Chapter 11: Killing the Evil Artifact! [Seeking Recommendation Votes]
2016-11-30
Author: Zhubing Futu
The descent of a deity requires a vessel.
Soren could not yet bear the consumption of directly gathering his avatar with divine power, so in the ensuing battle, he had to borrow Chan’s body.
However.
During the descent process, Chan’s consciousness would not disappear; she would merely be controlled by Soren as an observer. It was a rare experience that allowed her to gain a touch of divine radiance.
Since Chan herself was a legendary Master of Fist, Soren did not use a curved blade this time.
With the gathering of golden radiance, a special pair of gloves appeared in Chan’s palms—items constructed entirely from divine power, equivalent to a level +3 artifact.
—”Shadow Difficulty!”
In an instant, Chan’s figure disappeared from its original spot and reappeared to Zargon’s right. After being possessed by Soren, her strength significantly increased, almost surpassing all the monks present.
—”Rapid Strike!”
—”Epic Divine Power!”
As a high and mighty deity, Soren’s knowledge was enough to support any profession in battle.
The Epic Divine Power was attached to the gloves, and at the moment of contact, Zargon’s armor was easily penetrated. Accompanied by its agonized roar, Chan swiftly left gruesome wounds all over its body. This was the ability of the Monk Guild: once they served a deity, they could gain divine power in a part-time capacity, but most of it was bestowed by the deity; Epic Divine Power could only be obtained by those who were legendary or above and devout believers.
—‘Penetration Force!’
—‘Impact Strike!’
—‘Shadow Assassination!’
The power of shadows gathered on Chan’s gloves, and when it struck the enemy before her, the surging shadow power, combined with Epic Divine Power, eroded through the defenses of the ancient evil artifact.
During the descent process, Soren could draw on Chan’s inherent abilities and his own divine power.
—”Shadow Plane!”
—”Killing Domain!”
—”Death Domain!”
A certain powerful domain sealed off the surrounding space. As if sensing the danger posed by Chan, Zargon suddenly swung over a dozen tentacles to entangle her.
—”Solar Flare Explosion!”
At this moment, the Climbing Cloud Monk also reacted. Accompanied by the shock of Qi, he attempted to block the ancient evil artifact before him and assist Chan in securing the kill.
—”Afterimage Dance!”
The figure of the Eastern Empress transformed into over a dozen afterimages, wielding a strange dagger shining with divine radiance that slashed at the tentacles, seemingly intending to rescue Chan, who had been grievously injured just moments ago—without Soren’s arrival, she would have likely been dead.
—”Shadow Leap!”
However, Chan appeared to be unconcerned about the attacks from the tentacles. The moment the tentacles made contact with her, her figure vanished from the spot.
The next moment.
Chan appeared behind the ancient evil artifact, followed by a series of rapid strikes.
Zargon’s body became mangled and broken, but it was also visibly regenerating at a remarkable speed. Ancient evil artifacts possessed a terrifying regenerative ability; even the gods could not easily kill them.
“It seems there is still a bit of trouble,” Chan spoke, but it was Soren’s voice. Her figure suddenly vanished, then appeared above Zargon.
—“Divine Power Shockwave!”
A massive amount of divine power surged as Chan threw a punch, and the next moment, Zargon’s body began to tear apart, more importantly, the altar beneath Zargon was fracturing due to the divine power shockwave.
The power of the blood sacrifice was dissipating.
It was evident that Zargon’s regeneration speed had slowed down.
—”Divine Descent!”
Chan took a deep breath, then pressed her palms together, becoming enveloped in golden radiance. She completely ignored the evil aura shrouding the ancient evil artifact, along with all negative states and corrosive effects, and charged straight in front of the ancient evil artifact, delivering a powerful punch that, accompanied by golden radiance, penetrated through the ancient evil artifact’s body.
—“Change Space!”
The surrounding space twisted, the power of the laws severing the area around them and directly cutting off Zargon’s tentacles.
—”Destructive Strike!”
Divine power erupted from the center of Chan’s fist, obliterating Zargon’s body. All flesh was torn apart, leaving only its final strange horn.
This horn could not even be destroyed by the Lord of Hell, Asmothiels, and could only be sealed away.
“Let me handle this!”
Seeing that the Climbing Cloud Monk seemed to be forming seals to prepare to seal the horn before him, Chan suddenly spoke: “I have a way to completely kill it.”
—”Death [Divine Profession]!”
Soren’s golden body materialized. At this moment, Chan appeared to transform into him, reaching out to grasp the strange horn before her, then transforming into a hundred-foot-tall golden giant.
—”Divine Form!”
Soren’s pupils revealed a dark glimmer, then suddenly tightened around the odd horn in his hand.
—”Hand of Death!”
Surging waves of deathly divine power gathered, and under Soren’s terrifying divine power shock, cracks gradually appeared on the strange horn before him.
