The Era of Gods-Chapter 649: The Fall of the Magic God

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At the center of the Hall of All Gods, four figures of Powerful Divine Power stood immobile like statues. However, on a level imperceptible to ordinary True Gods, powerful Divine Thoughts crisscrossed back and forth.

The most intense argument involved the two human gods who had been at war with the Beastman’s Chief God.

However, this intensity was not the kind of struggle one might imagine, but rather a division of interests.

Indeed, they had already begun to divide the spoils left by the defeat of the Dark God System, while the Lords of the Sun and Justice promised to recognize the status of the Beastman’s Chief God in exchange for his neutrality in the Divine Conflict between the magic deity sequence and the Dark God System.

After persuading the Beastman’s Chief God, the Lord of the Sun and the Justice God then turned their gaze toward the most powerful Lord of Chaos within the Hall of All Gods. After a moment of silence, the Justice God said:

"By the Lethe, I swear that within a hundred years, all scattered Darkness Divine Positions shall be turned over to His Majesty, the Lord of Chaos!"

The Lord of Chaos did not speak, and after a while, the Lord of the Sun added:

"By the Lethe, I swear to allow His Majesty’s priests to preach among humans without secretly hindering them!"

Only then did the Lord of Chaos slowly lift his head, and after a long pause, he uttered one word:

"Agreed!"

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While the Justice God was busy making promises to pave the way for the Magic God, within the Hall of All Gods, numerous divine thrones belonging to the Dark God System on the third and second steps began to shake violently and then started to sway, quickly dimming.

The gods, of course, knew what this meant, and were extremely surprised at how swiftly the conflict between the two divinities had been decided, regretting not having acted faster.

Vedas of the Insect Race, a Descender, was also stunned for quite some time, surprised:

"It doesn’t make sense. How could the Dark God System collapse so quickly with its strength?"

"Does the Magic God have some kind of ace up his sleeve?"

Someone suggested:

"I heard that the relationship between the Magic God and the Justice God is extraordinary, could it be that the Justice God intervened?"

"Impossible."

Vedas shook his head:

"Even if the Justice God personally intervened, it would not be possible to defeat the Dark God System so quickly. There must be another reason."

While everyone was speculating, the second-ranked divine throne among those representing Medium Divine Power on the second step of the Hall of All Gods suddenly trembled violently and began to sway. The four Powerful Divine Power beings subconsciously turned their heads, only to see the figure of the Magic God on the throne revealing a trace of fear and disbelief, followed by a rapid weakening of his Divine Power. Then, the throne of the Magic God ascended, moving backward in the midst of the shock of countless True Gods, until it reached the very end....

"This...."

Clearly, the Magic God’s strength was rapidly waning, and in the assessment of the Hall of All Gods, he no longer deserved his original position.

The gods were puzzled, for the Hall of All Gods could only reflect the general situation and could not observe the real state of a True God. Naturally, they did not know the current state of the Magic God... how dire it was.

After entering the God Country of the Magic God, the Divine Incarnations of the gods from the Dark God System quickly summoned the God’s Kingdom Army to withstand the assault from the Magic God Country’s army and Prayers. Then, all the True Deity Incarnations unleashed their Divine Power in a burst and charged toward the center of the Magic God Country.

This sort of onslaught could not be repelled by the God Country’s rules alone, as normally such an outburst would inevitably result in depletion of Divine Power and certain death. But at least at that moment, more than forty True Deity Incarnations rushed to the center of the Magic God Country. Then, one by one, the Dark God System’s Incarnations destroyed the remaining guard of the Magic Divine Position that stayed behind through a self-destructive, mutually damaging explosion.

Although the Magic Divine System had a much larger number of True Gods—around sixty to seventy—the vast majority wielded Weak Divine Power with only one Incarnation each.

Many Incarnations had followed the Main God in an attack on the Dark God System, so fewer than thirty True God Incarnations remained within the God Country, and their average power was lower than that of the True Gods of the Dark God System. Even with the blessings of the God Country, facing an opponent’s suicidal explosive attack made mutual destruction likely.

Thus, in less than thirty seconds, fewer than thirty left-behind True God Incarnations of the Magic Divine System died, leaving only two, while the Dark God System still had eighteen True God Incarnations, including four of the Divine System’s Medium Divine Power Incarnations.

Without a second’s pause, the remaining True Deity Incarnations charged with full force toward the Central Divine Palace of the Magic God, where three consecutive self-detonations of Medium Divine Power Incarnations forcefully breached the Core of the Divine Palace’s defenses, finding the True Body of the Magic God hiding within.

Then, three more waves of self-detonation blasted the stunned True Body of the Magic God, injuring it severely.

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Lin Xiao’s three Incarnations personally took action, exhausting all their Powerful Divine Power to cast The Prophecy of Material at the cost of collapse. They overlapped and forcibly confined the True Body of Magic God, stripping away his Divinity just as they had previously stripped the savage and Strength God Harken, seizing the Magic Net, and then abandoning everything to make a direct escape.

The Magic God did not die, but having his Divinity stripped away, he directly plummeted to the status of a Demigod, essentially ruined.

Meanwhile, the True Bodies of the other Deities in the magic deity sequence had not yet recovered and were still not awakened.

As is well known, the True Bodies of True Gods generally slumber at the Core of the Divine Palace in their God’s Kingdom, where they absorb the Power of Faith and convert it into Divine Power and comprehend the Rules that correspond to their Godhood.

