Chapter 530: Sanctification
The Angel King’s figure gradually disappeared, turning into a ray of brilliance that entered the Light Man’s forehead. The Light Man’s eyes struggled for a while before finally stabilizing.
He stood up, and the entire Mount Celestia seemed to sense it, rejoicing. The angels residing here looked at each other in dismay. Watching the Light Man walk down, they hesitated for a moment but then knelt one after another.
The Light Man didn’t say anything, only made a gesture. The angels stood up one by one. Some angels wondered why the Holy Light would wake up, but the awe-inspiring majesty of the Holy Light made them dare not question.
A few Archangels who knew the truth looked at the radiance on the Holy Light’s forehead thoughtfully.
A look of pain flashed across His face. Immediately after, milky white light shone, and He disappeared from Mount Celestia, leaving only holy music echoing and endless prayers.
Above Bernada, crystal-clear time runes loomed. The flow of time around seemed to fall into a strange loop, accelerating and decelerating intermittently. Ace was understanding time with his own thinking.
“The so-called time, its essence is motion. Fast motion means fast time flow; slow motion means slow flow. If all motion stops, then time can be paused. If manipulating infinite range, it is naturally difficult to achieve, but if manipulating the time of a designated range, it is not impossible.”
His eyes shone brightly. Blessing himself with thousands of thoughts through the Magic network, Ace’s thinking was extremely fast. With sufficient Source Power to push, the Sixth Ring Spell of the Time Series was deduced rapidly.
The cowlick on his head was like a super-large signal receiver and processor, constantly gathering information flow. At this moment, Ace could gradually see the limit of the Book Spirit. Fuwa’s deduction ability was at most equivalent to a specialized Demi-god.
The so-called spirits were quasi-rule creatures that mastered the Divine Foundation in certain aspects. Although they were weak, their abilities were very powerful.
Just as Ace was deducing rapidly, the “Holy Light” also crossed the boundary membrane of Heaven and Earth with the angels, arriving in the Human World. He led the angels to fly towards Bernada at extremely fast speed.
The invisible Magic network was scorched by the Holy Light. Ace instantly discovered the movements of Mount Celestia. He stepped up deduction. The ahoge on his head rippled out circles of information, like a baton, guiding those Epic Runes one by one.
Ace raised his hand high. The spell model, extremely complex in structure, looking dazzling and gorgeous yet instantly primitive and old, began to take shape.
The Light Man and the angels, like a nebula, were gradually approaching. Ace’s eyes were already flickering. He pressed the spell model onto his head. The spell model sank into the deep layer of the mental imagery world, landing firmly on the Rune Tower.
“Epic Spell: Time Stop!”
White light flashed in his eyes, staring at that nebula. Seeing a mass of pure gold, he dared not be careless. He recalled the thirteen Star Noble Phantasms and the Gravitational Torsion Balance hanging on the Magic network, lingering around him.
Ace held the Gravitational Torsion Balance in one hand, secretly pitying:
“This is undoubtedly the brilliance of a Demigod. It’s just a pity that only one of my Star Noble Phantasms has achieved Epic. The power is limited. But even so, the Noble Phantasms composed of stars and gravity still have the possibility tokill a Demigod.”
The newly deduced Epic Spell “Time Stop” was one of Ace’s strongest trump cards. This was a terrifying spell that could stop even thinking. As long as it could bind the opponent for a period, it could absolutely inflict heavy damage on an unaware opponent.
Dream mist and Magic network moved simultaneously. Invisible Magic network and mist appeared, netting that nebula. The Light Man didn’t blink an eye, raising the Holy Sword in his hand and tearing the net open with a swish.
Other angels wanted to keep up, but found that the net grew rapidly, growing and recovering in a breath, netting them tightly. Magic network threads extended one by one. The angels fought hard but were still gradually captured, hung on the Magic network, and their energy was sucked rapidly by the Magic network.
The Light Man ignored the angels. His expression slightly ferocious and painful, he approached Ace rapidly. His first move was light that was hard to resist.
That light first shone, then merged into the Holy Sword, then turned into a point on the tip, an extremely restrained and terrifying energy ball.
Ace’s pupils constricted slightly. This concentrated energy ball was pure Holy Light. In the vision of Ace’s “Eye of True Sight,” it was unusually scorching and untouchable!
The opponent didn’t probe at all this time; coming up immediately with a fatal blow.
Alarm bells rang in Ace’s heart. He didn’t hesitate to activate the deep layer of the mental imagery world. The Epic Spell “Time Stop” at the top of the Rune Tower was rapidly activated as Ace poured in a large amount of Star Mana. When the energy ball was less than one meter away from Ace, a terrifying magical fluctuation appeared from him.
