before the Daughter could react.
The Daughter reached out and grabbed the Great Ugor's wrist. She spun and tried to swing him over her shoulder.
The Great Ugor didn't budge. He snorted as if to call the Daughter pathetic.
The transformation wasn't done yet, but they had been too slow. It had started, and what little it had done to the Great Ugor was enough.
He was already too strong.