Chapter 34: Gaze of Fear!
The outcome is already determined.
For a saint who is an avatar of a deity, even a slight opportunity is enough for Soren to erase any chance of a comeback from the enemy.
He would never give the demigod lich even the slightest chance.
So when the divine power shockwave erupted, Soren’s second wave of relentless attacks struck again. This time he activated the ability of [Epic Divine Power], adding extra divine damage to each of his attacks. This is the difference between a true god and a pseudo-god; Soren’s divine power completely suppressed the power of the demigod, and the energy containing divine profession laws directly ignored all saving throw determinations, acting on the enemy’s soul level in a manner akin to true damage.
Ah!
A piercing scream of the soul erupted.
The lich, as a powerful exempt high-level undead lifeform, finally could no longer withstand Soren’s attack. With divine power rapidly depleting, its body gradually shattered and collapsed, signifying that the demigod lich’s physical form was dying completely.
But!
Just this point was not enough.
The lich had preserved its soul and a bit of life within its life chest; even when killed by some powerful enemies, it could still be repaired through the life chest.
In such a situation, they would only be weakened for a time before being resurrected.
The lich died.
However, Soren did not receive any killing experience notification, indicating that the enemy was not completely dead.
—”Killing Domain!”
A powerful domain power was activated, Soren’s vision pierced through the barrier of the spirit world and suddenly swung his curved blade to slash at a distorted soul.
Killing the physical body is not enough to take down the lich; only killing the soul can completely eliminate the enemy.
“No!!!…”
An incredibly mournful scream echoed, the soul of the demigod lich was torn apart under Soren’s blade light. Divine power enveloped everything nearby, and the killing domain suppressed its soul, completely erasing any chance of escape.
At the same time.
With the soul of the demigod lich slain by Soren, a subtle crack suddenly appeared within an inconspicuous metal object floating in the astral realm, and it instantly shattered.
A clever and insane demigod lich!
It had actually cast its life chest into the astral sea with magic. If Soren did not have control over the killing domain, who could find its soul life chest in the vast astral realm and kill it completely?
Presumably.
The only possibility would be a one in a billion chance within the astral realm. Some special circumstance would need to destroy the life chest, which was no bigger than a palm and fortified with countless spells?
Without a death-related domain, even a deity wanting to kill the lich would likely only be able to seal the space to completely eliminate the soul.
And this would require at least medium divine power!
The lich was utterly dead.
At this moment, data notifications began to emerge before Soren’s eyes, and then countless soul fragments surged into his body, the divine radiance was also gradually absorbed by Soren.
A minuscule part was merged into the artifact curved blade in his hand; it was still not fully crafted and still had the potential for further growth.
“Killed the demigod lich!…”
“Extracted target’s soul energy!… You have gained 819,000 points of killing experience!…”
“The target possesses divine power!…”
“Extracted target’s divine power!… You have gained 5 points of divinity value!…”
“The target possesses divine tier power!…”
“Extracted target’s divine tier power!… You have gained 2 points of divine tier value!…”
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The first wave of data continuously appeared.
But it did not stop; new data notifications kept appearing below:
“The target possesses Gaze of Fear!…”
“Extracted target’s Gaze of Fear!… You have gained partial information about the fear domain!…”
“You have mastered a new ability—[Gaze of Fear]!…”
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“The target possesses death divinity!…”
“Divinity compatibility 81%!… Extracted and transformed residual death divinity power from the target!…”
“You have gained partial information about the death domain!…”
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The real rewards were still to come.
Soren could obtain the divine power and divine tier power provided by the demigod lich through other channels, but a legendary-level aura of fear and a single piece of information about the death domain were rewards that other enemies could not provide.
“Indeed, there are remnants of the God of Death’s power here!”
In an instant, Soren understood many things and realized why this demigod lich had remained here for decades. It must have been trying to merge with the death divinity in this place.
Ordinary mortals cannot merge with death divinity; undead beings have a natural advantage in this regard.
Otherwise.
Only beings like Soren, who mastered domains related to death—killing itself also originates from death.
“Gaze of Fear [Divine Domain]: You have mastered the power of fear. When activating the fear domain, all nearby enemies must undergo a forced saving throw; otherwise, they will fall into all negative states caused by fear, such as panic, fleeing, trembling, yielding, surrendering, etc. The difficulty of this saving throw is determined by your profession level, and divine power can lower or raise the probability of the enemy passing the saving throw.”
Gaze of Fear.
This is a power that many powerful evil deities, demons, and devils can master; nearly every archdevil possesses the ability of Gaze of Fear, using fear to enslave their minions.
Soren’s Gaze of Fear is evidently stronger. Because he himself possesses a trace of fear divinity.
With the acquisition of this powerful aura ability, the ‘Gaze of Fear’ (divine) that Soren originally possessed seemed to have disappeared; the power granted by this ability had already been merged into the Gaze of Fear.
The second aura-type ability.
Soren now possesses both evil aura and Gaze of Fear, all of which are area effects and have no consumption on himself, similar to the dragon pressure effect of high-level dragons.
A deity’s pressure can only activate in the saint form, but aura-type abilities have no such requirements.
“One evil aura, one Gaze of Fear.”
Soren looked at the lich’s corpse beneath his feet, rubbed his chin, and muttered, “It seems that I have already mastered both of the standard auras of evil deities.”
“I am indeed walking further down the path of evil deities!”
The battle ended.
Soren quickly cleaned up the battlefield; he didn’t have time to identify the things he found on the demigod lich’s corpse before heading down the passage to the lower level of the ruins.
If he remembered correctly, there was also a powerful Thousand Souls Head here.
Eliminating the Thousand Souls Head would count as a complete cleanup of this ancient ruin, and he was also very curious about what the demigod lich was doing in the depths of this ruin.
………………(To be continued ~^~)
