A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 5171

Clutching his bleeding chest, he stared in horror as the flesh around the wound blackened and rotted at an alarming speed—the nether energy was viciously corrosive.

Impossible. My body’s this tough, and I’ve got the Golem Body on top of it. How can their nether energy still eat through me?

“Jared!”

Anxious cries rang out. Flaxseed rushed over with Jhaelyn, Everett, Jemina, and hundreds of Azurecloud Sect disciples in tow.

They formed a protective ring around him, grimacing at the Nether Duo hanging in midair and the nether energy rolling over the ground.

No one had expected the two old fiends to be this terrifying; in their very first exchange, they had wounded Jared.

“Protect Jared!” Flaxseed bellowed.

A hundred charms flew from his sleeve, flaring gold and fusing into a wall of light before Jared.

Jhaelyn swung her ancient sword, sending arc after arc of sword energy to smash into Granny Deadclaw’s soul orbs.

“Hmph, another flock of lambs to the slaughter!”

Lord Drowned Souls whipped his chain; the scythe traced a broad arc overhead, turning netherfire into a rain of black flames that pelted the Azurecloud Sect disciples.

“Don’t panic—” Everett roared, trying to steady his people.

But behind the Nether Duo, dozens of black shadows materialized—the Underworld Shadow Guards they had brought with them.

Clad in tight black garb and ghost masks, the guards moved like wraiths. Their short blades glimmered with eerie blue light as they split into squads and surged toward the Azurecloud Sect disciples like a tide.

“Watch the poisoned blades!”

A sect elder had barely shouted the warning when a disciple’s arm was sliced open. Black energy spread instantly; the young man screamed and collapsed.

Chaos exploded across the field.

Splurt...

Jared forced himself upright, swaying where he stood. The massacre unfolding before his eyes stained the shattered landscape crimson, and blood-red veins crawled across the whites of his eyes like cracks in glass.

He endured the turbulent energy raging inside him, drew a long breath, and was about to speak when Vermilion Demon Lord whispered inside his skull, “Want to use me?”

Jared nodded once. “Exactly.”

“Heh-heh, that’s more like it...”

At that, Vermilion Demon Lord took control of Jared’s body.

The Nether Duo noticed the change at once. A savage grin flickered across their gaunt faces as they watched the youth whose eyes now burned with molten fury.

Overhead, ink-black clouds pressed lower and lower, while soul fires flickered like countless vengeful eyes, illuminating the gore-streaked ruins in a hopeless crimson.

The instant Vermilion Demon Lord’s consciousness swept through Jared’s four limbs like wildfire, the atmosphere itself turned wild and violent.