Chapter 1156: Okay

Chaos Heir

The lightning bolt and the following vast explosion didn't feel right. Khan found the purple-red cloud that expanded among the dark landscape familiar but also distant as if belonging to someone else.

That feeling led to confusion that tried to transform into a headache when Khan lowered his eyes and noticed the towering, flickering hologram. A sense of belonging surged in his mind, but that only intensified how wrong the situation was. Something was off, but Khan couldn't let it stand, especially now that he had uncovered his mistake.

Khan opened his mouth, which glowed with a purple-red light again, before releasing another lightning bolt. The spell hit the black device under the tall hologram and pierced the moon's grey ground before stretching into the distance, unleashing untold destructive might.

The brittle ground opened at the lightning bolt's passage, unable to oppose the attack. The spell dug a deep and vast groove over the area before its edges exploded into torrents of grey dust. Khan found himself enveloped in a thick cloud that didn't want to disperse, but gales blew from his body as soon as he felt annoyed about the matter.

The cloud instantly dispersed, revealing the destroyed landscape. The groove had collapsed on itself, leaving behind a long, cracked hole that stretched into the distance. Meanwhile, Khan found a toppled human ship behind him but couldn't remember why.

Khan's confusion intensified. A battle between the excitement of flying after the Nak and a profound sense of unfamiliarity unfolded in his brain. Something was definitely wrong, and that feeling only intensified when he looked down and found a pair of scarred arms.

The scene was way beyond wrong. Khan wasn't supposed to have arms and hands. Those were human limbs, while he was a far greater being. Even his mighty scales had disappeared. The scars tried to paint them on his skin, but the difference was like night and day.

Nevertheless, Khan didn't have the time to dwell in his confusion since something entered his perception's range and flew at high speed toward him. He barely had the time to turn before a huge cylindrical item filled his vision, exploding into a scorching wave of blue light.

The moon's ground rose, melted, shattered, and disappeared as scorching synthetic mana ravaged anything in Khan's position and surroundings. A violent shockwave expanded circularly, obliterating anything it crossed and generating storms of dust that stretched for a quarter of the moon.

The wave's blinding core also rose toward the dark expanse, creating a mushroom-shaped pillar that grew in height and size without losing any trace of its power. It seemed a small star had formed on that desolate moon, unleashing its obliterating might against anything that dared to be alive.

Khan simply burned. His mighty body tried to oppose the scorching environment, but his skin instantly reached the boiling point, and his whole being was about to follow.

However, as soon as Khan sensed danger, instinctive defensive mechanisms activated. His aura expanded, unleashing violence against violence to fend off that scorching synthetic mana and the shockwave it created.

Moreover, a strange feeling of firmness invaded Khan, covering his entire body and shielding him from his deadly surroundings. He felt stiff, and the pain never diminished, but his figure endured, trapped inside that blinding pillar.

Khan wanted to hiss but couldn't. He was in pain, ravaged from every side by a force that didn't seem to end. He couldn't even move under that violent shockwave. Khan could only burn and endure, waiting for the torture to end and hoping there would be enough of him left to heal afterward.

The torture seemed endless, but that scorching energy eventually started to wane. Khan kept enduring before opening his eyes, unleashing a spherical wave of purple-red crackling mana that fended off anything in his surroundings.

A foreign light invaded the mushroom-shaped pillar, pushing it aside before revealing its true colors. The spherical version of the Wave spell expanded inside the nuke's ground zero, devouring anything that dared to remain behind.

The blue light vanished, and the spell dispersed, revealing the new landscape. The moon had gained an immense crater covered in black, charred ground. Hills had formed all around its distant edges, and smoke slowly rose from every inch of its surface while a burned figure floated above its center.

Fending off the scorching synthetic mana didn't end Khan's suffering. His whole figure hurt, forcing him to close his eyes again. He felt unable to move, and attempting it threatened to make his unfamiliar limbs fall off. Yet, excitement soon replaced that pain.

Khan somewhat recalled being able to do it, but that ability had always been inferior to his brothers and sisters. However, his unfamiliar body was full of nutrients and could harness the mana's power to activate it. Khan instinctively knew he could pull it off, so he called upon his cells' power, giving them a precise order.

Charred pieces of Khan's flesh fell off his floating figure, breaking into ash and soot before hitting the fuming ground. He shed the damaged tissues like a snake, but intact and healthy ones appeared behind them, replacing the damage endured during the torturous explosion.

The explosion had damaged Khan's insides, too, but the healing process also affected them. His organs shook, pushing away the wounded tissues and replacing them with healthy ones, expelling anything useless through the first available channel.

Black goo emerged from Khan's pores, tainting his new skin with that dark color again. Something also rose through his throat, and he promptly spat it out once it reached his mouth. His eyes finally reopened, and their light pointed at a small, distant, dark dot in the middle of space.

Khan couldn't see it, but his senses had reached it. He perceived that puny human vehicle and connected it to that recent nuke. Those inferior creatures had actually tried to kill him, so it was his job to teach them their place.

'We are complete,' Khan tried to hiss, but his voice only resounded in his brain. 'We will fulfill our species' destiny and conquer the universe!'

Khan stretched his unfamiliar hand toward the distant dot, and purple-red sparks instantly gathered in his palm. The whole process felt foreign, but Khan somehow knew how to unleash it. Still, his confusion suddenly flared, and the same voice resounded in his brain.

'Okay,' Khan heard in a voice that should have been his own but also felt foreign. 'I'll take the universe, too.'

Khan didn't know what was happening, but the purple-red sparks didn't give him time to think. They condensed into tiny lightning bolts on their own before shooting toward his chest.