End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1167

Chapter 1167: Two Souls

Morgan was puzzled, and he wasn’t the only one. The others had the same thought process as Morgan and ended up concluding that Lin Yun probably hadn’t been the one to kill them.

After all, in the Abyss, strength was directly related to the Demon they had reincarnated as. Whether they were powerful or weak depended on their Demonic Bloodline. Although this wasn’t absolute, it was the most important factor.

Since Lin Yun helped Slythrin protect his body, that meant that he definitely didn’t care about their previous grudge, or at the very least, he took the big picture into consideration. Birbo and the others had to have died in the Abyss due to terrible luck.

Clombton occasionally looked at Lin Yun with an admiring gaze, and even Cross felt that Lin Yun was a lot more pleasing to the eyes.

No one doubted Lin Yun aside from Slythrin, who knew the truth, but he stayed hidden within the group.

In any case, the mages of the Quicksand Tower were like that to begin with. They felt disinclined to speak when there were many people.

Slythrin looked at Morgan approaching Lin Yun and heard him say that it was a shame that he hadn’t taken advantage of the Abyss to get rid of the few people that would make a move against their own allies.

Morgan had lowered his voice, but Slythrin had definitely heard his words, and cold sweat was slowly trickling down his forehead. Fortunately, his robe was covering his face and his body was still covered in a layer of sand, so no one noticed.

‘Damnit, that simple-minded Morgan. Sh*t, he would have still been a puny Archmage that wouldn’t have advanced within a few decades if he hadn’t been hugging Mafa Merlin’s thigh.

‘Mafa Merlin didn’t kill them?

‘What a joke! How could those guys call themselves Heaven Rank powerhouses then? Even as a weak Demon, they should still have the ability to escape from danger. It’s not like a Demon Overlord was waiting for them as they awakened.

‘Apart from a terrifying guy like Mafa Merlin, could those greedy, brutal, selfish, and death-fearing Demons be able to kill those capable Heaven Rank powerhouses?

‘Of those poor unfortunate souls, three of them were Mafa Merlin’s enemies. Their deaths are definitely related to Mafa Merlin!

‘Dubois lost his reputation as a mage and became the mount of a Demon before being eliminated by Mafa Merlin. As for Birbo and that Bronze Beastman, although it’s unclear, it must have been related to Mafa Merlin.

‘I was able to live because I lowered my head and didn’t recklessly provoke Mafa Merlin like these idiots.

‘Is Mafa Merlin that simple? Those stupid guys didn’t even think about whether Mafa Merlin would initiate a deadly counterattack.

‘I heard that he could already burst out with the strength of a Heaven Rank powerhouse when he was an 8th Rank Archmage… And now he is already a Peak 9th Rank Archmage, ready to step into the Heaven Rank at any time.

‘Once this guy steps into the Heaven Rank, 1st Rank Heaven Mages would be like harmless babies in front of him. He would only need to use a little bit of strength to get rid of them.

‘Moreover, he was able to summon his Magic Tools with his soul in the Abyss. Damn, how did that come about? I’ve still yet to figure it out.

‘But who cares? In any case, Mafa Merlin already let me off, so I need to have a very good relationship with him in the future. Who knows what path this terrifying guy will take in the future?

‘From what I’ve seen, my nephew, who I hadn’t seen for so many years, must have taken the initiative to provoke Mafa Merlin. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been killed.

‘Whatever, I have no idea anyway. I managed to survive, and those guys deserved to die…’

With Slythrin alive, no one thought that the deaths of those people had been caused by Lin Yun. Lin Yun had a chance to kill Slythrin but hadn’t done so, helping everyone instead.

The fall of six Heaven Rank powerhouses didn’t really decrease their group’s strength. Instead, the fourteen Heaven Rank powerhouses were brimming with power, and their overall power now might even be stronger than their previous team of 20.

Each person’s fighting strength had increased by at least 10%, and with the fourteen of them, their group was definitely stronger than before.

Especially Clombton and Cross… These two showed some faint signs of being on the verge of advancing to the 4th Rank. And they could already completely crush their previous selves now.

After all, after entering the Heaven Rank, a little gap would tilt the balance between victory and defeat.

The Fog of Rebirth had lost its effect on them. Or it might be better to say that as long as their souls didn’t take the initiative to come into contact with the Fog of Rebirth, this place would only be a foggy area.

They continued towards the depths of the Holy Mountain and didn’t walk far before they faintly heard two voices quarrelling.

Those two voices apparently had a hint of the Laws, and they ignored everyone’s defenses as they spread and directly pierced their bodies, pouring into their souls.

