Amelia nodded back without speaking.
Neo’s gaze flicked between them.
Their quiet exchange didn’t escape him.
Jack’s eyes shifted once more.
He looked at Earth, just for a fraction of a second. His expression turned cold yet bitter.
Then, finally his focus returned to Neo.
"So, this is the help you were waiting for," Neo said to Amelia.
The one to answer him was Jack, not Amelia.
"Before we start, I want to know one thing. Who are you, and why are you attacking our planet?"
Neo didn’t bother replying.
He raised his hand, then snapped his fingers.
The air shuddered.
He had abandoned the idea of calming down the moment he saw Jack.
Red lightning exploded out from his body.
The bolts expanded into colossal streaks, ripping through the ranks of undead with terrifying speed.
The radius of the lightning explosion kept expanding as if it wanted to swallow the whole battlefield.
Jack remained calm.
"You can’t kill the undead with Death. They are already dead."
"If they were truly dead, they wouldn’t be able to fight for you."
The lightning lashed again, and this time the undead it touched didn’t just collapse.
Their forms convulsed violently.
They were no longer able to regenerate.
Then they exploded, one after another, filling the battlefield with shockwaves.
Jack was surprised, but he acted quickly.
He used the moment of chaos to dash forward.
"The World!" Amelia said quickly. "I will help too."
The blood-red sky appeared once more.
The insides of the coffins were now connected to the Blood Sea.
The red blood surged, leaking from the coffins that dotted the graveyard world.
The colossal goddess rose once again.
Her towering figure formed behind Amelia as though answering her call.
"Fall," Neo said.
Just one word.
An immeasurable pressure crushed down on the battlefield.
The air thickened.
Reality itself seemed to bend under the weight of his command.
Jack’s body snapped violently.
His bones broke under the impossible force.
He was crushed to death on the spot, along with the undead nearest to him.
Amelia staggered.
Her body threatened to collapse under the same suffocating weight.
The goddess behind her moved without hesitation, covering her with its massive frame.
The giant’s form trembling as fractures spread across it, but it managed to keep Amelia from being flattened completely.
Far from Neo, one of the undead shuddered.
Its form twisted unnaturally before breaking apart, reshaping into Jack.
He stood again, taking heavy breaths, and hunched over.
Neo’s eyes narrowed.
He watched black mist and sickly green flames rise around Jack, swirling in coils of deathly energy.
"Necromancy Divinity," Neo muttered.
Jack lifted his hands, beginning another chant.
The air vibrated faintly as the undead around him started merging together.
Their forms collided into larger, and more grotesque creations.
"Too slow."
Neo grabbed the air, crushing the undead far from him as if the distance between them had disappeared
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