The name of the Ancient Treasure was quite badass¡ªRule Book, and this particr rule was named Spring.
Unlike other Ancient Treasures, normal First Level Ancient Treasures have only one attribute, Rank 2 Ancient Treasures have two, and Rank 3 Top-tier Heirlooms have three, whether passive or active. But this one, fully named Book of Law: Spring, has only one effect.
Ancient Treasure: Book of Law: Spring (Rank 2 Ancient Treasure)
Passive Effect: Spring is the season of revival for all living things. When loaded into a Divine Realm, during the spring season, it drastically enhances the reproduction effect and speed for all beings and additionally provides a minor Purification effect to all creatures in the Divine Realm every week.
Evaluation: Spring hase, and all living things are reborn.
Such Ancient Treasures are quite miraculous. They don¡¯t increase any attributes, and their effect doesn¡¯t seem impressive at first nce. However, when loaded into a Divine Realm over an extended period, one will realize their significant impact.
It¡¯s a pity it¡¯s limited to spring. If he could collect the rules for all four seasons to form a cycle, that would be ideal.
After scavenging all the spoils of war, Lin Xiao returned to his own Divine Realm. There was nothing left to scavenge as the resources from the Nightmare Divine Realm were mostly of no use to him, given the difference in racial power systems and the fact that he was from a different race.
Taking advantage of the ongoing assimtion of his Divine Realm, Lin Xiao went back to his Divine Pce to sort out the spoils of war. He would use what could be used and dispose of what could not.
He was not in a normal state now, and once the absorption of the Nightmare Realm wasplete, he would sever his connection to the Divine Realm and return to the bizarre Different World. He anticipated encountering more Children of Nightmare and facing the same type of life-or-death total wars, so he needed to maximize his Divine Realm¡¯s power.
First, he asked rda to strengthen the construction of faith without affecting it, and to hold more mass,rge-scale Prayers, and simr grand events to umte Divine Power in preparation for the next battle.
If he had had enough Divine Power in this battle, he wouldn¡¯t have had to fight so cautiously and desperately.
Next, he nned to adjust some of the Extraordinary Abilities on the Extraordinary Magic Net.
The previous battle revealed that although these Extraordinary Abilities on the Magic Net were powerful, they were not very practical except for summoning Water Elementals; principally because they had too high requirements for use.
Well, with the exception of the Foresight transcendental ability.
This Extraordinary Magic Net, which he had envisioned to be usable by all ns within his Divine Realm, was actually only frequently usable by the Wise Goblins and Supreme Naga. The Earth Dwarves could barely manage to use it once, and the Small Fishman couldn¡¯t use it at all. This limitation was too big, and it was a waste not to utilize the full potential of this treasure.
He considered adjusting the five Extraordinary Abilities on it, changing what needed to be changed and weakening what needed to be weakened.
After all, these were only Rank 1 Extraordinary Abilities; they had such high requirements now, but what about when the treasure upgrades and can load Rank 2 Extraordinary Abilities?
The first was Foresight, transformed from his own Extraordinary Ability. With its minimal consumption, even Small Fishman could use it; this one needed no change.
The second was Godspeed. After pondering for a moment, Lin Xiao cut its power in half.
Extraordinary Ability: Godspeed.
Passive Attributes: Increase Speed by 50%, ignoring ordinary deceleration abilities.
Active Attributes: Consume spiritual power to actively cast.
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Chapter 329 - 329 Reawakening
Chapter 329: Reawakening
Above the pathway between the two realms, the wind and clouds transformed, coalescing an invisible force into a blinding bolt of lightning that struck the incarnation of the Child of Nightmare, who was preparing for onest massive dispel, shattering the unprepared avatarpletely.
Immediately after, the pathway between the realms shook violently, and even across two Divine Territories, the fury of the Child of Nightmare was palpably felt.
By then it was toote to stop it. By the time the second Nightmare avatar took shape, the summoning had already beenpleted.
The Child of Nightmare on the other side realized this too and therefore did not continue to coalesce a new avatar.
The moment thirty-six thousand Rank 6 Super Large Water Elementals appeared, the water elemental energy throughout the Divine Territory began to converge here. Light blue like a flood tide surged over, quickly alleviating the dry climate caused by the concentration of Fire Elements.
Given the natural ipatibility of water and fire, Kurbert looked particrly unfavorably upon these Water Elements. If it weren¡¯t for Lin Xiao watching over the area, the two elements with opposite natures probably would have shed first.
Although there weren¡¯t as many of the thirty-six thousand Rank 6 Super Large Water Elementals of the Transcendent Level as there were during the battle against Luo Shuang, there was actually not much difference. Soon, a vast expanse of water took shape, and as they urged it forward, it reached the retreating vanguard of the Small Fishmen, quickly submerging them.
Upon entering the water, the Small Fishmen moved as agile as fish in water, bing exceptionally flexible, while most of the Nightmare Creatures did not know how to swim. Aside from a few that could, the majority could not stabilize their bodies in the water, and were unable to breathe, which was the most lethal issue.
In less than thirty seconds, these Nightmare Creatures started to retreat towards the directions free of water¡ªit was an environmental limitation,pletely unavoidable.
The Water Elementals moved forward slowly, not pursuing the fleeing enemy, as there was no need to. They just directed a sphere of water five to six kilometers in diameter towards the pathway between the worlds, leaving the Nightmare Creatures fleeing in other directions to be eradicated by the Earth Dwarves, other Small Fishmen, and some Asura Naga.
But at that moment, the Legendary Nightmare Beast standing guard at the entrance turned around and struck the gap between the worlds with its weapon. A surge of Nightmare Power erupted from the strike, and with it, a dense swarm of Nightmare Creatures.
This second wave of Nightmare Creatures was each enshrouded in ayer of gray light. They crashed into the water without showing any sign of asphyxiation, and remained quite agile in the water. Although not as nimble as the Small Fishmen, they moved as if on t ground.
¡°Interesting!¡±
Lin Xiao waved his hand and sent in the remaining Asura Naga.
The Asura Naga, as a Transcendent species, showed even more agility in the water. Their towering figures approached the frontline, and the oing Nightmare Creatures collided with a group of Supreme Naga. With weapons raised and falling, a swath of creatures was ughtered, and the water turned blood red.
As for the Transcendent species of at least Fifth Level, taking on these Nightmare Creatures, whose strength ranged from First to Fifth Level and most of whom were Levels one to three, was a total massacre. It was almost a one-slice kill all the way through, and soon they were bearing down on the Magma Sea of Nightmare Creatures towards the pathway between the realms, where the massive Legendary Nightmare Beast could be seen from a distance.
The Legendary Nightmare Beast, stationed by the Child of Nightmare to defend the pathway, could not stray far from the pathway. It could only watch helplessly as the horrifying spectacle unfolded among the many Nightmare Creatures.
When the Supreme Naga and elite Water Elementals arrived in front of the pathway, the Legendary Nightmare Beast lifted its huge de and brought it down. A ck qi de cut hundreds of meters deep into the water, catching a dozen Supreme Naga and several dozens of Small Fishmen off-guard and cleaving them to death.
In response, the sea water boiled. With the direction of the Gnome leader, five hundred Transcendent Water Elementals cast their spells simultaneously. In a breath, tens of thousands of water arrows, as thick as a thumb and nearly a meter long, came into being, turning into a rain of arrows targeting the beast.
The Legendary Nightmare Beast didn¡¯t budge. The water arrows hit it and were dissolved by the protective Nightmare aura, but the nearby Nightmare Creatures suffered disaster, being shot dead inrge numbers.
¡°Again!¡±
A second volley by over five hundred Super Large Water Elementals once again decimated the ranks of the Nightmare Creatures.
With the strength of the Rank 6 Transcendent Water Elementals, such a low-level spell like water arrow could almost be cast non-stop, wave after wave, keeping the enemy pinned near the entrance to the pathway between the realms.
After several waves, no more Nightmare Creatures poured out from the pathway, and the only presence there was a single towering Legendary Nightmare Beast and otherwise silence.
Seeing this, about a thousand Super Large Water Elementals gathered and directed their assault on the pathway between the realms. Since the enemy would note out, they would attack inward.
The Transcendent Water Elementals had just approached the Legendary Nightmare Beast when a heart-palpitating aura suddenly emanated from the pathway. A pitch-ck column with a diameter of three to four meters burst forth directly, striking the group of Water Elementals and causing a huge explosion. From Lin Xiao¡¯s perspective in the God Country, the explosion created a vast empty space in the five to six-kilometer diameter sphere of water near the pathway, as a ck column of light shot up from the void into the sky.
In one blow, about a thousand Transcendent Water Elementals were halved, with the remaining ones all injured.
Then the gateway between the worlds cracked once again, and an even denser wave of Nightmare ck gas surged forth. From it emerged one after another ofrge, powerful Nightmare Creatures.
Arge group, at least of the Transcendent Level Rank 6 with quite a few of Rank 7, charged out from the Nightmare Realm, including a Rank 8 Legendary Winged-man, over ten meters tall and with six wings on its back.
These powerful Nightmare Creatures were obviously meant to break the deadlock. As the six-winged Legendary Winged-man spread his wings, countless ck lights surged into the sky. Secondster, the Vault of Heaven dimmed, and numerous thick ck lightning bolts descended from the sky and hammered into the water,
taking advantage of the opportunity provided by that first wave, they used their formidable strength to push forward against the rain of arrows, carving out a space at the breach between realms, from which arge number of low-level Nightmare Creatures emerged.
As this wave of Nightmare Creatures surged forth, there was another heart-stopping salvo, and a second, extremely thick pir of light sted forth.
The Child of Nightmare, seeing his subordinates outmatched, had already personally intervened.
Lin Xiao had no solution to this, his umted Divine Power insufficient to act so rashly, nor could he intervene frequently. He could only rely on his subordinates to withstand the onught.
Fortunately, the first wave was mostly made up of summoned Water Elements, so their loss was not a cause for grief.
