Chapter 65: Divine Woe
Inside the cave, no one dared to step forward rashly. The tank-type had died too suddenly—after being grabbed by the humanoid monster, he was instantly incinerated, reduced to a charred skeleton.
The only way to handle the current situation was for all the elite pirates under Duke and Empress to charge forward together, along with the Cursed Man, to hold back the humanoid monster ahead.
As for the treasure chest contest, if they couldn't deal with the enemy before them, everything else was meaningless.
Just as Su Xiao was about to order an attack, the world contact platform suddenly pushed out a message. It was from Carnival, who had somehow detected partial information about the humanoid monster and paid 50 Soul Coins to boost the priority of this post.
Carnival did this not out of selflessness. If they didn't deal with this final boss, over ninety percent of those present would die here. The moment battle began, a barrier like a water curtain rose within the ring river that surrounded the central area.
This water curtain barrier's original purpose wasn't to trap outsiders, but to prevent the humanoid monster from leaving after waking. The barrier was linked to the monster's core, so there was no worry about the monster breaking it.
There were two ways to make the water curtain disappear: either force the humanoid monster back into slumber, or destroy it by shattering its core.
The situation was extremely urgent. The humanoid monster had just awakened, instantly killed a tank-type, and then began roaring, as if it harbored boundless fury and hatred, even though it was now just a shell.
Su Xiao checked the information Carnival had posted. The humanoid monster's details were as follows:
Name: Fallen Deity · Oggus
Category: Aberrant Deity (deviated during deification process)
Health: 100%
Primordial Force: ???
Strength: ??? (True Attribute)
Agility: ??? (True Attribute)
Stamina: ??? (True Attribute)
Intelligence: ??? (True Attribute)
Charm: None (This unit is a shell, lacking complete charm attribute judgment)
Skill 1, World's Favor (Passive, Lv.77): Health +98,000 points, immune to all control effects, negate 42% of all damage, completely immune to fire damage below ??? rank.
Warning: Attacking Fallen Deity · Oggus with fire abilities will restore a large amount of health based on the attack's intensity.
Skill 2: Water-Born Fire (Passive, Lv.75): Health +75,000 points, recover 3.5% of maximum health per second.
Note: This recovery has high priority.
Skill 3: ???
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Skill 7: Flame of Sin (Passive, Lv.70): All attacks from Fallen Deity · Oggus inflict an additional 853 points of true flame damage, with a subsequent burning effect. Enemies lose 1% of maximum health per second for 5 seconds.
Skill 8: Burn to Ashes (Active, Lv.72): When grabbed by Fallen Deity · Oggus's massive claws, the target immediately undergoes a true stamina judgment. If the target's stamina attribute is lower than Fallen Deity · Oggus's, they instantly take 7,900 to 8,600 points of burning damage that ignores all defenses, while also taking true flame damage equal to 3.5% of maximum health multiplied by the stamina difference (e.g., a 10-point difference means 35% of maximum health in true flame damage).
Warning: This ability has no cooldown. Each use restores a certain amount of health to Fallen Deity · Oggus.
Skill 9: Vein Flame Surge (Active, Lv.77): Fallen Deity · Oggus slams its claws into the ground, injecting flames into the earth veins. After a 0.5-second charge, it lifts its claws, pulling out the flames from the veins to form a 150-meter-diameter ring of fire.
Note: This attack deals base damage + Flame of Sin (Passive) damage + vein fire damage + impact damage + subsequent burning damage.
Warning: This attack involves a total of five layers of damage judgment!
Skill 10, Divine Beast (Ultimate Ability · Form Type): ???
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Skill 15, Final Hatred (Ultimate Ability · Form Type): ???
Origin of this Fallen Deity: Fallen Deity · Oggus was once a devout bishop who worshipped the Sea God. He traveled across various seas, persuading several great pirates not to slaughter indiscriminately. Initially, Oggus faced ridicule, insults, and even whippings, but he bore no resentment. He was a martyr, willing to sacrifice everything for his cause.
Oggus witnessed too much killing. He once took up arms to eliminate pirates, but after much experience, he realized that killing only breeds hatred, and hatred is the seed of killing. The young pirate who came seeking revenge with a blade was the evil fruit he had sown.
Until one day, Oggus was throat-slit by pirates and sunk into the sea. There, he heard the Demon Sea calling to him, immersing him in the Primordial Water. The Demon Sea chose him, making him the Sea God—the first deity of the Demon Sea in history.
During his transformation into a deity, Oggus sensed too much killing, despair, greed, and more. He bore all the negative emotions of every living being on the Demon Sea. This was the trial of becoming the Sea God.
In the end, Oggus failed and became a Fallen Deity. He rode the Demon Sea, trying to drown the entire world, to wash away everything. Perhaps, in the end, Oggus understood that people's greed is infinite—enough to terrify even the gods.
To this day, Fallen Deity · Oggus is nothing but a shell. This shell, unbound by will, has absorbed all the world's evil. Whenever someone dies horribly on the Demon Sea, their final hatred, despair, and anger are transferred into this shell, making it stronger. This shell has accumulated so much sin that it has ignited a flame of sin within.
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After quickly reviewing this information, Su Xiao sensed trouble.
Fallen Deity · Oggus had been defeated by the third captain of the Doom Number, that nameless person who successfully saved the world.
It seemed like a happy ending, but it wasn't. The shell left by the Fallen Deity couldn't even be destroyed by that savior; it could only be sealed here.
The shell's last remaining consciousness was to wash away the world's evil, but something went wrong along the way. The shell began absorbing the world's negative emotions.
Whenever someone died horribly, the negative emotions they released before death boosted the Fallen Deity's power.
This was a mutated form of faith energy. The despair, unwillingness, and pain released by a person dying horribly were incredibly potent. Consider how vast the Demon Sea was—how many people had died horribly over the years?
All the mutated faith energy generated by these deaths converged on the Fallen Deity. Now, the shell was full, and the flame of sin had ignited within.
Many of Su Xiao's earlier speculations were wrong. The Fallen Deity's flames weren't just flames of greed; they were something far more powerful.
Although he had pieced together the history of the Demon Sea world, Su Xiao no longer cared about that. He already knew why the Fallen Deity had one-shot an eighth-rank tank-type.
"What the hell..."
Black Rose also saw the Fallen Deity's information. The 'surprise' came too suddenly.
"Don't hold back any abilities, or we'll all die!"
The Warden shouted, chains extending from both his sleeves. Each chain was thumb-thick, with small hooks at the tips that glinted coldly.
"Let's go!"
Sweet Orange set aside her conflict with Black Rose, and the two advanced in alternating cover.
A blur shot past them—it was Alec in his half-dragon form. His upper body was covered in dragon scales, and a long dragon tail grew from his tailbone. The brothers Scale Dragon · Alec and Wild Beast · Gask both had inhuman fighting styles.
Waves of energy spread out as Light Bath applied large-scale buffs. To become a poison healer, one first had to be a top-tier healing type.
After several buffs were applied, the contractors felt an inexhaustible surge of power within them, their life force highly active.
Compared to Light Bath, Bubu Wang was much more low-key. Blending into the environment, it activated all three of its auras. In a group battle like this, Bubu Wang feared no healing type.
Frost Aura: Recovers 350 health and 21 mana per minute.
Divine Gift Aura: Increases maximum health cap by 20%.
Awakening Aura: Increases stamina recovery rate by 28%.
With all three auras active, both the contractors and the elite pirates benefited from Bubu Wang's aura boosts, their morale skyrocketing.