Chapter 1306 - God’s Chosen and the Incredible Church National Treasure (1/2)

In the torn-up battlefield, the second living Mechanical Deity appeared. The weapons and equipment it had were almost exactly the same as Han Xiao’s Mechanical Deity, like a carbon copy of him.

This replica Mechanical Deity had a poker face and stood opposite Han Xiao. Powerful energy was released from its body continuously.

This startled countless galactic residents, and their shocked eyes all focused on Wuornos.

“Another new Beyond Grade A? I don’t seem to recall seeing this person before.”

“What ability is this? Seems strong…” “I know this guy! He’s the Arcane Church’s Grand Priest!”

Countless galactic residents opened their eyes wide. The extinguished hope in their hearts was rekindled.

Among the Beyond Grade As, Wuornos was an oddity. He rarely fought others or appeared in public, nor did the Arcane Church promote him. His presence in the outside world was not high at all. Without deliberately searching for his information, ordinary people would not even know he existed in the universe. However, in the Beyond Grade A circle, he was recognized by all as the strongest.

Seeing Wuornos arrive, Oulou heaved a sigh of relief but was also a little unhappy.

“You’ve finally decided to come. I thought you’d just watch till the end.”

Tsk, we’ve been exhausting ourselves and fighting Han Xiao for six days and six nights. Did you deliberately only now join us to ‘turn the tide’ alone?

Wuornos looked around at the many direct members, sighed, and said, “You guys have fought hard. I’ll take it from here. Go and rest.”

“You still want to fight him alone?” Clotti frowned.

“I don’t like to bully the few.” Wuornos shook his head. “You think we like it?” Clotti frowned. “This is an order from above. If you join the fight, we’ll have the highest chances of taking down Black Star. Aren’t you too cocky to want to fight him alone now?”

Wuornos glanced at him and calmly said, “Earlier, I was given an absolute order to help, but I told them I won’t join the fight unless I’m fighting alone. They agreed. If you have objections, you can convey them to the Crimson Dynasty’s Ruler. If you guys don’t need help, I’ll be going back to the ship.”

Clotti frowned, opened the channel, and shared a few words with the dynasty’s upper echelons. He then gave Wuornos a deep look, turned around, and flew back to the main ship without saying a word.

The others also received orders from above, glanced at Wuornos with complicated looks, and left the battlefield.

Suddenly, other than the wreckages everywhere, Han Xiao and Wuornos were the only two people left on the battlefield.

Han Xiao had been watching on the side. Seeing that the other direct members had left, his eyes gleamed, and he said, “Your ability is interesting.”

Wuornos did not respond to this. He changed the topic and said slowly, “I’ve been observing you for the past seven days. You’re probably already half a step into the higher territory. I’m not someone who likes to fight. If possible, I really wouldn’t want to fight you, but…”

This time, Han Xiao waved his hand and interrupted him.

“We don’t know each other. You don’t have to explain anything to me. Many people have been saying you’re recognized as the strongest Beyond Grade A. I’ve always wanted to see how strong you are personally.”

He turned to look at the other living body Mechanical Deity, narrowed his eyes, and said, “I have to say, with this ability, you can indeed be considered the ‘strongest’. However, a fake will always be just that, a fake.”

When Wuornos used his ability earlier, a notification had popped up on Han Xiao’s interface too. It showed that he was affected by an ability called [God EmbodimentGranted). Although the ability worked, it did not deal any damage to him or any debuffs.

Planning ahead, before the Mechanical Race territory was surrounded, he had already expected that he might have to fight Wuornos. Hence, he had asked about the detailed intelligence of this person from Kasuyi and the others, finding out that ‘granting Gods’ was one of Wuornos’ abilities. He could materialize the concept of some ‘Gods’ into powerful physical forms, which were called ‘God Embodiments’.

The God Embodiments were independent from their original body, usually called by the name of the original God. They had the various abilities the original ‘God’ conceptually had but not all of them. The number of abilities and their power were not only related to Wuornos’ strength but also the number of believers that worshipped this ‘God’ and the depth of their faith.