Awakening from such a slumber is not as simple as merely opening one’s eyes as ordinary mortals do; it requires a certain amount of time. The greater the threat, the quicker the awakening, but even then, it is impossible to awaken in a matter of seconds.

So, when Lin Xiao entered the God’s Kingdom and suddenly rose up violently, stealing the Divinity of his own Divine System’s Main God with a blitzkrieg style unknown to the Natives, the Gods in the Divine System had not even had a chance to react before they could only watch helplessly as the enemy abandoned all his subordinates and fled the God’s Kingdom. By the time the Gods gradually awakened, the vast God’s Kingdom had begun to crumble due to the loss of its Master’s maintenance.

In the mortal world, many priests of the Church of the Magic God suddenly discovered that they had lost the ability to perform Divine Arts, and many high-ranking members of the Church directly sensed that they had lost contact with the Master of their Faith, bringing terrifying speculations to mind.

Needless to say, they all knew that these signs pointed to one fact—the True God they worshiped might have fallen.

The higher echelons of the Church, most being powerful Mages, did not see the inability to perform Divine Arts as significant, but for many lower-ranking priests, it was as if the sky had collapsed. The entire district of the Church of the Magic God plunged into chaos.

But even greater chaos was unfolding within the Dark God Kingdom.

Leading many incarnations of the Deities in his Divine System, the Magic God had entered the Dark God Kingdom full of confidence, his enemy’s unexpected weakness giving him hope for a quick victory over the Dark God Kingdom.

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In fact, at the beginning, the Dark God System was on the defensive while they maintained the offensive. They had even reached the central area of the enemy’s God’s Kingdom at one point, seemingly with victory within their grasp.

However, as they were embroiled in battle with the enemy, with the True Bodies of the Deities in the Dark God System being forced to take action from behind, and as they surrounded and injured many True Bodies of the Dark God System’s Deities feeling victory almost in hand, the high-spirited Magic God suddenly froze. Then, under the shocked gazes of the Deities of the magic deity sequence, several Incarnations collapsed.

"The Main God... has fallen?"

All Deities of the magic deity sequence could not believe it, but they had no choice but to accept it. The sudden collapse of the Incarnations could only mean the fall of the True Body.

It was only then that they realized where the missing Incarnations of some Deities in the Dark God System had gone. Previously, they thought the Incarnations had gone off to attack other Beastman Kingdoms, but now it seemed the true target was not the Beastmen, but their own Main God.

What followed was a complete collapse of morale. Without the Magic God, with their strength it was impossible to take down the Dark God Kingdom. If they waited for their Incarnations to return, not even those Incarnations would be able to escape.

In fact, this was not even their greatest fear. Their true terror lay in the fate of their own True Bodies.

If even the Main God had fallen, the True Bodies within the Magic God Kingdom were also in grave danger.

Even though they knew the enemy’s God’s Kingdom had only the injured True Bodies of the Dark God System left, and that they might achieve victory by persisting for a while longer, not a single True God of the magic deity sequence lingered. They all fled, trying every possible means to rush back to the Magic God Kingdom.

After all, even if they could conquer that God’s Kingdom right then, everything would be lost if their True Body died.

As for the Divine Aberration resembling the Hundred-Armed Giant, it lost control as soon as the Incarnations of the Magic God collapsed, eagerly breaking away and escaping from the God’s Kingdom.

Although it was a Divine Aberration and not completely devoid of intelligence, Lin Xiao, holding the Ancient Material Godhood immune to physical damage, utterly countered it. No matter how it attacked, it couldn’t harm a single hair on Lin Xiao, and even as a Divine Aberration, it felt utterly frustrated, escaping as soon as it was free, unwilling to stay any longer.

When Lin Xiao’s Incarnation returned to his own God’s Kingdom holding the Divinity of the Magic God, his True Body in the God’s Kingdom sensed the arrival of the Incarnation, along with the waves of Rules in the Incarnation’s hand that were attracted to his own Magic Divine Position. He involuntarily walked out of the Divine Palace and slowly extended his hand.

A meteor flew from the Incarnation’s hand into his own, and Lin Xiao, gripping the Divinity of the Magic God, revealed a satisfied smile on his face.

The surrounding Deities also smiled, the successful return with the Divinity of the Magic God signifying that their earlier losses were not in vain. If their Main God were to be Promoted to Powerful Divine Power, their status in the Hall of All Gods would rise along with the water raising the boat, and they would surely receive greater benefits in the future. For a few Deities with Medium Divine Power, it even meant that they might have a chance to advance further in the future.

Lin Xiao ordered the Gods to guard the God’s Kingdom well as the True Body returned to the Divine Palace, and the great doors thunderously shut, the central Divine Palace descending into silence.

Soon after, Deities scattered throughout all layers of the God’s Kingdom sensed an extreme sense of danger emanating from the direction of the central Divine Palace. Even the patrolling God Guards subconsciously avoided that area, their intense premonition of danger keeping them from stepping over the line.

In the outside world, at this time, there was a great surge of events. The sudden fall of the Magic God shocked the entire Hall of All Gods.

While Lin Xiao did not kill the Magic God, the Magic God, stripped of his Divinity, was completely unable to deal with the obsessions and miscellaneous thoughts of countless believers. He couldn’t hold on even for a few days before being forcefully dragged into the Starworld, and not even the Justice God could save him.

Meanwhile, with the loss of their Main God, strife began to emerge within the Magic God Kingdom as well, with a struggle erupting over the vacuum of faith left by the downfall of the Main God. The vast Magic God Kingdom began to crumble and disintegrate.