This fluctuation spread rapidly. The energy ball stopped without a doubt. Terrifying magical fluctuation spread; a clock phantom appeared, its hands motionless.
Even the wind stopped; the air seemed to solidify. This fluctuation spread to the Light Man very quickly. He sensed something was wrong, shocked in his heart, eyes wide open, and stopped.
Movement, flight, light, even thinking stopped completely. All ranges covered by the fluctuation turned gray. Only Ace alone was still colorful.
Inside his mental imagery world, the “water” of the Lake of Magic was dropping rapidly. Ace dared not delay. The colors on his body spread to the gray-white Noble Phantasms. Holding the Noble Phantasm Gravitational Torsion Balance, he quickly condensed the thirteen Star Noble Phantasms into a brilliant Star Sword.
This sword carried slaughter and ominousness; it was the Calamity Sword itself. Ace hugged the Gravitational Torsion Balance with both hands, controlling the Calamity Sword to rush towards the Light Man rapidly.
Squelch.
The Calamity Sword pierced the Light Man’s heart. Ace’s mana also almost hit rock bottom. He used the little remaining mana to activate the Fifth Ring Spell “Grasp of Dimensions”, constructing a stable subspace to wrap the terrifying energy ball, then opened a directional space door to exile this energy ball to the Underworld.
Ace, with mana bottomed out, terminated the Epic Spell “Time Stop”. The surrounding grayness and terrifying magical fluctuation disappeared rapidly. The Light Man looked at the Calamity Sword on his chest in disbelief, roaring in pain.
A ray of brilliance flew out from Him, turning into a six-winged angel wearing a crown. It was Angel King Polderick. He looked wretched, his expression filled with panic, shouting: “What is going on? How did you use this sword!”
In his cognition, in the previous instant he was still going all out, using “Lament of the Holy Sword” to crush Ace directly. Unexpectedly, his chest was hit by a sword suddenly, and the light ball formed by “Lament of the Holy Sword” also disappeared.
Angel King Polderick turned around and ran towards the sky. But unexpectedly, the Light Man’s right hand instantly turned into a hand of light, grabbing him. With a bang, he was crushed. Polderick didn’t even have time to speak before disappearing completely.
Ace also discovered something wrong. This Light Man clearly took a sword strike, yet his aura was rising. Ace dared not be careless. The Magic network appeared behind him, and Magic network threads inserted into his back with squelch, squelch sounds.
Ace spat out a mouthful of blood. Mana recovered rapidly, just a bit messy. He grabbed the Gravitational Torsion Balance, manipulating the gravity near the Light Man and the Calamity Sword, turning the Calamity Sword into thirteen Star Noble Phantasms and exploding from the inside.
Boom!
The Light Man instantly broke into pieces. Ace was unforgiving. The Star Noble Phantasms rotated like a net, rushing towards the Light Man’s remnants like falling meteors, tearing Him apart.
The Light Man seemed unconscious, just roaring in pain. After being strangled by the Star Noble Phantasms, His power diminished greatly. His head abandoned the body, turning into a ray of light rushing straight into the clouds, disappearing without a trace.
The tentacles of the Magic network rapidly entangled the Light Man’s body fragments, sucking the power within with gurgle gurgle sounds. Ace looked up at the sky, murmuring: “The Holy Light probably won’t descend in a short time.”
He lowered his head to look around, hung the thirteen Star Noble Phantasms back on the Magic network, while Heart Fire turned into fire clouds burning the Light Man’s body fragments, transforming them into pure Source Power.
Returning the vision to the Underworld, the light ball formed by “Lament of the Holy Sword” floated to the corpse of that Blue Blood Ancestor Giant, landing quietly on it. The light slowly became hot and expanded.
Boom!
The energy ball exploded in the center of the ominous. Milky white light violently purified the ominous. That ominous heart seemed indeed powerful; this energy ball only wore down about half of it.
Heart-piercing howls and weird fluctuations spread throughout the Underworld. Countless ominous existences shone upon by the milky white light gradually melted.
At the world rules layer, the pressure on the Great Source lightened significantly. It rejoiced and encouraged Ace. Ace, possessing the God King authority, felt the Great Source’s joy immediately and couldn’t help smiling: “It seems indeed so. All four realms of this world have problems. Only by clearing the hidden dangers in the Celestial Realm and the Underworld can the world return to normal, and the Great Source gradually become stronger.”
Although he didn’t completely clear the weird ominous in the Underworld this time, it was at least a heavy blow. But the Great Source only rejoiced without any power reward, showing how weak this Great Source was.