Luckily, the opponent was unaware of the details; otherwise, they could have simply waited a few hours until his subordinates were too spiritually exhausted to maintain the summoning, and the Water Elements would have vanished on their own.
By asionally expending a great deal of strength to intervene personally, the Nightmare Creatures managed to forcefully push back the nearly thirty thousand Rank 6 Transcendent Water Elementals.
But such a situation was ultimately unsustainable. The main issue wasn¡¯t whether the Nightmare Lord¡¯s power was sufficient; rather, Lin Xiao noticed that the domain of the Nightmare Lord was filled with numerous Nightmare Creatures butcked in powerful ones.
To be more precise, the opponent had far fewer Nightmare Creatures above Rank 6 than Lin Xiao.
At this point, Lin Xiao had more than three thousand Rank 6 Naga Warriors, seventy-one Rank 7 Naga Warriors, plus over three hundred Rank 6 Grand Magicians, six Rank 7 Grand Magicians, the Earth Dwarves¡¯ development was a bit slow ¨C only forty to fifty Rank 6 Earth Dwarves and one King of Dwarves.
In total, hemanded over three thousand four hundred Rank 6 experts, seventy-eight Rank 7 powerhouses, and two Legendary figures ¨C rda and the me Lord Kurbert.
The Wise Goblin leader Alemente and the Fishman Hero Tide Lord Akens, as well as the ck Dragon Nejnmu, were all at the Rank 7 level.
Although each of them had the potential to ascend to Rank 8 Legends, and it was almost certain they would achieve it, having the potential was one thing, while the timing of advancement was another; clearly, their potential was not yet sufficient to reach the Legendary level.
This was due to ack of foundational depth, and even if he were to infuse them with Divine Power, it would be in vain if the basic conditions were not met; no amount of Divine Power could facilitate an advancement.
But even so, their high-tierbat strength was more than enough to overpower their opponents, overpowering this Child of Nightmare whose true strength and numbers of his n far exceeded those of Lin Xiao.
So strong overall, yet with only five to six hundred high-tier warriors above Rank 6 ¨C in this respect, the Nightmare Lord was no match for the Divine Territory yers who cultivated their ns with great care.
Therefore, after about half an hour of intense counterattack, more and more Nightmare Creatures of Rank 6 and above were either in or injured and theirbat strength diminished. Their assault gradually weakened, and even continuous support from the Child of Nightmare was futile. At this stage, despite the Child of Nightmare¡¯s power, he did not have the strength to suppress so many Transcendent beings on his own.
As the Nightmare Creatures were gradually pushed back by the army of Water Elementals, it wasn¡¯t long before the battlefront was pressed back to the vicinity of the dimensional passage. Nearly half of the invading Nightmare Creatures were killed, and the rest retreated back into the Nightmare Realm, including the guarding Legendary Nightmare Beast, which was forced back into the Nightmare Realm under the watchful eyes of the powerful warriors.
Having driven the opponent back into the Nightmare Divine Realm in one go, Lin Xiao ordered the Wise Goblin Mages to cancel the summoned Transcendent Water Elementals, allowing the prepared Fire Elementals to cast various Fire Laws back and forth near the dimensional passage, transforming the area into a vast Magma Sea to prevent enemy incursions, and then¡ a ceasefire.
Yes, a temporary ceasefire.
After assessing the opponent¡¯s strength in the battle just now, Lin Xiao already had ns for a counterattack, scheduled for the day after tomorrow.
Today, the Wise Goblins had repeatedly summoned Enhanced Water Elementals, and their spirits were nearly spent. Continuing the battle would lead to the loss ofbat strength.
He had to wait for his subordinates to recuperate and gather their spirits before summoning arge batch of Super Large Water Elementals in one fell swoop for a counterattack against the Nightmare Realm.
By this point, Lin Xiao was quite confident of defeating this Nightmare Lord from the Nightmare World, but on the condition that his losses were not too great. It was foreseeable that as long as they did not leave that bizarre world, they would encounter other Children of Nightmare after defeating this opponent. Battles were inevitable, and in order tost longer, he had to minimize the losses of his subordinates.
After all, this was a full-scale merger with the Divine Realm; death here meant true death, with no possibility of resurrection.
This was also the main reason he had been so cautious in this battle for so long ¨C to reduce losses.
The Lava Sea blockade was very effective. Over the course of the two days, although the enemy asionally probed with attacks, their defense was tight. With tens of thousands of Fire Elementals under the leadership of a Legendary me Lord, the enemies simply couldn¡¯t break through.
Perhaps the high-tier Nightmare Creatures could make it, but their cannon fodder numbers were the majority and couldn¡¯t get through. Even with direct intervention from the Child of Nightmare, the bulk of the Fire Elementals were too far away to be touched.
Chapter 330 - 330 Metamorphosis and Sublimation
Chapter 330: Metamorphosis and Sublimation
This means that the Power of Faith he gains every day will significantly increase, and the Lesser Naga, once considered by him to be dispensable and somewhat redundant, has suddenly be a critical link in his chain of faith.
It¡¯s not just that the Lesser Naga and the Supreme Naga now have a more closely connected evolution chain, but with the Lesser Naga¡¯s undiminished reproductive capability, it¡¯s very easy to breed a considerable number.
In the past, with the emergence of the Big Nagas and the Wise Goblins, the Small Fishman¡¯s status in the Divine Realm was somewhat awkward, and he had always suppressed their reproduction rate.
Not anymore.
At this moment, the Lesser Naga, upon reaching adulthood, possessbat power of a Level 4 upper grade, which is alreadyparable to many mid-level species. They are no longer cannon fodder but can now serve as a core fighting force.
Well, to be precise, it¡¯s still the status of cannon fodder, but with thebat power of a core force, their practicality has skyrocketed.
Besides that, the upgraded Lesser Naga¡¯s spiritual power is much stronger than that of the Small Fishman era. Now, under normal circumstances, they can already use any extraordinary ability on the Extraordinary Magic Network twice, other than summoning Water Element.
If you add the three-hundred percent spiritual power boost from the Shields of the Lost Truth, they could barely use the extraordinary ability to summon Water Element.
However, it¡¯s just barely. Once summoned, they would lose theirbat power due to the exhaustion of spiritual power and would not be able to maintain it after an hour, so it is still not very practical.
But aside from the strengthened summoning of Water Element, there are no restrictions on the use of other weakened extraordinary abilities, which can be used up to five times in one go.
Two hourster, all Lesser Nagas had evolvedpletely, without a single failure.
Lin Xiao withdrew his gaze and prepared to move on to the next step of preparation. He looked at the Mother nest of flesh and blood and eight offspring inside the Creation Rubik¡¯s Cube. There was bound to be a brutal War ahead, with massive casualties, and this thing seemed like it could be useful.
While he was busily preparing, elsewhere in his Divine Realm a certain void began to show instability; a part of two Divine Realms was in touch here, causing the space to twist andpress.
On the other side of that twisted space, a colossal vortex was slowly bing clear. Outside the vortex formed by the dark Nightmare Power, a vast Nightmare Army was gathering.
Bernie and the incarnations of two other Children of Nightmare stood before the vortex, watching the twisted space. Although the three incarnations of the Children of Nightmare were humanoid, they still retained some features of their True Bodies, with Bernie¡¯s clearlying from transforming from a Giant, whereas the other two were not in humanoid form.
The three incarnations of the Children of Nightmare silently awaited the inter-dimensional connection. Suddenly, one of the Children of Nightmare frowned, revealing instability in their aura, instantly drawing the attention of the other two. Bernie, looking somewhat like a small giant, asked:
¡°I can sense that your aura is very unstable, what has happened in your Field?¡±
This Child of Nightmare wore a strange expression and waved off the concern:
¡°A small matter, I can handle it.¡±
¡°It had better be so.¡±
In a certain void of this Nightmare Realm, there were two interconnected gateways suspended side by side in mid-air, linking the Nightmare Realms of the two other Children of Nightmare and Bernie. One of those gateways was the one belonging to the Child of Nightmare who had just shown signs of instability. Within his Divine Realm¡
A meatballposed of countless limbs and measuring three to four hundred meters in diameter rolled across the Earth, its massive body and weight creating a deep ravine in its wake. Several thick arms made from limbs fanned out from the meatball, propelling it forward, while the Nightmare Power surged violently around it. Many bat-like Nightmare Creatures resembling Wingmen or Harpies circled in the air, continuously hurling down spears at it.
The meatball was bristling with spears, but it seemed utterly unaffected, as if the spears were part of its body rather than being stuck into it.
In the distance, a multitude of Nightmare Creatures lingered, but at this moment, none dared to approach. The master of this Nightmare Realm was also hesitant to send underlings to continue the assault.
What was initially a meatball less than ten meters in size had swallowed countless Nightmare Creatures upon entering this Field, and instead of being exterminated, it had grown into a gigantic meatball that then furiously consumed other Nightmare Creatures around it. It grewrger andrger until it became uncontroble, transforming into a massive beast with a diameter of three to four hundred meters. The forces within the Field werepletely powerless against it.
Well, it¡¯s not that they were utterly powerless, but the main forces and the powerful ones had already been deployed away, and the remaining strongest beings were helpless against this monster.
This entity seemed to possess an invincible body, and no form of physical attack not only failed to harm it but were absorbed and ingested. Besides the devoured Nightmare Creatures, a significant number of the field¡¯s rare war machines had been sucked into the enormous flesh ball.
Even when the Child of Nightmare, Gould, personally intervened, he only managed to shatter part of the body, which still showed signs of life and the will to split. Previously, a moment of negligence almost led to a catastrophe.
Now, he did not dare to directly shatter its body anymore. But without his personal intervention, the remaining forces in the Realm were at a loss against this thing.
Gould didn¡¯t want to inform his twopanions about this news¡ªnot because he didn¡¯t dare to, but because he didn¡¯t want to.
