The Era of Gods Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Frightened

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However, before he could relax, the last Serpentman Priest abruptly gave up resistance. From his waist, he drew out a gemstone-embedded Bone Dagger carved into the shape of a snake’s tail, and stabbed it into his chest. The Bone Dagger immediately glowed a blood-textured golden light. The two eye-like gemstones embedded on the handle of the dagger lit up, and a suffocating aura emerged out of nowhere.

“Psss!”

The Serpentman Priest hissed at the skies. His pupils darkened. Threads of darkness flew out of his eyes like slithering snakes, quickly squirming toward the surrounding corpses of the deceased Serpentmen, and then swiftly returned to the body of the Serpentman Priest with the souls of the Serpertmen enmeshed.

As the souls of the Serpentmen assimilated into his body, the Serpentman Priest’s aura quickly bulged. A deterring aura that only a demigod could have created gradually emerged and grew hastily.

“Holy crab cakes, is this the descension of a demigod?”

Being a God himself, Lin Xiao immediately knew what this meant.

With this Serpentman Priest as the media, the demigod behind these Serpentmen forcefully funneled a portion of his Divinity into Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm in an attempt to agglomerate an incarnation.

Evidently, this Serpentman Demigod was eyeing Lin Xiao, a new-born divine life. With this method, He wished to hunt him down and kill him across the boundary of realms.

Should a regular divine life have encountered such a situation, there was a high chance that they would have to grovel on their knees. Demigods weren’t just a little stronger than divine life. Even with just an incarnation, demigods could easily crush almost every divine life.

Unfortunately for the Serpentman Demigod, Lin Xiao was attending school. He was a student. When he was in class, the purpose of having a teacher to watch over him was precisely to prevent these kinds of accidents.

In this situation, all he had to do was to calm down, and then…

“Save me, Sir!”

“Preposterous!”

A deafening roar sounded from above the horizon. Like a mountain, a golden finger descended from the empyrean and pressed onto the Serpentman Priest that was taking shape.

As if it could feel this deadly threat, the black vapor that had enveloped the Serpentman Priest quickly retracted and condensed into a dark, eggshell-like barrier. A hideous countenance of a Serpentman appeared on the barrier and roared furiously at the skies.

Then, the golden finger pressed further downwards. Inch by inch, the eggshell crumbled. The Serpentman Priest, whose appearance had greatly altered, collapsed in on itself, leaving behind a flickering speck of golden light hovering in mid-air, emitting ripples of Divine Power which Lin Xiao couldn’t help but drool at.

That was 1 full point of Divinity which the Serpentman Demigod sent across realms in order to condense an incarnation. Now that both his incarnation and will had crumbled, only the 1 point of Divinity remained.

A ray of golden light flew out from the golden finger and entangled the wisp of golden light. While Lin Xiao subconsciously reached out his hand and sighed, the golden finger flew away after a momentary pause.

After a while, class teacher Wu Hai’s voice sounded in his ears, “By all reason, this 1 point of Divinity was produced in this placement test. It should belong to you. However, with your apparent power level, it would have been impossible for you to defeat the incarnation of a demigod. According to the rules, you have failed this bonus test. However, as the demigod’s incarnation is classified as an accident that is beyond the scope of the bonus test, I will take the power of Divinity, while I will consider you passing the test. The Divine Realm card belongs to you.”

“Sigh!”

Lin Xiao made a big sigh. This was within his expectations.

But after all, that was 1 full point of Divinity. Watching it disappear just as it appeared really did hurt.

In the climb from being a divine life to a demigod, the most crucial thing was Divinity. That was the nature of a divine life. The more powerful one’s Divinity, the greater the Divine Power one could wield, and the bigger one’s Divine Realm could be. In particular, when a divine life transformed into a demigod, they would need a Divine Role, and in order to assume a Divine Role, one required a sufficient amount of Divinity.

The greater one’s Divinity, the greater the number and power of the Divine Roles one could assume.

Lin Xiao only had 1 point of Divinity as of now. Even Yuan Hong, the strongest in his class, only had 2 points of Divinity. In order to become a demigod, the minimum standard was 5 points of Divinity.