However, the targets Wuornos could grant also included anything that was deified. Therefore, peak Beyond Grade As who were going through the God’s Trait Transformation were also included. When the target of the granting was not a ‘concept’ but something with physical form, the God Embodiment would then be able to inherit the target’s most strength and abilities, even without believers of faith.

According to the upper echelons of the association, if they were to fight Wuornos, they would have to first face a mirrored version of ‘themselves’ while at the same time fight with Wuornos’ other God Embodiments. This was one of the reasons he was recognized by all as the strongest; he would become stronger against stronger opponents.

Furthermore, what was more disgustingly strong was that, if a God Embodiment that had a physical original body was destroyed, the damage would be reflected back to its original body. This meant that when peak Beyond Grade As killed their mirrored ‘self’, they would suffer damage too.

A few Ancient Ones shared a secret. Very long ago, Wuornos’ success rate of granting Gods was limited, and it did not work every time. However, Wuornos’ ability was nothing short of a perfect fit with the Arcane Church. After being given many Universal Treasures related to his ability by the Arcane Church and forming strong Soul Links with them, the success rate of his granting ability was fixed at a hundred percent. In the players’ terms, this basically meant that the judgement process was skipped.

The Universal Treasures given to him also included a core treasure seen by the Arcane Church as their ‘National Treasure’. It could be said to be the foundation of how the Arcane Church united all the religions in galactic society. Wuornos matched with it perfectly, as if he was born for it.

The only good news was that when the interface showed he was ‘Granted’ one time, it also showed that he received a prolonged immunity to it. This meant that Wuornos could not continuously ‘Grant’ the same target in a short time. Plus, the time the God Embodiments could exist also had limits.

Even with Han Xiao’s knowledge, he had to say that Wuornos’ ability was extremely powerful, almost like a cheat, like himself! Scary, this ability is somewhat like a weird version of the Character Summon Cards…

Han Xiao was surprised.

Seems like we’re both professional cheaters… Our battle will be legendary!

As all kinds of information flashed past his mind, Han Xiao’s movements were no slower. He gathered the remainder of the mechanical army and launched attacks at Wuornos.

At the same time, controlling the Mechanical Deity, he charged forward and struck with his spear.

At this time, another mechanical spear stopped in the path of Han Xiao’s spear, the tips of the spears clashed.

Bang! A powerful psionic shockwave erupted, the two spears stacked together and stopped each other.

“Your opponent is me.”

The fake Mechanical Deity with Wuornos’ face spoke coldly.

“Yo, you can even speak.”

Han Xiao’s eyes gleamed. He suddenly twisted the handle of the spear. The spear started spinning rapidly. Tremendous energy erupted and instantly pushed the other spear away. Then, like a drill, it penetrated into the fake Mechanical Deity’s chest. Compressed psionic energy gushed out from the tip of the spear, launching flesh and metal everywhere.

However, like it had no sense of pain, the fake Mechanical Deity instantly retaliated, swinging its heavy spear forward. Seeing this, Han Xiao pulled back his spear and blocked it. Blinding electronic arcs exploded from the point of contact, and the powerful force pushed Han Xiao back.

Han Xiao looked up and saw that the fake Mechanical Deity had a gory wound on its chest that almost went all the way through his body. However, the next moment, the flesh and machines near the wound started to move and slowly grew back.

Han Xiao tutted. “Tsk, as expected, it’s as difficult to kill as me.”

His own extraordinary regenerative ability was also duplicated by this God Embodiment. The fake Mechanical Deity had an Indestructible Body. Only a few abilities were not duplicated. Although its strength was a lot weaker than him, from the way it looked, it definitely had an Energy Rank above ten thousand. It was stronger than top-tier Beyond Grade As like Clotti and Oulou, definitely capable of fighting him.

At the same time, the Apostle Weapons who were all wounded started to focus fire at Wuornos’s original body, and attacks rained like a storm.