Supreme Lord: I can extract everything!

Chapter 1057  Backlash

The Essence had been altered and was thus even more deadly once Michael absorbed it. He had to teleport to the other side of the planetary system and hide behind the planet Hyuar to focus on his body's regeneration for a moment. However, the Primal didn't give him that much time.

Xerx responded quickly, not bothering about the innocent lives he was about to reap with his actions.

One of the Essence bombs exploded when it collided with Hyuar.

At first, the Essence bomb appeared as a bright, pristine light streaking across Hyuar's sky. It grew larger and larger as it expanded when Hyuar's gravitational force pulled it toward the planet's surface. The Essence bomb speed toward the ground, leaving behind a glowing trail. It lit up the sky like a second sun, dazzling the civilians. The light was so blinding that it permanently deprived millions of their eyesight, but that wasn't even the worst.

The Essence bomb hissed dangerously as if warning the civilians of the impending destruction. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

But it was too late. The civilians couldn't flee anymore.

When the Essence bomb finally collided, the ground shook violently as if the entire planet was trembling. A massive explosion followed, sending up a pillar of pristine light before a massive Essence shockwave spread out in all directions. The impact was so powerful that anything – trees, cities, mountains, and even the sea – were blown apart by the force. It ceased to exist, just like that.

At the point of impact, a huge crater formed, hundreds of miles wide and deep, with the ground torn apart and scorched black from the Essence bomb's heat. But that was only the beginning. One could see a hole in the center of the crater. That was where the Essence bomb had impacted…and where the Essence bomb dug through the planet.

The Essence bomb didn't dissolve or trigger completely until it reached the Star Core. Every planet was part of the universe's weave. They contained Essence and were thus considered as much part of the weave as the Primal. However Xerx didn't care about hte destruction of the universe's weave. Eliminating Michael Fang was more important. He had to be defeated or else the Primal would lose their spot at the top of the food chain. Michael might not be the strongest existence in the universe just yet, but nobody could tell what was about to happen if he survived. What would happen if Primal Xerx died…his body consumed by none other than Michael? Would he replace Xerx as a Primal? Nobody knew about this because it never happened. But that didn't mean it wouldn't happen. It could happen if Primal Xerx failed eliminating Michael.

Upon colliding with the Star Core, the Essence bomb exploded. At first, it didn't look like anything big would happen, but Michael saw the truth through True Vision. He swallowed hard as he watched The Essence bomb tearing apart the Star Core. The shockwave was terrifying, to put it into simple words, and it wreaked havoc with all life on Hyuar. Michael sighed deeply, saddened that he had to witness the death of so many people. Of course, they were Hyuman, and most of them were somehow part of the death, destruction, and chaos caused by the Supreme Human Alliance, but it would have been better to remove the influence of Blood Incursion and force the Hyumans to fix everything they had broken.

That wasn't going to happen now. At least not with the Hyumans of the SHA's core planetary system. They were fated to die today.

The aftermath of the explosion didn't occur right away. The Essence shockwave was the first to break through Hyuar's surface. It swept through the planetary system, distorting the fabric of space and reality in multiple places, yet Xerx did not care. He was too focused on Michael to pay attention to anything else.

His eyes lingering on the human, who was not even a god yet according to the weave and his Energy Pillar, was his nemesis that he didn't notice the massive next to him falling apart. Countless explosion occurred within the planet but also on its surface, yet Xerx acted like he didn't notice the damage he'd caused. He simply didn't care. These lowly creatures weren't worth his attention.

Michael, on the other hand, sensed the death of every single Hyuman. However, he also sensed the death of the planet. Hel's Divinity was his strongest affinity. He had sensed so many deaths in the last few decades and inflicted so much pain and chaos through his actions that the Death Authority within him grew the strongest.

After accepting the deaths he had caused, Michael consumed the Memories Orbs of everyone he'd slain. This was pure torture, and it would have pushed most people over the edge, throwing them into the pool of insanity, but that was not the case for Michael. He embraced the lives of those he had killed, further strengthening the Death Authority. His affinity with Death increased with every Memory Orb he consumed, which was no surprise.

Most of the enemies he'd slain and consumed were either pieces of shit and had eradicated entire races just because they hated those races – without something as simple as a reason other than their unjustified racism – or they had killed for their sake and the sake of their people. One way or another, Michael learned about the reasons people killed. He got to understand why some people killed others or how someone ended up murdering their families, friends, lovers, and so forth. It was not that Michael supported their behavior and he didn't consider it acceptable either. Still, he learned all about it from the Memory Orbs, further amplifying his affinity with Death.

That was also why Michael did the only thing he could think of when he sensed the death of billions of people in his range. He absorbed the Death Essence, filling the planetary system, and moved forward by using his Death Authority to manifest the Undead Souls of the deceased.

Their confusion was obvious, but Michael paid no attention to it. Instead, he paid more heed to the anger and fury rooted in the deepest parts of their souls. He nurtured their fury with simple words. All Michael had to do was to tell the Undead Souls who had killed them and that he did not care about their deaths. That he would do it again and again and again even if he was given more chances to change their fate.

The Primal would not care.

The fury of hundreds of billions was intense. Even Michael was intimidated, and he had full control of them. Still, he Michael moved ahead by infusing the Death Essence of the deceased back into their Undead Souls.

The Wraiths weren't powerful, but they merged and combined under the influence of the Death Essence until only a few hundred Undead Souls were left.

Each Undead Soul transformed into a Soul Wraith, a powerful eternal existence traveling between the realms to execute vengeance. Their power was not unlimited, but Michael could aid them. He used Unlimited Enhancement on each of the Soul Wraiths and boosted their power even further by coating their claws in Pure Aether and Poison and by infusing even more Death into them.

At last, Michael used Swallow Domain with remnants of Jormungandr's Essences, devouring the remains of Hyuar in one go.

"That was stupid," Michael commented, releasing the Soul Wraths into the wild while using Permute to transform the remains of Hyuar stored in Swallow Domain into more Essence. Within seconds, Michael was back at peak condition, and so were the God Curses. Meanwhile, Primal Xerx suffered tremendously.