Normally, it was imperative for one to accumulate 100 million points of Worship Value, coupled with a certain amount of Divine Power, to even be able to attempt to agglomerate 1 point of Divinity. What’s more, they could even fail in the process.

That was a whole 100 million points!

Lin Xiao felt as if 100 million points had slipped past his hands.

But he couldn’t do anything about it. No matter what perspective one looked at it from, that 1 point of Divinity didn’t belong to him.

Fortunately, he had passed the bonus test, and that Divine Realm Card would belong to him, which was a pretty great thing.

At this point, this bonus test was over for him. Now was the time to clean up the aftermath.

The wounded Murlocs returned to the tribe, while those that weren’t cleaned up the battlefield, moving the corpses of the deceased Murlocs, including their weapons, aside, and then transporting all the Serpentmen corpses back to the tribe and piling them up.

More than 200 Serpentmen and 300 Murlocs perished in the battle, and their bodies piled up into mountains.

At present, there were only a little more than 200 Spawn alive in the Divine Realm, a massive plummet in numbers over an extremely short period of time. Fortunately, all the remaining Murlocs were basically of the type that had double fertility and survival rate. There was still half a month until the finals would arrive. With more than 20 years, it was enough for them to rebuild their numbers.

Gazing at these two mountains of corpses, as the weather by the shore would prime the corpses to decay, Lin Xiao intended to burn them.

However, at the moment when he was about to do so, he suddenly got a flash of inspiration. Could he do something with his Creation Cube?

He couldn’t get past the 1 point of Divinity. He couldn’t do anything because it didn’t belong to him. This made him feel a little gloomy, feeling that he had suffered a loss. Hence, he wished to earn back something.

He was thinking that, since the Creation Cube had the functions of Decomposition, Extraction, etc., and was capable to decomposing and extracting the core of cards, could it decompose these corpses and refine something out of them?

Since these corpses were of no use and would be burnt anyway, why not try this idea of his to see if whether it worked?

It would be fine if it didn’t. But if it did work…

He acted without delay. He raised his head and glanced at the sky. At the moment, his class teacher and tutor had already departed, and there was no one beyond his Divine Realm.

He flew on top of the pile of Serpentmen corpses and extended his right palm. A golden circle of light quickly expanded and fell, enclosing the mountain the Serpentmen corpses.

When the golden light hoop devoured the pile of corpses and closed in once again, the 200 plus Serpentmen corpses had disappeared.

Then, with the same exact method, he devoured the corpses of the Murlocs on the other side.

While he was doing so, he didn’t forget to let the Murloc leader shout at the side, “The Great Lord of the Grey Mist is here to deliver our brave warriors to His kingdom and cast the evil invaders into the bottomless abyss.”

As an excellent student with a perfect score in Theory of Gods, tricks to maximize the faith of his believers had almost become instinctive for him. Once he opened his mouth, bullcr*p would naturally pour out.

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Amid the enthusiastic cheers of his believers, Lin Xiao’s real body rose into the sky and returned to the Divine Kingdom.

He had nothing in his Divine Kingdom at the moment. Compared to his Divine Realm, with its mountains and waters, his Divine Kingdom was no more than a field of chaos.

As a New God of the Overworld who was different from the traditional Gods, the core concept was about having a Divine Kingdom that was integrated with the material plane. In a two-planed Divine Realm, the area of the Divine Kingdom was equivalent to the area of the Divine Realm’s material plane. How big the material plane was affected how big the Divine Kingdom could be.

But for a newly established Divine Realm like Lin Xiao’s, developing the material plane was already enough work. He didn’t even have enough Worship Value to use on himself, how would he have Worship Value to spare to decorate his Divine Kingdom?

Hence, although his Divine Kingdom was as massive as his Divine Realm, its actual area was only the size of a football field. There was only a simple palace. He and his real body both resided in the core of the palace. Outside the palace, there were about a dozen Murloc Prayer Mergers standing guard as a decoration for the palace’s façade.