When he thought about how he was being forced to leave the South Pole, the Sun King felt a chill that was colder than the power of the icy explosion run through his body.
His blazing yellow eyes made of burning fire twitched, and he said, "So this is their plan. They want me to leave the South Pole. They must want to kill me outside the South Pole, so that they can easily retrieve my core and use it to create a new Sovereign or empower an old one."
He was right to think that the invaders wanted to drive him out of the South Pole. It is true that an explosion of fire was unlikely to threaten his life, considering the kind of power that he still possesses. His resistance to fire damage would have covered the gap between 80C and 100C, and prevented the fire explosion from killing him.
This is one of the major reasons why the three patriarchs decided to use an ice bomb. The second reason is to make the Sun King leave the South Pole, so that they can kill him outside.
But unlike what the Sun King thought, the three patriarchs didn't want to kill him outside so that they would be able to use his power on Sovereigns. The main goal of the three patriarchs has always been to give his power to the domain of the Ethera tree.
However, even if he knew what the true goal of the Blood Skull army was, it wouldn't change what he had to. He could either choose to die at the South Pole or leave the South Pole for a chance of survival.
The Sun King didn't want to die. So he chose to leave the South Pole for a chance at survival. But as soon as he left the South Pole, he was besieged by an enemy.
Void Claw had been waiting anxiously for the Sun King to show up. So as soon as the violent ball of red fire showed up, he attacked him immediately.
Void Claw didn't use his usual methods to attack the Sun King because the Sun King was too hot for him to get close to. The first means of attack he used this time was his vessel sigil technique.
Void Claw's vessel sigil technique is not the Wood Vessel Sigil technique or the Lightning Vessel Sigil technique. It is a vessel sigil technique that Sword Flash made himself.
Once the vessel sigil technique was activated, the mark shaped like a lightning bolt on his head began to glow. As it glowed, a small sword came out of the mark on his forehead.
The sword came out of his forehead slowly as if it had all the time in the world. But after it was completely out of his forehead, the sword disappeared instantly.
The speed of the small sword was so fast that there were several sonic booms as it flew through the air. Its speed created countless resounding thunderclaps that sounded like a death knell to the Sun King.
The Sun King knew that danger was waiting for him outside the barrier of the South Pole. But when the first danger came, he still couldn't defend himself from it.
As a golden core cultivator with a perfect core, Void Claw's power output is 12.39C. The armament doubles his power to 24.78C.
This kind of power is impressive for a golden core cultivator to have. But it is not enough to threaten the Sun King. Fortunately, a vessel sigil technique has the power to overcome the difference between Void Claw and the Sun King.
This blade that Void Claw produced is something that he has been nurturing for nearly a hundred years since he learned the sigil technique. The blade has been accumulating power daily and growing stronger little by little, so it has become far more powerful than Void Claw himself.
Once he has finished mastering the vessel sigil technique and accumulated its power to a certain level, a sword box will be made to nurture and multiply the sword into hundreds of copies. Even millions of copies are possible.
But that is for the future. For now, the might of a single sword is all Void Claw can manage to control. As he watched the sword pierce the body of the Sun King, Void Claw was satisfied by how much his budding divine ability had grown over the years.
The sword pierced the Sun King and punched a hole through his giant body from one end to the other. The Sun King roared in pain as red blood that behaved as lava poured out of his two wounds.
The attack injured him greatly and made him very angry. He wanted to retaliate, but he didn't let the anger get to his head and blind him. He still retained his senses, so he knew that he was still in danger and that the best thing for him to do was to run away.
Because of the small sanity that he still possessed, the Sun King didn't succumb to his desires for revenge. He chose to run away. But the small runic sword didn't let him.
The runic sword was small compared to Void Claw's body, but compared to the gigantic body of the Sun King, the sword might as well be a nail. However, this small nail was very sharp. It kept puncturing the body of the Sun King as if he were a bag of blood.
As the Sun King ran, the small sword entered and left his body again and again. This caused the hot lava blood of the Sun King to pour down from the sky onto those below.
Wherever his blood touched caught fire immediately. It didn't matter if what the blood touched was the sandy ground. Everything burned until the blood finished burning.
Arthur was below when he saw the Sun King being chased by Void Claw. He also saw the tiny sword, but all he could catch were flashes of it as it was too fast. However, this didn't mean that he wasn't going to do anything about the situation.