Chapter 527: Chapter 527
After Bruce, Eva, and Allen left, Betty led everyone into a secret room engraved with sealing runes and said in a low voice: “According to news from the dream system, Lord Firelinker Ace incarnated as the New Holy Light, setting off a religious reform in the Kingdom of Hill. The Angel King descended upon hearing the news. If it were just the Angel King, Lord Ace should be able to handle it, but I’m afraid that the Holy Light itself might truly appear…”
Hearing Betty’s silence, everyone understood her worry. Warren said: “This world is where we turn the tide. The Kaya World has undergone drastic changes. If we can’t seize this opportunity, the future will be unpredictable. Lord Ace must also think so. We must defeat the Angel King now. If the Holy Light really descends, we’ll think of countermeasures then.”
Polina also said: “That’s the only way.”
Leon, who had been silent behind Betty, suddenly spoke: “I’ll go to the Kingdom of Hill to help Lord Ace. It just so happens that I can test my unique spell on the Angel King.”
His grim smile reminded everyone of bad memories, and they subconsciously distanced themselves from this “Envoy of Misfortune.”
Returning the gaze to the vicinity of the Kingdom of Hill, a grand ceremony was underway in the Royal Capital Bernada. After several years of conquest, Righteous King Yamila, with faith in one hand and the Holy Sword in the other, conquered all four kingdoms and nine principalities in the central part of the continent and forced belief in the New Holy Light, the great Dream God.
Today was the day when five kings and nine grand dukes gathered in Bernada. The entire Bernada was rejoicing. Everyone knew that this was not just a gathering of kings and grand dukes, but represented the birth of a brand new religion and empire.
Ace had already shrouded these five kingdoms and nine principalities in dream mist. The corresponding New Testament had also been modified several times. The Holy Light was described as two sides of the same coin with the Dream God. The main purposes of today were two: first, to officially establish the Dream God Court; second, the Divine Right of Kings, bestowing the Righteous King with the only crown of the Dream God Religion, granting her legal authority over the entire world.
St. Klan Cathedral was a famous holy place. All kings and grand dukes were waiting here solemnly. The old Holy Light reliefs had been removed and replaced with brilliant crystal balls representing dreams.
As the first Pope, Ace said to everyone at this moment: “Dream is One, Dream is Ten Thousand, Dream is the Beginning, Dream is the End. We are born in dreams, grow in dreams, succeed in dreams, and everything returns to dreams. Be devout to the True God; Glory to My Dream.”
Listening to Ace’s holy and solemn voice, everyone followed devoutly: “Glory to My Dream.”
Ace added: “The world views the Dream God like looking at an elephant through a tube, only seeing a part of the Dream God, not the wonder of the whole. A thousand years ago, the world saw the wondrous brilliance of the Dream God, thus calling it Holy Light. Today we rectify the source: Holy Light is one aspect of the Dream God. My Dream has a thousand faces. From now on, we shall only honor My Dream. We should call ourselves Dream God believers!”
His words carried the Power of Fate. That invisible Spindle of Fate had already connected nearly ten million people in the five great kingdoms and nine great principalities through the dispersed dream mist. Everyone prayed devoutly under the leadership of priests. At this moment, faith was completely deflected.
The Holy Light could no longer gain faith from the central part of the continent. More and more Power of Faith, Authority, and Power of Fate gathered. Ace had the experience of a Small World becoming an Outer God, so he was not panicked at this moment. He guided these powers to his Spindle of Fate and distributed them to his Noble Phantasms: “Fantasia,” the thirteen stars of the Calamity Sword, and the Magic network.
His invisible Magic network finally spread across this world at this moment. Whether it was Power of Faith, Authority, Power of Racial Energy, Power of Fate, or even Power of Great Source, the Magic network accepted everything. As soon as it appeared, it expanded rapidly, absorbing all five powers and growing quickly.
The Noble Phantasm “Magic network,” which Ace dared not show to others in the Kaya World, was finally displayed to everyone at this moment. All Dream God believers “heard” the divine voice in their hearts.
“The Dream God pities the world and bestows the Magic network to sort out the magical power in the world. Anyone who truly believes in God has the opportunity to borrow the mighty power of the Magic network.”
This was the open scheme Ace laid down. He wanted to significantly lower the difficulty of magic and establish a path for spellcasters who believed in gods in this world. He called it the Path of Mages.
He had already felt the joy of that fragile Great Source, like a dying thirsty person hearing the sound of spring water. The Great Source was too weak, but the Great Source of this world didn’t want to die yet. As long as there was a glimmer of life, It wanted to seize it.
Just as Ace smiled and was about to announce to the whole world taking advantage of the Great Source’s joy, a bright white light blade rushed straight at him.
