Chapter 700: Chapter 555: Battle
Mu Li certainly wasn’t seeing things.
Because all the high-ranking figures inside the city present had witnessed this unbelievable, shocking scene.
The corpses...
stood up.
The Divine Objects were actually speaking.
Whether it was the fresh Divine Objects from soldiers who had just died, or the ancient Divine Objects from the ruins of antiquity, at that shout, they all stood up.
Mu Li’s first reaction was: God is unfathomable.
His second reaction was: God has stolen our army!
Every single one of those soldiers was armed to the teeth, each standard-equipped with over a hundred Divine Objects, the elite of the elite of their empire—and just like that, they were all recruited under the other side’s command.
In fact.
If he hadn’t happened to see their soldiers all die at once and thus given Liu Jun the chance to discover a way to use the Divine Power of "Wisdom," he truly wouldn’t have wanted to make a move.
After all, even the cleverest housewife can’t cook without rice.
Now, having a group of officers and soldiers capable of repeatedly clashing Heaven-Opening Divine Power with Bal was what finally gave God the possibility of stepping into the ring against Bal.
Beside him, Fortuna came back to her senses as well. Looking at the surrounding battlefield, she said, "At the bottom of the sea, Heaven and earth are being split open... That over there is Bal, the God of Chaos. How did he end up like that?"
Bear in mind, Bal had been her Goddess of Destiny’s little brother for a very long time.
Gentle and refined.
How had he become so violent now?
"How long has his illness been going on?"
Fortuna watched the crazed smile on Bal’s distant face and scratched her head. "Feels like his mind has already been swallowed by Chaos. He’s not the same as before."
"Bal, Bal, Bal?"
Fortuna suddenly started shouting loudly, trying to wake Bal up with this ridiculous喊法 from across the way.
Bal’s eyes showed a look of struggle, as if two different wills were battling inside. "Come... come fight a match with me!"
Rolling flames churned across his skin.
A pathological madness flashed across his face. Standing atop the frothing waves of Chaos, he seemed like a sea god riding the vast ocean of Chaos itself, exuding an unbelievable sense of oppression.
"Kill!"
In almost the same instant, Bal’s battle instincts drove him to make the most ambitious move.
A swing!
A vast, boundless Chaos Divine Power suddenly blasted forth, surging toward the place where God stood.
"Fortuna." God fixed his gaze on Bal, understanding that Bal was no longer the man he once had been.
"Here."
Fortuna responded immediately.
"Combine this power into one." God tossed out four strands of Divine Power.
Fortuna lowered her head slightly,
Low-level Transmission.
Mid-level Time: years upon years (piggy bank).
High-level Cause and Effect: causal lead wires.
Final Destiny.
The four powers slowly fused, and under the blessing of Destiny, a brand-new fate was born.
[Time–Cause Savings]: Except for Chaos, any attack on the army will be split via the lead wires and stored as two types of coins: "Time" and "Cause and Effect Coins."
This combined power was nothing flashy, but it could boost the overall endurance of their army!
Fortuna glanced at it. "If this is your will, I will naturally comply."
With that, she dutifully became a pendant in God’s battle, beginning to use Final Destiny to fuse a completely new composite Divine Power.
Boom, boom, boom.
The forces gathered together, forming a completely new power.
This was a super shield.
Similar to the previous piggy bank, taking hits would deduct from your lifespan.
Now it was a group piggy bank: whenever anyone got hit, the damage would be distributed among a whole group via "telephone lines"... dramatically raising the threshold for a one-shot kill on a single soldier.
Moreover, the attacks they endured would be Transformed into their stored energy reserves.
After Liu Jun received Fortuna’s power, he quickly scattered it down, granting it to the countless troops of God far away.
One invisible line of Cause and Effect after another strung the soldiers together.
"Heaven Opening!"
God’s army struck in unison.
Infinite Heaven-Opening Divine Power erupted. The army’s strength merged into one, slicing open the vast Chaos anew.
Heaven and earth split open!
A continent began to form again.
The seawater was cleaved aside, creating a vacuum zone in the sea with Bal at its center.
"Now!"
"Surround him! Cut him off from the power of Chaos!"
The next instant, the army moved as one, encircling Bal and forming Battle Arrays one after another, trying to sever his connection to the Chaos outside.
"Naive!"
A cruel smile tugged at the corner of Bal’s mouth. "Blocking off the Chaos itself is indeed useful... but the sunlight still pours down on me."
"Even if I can’t touch it directly, as long as the light of Chaos shines upon me, I will still have endless power!"
With that, Bal ignored the fact that he was surrounded in the center. Once again he swung his Chaos scepter with ferocious vigor, unleashing wave after wave of Chaos Attacks.
