Chapter 444: Chapter444-Ossuary Court’s Rear Assault

Griffith, the Lord of Sacred Light, the Third Adjudicator, and other powerful figures instinctively felt fear rise within them!

Beyond legendary divine artifacts, there were Chaotic Artifacts, quasi–Artifacts of Authority, Artifacts of Authority, and World Relics!

An Artifact of Authority alone was already enough to threaten a sage lord.

And above Artifacts of Authority stood quasi–World Relics, true World Relics, Origin Artifacts, Origin Relics, and even Forbidden Origin Artifacts!

The might of a World Relic was terrifying beyond measure—it could suppress star rivers and slaughter heaven and earth alike.

What all factions of the abyssal demon realm truly feared was precisely this single World Relic.

They had never imagined that it would be deployed so soon.

The level of battle escalated yet again!

In addition to the nine remaining Swords of Order, the Council dispatched another ninth-tier Divine Oracle—a senior elder of the Council.

He was the previous Speaker of the Council and the one who wielded the Ouros Disc!

The moment he appeared, Hayden, Barclay, Briggs, and the other Swords of Order flew forward, joining forces to pour the law-origin power of their Sacred Envoy forms into the Ouros Disc, driving it toward Aurek in a killing strike.

With a single blow, the sky shattered!

The deafening roar was like the world itself exploding!

Aurek raised the Gilded Sanctum Blade and cleaved downward!

A Judgment Sword Domain was unleashed to meet the attack head-on.

A violent chaos storm, combined with the slaughtering might of the World Relic, surged toward him.

The Black Dragon Scale Armor Art activated automatically, blocking the vast and boundless supreme killing force.

Aurek did not dare underestimate it.

A ninth-tier Divine Oracle, together with eight others of the seventh and eighth tiers, jointly wielding a World Relic—

this was power sufficient to kill a sage lord!

Although the Gilded Sanctum Blade was a quasi–World Relic, there was still a massive gap between it and the Ouros Disc.

Aurek activated the Imperial Source Codex.

With one sword, he split heaven and earth—Prelude of the End struck with overwhelming force.

Ashen Lord and the other three Divine Radiant master smiths stared intently at this scene, finally understanding the true purpose behind forging the Gilded Sanctum Blade—

It was meant precisely to contend against the World Relic, the Ouros Disc!

Aurek had long been prepared to realize his ambitions!

Though the Gilded Sanctum Blade was only a quasi–World Relic, its might was still terrifying—only it could withstand the power of a true World Relic.

The battle raged from the Holy Kare Mountains all the way into the outer heavens, shattering the star sea itself.

The thunderous detonations lasted for three full days, as Divine Oracles bled!

The Divine Oracle of the gargoyle race, several adjudicators of the Judicatory Sanctum, Hall Master Miles, and the Dragonbone General of the Ossuary Court all looked up from afar.

Even Bone King Otto, hiding within his underground royal palace, employed special methods to watch closely.

Seeing Aurek single-handedly stalemating a World Relic, all of them grew grim.

"If you still refuse to act, there will soon be no place left for you in the abyssal demon realm!"

A voice like heavenly thunder echoed out, causing many Sacred Envoy–level experts to furrow their brows.

Demonfeather—within the former territories of the Dawonru Empire.

Seeing that the imperial legions had already pushed into the Holy Kare Mountains and that Aurek himself was being held in check, Amber, the Dragonbone War God, hesitated for a moment before finally issuing his order.

The hundreds of millions of long-lying Legions of Dark Demons were all deployed at once.

In an instant, sinister energy surged skyward across the former Dawonru lands...

A cold, baleful aura erupted, spreading across the dim earth.

From Noke Province, Demonbone Dominion, Forgesteel Province, the former territories of the Dawonru Empire, and even the Giant Elephant Mountains north of the Giant Elephant River, hundreds of millions of Dark Demons poured out from countless regions.

Like an army of countless specters, the Legions of Dark Demons swept across the land, rapidly seizing territory.

This was an order Amber had given after deep consideration!

At present, over a billion imperial troops were tied down in the Holy Kare Mountains.

Aurek himself was restrained by the World Relic, the Ouros Disc.

This was the perfect opportunity to strike Demonfeather, stab the Crossbridge Empire in the back, and wipe out its footholds within the demon realm.