Ace continued refining the Body of Holy Light, decomposing it into pure Source Power. This was slow work, very difficult. The nature of Holy Light power was too singular, making it particularly difficult to convert into pure Source Power.
But no matter how difficult, it was easier than collecting five kinds of energy slowly. This was also a happy and painful thing for Ace.
The relationship between the Angel King and the Holy Light is intriguing. It seems the Angel King tricked the Holy Light, only to be counterattacked by it. I might also have been used as a tool by the Holy Light. I could see the situation when He was frozen, which could potentially significantly shorten the time I controlled Him, but He didn’t.
“However, no matter what, the Holy Light cannot descend in a short time. I need to unify the entire continent during this time and make all thirteen Star Noble Phantasms Epic!”
Time passed day by day. Three years passed in a blink of an eye. Yamila defeated the allied forces in the west, giving all churches a new look. Betty also completed the conquest of the eastern coast. Bayen restrained the entire northern barbarian tribes. They jointly submitted to one God, and according to the prophecy of the New Testament, “As My Kingdom in Heaven is One, so shall it be One on Earth. My Son shall be the Emperor of all.”
On this day, the Son of God whom Yamila had carried for three years was born. He could walk and speak as soon as he was born, very intelligent.
This child pointed one finger at the sky and one at the earth, saying in a milky voice: “The Celestial Realm and the Underworld are Father’s kingdoms. Apart from Heaven and Underworld, I alone am honored one in the Human World.”
Everyone was greatly shocked, shouting “Son of God.” Dream mist sent a crown, which was personally worn on the head by the Son of God. A name rang out in the surrounding streets and alleys: “Augustus,” meaning the Most Noble.
Yamila held him high and announced loudly: “Augustus Bernard, Son of God, shall be the King of Kings.”
Amidst everyone’s cheers, Bayen brought the white wolf skin from the barbarian snowy region, Betty brought the map of the Southern Alliance, kings of western kingdoms held crowns, and eastern coastal countries brought pearls, all offering to the Son of God together.
Just as Augustus Bernard’s pink little hand touched these things, Yamila handed the Great Seal of the Empire to the Son of God Augustus. Power of Great Source began to boil. People cheered. The destiny of the entire surface merged into one at this moment.
From then on, Augustus was the Emperor of the unified continental empire Bernard, and Yamila was the Empress Dowager Holy Mother, also acting as Regent.
Both wizards and mortals harbored goodwill towards this new empire. Wizards believed this was Ace’s son’s empire, practically the wizards’ country. Mortals felt this was the Son of God; ruled by God’s bloodline, they felt honored in their hearts.
And Ace was also very satisfied. The unification of the continent was a leap in civilization. A large number of wizards entering the political power made the nature of this world’s civilization begin to change gradually. This was also one of Ace’s established acts. If this world wanted to become a Wizard World, it couldn’t be achieved overnight; gradual change was the best way.
Subtle influence—first replacing the old god with a new god, then reforming the doctrine, integrating the spirit of wizards, making the lower and middle classes of this civilization devout in the faith of the God of Dreams and Magic network, while the upper class indulged in magic, and finally establishing a shadow country composed of native wizards—this was the civilization prospect designed by Ace.
The first act of the Son of God and Holy Mother unifying the continent allowed Ace to harvest a massive amount of Power of Fate and a small amount of Source Power. Taking advantage of this power, he made the remaining Star Noble Phantasms Epic all at once.
Thirteen brilliant Epic Star Noble Phantasms, one Epic Gravitational Torsion Balance. Ace blessed himself with both. His strength instantly broke through the limit of Level 3. He felt as if he was ascending to the sky. His entire body was thoroughly sanctified. It was just that this sanctification was very slow, and his mana drain was too severe to support it for a long time.
Ace tried a few times and found that although he was clearly using Sixth Ring Spells, the power increased significantly. Except for excessive mana consumption, everything else became very powerful. He lifted the blessed state and whispered:
“This feeling, the sanctification of the body and the sanctification of the soul. Although temporary, it left some traces on me after all. If I maintain this pseudo-authority Demi-god state frequently, maybe my body and soul will enter Level 4 one step earlier than the mental imagery world.”
Ace felt full of power at this moment. Although he had no clue about the substantialization of the mental imagery world yet, as long as the physical body and soul completed sanctification simultaneously, he would in fact become immortal—an existence that would not die or age and always maintain the best state as long as not killed.
Although “not die as long as not killed” was a bit of a tongue twister, it was indeed so. As long as sanctification was completed, the substantialization of the mental imagery world would probably be a matter of time.
Ace cast his gaze towards the Underworld. The mutated corpse was still lying there quietly. It was time to resolve it.
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