The Era of Gods

Chapter 459: Chapter 459: The Finger of God

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This was an entire island, and when He appeared, with a roar, a massive black fog force field exploded and spread rapidly, reaching over twenty kilometers in an instant, enveloping even the distant Lizard Lord Tribe within it.

Within this aura, the air became viscous, movements slowed, and every action required twice the strength compared to before.

To him, it was nothing, but for the warriors of the Dragon Tribe engaged in battle, it was a catastrophe.

The steel armor, shields, and weapons they were equipped with were already heavy. The armors had to be thick for high defense, and even light armors had some thickness. Since they needed to use twice the strength now, their immediate combat power and endurance dropped significantly. In this state, it was estimated they wouldn’t last long before exhausting themselves.

Moreover, as soon as the battle commenced, the other side’s wizards kept casting curses on the warriors, the two effects compounding…

Shen Yuexin raised the huge Thunder Staff and slammed it down hard, causing a ring of lightning to explode, clearing the curses and aura from the Dragon Tribe warriors, with countless fine bolts of lightning bursting where the lightning intercepted the black fog.

Activating the Lightning Domain alone didn’t consume much, but now she had to continuously expend Divine Power to resist the full-scale erosion of the black fog domain, steadily draining her Divine Power.

Of course, given her wealth, this degree of consumption was no problem. She was only slightly worried about her boyfriend.

A domain with a diameter of over twenty kilometers was beyond the reach of any Demigod in the Pantheon System of the Main God Realm. Clearly, although the King of Ten Thousand Lizards was still a Demigod, he possessed some sort of authority that transcended that of a Demigod.

It was also fortunate that this plane couldn’t give birth to a True God, otherwise, with the accumulation over tens of thousands of years, the King of Ten Thousand Lizards probably would have achieved Divine Enthronement long ago.

Now, she could only maintain the Lightning Domain to protect her subordinates. She was temporarily unable to care for her boyfriend’s side.

Of course, she also had confidence in her boyfriend, who had repeatedly worked miracles, and Elder Lin Xiao had seemed confident before, so although she was worried, she wasn’t overly so.

Looking ahead, the Lightning Domain had stabilized her subordinates, and only when the warriors of the Dragon Tribe had regained their footing did she dare to look up into the distance, into the depths of the black fog sea that surged like tumultuous waves, where she saw the towering King of Ten Thousand Lizards barely visible in the black fog, and…

Witnessing the domain of the King of Ten Thousand Lizards, comparable to that of a True God, Lin Xiao sighed, feeling relieved that he had an ace up his sleeve. Otherwise, to defeat these two Main Tribes, the snake and the lizard, it would take more than five years of development, a full force of the Shao Qing Tribe, and a great sacrifice before possibly exhausting these two senior Totems who had lived for over ten thousand years.

But now, facing the surging, rising tide of the Black Fog Sea, he simply extended his right hand in a clutching motion, and then a ball of golden light quickly condensed in the palm of his right hand, the surrounding void and air swiftly contracting toward his hand to form a twisted vortex, rapidly expanding into a swirl.

The King of Ten Thousand Lizards below couldn’t fly, but as the black fog grew, lifting upwards, it agilely shuttled through the fog like sea water, constantly rising with the black fog to get closer to Lin Xiao.

As the twisted mass in his right hand turned into a vortex, the King of Ten Thousand Lizards in the black fog felt threatened. Accompanying a soul-shaking screech, the Black Fog Sea suddenly bulged up, shaping into a lizard claw-like giga-claw, with a diameter of a kilometer, that fiercely swept towards Lin Xiao.

“Boom!”

The giant claw struck the target, but it was like seawater hitting rock—unmoving and unshakeable, the water shattered into a sky full of black fog that spread between heaven and earth.

Through the breaking gaps of black fog, Lin Xiao had transformed into a sun-like sphere of light, its scorching golden light blooming, rapidly dissolving the surrounding black fog. Soon the heavens and earth cleared, and a colossal indent formed in the black fog sea that had risen a thousand meters high.

The King of Ten Thousand Lizards, at this point, had shrunk down to the very bottom of the black fog sea. A hint of shock appeared for the first time in its giant lizard eyes as it uttered in human speech:

“What strength is this?”

A voice emanated from the sun-like sphere of light:

“The strength to kill you!”

As soon as the words fell, the brightness of the sphere rapidly increased, expanding as the black fog below melted like snow. It wasn’t long before the murky swamp below and the King of Ten Thousand Lizards lying in wait in the murky waters were revealed, and even the Black Fog Domain erected by the King of Ten Thousand Lizards was eroded away, leaving a large pit.

Then, an intense fluctuation of space emanated from the sun, as endless light converged to form a finger—only three meters in diameter and about twenty meters long—of infinite light that slowly descended.

As the finger descended, the King of Ten Thousand Lizards trembled violently, maintaining a difficult posture to lift its head and watch the light finger falling towards itself, but it was completely immobile.

It wasn’t that it didn’t want to move, but it couldn’t.

The Divine Strike of a True God had already locked the space it occupied, rendering it completely immobile. It could only watch helplessly as the light finger, descending slowly yet firmly, touched its skull.