Because, although this thing had already be significant within his own realm, and precisely because it had be significant, it had value. With its currentbat power alone, it was alreadyparable to legendary creatures. If he waited until this battle was over to withdraw the field power and transformed this thing into a nightmare with the power of the entire field, then carefully cultivated it, it could be a powerful trump card in the future¡ªhow could he possibly tell others about it?
For now, Gould decided to let it roam free within his realm, ordering the subordinates left behind in the realm to stay far away, nning to deal with it after helping Lord Bernie defeat that human divine realm yer.
As time passed, the space at the junction of the two realms at the edge of the Main Divine Realm weakened to a certain extent, and the spatial folds and turbulence created by the conjunction of the two realms could now be clearly seen.
Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes as he gazed at the Main Divine Realm, aside from the City of Truth and the Naga City, the other ns had long since withdrawn.
At this point, the City of Truth had already be a giant city teeming with magic high towers. After thest battle, rda had ordered the expansion of both cities, and arge number of defensive structures began to be built, including more than sixty powerful magic high towers and lightning towers, as well as a standard mage tower that was not yet fullypleted.
Ever since getting the Wizard Tower Construction Blueprint from Colonel Xie Yufei, the wise goblin mages had begun studying and constructing this Mage Tower.
Normally, it should have beenpleted in such a long time, but it was not fully finished mainly because the precious magic materials stored in the divine realm were insufficient. Lacking several essential precious magic materials and not having any substitutes, the construction could not continue.
However, although it was not finished, aside from this essential engineering project, all other parts had beenpleted. The standard Mage Tower could still be used, only with less functionalitypared to aplete Mage Tower, and its power was slightly weaker.
But even if it was weaker, it was still a Mage Tower, far stronger than the magic high towers and lightning towers, and it had many functions that magic high towers did not possess.
As a renowned war weapon in the multi-dimensional universe of the Farenc world, the fame of a real Mage Tower had spread throughout the nearby Chaotic Void Sea worlds. Everyone knew how much enhancement a true Mage Tower could provide to a Grand Magician. Even Lin Xiao was a bit envious of its efficacy, thinking about constructing a slew of Mage Towers on his floating city battleship once he had sufficient resources.
Yes, his Floating City, to be precise, the Starship awarded to him by the Myriad Manifestation Crystal Wall System.
As a reward granted by great divine power, the Starship in itsplete state was ten thousand meters, that is, ten kilometers long.
It contained an independent demine that could travel across crystal walls and nes and enter the Starworld.
It could freely change its shape, taking on the form of Void Battleships, Void Fortresses, or even super gargantuan dragons or Star Domain Giant Whales. The Floating City was also one of its possible transformations.
This thing¡¯s main body was colossal, with an even more colossal demine inside with a diameter that reached hundreds of kilometers, entailing enough space to amodate an uncountable number of armies.
However, Lin Xiao hadn¡¯t used it because its control core¡ª that is, the origin and will of the internal demine¡ªhad been reset at the time it was granted to him. He needed to install a new independent core will to regain control and activate it.
This raised a question: to create an auxiliary will capable of controlling such arge demine and all the arrays and functions within the ship¡¯s body, it would require at least a demigod-level being, or stronger¡ªthe stronger, the better, since legend-level beings were not up to par.
Legend-level could at most control basic functions like flying, but to unleash all functionality, it must be at least demigod-level or above, with true gods being even better.
Moreover, it would be best if it was the soul of a magic-based powerhouse, as a strong spiritual force would enable better control.
However, Lin Xiao didn¡¯t have any beings at the legendary level at hand; the souls of the two Nightmare legendary creatures and the Children of Nightmare he had previously in had slipped through his grasp.
¡°Boom!¡±
With a thunderous roar that swept across the entire divine realm, the space shook, emanating from the shattered junction of the two realms and spreading in all directions. A thick plume of nightmare mist flowed from the passage, but it only spread a few hundred meters before it was suppressed by his divine realm and couldn¡¯t spread further.
Apanied by a long, piercing screech, the rolling ck smoke burst open, and countless specks darted out. But upon closer inspection, those specks were slender human-shaped bats, skin and bones as if they were merely leather wrapped around bones.
Their bodies were skinnier than a normal human¡¯s, with four skinny arms ending in sharp ws that glinted coldly, their speed rapid as arrows, spreading out from the space rift at the center.
¡°Crack!¡±
Thick lightning exploded at the junction between the two realms. The surging nightmare mist was sted apart, and even more human-shaped bat monsters flew out, dense as a cloud of locusts. Beneath that swarm, a massive shadow struggled to crawl through the passageway between the two realms.
This was one creature whose size had been magnified¡ª
Chapter 331 - 331 The War of Gods
Chapter 331: The War of Gods
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Above the gateway between the two realms, the wind and clouds changed unpredictably, and an invisible force converged into a dazzling bolt of lightning. Striking the unsuspecting Nightmare Child Incarnation that was about to disperse at arge scale for the final time, it shattered the incarnationpletely.
Following that, the gateway between the realms shook violently, and the wrath of the Child of Nightmare from the other side could be felt clearly despite the distance between the two Divine Territories.
By now, even attempting to stop the process was toote; the second Nightmare incarnation had already been summoned in the time it took for another to take shape.
The Child of Nightmare on the other side realized this as well, so it didn¡¯t continue to condense a new incarnation.
The moment thirty thousand Rank 6 Super Large Water Elementals appeared, the entire Divine Territory¡¯s water elemental energy began to converge towards this area. A sky full of blue light gathered like a tidal wave, soon alleviating the dry climate caused by the gathering of the Fire Elements.
The natural ipatibility of water and fire made Kurbert extremely displeased with these Water Elements, and if it weren¡¯t for Lin Xiao¡¯s watchful eyes, the two oppositely natured Elements would probably have fought each other first.
The thirty thousand Rank 6 Transcendent Super Large Water Elementals, though not as numerous as during the battle against Luo Shuang, made no significant difference. A vast area of water quickly formed, and under their influence, the water moved closer to the retreating frontline of the Small Fishmen and soon inundated them.
The Small Fishmen became incredibly agile in the water, like a fish back in its element, while most Nightmare Creatures were not adept in water. Except for a few that could swim, most were unstable in the water, especially since they couldn¡¯t breathe, which proved to be fatal.
In less than thirty seconds, these Nightmare Creatures began to retreat towards the dry areas around them; limited by the environment, there was no other option.
The Water Elements advanced slowly without pursuing the fleeing enemies. It wasn¡¯t necessary; they merely controlled the five to six-kilometer diameter body of water and moved it toward the gateway between the realms. The Nightmare Creatures escaping in other directions were eradicated by the Earth Dwarves and other Small Fishmen, along with a section of the Asura Nagas.
But at that moment, the Legendary Nightmare Beast guarding the entrance turned around and with a blow of its weapon, struck the breach between the realms. A surge of Nightmare Power gushed out, and along with it, a dense swarm of Nightmare Creatures emerged.
This second batch of Nightmare Creatures, each shrouded in ayer of gray light, crashed into the water without showing signs of suffocation. Moreover, they were quite agile in the water; though not as much as the Small Fishmen, their movements were no different than onnd.
¡°Interesting!¡±
Lin Xiao waved his hand, and the remaining Asura Supreme Nagas made their move.
As a Transcendent creature, the Asura Supreme Nagas were even more agile in the water. Theirrge forms approached the frontlines, and as the multitude of Nightmare Creatures collided with the groups of Supreme Nagas, thetter swung their des. In an instant, bloodshed ensued, dyeing the waters crimson.
As a species that was at least at Fifth Level, facing these Nightmare Creatures whose strengths ranged from First to Fifth Level, with most between Levels 1 and 3, it was aplete massacre. The Nagas hacked through the enemy, almost one with each stroke, and quickly advanced toward the gateway between the realms where they could see the towering Legendary Nightmare Beast from afar.
This Legendary Nightmare Beast, used by the Child of Nightmare to guard the gateway, couldn¡¯t move too far from it. It could only watch helplessly as its fellow Nightmare Creatures suffered.
As the Supreme Nagas and the elite Water Elements approached the gateway, the Legendary Nightmare Beast raised its huge de and struck down, sending a ck de of energy several hundred meters into the water, unexpectedly killing over a dozen Supreme Nagas and dozens of Small Fishmen.
In response, the sea boiled; controlled by the Gnome leader, five hundred Transcendent Water Elementals cast a spell together, summoning tens of thousands of water arrows as thick as fingers and nearly a meter long. The arrows rained down on the target.
The Legendary Nightmare Beast didn¡¯t flinch; water arrows that hit it were dissolved by its protective aura of Nightmare Energy. However, the nearby Nightmare Creatures weren¡¯t so lucky and fell inrge numbers.
¡°Do it again!¡±
A second wave of over five hundred Super Large Water Elementals cast another spell, and another deluge of tens of thousands of arrows killed a swath of Nightmare Creatures.
With the power of Rank 6 Transcendent Water Elementals, low-level spells like water arrows could virtually be cast non-stop, wave after wave, pinning the enemy near the gateway between realms.
This situation continued for several cycles until no more Nightmare Creatures emerged from the gateway. At the gate between realms stood only a single Legendary Nightmare Beast, with nothing else but silence around it.
Seeing this, about a thousand or so Super Large Water Elementals gathered and attacked the gateway. Since the enemy would note out, they would attack inside.
Just as the Transcendent Water Elementals neared the Legendary Nightmare Beast, a terrifying aura suddenly burst from within the realms¡¯ gateway. A pitch-ck pir of light three to four meters in diameter roared out, striking the group of Transcendent Water Elementals and exploding with a boom. From the perspective of Lin Xiao¡¯s God Country, arge section of the water sphere near the gateway between realms sted open, creating a vast emptiness from which a dark beam of light soared into the sky.
With one strike, about half of the thousand or so Transcendent Water Elementals died, and the survivors were all injured.
Then, the breach of the gateway between realms burst open again, a tide of ck aura more intense than before surged out, and a host of massive and powerful Nightmare Creatures emerged.
