Chapter 44: Nightmare God
The rain outside grew heavier. Amu blocked the entrance of the great hall, while Baha landed on its shoulder as a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky.
Inside the hall, the Ancient God sat upon his throne. The situation was now clear: either Su Xiao died here, or the Ancient God would meet his end today.
The Apostle's Eye floated beside Su Xiao. This was why he hadn't struck directly—obtaining the enemy's intelligence would give him an advantage.
[Comparing both parties' intelligence attributes... Comparison complete. Our intelligence attribute is 0.89 times that of the enemy. The enemy's intelligence attribute has broken through the 150-point true attribute barrier. Only 43% of the enemy's data obtained.]
[Note: Due to suppressed detection and the Hunter forcing this detection to completion, the Apostle's Eye (Legendary Rank) maximum durability has been permanently reduced by 5 points. Maximum durability has decreased from 75 points to 70 points.]
Name: Nightmare God · Nigadi
Category: Ancient God
Health: 100%
Divine Energy (Ancient): 49100/49100 points
Strength: 149 (True Attribute)
Agility: 139 (True Attribute)
Endurance: 150 (True Attribute)
Intelligence: 156 (True Attribute, Barrier Broken)
Charm: 2
Skill 1, Mid-Rank Deity (Passive, LV.72): Health +85000 points. Immune to all control effects. Ignores barrier-type abilities. Can nullify alternate space imprisonment.
Skill 2, Night Faith · Madness (Passive, Lv.73): Ancient God Nigadi can bestow Night Faith upon his followers and cause their mutation through faith energy.
Note: Due to commanding too many followers, this ability is in an unstable state.
Note: If Eternal Night descends, this ability will reach X rank.
Skill 3, Ancient God (Active, Lv.60): Ancient God Nigadi has no direct descendants. This ability is pending activation.
Skill 4, Light-Extinguishing Domain (Passive, Lv.60): Ancient God Nigadi can strip light sources within a 500-meter radius, forming an absolute darkness zone. If an enemy unit is within this domain, they will be temporarily stripped of perception, vision, five senses, mind's eye, and other sensory abilities.
Note: This ability requires targeting an enemy unit to take effect. If the target is judged dead or leaves the domain, this ability will be interrupted.
Note: This ability has no cooldown. Each use consumes 1700 points of Divine Energy (Ancient).
Skill 5, Assaye · Light Spear (Active, Lv.68): Ancient God Nigadi can summon the Light Spear of 'Assaye.' This was the weapon of the neutral deity, Light Flame Goddess Assaye, during her life. After her death, it was seized by Ancient God Nigadi.
Note: The Light Spear is a divine weapon. Attacks deal 675 points of true light damage + user's Strength attribute × 5.3 physical damage + user's Intelligence attribute × 7.9 mental damage + 1700 points of base damage.
Note: The Light Spear possesses extremely strong armor-piercing capabilities and ignores physical defense.
Note: Due to the rejection between the Light Spear and Ancient God Nigadi's divine energy, Ancient God Nigadi loses 27 points of health per second when using the Light Spear (originally 760 points per second; after Nigadi modified his right arm, health consumption was greatly reduced).
Skill 6, Indestructible Armor · Bone (Passive, Lv.57): ???
Skill 7, ???
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Skill 12, Twilight Lord (Active, Lv.58): ???
Skill 13, Despair · Dream (Ultimate Ability): ???
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The data obtained was limited but still valuable. Ancient God Nigadi's attributes were quite formidable. Aside from his eye-catching Charm attribute, his other stats were not weak.
His Intelligence attribute in particular had broken through the 150-point barrier, which was troublesome. Just the detection alone had permanently reduced the Apostle's Eye's maximum durability.
In most cases, enemies of this intelligence type were not strong in melee combat, but Ancient God Nigadi had once killed a neutral goddess and seized a weapon from her—the Light Spear.
With a total of 13 abilities, plus powerful true attributes, it seemed Su Xiao couldn't contend with Ancient God Nigadi.
