The Era of Gods

Chapter 532: 532

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This is where the innate power of the Innate Ancient God truly lies; although the Faith God System can achieve the same feat, it requires at least Powerful Divine Power as a prerequisite and consumes a great deal of Divine Power.

At this time, the Titan Ancient God that Lin Xiao had incarnated into possessed, at the most, Weak Divine Power, ranked second tier in the five-layer pyramid above the True God, with Medium Divine Power, Powerful Divine Power, and Great Divine Power above it.

But the might commanded by the Innate Ancient God is overwhelmingly powerful, capable of defeating Medium Divine Powers lacking potent Godhood right on their home turf in the God Country, not to mention the Sons of Divine Realm with Medium Divine Power.

Unfortunately, this time, he had descended merely as a sliver of consciousness; his True Body wasn’t strong enough to directly wield the fearsome strength of the Titan Ancient God.

Fortunately, after fusing his soul with the Crystal Wall System’s Core, he had become incredibly powerful, enough to contain all Source Souls. This meant that he could reforge the Titan Ancient God Divine Body himself upon return. Though it would not be as strong as the current one, solving the most crucial aspect meant the rest would not be troublesome.

Moreover, reforging the Titan Ancient God Divine Body comes with an advantage: it can be tailor-made according to his own possessed strength system, which is a mixed blessing.

Leaving his original location, Lin Xiao, based on his memory, headed toward the Fragmented Void in the Outland, striding across the Void in his True Form. He even conjured a projection of himself with part of his strength, directly projecting it to the coordinates in his memory.

His True Form was too powerful for teleportation, but a mere projection could still be transported. With his True Form’s might, he could directly reach his destination in one step….

At the edge of the Broken Floating Lands Group, near a small fragment called the Ghoul Dragon Nest, about a dozen players alighted from their Flying Mount Void Mantas not far from the nest. They resummoned their ground mounts as the team leader checked his inventory, saying:

“The Void Ghoul Dragon Gurusajaha is a neutral world boss; it unlocks reputation with the Void Dragon race. The starting reputation quest for the Void Ghoul Dragon can only be done once and must be done solo. If you fail, you won’t be able to receive the quest again, nor will you be able to unlock the reputation with the Void Dragon race. I don’t ask much of you; with a dozen or so of us, one or two should be able to successfully unlock it.”

His subordinates nodded one by one as he continued to instruct:

“The temperament of the Void Ghoul Dragon Gurusajaha is quite volatile; it doesn’t allow any flying mounts into its nest, or they will be attacked. Remember this for next time. Also, during the quest, if you see….”

Just then, a player’s unexpected question sounded:

“Boss, is there a part where you ride the Void Ghoul Dragon Gurusajaha in the reputation quest chain?”

“Huh?”

The team leader was caught off guard, taking several seconds to respond with a laugh and a scold:

“What nonsense are you dreaming of? That’s impossible.”

“Then what is this?”

Following the direction indicated by the player, the team leader saw a colossal dragon-shaped figure rising from the huge nest ahead. A man stood atop the head of the Void Ghoul Dragon Gurusajaha, staff in hand, as the dragon flapped its wings and slowly ascended, casting a large shadow over the earth as it flew into the Void, leaving the group of players agape.

It took a moment for someone to speak up:

“Captain, the one that just flew up seems to be Gurusajaha. What about our quest?”

“Uh….”

The captain was stuck too, as he had never heard of such an event, and he didn’t know what to do.

In the Void, the enormous Void Ghoul Dragon Gurusajaha beat its wings, heading for another large Broken Floating Land in the distance. Atop the dragon’s head, Lin Xiao’s projection looked around with interest.

Upon teleporting and returning directly to the nest of Void Ghoul Dragon Gurusajaha, the lingering aura of the titan made the world boss tremble and obediently bow its head.

Lin Xiao, in need of a means of flying transportation, directly enslaved this world boss.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

A world boss is equivalent to a Lord Template, a super boss above level 80.

After decades unseen, Gurusajaha had become a level 88 Lord-tier world boss, but to Lin Xiao, it was still insignificant. After all, even as a projection, he was a level 95+ Hero-tier boss, easily capable of crushing it. Therefore, Gurusajaha wisely expressed a willingness to serve as his steed.

“I hear you have a bit of a temper?”

He heard the conversation of those players and looked down with interest.

Gurusajaha shivered subconsciously and respectfully replied:

“That has never happened; they are talking nonsense.”

“Oh!”

Lin Xiao nodded, tapping his foot lightly to show approval:

“I believe you.”

Not long after entering the Void, he saw a group of Nightmare players on their flying mounts passing through the twisted space between the floating lands. When they saw the Void Ghoul Dragon from afar, they turned to flee. Lin Xiao immediately felt the murderous intent from Gurusajaha beneath him and spoke:

“Respectful Sir, please allow me to slaughter them.”

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“On the move!”

It was clear that Gurusajaha still harbored resentment about being controlled by the prophet Ricks originally, and he was still very angry. Whenever he saw players who were Children of Nightmare, he would attack.