Arge group of creatures, all at least at the Transcendent Sixth Level, with quite a few at the Seventh Rank, charged out from the Nightmare Realm. Among them included an Eight-Rank Legendary Winged-man, towering over ten meters tall with six wings on its back.
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These formidable nightmare creatures were clearly dispatched to break the stalemate. As the legendary six-winged winged-man stretched its six wings, countless streaks of ck light shot up into the sky. Secondster, the vault of heaven dimmed, and massive bolts of ck lightning descended from the sky, striking the water.
Taking advantage of the opportunity from the previous wave, they pressed forward under a barrage of arrows by sheer strength, creating a clearing at the gap between the two worlds, allowing arge number of lower-tier nightmare creatures to break through.
As this wave of nightmare creatures surged out, there was another heart-pounding wave, and a second, incredibly huge pir of light sted out.
Seeing that his subordinates were losing, the Child of Nightmare had already personally intervened.
Lin Xiao could do nothing about this; his umted Divine Power was insufficient for such actions, nor could he interfere at will. He could only rely on his forces to withstand the onught.
Fortunately, those standing in the forefront of the first wave were summoned water elementals, whose loss he did notment.
Luckily for him, the adversaries were unaware of the specifics; otherwise, they could have just waited a few hours for his subordinates to reach the point of spiritual exhaustion from sustaining the summoning of these transcendent water elementals, which would then vanish on their own.
By intervening personally time and time again at great expense of strength, the nightmare creatures managed to push nearly thirty thousand rank 6 transcendent water elementals back into a counterattack.
However, this situation was not sustainable. The concern was not whether the power of the Nightmare Lord was sufficient, but rather, Lin Xiao realized that while this Nightmare Lord¡¯s domain contained a vast number of nightmare creatures, itcked powerful ones.
To be more exact, the opponent¡¯s nightmare creatures above rank 6 were far fewer in number than Lin Xiao¡¯s.
At present, Lin Xiao¡¯s rank 6 Naga warriors numbered over three thousand. There were seventy-one rank 7 Naga warriors, along with more than three hundred rank 6 Grand Magicians and six rank 7 Grand Magicians. The Earth Dwarves had been developing slowly, with only forty to fifty rank 6 Earth Dwarves and one Dwarven King.
In total, there were over three thousand four hundred rank 6 experts, seventy-eight rank 7 powerhouses, and two legendary figures, namely rda and the me Lord Kurbert.
The Wise Goblins¡¯ Leader Alemente, the Fishman Hero Tide Lord Akens, and ck Dragon Nejnmu were all still at rank 7.
Though they all had the potential to ascend to the legendary rank 8, and it was almost certain they would, potential was one thing while actual advancement was another. Clearly, their current potential was not enough for them to reach the legendary rank 8.
Their foundation was insufficient, and even with his infusion of Divine Power, it was futile. Without meeting the most fundamental criteria, no amount of Divine Power could elevate them.
Even so, with such high-levelbat strength, they could easily overpower their opponent, overpowering this Child of Nightmare whose true strength and n numbers far exceeded Lin Xiao¡¯s.
With such formidable overall strength, to have only five to six hundred high-levelbatants above rank 6 was nowiseparable to the Divine Territory yers who had meticulously cultivated their ns.
Therefore, after half an hour of a relentless counter-offensive, more and more rank 6 and above nightmare creatures were being killed or injured, theirbat effectiveness diminishing, and their offensive momentum gradually weakened. Even with continuous support from the Child of Nightmare, it was to no avail, as at this stage, the Child of Nightmare, despite its strength, did not possess the capacity to suppress so many transcendent creatures on its own.
As the nightmare creatures were progressively suppressed by the water elemental army, it wasn¡¯t long before the battle line was pushed back near the inter-world passage. About half of the nightmare creatures that had attacked the Divine Realm were killed, while the rest fled back to the Nightmare Realm, including the legendary nightmare beast that guarded the gate, which too was forced to retreat under the watchful eyes of the powerhouses.
Having driven the opponent all the way back to the Nightmare Divine Realm in one breath, Lin Xiao ordered the Wise Goblin Mages to cancel the summoning of the transcendent water elementals. The fire elementals, who were prepared, began to cast various Fire Laws near the inter-world passage, turning the area into a vast Magma Sea to prevent enemy invasion, and then¡ a ceasefire.
Yes, a temporary ceasefire.
After gauging the enemy¡¯s strength in the recent battle, Lin Xiao was already considering a counter-attack, set for the day after tomorrow.
Having repeatedly summoned the enhanced water elementals today, the Wise Goblins were nearly spent, and continuing the fight would result in the loss ofbat effectiveness.
He had to wait for his subordinates to recuperate and recover their spirits before summoning arge number of superrge water elementals, aiming tounch an all-out offensive against the Nightmare Realm in one fell swoop.
By that time, Lin Xiao was quite confident that he could defeat this Nightmare Lord from the Nightmare World, but the premise was that he could not suffer major losses. It was foreseeable that if they didn¡¯t leave that strange world, upon defeating this opponent, he would encounter other Children of Nightmare, and battles were inevitable. Tost longer, he had to minimize the casualties among his forces.
After all, this was a full-scale connection with the Divine Realm ¡ª to die in this battle meant genuine death, with no possibility of revival.
This was also the main reason why he had dragged out the battle for so long ¡ª to reduce casualties.
The Magma Sea was an effective blockade. Over the two days, although the enemy asionally probed attacks, their side maintained a tight defense. With tens of thousands of Fire Elementals under the leadership of a legendary me Lord, the enemies simply couldn¡¯t break through.
Perhaps high-level nightmare creatures could make it through, but their numbers
Chapter 332: I Became an Evil God?
Chapter 332: I Became an Evil God?
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At this time, the situation was as follows: as the battle wore on, the Children of Nightmare¡¯s remaining subordinates became fewer and fewer. The troops who died in battle were absorbed and incubated by the flesh mushroom nket extending from the mother nest of flesh and blood to spawn even stronger flesh monsters. However, this conversion was limited. After all, there was only one motherbody, and only so many could be transformed from the numerous casualties. Most of the flesh umted underground and could not be utilized.
This attrition continued for nearly half a month. Lin Xiao had been patiently waiting, and finally, on the sixteenth day, tens of thousands of transcendent water elementals surrounded and killed thest guard around the mother nest of flesh and blood, defeating the massive motherbody and seizing the mother seed.
The mother nest of flesh and blood was located at the very heart of the Children of Nightmare¡¯s realm. Less than ten kilometers from this motherbody was the true body of the Child of Nightmare, analogous to the location of the Divine Pce in Lin Xiao¡¯s God¡¯s realm that housed the true body.
With the copse of the flesh nest, the converging Nightmare Power dissipated, allowing a glimpse of a shadow evenrger than the mother nest of flesh and blood in the distance.
That was the source of the Nightmare Realm. This vast Nightmare Domain had originally extended outwards from this point, with the relentless Nightmare Power also radiating from here. The Child of Nightmare dominated the core, overseeing and ruling the entire domain.
But today, its reign came to an end.
After resting for two days, another seventy thousand transcendent water elementals were summoned tounch the final assault on the core¡ªNightmare God Mountain.
Unlike the human divine realms, there was no God Country or Prayer in the Nightmare core, only a few core guardians, including the legendary six-winged wingman.
But a lone legend could certainly not withstand the relentless waves of transcendent water elementals, and they were eventually surrounded and killed after ying two to three thousand Rank 6 transcendent water elementals in the chaotic battle.
Once the guards were dead, it was time to face the true body of the Child of Nightmare.
The Child of Nightmare¡¯s control over its own realm was suppressed to the extreme at this time. Even its consciousness was confined to the core vicinity, having lost control over most of its domain¡¯s expanse, which resulted in a significant decrease in power.
Facing such exceedingly frustrating tactics, It felt extremely stifled, yet was helpless.
It now deeply regretted notmitting to an all-out battle sooner. Although it was at a slight disadvantage before, the situation wasn¡¯tpletely hopeless, and there had been a glimmer of chance. But hesitation led to the current predicament with no way out.
There was no turning the tables.
Without outside interference, after putting up a valiant resistance for four days, the Child of Nightmare¡¯s core shell was finally breached, and, having exhausted all its power, it was cut down.
From a distance, Lin Xiao observed the true form of the Child of Nightmare, which resembled an erged version of a giant serpent. The corpse was over seventy meters long with more than ten legs, appearing to be a four-legged serpent-like creature transformed by Nightmare Power. At the moment of its death, a ck light shot up into the sky and returned to the core of the Nightmare realm.
This reminded him of the Child of Nightmare he had seen in the strange world before, which looked human but had a serpent-like, chilling demeanor.
With the death of the Child of Nightmare, Lin Xiao felt the Nightmare Divine Realm lose all resistance, and he swiftly urged his own realm to devour the Nightmare domain.
Outwardly, this was manifested by the crumbling edges of the Nightmare Realm, turning into countless granr mists of light that streamed into Lin Xiao¡¯s divine realm through the passage between the two worlds.
Located in the core of his God¡¯s realm, Lin Xiao¡¯s true body immediately felt a continuous influx of divine essence integrating into his realm, causing the slowly expanding edges of his divine realm to grow and erge at a fric pace.
ording to the rules, he had a certain timeframe to devour the opposing God¡¯s realm, starting from the fall of the Child of Nightmare, with the duration depending on the size and strength of the enemy realm. Generally, therger and stronger the realm, the longer the process couldst.
How long exactly Lin Xiao wasn¡¯t sure, as he had never before engaged in a deadly fight with another divine territory yer.
Regardless of how long it took, the chance to devour was a boon.
Moreover, seizing the opportunity of this devouring process, he ordered his n to disperse throughout the entire Nightmare Realm to scavenge its resources wildly.
Most of the resources were of no use to him, or rather, they were difficult to utilize, but the mostmon mineral resources were universal. He gathered them and deposited them into the Fire Elemental Domain, where they would be purified from the remnants of Nightmare Power with the help of the Power of mes.
