"I'm going to destroy all these annoying tombstones!" Austin growled.
He charged forward, the long sword in hand and the dazzling sword radiance gushing from his body.
Austin was gearing up to launch an all-out attack.
The immense energy of swordsmanship flowed out from him furiously and attached to his sword.
The sword's aura soared like a wild beast provoked from its deep slumber.
In a flash,
Austin swung the mighty weapon at the tombstones floating around the void.
A terrifying face then suddenly appeared on each of the tombstones.
Austin could tell by the auras they emitted that they were as powerful as governing gods.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
He smashed those tombstones one after another, striking through them with his sword.
They were all decimated and the faces disappeared along with them.
"What is this? Austin, how is your fighting power so incredible and horrible?"
All the governing gods of the underworld began panicking, filled with terror by Austin's strength.
They deeply regretted ever having attacked him.
If only they had known better.
As it turned out, the governing gods of the underworld had been hiding in these coffins for the past few
hundred years and had never learned of what had happened outside their coffins.
They were totally ignorant of Austin's true strength.
They had no idea he'd fought Humphrey several times and even managed to injure him.
If they had known all these things, they would, without a doubt, never have made the foolish decision to
challenge him.
"Austin, it's all our fault. Please forgive our stupidity and recklessness. We shouldn't have picked a fight
with you.
In fact, there's not even a sliver of animosity between you and our force. How about we let this go and
join our hands to fight Humphrey together?
What do you think?"
a governing god of the underworld offered, friendlier than they had been before.
The hostility in his eyes had vanished.
"Humph! You started all this and now you ask for peace? Who do you think you are? Why should I do
or believe anything that comes out of your mouth?"
Austin snapped with a vicious sneer.
If they had treated him with respect and humility, and then offered him peace from the beginning, he
might have considered forgiving them.
Unfortunately, that was not the case; they had suddenly called for a truce after battling him for so long.
There was no way Austin was going to agree and let them off that easy.
"You started this fight,
I say we finish it.
It's been a few hundred years since I've been in an actual, serious fight. I'd like to battle it out till I'm
sufficiently satisfied,"
Austin said, with his displeasure for their cowardice clear on his face.
"What do you want from us?"
another of the governing gods yelled.
"I've already made clear what it is I want.
Quit stalling and let's end this."
Austin said his last word and waited no more, stepping forward and waving his sword again.
This time, he had his sights set on the black towering mountain.
"Austin, stop! You're crossing the line now!"
huffed one of the governing gods of the underworld.
"Fine then! Let's see how strong you really are!"
Austin had pissed them off and they weren't going to stand aside and let him do as he pleased.
"Unrivaled Coffin Array!"
shouted one of the governing gods.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Coffins of all sorts of colors popped up one after the other, flying out from the bodies of the governing
gods.
Since they were governing gods, they were able to create human worlds and so had several such
worlds in their bodies.
This was where they usually kept these coffins.
Each coffin was actually a magic treasure.
There were tens of thousands of coffins floating in the air now.
They came together and connected to from a massive array,
known as the Unrivaled Coffin Array.
"Humph! Are you trying to show off? Trying to intimidate me with this little trick?"
Austin scoffed unimpressed.
He then swiftly swung his sword at the coffins.
So many coffins combined created a power that was a force to be reckoned with.
Still, with his current strength, Austin could handle it without issue.
He had after all defeated dozens of governing gods in the Sword Cosmos.
Plus, the magic treasures the governing gods of the supreme universe owned were much more
powerful than those in the Sea of Chaos.
Austin brandished his sword,
striking the coffins down one after another.
"This can't be happening. How is this possible?"
The governing gods of the underworld were dumbfounded by what they were witnessing. They looked
on with their jaws dropped, almost to the ground.
The Unrivaled Coffin Array was their another trump card.
They had intended to use it to take down Humphrey.
And now they watched as Austin shattered the array without even breaking a sweat.
"You've destroyed our treasures!" a governing god cried out.
His heart sank as he saw the coffins exploding one by one. It felt as though a piece of himself was
disappearing along with every vanishing piece of the array.
"You call this rubbish 'treasures'? Is your force truly this poor that these are the best you have?" Austin
replied disdainfully.
He could not stand these governing gods.
It took only a moment for Austin to annihilate all the coffins.
"You son of a bitch!" the governing gods cursed hysterically.
Furious as they were, there was nothing they could do to Austin.
They could not even retrieve the debris of their treasures.
When Austin had pulled out his sword, he released a range of original chaotic laws that formed a net,
blocking out the space the shards of the coffins were in.
The remains hovered, frozen in the void, like a still picture.
"This black mountain appears to be a magic treasure of some kind.
It's certainly more powerful than those trashy coffins," Austin murmured to himself.
The black mountain had piqued his interest.
He had come across many things and experienced a lot in his time. This informed his senses and he
could tell that the black mountain was a priceless treasure.
If it were a low-level treasure, it would not have attracted him enough to warrant so much as a glance
at it.
"Let's find out how many hits it can take!"
Austin said grinning madly.
In the blink of an eye,
he struck the black mountain with a deafening punch.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The black mountain quaked vigorously from the blow.
The intense impact shook the coffins on the mountain as well.
They trembled violently, as if the dead were waking from them.
Tens of thousands of coffins shook all at once in a spectacular sight of fear inducing rumbling and
shuddering.
"What's going on?"
"Who goes there?
Who would be so bold to disturb my cultivation?"
Multiple roars and screeches soon came from inside the coffins,
before numerous creatures of the underworld burst out of them to show themselves and confront their
disturber.
Austin had guessed it right.
All the members of the underworld had been hiding here.
"Ha-ha! That's really interesting. Turns out, you've all been hiding in these coffins all this time,"
Austin said laughing heartily.
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