Chapter 41: Could He Be?
“Hoo… hoo…”
The multicolored spatial turbulence streaked past like a dazzling array of meteors, converging into this rainbow-hued spatial ‘torrent.’
Over a dozen figures stood amidst the spatial turbulence, each with astonishment written on their faces.
“I never expected that O’Brian would pass the ‘Cycle Golden Body’ to Augustus! Hmph. The Four Divine Beasts’ blood essence… in the end, it still fell into O’Brian’s hands.” The Destruction Overlord ‘Uttred’ wore a grim expression. “It seems Linley traded the Four Divine Beasts’ blood essence with Augustus, and Augustus then gave it to O’Brian!”
Uttred’s face grew even darker.
“Linley, ah, Linley!” Uttred was also furious at heart.
At that moment, a blurry phantom began to gradually emerge on Augustus’s surface.
“Huh?” Linley’s heart jolted with alarm. On guard, he immediately controlled his Water-type Sovereign clone and Wind-type Sovereign clone to merge into his body.
“Linley, if you value your life, you’d better retreat,” Augustus said coldly.
“If you have any tricks, go ahead and use them. Otherwise, I’ll make my move,” Linley replied, appearing generous but inwardly cautious.
Now that he couldn’t gauge Augustus’s true strength, a rash attack might lead him into a trap. It was better to defend carefully and first probe his opponent’s capabilities.
“Hmph. Then die.” Augustus snorted coldly.
Linley grew even more vigilant.
Augustus’s gaze was like lightning as he stared coldly at Linley. The phantom on his surface expanded, forming a golden giant phantom a hundred meters tall. The overwhelming aura made even Linley instinctively cautious: “A divine ability? What kind of divine beast is Augustus? But… he has as many as 182 children!”
Linley had never heard that Augustus was a divine beast.
“Boom!” A golden phantom shot out from Augustus’s mouth, hurtling toward Linley.
Linley focused, raising the Life Supreme God Sword to defend.
The golden phantom collided with Linley’s Life Supreme God Sword and dissipated with a ‘puff.’
“What!” Linley was stunned. “How is it so weak?”
Given the momentum and power Augustus had just made, Linley thought it was his ultimate move. But he never expected it to be just a ‘feint.’ The golden phantom’s attack power, even if it struck Linley, wouldn’t harm him in the slightest—clearly meant to scare him.
“Haha, Linley, you’re so easy to fool!” Augustus’s arrogant laughter echoed in Linley’s mind.
“I’ve been tricked!” Linley’s expression changed drastically.
By then, Augustus was already ten thousand miles away.
“Whoosh.” Linley’s speed surged to its limit as he gave chase at top speed.
In that brief moment, Linley figured it out: “The Cycle Golden Body only strengthens his body and slightly boosts his physical attacks—like my Dragonization. But with a tenfold gap between us, that slight boost from a stronger body can’t change the difference in our strength.”
“Boom!” The dark green fused divine power within Linley erupted wildly.
In his Dragonized state, Linley pushed with all his might, steadily closing the distance with Augustus.
“This Linley’s strength has increased so much! The boost from the ‘Cycle Golden Body’ alone is useless against him.” Though Augustus acted arrogantly, he was inwardly bitter. Glancing back, he saw Linley rapidly approaching. “O’Brian, hurry up! Otherwise—”
In the Celestial Realm, at the August Garden.
The August Garden housed eight Sovereigns, including its master, ‘O’Brian.’
“Linley’s strength has increased this much, forcing Augustus into such a state?” The white-haired, white-robed O’Brian stood upright, his gaze cold. “If pushed to the last step, given Augustus’s nature, he’ll definitely do it. Uttred and the others will surely guess…”
“No choice!”
The white-robed elder ‘O’Brian’ waved his hand, and the entire ‘August Garden’ rapidly shrank, finally turning into a blurry light that merged into O’Brian’s body.
“Lord O’Brian!”
The servants in the garden, along with the seven Sovereigns, looked at him in confusion.
Why was O’Brian putting away the August Garden?
“Sss—” O’Brian’s face was calm as he waved his hand, tearing open a spatial rift before stepping into the spatial turbulence.
These seven Sovereigns were the ones who had submitted to the Fate Overlord ‘O’Brian,’ including Manlu, Bo Tie’er, and others.
“Lord O’Brian seems off,” Manlu frowned. “In the past, no matter how big the matter, he faced it with a smile. Nothing ever affected his mood. But just now…”
A blue-haired, three-eyed beauty also said in confusion, “And Lord O’Brian rarely carries the August Garden on him.”
“Let’s go. We’ll see for ourselves.” The Fire-type Sovereign ‘Bo Tie’er’ also waved his hand, tearing open a spatial rift, and led the way into the spatial turbulence. The other six puzzled Sovereigns didn’t hesitate and followed closely into the spatial turbulence, eager to find out what was happening.
They extended their divine sense.
“What!”
The seven Sovereigns’ expressions changed. “Linley and Augustus—two Overlord-level experts…”
By the time they entered the spatial turbulence, the number of Sovereigns watching this battle had already increased to over twenty.
“No wonder Lord O’Brian left. It’s because Augustus is in trouble.” These experts, who had submitted to the Fate Overlord ‘O’Brian,’ all knew of the friendship between Augustus and O’Brian.
“Let’s fly over, but keep our distance. If we get caught in the blast, we might die.”