Besides, Lin Xiao himself entered the core of the Nightmare Realm to plunder the core treasures of the Child of Nightmare.
Just as Lin Xiao¡¯s divine realm had a Divine Pce at its core, the Nightmare Realm also had a core, located within the ck mountain formed by Nightmare Power. Any cards the realm had assimted or any private treasures like Ancient Treasures would be found within.
For instance, if someone were to defeat Lin Xiao, they could enter his Divine Pce and plunder everything, including the various cards and miraculous constructions he had captured within his realm, as well as his Soul of God.
Generally, this was limited to physical item cards and the like. Special consumable cards like a Breeding Card that had already been used could not be stripped away again.
Since the Child of Nightmare had already fallen, the Nightmare Divine Realm had lost its master, and the rules within the core were ineffective. Or it could be said that their power was greatly diminished, to the point where Lin Xiao found them almost non-existent.
Stepping into the core pce, the first thing Lin Xiao saw hanging from the dome of the Nightmare Pce was¡ a piece of paper?
It seemed to be a dark-colored parchment, and he could vaguely see ayer of transparent light isting the ck Nightmare Power of the dome. Through the Nightmare Power and the transparent light, the parchment was inscribed with dense, unknown script.
Lin Xiao had learned many of themonnguages of the major races in the Crystal Wall Universe, including Dragon, Elf, Dwarf, and Demonnguages, but he had never seen the script written on this parchment.
Clearly, the Child of Nightmare had previously been using the power of the Nightmare Domain to erode the power on the parchment, what in Eastern terms would be called refining.
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It seemed there was still some resistance left on the paper, indicating it had not been fully refined yet.
He waved his hand, dispelling the Nightmare Power within the Divine Pce, and the paper slowly floated down. At the same time, it revealed the numerous cards embedded in the dome. The Nightmare World also used cards to strengthen its domain, but these cards wereposed of Nightmare Power, and their contents were mostly filled with it, making them unusable directly by the Human Divine Realm.
Thirty-seven cards were retrievable from the Nightmare Realm, and he took them all out without caring what they were, including two Ancient Treasures in the center of the dome that were also eroded by Nightmare Power.
As well as the Soul of God from the Children of Nightmare, who died in their True Body and melded into the core of the Nightmare. This contained the essence of the Children of Nightmare and seemed to harbor some secrets.
For the time being, Lin Xiao had no time to study this. He first checked out the Ancient Treasures.
The Ancient Treasures were all First Level, with very simple effects, adding one point each to Constitution and Strength.
He stored them away and then took down the paper to check its properties, revealing a hint of surprise.
It turned out to be a Rank 2 Ancient Treasure, not a part of some Divine Artifact Book as he had imagined.
In his memory, all the famous Divine and Sub-god Artifacts like the Book of Nasir, Book of All Laws, Book of Sanctity, Book of Filth, etc., were in the form of books. He had initially thought this was a page from some book-ss artifact, only to find it was a Rank 2 Ancient Treasure.
However, that said, although it was not the page of a Divine Artifact Book he had imagined but an Ancient Treasure, it was indeed part of a book, which itself was an Ancient Treasure.
Put simply, this Rank 2 Ancient Treasure, which looked like a page from a book, was just part of a super Ancient Treasure that was in the form of a book.
The name of the Ancient Treasure was quite awesome, called the Book of Law, and this page ofw was named Spring.
Unlike other Ancient Treasures, normal First Level Ancient Treasures have only one attribute, Rank 2 have two attributes, and Rank 3 Top-tier Heirlooms have three attributes, whether passive or active. This one, fully named as the Book of Law: Spring¡ªa Rank 2 Ancient Treasure¡ªonly has one effect.
Ancient Treasure: Book of Law: Spring (Rank 2 Ancient Treasure)
Passive Effect: Spring is the season of revival for all beings. When loaded into the Divine Realm, during the spring season, it significantly enhances the Reproduction effect and speed for all beings, and every week, all creatures within the Divine Realm receive a minor Purification effect.
Evaluation: Spring hase, and all things are revived.
This kind of Ancient Treasure is quite magical. It doesn¡¯t add any attributes, and the effect doesn¡¯t seem that impressive, but once loaded into the Divine Realm and given time, its powerful use will be quite apparent.
A pity that it¡¯s limited to spring only¡ªif he could collect thew pages for all four seasons and form a cycle, that would be great.
After looting all the spoils of war, Lin Xiao returned to his own Divine Realm. There was nothing left to loot; after all, different races have different power systems, and most of the resources from the Nightmare Divine Realm were useless to him.
Taking advantage of the ongoing absorption of the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao went back to his Divine Pce to start tallying his spoils of war. Those he could use, he used; those he could not, he disposed of.
His current state was abnormal, and after fully absorbing the Nightmare Realm, he would disconnect himself from the Divine Realm and return to that peculiar world. It was foreseeable that he would encounter more Children of Nightmare and face full-scale wars that would be a matter of life or death, so he needed to strengthen his Divine Realm as much as possible.
First, he had rda enhance the construction of faith, and without affecting the faith, hold as many Masses andrge-scale Prayers as possible to umte Divine Power and prepare for the next battle.
If he had had enough Divine Power in this war, he wouldn¡¯t have had to fight so cautiously and shamelessly.
Next, he nned to adjust the several Extraordinary Abilities on the Extraordinary Magic Network.
The previous battle had shown that although the Extraordinary Abilities on the Magic Net were powerful, except for summoning Water Elementals, they were not very practical. More to the point, the requirements for use were too high.
Well, except for the Foresight transcendental ability.
This Extraordinary Magic Network, which he had imagined every member of his n could use, was actually only frequently usable by the Wise Goblins and Supreme Naga. The Earth Dwarves could barely use it once, and the Small Fishman couldn¡¯t use it at all. This limitation was too great; it was a waste of this treasure¡¯s power.
He envisioned adjusting the five Extraordinary Abilities on it, changing what should be changed and weakening what should be weakened.
After all, these were only Rank 1 Extraordinary Abilities. If the requirements were already so high now, what would he do when the treasure upgraded and could load Rank 2 Extraordinary Abilities?
The first, Foresight¡ªthis was converted from his own Extraordinary Ability, and with its small consumption, even a Small Fishman could use it, so this didn¡¯t need changing.
The second, Godspeed¡ªLin Xiao pondered for a moment and then cut its power in half.
Extraordinary Ability: Godspeed.
Passive Attribute: Increase Speed by 50%, ignores normal slowing abilities.
Active Attribute: Consumption
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Chapter 333: 333 Exclusive Divine Extraordinary Ability - Minor Judgment Skill
Chapter 333: Exclusive Divine Extraordinary Ability ¨C Minor Judgment Skill
Bernie said coldly,
¡°If we don¡¯t use it now, we¡¯ll die. If we¡¯re defeated, the artifact will fall into the enemy¡¯s hands. I believe the leader of Gainey would agree with the decision I¡¯m making.¡±
The other two Children of Nightmare remained silent; or rather, one of them, Gould, had not responded at all.
Seeing that his twopanions raised no objections, Bernie took a deep breath and said,
¡°In that case, let¡¯s temporarily withdraw our troops. I¡¯ll go activate the treasure!¡±
Isaiah responded,
¡°I¡¯m also withdrawing.¡±
After waiting for a while and still receiving no response from Gould, the two Children of Nightmare tried tomunicate with him but discovered that his presence was extremely unstable, almost as if he were on the brink of copse.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield, the Nightmare Legion under Gould began to show signs of agitation.
The two Children of Nightmare exchanged a nce, just about to say something, when the Nightmare Legion belonging to Gould unexpectedly began their retreat without any notice.
This turn of events shocked both Children of Nightmare, and even Lin Xiao was extremely surprised by this sudden change.
It wasn¡¯t until Bernie asked repeatedly, each time with a more severe tone, that Gould finally replied, albeit reluctantly,
¡°The Legendary Giant Beast that I had previously suppressed within my realm has gone out of control. I need to return with the main force to re-suppress it.¡±
Bernie expressed some disbelief,
¡°Your True Body can¡¯t suppress it?¡±
¡°It can¡¯t suppress it.¡±
After a long silence, Bernie finally waved his hand and said,
¡°Go.¡±
The other Child of Nightmare, Isaiah, asked,
¡°Lord Bernie, shall we go have a look?¡±
Bernie shook his head,
¡°No need to bother. Under the current circumstances, one more or one less of him, the result will be the same. Now that we¡¯re ready to activate the artifact, his absence is of no consequence. However, since he did not contribute, we¡¯ll revoke his right to a share of the spoilster.¡±
Then, the two remaining Children of Nightmare left a portion of their subordinates behind and withdrew their core forces.
The Supreme Naga and Lesser Naga Union Armypletely annihted the rear-guard Nightmare Legion and joined forces with the Smart Goblins Mage Group twenty kilometers away who had just left the city to strike near the channel between the two worlds.
Now that it was clear that the enemy could not defeat them, it was time to counterattack!
Lin Xiao left a portion of his n to guard the Divine Realm, including two Legendary Lords of Supreme Naga. The remaining five Legendary Satellites joined the army marching out, targeting Bernie¡¯s Nightmare Divine Realm.
Capture the ringleader first, and deal with the restter.
However, when the army arrived at the realm¡¯s connecting channel, they found it sealed by a very powerful force. Although it wasn¡¯t strong enough to prevent a breach, it was certain that opening it would take some time.
He looked puzzledly towards the other two Nightmare Realms; the one on the left was also temporarily sealed, while the first one to withdraw, the Nightmare Realm on the right, was not sealed.
He assessed the seal that the enemy had put all their effort into creating across their realm, and even if he exhausted all the Divine Power he¡¯d stored, he couldn¡¯t st it open quickly.
This ¡°quickly¡± was by the hour.
¡°Then let¡¯s go check out that side!¡±
The main force changed direction, quickly approaching the channel in the rightmost realm where Gould was located.