But one thing absolutely could not be ignored: Ancient God Nigadi had no technique-type abilities, while Su Xiao was a Blade Grandmaster, Blade Grandmaster Lv.41.
The reason Ancient God Nigadi lacked technique-type abilities was that these Ancient Gods, with their high starting points, generally looked down on initially weak technique-type abilities.
At least in Ancient God Nigadi's view, they were merely mortal abilities. Even if powerful, they couldn't be that strong, so there was no point wasting time on them.
On the throne, Ancient God Nigadi slowly stood up. The darkness around him dissipated, revealing his true form.
Ancient God Nigadi stood about three and a half meters tall. His torso was covered in gray-white exoskeleton, like ribs growing on the outside. It appeared gray-white but was exceptionally tough.
Nigadi's head was also wrapped in exoskeleton. His mouth had a row of air holes, and from the back of his head grew rows of upright bone spikes. In his eyes were only coldness, cruelty, and contempt for everything.
What drew the most attention were Nigadi's arms. His left arm was pitch black, with rough skin that clearly had strong defensive capabilities. His right arm was completely gray-white, formed entirely of bone, with intricate joint structures.
This arm, composed entirely of bone, was modified by Nigadi to use the Light Spear. This spear had once pierced through his chest. Nigadi was indeed arrogant, but he pursued power. Thus, he didn't hesitate to sacrifice his right arm to use this spear. Perhaps this was a dream-chasing Ancient God—willing to give up many things in pursuit of power.
Ancient God Nigadi standing there alone gave an extremely strong sense of oppression. An ordinary person would have already knelt on the ground.
A hundred meters away, Su Xiao suddenly snapped his fingers. He did this to attract Ancient God Nigadi's attention.
As soon as Su Xiao snapped his fingers, Amu turned and fled. Baha flew high into the sky. As for Bubu Wang, it had already passed through the wall and was escaping into the distance.
The reason Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha acted this way was because of one of Ancient God Nigadi's abilities: Light-Extinguishing Domain.
To activate this domain, Ancient God Nigadi needed to select a target for judgment. Su Xiao might be able to withstand this judgment, but Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha definitely could not.
If any one of them failed the judgment, they would become a burden, dragging Su Xiao into the darkness together. Within the Light-Extinguishing Domain, perception was useless, and the situation would be disastrous.
Therefore, Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha were fleeing into the distance. As long as they left the domain's maximum judgment range of 500 meters, Ancient God Nigadi couldn't touch them.
Hum～
Energy fluctuations surged. A nearly three-meter-long ornate spear appeared in Nigadi's hand. With his three-and-a-half-meter height, the Light Spear looked somewhat short when he wielded it.
Golden light and darkness intertwined on the Light Spear, devouring each other. This spear, representing hope and light, seemed to be crying out. Its master, the goddess who governed the day, had died in a dream, brutally murdered by an evil god.
Ancient God Nigadi did not use this weapon as a spear. From his grip, it seemed more like he was using a sword.
After all, for Nigadi, the Light Spear was somewhat short. It was not his weapon, and he couldn't wield it with the grace of that goddess. He only valued the spear's power, nothing more. Whether he used it to cut or smash, as long as it could kill the enemy, that was enough.
Ancient God Nigadi locked eyes with Su Xiao. He raised his pitch-black left arm. The next moment, darkness engulfed Su Xiao's vision. Through the team channel, Su Xiao learned that Baha had failed the judgment. Fortunately, Baha had already fled far and would soon escape the Light-Extinguishing Domain.
Everything before him was pitch black. His perception was completely suppressed. Aside from himself and the blade in his hand, Su Xiao could sense nothing else.
Almost instinctively, Su Xiao held Dragon-Slaying Flash horizontally in front of him. Unfortunately, he couldn't block the enemy's attack.
A stabbing pain came from between his eyebrows. Su Xiao immediately entered the Space Penetration state.