1354 Birth of the Thunder God Part 2 (1/2)

Dante continued slaughtering the abominations. While all of them knelt on the ground shaking, Dante gave them a quick death. Saleen was actually pleased seeing Dante work: It was buying Saleen's party's time instead of the Evil Oracle.

Sometimes an unexpected event is all it takes to change the course of fate.

All of a sudden Dante started attacking the abominations proactively. Saleen never expected that to happen. The outcome was in his favor, as the Evil Oracle was only able to see Dante slaughtering their people while they were unable to do anything.

If they could stop and redo the whole thing again, it would have taken even longer.

The Evil Oracle cast a blob of gray mist from its fingertip in the form of an abomination and sent it charging at Dante. The Lightning Constellation's weapon spirit chose to evade this abomination rather than take it on.

Its current level of intellect enabled it to know that the Evil Oracle was simply trying to prevent the weapon spirit from killing more abominations instead of conjuring one to take out the weapon spirit.

The abomination conjured by the Evil Oracle had one-tenth of the Evil Oracle's powers. That was akin to the Evil Oracle snapping one of its fingers, but it would have still been better than going after Dante on its own.

Dante knew it looked horrendous at the moment. Its appearance kept changing as the golden granules were absorbed.

None of the mechanical parts could be seen anymore as the golden fluids coursed through its body. Now it could use any skills of the puppets or the powers of Lightning Constellation. Some of its abilities were also inherited from the giant.

Dante's body gradually shrank and started to look like the Evil Oracle instead, which in turn resembled a human youth with a pair of tiny horns on its head. Dante's horns, however, were molded after high-level thunder dragon's horns and filled with lightning magic patterns in layers inside out.

Even when the Lightning Constellation's power was not being used, electricity flashed between Dante's horns: This looked rather harrowing against Dante's golden facial features.

At the end of Dante's transformations, its armor resembled the robe worn by the Evil Oracle but was of golden colors. It still wasn't satisfied with its appearance though because its eyes were also transparent and golden.

Dante pondered this as it went about killing more abominations. Two complex thunder beads appeared in their eyes eventually. Black and white colors were clearly separated, making them resemble the eyes of the Qin people.

It was only after the transformation of its eyes was completed that Dante began to modify its robe. Billowing in the air, the robe appeared to be weightless but was imbued with the power of lightning.

The golden robe was transformed into black and white; there seemed to be embroidery of Cloudflow on it arranged in beautiful patterns. If those patterns were observed with the Elemental Eye, one could see that they were actually complex three-dimensional magic patterns.

Dante was pleased and changed its skin to white and its brows to black. Its long hair was of crisscrossing black and whites stripes, however.

Saleen's lightning was of only two colors: black and white. Despite the powers Dante came to control, it was still unable to transform all the golden granules' colors into some other colors.

In fact, such modifications were limited to its external appearance only. Lightning powers coursed through the external parts of its body, making it look like a person.

After its appearance was transformed, Dante turned around and brandished a weapon—a Thunder Dragon Blaster molded after Saleen's equipment.

This being was completely under Saleen's control; unlike Nailisi, it was a weapon spirit. The new Thunder Dragon Blaster on its arm was actually part of its body.

The Thunder Dragon Blaster was elongated, and the tip and the front were transformed into a true spear tip that was then twisted into the shape of a drill. On each side of the blade were seven tiny holes.

The spear was golden. Dante no longer bothered to change color before thrusting the spear at the abomination pursuing it. The abomination dared not take the attack head-on but instead retreated in a hurry.

Six electrical bolts fired from the spear hit the abomination squarely in the face.

It began to shake all over. When Dante went to fire another shot, that abomination had already been reduced to a puff of gray smoke.

The dispersed smoke wiggled about in the air and headed straight for Dante's butt.

Dante swept its spear around and conjured a ring of electricity to repel the smoke, which then groaned in pain. But instead of lingering, Dante pivoted and continued killing more abominations.

Aided by the lightning spear, Dante's killing speed intensified.

The Evil Oracle gave up after seeing that its clone was unable to take on that peculiar weapon spirit. It refocused its attention on its chants and didn't bother with Dante any longer.

Saleen felt something was off. Why isn't Lex coming for us?

It's not that she didn't want to come for them. The problem was that there were more and more abominations blocking the magic door: Over 200,000 were outside, and it was nearly impossible for her to kill that many abominations in order to get outside. After all, a level-10 mage couldn't cast that many powerful spells.

Although the God's Ring was useful, it only worked for a limited period of time. If Lex were to take on a powerful attack from one enemy, the ring would have enabled her to last only ten minutes.

That was not to say that the God's Ring power would have lasted longer simply because it had to repel low-level attacks instead.

All kinds of energy attacks were being fired outside the magic door as the abominations attacked.

There were also arrows, chariots, flying creatures and more.

None of those creatures was afraid of death. The claws of their feet dug deep holes as they ran on the ground, which was then filled with an evil aura. The entire magic door was being hammered by such an aura and was struggling to hold on.

It was actually such energies, unleashed when the abominations and evil creatures die, that would have brought the magic door down. That door didn't have noteworthy offensive powers, but its defensive abilities were formidable.