This Child of Nightmare named Gould seemed to have retreated in a hurry, and after pulling back, he had not stationed any forces to guard the nexus between the two worlds. Lin Xiao sensed that there were no Nightmare Creatures near the breach.
¡°What kind of trick is this? An empty-fort strategy or a lure deep into enemy territory?¡±
Thispletely illogical behavior made Lin Xiao hesitate to make any rash moves. After some thought, he sent a Wise Goblin Mage along with a small squad of Small Naga Scouts to investigate.
Soon, he was sharing the vision of the n squad and saw that the other side of the rift between the two worlds was empty, with no presence at all, as if the ce had been deserted for some time.
The most surprising thing was that he could barely feel the natural suppression emanating from the Nightmare Realm.
In other words, the gaze of the Nightmare Child on the other side was not here.
While it wasn¡¯t like the innate rule suppression carried by Demigods, if the gaze of a Child of Nightmare was here, the power of the realm would naturally converge to suppress the enemy. He couldn¡¯t sense anything now.
Furthermore, through the n squad¡¯s point of view, he vaguely sensed a terrifying will within the depths of this Nightmare Realm, one that was enough to make his heart flutter.
Fear, the kind that could drive one mad.
Merely sensing it made the Wise Goblin Mage acting as his conduit of perception slightly ufortable.
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¡°Boom!¡±
A heavy sensation of spatial disturbance swept over the n exploration team along with a faint ripple in space. They neither saw nor heard anything, but the moment the ripple passed, everyone¡¯s minds conjured the image of a-sized gigantic species smashing heavily into the Earth¡ªan unimaginable mass and strength impacting the Divine Realm, producing ripples that distorted space itself.
¡°What kind of terrifying existence is this?¡±
This feeling¡
Lin Xiao was certain it was real, not an illusion.
His gaze, dark and intense, turned toward the deeper parts of the Nightmare Realm that gave off a heart-palpitating sensation. He issued a newmand, dispatching five exploration teams, each consisting of two Wise Goblin Mages and a dozen Lesser Nagas, to enter the Nightmare Realm in different directions while his will apanied the five teams into this eerie domain.
Silence, nothing but silence.
The domain felt dead, as if bereft of the Children of Nightmare, resembling the Nightmare Realm he had previously devoured after killing a Child of Nightmare. While the feeling wasn¡¯t quite to the same extent, Lin Xiao sensed a simr trend.
At this point, he was almost certain something major had urred within the Nightmare Realm. The deadness before him was unlikely a ruse to lure him in.
As the five exploration teams prated deeper into the Nightmare Realm, they discovered nothing¡ªno Nightmare Creatures, the Nightmare energy in the void as gloomy as ever. However, the unsettling feeling they had was growing stronger, as if they were gradually drawing near to some terrifying Giant Beast.
Before they realized it, the fastest exploration team had covered a distance of about twenty to thirty kilometers into the realm, arriving near a cliff formation with a mix of caution and confusion.
The team stood on the edge of the cliff, peering forward through a not-too-dense mist. They saw what resembled a sinkhole canyon¡ªa t expanse ofnd that suddenly dipped into a canyon, with the very distant opposite rim just barely visible.
The edge of the canyon wasn¡¯t steep, it was a¡ slope?
A slope that seemed peculiar. Lin Xiao¡¯s attention was drawn to the surface, instantly familiar in its curvature, looking like¡
A thought, unbelievable to him, sprung into his mind.
This sinkhole canyon¡
Hemanded the Mages to fly up over the canyon for a bird¡¯s-eye view, and the more they saw, the more shocked they became.
¡°Damn, what in the world is this?¡±
From above, the canyon looked as though it had been formed by an enormous spherical object rolling over the Earth, leaving behind an impression.
It was hard to believe, but the resemnce was uncanny.
The five exploration teams split into three directions, with two teams going left along the canyon, two to the right, and another team crossing the sinkhole canyon to continue forward.
Half an hourter, one of the teams on the right sent back rming information. Lin Xiao¡¯s will descended upon them and witnessed the sinkhole canyon in disarray. There was a huge area of uneven, pitted ground where countless terrifying traces of battle stretched into the far distance.
There was no residual matter left on the battlefield, but one could feel the despair of the recent fight.
From the leftover traces of battle and the chaotdscape, Lin Xiao was certain a Giant Beast beyond description had fought with a Child of Nightmare from this realm.
Yes, putting together the information, it could be confirmed that an enormous creature had appeared in this Child of Nightmare¡¯s domain, something even it couldn¡¯t handle, leading to this dire scene.
Just then, strange sounds emerged from the chaotic distantnd, followed by Nightmare energy in the void being drawn by an invisible force toward the distance. The concentration of Nightmare energy between heaven and earth plummeted.
Next, with a deafening explosion, the distant sky andnd suddenly expanded outward and then quickly snapped back to their original state, as infinite ck Nightmare Energy spread like a tide in all directions.
At that moment, Lin Xiao felt the Nightmare Realm¡¯s space be extremely unstable, the vast domain seemed on the verge of copse.
The surging Nightmare Energy tide swept past, revealing the clear skies andnd beyond. A colossal figure, impossible to imagine, was in the center of the Nightmare Realm, extending arms kilometers in length to hammer against the Nightmare Realm¡¯s core symbol¡ªthe ck Gigantic Tower.
The instant Lin Xiao saw this, his pupils constricted in recognition.
This nearly two-kilometer-diameter mass that exuded an oppression unfathomable to ordinary people¡ªit was the same flesh ball that had been taken into the Divine Realm by the Child of Nightmare along with him.
When first taken, the object had been just over ten meters in diameter, and now, in such a short period, it had grown to this size?
Lin Xiao felt as though he was dreaming.
Not sure if it was the shock affecting him greatly, but the monster that was furiously hammering at the core of the Nightmare Realm suddenly paused, and a giant head on its body turned to look in his direction, unleashing an overwhelming, despairing will that struck him, severing his connection to this portion of his will attached to the n members.
However, it was not destroyed but temporarily interrupted. Secondster, the connection with this will was restored, and to his surprise, there was something extra attached to his will. Asmunication with his True Body was reinstated, that extra¡
Something like a mark traveled along the will, stretching across two domains to reach his True Body and leaving this mark upon him.
¡°Too terrifying!¡±
Lin Xiao swiftly ordered the other exploration teams to retreat, meanwhilemanding the troops at the breach between the two realms to withdraw. The Transcendent Mage Alemente quickly summoned the Mage team to prepare the sealing barrier.
There was no way to fight, absolutely no way.
How big is a two-kilometer diameter?
It¡¯s the size of a city rolling toward you, a transformation of strength that could easily breach even a Legendary Defense Spell, and the current Divine Realm had no means of resistance.
That thing was still at the Legendary Level.
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Chapter 334: 334: Effortlessly
Chapter 334: Effortlessly
Besides, the number of Wise Goblins had recovered to its original level of more than 30,000, with over 900 Rank 6 Grand Magicians and thirty-six Rank 7 Grand Magicians.
The number of Earth Dwarves had risen slightly to exactly 30,000. Within the n, there were 176 Rank 6 Earth Dwarves, two Rank 7 Earth Dwarves, one King of Dwarves, and one Leader.
The primary reason Earth Dwarves rarely produce a Rank 7 Leader is due to species limitations and theck of a powerful profession bonus. Thus, advancing to Rank 7 is extremely difficult, not to mention bing a Rank 8 legend. This race hasn¡¯t even produced a single hero in all this time.
Luckily, Lin Xiao had no special requirements for this species. Dwarves, well, just needed to be serious about mining and cksmithing. Leave the fighting to other races.
The reason Wise Goblins are stronger than Dwarves is that although their species isn¡¯t very powerful, they possess a good Profession which is the main reason why so many Rank 7 Grand Magicians have emerged. It¡¯s all because of the Mage profession.
This isn¡¯t a profession obtained through Profession Cards, but a formal Mage profession acquired through their own abilities, without the limitations of Profession Cards. In theory, they could ascend to legend or even higher levels.
Wise Goblins and Supreme Naga are Lin Xiao¡¯s two core races within the Divine Territory now, one warrior and one mage, with the Lesser Naga merely serving as reserves.
Three hourster, the first interdimensional channel opened in the wilderness to the south of the Main Divine Realm. Countless Nightmare Creatures poured into the barbaric wastnd filled with dense jungles and ancient forests.
As Nightmare Creatures entered continuously, no resisters were seen; at this time, all the Favored Ones of the Divine Realm were still clearing ruins in the center of the Main Divine Realm.
As more and more Nightmare Creatures invaded, vast amounts of Nightmare Power surged out, darkening the nearby skies, and a massive visage of a Child of Nightmare emerged in the Vault of Heaven.
This face was twisted and distorted; it seemed that these few Children of Nightmare were severely corroded, and even upon returning to their own realm, could not regain their original form.
Five Children of Nightmare had opened all the interdimensional channels in the same ce, seemingly intent on joining forces for a decisive battle against him to tten in one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, Lin Xiao didn¡¯t give them the chance. He just waited until a sufficient number of Nightmare Creatures had entered his Divine Territory, then the Vault of Heaven shone with streaks of light, quickly outlining a vast face that looked down majestically upon the Earth.
Lin Xiao¡¯s gaze fell upon the Nightmare Creatures that had entered the Divine Territory. After some contemtion, he decided to test the power of the Minor Judgment Skill before taking real action.
With a thought, a mighty and majestic voice resonated:
¡°I decree, those who cross realms shall be punished!¡±
As the words fell, Lin Xiao saw the waterfall of Power of Faith at the Divine Pce Dome darken abruptly¡ªthe equivalent of an entire hundred units of Divine Power had been consumed. Taking a deep breath, he spoke again:
¡°By the name of Truth, I judge thee, cross-realm trespassers shall be blind!¡±
¡°By the name of Truth, I judge thee, cross-realm trespassers shall move slowly!¡±
¡°By the name of Truth, I judge thee, cross-realm trespassers shall lose strength!¡±
¡°By the name of Truth, I judge thee, the ws and teeth of cross-realm trespassers shall be frail!¡±
¡°By the name of Truth, I judge thee, cross-realm trespassers shall suffer doubled damage!¡±
Each statement of judgment consumed a definite amount of Divine Power. After reciting five judgments in one breath, Lin Xiao found he had used up more than 980 points of Divine Power. The consumption varied with the result of the judgment, almost reaching a thousand.
