Lackey's Seducing Survival Odyssey

Chapter 1289: His women were his pride!

Victor’s body pulsed with strange purplish light mixed with golden sparks as he absorbed the collision between Arcane and Clarion... the golden lightning slowly got sucked into his purple lightning, merging in strange rhythms as they travelled through his body.

The veins protruded unnaturally, each one glowing faintly, and a visible mixture of purplish and golden energy flickered along his skin.

”Arrhh!” Victor groaned, the sound ripped from his throat as his body tensed violently. He felt himself nearing the breaking point. He had already drained the core of energy before—his body had taken more than it should have. And now... taking in even more was practically suicide at this point.

Yet, he was not going to give up... These bitches had some nerve to twist the world like a toy, playing with everyone’s life as if it meant nothing. And now that he had managed to save them, to protect the others with everything he had... they dared to pull another trick?

A final strike?

The hell!

He wasn’t letting this go... He could try to hold the storm inside him for as long as possible... or perhaps... perhaps he didn’t care anymore.

No matter the cost, he would show these monsters that he wasn’t going to sit quietly and let them dance in the ashes.

He wasn’t letting them have fun arou—

Thud!

Victor flinched as everything stopped all of a sudden. His hands, which had been wrapped in arcs of crackling purple lightning, dropped helplessly to his sides like threads snipped from their string.

The golden lightning vanished instantly, fading into the still air.

The strange mix of cloud and storm that had blanketed the sky began to dissolve, retreating like smoke into the heavens. It dispersed completely, leaving behind no echo, no sign of its existence... like a fog that had never been real, vanishing without a trace.

Everything was over... The outside of the barrier turned unnaturally silent in an instant. There were no more screams, no more thunder, no whirling storms or howling winds. Just pure silence... thick, empty silence.

Not even the air dared to move an inch!

The strange trees... the roots of Clarion’s energy, stopped moving too. Their pulsating branches, once twisting with sprakles, had gone still... as if they had finished their role. As if they had seen their purpose fulfilled.

Victor sighed, his breath heavy and sharp. A hot cloud of smoke curled from his lips. His body still trembled as the veins on his arms remained grotesquely swollen, glowing faintly.

They pulsed in uneven rhythms, as if struggling to contain something—no, transporting something.

Victor felt it. A weird sensation. And yet... strangely familiar?

He frowned, his muscles twitching involuntarily. Then he shrugged.

Just then,

/Clarion Energy spread 99%/ Selene’s voice echoed in his mind.

Victor froze when he heard that. /What? Wasn’t it just around 60 or something a few hours ago?/

Her voice returned without hesitation. /Yes, but due to your intervention, the energy spreading rate has just increased dramatically. We assumed you already knew. That’s why you went ahead with this plan, right?/

Victor blinked, his expression deadpan. Then his lips twitched.

He gave a strange half-laugh.

/.. haha... of course I knew. I was just... checking with you. Ahaha./

He forced out a laugh that sounded anything but natural.

/.../

There was dead silence on the mental link before Victor awkwardly gulped. Without wasting another second, he vanished, disappearing toward the next one—toward another Empire whose situation was likely spiralling just the same.

Meanwhile, back with Selene, she blinked continuously, her expression blank for a moment. Then she slowly turned her head and glanced at the others standing nearby.

”What?”

Everyone frowned, exchanging puzzled looks.

Selene stood still, her eyes distant as if recalling something. A thoughtful expression passed over her face for just a second before she shook it away and exhaled.

”Nothing,” she said, turning away. ”He said everything... is according to his plan.”

While Selene was trying her best not to rat out her husband, Victor appeared in the Naiadae Empire... inside the palace.

Sandra, who had been staring at the display with a serious expression, tensed visibly. Her expression tightened further as the strange clouds came closer and closer to her doom.

She flinched, turning sharply when she sensed someone behind her—Aether.

He stood silently, and with a wave of his hand, the veil of his mask dissolved into the air.