Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Watching from high up, a group of Serpentmen and a group of Murlocs were quickly approaching each other on a narrow beach.
Over a distance of about three kilometers, it only took about 10 minutes for both sides to spot each other. On the Murlocs’ side, around 600 Murlocs had come out from their nest. As for the Serpentmen, there were exactly 220 of them. Coupled with the fact that they were much larger than the Murlocs, they didn’t seem any smaller in terms of scale.
Based on the gap between the two races, logically speaking, it was impossible for 600 Murlocs to defeat more than 200 Serpentmen. 100 of them would have given the Murlocs a very hard time.
But now, they were in Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm. They had home ground advantage, and… the Salted Fish Spike.
When both sides arrived at less than 100 meters from each other, his real body appeared above the sky of the Murloc side of the battlefield and turned into a ginormous Murloc phantom that was shrouded in the golden light of Divine Power.
Lin Xiao’s incarnation, the Murloc leader immediately raised its weapon and shouted,”The Great Lord of the Mist is watching us. Charge forward, my children!”
At the moment he revealed his real body, all the Greymist Murlocs sensed it and raised their heads together.
At this moment, witnessing the God of their faith descending personally, the emotions of all the Murlocs became fervent. At this very instant, more than a hundred Murlocs turned from True Believers to Devout Believers, all Pan-believers became True Believers, and more than ten Murlocs turned into Fanatic Believers from Devout Believers.
Lin Xiao would have been ecstatic at gaining so many faithful believers normally, but this time, he couldn’t bring himself to be happy.
The reason being that, as his real body descended, a gust of willpower full of malicious intent had locked onto him.
Before this, although he was also staying within the Divine Realm, he was in another plane where only Gods could exist. He wasn’t in the material plane of the Divine Realm.
From that plane, he could observe the entire Divine Realm, and no matter where he went, no one would be able to see him. But now, from the plane where only Gods could exist, he had shown up in the material plane. This could be described using a term, ‘Real Body Descension’.
At normal times, nothing would happen if his real body descended. But having his real body descend during the current state of affairs would signify that his real body had participated in this battle of invasion.
Most importantly, he was being watched by another demigod, which was the gust of willpower brimming with malicious intent.
The Serpentmen didn’t appear out of nowhere. Even if they were summoned using a card, behind the portal was a plane ruled by the Serpentmen. That existence whom they refer to as Gelas was a Serpentmen demigod. It was now eyeing Lin Xiao, a new-born divine life.
Within the scope of the rules, it would have been impossible for Him to reach Lin Xiao. This was just a test after all, despite the fact that the Serpentmen were summoned from the plane where Gelas ruled.
But when Lin Xiao’s real body appeared in person, He sensed it immediately. According to the rules, if Lin Xiao’s real body participated in the battle, Gelas could attack him at will. These Serpentmen were an extension of his will. He could use these Serpentmen to attack Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao, as a new-born master of a Divine Realm who had received complete education on the theory of Godhood, he certainly was well aware of this. But he could not help it. If he wanted to emerge as the victor in this bonus test and didn’t wish to lose too many of his Spawn, he must take risks.
When the Serpentmen and Murlocs were approaching each other, Lin Xiao promptly extended his hand, probably to summon a tide as he did before.
There was a huge disparity in the effects of the Mystical Power ‘Tide Summon’ when it was called upon by his real body than his avatar. Expending the same 10,000 points of Worship Value to summon a tide, his avatar could only summon a tide spanning a few hundred meters, while his real body, on the other hand, was able to summon tides thousands of meters across. Rising up from the surface of the ocean, the waves gushed towards the battlefield.
Among the Serpentmen, a few of them that were probably priests raised their Bone Staffs simultaneously to cast a spell. Patches of red light bloomed, blessing every Serpentmen with Divine Techniques.
In the next second, an enormous wave blotted out the skies and instantly submerged the entire battlefield. Both the Murlocs and the Serpentmen were washed to the beach by the waters before inevitably slipping back into the shallows. The whole battlefield immediately turned from a sandy beach into shallow waters.
This area was the area extending from the beach to the ocean. The depths of the sea water extended from half a meter to one meter, and then to two meters.
The tall Serpentmen could barely stabilize their foothold by grasping onto the beach with their tails, while the Murlocs were completely submerged.
But Murlocs were amphibious creatures. They were more flexible in water than on land. Swiftly, they recovered from the impact of the tide. A Murloc rushed out of the water. When it saw a Serpentman who was swaying along the waves more than ten meters away in its front left, it immediately raised the short spear in its hand and aimed at the target. A large area of seawater exploded with a ‘bang’, and a white streak slit through the seawater towards the Serpentman at immense speed.
The strength of this Serpentman was indeed much greater than that of the Murloc. It quickly reacted and hissed while it stabilized its foothold. Holding an iron sword in both arms, it raised the sword high up and hurled it down violently.
“Slit!”
“Spllurgh!”
Two dull sounds of an item piercing through flesh sounded synchronously. At the same time, a large swath of blood splattered outwards, quickly dyeing a large area of the sea water red.
The Serpentman held the short spear that had completely penetrated its abdomen and took a step backward, while the Murloc was instantly cut into half by the Serpentman, perishing right on the spot.
A Devout Believer died, but Lin Xiao didn’t have the time to mourn. This was just the beginning. At that very moment, the Serpentmen and Murlocs who were disrupted by the wave he summoned enraged rapidly smashed into a ball.
In less than ten seconds, 70% of the more than forty Murlocs in the vicinity of the Serpentmen were killed, while the rest were severely wounded. However, more than 30 Serpentmen had been killed by the Murlocs with Salted Fish Spike before their deaths.
Lin Xiao’s incarnation in the form of a golden humanoid phantom sighed gently. The golden light behind his back erupted. Two golden angels flew out and opened up a door of light. He stretched out his right hand and pressed forward. Tiny Murloc phantoms rose up from the corpses of the dead Murlocs rapidly and vanished into the light behind his head.
The souls of these believers would be placed into the other plane of the Divine Realm, which was the plane where he was before.
If one were to say that the plane he was in now was the Divine Realm’s material plane, the other plane where a God’s real body would normally be would be the so-called Divine Kingdom. Upon death, all believers would enter that place and be transformed into Prayer Mergers, or… perhaps be reincarnated?
Yes, they would be reincarnated.
His place was a Divine Realm, not a Divine Kingdom.
When the believers of a True God of a traditional crystal shell die, they would enter a Divine Kingdom and immediately be converted into Prayer Mergers and be restored to the prime of their youth. Then, they would receive varying treatments based on the strength of their faith.
The lifespan of Prayer Mergers wasn’t infinite. It would remain the same as that of their race. It was just that they could live until old age without disease and disaster. Every time a Prayer Merger died, the entity would be weakened slightly. When the number of deaths grew too high, their consciousness would become blurry, and they would eventually become nutrients that would be assimilated into the Divine Kingdom.
However, the Divine Realms of the Civilization of Divine Beings in the Overworld were different. It integrated the function of Divine Kingdoms and the material plane, and even had the function of reincarnation added.
Firstly, those in the Overworld’s Civilization of Divine Beings were called New Gods. Unlike traditional Gods of crystal shells, their Divine Realms were considered a complex of the material plane and Divine Kingdom. A Divine Realm had two planes. With one plane being the material plane, the other plane was naturally the Divine Kingdom.
Living creatures live on the material plane. Upon death, they enter the Divine Kingdom.