The Boundless Expanse(An Epic System Apocalypse LitRPG)

Chapter 626


Jacob Atlas was lagging a bit behind Sam, but considering the differences in floor layouts, such a thing was up to chance for the most part. His fifth tower segment, called Death's Playground, consisted of a cemetery planet, where thousands of generations of the dead lay. Most of them did not rest quietly. There were no living beings on the planet, save for the Overlord himself, and he was alone in his quest to cleanse the world of its pollution.

The planet was small, about two thirds of the size of Earth, at least before the apocalypse. This was because the lack of a living presence meant that there was no way for essence to trickle down into the celestial body, and cause it to expand.

The Overlord had grown to monstrous levels of power during a spree of butchery like no other, the low Rank of the world meaning that every strike was as devastating as a nuclear bomb. Naturally, this, and the ease of most of his fights, filled him to the brim with Dao energy. The vast majority of the undead, billions upon billions of them, were mere G Rankers. As such, the Overlord could take out tens of millions of them with his more powerful techniques. The only challenges were the E Rank undead, which were few and far between. The majority of his layer quests revolved around them.

More often than not, Jacob found himself struggling with his emotions, trying to reconcile his feelings with the yawning void within him. Every fiber of his being recognized Sam as his son, but there was something missing there, something that prevented him from feeling anything more than the barest hint of affection for. Had he been forced to choose his own life over that of his son, Jacob, or rather, the Overlord, would save himself. In fact, it would be impossible not to.

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The only workaround he had found was to simply treat Sam as an ally, one whose success enhanced his own, rather than acted as a detriment. This had worked so far, but there was bound to be trouble down the road.

For weeks, he embarked upon a path of gruesome liberation, bringing Death's final embrace to those who had escaped its bony grasp. As with most of his layer quests, his tasks were simple, and predicated on brute force rather than anything else. As a result, the real fights, those with E Rank skeletal dragons, titans and the corpses of heroes and villains alike, were far more difficult than the fodder undead. So far, Jacob had put an end to over a dozen beings that could have spelled the end of his home planet prior to the coming of the System.

His final challenge was by far the hardest. The very core of the planet was infected with a necrotic plague, and it had turned into something akin to a rotting heart, lending the entire world a field of pure Death, corrupting the very space around it.

Jacob stood poised above a rift in the ground the width of a small country, gazing down upon a fetid, oozing organ hundreds of miles wide. It languidly beat every now and then, sending shudders through the world itself. Snow swept around Jacob as he watched the beating of the heart. The only entrance to the planet's core was on its north pole, a frigid expanse of snow covered graves and mausoleums, with the howls of the undead drifting alongside the precipitation.

"I wonder where you are now, Sam," the Overlord said to himself. A moment later, plates of red energy slotted into place around him, girding his form in the armor of his Dao. His fists glowed red with its concept, and with a roar, he inverted himself, pushing off a suspended block of condensed mana. Shooting down like a comet, the powerful cultivator cut through the thin air of the graveyard world, entering its rotten bowels. A smile creased his face as he did what he did best. Obliterating his enemies, and growing stronger by doing so.

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