The oue, however, did not disappoint him. As each judgment was dered, all the Nightmare Creatures that had entered the Divine Territory were affected by the judgment.
Instantly struck with blindness, slowed, weakened in strength, their bodies became fragile, and the damage they received doubled. These five BUFFs appeared simultaneously on the Nightmare Creatures, unable to be dispelled.
ording to the precondition he set for the judgment, any creature that entered the Divine Territory without permission would automatically be judged, whether now or those enteringter.
Of course, if he wanted the effect to continue, he would need to keep spending Divine Power to maintain it, and the maintenance cost was very high, not much different from the initial activation.
Naturally, Lin Xiao would not keep it up indefinitely. Battles of this sort were calcted by days; where would he find so much Divine Power to spend?
Besides, he did not intend to rely on this to face the enemy; he was merely testing the effects of this Minor Judgment Skill for now.
In actual use, the effect and power were stronger than he had anticipated, probably because his Divinity Level was high enough.
Divinity is the core essence of a deity. With a high level of Divinity, not only do the spells cast be more powerful, but so do the extraordinary abilities, and even direct impacts with Divine Power receive a bonus in force and an enhanced suppression effect on enemies.
Under the Fivefold Judgment, the strength of this batch of invading Nightmare Creatures plummeted dramatically. Led by the legendary hero Alemente, the Mage team summoned a vast Meteoric Fire Rain spanning tens of kilometers, burning arge swath to death.
Then, without waiting for the Children of Nightmare to react, the skies began to darken. The vast face suddenly contorted and transformed. Endless mists of gray converged into the twisting vortex, casting dusk uponnd and sky.
¡°Game over, time for the main course!¡±
Within the Divine Pce, Lin Xiao looked up at the dome where Divine Power stored like a tide was disappearing; in his perception, within the Divine Territory, an extremely terrifying existence was about to take form around two points of Divinity as its core.
With Divinity as the core and Divine Power building the divine body, a Divine Incarnation was being condensed.
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This was the normal Divine Incarnation cohesion process, but for Lin Xiao there was an additional step. In addition to Divine Power, there was also a continuous stream of Evil God¡¯s power.
The newly coalesced power of the Evil God from that strange, extranar world.
Although different in nature, it was still his own power, and of course he could make use of it.
A true Evil God, even borrowing only a small portion of its strength, reached the limit that the Divine Realm could amodate in just a few minutes. As the twisting mist formed of dark fog slowly dissipated, a Titan towering two kilometers high was revealed.
This Giant was even more powerful than the incarnate Nightmare¡¯s Will and that fleshy orb from before. Upon taking shape, a horrendous power field, exceeding Rank 8 and reaching the heights of Rank 9 legendary status, burst forth. The sky and the earth cleared, and only the towering Titan stood between heaven and earth, emitting a terrifying aura that chilled all Children of Nightmare to the bone, taking great strides toward the passage between the Nightmare Realm and the Divine Realm.
The Nightmare Creatures that had just invaded from the Nightmare Realm instantly erupted into chaos, fleeing in all directions, regardless of themands of the Children of Nightmare.
With massive strides, the Giant reached the portal between the two worlds. Each step of its hundreds of meters long feet could crush a swath of creatures, and the terrifyingbination of weight and strength emitted a fearsome power that could kill everything in the vicinity. The interface of the two realms, which had just gathered more than a hundred thousand Nightmare Creatures, instantly became chaotic, with countless dead or injured.
Lin Xiao¡¯s consciousness directly descended upon this formidable incarnation, slowly lowering its head to look at the passage between the two realms, feeling the presence of five weak wills on the other side.
Whether looking from the perspective of this incarnation or judging with his True Body¡¯s Rank 6 Divinity, these five Children of Nightmare seemed extremely weak in his eyes, even though their strength was indeed not much different from the other Children of Nightmare he had encountered before.
It wasn¡¯t that the enemies had weakened, but that he was now too strong.
A giant hand, spanning hundreds of meters, reached into the passage between the two realms, grasping at the edge. He felt the impact of five powerful forces against his own, but the difference in quality was too great to be significant.
With both hands gripping the edges of the passage, he invoked his Divine Power, and with a piercing tearing sound, he forcibly ripped the portal open, revealing the Nightmare Realm on the other side. Even more powerful Divine Power surged into the opposing realm, rushing several kilometers into the Nightmare Realm in a single burst.
Arge number of Nightmare Creatures had gathered at the edge of the portal, but as he forcefully tore apart the realm, they suffered heavy casualties and chaos ensued.
Lin Xiao paid no attention to these ordinary Nightmare Creatures. With his tremendous size, he couldn¡¯t even see these tiny beings. His gaze was fixed directly on the core of the Nightmare Realm, and he strode towards it.
What does it feel like to be two thousand meters tall?
The mountains are beneath my feet, clouds wrap around my waist, all beings are as ants, and that feeling is as exhrating as one can imagine.
With a fist nearly a hundred meters in diameter, he punched down, akin to a meteor from the heavens, producing a turbulent wave of energy hundreds of meters high, surging in all directions. He directly smashed open the core of the Nightmare¡¯s Child and reached inside to pull forcefully.
¡°Boom!¡±
The entire Divine Realm shook violently, and the Nightmare Realm¡¯s overall structure was twisted out of shape, with countless spatial rifts emerging.
¡°Alright then!¡±
The core of the realm was connected to the entire Nightmare Realm. If he continued to forcefully rip it out, the result would be the realm¡¯s copse.
Booty was still to be had, so Lin Xiao abandoned the violent idea and honestly extended a finger into the broken core of the Nightmare, pressing down on the Child of Nightmare hidden within to kill it.
Suddenly, the entire world became tranquil.
Divine Power swept through, directly plundering everything worth taking from the Child of Nightmare¡¯s realm.
Then, all the panic-stricken Nightmare Creatures were herded into the Divine Realm like chasing little chicks. Hereafter, they would be left to the God Realm Kin to gain battle experience, and their corpses would be gradually consumed by the newly nted Flesh Tree to build up a sufficient gene pool.
Effortlessly taking down a Child of Nightmare startled the remaining ones, but they were powerless.
If the human and Human Divine Territory yers¡¯ Divine Realms had fully integrated, surrender and cancetion were still options, but once the realm of a Child of Nightmare interfaced with a human¡¯s Divine Realm, they could not be separated without one dying.
Well, it¡¯s not absolute. If the disparity in strength between both sides was too great, the stronger side could also forcefully sever the connection at some cost.
Like Lin Xiao and the Children of Nightmare now, he could sever it forcefully.
Or, there are some extremely rare special Divine Artifacts or Ancient Treasures that could also do this.
But he wouldn¡¯t do that, of course. Why would he let go of a head delivered to his doorstep?
Next, he repeated the process, ripping open each of the Children of Nightmare¡¯s realms entirely, effortlessly crushing each Child of Nightmare like ughtering small chickens.
All Nightmare Creatures were driven into the Main Divine Realm, many of which were valuable, including all Nightmare Creatures of Rank 6 and above, and several legendary Nightmare Creatures, all imprisoned in the deepest part of the Divine Realm in the Underworld Divine Realm Space.
After all, Transcendental Nightmare Creatures were worth more than just fertilizer.
However, it¡¯s not about subjugating them as imagined; Nightmare Creatures cannot be subdued, as they are already transformed into nightmares and beyond taming, but they can be confined for the sake of providing the God Realm Kin withbat practice and building up their battle experience.
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Chapter 335: 335 Battle in the Depths of the Sea
Chapter 335: Battle in the Depths of the Sea
Fighting among their own kind required caution to avoid idents, and they were so constrained that it was impossible to stimte their potential. However, there was no such problem when using Nightmare Creatures.
To survive, they would fight with all their might without holding back. This type ofbat, facing death at any moment, is the most effective at stimting potential and could easily lead to their advancement.
Due to the vast and despairing gap in strength, most of the five Children of Nightmare were directly overpowered; only two, unwilling to give in, burned their very essence, their Divinity, resulting in a somewhat reduced divine reward after being in.
The five Children of Nightmare provided sixteen, seventeen, neen, four, and five points of Divinity, adding up to a total of sixty-one points of Divinity.
Over one hundred cards of various levels, including four Ancient Quality Cards.
There were certainly more than four Ancient Cards loaded into the total fields of the five Children of Nightmare, but only these four could be separated from the fields. Among them was a very valuable Ancient Five Star Card¡ªthe Well of Corruption, capable of summoning a well infused with the Power of Corruption.
This was an Ancient Miracle Card, which had a simple effect: load the card into the Divine Realm to summon the miraculous structure, the Well of Corruption.
The Well of Corruption contained the Power of Corruption that could corrupt and degrade the target.
Once the Well of Corruption was loaded, the surroundingnd would corrupt into fallen terrain. Benevolent creatures would suffer continuous damage and corrupting effects while active there, but creatures from Evil Camps entering thend would receive ceaseless healing. Prolonged absorption of the Power of Corruption could potentially lead to promotion.
Although this artifact was a miraculous construction of the Evil Camps, it did not mean Ocean couldn¡¯t use it. He first dissolved most of the less useful cards into nutrients to strengthen the Well of Corruption.
Without Creation Energy to transform it, a massive influx of Creative Power could still enhance it on its existing foundation, greatly expanding the effect¡¯s radius.
Then, he directly loaded it into the Underworld Divine Realm Space within the Divine Terrain, cing the Tower of Corruption in this special bottomyer of Divine Domain Space designated for incarcerating or banishing evil creatures.
Next, he ssified and merged various Ecology Cards and Resource Cards, using the Creation Rubik¡¯s Cube to purify the Nightmare Power contained within, synthesizing them into powerful cards to be loaded into the Divine Realm as circumstances dictated.
