Chapter Twelve: Divine Power Value!
——“[Shadow] Domain!”
The best way to deal with domain abilities is to open another domain, causing the powers of both domains to collide and distort, ultimately leading to mutual interference. As Soren opened the Shadow Domain, the reflections around him suddenly overlapped, the light gradually dimmed, and everything within Soren’s domain seemed to take on a grayish hue. The scene was as if it had suddenly shifted from the Material Plane to the Shadow Plane.
“Zzzzz!”
A sharp tearing sound came through, the Mother Bug finally unable to withstand the pressure brought by Soren, took the initiative to attack.
The target was locked onto Soren.
Compared to others, Soren posed the greatest threat to it.
——“Sonic Attack!”
One of the most difficult types of attacks to defend against, Soren had no spells to defend against sonic type attacks and could only rely on his physical constitution and resilience to withstand it. He was relatively okay, but Ti next to him immediately bled from the corner of her mouth due to the impact.
——“Bind!”
The first to strike was the Demon Avatar. As one of the high-level demons, the Flame Demon was more reliable than many legendary meat shields.
Soren raised his hand and swung the Flame Whip, which immediately wrapped around the enemy in front of him, followed by the Demon Wings flapping as it dove closer to the Mother Bug, swinging the massive beheading sword down.
Clang!
The beheading sword, burning with fierce flames, stopped about thirty centimeters from the Mother Bug, blocked by a solid and invulnerable Spiritual Energy Protective Field. The Mother Bug’s body had deteriorated to the point where movement was difficult, replaced by a far stronger psychic ability. The strength of the Spiritual Energy Shield was somewhat frightening, showing no signs of yielding against the full strike from the Demon Avatar. However, under the burning of the flaming body, the Spiritual Energy Shield was continuously weakened.
This shield could protect against most of the damage.
But precisely because of this, the effect of the Flame Demon weakening the Spiritual Energy Shield was stronger than a frontal attack; the range covered by the Flame Demon was wide, and as it approached the Mother Bug, the area it scorched also expanded, meaning the Mother Bug’s Spiritual Energy Shield was effectively enduring multiplied damage.
——“Greater Acceleration!”
——“Brawn Bull Strength!”
——“Cat’s Elegance!”
——“Greater Dispel Magic!”
Soren’s speed of spellcasting had improved tremendously; blessed by the Goddess of Magic along with his mastery of the Arcane and skilled spellcasting ability, spells below the third ring were practically all instant-cast. The casting time of mid-level spells had also been reduced to about a second. He first cast a set of buffs on himself and then attempted to use Greater Dispel Magic to break the enemy’s other spiritual spells, but it appeared there was still a level difference in spellcasting, and Soren’s dispel magic failed.
There was still a layer of protective slant-type spell on the Mother Bug.
“Intimidation Palm!”
Relative to Soren’s and the Demon Avatar’s methods of attack, the Master of Fist, Ti, unintentionally exuded even more explosive power. As a Monk, she possessed techniques akin to striking a bull from afar. Ti’s Dark Ki specialty was definitely at the legendary level, combined with special combat skills, she pierced through the Spiritual Energy Protective Field and struck the Mother Bug.
A sharp and painful scream sounded.
Ti’s attack was blocked by the Spiritual Energy Shield, but the force seeped into the Mother Bug’s body, a series of electric sparks flickering in her palm.
——“Weakness Insight!”
Soren’s figure suddenly vanished from his spot, appearing the next moment amidst the Mother Bug’s massive shadow, accompanied by glimmers of cold light invisible to the naked eye. Soren swung the blade eighteen times in an instant, all hitting the same spot, and then a sound like the cracking of eggshells echoed in the air as Soren’s curved blade directly struck the Mother Bug’s body, splitting open a wound half a meter long.
Its body was very fragile.
It could be inferred that the Mother Bug had a long lifespan, but its bodily functions had severely deteriorated.
Bang!
A strong mental shock erupted.
Ti leapt up with a whipping kick, but it hit nothing but invisible air. Taking advantage of the Weakness Insight ability, Soren momentarily broke through the Spiritual Energy Shield, but that didn’t mean the shield had vanished—it rapidly repaired itself at an astonishing speed. Such energy protection methods were the most troublesome. If they couldn’t be broken, it was very difficult to attack the target’s true self.
——“Sunflare Style!”
——“Thunderfire Palm!”
As a Master of Fist advancing from the Eastern Kingdom, Ti clearly mastered combat techniques that Soren completely didn’t know about. The previous move, Sunflare Style, was familiar, but the subsequent Thunderfire Palm was unprecedented. All Soren could see were flickers of electric light suddenly flashing, accompanied by erupting flames directly encompassing over ten meters, seemingly a combat technique enhanced by equipment.
——“Blasphemous Words!”
——“Words of Decrepitude!”
