Chapter 580 (2/2)

That guy Satan had been hiding the truth all this time, quietly meditating, and had even actually made it to the legendary peak!

Having reached this conclusion, Leon couldn’t help blurting it out in surprise.

Everyone was naturally shocked by his words; only Sui Xiong and Satan exchanged looks and smiled.

“You saw through me so quickly, it really makes me feel like I’ve lost.” Satan laughed, shaking his head, the scent on his body suddenly changing. The wild feeling of power that the junior-legendary level had surrounded him with gradually calmed down, and it slowly settled into something like a silk robe enveloping his body.

This really was the legendary peak, the sign that one had hope of entering the demigod realm.

The crucial point for advancing from an average mortal to the legendary peak was that you needed to find your own path and break through mortal boundaries. This could certainly bring you formidable strength, but how to control that formidable strength would become a problem of its own.

More battle-inclined Legendary Masters were a little better-off, having strong enough bodies to accommodate this tremendous power. The situation was a little more awkward for mages, as their comparatively weaker bodies were definitely unable to handle that boundless typhoon-like might. Unless they suppressed it, this power would accompany them at all hours, turning their surroundings into a frantic whirlwind of magical power.

The more control you had, the milder your situation would be. The worst was like when Jose had first started; he was almost entirely unable to control his own power and every raise of the hand or every step he took destroyed everything around him. It was so bad that he even spat out fire when he breathed, just like a walking human flamethrower.

In the end, he’d spent an incredibly long stretch of time slowly acclimating himself to it before being able to barely count as having returned to a level where he could meet people. Even then, he’d often spit out fire by accident.

This is where the title “Red Flame Dragon” came from.

So to tame your magic power in its entirety, wearing it on your body as easily as a silk shawl was truly the ability of a master at the legendary peak. Forget the fact that he looked weaker, apparently lacking the power from when he was at the junior-legendary level. The truth was that this layer of magic held an astonishing amount of defensive power, to the point that even if you shot him at close-range with a heavy crossbow, you weren’t likely to even leave a scratch.

But this defensive power was nothing compared to Leon’s battle-oriented legendary peak. When a martial master reached the legendary peak, their bodies were already so strong that they surpassed most magical weapons. A certain character in a video game Sui Xiong once saw before he space traveled had a line he used with his ultimate move, and it could summarize this scene quite well.

That line was: “I am the bone of my sword.”

For example, unless he deliberately suppressed his own strength, Leon’s body was more unyielding than a large majority of holy soldiers’ weapons. If he wanted, he could copy the Sacred Sword technique used by Capricorn in Knights of the Zodiac at any time. Even cracking mountains in half with a karate chop was within his ability.

If he entered the demigod realm on top of that, he’d become stronger to the point that unless you used a magical object, your average holy soldiers’ weapons were about as useful against him as fighting empty-handed.

So aside from those lucky enough to obtain a magical object, most Demigod Masters generally went unarmed—or you could say that their bodies were their best weapon.

Leon was lucky; before he even entered the demigod realm, Sui Xiong helped him prepare all the weapons he needed.

Satan was the same.

As far as they were concerned, there was only one thing they needed to do now—strive to enter the demigod realm and truly obtain eternal, everlasting life.