**Chapter Fifty-Eight: Death Rebirth!**
2016-08-23
Author: Floating Tower (诸生浮屠)
The counterattack from the Divine Bastard made the Lord of Storms even more furious.
With a roar, the lightning summoned by Him transformed into gold, and His form morphed into that of a Storm Giant, wielding a spear and stabbing directly down. This was His artifact, the “Lightning Spear,” a weapon forged from thunder, and the special legendary profession of Storm Lord in the Amazon Region was fundamentally based on His abilities.
Unreservedly, the Lord of Storms displayed incomparably powerful strength!
The regeneration speed of the Divine Bastard was completely suppressed by the attacks of the Lord of Storms. As the God of Storms swung His artifact in battle, the flesh and blood of the Divine Bastard were nearly vaporized.
As a powerful deity governing combat divine professions, the strength exhibited by the God of Storms at this moment was astonishing!
Finally.
The regeneration speed of the Divine Bastard could no longer keep up. Accompanied by the roar of the God of Storms, He plunged the lightning spear into the brain of the Divine Bastard.
The Divine Bastard died.
The final blow from the God of Storms completely erased the life force of the Divine Bastard, even causing half of its entire body to vaporize.
The battle seemed to have come to an end.
Soren was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, but what other gods never expected occurred.
The Divine Bastard, which had just died under the hands of the God of Storms and was devoid of life force, suddenly resurrected, and its broken body regenerated at an astonishing speed, quickly returning to its original form.
“Death rebirth?”
Soren looked in surprise at the other gods and muttered, “It clearly just died.”
The one to respond was the Goddess of Wealth, who quietly observed the battle. She spoke softly, “This Divine Bastard seems to have devoured quite a few souls; it did indeed die just now. But it seems to have revived quickly.”
The resurrection of the Divine Bastard made the God of Storms hesitate.
He had just expended a significant amount of divine power, yet after killing the Divine Bastard, it surprisingly came back to life.
In the long history, such Divine Bastards were the hardest to deal with; often, in the end, the gods had no way out and could only barely seal them away.
These beings that could die and resurrect were even scarier than ancient evil artifacts!
An afterimage left behind by a powerful deity was clearly not so easily killed. As the God of Storms recoiled, the Lord of Radiance, who had been watching the battle, also began to take action.
— “Purification!”
The Lord of Radiance furrowed His brows, gazing at the resurrected Divine Bastard. He raised a hand, and dazzling holy light showered down. This light dealt lethal damage to evil, and even Soren felt a serious threat.
The body of the Divine Bastard dissipated in the holy light.
It was as if it had been directly disintegrated. The light emitted by the Lord of Radiance had an astonishingly high temperature, quickly evaporating much of the flesh of the Divine Bastard.
The Divine Bastard was instantly severely injured.
Soon after, its body diminished rapidly, and finally, almost its entire existence was erased.
“Now it should be dead, right?”
Not only did Soren think so, but even the other two goddesses shared similar thoughts. The Lord of Storms had indeed killed the Divine Bastard, but He hadn’t completely annihilated its body. However, the Lord of Radiance had just disintegrated the opponent’s body entirely; under such circumstances, even the Divine Bastard should find it difficult to survive.
But!
Everything still exceeded their expectations.
When the Lord of Radiance withdrew His divine power, the Divine Bastard, which had already been completely eliminated, suddenly began to crazily regenerate. Initially, it was just a mass of twisted flesh, which quickly transformed into a hideous mass of flesh, ultimately returning to its original form.
A heap of dead flesh transformed into a shell.
Then, the already killed Divine Bastard revived once again!
At this moment, the Ocean Goddess also wore a distressed expression, speaking to the other gods, “This Divine Bastard seems very hard to kill! We are not in the Divine Kingdom right now! Why don’t we seal it first?”
It’s fundamentally impossible to kill it.
No one knew how many times this Divine Bastard could resurrect.
If it could keep reviving, then it would be impossible to kill it, and in the end, they could only seal it.
The Lord of Radiance frowned, lost in thought.
He seemed to be looking for a way to completely eliminate this Divine Bastard, but didn’t have any substantial ideas. If they couldn’t kill it, they might have to seal it away or exile it into the chaotic time-space flow of the Astral Realm. But doing so would mean that this Divine Bastard would eventually break free again.
Just as the Lord of Radiance was preparing to use His divine power to cast the twelfth-level ‘Binding Spell’ to seal the Divine Bastard (Note: Only gods of moderate strength or higher can cast this).
Soren suddenly spoke up, “Wait a minute!”
“Please kill it once more! Let me try for the final blow!”
Hearing Soren’s words, the other gods looked at him in surprise, and the Lord of Radiance studied Soren deeply, as if discovering something about him, and nodded silently.
The holy light reappeared.
This time, the speed was much slower, as if it was to allow Soren to deliver a finishing blow.
Under the divine power of the Lord of Radiance, the Divine Bastard was once again disintegrated and purified, quickly entering a severely injured state, coming close to the brink of death.
— “Killing Domain!”
— “Death Domain!”
