Chapter 19: Divine War! Request for Recommendation Votes
2015-07-21
Author: Floating Tower (诸生浮屠)
Humanity stands against humanity!
Gods stand against gods!
Soren, transformed into the Slayer state, seemed to have entered a berserk mode. If he allowed Eugene to behead his first and only Holy Spirit Priest right before him, especially under the watchful eyes of many priests and believers, then how could he show his face and raise the throne for the Investiture of the Gods!
This would be a lifelong humiliation!
An indelible stain! The entire Investiture plan could turn into a joke!
No.
Absolutely not!
Soren’s figure became a fleeting afterimage. When his toes touched the ground, the entire surface cracked, and without any reservations, Soren unleashed all his power. The curved blade in his hand seemed to tear through space, and the Legendary Curved Blade “Ice Death,” after slaying numerous powerful enemies, seemed to regain some of its spirit, even manifesting a cold, strange glow. At the moment Soren swung the blade through the battle spirit, a wave of icy frost emerged.
Clang! Clang!
Soren wielded dual blades to take on the Ascendant—Eugene and two Legendary-level spirit souls.
In the Slayer state, he remained completely unfazed!
Because his speed was just too fast.
In the Slayer state, Soren’s agility directly broke through 30 points, combined with his Legendary Evasion, Legendary Combat Techniques, Epic Agility, Mastery of Reflex Evasion, Mastery of Intuitive Evasion, Rolling Evasion, Flexible Movement, and other specialties, the fully unleashed Soren was like a ghostly apparition, making it exceptionally difficult for even Legendary-level enemies to land a hit on him!
Years of hard training accumulation.
Soren had long anticipated the day he would face such a situation. When facing multiple Legendary-level enemies’ assaults, he could still possess the power to fight back!
One Evasion specialty might seem inconspicuous.
Two Evasion specialties might not be impressive.
Three Evasion specialties might only be mediocre.
But when four, five, six, including Legendary-level Evasion specialties stacked together, that’s when quantitative change brought about qualitative change. Even while facing multiple Legendary enemies’ attacks, he would still not fall behind!
In this moment.
Soren felt as if he had returned to his peak years. Although he still had some shortcomings in certain specialties, at least he had restored more than eighty percent of his strength.
What remained to be improved were the Legendary abilities such as Shadow Plane and Shadow Step!
—“Spinning Slash!”
The cold curved blade sliced through a cold light. Eugene agilely dodged Soren’s attack, but the two Legendary-level spirit souls next to him couldn’t escape; their bodies were struck by Soren’s blade light. Every hit brought forth a frigid frost, and the energy supply from the Curved Blade “Ice Death” proved effective against these semi-spiritual life forms.
—“Arcane Missile*6!”
A barrage of Arcane Missiles swarmed forth, targeting not the Ascendant—Eugene, but a nearby spirit soul. It was unrealistic to attempt beheading Eugene directly, as the War Shaman, with a profession level of 27, possessed vitality akin to a Legendary Warrior. However, with summoned spirit souls, Soren had a ninety percent chance of slaying one of them.
—“Shadow Leap!”
—“Sword Intent [Decapitation]!”
—“Shadow Assassination!”
Soren’s figure instantly vanished from the spot. The next moment, he appeared behind the spirit soul, followed by a storm of attacks.
The giant earth elemental protected Milan at the front.
The Legendary-level fire elemental elder blocked the first spirit soul holding a Bone War Spear.
A giant wind elemental approached with astonishing speed, summoning a flash of lightning that briefly disrupted Eugene beside Soren.
More Abyssal Werewolves appeared in the darkness, but the elite pirates had already reacted.
Scarface confronted one of them. The giant roared and lunged at a colossal werewolf wielding a three-headed flail, likely another Legendary-level enemy.
Among all the pirate leaders, only he, possessing the bloodline of a swamp giant, could face it head-on!
The Mind Sorcerer remained in place.
However, a faint glow emanated from her eyes, as if she had locked onto certain figures, waiting for the right opportunity to arise.
—“Sword Intent [Halving]!”
Crack!
Accompanied by a cold light, Soren directly swung his blade, cleaving the spirit soul in two. The exceedingly troublesome giant wind elemental had temporarily attracted Eugene’s attention; it wanted to eliminate this fast-moving fly first. The speed of winds was naturally very fast, and the wind elemental had innate elemental bonuses, being the only creature capable of free flight and exceptional speed present. Soren aimed to slay one spirit soul first, while Eugene aimed to eliminate a high-tier elemental to weaken the enemy’s combat effectiveness.