He managed to produce several superrge Basic Ore Vein Cards, all loaded into the Main Divine Realm.
After dealing with these, Ocean spent¡
Thirty points of Divinity and thirty thousand Divine Power to promote ten Rank 7 Supreme Naga into legendary Lords of Nagas.
As for the remaining thirty-one points of Divinity and just over twenty thousand Divine Power, he saved them for the time being as both Divinity and Divine Power could be used at any moment.
With seventeen legendary Lords of Nagas and six legendary Heroes, Ocean nowmanded twenty-three Rank 8 legendary n members. This was an exceptionally high specification, a formidable force that many middle-tier Demigods did not possess.
Before leaving the Divine Territory, Ocean issued several Divine-mandates to rda.
In summary, there were three:
One: Greatly increase the reproduction of the n members.
Two: Open the Ancient Coliseum, granting him the right to extract prisoners from the Netherworld, to train warriors with real opponents in hopes of obtaining more powerful followers.
Three: Establish an immensely fortified giant city fortress within the Main Divine Realm.
After issuing all the Divine-mandates, Ocean retrieved his Incarnation. The two points of Divinity that constituted the Incarnation were recovered, but the ten thousand Divine Power returned less than five thousand.
At the same time, a vast and unparalleled dark power had nowhere to settle, so he cast it into the Netherworld.
After all, for him, the Netherworld was like a trash dump. Whatever it was, as long as it was negative and unable to be amodated by other Divine Realm spaces, it could be thrown into it, and he wasn¡¯t worried about whether harboring too much negative energy there would cause any mutations.
With the Divine Realm¡¯s limit in ce, no matter how much it mutated, it wouldn¡¯t escape his control as the Master of the Divine Realm. Should anything terrifying emerge, he would know immediately and it wouldn¡¯t go out of control.
Two dayster, Ocean organized all affairs, and all his will retreated back into the crystal-like Soul, which hung above the divine throne. The radiant, translucent orb slowly disappeared, and the Divine Realm once again dimmed.
The vast expanse of the ck Sea suddenly bulged with a water dome several kilometers in size. Shortly after, an unimaginably huge Giant rose from the sea, its tentacles hanging from its neck swaying gently, with ripple after ripple of invisible auras slowly spreading out.
The profound gaze of the immense Giant pierced through the endless ck mist between heaven and earth, looking far into the distance, the sea. Once his soul¡¯s essence ascended to immortality, most of the world¡¯s hidden secrets were unveiled to him automatically. His gaze itself possessed the Eye of Truth, allowing him to clearly see through the heavy ck mist that was omnipresent, the boundless waters of the sea, and¡
Above the thick clouds of the Vault of Heaven, immense and fearsome figures reside.
With the Evil God¡¯s Eye of Truth, he could see past the ever-present clouds above the Vault of Heaven, where creatures no smaller than him, some perhaps evenrger, seemed to be swimming. Above the thick clouds of heaven, it was as if there was another world entirely.
Being able to look directly at the secrets of this world and experience a preview of a True God¡¯s perspective was a rare opportunity for Ocean, one that most people would never have the chance to experience.
Now he could enjoy it. Once he left this world, he would probably have to give up both the Body of Evil God and that immense Evil God¡¯s Divine Soul, so such an opportunity would no longer exist.
Bing an incarnation of an Evil God, this indescribable and eerie being, Evil Alien Races, the terrifying dark sea, was to Ocean what an ordinary world¡¯s ocean would be. He, in his own right, was the strangest and most indescribable, the most terrifying enigma.
With the Eye of Truth, he peered through the seabed and into the distant waters of the great sea, where myriad creatures beyond ordinary imagination lurked quietly. A colossal creature, five kilometers tall, swam across the surface, causing the strange inhabitants to scurry away, including some with massive bodies. The feeling was exhrating.
After a while, following a thundering roar, the colossal being slowly sunk back into the sea, leaving a tremendous vortex in its wake before it disappeared without a trace.
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ck g Ind, more than three hundred kilometers to the south, a fleetposed of a five-masted giant sailboat leading over a dozen three-mastedrge sailboats was entangled in a melee with a fleet of seven irond ships.
Although the sailboat fleet had a numerical advantage, they were at a disadvantage in the naval battle against the irond ships. From a distance, the irond ships utilized theirrger number of cannons for long-range bombardment, resulting in two of the three-masted sailboats being sunk. Now, their wreckage was crawling with creatures covered in tentacles, secreting slime to envelop the ships and transforming their flesh, while more beasts tore at the struggling sailors and corpses in the water.
Arge number of creatures, attracted by the cannon fire and the light from the explosions, were converging nearby. Ordinarily, the fleets would have fled by now, but at the moment, they were still engaged inbat under the forceful suppression of theirmanders.
Five Children of Nightmare gathered on the deck of an irond ship, observing the battlefield and frequently ncing maliciously at the giant five-masted sailboat several kilometers away. Standing on the deck at the bow of this nearly two-hundred-meter-long sailboat were four Human Divine Territory yers. A woman, illuminated by the light of the explosive fire, nced at the distant irond behemoth and said with some concern to herpanions,
¡°Irond ships have too much of an advantage at sea. Even though we outnumber them, it¡¯s not certain that we can win. I think next time we need to switch to warships with cannons.¡±
¡°Next time¡¡±
Another Divine Territory yer pointed at the Children of Nightmare who asionally cast cold nces their way and said,
¡°There won¡¯t be a next time. They have a numerical advantage and a military advantage; they won¡¯t let us get away.¡±
The leader among the four stroked his chin, paused, thenughed,
¡°Don¡¯t worry too much. Although they have one more person than we do, it¡¯s unpredictable who will win or lose before the battle is fought. Nobody knows how strong the opponent is until they fight.¡±
¡°Moreover, our reinforcements are already on the way. ck g Ind has received the message, and the Alliance Hierarch has already sent support. We just need to hold out until it arrives.¡±
However, his words didn¡¯t provide muchfort to hispanions, and the first woman to speak said,
¡°That¡¯s all well and good, but the main point is whether we can hold out until the reinforcements arrive.¡±
The leader smiled, then suddenly gave a loud order,
¡°All hands, retreat toward the direction of ck g Ind while fighting.¡±
The signalman immediately ryed hismand to the entire fleet using g signals and drumbeats, and the massive sailboat fleet began a fighting retreat.
The ever-dark waves of the ck Sea raged on, and the sh between the tworge fleets seemed insignificant on the vast ocean, with the asional shes of explosive fire and booming sounds attracting the surrounding creatures, including some extremely bizarre beings and gigantic monsters.
ns rarely work out as envisioned, and as the sailboat fleet retreated while waiting for reinforcements, their destination was a distant lighthouse.
This lighthouse was one of several near ck g Ind, serving to guide nearby ships. In the perpetually dark ck Sea, ships could only navigate long distances by the lights of these lighthouses.
After retreating for an indeterminate amount of time, the leader, Wang Nan, who had been fully focused onmanding the fleet, suddenly frowned and asked hispanion, Tai Li,
¡°How long have we been retreating?¡±
Tai Li hesitated before replying,
¡°Two hours.¡±
At his words, everyone¡¯splexion changed, and they rushed to the edge of the deck to gaze at the lighthouse in the distance, identical to how it had appeared two hours earlier, cold sweat involuntarily forming on their foreheads:
¡°Damn, normally, we should have been close to the lighthouse by now after two hours, but the distance between us and the lighthouse is the same as it was two hours ago.¡±
¡°I think we¡¯ve encountered something big.¡±
Wang Nan took a deep breath to stave off despair andmanded calmly,
¡°Assess our current position, determine the direction of ck g Ind or the lighthouse, and re-establish our course. Leave this sea area as quickly as possible.¡±
¡°Oh, and send a message to the other side, informing them of the situation.¡±
¡°What if they don¡¯t heed it?¡±
¡°Then we¡¯ll all die together.¡±
Three minutester, a response from one of the Children of Nightmare appeared before them:
¡°Die at sea, or fight us in a battle to the death!¡±
Wang Nan scoffed,
¡°How arrogant.¡±
After finishing, he turned serious and looked at hispanions,
¡°Prepare for full engagement. I want to see why you Children of Nightmare are so confident when we are all high third-rankers.¡±
Chapter 336: 336
Chapter 336: 336
That thing is still at the Legendary Level.
Although its size is unbelievablyrge, it remains at Rank 8 Legend, having not surpassed this level.
Strength and size can determine the level of power, but this isn¡¯t absolute; there are plenty of creatures with great size but little strength.
Of course, this guy¡¯s terrifying size isn¡¯t for show, otherwise it wouldn¡¯t seem to be single-handedly wiping out a Nightmare Realm overseen by a Child of Nightmare.
From what we can see now, the Nightmare Creatures within this Nightmare Realm seem to have been mostly devoured by that monster, which is now hammering away at the core of the Nightmare Realm, the equivalent in the Divine Realm would be hammering at Lin Xiao¡¯s True Body in the God Country.
¡°I hope that Child of Nightmare dies soon!¡±
Only when the Child of Nightmare falls will the connection between the Divine Realm and the Realm slowly copse and separate.
If that Child of Nightmare manages to hold on, the beast might leave for another space because it has already discovered him, and if it fails to break through the Nightmare core, it¡¯s likely toe here.
Although the gap between the two realms isn¡¯t currently big enough to allow it to pass through, as the war continues, the passage connecting the Divine Realm will grow everrger, until one side of the two Divine Realmspletely aligns and the channel expands to a whole face.
Meanwhile, within another Nightmare Realm, at the core of the realm, Berny¡¯s True Body¡ªa giant even taller than the Legendary Nightmare Giant, covered in dark gold¡ªslowly opened its eyes. It extended its massive right hand, and a rhombic crystal with dozens of faces slowly levitated above its palm. The giant looked at the crystal with a slight devotion and tension in its gaze and whispered lowly: