Chapter 17: Killing Steal!
In the realm of most deities, the otherworldly messengers responsible for regularly delivering souls to the God of Death in the Underworld are quite special. They are generally endowed with unique abilities by the gods, and inherit a trace of divine profession power. In the eyes of the God of Death in the Underworld, the messengers responsible for regularly receiving believers’ souls from the gods are evaluated not by their appearance but by the characteristics of their divine profession power and the marks upon their souls.
In simple terms, if Soren wants to create a messenger to regularly deliver souls to the Underworld, he must strip away a trace of his own divine profession, specifically the power of the “Half-Elf” divine profession, to leave as a mark on these messengers.
Only in this way will the death servants in the Underworld recognize the identity of these messengers. Otherwise, the God of Death System would not allow the messengers to take these souls. They must uphold the covenant with the gods to prevent some gods’ souls from being stolen by enemies.
Ordinary souls are not worth much. But what if it’s the soul of a legendary professionist believer? Some evil gods might even be willing to “change forms” to impersonate for these souls!
Because of this, there is another group of messengers in the divine realm specifically tasked with personally welcoming the souls of legendary professionists.
Under normal circumstances, a legendary professionist with faith, even if somewhat devout, can see the messenger of the deity they serve coming to guide them at the moment of their death. However, if their faith is generalized, it may be more difficult. For most gods, souls without firm faith, even if they were powerful in life, are not very useful, unless they are evil gods using souls for other purposes.
These six otherworldly messengers are all at the demigod level. They also possess a trace of the God of Hunt’s power, making them quite formidable. However, if they faced an ancient deity like Lady Silver Moon, they would naturally not have the upper hand.
The profession level of Lady of the Night is around 45. Lady Silver Moon is her old rival, and her profession level is probably similar, around level 45 as well! In contrast, Soren’s profession level is significantly lower. However, this is reasonable since Soren is just a newly risen god, while these two goddesses have existed since the material plane was created. Anyone who has lived that long would have a profession level above 40.
Boom!
The grand temple shook once more. Soren originally thought that Lady Silver Moon would have a steady upper hand, but to his surprise, both sides were evenly matched.
An ancient main god was surprisingly at a standstill with six messengers of weaker divine power.
This was truly bizarre!
Soren hid in the shadows and observed for a moment, quickly noticing something odd.
“An avatar?”
The entity that Lady Silver Moon had come here with was not her true self, but an avatar retaining about 70-80% of her power. This is a common tactic of ancient deities; they tend to be very cautious and usually only send their avatars unless absolutely necessary.
Speaking of which, Soren had yet to see Lady Silver Moon’s true self; each time he had encountered her, it was always her avatar.
An avatar has a maximum of 80% power.
According to profession levels, 80% of a level 45’s power would be around level 36. No wonder both sides were evenly matched! Since avatars cannot inherit many divine powers, they can only be counted as legendary professionists of level 36, and aside from having more legendary spells, many fields and divine professions cannot be utilized.
—”Hunt God Messenger *6!”
Soren roughly calculated that these six messengers likely possessed over 30 points of divinity value. The divine kingdom itself nurtures divinity. Many souls entering the divine realm gradually increase their divinity value over a process that may last for hundreds of years. Many holy spirits are gradually raised to the level of demigods; in the case of Mount Heaven, this means advancing to become greater angels or higher.
The God of Hunt has existed for thousands of years. Even accounting for the death of messengers, most remaining holy spirits have existed for hundreds of years. These Hunt God messengers were initially granted 1 point of divinity value by the God of Hunt—Mara—and then gradually elevated over a long time.
“Should I steal a kill?”
Soren thought for a moment and quickly decided to take action. However, at the moment he seized the opportunity to strike, he still shouted loudly, “Lady Silver Moon! I’m here to lend you a hand!…”
—“Shadow Leap!”
—“Shadow Assassination!”
—“Weakness Insight!”
—“Divine Power Shockwave!”
Everything happened in an instant. Soren made his move with over an 80% expectation of a killing blow, suddenly appearing near the Hunt God Messenger surrounding Lady Silver Moon. This Hunt God Messenger had already taken a hit from a legendary spell and was now stunned by Soren’s ambush, entering a state of near death. The legendary ability of Weakness Insight caused a massive blow, and the final Divine Power Shockwave effortlessly claimed the kill.
—“Shadow Hide!”
Since he had already decided to steal a kill, Soren didn’t care about maintaining appearances anymore. He just pulled off a successful attack.
Soren immediately activated the Shadow Assassin’s hiding ability and re-entered stealth right in front of these Hunt God messengers.
