Chapter 19: Unintentional Success
Linley’s heart was clear!
When he first entered the planar battlefield, Linley had also discovered many military camps. Most of these camps were stationed along the Stellar River and had remained quiet all along. Linley hadn’t understood why. Now he knew… at the very last moment, the two great armies would clash and slaughter each other.
“That’s too cruel. It’s like sending people to their deaths,” Linley couldn’t help but say.
“Cruel as it may be, it’s also the best opportunity to earn military merits,” Beirut said with a faint smile. “In that kind of chaotic melee between two great armies, even Commanders might die amidst the chaos. And those with good luck might suddenly collect a large number of soldier badges, or even obtain a Commander badge! That’s the time of greatest harvest, and also the time of greatest danger.”
In Linley’s mind, a scene immediately emerged: densely packed masses of highgods charging and slaughtering each other, with Commanders among them.
That was indeed a very terrifying sight.
“You’d best collect enough Commander badges before that,” Beirut said with a faint smile.
Linley nodded. During the chaotic melee of the two armies, one could indeed gain great benefits, but it was also far more dangerous.
“If I haven’t collected enough Commander badges within the thousand-year period, I’ll have no choice but to join the melee,” Linley silently said to himself. For the sake of his family and brothers, Linley would not back down.
Before them was a small, charred, lifeless mountain, a common sight in the planar battlefield.
“Crunch.” Bebe was eating a fruit.
Linley, who had been sitting cross-legged in meditation, suddenly opened his eyes.
“Eh? Boss? Got some news from Grandpa Beirut?” Bebe’s eyes lit up immediately as he spoke. Linley smiled and nodded: “Right. I now know most of the Commander-level figures from the various planes. From today on… like this, I’ll control the Death God Puppet alone and go out to lure Commanders.”
Time was plentiful, so Linley wasn’t in a hurry.
“Mm.” Bebe grinned and nodded. “Good. I was thinking of taking a nap here anyway. Call me when you find a target, Boss.” Even in the planar battlefield, Bebe was in the mood to sleep.
“This planar war still has over eight hundred, nearly nine hundred years left. Such a long time should be put to good use. Perhaps I can use this period to fuse the four profound mysteries of the Laws of the Earth,” Linley said with emotion.
“Huh? Four? Right, Boss, your Profound Mysteries of Earth Pulse, Earth Element, and Gravity Space are all compatible, aren’t they? The fusion should be relatively fast, right?” Bebe muttered.
“They’re all compatible. What I need to do now is to fuse the Profound Mystery of Strength with the Earth Element and Gravity Space separately. Once those separate fusions are successful, I can proceed to the overall fusion. I estimate it will take about another hundred years for the separate fusions to succeed,” Linley said with a faint smile. In truth, in the sixty or seventy years since arriving in the Netherworld, Linley had already made significant progress.
After all, once they were compatible, reaching the bottleneck of fusion was just a matter of time.
“Hey, once you fuse four profound mysteries, Boss, your attack power will increase by a huge margin!” Bebe said excitedly.
“Actually, I already have a direction in mind,” Linley said with a faint smile.
Having witnessed the attacks of Lord Chiyan and Hermes, Linley had gained some insights.
Bebe either slept or trained, slowly waiting. Linley’s clones were all in training, while his main body controlled the Death God Puppet outside. Time flowed on like this… In the blink of an eye, another two months passed.
“Only two months, and I’ve already lost one Death God Puppet.” Linley shook his head helplessly. “Half a month ago, I saw that super expert from the Divine Light Plane. I controlled the Death God Puppet to flee, but that guy chased after it and destroyed my Death God Puppet. He even searched the surrounding area. Luckily, we were hidden deep… his divine sense couldn’t extend in here.”
Bebe opened his eyes and laughed: “It’s just one Death God Puppet. Small change. Nothing to worry about.”
“I should have bought more to bring in,” Linley said.
At that moment, Linley was already controlling another Death God Puppet to patrol outside.
“Two months, and we haven’t found a suitable opponent,” Bebe sighed.
“Stop sighing. If I hadn’t gone to Grandpa Beirut to check on information about some experts, we might have gone out to attack that super expert last time. Lucky we dodged that bullet,” Linley said with a laugh. Just as Linley and Bebe were talking, suddenly—
“Boom!”
The entire mountain shook violently. Quite a few rocks fell down, hitting Linley and Bebe.
“What’s going on? What’s that noise?” Bebe frowned.
“Wait a moment. The Death God Puppet I’m controlling is a few thousand meters away… Oh, the Death God Puppet sees it. Two experts are fighting!” Linley said in surprise.
Next to the mountain where Linley and Bebe were, two figures were crossing paths. One was a purple blur, the other a white blur. From the purple blur, hazy purple blade shadows flew out. One of those blade shadows slashed heavily into the small mountain beside them.
“Bang!”
With a violent collision, the two were knocked apart by the rebound. The purple blur was a sinister-looking young man in a purple robe with green eyes, while the white blur was a handsome silver-haired, blue-eyed young man. The silver-haired, blue-eyed young man’s face was full of anger.
“Langslo! Don’t go too far! We’re from the same camp. Why must you kill me?” the silver-haired young man shouted.
“Hmph, so what if we’re from the same camp? When you enter the planar battlefield, you have to be prepared to be hunted,” the green-eyed, purple-robed young man said coldly. Then, without another word, purple electric snakes began to writhe all over his body. Even in the sky, clouds of electric snakes appeared.
The silver-haired young man’s face changed.
In terms of speed, he couldn’t outrun Langslo, who cultivated the Laws of Lightning. There was no escape! He had to fight!