Soon after, more cracks formed, covering the entire surface of the horn, and eventually a sound of reluctant fear echoed as a twisted soul broke free from within, seemingly trying to escape to the Underworld.
—”Soul Binding!”
A hint of a mocking smile appeared at the corner of Soren’s mouth, and with a wave, the twisted soul was trapped, ultimately being infused into a gem constructed from divine power.
The golden radiance dissipated.
Chan’s figure slowly floated down from the sky, while Soren’s golden body gradually faded, along with the soul gem.
“Lord of Shadows?”
The Eastern Empress’s expression was a bit hesitant; after a moment of hesitation, she quietly spoke.
At this time, Chan opened her eyes and slowly said, “The master has left!…”
………………
Meanwhile.
Above the city of Modo, a golden ray of light gradually dissipated, and Soren’s figure appeared inside the temple.
Each divine descent during the Saint’s Cataclysm consumed a massive amount of divine power; normally, deities rarely descended as the power consumed was too great. The radiance gathered on the Grand Temple had dimmed, as Soren had nearly expended three months’ worth of accumulated power with this one act.
“However.”
Soren focused on the soul gem before him, grinning mischievously, “It seems the haul is pretty good!”
Crack!
Just now, Soren had not completely killed Zargon; he had only destroyed the horn that hosted the soul, and at this instant when he crushed the soul gem, the power of the temple began to gather.
—”Suppression!”
A painfully shrill scream echoed, and soon after, countless wandering souls flew out from Soren’s palm.
These were the souls devoured by the ancient evil artifact; they were extremely evil entities whom the gods despised deeply, and their ability was to consume souls.
—”Divine Kingdom Gate!”
Soren waved his hand to open a white light gate, and countless souls flew into it under the influence of divine power, directly deposited into the Shadow Rebirth Pool.
At this moment, Zargon was finally killed completely.
Soren shattered its soul and transferred the souls it had devoured into the divine realm.
A line of data appeared:
“Killed the ancient evil artifact [Zargon]!…”
“Extracting target soul energy!… You have gained 3,950,000 points of Killing Experience!…”
“The target possesses divine power!…”
“Extracting target divine power!… You have gained 22 points of Divinity Value!…”
“Your [Evil] domain has been enhanced!… Your [Order] domain has been enhanced!… Your [Trickery] domain has been enhanced!…”
A surge of divinity was consumed by Soren.
After a moment, he opened his eyes, somewhat disappointed, “It seems the ancient evil artifact really doesn’t possess any divine ranks!”
This was evident.
Because if it had divine ranks, the ancient evil artifact would have turned into a terrifying evil god.
However, it was fortunate that Soren unexpectedly gained an enhancement to the Trickery domain from Zargon; it seemed its horn could not be destroyed and was related to the bizarre [Trickery].
………………
In the deepest part of the Hell of Bartok.
Just as Soren completely destroyed Zargon’s horn, an ancient existence seemed to sense something and opened its eyes.
“Has it finally died?”
The Lord of Hell, Asmothiels, was a being with dark skin and hair, handsome features, blood-red eyes, and a pair of small dark horns growing on its head. Asmothiels was elegantly dressed in red and black, wielding a peculiar red gem scepter, with immense magical power gathered within.
He had once killed Zargon in his conquest of hell, but he had never been able to kill it completely.
As a result, when Zargon resurrected, and the gods could do nothing, he had to intervene again. But now it seemed that Zargon was truly dead, for Asmothiels could not feel the presence of Zargon’s soul, a soul he had personally sealed, which has now completely vanished.
“Lord of Shadows?”
The Lord of Hell uttered a low murmur, then slowly said, “A new child of fate?”
“What will you ultimately become?”
“Another Sherek? Or will you give me some other surprises?”
Everything returned to darkness.
The Lord of Hell showed little reaction to Soren killing Zargon.
When Sherek had stolen the powers of the Three Death Deities and almost ascended above the gods, he merely watched silently. The Lord of Hell was very patient; across the long ages, he had seen too many suddenly emerging figures, Sherek was a typical example, but his ultimate fate was not so good.
Before all the dust settled, no one knew what kind of path Soren would take.
The gods watched him quietly because of Sherek’s example; no one was willing to act first, merely curious if Soren would end up like Sherek.
For the gods, waiting was not an issue.
Only those who could laugh last were the winners, and Sherek was undoubtedly not that last person laughing.
Some among them believed Soren was the same!
When Sherek had just ascended to godhood, he was incredibly venomous and ruthless, killing several gods at once while almost surpassing them, but in the end, did he not self-destruct due to his own inflation?
If Sherek had been a bit smarter then, there would have been no Dead King Klanvor.
Some hostile deities awaited Soren to self-destruct like Sherek!
………………(To be continued ~^~)
