While Sarah and Sia fought together earnestly for the first since the days of Siarah, Varian was facing hell.
"D-Did I really kill so many? Eh?"
There were creatures as far as the eye could see, all the way to the horizon. The majority of these kills came from the time when he slaughtered entire abyss cities.
This number easily crossed fifteen million.
Even though the majority of these fifteen million were lower and mid tier abyssals, and didn't pose much threat by themselves, their sheer numbers and their single-mindedness in killing Varian meant they were a force to be reckoned with.
To deal with this huge crowd, three of the turtles from the ten were necessary.
The battle was tragic as each turtle faced tens of millions of attacks every second. Even though they kept up a shield, facing these many attacks, the turtles were having a tough time.
Perhaps the biggest reason for this situation was that the turtles attacked very slowly.
The next reason was the abyssals. As they were residents of cities with millions in population, most of the abyssals were between level 4 and level 6. There was also a significant amount of level 7s and level 8s.
All of these factors combined to form a scenario where the giant crowd of abyssals was fighting head-on with the turtles.
The turtles tried to take them down bit by bit and ease the pressure on themselves. But the abyssals were clever.
After a few such attacks by the turtles, they quickly devised a strategy and built up huge defense walls.
With millions of abyssals coming together and forming defenses, even the turtles had a hard time killing them.
Of course, a big reason for this was the nature of the turtles themselves. Their specialty was their defense, not their attack. And they were, by nature, slow and powerful.
So, in this type of warfare, they were disadvantaged. But no matter what, they're still a Sovereign and thus held the initiative.
The abyssals, despite all their efforts, began dying off in thousands. The turtles weren't unscathed. Every now and then, their defenses would break and they'd get an injury.
To be sure, these attacks felt like a mosquito bite, but there were too many mosquitoes!
With each passing second, the abyssal population lowered and the injuries on the turtles increased.
The battle began to slowly but surely head toward the pivotal point.
Another battle was going on far away.
The army of this battle was the Abyssal army, particularly, the army of thirty planetoids that Varian destroyed during the recent war. They're also joined by all the abyssals that Varian killed in that war, including the wyverns of Pluto.
Their average strength was much higher than the crowd of fifteen millions. What's more, their number too easily crossed two million.
The situation demanded that they too needed a Sovereign to be dealt with.
This left Varian with six turtles.
But Varian who was at the center of this world had a tense expression on his face.
"You…"
A familiar Abyssal stood high in the clouds, looking down at him with indifferent eyes.
It seemed as if this spectacular battle was boring in his eyes and his only focus was the young human who snatched the ghost ship from him.
'Abyss Emperor…'
Even though it was just a clone, Varian felt a coldness washing from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
If asked who he dreaded the most, Varian would answer Abyss Emperor without hesitation.
What Varian feared was neither Abyss Emperor's celestial rank strength nor his enormous abyssal army.
Celestial rankers could be confronted and defeated. The Abyssal army, no matter how large, could be stopped.
But the means of the Emperor were the most dangerous. Starting from the conspiracy in Valos to the recent war, the shrewd mind of the Emperor was on full display.
Such an opponent must be killed at cost without delay. Because if you give him enough time, then even if you succeed in killing him, he might have already done irreparable damage.
The destruction of earth flashed in Varian's mind and he looked at the Abyss Emperor with gritted teeth.
In response, the clone clenched its fist and the space around it twisted.
'Wait a minute…'
Varian's mind cooled down. This was just a clone. And he's in a trial.
'There will be no tricks here. Only strength.'
And even though the Abyss Emperor clone was strong, it wasn't strong to the point it was invincible.
At least, when he was an Undead and reached peak of level 9, Varian's power was also in the same range.
Still, Abyss Emperor's clone was overwhelmingly strong. It needed three turtles to fight.
"Fuc—erghh!" Varian suddenly clutched his head and turned to the side.
Sovereign Kreo found a gap to attack him before he was dragged by a turtle and engaged in a fight.
And in the far-off distance, the Diamond Duhcy's Sovereign whom Varian killed in the outer world using his slivers' powers was engaged in a fight with two turtles.
This strange world with red sky and the blue ground was shaking violently due to the crazy battles.
Thousands of attacks would burst into the sky and shine brighter than the sun every second.
Every second, hundreds of thousands of explosions blasted the ground and created continuous craters.
As the battles continued, level 9s and level 8s would frequently sneak out from the turtles' grasp and reach Varian.
Even with the strength of the turtles, it's impossible to control so many awakeners.
As a result, Varian himself was engaged in a seemingly unending fight. Every second, he fought at least a hundred level 9s and more than two thousand level 8s.
It was crazy at all levels and even Varian didn't even understand what the fuck was going on.
Compared to Sarah or Sia, his battle was way too intense and dangerous. Even though he didn't have any big injury thanks to his Plantae power, he was drenched in blood from head to toe.
"Kill!"
He kept pouring out every power in his body and kept killing. It was exhausting but thankfully after an hour of intense fighting, Varian realized that no one was coming to him.
The turtles all got heavy injuries while the enemy crowd was halved. And there were no level 8 or level 9 that could now sneak out to attack him.
'Phew~ I can rest a bit and then start destroying the enemies…' Varian took out a potion and was about to gulp it down when he heard a tragic cry.
"Aaaa!"
