Chapter 37 – Void Monarch’s Awakening

Ren vanished—a blur of black lightning. In less than a second, he was behind Harbinger, Void Blade coated in abyssal energy, slashing toward its neck.

CLANG!

The blade met unyielding flesh. The impact alone sent shockwaves tearing through the battlefield, splitting the ground into jagged chasms.

But the Abyssal Lord did not flinch.

Instead, it twisted—**faster than anything that large should move—**and struck with an earth-shattering backhand.

Ren barely crossed his arms in time.

BOOM!

The force sent him hurtling through the air, smashing through a ruined spire before he crashed into the remnants of a fortress wall.

“Tch—!” He coughed up blood.

Sylas and the others watched in horror.

“That thing… it’s stronger than Nyx’s generals!” Sylas muttered, fists clenched.

“Stronger?” Veyron let out a dry chuckle. “It’s on an entirely different level. This is a true Abyssal Lord—an entity that even Nyx himself would not challenge recklessly.”

Ren wiped blood from his lip.

Harbinger had already turned toward him again.

“You are incomplete,” it rumbled. “You do not deserve the throne.”

Ren’s fingers twitched.

A familiar voice rang in his mind.

[SYSTEM ALERT: FORCE-LOCKED RESTRICTIONS… LIFTING.]

A pulse of power surged through him.

His eyes widened.

This sensation—it was different.

His veins pulsed with something far beyond the Void energy he had harnessed before. It was deeper. Darker. Primal.

Ren exhaled, his breath forming wisps of black mist.

Then—

His body disappeared.

Not teleported. Not moved.

He simply ceased to exist for an instant.

Harbinger’s gaze snapped left—too late.

Ren reappeared in front of him.

“I don’t need your approval.”

A single punch.

It landed square in Harbinger’s chest.

And for the first time… the Abyssal Lord staggered.

BOOOOM!

The impact sent shockwaves ripping through the abyssal mist. The towering behemoth’s feet skidded backward, trenches forming beneath its weight.

Harbinger’s crimson eyes narrowed. “Impossible.”

Ren slowly straightened, his aura now a maelstrom of black and violet energy.

The Void Monarch’s power had finally awakened.

And the real fight was just beginning.