A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6279

Roar!

Return to the Void's roar turned even more shrill, even more savage.

Dark sapphire blood burst out of its eye.

The blood ran so hot it boiled the lake water around it.

The scalding water burned Jared until his skin split and tore.

He still didn't back off. He charged straight at Return to the Void instead.

Gwendolyn moved too.

One from the left, one from the right, the two of them rushed Return to the Void's head at the same time.

Jared's chaotic force and Gwendolyn's Frost God's power met above Return to the Void's head.

The two forces fused together and erupted with even greater power than before.

Pale golden radiance poured from their hands and took shape as a massive greatsword of light, then came crashing down at Return to the Void's head!

Return to the Void let out one final roar, and then...

It went still.

Its massive body locked in place in the lake water.

All seven eyes stayed shut, while dark sapphire blood slowly leaked from the sockets and stained the surrounding water a dark red.

The greatsword of light hacked into the top of its head and left behind a deep wound, but it wasn't fatal.

Jared dragged in breath after breath. There wasn't a single place on his body that didn't hurt.

Gwendolyn wasn't doing any better.

Her face had gone whiter than paper, her lips were purple, and her whole body looked ready to give out at any second.

A thin slit opened in each of Return to the Void's seven eyes.

This time, the blank indifference in that gaze was gone.

In its place was something far more complicated. Rage. Refusal. And a trace of... acknowledgment?

"Chaos... heir... you... won."

Return to the Void's voice sounded inside Jared's head, much weaker than before.

"Take... the Heart of the Northern Abyss... and go... but... be careful... he is still... alive..."

After that, Return to the Void's eyes closed completely.

Its body slowly sank back to the bottom of the lake and returned to that stretch of darkness.

The dark sapphire lake gradually calmed.

Its temperature began to return to normal too.

Jared and Gwendolyn looked at each other.

In each other's eyes, they both saw the same thing—the thin, shaky relief of having survived.

"Go."

Jared grabbed Gwendolyn's hand and swam for the lake's surface.

This time, nothing stopped them.

By the time the two of them broke through the lake's surface, it was already evening.

The Worldtree's golden leaves shimmered in the last light of sunset, like countless golden stars.

The aurora drifted slowly overhead, its color fading from pale white into a soft pink-violet.

Jared stumbled up onto the lakeshore.

The second he made it to solid ground, his whole body gave out and he collapsed flat onto the grass.

Gwendolyn sat down beside him.

She looked just as drained.

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