Then, a scream that resonated across the entire tribe rang out, and the light finger pressed through a layer of black fog and the hard scales of the King of Ten Thousand Lizards, slowly sinking into its skull.

Subsequently, within the Lizard Totem Tribe, the great totem pillar that blazed with black flames suddenly dimmed, then quickly extinguished.

The Tribe Great Wizard, who was praying, lifted his head toward the extinguished Totem Pillar, unsure of how to react. After a moment, his face turned to one of horror, and he said in a trembling voice:

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“Our totem has fallen!”

When a tribe’s totem suddenly collapses, various anomalies occur, with the most direct being the extinguishment of the Totem Pillar. Then, the mages who derive their strength from the totem find their power disappearing rapidly, as black smoke begins to emit from their eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouths. More and more smoke emerges until flames replace it, and their bodies commence to burn.

On the battlefield, the warriors of The King of Ten Thousand Lizards suddenly feel a void within themselves, as if they have lost something crucial all of a sudden.

These warriors, who aren’t directly linked to the totem like the mages, are not immediately affected by its sudden fall. Still, it is foreseeable that, in the coming days, they will grow progressively weaker until they lose all of the powers conferred by the totem.

The changes in the tribal mages and totem warriors directly impact the battle situation. The Lizard Lord Tribe’s totem warriors, already at a disadvantage, are caught off guard by this sudden onset of weakness, and one after another, they falter and are slain.

Even though other tribes’ mages and totem warriors remain unaffected, in the Lizard Lord Tribe, most mages and totem warriors derive their power from The King of Ten Thousand Lizards. Now, with its sudden fall, the entire Lizard Tribe’s strength plummets dramatically.

The body of The King of Ten Thousand Lizards is largely intact, but its soul has perished.

The treasure granted by Elder Lin Xiao contained the full-force strike of a seasoned True God, something even The King of Ten Thousand Lizards, experienced as it was, could not withstand.

The body is of little value. Although its power is comparable to that of a Demigod, its physical body is not that of a Demigod, and after death, it has no other value. At most, it could become a puppet corpse awakened by an Undead Mage.

Although it is possible for his True Body to transfer a scroll of a Legend-level Undead spell through the Creation Rubik’s Cube, Lin Xiao does not do so. Think of it; such a creature would emit an overpoweringly strong aura of death, easily affecting the surroundings for several kilometers. Meaning if this being were turned into the Undead, everything within a few kilometers would be transformed into a land of the Undead.

Of course, he doesn’t currently need this combat power. Without rank, soul, and only possessing a body, it would have a combat power of at most Rank 9 high-end Legend level, which is not indispensable to him.

However, The King of Ten Thousand Lizards’ totem is a prized artifact. Accumulated over ten thousand years, its level is extremely high, and he quickly collects it, planning to refine it upon his return.

On the other side, at the main tribal battlefield, with the fall of The King of Ten Thousand Lizards, the warriors of the Lizard Lord Tribe’s morale completely collapses. Now, their continued resistance is only for the sake of the tribe behind them and hoping that the other totems of the tribe can rush back in time.

Regarding this, Lin Xiao thinks they are too hopeful. Following his instantaneous slaying of The King of Ten Thousand Lizards with a thunderous tactic, the approaching aura of many totems hesitates momentarily and starts to hover in the distance, yet none dare to continue their return.

They are filled with fear and confusion but do not dare to return.

They do not know how the mighty The King of Ten Thousand Lizards fell. The powerful force displayed by the treasure from Elder Lin Xiao is something other totems cannot perceive. They can only vaguely sense a power that makes their hearts tremble, without knowing its nature.

Not just them. Many seniors and fellow students within this realm cannot sense what is happening here either.

Besides the fact that Lin Xiao is now a totem himself, he also consciously contained the fluctuations of power when he executed that thunderous move, such that even the totems slightly farther away on the island might not detect it, let alone the seniors across the endless seas on the main continent.

The seniors may be strong, but they are not True Gods. They do not possess such miraculous knowledge.

Of course, if his girlfriend, who is not yet a totem, were to employ such a tactic, they would definitely sense it. She is currently an outsider. Any significant action she takes would attract the attention of the seniors.

When he returns to his girlfriend’s side, she stares at him with large eyes full of disbelief and asks,

“How could you bring this thing over? Didn’t the teacher detect it during the descent?”

Such life-saving measures are almost a common possession, but they are not allowed to be brought during descent. At least his girlfriend didn’t bring any, no wonder she is surprised.

Lin Xiao chuckles and says,

“Have you forgotten what I told you before? I have a treasure that can contact my True Body and can transfer some small items. That’s how this treasure was brought over.”

Upon hearing this, her eyes immediately light up brilliantly, and she says excitedly,

“If that’s the case, then have your True Body contact mine and bring me some things.”

He gently touches her silky hair and replies,

“That is certainly possible, but as you are not a totem right now, and are an outsider to this realm, using such out-of-standard objects will cause you to be rejected by the realm.”

She blinks her beautiful large eyes and, pointing a delicate finger at his forehead, says,

“Are you being silly? I can use it for you. I have many treasures that were given to me when I last went home by my dad, my brother, and my dad’s subordinates. I’ll write a note for you to pass to my True Body, so she can prepare.”