Knowing he was weaker than his opponent, he could only brace himself. With a low roar: “Langslo, since you won’t give me a chance, I won’t let you off easy either!” A white light appeared on the silver-haired young man’s body surface. With a cold shout, a white spear and a transparent spear materialized on his body surface.
Material attack and soul attack combined!
“Swish!”
The two spears superimposed, and the illusory white spear shot directly towards the opponent.
“Die,” the green-eyed, purple-robed young man said coldly.
“Rumble…” From the thunderclouds in the sky, a giant snake formed from purple lightning suddenly descended. At the same time, a giant snake formed from cyan lightning emerged from within the green-eyed, purple-robed young man. These two giant snakes surrounded the white-robed, silver-haired young man from two directions.
At that moment, the spear had already reached the green-eyed, purple-robed young man.
“Hmph!” The green-eyed, purple-robed young man snorted coldly.
He extended his right hand, and a purple light mass condensed at his index finger, directly colliding with the illusory spear.
“Bang!”
The illusory white spear, which was a combination of material and soul attacks, shattered entirely. The material attack… couldn’t even wound the green-eyed, purple-robed young man’s finger. The soul attack was also broken.
“Crackle…”
The white-robed, silver-haired young man, now surrounded by the purple and cyan electric snakes, changed expression. The two electric snakes, which had slightly different attributes, created a special spatial electric field, ionizing the space itself. The special lightning particles ravaged the white-robed, silver-haired young man’s body.
“Ahhh…” The white-robed young man roared in anger, tilting his head back.
A powerful aura emanated from within him, and a white halo spread out.
“At the last moment, you’re still going to use Sovereign power to fight? If you use Sovereign power, and I use Sovereign power, won’t the result be the same?” Langslo sneered inwardly. A powerful aura also emanated from his body, and a purple halo began to spread over his body surface.
Just as the two experts were about to use Sovereign power, Linley and Bebe quietly left the mountain belly. Following the underground, they arrived at a chaotic area covered with dense vegetation and weeds. Linley and Bebe hid there, watching the two experts fighting in the distance.
“Both are very strong,” Bebe praised.
“The white-robed young man is Commander Urand of the Divine Light Plane, and the green-eyed, purple-robed young man is Commander Langslo of the Lightning Divine Plane. According to the information Grandpa Beirut gave us, this Langslo is an extremely troublesome Commander,” Linley transmitted. “Urand is skilled in soul attacks, while Langslo is skilled in both soul and material attacks. He’s also extremely fast and has a defensive Sovereign artifact fused into his body surface.” Bebe was startled.
“A defensive Sovereign artifact fused into his body surface? Just like the Grand Elder?”
Linley nodded slightly, continuing to watch the battle in the distance: “Because of the defensive Sovereign artifact, Langslo is invincible in material defense. He’s also extremely skilled in soul defense. So, breaking through his soul defense is also very difficult. This person… is a very strong Commander.”
Langslo had almost no weaknesses.
Cultivating the Laws of Lightning, he was fast, and strong in all aspects. Even among the many Commanders, he was considered upper-class.
“However…” Linley smiled. “Bebe, you just happen to counter him!”
To resist Bebe’s innate divine ability, Soul Devourer, one needed to be a Paragon or have a soul defensive Sovereign artifact. This Langslo had met his match! Normally, Langslo’s soul defense was already very strong, but unfortunately… Bebe’s ability was an innate divine ability, not comparable to ordinary soul attacks.
“Gaga, Boss, leave it to me.” Bebe was also getting excited.
“The battle is about to end,” Linley transmitted.
Indeed, the white-robed young man, Urand, was completely at a disadvantage. The green-eyed, purple-robed young man, Langslo, finally delivered a material attack, causing Urand’s entire body to explode.
“Haha…” Langslo laughed as he walked over, picking up a golden badge and a spatial ring from the ground.
Just then— “Who’s there!” Langslo shouted impatiently, turning his head. He had sensed movement nearby, but he didn’t care. Even among Commanders, very few could kill him.
“Huh?” Langslo was stunned by what he saw.
A black blur shot over, and while still in mid-air, a huge phantom of a Soul Devourer Rat appeared. The cold eyes of the Soul Devourer Rat phantom were fixed on him. Langslo’s face changed drastically as he was stared at: “Beirut? Ah! No—”
Langslo was about to go mad.
He had almost no weaknesses, but that was relative to the vast majority of Commanders. It didn’t mean he had no weaknesses at all. If he were perfectly without weaknesses, he wouldn’t need to come to the planar battlefield. Beirut’s innate divine ability, Soul Devourer, was very famous and was exactly what countered people like him. When faced with this move, unless one had a soul defensive Sovereign artifact or was a Paragon, anyone who saw it would die.
Innate divine abilities were just that overbearing!
Langslo didn’t understand why the legendary Beirut, whose body surpassed the hardness of a divine spark and could even fight bare-handed against Sovereign artifacts, and who also had a soul defensive Sovereign artifact, was completely without any weaknesses. That kind of person… was already at the very peak.
Why would he come to the planar battlefield?
He didn’t understand!
But he wouldn’t have the chance to understand!
A special fluctuation directly swept over his soul. His soul defense was completely useless against it.
Langslo stood there dumbfounded. There was no longer any trace of the sinister aura in his green eyes. He looked completely wooden. Then, with a “boom,” he fell directly to the ground. A divine spark floated up, a golden badge fell out of his body, and a dark purple suit of armor also emerged from within him.
“A golden badge, a material defensive Sovereign artifact.” Linley’s eyes lit up.
Linley and Bebe turned into two streaks of light, directly collecting the golden badge, the material defensive Sovereign artifact, and the spatial ring.
“Let’s go quickly. We can’t stay here any longer.”
Linley and Bebe immediately left the spot, not having time to examine their gains carefully.