NOVEL NEXT Chapter 100: Devouring Divinity
The God of War's powerful faith power and divine power suddenly rushed through the passage toward the Great World of Depravity. Even after passing through the barrier between the void and the mortal realm and losing quite a bit, it was still enormous. The instant it rushed into that God of War phantom, the God of War phantom instantly became somewhat red-tinged black. Muscles bulged, and two more heads grew. Fierce black horns grew on those heads. Runes flashed on the body. Purple-black flames burned fiercely on the body. It looked very formidable!
"Looks like the God of War has put all his attention here." Looking at this scene, the Goddess of Magic's expression still showed no ripples. Obviously, the other party didn't know they'd descended in their true forms. This kind of corruption wouldn't affect them, but would instead put him at a disadvantage.
But thinking about it, this was normal.
In this world, there had never been a deity who could appear in the mortal realm as easily as Ren. Even Lady Dream couldn't do it this easily... How could the God of War possibly think they were in their true forms?
"With so much divinity thrown down at once, if He can't take it back, He should lose part of his authority, right?" Looking at this scene, Ren's lips curved upward.
"Of course." The Goddess of Magic nodded slightly, already understanding what Ren wanted to do.
The flames on the God of War phantom's body, already black-tinged purple, condensed into a huge long blade and swung toward the giant Ren had condensed.
The endless flames of war might have heaven-and-earth-destroying power if placed in the divine realm or mortal realm, but in this Great World of Depravity, it wasn't so. From the divine realm to the mortal realm, from the mortal realm into this space between illusion and reality, every step was continuously weakening.
The God of War was like this, and so was He.
Just now when His divine power followed the passage into the God of War's divine realm, He'd already felt it.
But if he planted corruption in this part the God of War threw out, after it was taken back, the seeds of corruption would definitely show considerable power.
With this thought, Ren directly controlled the giant to attack this guy while also invoking his own divine power and authority, condensing a huge "cage" in the Great World of Depravity. Endless divine power began surging, continuously flowing from all directions into that God of War phantom.
Boom!!!
The God of War phantom was already struggling to deal with that giant and had no extra energy to manage the divine power emanating from the surroundings.
Little did he know, the real killing moves were all in this emanating divine power.
"You need to hurry. The God of War should soon realize all this. If I were the God of War, I'd very likely go down together, abandon this part of divinity, and destroy the Great World of Depravity and the divine power we released." The Goddess of Magic's voice sounded again.
"The Great World of Depravity being destroyed has no effect on us." Ren was quite indifferent. "Being able to make the God of War lose this much divinity is already a profit."
Though He really wanted to finish off the God of War, He also knew that with just this, it was basically impossible—couldn't even severely injure him. But corrupting and consuming some divine power, snatching a tiny bit of authority—that was still something to be happy about.
Two massive divine powers kept interweaving and colliding in the Great World of Depravity, sending out waves. More and more of the God of War's divine power was being devoured by Ren... Suddenly, the Great World of Depravity trembled.
Then a small area suddenly disappeared, becoming something like a black hole.
This wasn't the first piece.
The second piece, the third piece—one after another, they kept disappearing. The area of the Great World of Depravity began rapidly shrinking.
"What's this?" The Goddess of Magic was slightly stunned.
"The Great World of Depravity comes from these Fallen Ones' inner worlds. It might be that the Fallen Ones' brains can't handle the massive computing output, so their brains forcibly shut down. Or they might have brain death or really died. The Great World of Depravity is collapsing."
Using his authority, Ren understood the situation before him almost instantly. "Looks like we need to speed up... Want to join in?"
"No, I need to maintain magic's purity." The Goddess of Magic shook her head slightly.
Her authority was very pure, all coming from magic power. She'd never corrupted anyone else, and no one else could corrupt her.
Hearing this, Ren didn't waste words. Divine power surged from his body as he mobilized almost all his divine power, madly pouring it into that God of War phantom.
On the God of War's side, he seemed to also sense something. After realizing the Great World of Depravity was collapsing, he actually began rapidly withdrawing his divine power. That purple giant kept shrinking and fading...
But precisely because of this, it became even easier to corrupt.
The instant the God of War's phantom disappeared, Ren's divine power suddenly transformed, enveloping the core area of the Great World of Depravity, making it slightly more stable. "Though I couldn't devour all the divine power the God of War released this time, I still swallowed most of it. Plus, I've also buried some divine power corruption in the divine power He took back."
"Your divine power is still relatively weak right now, so it'll be hard to penetrate the God of War's divine realm barrier. But even so, it'll make Him uncomfortable for a while." Divine power corruption buried in the God of War's power that was taken back—it was roughly equivalent to data uploaded that brought back a trojan when downloaded. The God of War with antivirus software probably wouldn't be severely injured by the trojan, but would still be affected. After a slight silence, the Goddess of Magic pointed at the Master of Depravity. "How is it? This Master of Depravity..."
"He's already become my subordinate deity. However, His state seems somewhat special..." For a moment, Ren couldn't find suitable words to describe the Master of Depravity's state.
After a long while, Ren finally spoke: "He doesn't belong to the same kind of deity as us, but He is a naturally born deity on this planet. He exists between illusion and reality, able to wander between all illusion and reality... Simply put, in reality, He is illusory. In illusion, He is real."
In reality He was illusory—meaning He couldn't cause any effects in reality? But in illusion, He was real—so could He influence reality through illusion?
The Goddess of Magic had deep understanding in this area.
"Can He descend to the real world?" After thinking briefly, the Goddess of Magic asked.