My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calicraft) novel Chapter 2469

Bjorn immediately reacted, manipulating the golden energy and transforming it into ropes to blind Maxim. However, he did not expect Maxim to have the anti-magic stone tight within his palm. The energy ropes around him lasted for merely two seconds before they withered away.

The sharp-eyed and deft-handed Maxim immediately sprinted toward the fruit.

Wielding his weapon, Cyrus immediately attacked Maxim.

The anti-magic stone in Maxim’s hands was destroyed. Even though the artifact weapon also contained true energy, its hefty weight was still enough to cause direct physical damage to the stone, splitting it into two.

Maxim looked at two men in front of him. He did not know the entire situation, but he was determined to avenge his master and junior.

“I'll destroy this cursed tree! Get out of my way!”

“Destroy it?” Bjorn laughed. “Do you even know what you're talking about, kid? With your half-baked skills, do you think you stand a chance?”

“Oh yeah? What about this?” Maxim grabbed the remaining half of the fruit from the ground and immediately swallowed it. To prevent the tree from controlling him, he quickly swallowed the anti-magic stone as well.

“With this, I have power now!” He then threw a punch at the Celestial Tree, and to his surprise, the punch left a crack on its surface. However, just as quickly, the crack healed, and Maxim felt a sharp pain in his body.

“H-How is this possible?”

“It’s because you’re now a part of the tree,” Bjorn explained as he slowly approached the tree. “Anyone who eats the fruit becomes one with the tree. Unless we die naturally, any damage we take will be absorbed by the tree and vice versa. That’s the true power of the Celestial Fruit.”

In a flash, Maxim took off running, with Cyrus still hot on his heels. Bjorn turned to look at the tree. "What fate shall the East District and the Twigg family face in the future, I wonder?"

...

Maxim managed to shake off Cyrus and returned to the small, hidden hut. However, even there, the situation was far from over.

His master's and junior's death weighed heavily upon his mind, filling him with immense grief. After witnessing the Celestial Tree's terrifying power firsthand, doubt was also beginning to creep in.

Could he... really do it? Could he truly destroy something so powerful?