Ace extended his right hand. Layers of spatial barriers appeared, canceling out that light blade. Only then did he see the person clearly—tall and handsome, wearing a golden crown, with eight snow-white wings on his back, shrouded in milky white light.
“Angel King Polderick?”
Ace asked loudly.
That angel shouted angrily: “II am Poldrick, the Vice-King of Heaven, seated by the Holy Light! You have usurped the Holy Light and divided divine authority! Today, I, representing the Holy Light, will punish you! Accept your punishment!”
After speaking, he flapped his wings and rushed up. His speed was so fast that it was almost impossible to see clearly.
Everyone in the church had run out, looking at the sky. Seeing that the angel cut Ace in two with one sword stroke, they turned pale with shock.
“This…”
“The Angel King is too powerful. Let’s surrender quickly.”
Just as a group of people wanted to rebel and capture Righteous King Yamila, the cut Ace gradually disappeared, and a new Ace appeared behind the Angel King.
The people below looked at each other in dismay. Yamila took the opportunity to say: “That Angel King is a devil in disguise. Don’t be bewildered by him.”
Everyone became more hesitant, happy to have a way out, holding their weapons to watch the battle temporarily.
The Angel King discovered Ace appearing behind him and turned back to slash again. Hundreds of times in a row, the cut Ace recovered quickly.
It turned out that this was the range of the dream mist. Ace could easily flash and disappear, leaving a dream fake body to tease this Angel King.
Polderick was furious. He held the Holy Sword high in his hand. His whole person was shrouded in spherical bright yellow light. As the Holy Sword was lowered, the light bloomed. He wanted to launch an indiscriminate area attack, purifying the entire Bernada City.
Seeing this, Ace was also furious. While using layers of spatial barriers to cover the entire city, he gathered the thirteen Star Noble Phantasms together, turning them into a Calamity Sword, and flew towards the Angel King.
The combination of the thirteen treasures of the Calamity Sword was an Epic Noble Phantasm. It easily pierced the Angel King’s heart, leaving a hole burned by raging flames.
The Angel King was shocked. Holy Light gathered at his chest to recover quickly, concentrating on fighting swords with the Calamity Sword.
Just then, Leon had arrived near Bernada. Looking at that angel in the sky, his pupils constricted, and the detection spell activated.
“Such strong power fluctuations. Without a doubt, it’s the Angel King. I must get close to use that spell.”
Bang!
Leon flew into the air, rapidly approaching the Angel King who was fighting inextricably with the Calamity Sword. Complex layers of spell models formed in his hand, and wisps of strange fluctuations appeared.
Ace, having just freed his hands, also saw Leon’s arrival. A phantom of a Torsion Balance appeared in his hand, hanging directly on the Magic network. Mobilizing the five powers absorbed by it, he poured them into the Torsion Balance.
Leon had also approached the Angel King. Suddenly, Ace in mid-air released ten thousand rays of magnificent light from his hand. Leon felt his flight seemed uncontrolled, attracted to Ace’s side.
Ace held that golden Torsion Balance high and shouted loudly: “Epic Law Noble Phantasm, the Gravitational Torsion Balance is completed. This is a big step on the Path of Wizards.”
He grabbed Leon, stuffed the Torsion Balance into Leon’s hand, and said: “You know about universal gravitation, right?”
Leon’s spell was interrupted. Feeling somewhat dizzy, he said groggily: “I know.”
Ace nodded. A colorful dream bubble brilliance appeared in his hand. With a pop, he pressed it on Leon’s forehead. Leon instantly felt a mass of knowledge about the Gravitational Torsion Balance entering his head. Ace pushed forcefully, and he rushed straight up into the sky.
That Calamity Sword turned into thirteen Star Noble Phantasms and returned to Ace’s side, embedded into the Magic network by Ace. Ace’s voice also reached Leon’s ears: “The Gravitational Torsion Balance is an Epic Law Noble Phantasm. You use it to resist the Angel King first. Good luck.”
Leon looked slightly troubled. This was completely different from what he thought. He just wanted to come over to play support; he didn’t expect to suddenly become the main force. He could only bite the bullet and raise the Gravitational Torsion Balance to fight with the Angel King.
The Angel King was already furious. He raised the Holy Sword, wanting to behead Leon with one stroke, but unexpectedly felt weightless all over. The Holy Sword in his hand actually floated up slowly.
It was exactly the effect of the Gravitational Torsion Balance, changing the gravitational constant and gravity magnitude of a certain environment to a certain extent.
Leon’s eyes lit up, as if finding a good toy. He began to create a gravity maze, messing up the gravity of the entire sky.
