The Era of Gods-Chapter 621 - : 621 Secret

Chapter 621: 621 Secret

Lin Xiao flung his hand downwards:

“#@)…”

A massive flame hand flew out, seizing the black mask within its palm—squeezing it—amidst a chorus of crackles; the sound of exploding beetles, all the black beetles were incinerated.

At the same time he waved his hand, countless souls flew out, transforming into wispy shadows that scattered like fireworks in all directions.

“Hmm?”

Julian suddenly halted, as the mirror revealed countless shadows dispersing and losing trace.

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He quickly approached the area where the dead beetles were, but he saw nothing and couldn’t detect any scent.

“You can’t escape!”

He let out a cold huff, took out another bead, and tossed it into the mirror. Soon, an image of a woman wearing a mask appeared; she turned her head to look at Julian and asked:

“What do you need?”

Julian replied respectfully:

“I want to pay 1 Contribution Point to request a task be posted.”

“Is it about that human Descender?”

“Yes.”

A hint of curiosity flickered in the woman’s eyes as she said:

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“Contribution Points are hard to come by; you’ve only accumulated four in all these years of descending. Are you sure you want to spend one just for a child of the Human Divine Realm?”

Julian nodded earnestly:

“I’m willing to pay one point, and if any companion can help capture him alive and deliver him to me, I’ll pay two Contribution Points.”

“With two Contribution Points as a reward, I believe a Level 3 Great Wizard would be willing to take action. Recently, a Level 3 Great Wizard just happened to pass through that wasteland in search of a certain material; I will send your task to him, but I can’t guarantee whether he’ll accept it.”

“Right, he has a magic weapon capable of controlling souls, and its power is extremely formidable!”

“I will note that.”

The mirror returned to its original state, and soon a task interface appeared. The first listing was the job posted by Julian. Upon clicking, there were already several messages inquiring about specifics; after contemplating, he replied to each one individually.

On the other side, Lin Xiao was unaware that Julian, in his pursuit to hunt him down, had gone as far as to spend Contribution Points to post a bounty in the network owned by his organization.

This mechanism originated from a primogenitor of Julian’s own race who, through his power in the Wizard World, created a limited network. All the Foreign Divine Domain Children who descended into service for the True Ming primogenitor could connect to this network, allowing them to contact each other from great distances—even across worlds, provided they spent enough Contribution Points, to share information and aid one another.

Julian did not hesitate to spend half of the four Contribution Points he had accumulated during his long descent to post this bounty. Of course, it was not just out of spite, but also for a deeper reason, which was the immense benefit Lin Xiao carried with him.

After Julian had used the power of the True Ming to escape initially, he later returned only to find that Lin Xiao had disappeared. At first, he thought that Lin Xiao had died and the matter ended there.

The wanted notice was not posted by him, but by the school.

He did not reveal whether Lin Xiao was alive or dead; he simply informed the academy that Lin Xiao had gone missing as a deserter, which naturally resulted in the academy issuing a warrant for him.

However, three years later, Lin Xiao reappeared, and Julian was utterly surprised. How could a wizard apprentice escape such a terrifying divine force? It was then certain to him that some external force must have intervened, and the only suspicious location nearby was Mysterious Valley.

To be precise, it was called the Mysterious Realm, and Mysterious Valley was strictly an extension—an appendage projection—of the true Mysterious Realm, present in many worlds and many locations, with several of such valleys existing even within this world.

Julian investigated the Mysterious Valley, accessing information from the academy with his privileges, as well as through his organization’s resources to check data from other powers. He learned about the existence of the master of the Mysterious Realm and the Soul Envoys.

He wasn’t entirely sure at first, until the information he collected showed that Lin Xiao had been selling high-grade materials attributed to the Scorpion Giants, who are skilled in confining souls. And having witnessed Lin Xiao demonstrate his power over souls right before his eyes, Julian was certain that this Son of the Human Divine Realm had been fortuitously granted the power of the master of the Mysterious Realm, becoming a Soul Envoy capable of confining and devouring souls.

The scarce records showed that Soul Envoys could confine souls, consume them, and harness the formidable Soul Power to strengthen themselves.

Every recorded Soul Envoy was a Dawn Wizard of at least Rank 4, and although each one eventually fell into corruption and turned into a terrible monster due to consuming a large number of souls, they were still feared and coveted by many wizards.

While the prospect might instill fear in others, anyone given the chance to possess such power would long for it.

Soul contamination is terrifying, but lacking strength is even more so.

Moreover, soul contamination isn’t much of an issue for them; should it become unbearable, they could always spend a large amount of Contribution Points to have a powerhouse cleanse it for them. Alternatively, if one has accumulated enough Contribution Points, they could even ask the true ancestor of the Nether Realm to perform the cleansing. Then they would be as good as new.

So, when Julian confirmed that Lin Xiao was a newly-born Soul Envoy, the idea of seizing the identity of an Apostle of the Mysterious Realm began to form in his mind.

In fact, he would have been willing to spend all his Contribution Points to ask the organization’s powerhouse to take action if he weren’t worried about raising suspicion.

He even falsely claimed that the human Descender possessed a Magic Weapon that could use the power of the soul, just to avoid the suspicion of the powerhouse who would intervene.