Faintly, it felt as if souls were mumbling beside their own souls. Every quiet voice seemed to contain terrifying Laws that they couldn’t understand. It seemed like the words they spoke represented the Laws!

Everyone was alarmed, and Lin Yun was also surprised

They promptly sped up and rushed out of the Fog of Rebirth. Once they were out, they reached the deepest part of the Holy Mountain. This place had once been filled with the strongest power of the Raging Flame Plane and was the closest place to the origin of the plane. It had been filled with abundant mana.

There was a huge ancient temple there. The Raging Flame Beastmen had been willing to use plenty of precious metals and materials to construct this temple and a bunch of great shrines in the depths of the Holy Mountain.

But this place had completely changed. The biggest temple and those shrines had disappeared.

The surroundings seemed to have turned into a vast starry sky, and a huge throne stood there. The throne was at least a kilometer in height and three to four kilometers wide.

When looking closely at the materials used to construct the throne, the remains of many shrines could be seen.

The shrines and the temple had been destroyed, and they had been made into an incomparably huge throne filled with a dense, sinister power. The remains of the temples were chaotically assembled, and if one were to look carefully, they would discover an incomprehensible and terrifying power within.

It seemed to be an extremely complex rune, and there was an even stronger power. Lin Yun carefully looked at the throne, but he didn’t dare to throw a second look. He even caught a faint aura that nearly made the Magic Array explode from its own computing ability.

This wasn’t the most frightening part. The most frightening aura came from the huge shadow sitting on the throne.

A lofty figure was sitting on the enormous throne. His height made it impossible for everyone to look above his chest, as his head seemed to have already pierced through the endless void. A part of the void was enveloping that area, and it looked like he had no head.

His skin was ashen black, and it looked like he had been sitting there since the river of time started flowing, as the dust covering his body had turned into solid rock.

Black smoke curled around most parts of his body. He was just sitting there, calmly towering above the world.

Everyone felt very small as they looked at his body, and this feeling became more and more intense as time passed. An indescribable despair and sense of powerlessness flooded their souls.

‘God!

‘That’s the Ancient God! The body of an Ancient God that has been slumbering for who knows how many years!

‘The body of the 73rd God!’

Lin Yun glanced at the 73rd God’s body again and couldn’t help moving his gaze away, not daring to keep looking.

There was almost no power leakage coming from the God’s body, but it was already so powerful that he didn’t have the qualifications to look upon the God’s appearance.

It wasn’t that the 73rd God’s head was squeezed into the endless void, but rather, the 73rd God’s power was too great, and their eyes simply couldn’t see through the faint power released by the God to see his appearance.

Lin Yun’s mind shook.

He used to think about how powerful the Gods had been, but now, the body of an Ancient God was in front of them. Even if it had only been slumbering for countless years and was barely emitting any power, Lin Yun still didn’t have the qualifications to gaze upon his appearance.

This God’s body was only a body without the most important soul. To a living God, facing this body was the same as facing an ordinary magic beast.

But it was already powerful to that extent.

After looking at this God’s body, everyone, including Clombton and Cross, had already given up on destroying the God’s body.

How ignorant had they been to want to destroy a God’s body? It was like ants wanting to destroy the Holy Mountain. This was a huge joke.

The God’s body was here, but who would have thought that they would simply be unable to destroy the body? It was simply impossible.

The fourteen most powerful Heaven Rank powerhouses of the Raging Flame Plane stood at the entrance of this seemingly boundless world, foolishly taking glances at the body of the Ancient God.

Up until an angry shout roused them.

“Enough! You have already gone insane! How could you think of destroying the world!?”

A voice full of dignity exploded there, or it could be said to be exploding within everyone’s souls. No one could make out the difference.

But then, a sinister voice full of madness and wickedness echoed.

“Why can’t the world be destroyed? I’m only destroying this loathsome world. This is what we should be doing.

“We could have been born smoothly, but we ended up like that because of this damned world. Destroy it, we have to destroy it! Only by destroying it will I be able to get free.

“Destroy, must destroy, destroy it, destroy it…”

The wicked voice full of madness crazily echoed. That voice revolved against that huge God’s body, and it was filled with boundless power.

The space surrounding the God’s body was like a mirror being shattered, bursting into countless fragments as an aura of destruction enveloped the God’s body.

There was now a large void space around the God’s body, but the shattering space simply couldn’t cause the body any harm. Because of the pressure of the God’s body, the shattered space could only revolve around the body, and no power leaked.

From outside, it was like all the destructive power was forcibly trying to tear the God’s body apart, but the God’s body was bearing all that power.

Cold sweat slowly trickled down Lin Yun’s forehead as he sized up that boundless void world that looked like a starry sky.