Ace ignored Leon. His mgic network had already linked with nearly ten million people in the five kingdoms and nine principalities, and continued to resonate with the World Great Source. The Great Source was so weak that there was almost no Source Power feedback. Ace frowned slightly, his figure disappearing.
He had realized the truth of this world in this instant. Although the Great Source didn’t feed back much power to Ace, It displayed images of history before Ace’s eyes.
…
A thousand years ago, the Holy Light descended. The creator creature of this world, the Blue Blood Ancestor Giant, died. His corpse fell into the Underworld, resentment filling the sky, polluting and mutating the Blue Blood.
Coupled with the curse of the Holy Light, everyone possessing the Blue Blood Ancestor’s bloodline would produce adverse mutations, just like when Ace first arrived in this world.
But that light man calling Himself Holy Light didn’t have it easy either. He was seriously injured by the Blue Blood Giant, lying prone in the Celestial Realm of this world, evolving into Mount Celestia. His original intention might have been to use the power of this world to recover slowly. For some unknown reason, the Angel King descended, and thousands of angels descended simultaneously.
The angels harvested Power of Fate and Power of Great Source wantonly, and took the power away through mysterious channels. The world originally nourished the people within it. When people died, the Power of Great Source returned, constantly generating and strengthening internally. Who knew that a large amount of Power of Great Source was stolen by people? Now it was extremely weak.
That Mount Celestia was also strange. A hundred years ago, there seemed to be a scream. Mount Celestia rained blood for three days and three nights. Since then, the Holy Light became more dazzling, but the aura of the original light man was never felt again.
Ace, at the rules layer of the world, looked at the weak and longing Great Source before him, extended his hand, and said: “I can help you. We can make a vow. I help this world recover and even advance. We wizards also need Power of Great Source and Power of Fate, but we promise not to exploit it.”
The Great Source was very hesitant. Of course, It understood that the person in front of It was also an alien from an outer world. But there were really no usable people in this world. If allowed to be played with by the Holy Light and angels, this world would sooner or later lose all source power and fall to a lower layer of the Astral Plane.
During the long hesitation, above Bernada, the Angel King was beyond angry. He pointed the Holy Sword straight at the Celestial Realm, murmuring. Unimaginable mighty power shrouded him. Seeing the bad situation, Leon hurriedly constructed his unique spell model.
Overlapping spell models, distorted gravity, Holy Light mighty power— Leon’s spell hit the Angel King like a shadow and disappeared.
The Angel King didn’t block at all. He guided that Holy Light power with all his might.
Boom!
The attempt failed miserably. The out-of-control power exploded before it could descend, the dazzling light like two suns appearing in the sky.
Leon, panting, clenched his fist. His misfortune spell had worked well; the terrifying power the opponent had drawn had failed to descend.
Seeing the situation was bad, the Angel King didn’t know why the descent of Mount Celestia failed. Without hesitation, he simply disengaged and disappeared.
…
At the world rules layer, the Great Source finally stopped hesitating. It extended thick source power, transforming it into a hand, and shook hands with Ace.
The entire world trembled. The Great Source of this world reached an agreement with Ace. From now on, wizards would become the favorites of this world. All Dreamwalker also needed to work hard to constantly increase the world’s source power. Correspondingly, for any increased source power, Dreamwalker had the right to take away half.
And according to Ace’s contract with all Dreamwalker, he could obtain three-tenths of the source power taken away by Dreamwalker.
Ace didn’t rush to leave. He said solemnly:
“There are three methods to obtain new source power. First, endogenous development within the world. The civilization level of the main intelligent race constantly improves, thereby driving the entire world to achieve natural protective development. This is a long-term merit. Second, raising the flag of the world, crusade against Mount Celestia above and sweep the Underworld below, recovering free source power. Third, collecting and devouring. The Astral Plane has many remains fragments and even small worlds. Capturing them to satisfy oneself, the natural source power will increase daily.”
The Great Source nodded, vigorously blessing Ace with the authority It could control in this world. This amazed Ace. Although this world was only Level 2 and the Great Source was very weak, this Great Source had broken away from instinct and was much wiser than the Great Source of the Kaya World.
Ace continued: “I hope to obtain a higher authority than the Blue Blood Ancestor. I don’t want to become the King of the World; I hope to become the God of this world!”
The Great Source was silent for a while. Ace’s request could be said to be very excessive. The so-called God refers to the limit a world can reach. For example, in this Level 2 World, the individual limit is Level 4 Demi-god. Even if a King of the World possesses the power of pseudo-authority, they are merely stronger than Level 4 and weaker than Level 5.
But a God of the World breaks through the limit, possessing Level 5, which is the limit of a True God. For an individual far surpassing the world, a world only has a certain possibility of gestating one by exhausting everything, and the price is often the entire world.
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