After doing all this, Julian still didn’t feel secure. He thought for a moment and then released another message on the exchange channel, offering a high price—a few Contribution Points plus ten thousand Magic Stones—in exchange for a top-level Magic Weapon.

On the other side, Lin Xiao, of course, did not know the price Julian was willing to pay to deal with him. If he had known, he would have probably fled immediately instead of re-entering the depths of the wasteland.

Not to carry on hunting Half-scorpion Tribal members—by now, the small tribes of Half-scorpions in the Wasteland Source were almost exterminated by him, with the rest either fleeing or retreating to the larger tribes. These larger Half-scorpion Tribes had warriors comparable to Official Wizards, among them not a few equivalent to Level 2 Wizards. Not only were they tough to kill, but the Scorpion Giants summoned by these large tribes were also extremely powerful.

The strongest he had encountered so far was a two-headed Scorpion Giant on par with Rank 3. Venturing into these larger tribes might invite the appearance of a Scorpion Giant on par with Rank 4, and facing such a formidable being, he might not even be able to run away.

There might still be some small Half-scorpion Tribes in the wasteland, but he didn’t have the time to search for them one by one. Instead, it would be better to head to the ancient battlefield in the center of the wasteland and hunt for those powerful monsters.

The soul of one powerful monster could substitute for a multitude of ordinary souls, and the harvest from killing more of them would not be bad.

At this moment, Lin Xiao had already accumulated over two hundred seventy thousand souls, enough to meet the trade requirements with the lord of the Mysterious Realm.

He planned to complete the trade in a few years and then terminate the contract with the Mysterious Realm’s lord. Controlling and devouring souls was too dangerous and evil. Although the gains were immense, he wasn’t a Native who frequently encountered various bottlenecks blocking their path, as he had a complete set of growth methods and didn’t need such risky powers.

The central area of the ancient battlefield in the wasteland appeared decisively different from the other parts. Here, space began to twist, and from afar, every view seemed as illusory and unclear as a mirage.

In fact, what one saw there was indeed like a mirage; a tree that appeared to be about a hundred meters away might actually be several hundred meters away, or not even in that direction at all, distorted and refracted through the broken space.

Very few monsters roamed this area, but those that did were extremely powerful, as ordinary creatures couldn’t pass through the broken spatial rifts.

Theoretically, it was possible to travel to other worlds through the spatial rifts here, and some Wizards had indeed done so in the past.

As for whether these truly lead to other worlds, that remains uncertain, because to this day, no one has been seen returning after entering.

Perhaps they died within the spatial rifts, or maybe there was no way back once they entered.

After entering this twisted ancient battlefield, Lin Xiao consciously circled near the edge, not daring to enter the central area. He killed an unknown spiky monster in the peripheral zone and occupied its den, sealing the entrance and setting up a barrier to make it a temporary abode.

While hunting, he stimulated his spiritual power with the diffused power of the soul, keeping both his spiritual power and Mana in an active state to maximise the enhancement of his spiritual power.

Over the years, whenever he had downtime, he did this, which is how he was able to crystallize his spiritual power in just a few years.

His spiritual power was now nearing the limit of a First Level Wizard, and the next step was to advance to Level 2 Wizard.

However, he didn’t have the orthodox method of Wizard advancement available to him. Initially, as a wizard apprentice, he had no chance of acquiring the method to advance to Level 2 Wizard, not for official Wizards, nor for Bloodline Wizards.

But this did not mean he had no way of increasing his strength. Aside from these orthodox Wizards, there were countless other power systems in this world, and many of the Other Races could produce powerful beings without an orthodox Wizard System.

The simplest method was the special advancement path for Soul Apostles: stripping away the consciousness of a large number of souls, then fusing them into a powerful unconscious soul entity with a secret ritual and integrating one’s own soul into this powerful soul entity as the main consciousness. This would cause a qualitative leap in one’s soul, and upon ascending, one would immediately become a being on par with a Rank 3 Wizard.

In fact, this professional system was called Soul Apostle, and outsiders referred to those Apostles who chose this path as Soul Envoys. Lin Xiao, with his possession of more than two hundred thousand souls and not having devoured a single one, was almost unparalleled.

Besides this, Lin Xiao also knew of one general method of advancement, and that was to continue to add spiritual power to the existing Spirit Core, rather than creating a second spiritual core like an orthodox Wizard.

Strictly speaking, this method of advancement isn’t much different from that of orthodox Wizards. The benefits obtained after transformation are the same, but this way has one major problem: the inability to obtain a second Gifted Spell.

Because this advancement builds directly upon the original Spirit Core instead of forming a second one, there is no process of constructing a new Wizardry Model, so the Wizard forgoes obtaining a new Gifted Spell.

Although it’s possible to strengthen the original Gifted Spell, only having one, no matter how strengthened, still has limits on its use, and it certainly doesn’t compare to the orthodox Wizard who has several Gifted Spells.

However, Lin Xiao didn’t have a choice. If he didn’t want to ascend as a Soul Apostle, he would have to advance using this method.

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Introduction: In the third year of Yu Guo’s reign, a rain fell in the City of Yizhou.

Li Ang woke up in a daze, dreaming that his head contained a hidden sword.