Just as the Divine Bastard approached death, Soren’s figure transformed into a golden giant. He charged towards the Divine Bastard in his saint form, and the Lord of Radiance instantaneously halted His attack.
— “Divine Power Shockwave!”
The powers of slaughter and death enveloped the surrounding space. The golden giant that Soren transformed into swept its hand, delivering the divine power as the final strike upon the Divine Bastard.
Rumbling!
Under the divine power shockwave, the Divine Bastard turned to ashes.
The powers of death and slaughter crazily enveloped it, and alongside a strange wave of energy, the previously unseen body of the Divine Bastard unexpectedly exploded.
Countless dazzling lights showered down.
These were not visible physical entities but substantial divine and soul powers, with many souls cascading like a torrent, among which thousands of souls surged directly toward Soren’s position, gathering in the palm of the golden giant he had transformed into.
These were the fleets devoured by the Divine Bastard.
The warriors of Modo City, those souls who died in the mouth of the Divine Bastard, had been trapped within it until the Divine Bastard was killed and they escaped.
“Is it really dead?”
The Ocean Goddess had a very surprised expression because, at that moment, the scattering souls were all deities killed and devoured by the Divine Bastard, along with the scattered divine brilliance. Most of the souls surged toward Soren, while others fell upon the gods. The most souls gathered around the Lord of Radiance, with more than half of the souls automatically rushing toward Him. Then, as these souls approached the body of the Lord of Radiance, they were purified, transforming into pure white soul bodies, and subsequently disappeared into the phantom of Mount Heaven behind Him. The next most souls received were those of the Storm Lord, among which were numerous soul shadows of Amazon Female Warriors that the Storm Lord held in His palm and sent into the Divine Kingdom.
Third was Soren.
He gathered about three to four thousand souls around him, which he also held in his palm and sent into his kingdom.
The Ocean Goddess received slightly fewer souls, just over a thousand, most of which were from wise ocean beings. It was only the Goddess of Wealth who collected the least, with only about three to five hundred at most, but she had hardly exerted much effort.
“Power of Slaughter?”
“Inheritor of the Three Death Deities?”
When Soren’s final blow thoroughly killed the Divine Bastard, the other gods couldn’t help but look at him with complex expressions. The Three Death Deities had always been the axis of evil faction gods. They had disappeared for quite some time, but the divine power Soren had just unleashed clearly came from the God of Slaughter, Baal.
No wonder he could kill the Divine Bastard and prevent it from continually resurrecting.
Each deity’s power had its strengths, just like the combat abilities of the Lord of Storms or the holy source of the Lord of Radiance. The powers Soren possessed, derived from the Three Death Deities, also had aspects that other gods feared.
That meant being killed by Him really meant death.
As the divine brilliance of the Divine Bastard’s death fell, a row of data also appeared before Soren:
“Killed the Divine Bastard [Offspring of the God of Dinosaurs]!”
“Extracted soul energy from the target! …You have gained 1,500,000 points of Killing Experience! …”
“The target possesses Divine Value!”
“Extracted target Divine Value! …You have gained 20 points of Divine Value! …”
“The target possesses Godhood Value!”
“Extracted target Godhood Value! …You have gained 25 points of Godhood Value! …”
………………
The power of the Divine Bastard dispersed among the gods.
Because the two deities that acted this time wielded strong divine powers, Soren obtained relatively modest amounts of Killing Experience and Divine Value, especially the yields of Killing Experience were directly converted into the gathering of soul bodies around the gods. However, to Soren’s surprise, the Divine Bastard actually brought him 25 points of Godhood Value, which was almost higher than the Divine Value he obtained.
This was an extremely rare occurrence!
Perhaps this Godhood power indeed stemmed from the strong divine power of the God of Dinosaurs, which was also the key to the Divine Bastard’s relentless resurrection.
The Divine Bastard was dead.
The gathering of gods came to an end.
Before the Lord of Radiance left, He cast a deep glance at Soren and then directly vanished into the sky.
The God of Storms exchanged a few simple words with the Ocean Goddess before returning to the Amazon Tropical Jungle. The Goddess of Wealth was merely there to reap the spoils and left quickly after the Divine Bastard was killed. Only the Ocean Goddess lingered for a while and then spoke a few words to Soren.
The gathering of gods was merely temporary.
They would only engage in brief cooperation when there were serious threats to their existence.
Now that the Divine Bastard had died, they naturally had to depart; otherwise, Soren began to suspect whether the Lord of Radiance and the God of Storms might end up fighting on the spot, after all, one was Lawful Good and the other was Chaotic Evil.
………………
Soren soon returned to Modo City.
The power he obtained from the Divine Bastard was not yet urgent to convert for improved profession levels; the most important thing at the moment was to settle these gathered souls.
They could be transformed into Prayer Weavers in Soren’s Divine Kingdom!
Modo City had lost over a thousand people, and 70% of the souls Soren collected were professionists. These excellent souls would allow Soren’s Divine Kingdom to give birth to its first batch of high-quality Prayer Weavers.
………………(To Be Continued ~^~)