From Aurek’s personal imperial campaign, it was clear that the Empire’s ambitions were vast—it aimed for the entire abyssal demon realm.

That naturally included the Ossuary Court of Sablecliff.

And under the current circumstances... the Ossuary Court was in extreme danger!

If the Empire won this war, it would ride the momentum to sweep the demon realm and eventually seize the royal court as well.

If the Empire was dragged down and chose to withdraw back into the former Dawonru territories, then those billions of troops would inevitably threaten the royal court to the north.

The royal court, separated from the Holy Kare Mountains and Yuli by the Snail Sea, stood isolated and bordered Demonfeather.

If Aurek retreated, it would not take long before he turned his blade on the royal court.

Rather than waiting for that, it was better to seize this chance—to occupy the former Dawonru lands and the Giant Elephant Mountains, usurp the territory, and fight the Empire head-on.

If the Holy Kare Mountains also joined in, they could work together to force the Empire back into the Secondary Demon Realm, drive Aurek back to the Eura Continent, and seal the passage to prevent further imperial invasion.

That way, the crisis of the Council of the Dark Order would be resolved.

And so would the crisis of the Ossuary Court.

If he missed this perfect opportunity, Amber would regret it so deeply he might smash his own bones in fury!

The Legions of Dark Demons were spirit entities—ordinary soldiers’ attacks could barely eliminate them.

Regional garrisons and city defenders could only watch as ghostlike torrents of light climbed the walls and swept everything away, leaving nothing but corpses in their wake.

"Damn it—Ossuary Court is launching a sneak attack!"

In the Secondary Demon Realm, Painek’s expression changed drastically.

He immediately dispatched the stationed legions to advance toward Sapphire Dominion and Demonbone Dominion.

Boom—!

A world-shaking collision suddenly erupted.

Amber and a group of Divine Radiant experts charged straight into the battlefield.

With large numbers of God General– and True God–level troops no longer guarding the rear, ancient Divine Radiants personally taking action found it effortless to ravage the now-empty back lines.

"The Empire’s rear is in danger!"

Many Divine Radiant experts also shifted their attention to Demonfeather.

Launching a rear assault while the Empire was fully committed to the Holy Kare Mountains would inevitably force the imperial legions to split their focus.

If the rear could not be secured, and the Holy Kare Mountains could not be taken, the Empire might be forced out of the abyssal demon realm entirely.

This scene was observed by General Bardini, a Divine Oracle of the royal court, and Priest Keer—who silently acquiesced.

Although this move amounted to declaring war on the Empire and aiding the Council of the Dark Order, it was also an act of saving the royal court.

After Aurek had slain six Divine Oracles with a single sword—

Even with ten peak Sacred Envoy experts jointly wielding a World Relic, the two sides were still locked in fierce combat, even forcing the Council’s Divine Oracles to cough up blood!

Aurek’s terror made them instinctively wary.

Not to mention the fact that the billions-strong imperial army was nearly invincible.

Only sage kings, Divine Radiants, or Divine Oracles could suppress such forces—God Kings charging in would merely become cannon fodder.

Thus, driving the Empire out of the abyssal demon realm was the best possible outcome!

As they watched the battle, they also remained on guard.

If Aurek turned back to slaughter his way through, they would seize the chance to block him.

The adjudicators of the Judicatory Sanctum remained silent.

The Legions of Dark Demons began to run rampant.

...

Silver City.

Under the gaze of the young girl Elori, nearly three hundred million soldiers clad in gray-black heavy armor rose into the air.

The powerful soul fluctuations instilled an instinctive terror in Elori’s consciousness.

They split into four directions, using Silver City as the center, crossing the void and standing high in the firmament, gazing down with deep, hollow pupils.

Below them, dense, mist-like shadows drifted lightly over mountains and walls, scaling towering fortifications with ease. Wherever they passed, only corpses were left behind.

The Soul Warlock Legion took a single glance.

They immediately unleashed their skill—Mental Pierce!

In the next instant, the charging Legions of Dark Demons abruptly froze.

Ah—!

Eee—!

Shrill screams rang out one after another.

The mist-like figures twisted and writhed as if enduring inhuman torment.

Moments later, vast numbers of those shadows dissipated like steam.

Hundreds of millions of powerful Dark Demons vanished at astonishing speed, dissolving into light.

They came swiftly—

and they vanished just as swiftly.