Chapter 263: Chapter263-Tempering the Clone, A New Visitor
The third floor of the Holy Grail space.
Just as John was about to leave this space governed by strict rules, the pale golden Divinity mist in front of him suddenly began to surge without warning.
A familiar figure slowly condensed within layers of spatial ripples. Her long hair drifted behind her, and a demigod-grade aura lingered around her body.
Odelle.
She had arrived.
John’s gaze shifted slightly as he looked her up and down.
The current Odelle had already completely stabilized at the demigod-grade level. The Divinity radiance flowing around her was far more solid and profound than the last time they had met.
The aura of a Level 400 powerhouse naturally radiated from her every movement. Clearly, she had already gained a firm foothold in the God Realm.
"Long time no see, Guild Leader." Odelle smiled slightly, her brows and eyes carrying the familiarity of a reunion after a long separation. "You’ve grown much stronger than the last time we met.
"This aura... you’re almost touching the peak of demigod grade, aren’t you?"
"Same to you," John replied calmly. Then he changed the subject. "Instead of staying in the God Realm, why did you suddenly come to the Holy Grail space?"
Odelle restrained her smile and said seriously, "I was cultivating in the God Realm when I suddenly sensed an extremely violent rule fluctuation coming from this Holy Grail space. The disturbance was so great that even the cross-plane spatial barrier was stirred.
"I was worried something had happened on your side, so I came over to investigate."
She paused for a moment, then continued, "But halfway here, I also received a message through the soul link from the puppet clone you left behind on the Hess Continent.
"He said there was an important matter he wanted to ask the Guild Leader for help with, so I simply came straight here."
"Clone?" John raised his brows slightly.
He had indeed left a puppet clone on the Hess Continent to maintain the power structure there and anchor the plane coordinates.
That clone’s strength was roughly above Level 300. In a lower plane, it could already be considered an Overlord of a region, but in a place like the God Realm, where legends were everywhere and demigods were as common as dogs... it was indeed somewhat lacking.
"That clone’s strength is too low. It cannot ascend to the God Realm at all," Odelle directly pointed out the problem. "He asked me to bring some things over. He said he wanted to ask the Guild Leader to thoroughly temper and upgrade him once."
As her words fell, Odelle lightly flipped her wrist.
In an instant, the entire third floor of the Holy Grail space was filled with dazzling light.
God-rank equipment.
God-rank items.
God-rank materials.
One after another, they densely floated in midair, almost piling up into a small mountain of treasures.
An extremely dense treasure aura spread wildly through the space. Even the layered rule power of the third floor was slightly shaken by this surge of energy.
John’s pupils shrank slightly.
His gaze rapidly swept across the pile of treasures!
Five complete God-rank weapons, three sets of defensive God-rank armor, seven functional God-rank items, and dozens of high-grade ores containing pure Divinity energy.
Every single item was astonishingly high in quality. If placed on the myriad-race market, any one of them would absolutely sell for an astronomical price.
"This many?" John was secretly stunned.
He roughly estimated the total value of these treasures. Even with his terrifying net worth of tens of trillions of gold coins, he could not help looking at that clone’s wealth-gathering ability in the God Realm in a new light.
Odelle shrugged and smiled helplessly. "That fellow has been doing fairly well in the God Realm and has saved up quite a bit.
"Unfortunately, his own body’s strength is insufficient. Even while holding these God-rank treasures, he has no way to refine and absorb them.
"That’s why he wants the Guild Leader to make a move and use these materials to thoroughly temper and strengthen that clone."
Hearing this, the corners of John’s mouth slowly rose.
"I understand."
He said no more and raised his hand.
The mountain-like pile of God-rank items rose into the air all at once, floating before John while wrapped in countless colors of light.
John’s gaze was sharp as lightning. He swiftly and precisely extracted the core essence from them. Vast divine power surged into the materials as he began remotely strengthening the puppet clone far away on the Hess Continent.
Buzz!
A visible blazing-white pillar of light erupted from John’s palm, piercing through the barrier of the Holy Grail space and shooting toward the distant Hess Continent.
The vast divine power within the pillar of light was catalyzed and purified by the massive amount of God-rank items Odelle had brought. Then, at a terrifying speed that would leave anyone speechless, it poured into the puppet clone’s body.
Strengthening.
Further strengthening.
Frantic strengthening.
The clone’s strength level began to climb rapidly at a visible speed.
Level 320.
Level 350.
Level 380.
Level 400!
It firmly stepped into the threshold of demigod grade!
But the strengthening pillar showed no intention of stopping.
Deeper Divinity patterns branded themselves into the clone’s body. The originally somewhat crude puppet structure was completely reforged. Its bones, meridians, and muscle fibers were all replaced with God-rank materials.
Every inch of its body was repeatedly tempered, compressed, and sublimated.
Level 420.
Level 440.
Level 460.
Level 480.
Level 490...
Only when the clone’s aura firmly stopped at the threshold of the ninth tier of demigod grade, only one step away from the true High God level, did the ferocious strengthening momentum finally begin to subside.
John withdrew his divine power and let out a long breath of turbid air.
"...It’s done."
Inside the Holy Grail space, the pile of God-rank items had completely turned into dust, their essence fully exhausted.
John closed his eyes and, through the soul link, sensed the deep and vast strength fluctuations transmitted by the clone far away on the Hess Continent.
That pressure was even somewhat heavier than the aura of his own true body.
A strange and subtle feeling could not help surfacing in his heart.
"The resources Odelle provided forcefully raised that clone’s strength to a level even higher than my main body..."
He shook his head helplessly, but the corners of his mouth could not help curving slightly upward.
"This is truly... an unexpected surprise."
Seeing that his expression had relaxed, Odelle knew the matter had been settled.
She smiled and nodded gently. "Since the clone’s matter has been resolved, I’ll return to the God Realm first.
"If you need anything on your side, you can have that clone send me a message at any time."
"Mm."
John watched Odelle’s figure disappear into the golden ripples of the Holy Grail space. Just as he was about to turn and leave the third floor, his brow suddenly twitched without warning.
The hall area of the Holy Grail space.
Someone had entered.
And it was a completely new face he had never seen before.
John’s gaze narrowed slightly. His divine sense spread out like a tide and instantly locked onto the petite figure who was looking around curiously in the hall.
It was a young girl with golden hair and blue eyes. She was dressed in a tattered set of beginner equipment and looked extremely shabby.
Yet on her back, she was carrying a...
Sword case.
John was far too familiar with the style of that sword case.
Divine_River’s sword case.
That sword case which had hidden its edge for a million years and had been tempered using the soul-lives of 9,999 demigod-grade powerhouses as sacrifices.
He had personally traded that sword case to Skittershade in exchange for a full five hundred bottles of Sacred Spirit Elixir.
And now, that sword case had actually appeared on this young girl’s back.