After all, he had the ‘Anti-Detection Cloak,’ so these enemies couldn’t see him.
“It’s you!”
With the Hunt God Messenger killed by Soren, the pressure on Lady Silver Moon instantly lightened. She raised her hand to cast a high-level energy shield on herself, then implemented a short-distance teleportation spell.
Soren’s appearance was not surprising.
Just as Soren wasn’t shocked to see Lady Silver Moon entering this divine kingdom.
Initially, she intended to temporarily disengage from the battle after noticing Soren’s action, allowing him to draw away a few enemies. However, she didn’t expect Soren to go invisible after his kill, making her earlier plan to relieve pressure instantly fall through. She had no choice but to grit her teeth and continuously cast spells to endure.
The two sides still had a relationship. However, they also couldn’t deny that they were not perfectly aligned!
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The battle continued.
However, Soren was not in a hurry. As one of the ancient deities, even if Lady Silver Moon’s avatar appeared, it wouldn’t be so easily killed, so he patiently waited for her to severely injure an enemy before making a move.
Stealing kills.
Soren needed the divinity and divine power of these otherworldly divine servants.
As for Lady Silver Moon’s purpose, she likely wanted to restore her divine power, as she was already back to a state of “Medium Divine Power,” with both her divinity value and divine power value being far higher than Soren’s. In ancient times, she was very close to the existence of “Great Divine Power,” while the Goddess of Magic (Strong Divine Power) and the Lord of Storms (Strong Divine Power) were both born from the battle between her and the Lady of the Night.
The divinity and divine power from these otherworldly divine servants likely wouldn’t be much in her eyes.
At least it wouldn’t have too much of an enhancement effect for her!
The Saint’s Cataclysm stripped her of all divine power values when Lady Silver Moon fell. This was the realm of the God of Hunt—Mara, where the divine power in this realm is highly compatible with her divine profession.
Lady Silver Moon likely entered here to supplement the divine power values she had lost.
Now everyone’s divine power values started from zero.
If Lady Silver Moon could restore hundreds or thousands of divine power values from this fallen divine kingdom, she would surely hold a significant advantage in future confrontations against enemies.
Soren wasn’t mindlessly stealing kills!
He knew for certain that what Lady Silver Moon needed most was divine power, which is why he dared to steal kills so brazenly. Worst case, when he acquired the divinity and divine power, he could hand over the divine power stored in the temple to Lady Silver Moon.
Soren had also helped her.
As one of the ancient goddesses, Lady Silver Moon wouldn’t start a war with him over a mere divinity and divine power, right?
She was merely appearing as an avatar.
Soren’s true self was right here; if it came to a real fight, the outcome would still be a toss-up!
—“Sunflare Explosion*3!”
This was Soren’s first time witnessing an ancient-level deity’s avatar in action.
And also one of the few times he encountered someone with a profession level above 35 in battle. Lady Silver Moon’s casting ability was simply incredible, with spell slots that would give anyone a headache.
High-level spells like Sunflare Explosion, she was able to cast instantly!
And she cast three at once.
In terms of casting ability, Lady Silver Moon’s avatar was likely stronger than the Princess of Arendelle.
However, this goddess clearly leaned more toward spellcasting battles, unlike Lady of the Night, who was at the top tier in melee combat as well.
Of course, Lady Silver Moon wasn’t incapable of melee combat; even pure wizards nowadays know a few staff skills, wielding their wands with remarkable fluidity. Lady Silver Moon naturally had good abilities in melee as well.
Her artifact is called the **Staff of the Fourth Moon**.
It sounds like a staff or a club, but if you think that is a mistake, it’s a huge misunderstanding.
This artifact is classified as a **Heavy Hammer**!
That’s right.
Now, goddesses are increasingly violent, using artifacts that are either snakehead whips or hard hammers; otherwise, they’ll wield all kinds of extremely violent and brutal special weapons. It would be embarrassing for a god who uses conventional weapons to even greet these goddesses!
Soon, another Hunt God Messenger entered a near-death state.
Soren wasn’t surprised to appear this time; instead of performing a series of attacks, he directly used his divine power abilities.
—“Hand of Death!”
Mastering the divine ability granted by the **Death** domain, it is similar to the ‘Edict: Death,’ allowing him to ignore saving throws and directly kill some targets.
In addition, Soren had the special ability of ‘Profane Words.’
The effect is also direct annihilation, but it is only effective against enemies close to a near-death state with very low life force.
Speaking of which, Soren now realized he had mastered quite a few kill-stealing abilities!
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