Chapter 137: Ten Source of Power

'Controlling them to another place to dry out would be good.'

After thinking of this, Xu Yuan waved his hand towards the monsters.

As Xu Yuan waved his hand, he saw the countless troops of the Nether world below begin to retreat uniformly and slowly.

Seeing HIM's action and the monsters that suddenly retreated on their own—

Dread Lord was completely stunned.

"They… why are they obeying you?!"

Seeing that his monster army actually obeyed HIM, Dread Lord could hardly believe his own eyes.

These monsters were citizens of the Nether world, they would only follow the commands of their king.

So currently, only Dread Lord and Wither King could lead them.

But HIM obviously did not belong to the Nether world.

Dread Lord just couldn't figure it out—why would the monsters obey HIM?!

"Is this the existence that the Void dreads?…"

This situation was something Dread Lord had never encountered before. In past battlefields, nothing like this had ever happened.

All races only followed the commands of their own kings.

Otherwise, why would this world have different races?

Yet now, HIM in front of him actually had the ability to cross racial boundaries and command the monsters.

No wonder the Void feared his existence.

As Dread Lord was thinking, Wither King, who was preparing to fight Null on the side, saw the situation over here and suddenly panicked.

He was about to fly over to command the monsters, but he found that Null was blocking his path.

"Where do you think you're going?"

With his path blocked by Null, Wither King definitely couldn't pass.

Seeing this, Wither King had no choice but to shout towards the retreating monsters.

"My Wither Clan never flees from battle!! If you continue retreating, you will all be treated as deserters!!"

As the ruler of the Nether world, Wither King still had the dignity of a king.

Although he didn't know what had happened over there, he could not allow his soldiers to flee before the battle even started.

Seeing this, Dread Lord glanced at Wither King, then shook his head, signaling him not to interfere.

Before Wither King could react, he saw Null pull out a sword from who-knows-where and slash towards him.

Wither King dodged the incoming attack with a flash of his body.

"Looks like I have to deal with this first…"

At this moment, Wither King no longer had the luxury to worry about what was happening on the other side of the battlefield.

Null was clearly not an easy opponent.

———

The players in the livestream watching the battlefield weren't too surprised anymore.

"They're still so formal about fighting, gotta clear the field first."

"I'm not surprised that HIM can control those monsters, but why would HIM make them retreat? Clearly, they're enemies—shouldn't he just kill them?"

"Aren't all the monsters in this game world HIM's underlings? Why would HIM kill his own minions?"

"Just from this alone, looks like Seaweed Bones already lost!"

"Look at Seaweed Skeleton' shocked face—he definitely didn't expect HIM to be able to control his soldiers! Hahaha!"

"Eternal Guild says: We know this move well!"

"..."

At this moment, Dread Lord also became serious.

Although he could feel that HIM's strength was not on par with the mighty beings of the Void, the oppressive feeling he gave off was no less than those beings.

Even though the odds were against him, Dread Lord had no choice but to fight with everything he had.

Seeing the look in Dread Lord's eyes, Xu Yuan immediately understood his determination to fight to the death.

Xu Yuan also wanted to test Dread Lord's abilities.

Although Xu Yuan didn't have an invincible skill yet, fortunately, his Transparent Space had expanded to a 10-grid volume, allowing him to fully enclose himself.

Within this space, any form of damage would be completely negated.

Xu Yuan could freely play with Dread Lord.

Thinking this, he took out a transparent block and placed it in the area where he stood.

Xu Yuan's movement was small, and Dread Lord didn't notice anything unusual.

Then, from under his cloak, Dread Lord slowly stretched out a skeletal hand and raised it.

Thick, black energy surged from Dread Lord's body, gathering in his hand.

Within the surging black energy, for some reason, there were occasional streaks of purple energy mixed in.

As the energy gathered in his hand, it slowly took shape.

Not long after, the energy in Dread Lord's hand had formed into a Wither Skull. As more and more energy poured in, the Wither Skull grew larger and larger.

