# 268
**Chapter 268: Battle Against Loki**
Lin Qiye’s twin blades sliced through the air with a piercing shriek, slashing straight toward Loki’s neck!
“A mortal weapon, and you think it can harm me?” Loki sneered, raising two fingers to meet the edges of Lin Qiye’s Straight Blades.
Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed slightly, and a golden flash shimmered across the blades!
The golden arc of the blade curved like a crescent moon, illuminating a corner of the dim world in an instant. The moment the blade light touched Loki’s fingertips, the latter’s expression changed, and his figure vanished from the spot as if he had never been there at all.
The two arcs of blade light swept through empty air. Lin Qiye frowned and turned to look behind him.
Loki stood there, his expression dark. A thin line of blood had appeared on the tips of his two fingers. He looked down at the flowing blood, then at Lin Qiye, his eyes filled with disbelief.
“Those two lousy blades actually managed to wound me?” Loki’s brows furrowed tightly. “And just now, I used my trickery to rewrite the reality of you injuring me—so why does the wound still exist?”
Lin Qiye’s arms hung naturally at his sides, blood dripping from the tips of his blades onto the ground. His expression was calm as he spoke:
“A mortal weapon cannot harm you—so I harmed you.
You rewrote reality—so that wound should not exist—yet it does.
Overturning all impossibility—this is miracle. This is the true 【Mortal Divine Realm】.
I am the only possibility within all impossibility.”
He slowly raised the Straight Blade in his hand, its tip pointing at Loki, and said flatly, “Now, this mortal is going to slay a god… Tell me, is that possible?”
Loki’s eyes narrowed slightly. He frowned in thought for a moment, then let out a cold snort.
“Your God’s Ruins is indeed powerful, but your divine power doesn’t belong to you. Once it’s exhausted, you’ll be nothing more than an ordinary man.”
“Don’t worry.” Lin Qiye lifted a finger slightly, and the massive magic arrays spanning the heavens and earth lit up simultaneously.
“Before my divine power runs out—I *will* kill you!”
**Boom—!!**
Over a dozen ultra-tier spells were unleashed at once—divine lightning, frost, and raging flames crashed down on the ground where Loki stood. The magical elements seemed to boil, completely engulfing Loki’s figure.
A cold, dark aura erupted violently, extinguishing the raging magical elements in the air. Loki stepped out slowly, his figure flickering and splitting into twelve identical clones.
They all raised their hands in unison, and from each clone’s palm, a pitch-black serpent shot out, racing toward Lin Qiye at terrifying speed.
Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed. From these serpents, he could sense a chilling aura that made his hair stand on end—if even one of them bit him, he would surely die!
He might possess God’s Ruins and divine power that could rival a god, but he himself had not yet stepped into the realm of divinity. Right now, he was still only in the “Boundless” realm, carrying Merlin’s soul.
Lin Qiye’s figure darted and weaved among the black serpents. Fortunately, within the 【Mortal Divine Realm】, any serpent that was about to touch him would inexplicably lose its direction and veer away.
By all logic, their speed should have made them impossible to dodge—but under the effect of miracle, it happened anyway.
Now, Lin Qiye had to create “miracles” at every moment to avoid the serpents. With twelve of them, the drain on his divine power was immense.
Drain Lin Qiye’s divine power. Avoid direct combat until it’s exhausted—this was the tactic of the God of Trickery, Loki.
He couldn’t keep this up.
A flash of resolve appeared in Lin Qiye’s eyes. If this dragged on any longer, Loki might actually wear him down to death. He had to take the initiative!
Lin Qiye sidestepped two serpents, raised his left hand, and aimed at one of the twelve Lokis at random. He hurled the Straight Blade in his hand!
A golden streak flashed across the sky, shooting straight toward Loki’s face!
He didn’t need to know which one was the real Loki—he just had to leave it to “miracle.”
Under the effect of “miracle,” his random throw had struck the true Loki!
Loki snorted coldly and was about to swat the Straight Blade away—when suddenly, a small magic array appeared on the blade’s hilt!
**Reverse Summoning Spell!**
Lin Qiye’s figure was summoned in reverse, pulled out of the serpent swarm and teleported to the blade’s side. He grabbed it midair and slashed at the now-close Loki with lightning speed!
A golden arc flashed. The eleven other Loki clones vanished, and the real Loki appeared on the far side of the battlefield, two savage gashes across his chest.
He stared at Lin Qiye, fury and unwillingness in his eyes.
He was the God of Trickery—among the gods still alive, few could break through his “tricks” and wound him. Yet Lin Qiye’s attacks, empowered by “miracle,” hit with 100% accuracy!
No matter what trick he used to dodge or rewrite reality, Lin Qiye could effortlessly wound him.
In terms of God’s Ruins alone, he was completely countered by the 【Mortal Divine Realm】!
This… was the terrifying power of the Sequence 003 God’s Ruins?
If this continued, he might actually die at Lin Qiye’s hands!
He took a deep breath. The air behind him twisted, and a massive summoning gate opened once more. A colossal serpent slithered out, its crimson tongue flicking, a terrifying pressure descending upon the earth.
The Midgard Serpent of Norse myth—**Jörmungandr**!
Half-step into myth.
The hundreds-of-meters-long black serpent coiled beside Loki, its cold eyes fixed on Lin Qiye. Every scale on its body trembled slightly, as if alive.
Loki gently stroked Jörmungandr’s scales, narrowed his eyes at Lin Qiye, and said softly, “Kill him, my child.”
**Hiss—!**
At the command, Jörmungandr surged forward, its massive body blotting out the sky, a freezing killing intent rushing toward Lin Qiye.
“So you want to compare summons…” Lin Qiye’s brow lifted slightly. He bent down, scooped up a handful of sand, and magical light flickered in his palm.
**Random Summon Magic!**
Using grains of sand as the price, randomly summon any creature or object from across the planes.
Playing cards, straw sandals, paramecia, spiders, rainwater, rotten wood, leaves… all sorts of bizarre things spilled from Lin Qiye’s palm, falling around him.
Loki stared, stunned.
What was he doing?
Just as Loki was puzzled, a speck of gold appeared in Lin Qiye’s palm.
Lin Qiye slowly opened his hand, the gold in his eyes blazing brighter and brighter. One miracle after another poured into the sand in his hand.
**Random Summon Magic + Miracle.**
At that moment, a terrifying colossal shadow slowly appeared behind Lin Qiye…