Both were parties were ready to fight, one was protected by a gigantic barrier that enveloped the whole area and the other was surrounded by four divine beasts and commanded by a Lich King.

The army of death finally finished its march toward the White Specter Clan and stopped a mile or so from the entrance. Almost all of the disciples of the clan were standing in an orderly fashion in front of the gates, fully equipped with powerful equipment.

Even so, some of them couldn't help but feel anxious and a bit afraid after witnessing the enemy's prowess with their own eyes. There was just no end to the undead, they stretched from North to South and every single one of them looked domineering. The revived Holy Knights were also standing at the very front, their shields and swords now corrupted but still effective.

Every Overgod that was revived will provide assistance to Arthur as the enemy will mainly focus on him. Aborak is to lead the army and slowly demolish this place, turning it upside down.

Amidst this intense and nerve-wracking silence, a chilling breeze passed through the two parties, alarming the specters, who clutched their weapons and mustered their courage. They're here to defend their home and Katrina made it really clear that not all of them will remain alive by the end of this sudden war.

Arthur appeared in front of the army and gazed at the floating figure of the Matriarch, who was glaring at him with eyes filled with contempt and killing intent.

She loathed the parasites and despite having a human soul, she still considered him an abomination, an atrocity that shouldn't exist amongst the living. His very act of leading such a large army of dead goes against the unwritten rules of the multiverse as the very existence of this many undead can automatically kill millions of mortals.

"What? Are you so unhappy to see your 'son-in-law'?"

Arthur crossed his arms and taunted her while smirking, unaffected by the aura of the Exalted God or her piercing glare. In response, Katrina snorted and said

"I have no relation with no monstrosity like you."

"I believe your daughter will say otherwise."-Arthur

"You should have pretended to be dead and continued on with your life without causing this much trouble and destruction."

Hearing this, Arthur shrugged his shoulders and replied

"Initially, I didn't want to implicate myself with you but it's you guys who persistently chased after us. You can only blame yourself for what's about to happen."

Just as he finished talking, a burst of energy smashed into him with the intent of killing him with one blow. Unfortunately, Arthur turned into a strange-looking dark cloud, which swiftly returned to its owner.

Arthur wasn't foolish enough to defenselessly appear before the leader of the enemy. Knowing her aggressive character, it's wasn't difficult to predict her actions. She'll want to get rid of Arthur as soon as possible so a sneak attack like this is to be expected.

When her attack failed, a loud laugh reverberated from afar:

"Hahahaha you had one chance to kill me before and you failed so don't expect to succeed this time."

Arthur, who already unsheathed Makaze, declared that then glanced at Aborak, who nodded his skeletal head.

The Lich King banged his cane then emitted an ear-deafening screech, signaling the undead to start their assault. The flying bone dragons started diving toward the white specters while the countless skeletons raised their weapons and madly ran at the thousands of disciples standing at the front.

Before the two parties could clash, Katrina waved her hand and pulverized the running undead and the flying bone dragons, causing them to turn into nothingness.

However, it wasn't nearly enough to stop the incoming force. Moreover, the undead felt no fear so they weren't fazed by Katrina's demonstration of power.

The Matriarch knew that it was useless to try and stop the whole army herself, there were just too many of them to defend all sides.

Dozens of seconds later, the undead finally clashed with the disciples, who were much stronger, individually.

The experts of the White Specter Clan remained on standby, waiting for the Divine Beasts or Arthur to make move.

The only people who were reckless and rushed toward Arthur were the sea people originating from the Sea Citadel. They resembled fish but had a humanoid body covered in blue scales.

Arthur was about to send Radolf and Midolf to deal with the weird-looking fish but Aborak stopped him and said

"I'll handle them, take care of the Senior Elders, they're more dangerous."

Arthur nodded his head and vanished from the fish men's sight and dived into the army of undead, possessing one of them and diving underground, quickly escaping the enemies' senses.

Before they could turn around and make chase, Aborak already made his move. The enormous elemental wheel which was imprinted under the undead's feet started acting, the black arrow started spinning and stopped on the flaming red color.

