Chapter 46: Godslayer
Outside the great hall, a torrential rain poured down, while inside, a series of rumbles echoed.
A blade light flashed, and a stone pillar nearly a meter thick inside the hall was severed into several sections.
Bang!
The shockwave spread, and the Ancient God Nigadi, standing three and a half meters tall with exoskeleton armor covering his entire body, was knocked back several steps. He was puzzled now. In terms of strength, he was slightly superior to Su Xiao, and their speed was comparable, yet in close combat, he was completely suppressed.
Gray-black energy gathered in Nigadi’s hand. As his fist clenched, a peculiar energy fluctuation spread outward.
Dong~
The energy wave swept over Su Xiao, causing him to halt mid-charge. The scene before him twisted, and everything in his sight became double-visioned. This was Nigadi attempting to drag him into the dream world. If his willpower were insufficient, he would have already been pulled in.
The scene returned to normal, and a cool night breeze blew from behind.
A gust of wind pressure rushed toward him. Su Xiao raised his blade to block while blood energy gathered behind him.
Clang!
A spear of light struck the longsword, forcing Su Xiao’s body to lower slightly. In the next moment, the Blood Beast roared skyward and lunged at Nigadi.
Given the Blood Beast’s speed and the distance between Su Xiao and Nigadi, dodging was nearly impossible.
Blood energy exploded, engulfing Nigadi.
Several fragments of broken exoskeleton flew out from the blood energy. When the blood energy dissipated, Nigadi stood in a massive crater. No obvious injuries were visible on his body, but a few cracks had appeared on the exoskeleton covering his head, with black-red blood mist seeping out.
Su Xiao would not miss such an opportunity to suppress Nigadi. The moment the blood energy exploded, he charged forward with his blade.
Zheng!
The longsword slashed across Nigadi’s neck, where there was no exoskeleton, so the blade sank directly into the flesh. It seemed poised to sever Nigadi’s head.
Just as the blade edge entered Nigadi’s neck, the light and shadows around him twisted, making everything appear illusory.
The longsword cut through, leaving a trail of blood in the air, but Nigadi had vanished.
Whoosh—a spear of light flew past Su Xiao’s side, embedding itself into the ground behind him.
Su Xiao sensed the changes around him. Nigadi had disappeared without a trace, not through spatial abilities, but by entering a dream world or something similar.
It seemed Nigadi had fled. He couldn’t drag Su Xiao into the dream world, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t enter it himself.
This was Nigadi’s last resort. He was powerful, but unfortunately, his abilities were countered by Su Xiao. Unable to pull his enemy into a dream, his combat effectiveness dropped by at least forty percent. For Nigadi, this battle was unwinnable.
Inside the hall, Su Xiao scanned his surroundings. He didn’t believe Nigadi could create a massive dream world in such a short time. Based on his analysis, Nigadi’s dream manipulation abilities came in two forms.
First, invading others’ dreams. This ability required a medium and could be used on victims from an extremely long distance. This power was called “Twilight Lord,” which was why Nigadi was known as the Twilight God in the outside world.
Second, generating a dream world and dragging enemies into it.
Now, Nigadi had hidden himself in a dream world he created. The good news was that this hastily made dream world shouldn’t be too large.
As Nigadi’s core ability, manipulating the dream world was effortless for him. After hiding in it, there should be no time limit, and he could gradually expand the dream world. Once it grew large enough, he could use it to escape this isolated island.
Delaying further would clearly work against Su Xiao. If Nigadi escaped, the retaliation would be relentless.
Why hadn’t Nigadi hidden in the dream world from the start to avoid Su Xiao? The reason was simple: as an Ancient God, the type who was ruthless and spoke little, he had his pride. Running away before even fighting wasn’t something Nigadi would do.
Because he couldn’t drag Su Xiao into the dream world, Nigadi had only engaged in close combat for a few minutes before nearly being killed. After all, no one was omnipotent. If Nigadi could have pulled Su Xiao into the dream world, Su Xiao would already be dead. But if he couldn’t, Nigadi would surely die in a direct fight.
Just moments ago, Nigadi had almost been slain by a single slash from Su Xiao. This was highly abnormal. With Nigadi’s 150 points of true stamina and the double-layer skeletal defense within his body, he shouldn’t have been so fragile.
As long as he could drag an enemy into the dream world, Nigadi was an invincible existence. This seemingly unbeatable ability came with a risk: once the dream world was created, if he failed to pull the enemy in, Nigadi would gradually weaken over time. Now, his weakness had reached its peak, so he chose to hide in the dream world.
Su Xiao wasn’t sure if his deductions were correct. If they were, he needed to drag Nigadi out of the dream world as quickly as possible. Nigadi was extremely weak now, and this was the only chance to kill him. Once Nigadi recovered from his weakened state, he could escape.
With the lesson from before, if Nigadi retaliated, he would likely use the Twilight God Cult as his main force, making things much more troublesome.
Su Xiao’s mind raced. The dream world was originally an illusion. To make this illusory world stable enough, it needed a carrier or a coordinate. Nigadi’s speed in moving between the dream world and the real world was too fast. Su Xiao refused to believe there was no fixed coordinate unless Nigadi’s dream world had become completely stable, nearly approaching reality.
If that were the case, Su Xiao would have been dragged into the dream world long ago. Such an ability to create a “small world” was beyond a mid-tier Ancient God.
Su Xiao stomped hard on the ground, shaking the entire hall. A long spear burst out from the earth. Nigadi had always used this spear of light as his melee weapon, even going so far as to modify his right arm for it.
No matter how you looked at it, this was an unnecessary move by Nigadi. But what if this spear of light was his anchor in the real world?
These deductions weren’t baseless. When the spear of light had pierced his forehead earlier, Su Xiao felt as if he had been locked onto, being dragged toward a certain place. Now, it seemed that place was the dream world.
The spear of light wasn’t just a coordinate. Anyone it struck, if their willpower was insufficient, would be directly pulled into the dream world by Nigadi.
Su Xiao grabbed the spear of light, and Cyan Steel Shadow Energy surged along it, beginning to devour the energy enveloping it.
Crackle—pale blue arcs of electricity burst forth, and the surrounding air shattered like glass, crackling loudly.
Crash~
The “world” around them broke apart—no, it was a fragment of the dream world shattering.
Nigadi, who had been crouching, suddenly appeared. The moment he materialized, Su Xiao lunged forward with a thrust.
Pfft!
The longsword pierced through Nigadi’s head. There was no anger or fear in his eyes, only unwillingness. In ten more seconds, his weakened state would have recovered, allowing him to sever the connection between the dream world and the spear of light. At the cost of being temporarily trapped in the dream world, he could have expanded it and eventually escaped.
Su Xiao stepped back, pulled the longsword from Nigadi’s skull, and immediately swung a horizontal slash—no unnecessary or flashy movements.
Swish—Nigadi’s head was severed, clean and decisive.
Nigadi’s tall, headless body collapsed in front of Su Xiao, the exoskeleton on it rapidly cracking. No matter how powerful an existence, death was only a moment away.
[Notification: You have slain the Nightmare God, Nigadi.]
PS: (Only one chapter today. The pain from my cervical spondylosis hasn’t fully subsided yet, so I can only write when it’s not too uncomfortable. Trust me, Feiwen will recover soon. Once I’m better, I’ll immediately return to three chapters a day and even add more as my neck allows. A minor health issue—please understand.)