Both Soren and the Demon Avatar cast the Words of Decrepitude and Blasphemous Words simultaneously, accompanied by the manifestation of evil spiritual light, both spells affecting the Mother Bug’s body at once.
——“Evil Aura!”
This was the first time Soren needed to activate his own spiritual energy capabilities in such a battle. Accompanied by a surge of power filled with dark evil, Ti immediately felt uncomfortable, her delicate brows furrowing as she took a few steps back. In contrast, at this moment, Soren’s and the Demon Avatar’s abilities were significantly boosted, relying on the domain-enhanced saving throws; Soren and the Demon Avatar continuously slashed at the Mother Bug, with artifact-level weapons still not fully crafted, but the damage was still beyond what ordinary beings could withstand.
Crack!
The sound of shattering crystals echoed, just as Soren, taking advantage of Greater Acceleration’s effects, frantically attacked the Mother Bug’s spiritual ability field, several unusual light purple crystals shattered.
“It’s broken!”
At that moment, Soren suddenly realized something and said solemnly, “This Mother Bug can actually utilize the power of these crystals, quickly shatter all of them!”
The crystals should have originated from the Arcane Empire.
They could be Arcane Crystals or something like Mana Crystals, but the exact name could not be recorded, as time had passed so long.
Crystals have always had good magical affinity and were widely used in various fields during the time of the Arcane Empire.
Similar crystals could be seen in ancient ruins at intervals, serving as important nodes for mana transmission, responsible for coordinating the entire city’s energy supply. As a high-end magical civilization, the Arcane Empire naturally had corresponding living standards, such as constant temperature spells, city-wide lighting systems, etc., all requiring magical energy supplies. These crystals were likely connected to some still-operational energy device within the ancient ruins; the Mother Bug relied on their power to maintain such a strong Spiritual Energy Shield.
——“Shatter Strike!”
Ti’s reaction time was also extremely quick. At the moment Soren was attacking the Mother Bug, she directed a palm toward a nearby light purple crystal.
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
As chunks of crystals shattered, the Mother Bug’s spiritual energy quickly began to decline, while the radiation levels within the hive dramatically decreased, at least to a degree that would not directly cause physical harm.
“Now go get the Philosopher’s Stone!”
As the Spiritual Energy Shield shattered completely, the Mother Bug posed virtually no threat.
A mound of flesh that could hardly move, if Soren, as a True God, couldn’t take it down, it would truly be a joke. However, to prevent accidentally having the kill stolen by Ti, Soren let her go first to retrieve the Philosopher’s Stone. This item held little significance for deities; extending life was a daunting task for mortals, but quite simple for gods. Neither Gloria nor the Fallen Witch really needed such things, and seizing this opportunity to build some rapport with the Eastern Empress wouldn’t be a bad idea.
The influence of the Eastern Empress extended throughout the Eastern Kingdom, and many monasteries had some form of interaction with her.
Centuries of built connections were not to be taken lightly.
“Okay!”
The Philosopher’s Stone was evidently very important to Ti; upon hearing this, she dashed over and retrieved the stone from a hexagonal ground crystal device.
A sudden transformation occurred!
At the very moment the Master of Fist, Ti, took the Philosopher’s Stone, the Mother Bug’s body began to rapidly age at an unimaginable speed, her skin and flesh visibly drying up.
It was as if trees were quickly dying.
The Philosopher’s Stone sustained the Mother Bug’s lifespan, and because of its existence, she was able to live from the time of the Arcane Empire to now, and give birth to so many offspring.
The lifespan of a hive mother was not particularly long, especially when needing to give birth to a large number of larvae.
The Mother Bug’s current longevity was primarily reliant on the life energy from the Philosopher’s Stone and due to this stone, the hive had remained stagnant nearby without migrating.
“Die!”
Naturally, Soren could not allow the Mother Bug to die of old age. Before her vitality completely waned, he returned to stab into her head.
Pfft.
A repulsive burst of blood spurted out, followed by a divine glow invisible to the naked eye appearing, gradually merging into Soren’s body.
A row of data floated before his eyes:
“Killed Mother Bug (Mutant)!…”
“Extracted target’s soul energy!…You gained 725,000 points of Killing Experience!…”
“Target possesses divine power!…”
“Extracted target’s divine power!…You gained 5 points of Divinity Value!…”
“Target possesses divine attribute power!…”
“Extracted target’s divine attribute power!…You gained 1 point of Divine Power Value!…”
………………
There was actually divine attribute?!
At this point, Soren was somewhat surprised because he managed to extract 1 point of divine power value from the Mother Bug’s corpse.
Divinity might be hereditary.
But divine attributes were almost impossible to be inherited by such a low-level Mother Bug; thus, the only explanation is that the Mother Bug’s divine power value had been gradually accumulated over the long centuries.
The Arcane Empire has been around for over a thousand years; the Mother Bug had condensed a bit of divine power value during that extensive time.
The origins of these bugs were probably not simple!
………………(To be continued ~^~)