Countless tall zombies standing at the back jumped in the air, each one of them covering in flames. These were the Elemental Zombies, a special combat force that is extremely strong.

In total, there were 150,000 Elemental Zombies and once they're strengthened by the Elemental Wheel, they're an unstoppable force.

Fortunately, the fishmen from the Sea Citadel weren't Overgods but they were nevertheless strong.

There were 4 fish men and when they saw the descending zombies, they took formation and wrapped themselves with a bubble of water.

Each passing second, dozens of flaming zombies fell on the bubble of water and exploded, however, the explosions did close to no damage.

Only when a thousand zombies exploded next to the bubble did it start showing signs of shaking. Though, by this time, the fishmen were already able to reconstruct it and launch a counter-attack. Sadly, the number of zombies was too much and it was an old Lich King who was controlling them so it was too early for the fishmen to celebrate their victory.

A violent tsunami was unleashed by the four fishmen, it engulfed not only the flying zombies but thousands of skeletons below. When everything cleared, there were no signs of the flaming zombies, which made the fishmen breathe a sigh of relief only to feel an unimaginable heat come from below them.

Before they could react, a 10-meter long red zombie appeared, it was holding a flaming halberd and staring at the fishmen. Slowly, it raised its halberd and smashed it on the bubble of water, shaking it and destroying half of it. Through the newly-made gap, several flaming zombies fell from the sky, exploding right next to the fishmen.

*****

"Matriarch, what do we do?"

Several elders stood behind the silent Katrina, waiting for her answer. After gazing at the brutal battles happening a distance away, she pointed at the Divine Beasts and said

"Get rid of those four, I'll kill that parasite and if I can't, I'll subdue him until the Senior Monks are done with their preparation."

Indeed, the three Senior Monks were still praying right above the clan. They paid no attention to the war occurring at the entrance and solely focused on finishing with their chant.

Though it was barely noticeable, a transparent and outrageously large archaic gate started appeared above the three old men.

*****

It took Katrina a few seconds to locate Arthur, who was madly drilling into the ground, trying to escape her sense. Unfortunately, he failed but when she started taking actions, an Azure Dragon appeared before her, opened its mouth and spat a massive amount of illusory-looking red flames which spread to all directions.

The elders standing behind her were about to take actions only for them to suddenly plummet in the ground and before they could retaliate, a white shadow passed through them and spat lethal acid which went through their clothes and melted their skin.

It wasn't enough to heavily injure them or kill them, however, it rendered them useless for a couple of seconds.

Seeing the interference of the Divine Beasts, which demonstrated flawless cooperation and incredibly strength, Katrina frowned but wasn't afraid of the Dragon's Breath.

She raised her hand and unleashed flames of her own, the unique flames of the White Specter. They were illusory white flames which pushed away the dragon's flames and even landed on the Azure beast, causing it to writhe from agony.

A loud screech reverberated across the area and by the next second, a bird covered in flames descended from the sky, directly charging at the calm Matriarch.

Still not moving, Katrina simply waved her hand yet it was enough to send the Vermilion Bird to be sent flying in the other direction. Just as the bird was flung away, a white shadow appeared behind the woman and slashed its claws at her.

Unfortunately, this attack was also a failure as the long and golden claws of the White Tiger weren't even able to cause a scratch on the Matriarch. She turned around, clutched the sharp claws with her bare hands then spun around, throwing the enormous beast far away.

"Did you really think they could stop me?"

Her sense was still locked into Arthur, who was making his way inside the clan. Like a bullet, she dived straight at the army of undead, precisely where Arthur was, planning to attack him only for her to come face to face with a creepy-looking rotten hand that appeared from thin air.

The hand was small but it was actually able to halt her movement for a few seconds. She snorted and chopped the 'thing' with her and, causing it to vanish.

Her stopped descent was about to continue only for a surprisingly dangerous wind storm to block her. Katrina was actually forced to stop mid-way and glance at an enormous white roc that was waving its wings.

"Bitch! Come at me!"

Midolf taunted her while Radolf raised its two heads and spat two over-sized red balls that flew high in the sky and started emitting dense blood fogs.