Boiling Point

Liam did not know if he would succeed or not but at this point, he simply had to try anything and everything that he could. There were no guidelines for what he was doing. He was relying on purely intuition. Nevertheless, he needed to not lose here.

He reached into the depth of the seed and started forcibly pulling out all of the nether into himself. Considering his experience with nether, a part of him expected this to be fairly easy but unfortunately, the day was not his.

Though his affinity to the nether was near perfect, trying to pull out the nether from the world seed seemed almost impossible. It was an uphill climb and he was not even able to take a step forward.

When Liam tried to force further, a searing pain coursed through his body. He was trying to dominate the energy but it was not willing.

It was as if the seed had a higher affinity for the nether when compared to him. Liam frowned at the thought and tried again, only to fail.

He was unwilling to accept defeat here and kept trying again and again. Every time he tried, the pain only became worse and the whale beast guardian stepped in to help him. It sent out another illusionary wave and just like that the pain Liam felt disappeared.

Liam was fully aware that the injuries his body had accumulated so far were enough to destroy him completely but he was at a stage where he couldn't back out. He had to keep going. He had a feeling he could succeed if he just tried a little bit more.

Time ticked by as seconds turned into minutes. Liam was still failing but he was failing better. The black veins covering his body now started to harden and the nether from the world seed was trickling into his body one minuscule drop at a time.

His body at the moment looked like a mosaic of mana and nether, both in places where they shouldn't be. The two energies clashed against each other, creating havoc in his being. They were ripping him apart from the inside out.

However, like the silver lining that appeared after a storm, a realization suddenly dawned upon him. The tenth time Liam suffered from the backlash of infusing the two opposing forces into his body, he had an epiphany.

The next moment, he gritted his teeth and started consciously channeling the mana in his body. At the same time, he also channeled the nether in his body. action

The two being opposite forces that repulsed each other helped a lot as he used the feeling to forcefully channel one half of his body with mana and the other half of the body with nether.

Liam's face immediately lit up. It was working. He could now extract a lot more nether from the world seed. Perhaps because he did not accept the energy completely before, he couldn't do it. But now, he was wholeheartedly pulling everything in his reach. Slowly but surely the world seed was being cleansed. Except that this came at a cost.

Liam could feel the nether half of his body slowly starting to corrode away and it was not just his physical body.

It was his life force, his mind, his soul, and his body. He could feel everything slowly and slowly being eroded little by little. The very thing that made him strong was killing him.

But it was just a little so Liam did not dare stop the process and continued purifying the world seed.

One second passed. Two seconds passed. The pain coursing through his body became unbearable as with each passing second he was losing more and more.

Liam continued to hold on and all of a sudden the world seed started shining brighter. Most of the black lines were now removed and only a few were left. As if the seed reacted to Liam's will, something else also started happening. The seed started cracking.

At first, Liam became frozen. It seemed as if the seed was damaged. However, he turned out to be wrong. The very next second, the seed started sprouting.

From the cracks in the world seed, a single sprout emerged, breaking through the surface of the earth. Liam's eyes went wide. It worked. It actually worked. Now would everything halt?

As if answering his question, suddenly something in the air shifted. Then Liam felt it. The enormous slumbering beast came alive!

The nether array that spanned the entirety of the world burst forth with raw power. How? Liam shot up in the sky, only to see the red pillars of light turning pitch black.

He could feel the raw power emanating from these pillars imbuing life into the nether array. And that implications of its words. He did not have the time for it.

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In the split second before the so-called Lich kings could unleash the next wave of attacks, Liam did raw power was in the form of countless undeads!

As if this was not enough, the space around him distorted and ten giant otherworldly creatures appeared around Liam and they were not alone. <Level 400, Lich King Demacus>

<Level 450 Lich King Blittor>

<Level 410 Lich King Cenor>

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Liam's eyes turned cold as he watched these ten lich kings along with their army of undead mages, all target the single small sprout. Countless blasts of darkness assaulted the same target.

Without hesitation, Liam took action. The energy crackled around him as he unleashed a powerful blast, intercepting the dark assaults aimed at the sprout.

Thick walls appeared around the small sprout and the dense pure nether swallowed the attack. It was clear whose attack was superior.

However, the condition of the two sides was not the same. Liam winced in pain as he was truly approaching his limit. The more he used nether, the more he was withering away.

And with this condition, he had to face ten high-leveled beings whose abilities he had no idea about. He needed to finish this fight right now. Otherwise, everything would have been for naught.

"You only need a few more seconds!" The whale-like beast guardian reminded him. The huge creature was still holding down the other beast guardians who seem to have become even more difficult to handle thanks to the burst power of the nether array.

Liam only barely registered the words of the beast. He neither understood the meaning nor the implications of its words. He did not have the time for it.

In the split second before the so-called Lich kings could unleash the next wave of attacks, Liam did not hold back and used the final trump card he had been saving for so long.

With another painful grunt, he commanded the endless nether roiling around him to shoot forward. Not towards the lich kings but towards the vast army of undead surrounding them.

For a moment, everything stilled. Then the ten lich kings made their next move and sent one more attack towards the small sprout but unexpectedly this time their armies did not back up their attack. Instead, they attacked them.