Gu Nan arrived so quickly that even Luke was a little surprised.
"You found Goro's trail?" Luke asked Gu Nan as he tilted his head of messy hair.
"Yup, I was lucky." Gu Nan nodded and took out a long blade from behind him. "Do you recognize this?"
At the very least, Luke was still a Tier 8 god, and although his law wasn’t very strong in terms of both grade and combat power, he could still recognize the law aura on the Blade of Night at first glance.
"This is… the Blade of Night?" He found it a little hard to believe. He and the others hadn't even done anything yet, but someone already obtained the item that Diana needed just like this.
"How can it be that simple?" Gu Nan revealed a helpless look and said, "There are still some problems with this Blade of Night."
Only then did Luke nod in understanding. Goro had always been known among the gods for his cunning and resourcefulness, so he didn’t really believe Gu Nan was able to get his hands on the Blade of Night that easily.
On the contrary, it was more plausible that Gu Nan suddenly discovered Goro’s whereabouts, so he had to leave the Blade of Night behind in a hurry, but also left them some trouble inside the weapon.
Luke’s imaginative brain filled in all the details for him while Gu Nan held up the Blade of Night in front of Luke.
"What's wrong with the blade?"
"See the edge?" Gu Nan pointed at the blade of the Blade of Night, which was radiating a rich darkness.
Luke stared at the blade with unblinking eyes, as if he wanted to find some clues from it.
However, in the next instant, the Blade of Night suddenly shot up and viciously slashed at his neck!
Golden divine blood spurted out violently as a large portion of Luke’s neck was severed. Only then did he look at Gu Nan in disbelief.
With his divine body critically damaged in an instant, it was already too late for him to mobilize his own laws.
"Why…?"
Gu Nan had no intention of giving Luke a chance to recover at all, much less answering his question, and slashed down several more times.
The Blade of Night, a weapon that once belonged to a Tier 10 powerhouse, was utilized to astonishing effect in Gu Nan's hands.
The curtain of night easily tore through Luke's defenses and chopped his body into several pieces.
This God of Recovery, who was supposed to be the hardest to kill, was put down without any resistance by Gu Nan's shameful sneak attack.
The law he was so proud of didn't come in handy at all, as Gu Nan's burst damage was too high and didn't give him a chance to heal his HP at all.
"Next…"
Gu Nan's gaze flickered as his mind recalled the geographic distribution of the remaining Tier 8 gods.
The main plane closest to Atalante had a Tier 8 god, and that was the Sky God Cliff.
Although the cautious Cliff would be harder to deal with compared to Marshall, there was no other choice at the moment.
After all, if he deliberately made a detour, his plan to frame Goro wouldn’t hold up under scrutiny, and Gu Nan's special trip to get the Blade of Night would become meaningless.
Gu Nan organized Luke's corpse and put it in a pile to the side, then quickly left Atalante.
He was on a very tight schedule. After all, Luke wasn't an invisible person like the Love God. His death would soon be discovered, so the next kill had to be done as soon as possible.
The Evil Value contributed by Luke—which was a bit higher than the God of Love—had already reached 3,500, and it would be enough to just kill one more Tier 8 god.
……
The main plane Cliff was in charge of searching belonged to the Light Faction and had an interesting name: it was called Sanctuary Continent.
Sanctuary Continent was the main plane that produced the greatest number of light attribute creatures, including all types of angels, light elementals, holy unicorns, and so on.
However, Sanctuary Continent wasn’t a unified continent. Rather, it was divided into three empires on the outer edge, with a large number of small- and mid-sized kingdoms in the center.
The main fighting forces of the various kingdoms were the elite knight orders that shared a common faith and even had similar doctrines.
Unlike Luke, who was hiding in Atalante, Cliff was openly staying in one of his temples, as he was one of the gods worshiped in Sanctuary Continent to begin with.
But that didn't mean Cliff wasn't being cautious—in fact, he was far more careful than Luke. It was absolutely necessary for gods to remain vigilant at all times whenever they were in a main plane.
The existence of his temple also ensured that no one could sneak in at will; this was a god’s home turf.
However, Gu Nan knew Cliff's personality equally well and naturally found a solution.
Cliff sat in silence inside the temple with his eyes closed, waiting for information from the search parties, but his eyes suddenly flew open.
In his senses, a distinct aura emerged outside the temple—it was precisely the law of night!
However, Cliff, who was cautious by nature, didn’t act rashly. Instead, a trace of mockery appeared in his eyes.
"Such an obvious diversion. Are you trying to trick me into calling the others over?"
The law of night appeared too close to him, which made him suspicious instead, so he decided to wait and see.
That aura hovered outside the temple for a while and, seemingly slightly anxious at Cliff’s lack of response, actually rushed towards the temple.
The sneer in Cliff's heart intensified, and while ordering his apostles to surround the intruder, he himself also rushed that way.
Since Goro dared to intrude into his sacred temple, would Cliff still actively avoid him? To put it bluntly, Goro was just a talented junior.
However, Cliff abruptly came back to his senses when the two started to make contact.
The one standing in front of him was not Goro!
The intruder was too fast and had too clear of a target, arriving in front of Cliff almost in the blink of an eye. It was none other than Gu Nan, who was holding the Blade of Night.
The current Gu Nan had wrapped his entire body pitch-black shadows, looking like a demonic creature.
Alarm bells started ringing in Cliff's head, but at the same time, the identity of the visitor made him suspicious.
The power of the Blade of Night had been brought out to the extreme, and the overly dense law of night masked Gu Nan's own power of shadows.
Moreover, the law of night and the law of shadows bore a certain resemblance to begin with, making it all the more impossible for Cliff to judge. But he knew at least one thing: this person was not Goro.
Gu Nan's cold gaze landed on Cliff, and without even saying anything, his hand rose up and was already swinging the blade at Cliff's body.
However, Cliff was prepared, and the Blade of Night didn’t cut into his divine body but was instead firmly blocked.
A light blue luster emerged in front of Cliff, as if he had set up the entire sky in front of him.
The Sky God was known as the god with the strongest defense; very few laws could break through his defense.
However, Gu Nan only smiled coldly without saying anything as his left hand threw another punch without hesitation. Could a strong defense be stronger than Karina?
The Blade of Night couldn’t bring out Gu Nan's full power at all because he was afraid it would break within a few strikes if he swung it with all his might.
The punch containing monstrous strength blasted apart the space in front of Cliff, directly shattering the sky in front of him.
The next instant, the Blade of Night stabbed into his body without any resistance.
Accompanied by the natural eruption of the law of night, another Tier 8 god died easily at Gu Nan's hands.
Reality proved that once an Evil God got close to them, gods weren’t actually much harder to kill than mortals.
And only now did the other gods searching for Goro finally arrive, beginning to gather on Sanctuary Continent—they were attracted by the erupting law of night.
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