1301 Leaving 1 (1/2)
The only two ways to gain Potential Points were to either hunt for Demon Cores, or to absorb souls.
Garen took the previously obtained Soul Crystal out from the Space Ring he wore on his nail. After deliberating briefly, he did not absorb the crystal directly. Even if he absorbed a few of these crystals, he would only get more than a dozen Potential Points. Compared with this small amount, he had better use for them.
Unlike the Demon Cores, this type of Soul Crystals had actual souls imprisoned within them.
He quickly checked through the fatally injured Suffering Knights and summoned creatures sent by the Lich.
”These guys, even though they were in such a rush, they still didn't forget to take back the cores. How stingy!” Garen silently checked though once more and found that these Suffering Knights and summoned creatures' cores were ripped away, only leaving its empty, body shells.
He dragged the two corpses of the Suffering Knights away and looted the most expensive and valuable parts of the other summoned creatures.
In this fierce battle, the Space Ring on his body was already on the verge of breaking. Although the Space Equipment was hailed as the toughest item discovered, it still could not withstand the strength of such a Level Nine or Ten battle. To be able to survive through the entire fight was already an astounding feat.
Carrying a pile of loot, Garen spread his wings and flew towards the direction of the whereabouts of the clan.
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Within the endless Void, there was a huge floating distorted palace.
The black color palace was constantly twisting around in shapes. Sometimes it seemed to be circular, sometimes square, and sometimes an extremely complex shape.
A white ring was slowly rotating around the palace. It was made up of countless white ants with wings. They all had human faces and sang while they orbited the palace.
The song they sang did not have any hint of rhythm, but it gave off a sense of mesmerizing illusory.
Inside the palace, on the edge of a green vortex, there were three tall stone pillars. Each of the pillars had one wide open eye, a bloodshot yet pale white eye.
They were staring at the center of the green vortex in front of them.
”Distortion Demon Master, our mission has been completed, now it's all up to you guys.” A calm, male voice said from one of the eyes of the three stone pillars.
”Our Void Army is not something free for you to sacrifice without any reason.” The green whirlpool let out a plain, female voice. They were using the standard Void Language.
”You people are in the Mother River, so you can manipulate and control more creatures near the Mother River. Thus, you should be the one in charge. Furthermore, I had already sent an Upper-Level Demon King to test out the waters.”
”This is not the time for bargaining, if we don't go all-out, our entire existence will soon be annihilated.” Another stone pillar urged on. The stone pillar's eye was shining in a hazy light.
”The Demon Masters we know is barely a fraction out of the Void. The Void is an endless abyss. There are still a lot of terrifying Demon Masters that we can't even hope to make contact. There are more of them than there is sand in the sea. We'll just have to deal with it as it comes.” The voice of another man sounded from the vortex.
”No matter how good your True Souls or our Demon Masters are, we're still actually not the real main force. When the time comes to take action, it is not up to us but the Void and the Mother River.” A child's voice rang out from the vortex.
”The Dimensional Crevice had already passed through the Crystal Wall System. A large number of the vanguard squad had already entered the Primary Plane and other planes.”
”The best channel of infiltration should be in the Ten Thousand Abyss Plains. That place is already chaotic enough with all the Demon Essence so they wouldn't care if we enter.”
”I think we should go for Purgatory, the creatures there are sly and cunning. Perhaps we can persuade them to join us. The Void and the Mother River are incomparably great, that universe can never beat us.”
”How to deal with the Gods? That is the key.”
”Gods?”
One of the True Souls sank down.
”I checked it out once. They are almost omnipotent and invincible in the Divine Kingdom. It's still doable if we were up against a Lower God, but a Middle God and the Upper God are going to be really difficult to handle.”
”The foundations of the Gods lies in the power of faith. We can initiate a war of faith to weaken them.”
”That's too slow. We can't afford to wait that long. The best solution is to lure out their Incarnations and Projections to exhaust their Divine Power.”
”How can we lure them out?”
”There are a few ways… The simplest one is to get a blasphemous Divine Soul with power that can overwhelm even the strongest of mortal existences.”
”To find an existence like that, I might have a good idea.”
For a moment, everyone fell silent.
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Heavens
God of Light and Fire's Divine Kingdom.
The Central Divine Kingdom was situated at the peak of the Mountain of Heavens. The whole Divine Kingdom was simply just a huge burning white flame on the top of the mountain.
The flames were eternal, constantly releasing a fearsome amount of light and heat. It was nearly half as large as the entire Primary Plane.
At the core of the flame, a huge crystal ball wobbled up and down slowly in the air.
There were rivers and hills within the crystal ball, countless creatures laboring in farms, angels with white and black wings patrolling in the sky, and even various Elemental lifeforms residing there.
Inside the crystal ball, at the center of it all was a huge and luxurious, pure white temple.