Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 294 The Gaze of Death, Kindred's Mark
Unlike Tsar Azir, who forcefully descended upon the Sahara Desert, unleashing a sandstorm that blotted out the sky.

It is also quite different from the starlight torrent that Soraka, the child of the stars, descended from the boundless starry sky to purify all things.

It was not the Void Queen Bervis who descended by tearing space through the Alps.

The fourth super-tier clone—the Eternal Hunter Twins Kindred—has appeared.

He did not trigger a massive energy surge.

He flowed naturally from Qin Xiaonan's newly formed, black-and-white nebula, silently gathering before her.

Though separated by mere inches, our breaths are connected.

The main body is "Sheep Spirit", surrounded by "Wolf Spirit".

Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue were filled with confusion and astonishment at this moment.

The "living beings" before our eyes?
They had never seen this creature in any book or legend.

This...was summoned by Qin Xiaonan?

Was it a mutation triggered by his breakthrough?
However, they could clearly "sense" that the power of this black and white intertwined existence was not an ordinary element, nor was it the earth, healing, or space that Qin Xiaonan had previously shown.

Rather, it is a... more ancient power.

Cold? No, the white light even carried a hint of warmth.

Warmth? But the dark, wolfish eyes sent chills down their spines.

It gave them a very contradictory feeling.

"This is...?" Mu Nujiao's voice was filled with doubt as she glanced back and forth between Qian Jue and Qin Xiaonan, who still had her eyes closed and whose breathing had become steady.

At this moment, in Qin Xiaonan's mental universe, there was the newly born, slowly rotating fourth nebula—the "Death System."

Finally, after Kindred's clone was formed, it became completely stable.

It exudes a unique fluctuation of law, unlike the sinister and eerie manipulation of death energy by necromancers, or the unpredictable lurking in the shadows by shadow mages.

It is a more direct, more essential order—an order concerning the end of life.

Qin Xiaonan opened her eyes and got up, meeting Qian Jue's gaze.

He then looked at the three women beside him and said, "It's a success!"

Qin Xiaonan did not explain the origin of Qianjue to Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue in detail.

The two women refrained from asking any further questions.
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Meanwhile, in the distant underworld, deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza, shrouded in the endless deathly aura of the dead.

Khufu, the once arrogant Pharaoh who sought to seize power in the world, now sits on his throne.

After being defeated by the blazing power of Tsar Azir in the Sahara Desert, which was as dazzling as the sun, they fled back to the underworld in a sorry state.

He was like a wounded viper, lurking there, licking his wounds, and accumulating the venomous power of revenge.

He frantically exploited the power of the underworld, transforming the souls of the dead in an attempt to rebuild his shattered army of the undead and his damaged origin.

However, just as Qin Xiaonan's Thousand Jade clone solidified completely...

On the throne, Khufu's eyes, burning with eerie green soul fire and filled with violence and calculation, suddenly narrowed!
A powerful unease, originating from the depths of his soul and arising without warning, seized him!

This feeling wasn't the fear of being crushed by absolute power like when facing Azir, but something colder, more... eerie.

It was as if some unseen force had precisely locked onto him!
The next second, a mark appeared before him without warning. It was a circular mark, simple in structure yet containing an indescribable aura of law.

It resembles a bullseye made of black and white interwoven patterns.

At the edge of the mark, there are faint, extremely fine, chain-like runes flowing.

Kindred's Mark!

"What is that?!" Khufu roared in shock and rage.

He suddenly stood up, and a vast aura of deathly energy surged out like a boiling black ocean, attempting to dispel and annihilate this eerie mark!

However, the mark remained unmoved under the onslaught of the violent death energy.

The black and white light became even clearer, continuing to flow and imprint itself on him.

What follows is a feeling of being completely seen through, of being firmly locked in by a cold "gaze" hanging over one's fate!

This feeling was even more unsettling and distressing than when he was defeated by Azir!

"Who?! Who is spying on me?!" Khufu's voice echoed through the empty pyramid, filled with astonishment and rage.

Coincidentally, in the deepest part of the planet, far from the mainland and forever out of reach of sunlight—the western Pacific Ocean, in the Mariana Trench.

This is a forbidden zone for life; even the most resilient deep-sea creatures cannot survive here for long.

However, within this eternal darkness and deathly silence, lurks an unimaginable, shadowy figure.

It is the ruler of this abyss, an emperor-level being who commands endless sea monsters—the Lord of the Sea Abyss Demon Ruins!
Its form was blurred in absolute darkness, and one could only sense its suffocatingly gloomy aura.

Countless enormous tentacles, wreathed in eerie blue phosphorescence, danced slowly in the deep sea. Each movement stirred the icy, bone-chilling water, radiating a pressure that made all marine life instinctively tremble.

Its consciousness, like the deep trench itself, is ancient, cold, and full of unknown malice.

Just as Kindred's mark appeared in front of Khufu.

In the dark waters in front of this massive head of the deep-sea emperor, a blinding light suddenly appeared!

It is also a black and white circular mark, like a tiny, ominous lighthouse, shining abruptly in this ancient dark abyss!

"Huh?!" The Lord of the Deep Sea Demon Ruins' "eyes," hidden in the darkness and resembling a giant lava fissure, suddenly "opened"!
It sensed it! A probing that pierced through the depths of the ocean, ignoring its vast spiritual barrier!

"Who?!" A spiritual thought filled with boundless majesty and rage reverberated in the seawater, stirring up a violent undercurrent.

This mark... this sense of being locked on... it has traversed the deep sea for tens of thousands of years, devoured powerful sea dragons, fought against prosperous underwater empires, and even clashed with emperors on land, but it has never encountered such a strange, direct, and... disorienting power!

There was actually an entity that could imprint its mark directly onto the core of his domain without him even noticing?
This is utterly blasphemous to his authority as the ruler of the Abyss!
The Lord of the Abyss Demon Ruins' enormous tentacles pounded the seawater wildly, triggering a small-scale underwater earthquake.

The intense, dark blue phosphorescence revealed the turmoil within him.

The unknown is often more frightening than a powerful enemy.

The appearance of Kindred's mark is not only aimed at emperor-level beings.

Just as Khufu roared in fury inside the pyramid, and the Lord of the Deep Sea Demon Ruins stirred up undercurrents in the abyss.

Around the world, faint, smaller black-and-white markings, far less dazzling than imperial seals, appear silently around certain creatures, like scattered dandelion seeds.

(End of this chapter)