With a wave of his hand, a beam of dark green light shot out like a laser, instantly covering a distance of several thousand meters and hitting a Child of Nightmare player, piercing right through them and dealing a staggering 100,000 damage. Then, like chain lightning, it forked and in an instant jumped more than a dozen times, killing all the players who were Children of Nightmare in the vicinity.

Having inherited the fel energy wielded by the Dark Titan Duron, Lin Xiao derived a bunch of fel energy usage techniques from it, which, in layman’s terms, equated to a plethora of boss-level, powerful spells.

The so-called skills simply refer to the techniques of harnessing strength.

The players were not powerful enough to reach the level where they could manipulate strength with technique, so they could only learn to use fixed skills, the power of which was limited.

But at Lin Xiao’s level of power, having directly mastered several powers at their source, there was no need to adhere to any skill framework. He could wield his abilities as he pleased, which resulted in various boss-level, powerful skills.

If he wished, he could summon a fel fire rain that would cover an entire floating land, instantly killing all enemies on it with a single move.

Having passed through the void and entered the floating land, Lin Xiao found data appearing under his eyelids, indicating that both the local area channel and the Outland world channel had been opened. A flurry of players’ communication information popped up instantly.

“Need a priest for the Heroic difficulty Death Hunting Grounds+++++ any priest will do…”

“Curse Password quest, need a T and DPS, Curse Password quest, need a T and DPS…”

“Normal difficulty Death Hunting Grounds, complete run, need a bone-piercing mage above Level 65…”

“There’s a group of Nightmare players killing people in Azshara Ruins, looking for expert guild members to punish them…”

“Dual-mage hunting grounds, 180,000 XP in one hour, 500 reputation points, interested bosses MMM…”

“Group starting for the Circle of Blood raid, need two big healers, a mage and a magician, need two Bosses interested in Blood Medals….Can pull immediately.”

“Warning against Zhengzhou’s Wo Yifan who ninja loots everything, needing healing gear for a hunter, and then selling it to fund the family’s crafting materials, please understand if he spams macros…”

“Furious warrior spending on Circle of Blood, looking for a pull….”

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The familiar, bustling scenario from the channels made Lin Xiao reminisce about playing games in his youth. He sat cross-legged on the dragon’s back and browsed the players’ comments on the channel with interest.

The majority of the channel was filled with various dungeon recruitment messages, occasional quests, mage power-leveling, or conflicts with the Children of Nightmare. After observing for a long time, Lin Xiao had a general idea of the current status and hierarchy of player power from the myriad of communication information.

Typically, human players’ levels ranged between Level 70 and Level 75, and players of sub-legendary races, whose normal level caps were below Level 70, hovered between Level 50 and Level 65.

So, once they reached their level caps it became extremely difficult to level up, but after fifty years, with a bit of diligence, most had reached above Level 65 and some even managed to overcome the barrier and reach Level 70.

After attaining Level 70, these players’ racial talents became prominent, making them slightly stronger than human players of the same level.

For example, the Ogre, Magma, Bear Monster, and other strong fighting races would receive significant enhancements as warriors. Assuming equal skill and gear, they were undoubtedly more powerful, making them highly sought after both in dungeons and on the PvP battlefields against Nightmare players.

However, they were few in number and could not compare to the larger population of humans, whose normal level cap starts at Level 70.

There are gains and losses, one might say.

From the player communications on the channel, Lin Xiao also learned about the status of the fortress he had previously established. It was developing very well, and as he expected, Duronger Fortress was successfully built.

The direction Gurusajaha was currently heading towards was the human main city named Duronger Floating Land, where his girlfriend often stayed in the Temple Area.

Instead of teleporting directly, Gurusajaha flew high in the sky, crossing over ten floating lands towards the Duronger Floating Land.

Located in the center of a Fragmented Void with hundreds of large and small floating land fragments, the Duronger Floating Land was one of the more valuable and massive ones among the hundreds available. 40% of these lands were in the possession of the Children of Nightmare, and 60% belonged to humans. After fifty years, there were no longer any ownerless lands, only about a dozen floating lands on the border were still contested by both sides.

Thanks to the arrival of Duron Remnants with a wealth of resources, the establishment of Duron Main City brought varying degrees of benefits to all human players, especially those top players with Elite Templates and epic gear. Their emergence provided humans a significant advantage in the struggles against Nightmare players, an advantage that has been maintained until now.

That’s exactly what Lin Xiao hoped to see, and it was inevitable.

In a race where both sides started on the same line, having so many top-tier experts suddenly appear, not gaining an advantage would have been a real missed opportunity.

In the Temple Area of Duronger Fortress, this district was established by the remaining temple divine office staff and priests of the Duron Remnants. Although the High Priest of Light did not leave the world of Duron, many divine officers did, and there were no lack of strong individuals among them.

Of course, after many lost their powers, the combined strength of the divine office staff was the lowest among the major forces of the remnants. At the time of the fortress’s establishment, they were intended to be integrated into the Magic Area.

The reason they managed to have a district of their own was mainly due to Shen Yuexin’s insistence, backed by half of her influence and a portion of Wu Zhonglin’s.

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