A row of cold data floated before him:
“Slayed a spirit soul!…”
“Extracting target soul energy!… You have gained 27,000 Killing Experience!…”
“Target is a Divine Being!…”
“Extracting target Divine Power!… Extraction failed!… Target’s essence is not in the current plane!… Divine Power activated!… Forcefully extracting target soul energy!…”
“Extraction successful!… You have gained 3 points of Divinity Value!…”
………………
The body of the spirit soul gradually dissipated, its glow flickering like that of a firefly, finally vanishing with the wind.
Meanwhile.
In a plane named the Gray Wilderness, within a temple established on a barren plains, a violent energy fluctuation suddenly appeared. In this world adjacent to the Hell of Scorching Flames, a very slight energy fluctuation was heard, as a power belonging to a deity directly tore through space, momentarily falling into a temple that had been worshipped for a long time.
Crack!
Old temple walls echoed with fracturing sounds, the power striking the altar in the temple’s center like lightning, instantly shattering one of the spirit statues completely.
Millennia of ancestral worship of Half-Orcs!
Although many valiant souls could return to their ancestral realm, those worthy of being turned into spirit souls at the temple altar were all strong figures who had entered the Legendary Domain during their lifetime.
But now.
One of the spirit statues was collapsing, its divine power dissipating. The wave of its soul gradually faded.
Ultimately!
The entire statue crashed down, countless stones scattering on the ground, leaving nothing behind.
Fallen!
A spirit soul has fallen.
They should resemble the Otherworldly Messengers, who, even when dying in the mortal realm, would not truly perish. The only way to truly kill them was to come to the Gray Wilderness and slay them once. Alternatively, a deity could directly intervene with divine power!
Far from the temple.
In a desolate plain, a massive ancient altar appeared with a figure holding a skull in its hand at its center. It silently gazed into the distance, feeling the power that had just torn apart space, muttering, “A divine war?”
“Have the gods in the mortal realm already clashed?”
Only battles at the divine level could affect other planes, and only divine power could cross planes to destroy the essence of spirit souls in the Gray Wilderness!
………………
Boom!
Soren’s figure was sent flying, and Eugene staggered back, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
A faint cough was heard.
Soren slowly stood up, staring at the Half-Orc War Shaman before him, once again swinging his blade to transform into a blur, but his target was not Eugene; instead, it was the first spirit soul behind, distracted by others and wielding a Bone War Spear!
The Mind Sorcerer was ready.
As someone who once held thirty levels in the Spiritual Sorcerer class, even though she still bore the curse of the Spider Queen, she could still unleash formidable combat power!
Boom.
As Soren turned to pounce on the spirit soul, Eugene rushed in without hesitation, swiftly intercepting him with his war spear.
An invisible shockwave spread.
Both sides entered a stalemate once more; Soren couldn’t kill Eugene, and Eugene had no certainty of defeating Soren.
So strong.
Truly deserving of being the Ascendant—Eugene!
Even in the Slayer state, Soren could barely hold his own. This guy truly possessed strength far surpassing other Legendaries.
Eugene’s face was grave.
Or rather, he looked quite displeased at this moment!
Since the end of his life approached, he gradually gained the power to connect to ancestral souls. However, just as Soren killed a spirit soul, he suddenly lost part of that connection; one spirit soul completely lost contact. No matter how Eugene sensed it, he could not perceive its existence.
It was as if it had completely vanished!
Spirit.
In the Half-Orcs’ ancestral worship, those who could transform into spirits nearly all were Legendary powerhouses in their lifetime. The spirit souls formed over millennia of Half-Orc worship were limited, representing another kind of deity, a weakened version of a divine form. If any of the Half-Orcs could be conferred godhood, then these spirit souls could immediately transform into powerful Otherworldly Divine Servants!
But now.
It seemed to have vanished, thoroughly vanished!
………………
This is a Divine War!
Perhaps Soren himself didn’t realize it, but when the Ascendant—Eugene summoned the spirit souls formed from millennia of Half-Orc worship into the Material Plane, and Soren personally joined the battle as the God of Half-Elves.
This Divine War had already ignited.
Divine wars would not change due to the insignificance of the combatants’ strength; battles between weaker deities and weaker deities could similarly meet the standards of a divine war.
And when a divine war ignited!
Whether it be Prayer Weavers, spirit souls, Holy Spirit Apostles, or Otherworldly Divine Servants, once slain, they would truly have fallen!
………………(To be continued ~^~)