The seven Sovereigns also moved closer. In fact, many watching Sovereigns were approaching Linley and Augustus, but they maintained at least hundreds of millions of miles of distance—a safe range given Sovereigns’ reaction speeds.
Energy blasts couldn’t travel that far and still harm a Sovereign.
Linley was now only a few hundred miles from Augustus, down from over ten thousand miles, showing the speed difference between them.
A thousand years ago, Linley had already been slightly faster than Augustus.
Now, with his strength increased tenfold, though the fusion of four laws’ mysteries mainly boosted offense, speed also saw some improvement—the ‘Explosion Mystery’ and others could enhance speed further. Even with Augustus’s body transformation boosting his speed, he was still slower than Linley.
“Hmm? O’Brian’s here?” Linley’s divine sense easily detected O’Brian.
Augustus also sensed O’Brian’s arrival and rejoiced, immediately sending a mental message to Linley: “Linley, your pursuit of me has already reached Lord O’Brian. You should know that after this planar war, Lord O’Brian owes me another favor. If you dare lay a hand on me, Lord O’Brian will surely kill you.”
“Hmph, Augustus, save your breath. Threats don’t work on me,” Linley sneered, closing the distance again to two hundred miles.
“Linley.” A warm, friendly voice sounded.
“Lord O’Brian,” Linley replied politely.
O’Brian had just set out from the Celestial Realm, while Linley and Augustus had only recently flown out of the Light Sovereign Plane. The distance between them was enormous. Even if O’Brian rushed at full speed, it would take several minutes to arrive. For Sovereigns, a second could hold countless exchanges, and those minutes were enough for Linley and Augustus to settle life and death.
“Linley, Augustus is a close friend of mine. Whatever grievances you have with him, I’d like to advise you to stop for now,” O’Brian sent mentally.
“Impossible,” Linley refused.
“For my sake, how about it?” O’Brian’s voice remained calm.
Though he had once felt some goodwill toward O’Brian, Linley now felt a surge of anger. Back then, the one who tricked him into giving up the ‘Four Divine Beasts’ blood essence’ included the Fate Overlord ‘O’Brian’ as an accomplice. Now, O’Brian was trying to persuade him to spare Augustus!
“Sorry, but today, he must die!” Linley’s tone hardened.
By now, Linley and Augustus were only about a hundred miles apart.
“Linley, do you intend to kill him right under my nose?” The Fate Overlord ‘O’Brian’ finally grew angry, his tone turning cold and sharp. “I wanted to be friends with you, but if you’re set on this path, then in the end, I’ll have no choice but to kill you. I think if I want to kill you, no one can stop me!”
Linley’s heart sank.
O’Brian was going to act?
In an instant, Linley’s mind raced, and he had already planned an escape route.
“Linley, if you give up now, you and I can still be friends,” O’Brian sent.
“Were we ever friends?” Linley sneered. “If we were, would you have helped Augustus deceive me? Saying you’d free my mother—pure lies. I don’t believe that you, the mighty Fate Overlord, didn’t know the secret of freeing angels.”
O’Brian sighed. “Linley, so that’s why you’re angry. Back then, I owed Augustus a favor and had no choice.”
“Linley!” O’Brian’s voice suddenly turned fierce.
Because—
Linley and Augustus were now less than twenty meters apart.
“Die!” Linley showed no mercy, summoning the Life Supreme God Sword again. “Sss—” Endless sharp sword energy condensed into a beam of light. The spatial turbulence before it was as fragile as paper, easily torn apart. The beam flashed and pierced through Augustus’s body.
The beam was too thick for the light sword to fully block.
It passed through Augustus’s waist, severing his body in two, the waist reduced to nothingness.
Augustus’s speed plummeted, and Linley was upon him in an instant.
“O’Brian, I have no choice!” Augustus suddenly burst into laughter, his gaze turning wild as he stared at Linley. “Linley, in countless years, no one has pushed me to this point. I have to break my agreement with O’Brian. You… die!” This low, frenzied voice echoed in Linley’s mind.
Linley sneered inwardly.
Augustus had pulled this trick before—scaring him.
“What, using the same move twice?” Linley sent mentally. “I know your strength well. Unless you have a divine ability or some special attack, but you don’t.” As he spoke, Linley raised the Life Supreme God Sword again. Augustus, now cut in two, couldn’t dodge as well as before.
Augustus’s face turned cold, and then he threw his head back and roared wildly.
“Boom, boom, boom~~~”
A blurry phantom gradually emerged.
A Vermilion Bird phantom appeared above Augustus’s head. To his left, a two-to-three-meter-long Azure Dragon phantom materialized; to his right, a White Tiger phantom. Below his severed torso lay the phantom of a Black Tortoise.
Augustus’s cold gaze locked onto Linley.
“Impossible!”
Linley’s heart screamed.
This move was none other than the Destruction Overlord ‘Uttred’s’ ultimate technique, created from the Four Divine Beasts’ combined divine ability—Temporal and Spatial Chaos!
“Uttred said he only taught this move to the Fate Overlord ‘O’Brian’ and made him swear by the Supreme God’s name not to pass it on to anyone else. The Destruction Overlord would never have taught this to Augustus, so…” A flash of insight struck Linley.
Linley stared in shock at Augustus, who was now executing ‘Temporal and Spatial Chaos.’
“Could he be…?”
At that moment, the spatial turbulence around them began to change due to the ‘Temporal and Spatial Chaos’ technique…