Heaven Opening!
Heaven Opening!
Heaven Opening!
God’s armies roared in unison, hacking Chaos apart again and again.
In the distance.
Mu Li and the other high-ranking officers watched this astonishing scene of heaven and earth being turned upside down, frowning slightly.
Mu Li said in a low voice, "Are they being stupid? The enemy’s power is endless, and they want to fight a war of attrition with him?"
"Indeed." The adjutant beside him spoke, somewhat unsure, "Our previous army did exactly that, traded attrition with him, then used Heaven Opening a few times, ran out of strength on the spot and died. How many rounds can the army in front of us endure?"
Under the sunlight, Bal’s power was endless.
The army was bound to be worn down to death sooner or later.
But the next second, as Mu Li watched the battle, his eyes suddenly widened and he shouted, "Something’s off, something’s really off!"
Adjutant: "What’s off?"
Mu Li said, "Haven’t you noticed? Every time Heaven Opening cleaves the world and Chaos explodes to give birth to a new world, it looks like a part of it is being absorbed..."
The adjutant also noticed it. "Is it being absorbed by the energy shields on their bodies?"
"It seems so."
Mu Li’s pupils suddenly shrank. His vision was extremely sharp. "It looks like it’s being transformed into some kind of special currency reserve that fuels their power."
In fact, this was exactly God’s army’s combat method.
Heaven Opening, to counter Chaos.
And where did their endless combat reserves come from?
The Chaos hacked open, the Heaven-Opening explosion that sundered heaven and earth, was like a bomb blasting open an infinite fairyland, naturally carrying boundless kinetic force and momentum.
And they treated that surge of momentum as an attack.
You... attacked me!
The piggy bank seized the chance to absorb that chunk of energy and made up for the consumption.
Only like this could they keep up with the energy drain during battle.
Liu Jun knew perfectly well that to fight Bal, the most basic condition was: your supplies must keep up.
Otherwise, when the enemy’s power is infinite and you can’t even keep up with your own energy consumption, being beaten to death is only a matter of time.
But this.
Was just the beginning.
Because only after your energy supply kept up did you qualify to even step onto the battlefield against the God of Destruction.
Bal’s lips moved slightly. "Interesting."
"Using Heaven-Opening Divine Power to counter Chaos..."
"Then let’s play with something different."
Bal held a chunk of Chaos in his hand. Within it, oceans, flames, and mountain ranges kept splitting apart. "Chaos is only one of my powers, not my everything."
Low-level Divine Objects of the Attribute Series began to split out from Chaos.
"Heaven Opening!"
Vast Divine Power came crashing in.
"It’s meaningless!" Bal’s Chaos Attack, in the next breath, split into multicolored attribute attacks, converging into a flowing rainbow torrent.
The Heaven-Opening Divine Power actually brushed past this rainbow Divine Power without touching it.
Yes.
Heaven-Opening Divine Power could only counter Chaos, it could not counter flames, water currents... and other Divine Powers.
"I am the God of Magic, after all."
A vast tide of all kinds of attribute Magic, as massive as mountains and seas, charged at God’s army with brutal ferocity.
God’s soldiers were blasted backward in an instant.
But after freezing stiff for a few seconds, the army used fine threads to link everyone together and, through their piggy banks, forcibly tanked this wave of assault.
Clink, clank, clink!
Huge amounts of Time Coins and Cause and Effect Coins were poured into the army’s giant piggy banks.
"This really is... the power of the God of Time."
Bal sensed that every time he attacked the enemy, he went -1 -1 -1; his lifespan and karma were being heavily siphoned away.
Interesting.
Seeing himself take a huge loss, Bal wasn’t angry at all; instead, morbid battle lust rose ever higher in his eyes. "Then let’s test this move."
"Chaos Star."
Bal stomped down with both feet and punched out.
The ground beneath him split apart in an instant, and Chaos gushed up from the cracks like magma.
He tore Chaos open again, turning it into a colossal bombardment.
Heaven Opening!
Heaven Opening still pierced straight through this wave of mixed Magic bombardment.
"Hahaha, his Magic Attacks can only be swallowed by us!"
"Yeah, converted into power reserves for our army!"
But the next moment, to everyone’s stunned disbelief, the numerous Magic Divine Powers that had passed through Heaven Opening slowly converged again into a sphere of Chaos.
"How is that possible—"
"He used this method to slip past our Heaven Opening?"
No one had time to react. Their old strength was spent, new strength hadn’t yet risen; they simply couldn’t join forces in time to unleash another Heaven Opening attack to block it.
Chaos then completely submerged the entire army!
