# 1303
Chapter 1304: Battle Against Hela
Feeling the aura emanating from Lin Qiye, Hela's brow furrowed slightly.
"Relying on the [Holy Grail] to forcibly break through a realm? Do you think that changes anything?" Hela冷笑，"No matter how much you breakthrough, you're still just a human. Can you actually become a god through the [Holy Grail]?"
Human Apex could indeed contend with gods to a certain extent, but that was where it ended.
Without Laws, one could not slay gods—and furthermore, the opponent he faced was Hela, Queen of the Underworld, an absolute peak combatant even among Asgard's Chief Gods.
"Klein"-level Lin Qiye was no different from a mouse to Hela. Even if he had temporarily stepped into the Human Apex realm, he was merely a slightly larger rodent.
Lin Qiye said nothing. He pressed his hand against the void above his head, and lines of magic rapidly sketched themselves into existence. Within a breath's time, two super-massive summoning formations, each several kilometers in radius, took shape!
The moment these two magic formations appeared, frigid frost and pitch-black storm clouds intertwined above Lin Qiye's head.
A resplendent dragon's roar mingled with low thunderclaps, detonating at the edge of Asgard!
Two silhouettes descended at breakneck speed!
One figure rode upon endless ice and snow, its wings spread wide enough to blot out the sky; the other was shrouded in lightning, swift as lightning itself, divine might churning.
Frost Drake. Thunder Beast Laifu. These two summons represented Lin Qiye's most powerful summoning lineup.
"Beast of the False God realm."
Hela gazed at the two figures racing toward her, disdain flickering in her eyes.
A wisp of dark nether energy spread from beneath her feet, instantly saturating the fractured Bifröst like a dead, silent deep pool. Countless pale skeletons rose from within it.
With a thought from Hela, these skeletons behaved with apparent intelligence, rushing to gather behind her and stacking upon each other. Gradually, they formed a skeletal giant with half its body submerged in the nether pool. Amidst the earsplitting screech of bones grinding together, it rose slowly to its feet, its head nearly brushing the thunderous sky strewn with ice clouds.
The shadow of this skeletal giant covered a quarter of Asgard. Even the massive Frost Drake now appeared no larger than one of the giant's arms.
The Frost Drake exhaled, and extreme cold carried within the blizzard surged toward the skeletal giant's body, instantly freezing large sections into ice blocks that shattered inch by inch. But in the next moment, even more skeletons surged forth from the nether pool, infinitely replenishing each lost piece.
A colossal hand descended with the force to blot out the heavens, and countless skeletons engulfed the Frost Drake like a cage, trapping it within.
The encroaching frost ceaselessly corroded the surrounding skeletons, yet inexhaustible bones filled in anew. Even with its massive form, the Frost Drake was now confined like a small bird.
A flash of lightning streaked across the heavens, piercing a massive hole through the skeletal giant's arm. Thunder Beast Laifu's speed was extraordinary—even the endless stream of bones could not keep pace with it, let alone seize it.
"Your lightning is nowhere near Thor's caliber."
Hela observed this and shook her head lightly. In the next instant, the nether pool beneath Thunder Beast Laifu erupted violently, instantly engulfing the beast's lightning and filling its body with necrotic miasma that dyed its form a withered gray. Its speed visibly slowed.
The skeletal giant raised its hand and crashed down, trapping Laifu within an endless cage as well.
Having easily subdued both summons, Hela's gaze swept calmly across her surroundings. Soon, her pupils contracted slightly as they fell upon a certain point of emptiness beside her.
Reality twisted. Lin Qiye, blade of [White Slash] in hand, drifted out like a phantom. His wrist flicked, and Ame-no-Murakumo's凌厉 blade light shot directly toward Hela's throat!
Hela seemed to recognize Ame-no-Murakumo's prowess. She retreated half a step; the blade's edge grazed the tip of her nose. In the next moment, the nether pool beneath her feet came alive. Several jet-black spikes burst forth with tremendous force.
Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed. His foot slammed against the nether pool, and a domain abruptly unfurled!
"[End King Rule]!"
Lin Qiye roared. Those tendrils of nether energy originally aimed at him simultaneously halted mid-air, then eerily twisted—and instead accompanied Lin Qiye's second blade strike, slashing toward Hela!
The loss of control over her God's Ruins caused Hela's pupils to contract sharply. Never had she imagined Lin Qiye could turn her own God's Ruins against her.
With Gilgamesh's personal possession and a temporary breakthrough to the Human Apex realm, Lin Qiye's [End King Rule] had been amplified to a terrifying degree. Even Hela's Chief God-level God's Ruins could be briefly countered.
This was Lin Qiye's trump card—the sole gambit with any hope of turning the tide against the Queen of the Underworld!
The nether pool beneath Hela's feet was saturated by [End King Rule]. It churned like a boiling cauldron as countless tendrils extended outward, grasping her form and briefly immobilizing her in place.
A blade's edge ignored space itself, striking directly at Hela's chest, leaving a shallow gash. Immediately after, Lin Qiye materialized before Hela with Ame-no-Murakumo in hand. A brilliant spark of sword light pierced the gash, and in an instant, it penetrated her heart!
Blood sprayed outward. Hela's face drained of color, but abundant divine power erupted forth. She shattered free of the nether pool's grip and, leaving afterimages in her wake, retreated dozens of meters.
Following the spread of [End King Rule], the skeletal giant standing behind Hela automatically collapsed. Thunder Beast Laifu and the Frost Drake broke free simultaneously!
A frost breath and a thick bolt of lightning intertwined and crashed down upon Hela's position!
Her form was immediately engulfed.
A silhouette bearing a colossal sword streaked past her position at breakneck speed, racing toward the Bifröst behind her!
"Hela's wounded! That kid wants to seize the opportunity to activate Bifröst!"
"Attack together! Kill him!"
Several Loki pantheon deities who had just arrived witnessed the scene, their expressions shifting. They struck simultaneously—waves upon waves of divine power surged forth, bombarding the rapidly fleeing Lin Qiye.
Lin Qiye sensed the terrifying energy behind him. Gritting his teeth, he reached into the void and pulled. Countless skeletons scattered from the skeletal giant, as if guided by an invisible hand, rapidly weaving into a thick, pallid wall that materialized behind him.
The several divine forces collided with the skeletal wall, shaking the entirety of Bifröst. Half a second later, the pallid wall shattered with a thunderous boom, and the divine forces swept forth once more.
Though Lin Qiye could manipulate a portion of Hela's God's Ruins, compared to the true Hela, his power was far insufficient. Now facing a coordinated assault from multiple deities, he stood no chance of defending.
The wall crumbled. Lin Qiye's control over the God's Ruins suffered immediate backlash. His face ghastly pale, he spat a mouthful of fresh blood, his steps faltering as he nearly collapsed to the ground.