Chapter 44 The Kobold God
Chapter 44 The Kobold God
As dawn broke, the wind and snow subsided slightly.
Under the old tree, Xin Cang was awakened by the light and opened his eyes groggily.
The clouds in the sky are slowly parting to both sides, and the power of the gods is descending from the heavens.
Lis, who was leaning on his shoulder, also woke up groggily. She wanted to snuggle up to him again, but after seeing Xin Zang's expression, she belatedly realized what had happened.
Through the gaps in the leaves, they looked toward the center of the snowfield camp.
A miracle occurred.
A pale golden beam of light pierced the cold wind and fell straight onto the camp square.
Chang had already led the soldiers to kneel on one knee, bowed his head, and respectfully raised his hands high to receive the blessing of the gods.
Within the beam of light, a strange object slowly descended and landed in Chang's rough palm.
A flat, square object, surrounded by an unknown gray-white metal that feels cold and hard to the touch, with a smooth screen, as black as night, embedded in its center.
A faint glow appeared on the screen, revealing a pattern composed of simple lines:
'◡'
Only when the light in the sky faded and the phantom of the god disappeared did Chang dare to raise his head.
He examined the object in his hand, his brow furrowed slightly, his eyes filled with confusion.
The gods bestowed their blessings, yet unusually, they left no divine pronouncements.
Is this a divine artifact? Or a vessel for divine pronouncements?
What exactly are the gods' plans for the war?
Just when Chang was completely baffled.
The metal cube in his hand trembled, and a familiar divine power surged out from it.
Immediately afterward, the smiley face on the screen disappeared. The surging divine power swirled and intertwined in mid-air, transforming into a line of text emitting a faint golden light, which hovered before Chang's eyes:
"Hello, the second Human King, I am the Simple Divine Power Processing Core."
"You can call me... Jane."
"I am the master, speaking on behalf of the gods."
Above the metal cube, the text flows and changes:
"The great god-man has reached an agreement with the kobold god. The dead should not be desecrated, and souls should not be enslaved. The mindless spirits of the dead will drag everything into the abyss. And I will provide you with technical support."
Chang knelt and bowed, staring at the lines of text, and couldn't help but ask, "Lord Jian, does the deity mean... that we should form an alliance with the kobolds?"
"Correction." The text jumped quickly, "It's the kobolds who are subservient to the Soul Clan. We are working with our vassals to eliminate a common enemy."
"The gods are mighty! They protect my people..." Chang was greatly shocked. Had the gods already won a great victory on another battlefield?
Just then, Shinzo and Liz walked over from the edge of the fence.
The metal cube suspended in mid-air detected the movement, turned around in mid-air, and faced the two people approaching.
The golden light in mid-air reconverged:
"Hello, future King of Men, and..."
The text paused for a moment.
"The patricide, Liz."
Upon seeing that text, Liz turned pale.
Her gray-white pupils suddenly contracted, and driven by instinct, dark magic exploded from the shadow beneath her feet like boiling water. The dagger slipped into her palm, and she arched her back like a small beast cornered.
"It's just identity verification and data entry; there's no need to overreact."
Jian Bing didn't care about Liz's reaction. In countless calculations, Liz wouldn't have a significant positive impact on the future of the Soul Clan. It couldn't understand why its master required it to pay attention to this half-drow, second only to Soul Cultivator in priority.
"Surrounding environment scan complete."
The faint light on the surface of the metal cube suddenly expanded outward.
Blue light intertwined in mid-air, projecting a huge three-dimensional phantom composed of light and shadow in front of Changhe Xinzang.
Mountains, snowfields, kobold stone and wooden strongholds, and northern valleys are all clearly visible on this glowing map. Countless points of light in the valleys shimmer faintly on the map.
"Now, please review the current battle situation." Jane's words appeared next to the map. "I will plan the optimal route for you and provide divine support."
"Let me announce this on behalf of the gods."
"The war of the gods begins!"
......
On the other side, in the northern valley.
On the throne in the Hall of Bones.
Li Qinggu frowned, a strange sense of irritation rising from the bottom of his heart.
Just now, a divine power belonging to another god swept over her consciousness without any concealment.
"How dare he do this!" Li Qinggu's eyes turned cold. "I've been developing for so long, does he really think I'm some defenseless little girl?"
The fact that gods rashly use their divine power to attack each other is itself a signal that a divine war has begun.
This means that the other party no longer conceals their divine power and can unleash their divine might on this land without any scruples.
She stood up and strode out of the hall.
As she walked, ripples appeared in the void, and one after another, dazzling divine artifacts emerged on her body.
A deep blue ring was placed on her little finger, raising the upper limit of her divine power storage. A white bone bracelet was fastened to her wrist, and the conversion rate of death magic around her increased exponentially.
As she reached the entrance to the main hall, the brains of three extraordinary beings, submerged in preservative solution, materialized out of thin air and hovered behind her. These brains were connected to her divine power, serving as an auxiliary cluster to reduce the pressure of controlling her divine power and aid in the locking of spells.
The door was pushed open.
In the wind and snow, a burly figure had been waiting for a long time.
"I thought you were too cowardly to come out." Li Qinggu looked at the dragon-transformed dog-headed man in front of him, a mocking smile playing on his lips.
Sun Lang.
Or rather, it was Sun Lang whose physical form had been completely altered by the divine power. His face was covered with hard, dark red scales, and his pupils had become vertical dragon eyes.
With each breath, scorching sparks flew from the corners of his mouth, melting the snow within a hundred meters around him.
"Liang Jiu sent you to hold me off?" Li Qinggu stopped in his tracks. "Ha, how could you be so foolish? How dare a penniless pauper like you, with such a pitiful number of followers and depleted divine power, stop me?"
Sun Lang didn't speak, but let out a dragon roar, and the muscles in his arms bulged like rocks.
"Fine." Li Qinggu raised his hand. "Since you're so eager to die, I'll play along."
As soon as he finished speaking...
Their figures twisted simultaneously and disappeared from the spot.
A hundred miles away, on a deserted wasteland.
The raging torrent of divine power tore apart the clouds above.
Sun Lang was the first to launch an attack.
His thick legs slammed into the ground, causing the frozen wasteland to collapse and create a deep crater. He transformed into a dark red meteorite, hurtling straight towards Li Qinggu in mid-air.
Before he even arrived, he opened his mouth wide and spewed out a dark red dragon breath, distorting the air with intense heat and covering a hundred meters.
Li Qinggu hovered in mid-air.
The three extraordinary brains at the back of his head were working at an accelerated pace, with divine power flowing through them.
A massive white bone shield, tens of meters thick, rose from the ground.
"boom--"
The dragon's breath struck the bone shield, exploding into a rain of fire, leaving large scorched patches on the white bone shield.
Using the momentum, Sun Lang slammed his fist into the surface of the bone shield. The pure physical power erupted, cracking the thick bone shield before it shattered into countless bone fragments.
But what awaited him was not Li Qinggu's true form, but twelve white bone spears shimmering with a ghastly green light. Under the calculations of the AI cluster, they blocked all of Sun Lang's escape routes.
"roar!"
Sun Lang neither dodged nor evaded, but charged headlong into the spear. The spear tip pierced his dragon scales, sparking a series of blinding sparks. He forced his way forward despite the magical bombardment, and with a sudden rip, he tore apart the deathly barrier in front of him.
"How long can you sustain this divine power?"
Li Qinggu coldly watched Sun Lang approach, her pinky ring gleaming brightly. A torrent of divine power poured forth like a waterfall, condensing behind her into a gigantic phantom of a death god wielding a scythe, which swung heavily down towards Sun Lang's head.
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