‘God Nation, this place is that damned 73rd God’s God Nation!

‘Everything here was birthed because of that 73rd God, and he is equivalent to being the only celestial body in this boundless starry sky.

‘His huge body might be a lot bigger than we think. Everything here, even the space, seems to have been attracted by his body. The huge gravitational force suppressed everything and made the space here unshatterable!’

No one dared to say anything after entering this place. They were all pale, and they calmly stood at the edge of the starry sky, waiting for those two voices carrying endless power to continue speaking.

“Have you forgotten what happened to us? Damned guy, why are you still not dead?! Damnit, damnit, damnit…”

The sinister and crazy voice kept shouting as the black smoke covering the surface of his body transformed into terrifying and malevolent demonic heads that let out crazy roars.

The restored space around the God’s body collapsed once again, and those large demonic heads containing terrifying power were shattered into fragments alongside the restored space.

The power that was capable of tearing Heaven Rank powerhouses to pieces was instantly suppressed by the God’s body. It fell onto the God’s body, but it was like a gust of wind falling onto steel.

The dust accumulated on the God’s body hadn’t fluctuated at all.

After the sinister and crazy voice finished venting, the voice full of dignity and wisdom echoed once again.

“How could I forget? We were the last God to be born. We still hadn’t been born into the world up until the end of the golden age.

“You should be rejoicing that we were born after that disaster. If we had been born before the disaster, we might have already fallen…”

The dignified voice had yet to finish his answer before the wicked and crazy voice rudely interrupted him.

“It’s all nonsense, filthy and stinky quibble. I would rather have been born before that disaster, I would rather have perished! Look at what happened now.

“Look at what that damned disaster, that damned Noscent brought up.

“Souls, two souls. It made you, that guy who shouldn’t have appeared, appear. If not for you, if not for that damned world, how could I have ended up like this?

“Damn, damn it all. Everything has to be destroyed…”

The dignified voice didn’t get angry about being interrupted. It just coldly continued, “No, Del Rovana, you should clearly understand that we were originally a whole and that it was only because of the effect of the disaster that we ended up being born with two souls. Neither of us is superfluous.

“This was only an accident.

“We came to the Raging Flame Plane and fell asleep here, hoping to rely on the power of time to recover from the accident that birthed both of us.

“But you got ambitious and wanted to control this body alone, still fighting to obtain the strongest power of the past.

“Just look at what you are doing? In order to kill me and gain the sole ownership of this body, you didn’t spare a thought at borrowing the power of the Abyss. That sinister power has already polluted the body and even transformed you into one of those arrogant, crazy, sinister, and cruel Demons. You have already lost yourself!

“In order to control the body, you even abandoned yourself and reincarnated in the Abyss to become a filthy Demon.

“Am I wrong? Del Rovana.”

As he heard that name, the cloud shrouding Lin Yun’s mind cleared up.

‘Damn, Del Rovana… It turned out to be like this. No wonder the Abyssal Gate opened to the 333rd layer.

‘No wonder Greater Demon Overlord Del Rovana was so famous in the Abyss, and even a world of the Abyss was named after her.

‘Damn, it turned out to be like this! She was the 73rd God…

‘The 73rd God was already being nurtured during the Mythological Era, but it was nurtured successfully as the disaster descended and was born after the end of the Era of Gods.

‘It seems that if not for that disaster, the 73rd God might have been the most powerful God, since it needed such a long time to be nurtured.

‘No wonder there was no trace or news of the 73rd God after the God Era. It was because it had been affected by the disaster and was born with two souls.

‘After birth, it immediately sank into a slumber in the Raging Flame Plane.

‘But the two souls started fighting over the control of the body in order to restore the former glory of the Gods.

‘One of the souls even reincarnated in the Abyss and became the Greater Overlord of a vast territory. But it reincarnated as a female.

‘Greater Demon Overlord Del Rovana. No wonder this slumbering Great Demon Overlord didn’t wake up when a powerhouse above the Heaven Rank fell into her layer.

‘In the entire history of the Abyss, this Greater Demon Overlord never awakened after sinking into slumber, even when Noscent was being destroyed.

‘It turned out that she was a Demon reincarnated from one of the souls of the 73rd God. After Del Rovana’s soul left the Abyss, her Greater Demon Overlord body fell into a deep slumber, or might have dissipated forever.

‘Del Rovana’ was famous in the Abyss for the savage methods she used to get rid of a Greater Demon Overlord and plunder his 333rd layer, as well as for getting rid of two other Greater Demon Overlords and an unknown number of Demon Overlords.

‘If not for her fame, her layer would have already been invaded by other Greater Demon Overlords.’