The enormous Wither Skull in his hand had hollow eyes that seemed capable of devouring everything.

Seeing the gigantic Wither Skull in Dread Lord's hand, the livestream players gasped.

"Hiss… this skill looks pretty powerful!!"

"Yeah, yeah! This is that Wither Skull—it has a huge explosion radius, high power, and it even corrodes surrounding blocks!!"

"Why do monsters always think bigger means stronger? Even Entity 303 loves throwing giant fireballs…"

"Maybe in the monster world, the bigger the skill's visual effect, the more power it has?"

"So, the question is, can HIM withstand this attack?"

Although the players believed that HIM would definitely win this battle, Dread Lord's strength also didn't seem weak.

They were eager to see an exciting fight—at the very least, they wanted to see HIM's new abilities.

At this moment, all eyes were on the Wither Skull in Dread Lord's hand.

With a single lift of his hand, Dread Lord launched the Wither Skull toward HIM's location.

Though the Wither Skull was enormous, its speed was incredibly fast. So fast that the livestream could only capture an afterimage.

Seeing that the Wither Skull was about to hit HIM, HIM made no move to dodge.

Dread Lord instantly had a bad feeling.

"Why isn't he dodging?!"

Before Dread Lord could think further, the Wither Skull had already struck HIM.

Boom!

A massive explosion erupted instantly.

The Wither Skull's black energy, mixed with streaks of purple, surged outward.

In an instant, it completely engulfed HIM's body.

The energy twisted and danced in the air, as if trying to devour HIM's body.

Dread Lord was momentarily stunned.

"Is it… over just like that?…"

Of course, Dread Lord had been holding back. Normally, he didn't infuse his Wither Skulls with his Fear Power.

But against HIM, he had gone all in—injecting all his Fear Power, even the power borrowed from the Void, into this Wither Skull.

Anyone struck would be instantly consumed by fear.

Seeing the black energy surging in front of him, Dread Lord thought he had succeeded.

But then, he suddenly noticed that the energy was being slowly absorbed. And the one absorbing it was none other than HIM.

The black energy outside was gradually being drawn into HIM's body. Even the Void's purple energy was being absorbed by HIM.

Once the energy was fully absorbed, HIM stood there, completely unharmed. He seemed to be savoring something, then smirked at Dread Lord.

"You sure handle stolen power quite smoothly, huh?"

Xu Yuan, the reason why he said this, is because, at the moment when that black aura was absorbed by Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan also noticed that his fear value instantly skyrocketed by more than 70 million.

Although Xu Yuan used a transparent block to wrap himself up, he only gave himself an invincible command.

Then he did not operate anything else.

Just now, after that black aura wrapped around Xu Yuan, Xu Yuan did nothing, and that aura was directly absorbed.

It must be known that the Dread lord, like Null, needs to consume the power of fear in order to grow.

And yet, the power of fear he used was actually absorbed by Xu Yuan, which is enough to prove that the source of the fear power the Dread lord consumes is Xu Yuan.

In other words, the fear that the Dread lord absorbs from the players is basically all granted to the players by Xu Yuan.

That is why Xu Yuan said that the Dread lord's power was stolen.

At this moment, the players in the live broadcast room, after seeing this scene, truly had their eyes opened.

Although the players could not hear what both sides were saying, they were all shocked by the abilities of both sides.

"This Dread lord is holding a sword, so he's actually a mage??"

"What is that black thing?? This skill effect is kinda badass?"

"Feels like it should be some kind of aura, but it seems like this aura not only didn't hurt HIM, but was even absorbed in reverse..."

At this moment, the Dread lord, seeing the scene before his eyes, was completely dumbfounded.

Although the time he had to develop was not very long, he had already reached about one-third of his peak strength.

Plus, with the help of the power of the void, the Dread lord's current strength was roughly two-thirds of his full power.

That last attack just now, the Dread lord had used his full strength for an all-out strike.

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