Chapter 2502

2502 -Break-2

Middle Sector 666—

"Graaaah!!"

Hundreds of thousands of the Undead ran without consciousness or will of their own.

They emerged from beneath the ground and fell from atop the hills, burst forth from the depths of the lake and rushed from a gate barren of blackness.

And a similar number of Ghosts were appearing and disappearing, their faces far uglier and more terrifying than the Undead themselves.

And amidst all of this, there was a person—no, rather a thing…

There stood a skeleton nearly six meters tall, its body entirely covered in black cloth torn at the edges, wearing a hood. Nothing was visible of it except its skeletal face and two green Pearls gleaming where its eyes should be.

("Judaa heer raaat—") The skeleton pointed toward the young man standing before it and spoke in a strange language that translation technologies could not detect.

The Undead's speed and ferocity increased.

From afar, there were three semi-transparent fiery creatures of varying lengths and shapes, watching in silence.

[Hurry up and run, my friend. You've started attracting the attention of unwanted entities. I told you that you're not ready for the last quarter of the Galaxy yet!]

"Shut up!"

Facing the flood of corpses, Caesar did not retreat, but instead began running toward the massive skeleton.

Then

Woosh

He drew a massive black scythe on whose shaft were three crimson Pearls—the Scythe of Stillness.

And he began to wave

Woosh

Each wave released blades of intense blackness; whenever they touched an undead, they turned it into a mass of ash instantly, as if its body that had endured for millions of years simply stopped trying.

And whenever that energy touched a specter, it dissipated and its vile green body merged into the air as if it had never been.

Each wave of the Scythe of Stillness cleared before it a long path of savagery and terror, turning into dust and heavy air.

Disturbance

"Agh!!" Caesar's balance faltered and he fell, "What happened all of a sudden?!"

"Hwaaaa!!"

Caesar had no time to answer or reflect on his surroundings. The Undead fell as well, but they continued surging forward on their knees and hands in terrifying fashion.

"Useless creatures, die!!" Caesar waved the scythe several times while sitting, clearing his surroundings, then stood and continued advancing, his body radiating with a dark, ominous aura.

Before he came to the galaxy, a single wave of this would have turned his face pale and his body weak, but he had used it at least twenty times by now without issue.

"Don Pagoot—" The massive skeleton shouted with an oppressive aura as it saw Caesar approaching.

Then

Woosh

It too drew a massive scythe the size of its own body.

And waved—

Boooooooom

The massive Skeleton's scythe collided with Caesar's scythe, generating enormous black waves that struck the army in their surroundings—hundreds of thousands of the Undead and Ghosts all fell.

"Aghh!!" Caesar dropped to one knee, gritting his teeth.

That blow he had just received—if anyone at the peak of the Nexus State had taken it, they would have perished.

But for Caesar, he hadn't felt an energy force or physical force equal to the peak of the Nexus State; rather, he felt a terrifying mass of Death Force that had accumulated over countless years within that Skeleton.

Nevertheless, he managed to block the blow, then— "Eyaaaaaaakk!!" Caesar pushed upward, sending the Skeleton's scythe flying away.

Then he himself

Woosh

Pulled the Scythe of Stillness into his ring and leaped up, grabbing the Skeleton's head with both hands, his fingers sinking into the pitch-black darkness and the terrifying Black Halo beneath the cowl, but he seemed not to feel it.

Then he pulled his head back, and

Thwack

He headbutted the Skeleton, "And what if you are an undead General?!"

"Haaaaaaa—!!" The Skeleton let out a violent cry of pain and took a step back.

It no longer had a body to feel pain, but that collision was a direct blow to its very being, a direct blow to the Death Force it had gathered throughout

its life

Thwack

Caesar struck his head again, "I didn't endure studying the Major Death Law itself just to have an undead general stop me halfway!"

Thwack

Thwack

Thwack

Poof

Within just a few seconds the black cloak had emptied and a quantity of ash fell,

Whoooom

A wave of black force dominated the entire area.

But

Gasp

Caesar pulled it all into his body.

His veins began to blacken and show clearly on his skin, even the arteries and tiny capillaries turned black, including those in his eyes, until his appearance became more terrifying than the skeleton and his aura more intense.

Then

Exhale

Caesar released a calm wind from his mouth, and his body began to grow accustomed to the new Death Force and absorb it slowly, the intensely black pigment began to recede.

[Astonishing…] Mortix's voice rang out in Caesar's head.

Craaaaaaack

At that moment the planet shook violently and the sky began to change, so Caesar fell on his rear, his expression looking as though someone had struck him on the head with a metal rod, "That terrifying power…"

[Something is happening, the Buffer Zones in the sector have split open, it's a catastrophe, a catastrophe!]

"Can't you figure out what's causing it?!" Caesar asked quickly.

His eye automatically drifted toward a certain direction, and indeed, he did not find the three who had been watching moments ago — they had vanished in terror when the strange wave began striking the planet.

[How could I? I know nothing beyond the borders of the galaxy, and the services of the Soul Society don't work here for me to eavesdrop on anyone!]

"…." Caesar nodded, then stood up, dusting off the dirt. He did not look up again. "Maybe I don't know what's causing this, but I know who… I once felt a similar aura from my father, and from the looks of it… he is truly furious."

[When your father gets angry, he destroys the universe? Who the hell is your father exactly?!] Mortix nearly wept.

"…He won't destroy the universe while we're in it." Caesar brought out the small spacecraft and jumped in. "Not before he bids me farewell, at least, so there's no need to worry."

[Are you going to him to calm him down?] Mortix asked quickly. In the face of the threat of universal destruction, the mission to reach the Heart of the Galaxy, the Castle of Extinction, seemed trivial.

"No." Caesar closed the spacecraft's glass after entering it. "He said it himself… what right do I have to interfere in things of this Level?"

Then, steeling his resolve, he gritted his teeth. "Let's go to the Heart of the Galaxy!!"