Chapter 477 What a joy that would be
Hearing William's words, Alice felt a shiver run down her spine as she sensed the searing heat rising from below.
The magma started to churn violently, almost reaching her legs in the blink of an eye. Frightened, Alice quickly mobilized her internal energy, causing a barrier of sword energy around her to disperse the erupting magma.
"That was close!" Alice broke out in a cold sweat from the scare.
William watched from the side, finding it quite absurd.
Alice was actually afraid of the magma with her current level of strength?
It seemed she had no clear understanding of her own power.
As the magma surged higher, Alice had to fly further up with the Sword of Soulbreaker, reaching an altitude of 3000 feet, where she began to shiver uncontrollably.
Regardless of her strength, her fear of heights was something she couldn't overcome in a short time.
Previously, at the cliffs of Ravenwood, Alice was so scared that she clung to a wooden post, immobile. Now, holding the hilt of a sword thousands of meters high above a volcano spewing magma, it was already quite an achievement that she hadn't been scared to death.
William was fairly satisfied with Alice's performance.
Overcoming inner fears was a necessary part of the path of cultivation.
Alice thus flew steadily at 3000 feet for over half an hour, her complexion gradually improving.
However, William discovered the corpse of a ferocious beast at the base of the volcano.
This beast must have lived here and was quite powerful in this descended parallel dimension. Unfortunately, it couldn't escape William's indiscriminate psychic attack, not even while hiding at the bottom of the volcano.
"Don't just stand there, something's coming up!" William shouted, controlling the beast's corpse to fly upwards.
"What is that thing?" Alice likely understood the meaning behind William's earlier statement.
William didn't answer her. The corpse of the ferocious beast, with its blood-red skin and fierce, terrifying face, looked like something that could scare Amy to tears ten times over.
In terms of courage, William thought Alice wasn't much braver than Amy, so the corpse of the beast could probably scare Alice too.
Indeed, Alice flew even higher in fright, while William controlled the beast's corpse to leisurely follow her, continually applying pressure.
Unknowingly, Alice had already reached an altitude of 9000 feet.
William was quite satisfied with this kind of training.
At that moment, thunderous sounds came from the sky, and the vast expanse of the sky was covered with dark clouds. Streaks of light descended from within these clouds.
William's brows lifted; another parallel dimension had collapsed, this time completely. Only a few strong individuals had descended; the parallel dimension itself must have disintegrated.
William had encountered such events before. When a parallel dimension collapses completely, the strong beings from that world are forced to descend into the Prime World.
During the era of gods, this land was teeming with powerful beings. Those who descended, if too arrogant, generally did not survive long.
William could, of course, annihilate these newcomers, but he felt it unnecessary. He couldn't just kill everyone every time a parallel dimension collapsed.
However, the individuals descending this time seemed quite powerful, and William sensed the aura of the entity he expelled from his body in many of them.
Again, the power of a pact!!
William was looking at Alice in the sky when a man with blood-red hair not far away stared at William and glanced at Alice and the beast in the sky. He loudly proclaimed, "Insignificant humans, this area now belongs to me. The woman above, become my servant, and I might spare your life!"
William ignored him completely.
Such a ludicrous statement, any carbon-based lifeform shouldn't be able to utter it.
"Oh, oh, oh! Little kid, did I scare you silly?" The red-haired man, his body ablaze with flames, appeared before William in a flash of red light. He looked at William as if he was an ant, playing with a ball of fire in his hand and cackling, "Insignificant child, I give you the chance to run if you can..."
William, growing impatient, raised his hand and slapped the red-haired man's face.
The slap turned him to ashes.
Such annoying chatter,William found it quite bothersome.
Alice didn't even notice the arrival of this red-haired man. She was already panicking, with thunder rumbling and dark clouds overhead; she only heard someone talking below.
She assumed it was probably William saying something.
On another mountaintop a few miles from William, another red-haired man watched in horror.
What did he see?
The next king of their Fire God tribe, slain by a slap from someone?
They were true deities, their control over fire unparalleled in their original world, their physical bodies incredibly powerful. And the one William had just killed was the heir to their Fire God tribe.
As the heir, his powerful lineage was unquestionable, and he was recognized as the strongest youth among the Fire God tribe.
William had long sensed someone spying from a distance but did not act, not wishing to completely annihilate them.
"Good! It seems he hasn't noticed me. I should hurry and meet up with the god-kings. Only they might be able to handle such a powerful being," thought the red-haired man from afar as he tremulously fled the area.
Meanwhile, the newly arrived deities from the parallel dimension had almost all gathered on the recently emerged landmass.
In their view, the ordinary humans were too weak to warrant their attention. To rule this world, they first needed to eliminate its strongest beings.
The majority of the Prime World's Soulmancers were located on this new landmass that had descended earlier.
These deities were not weak, but they had their pride as powerful beings. They didn't start slaughtering indiscriminately but gathered together, planning to seize control of this world. They had even begun dividing the rights and territories.
In a way, this was their good fortune.
Had they started a murderous rampage upon arrival, William might have wiped them out in a fit of displeasure.
Given their strength far exceeded the average level of this world, William paid them some attention.
They were planning to issue a challenge?!
They intended to decide the ownership of this world through duels, with the number of victories determining the division of territories.
The people of this world were completely disregarded, treated as mere ingredients on a chopping board, assets for their future ownership.
"Are they looking to play?" William was somewhat excited by this prospect. If all future arrivals were like this, that would be fine. At least it would provide Alice with some practice, and he could have some fun too. What a joy that would be.
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