Night Ranger - Full Series - 735 Chapters

by Dark Blue Coconut Milk

  As for the Dragon God’s Wrath instance follow-up, he wasn’t too clear about it. Professor and the others should have handled that matter properly.

  And with Louise’s help, the Water Elemental Sovereign should have temporarily lost his interest in the matter.

  This was the best news for Marvin.

  It was a pity that from another point of view, the advanced False Divine Vessel he received wasn’t as useful as it should have been.

  The False Divine Vessel gifted to him by Endless Ocean could absorb Divinity and add some Divinity bonuses, but it didn’t have a direct strength increase.

  After fusing the advanced False Divine Vessel with his own Divine Vessel, it only seemed to become a bigger vessel.

  Apart from that, he didn’t find any new functions of it.

  The Fairy said that the Divine Vessel would need to be cultivated for a very long time because it had been with her for so long and also because Marvin’s was quite different.

  Thus, he temporarily didn’t bother with it.

  That advanced Divine Vessel had always been calmly revolving within his body, only offering some helpful bonuses.

  It didn’t even seem to react after Marvin killed Greater Demon Balkh.

  At that time, Marvin obtained many Comprehension points and had a faint feeling that his Divine Vessel had absorbed something, but he didn’t find anything afterwards and thought he had imagined it.

  After all, False Divine Vessels were among the few things Marvin was unfamiliar with in this world.

  As the crystallisation of the wisdom of Humans, surpassing the Universe Laws and the Gods’ limits, they weren’t that simple.

  Marvin originally thought that it would continue to remain mostly inert, but when he crushed the Wilderness God, time seemed to come to a halt.

  Marvin noticed that when the space they were in collapsed, the Life-Severing Ivies formed bitter faces, and those faces were attentively watching Marvin.

  Ultimately, those vines dissolved into cyan smoke, which shrouded the place for a short while before gradually disappearing.

  They merged with Marvin’s body. To be more precise, something within Marvin’s body took the initiative to absorb them.

  Marvin was puzzled at the start, but after looking at his interface and checking his body’s condition, he understood.

  He hadn’t expected that he would be able to absorb the Wilderness God’s remaining power!

  The advanced False Divine Vessel was naturally the reason for that.

  This “supreme treasure” that the Fairy had claimed was on the level of Artifacts had finally shown its effects.

  A part of the essences had been absorbed by the Essence Absorption System and turned into experience and Comprehension, becoming a great help for Marvin’s class system. The remaining power had been completely assimilated by the False Divine Vessel.

  This was why the ivy all disappeared after Marvin killed the Wilderness God’s avatar.

  If not for the False Divine Vessel, they might have had to fight with the remaining ivy. After all, even though the Wilderness God’s avatar had already died, the remaining Life-Severing Ivies would still be left as a bunch of brainless monsters.

  After helping everyone survive, Marvin profited greatly.

  On Marvin’s interface, the information about the advanced False Divine Vessel appeared in front of him:

  [Advanced Divine Vessel… Divine Power Pool established…]

  [Power Absorption…]

  [Domains detected, fusing Domains…]

  The lines of logs were dazzling.

  These logs then appeared:

  [Advanced False Divine Vessel (First Advancement) (degree of fusion 13%)]

  [Divinity: 7/36]

  [Domain 1: Slaughter (Using 3)]

  [Domain 2: Shadow (Using 3)]

  [Domain 3: Plant Metamorphosis (Using 2) (Recover 1)]

  [Divine Power Pool: 14]

  …

  A small distorted space appeared within the False Divine Vessel.

  This space was called the Divine Power Pool by the False Divine Vessel. As the name implied, this was a space used to store Divine Power. Divine Power originally belonged to the Gods and as far as Marvin knew, the only ways to control it were through transforming Faith Power or swallowing others’ Divine Power.

  Clearly, Marvin’s share of Divine Power was obtained from the Wilderness God avatar.

  He not only got two points of Divinity (Plant) from him, but also obtained a great amount of Divine Power.

  Those 14 points represented how much Divine Power he’d gained.

  Of course, if he couldn’t use Divine Spells, Divine Power became meaningless. Moreover, if he couldn’t replenish the Divine Power Pool, he would use up this power sooner or later, so he hadn’t been as excited about it initially.

  But he soon found out a very important bit of information.

  Domain Fusion.

  Legend powerhouses grasp Domains, Gods merge with the Laws, and False Divine Vessel holders manipulate the Laws!

  After the advanced False Divine Vessel gained a large amount of power, it fused with Marvin’s Domains as well as the Domain he swallowed from the Wilderness God.

  Thus, he now had three Domains, far exceeding the reach of ordinary Legends.

  The most frightening part was that he could use Divine Power to make these Domains tangible!

  This was a very frightening concept. Marvin didn’t realize it at first, but afterwards, the information that kept appearing gave him a new understanding of the advanced False Divine Vessel’s power.

  Ordinary Legends could at most draw support from their Domain’s Laws to defeat their enemies.

  They couldn’t make their Domains tangible and turn them into their own weapons.

  But Marvin could. The prerequisite was using the Divine Power inside the Divine Power Pool.

  Of the three Domains, [Slaughter] and [Shadow] were the Domains Marvin had formed himself. Thus, these two Domains could only consume Divine Power, and couldn’t supply Marvin with it. He didn’t have any Faith Power from followers, after all.

  The third Domain, [Plant Metamorphosis], seemed rather weak, and was probably the weakest Domain controlled by the Wilderness God. But it had a very powerful advantage, which was to replenish the Divine Power Pool!

  Through his connection with the False Divine Vessel, Marvin learnt that the so-called [Recover 1] meant that each week, Marvin would obtain 1 point of Divine Power through the Plant Metamorphosis Domain!

  It offered some additional possible development paths for Marvin, albeit only a few.

  ‘No wonder these Ancient Gods are so powerful, totally different from the New Gods. They can gain Divine Power through their Domains!’

  Marvin suddenly understood.

  Unknowingly, he came across a taboo issue in the Gods’ realm.

  With regards to the differences between the New Gods and the Ancient Gods, the most noticeable characteristic was whether they ascended through the Fate Tablet. But in fact, New Gods and Ancient Gods were like two different kinds of lifeforms.

  New Gods could only draw from the Faith Power of their followers and turn it into Divine Power, but Ancient Gods were different.

  Including sinister Evil Gods like the Wilderness God, they were all able to absorb Divine Power directly from the Universe.

  No wonder there were no Ancient Gods participating in the attack on the Universe Magic Pool, besides the Plague God who wished for chaos.

  But there was surely another reason for him to participate in the attack. It might not be as simple as Marvin had thought… They didn’t only attack for the 4th Fate Tablet!

  There must still be a huge secret hidden behind.

  …

  In any case, after obtaining the ability to materialize his Domains, Marvin now had the strength to go head to head with Gods.

  But this was in theory. Marvin didn’t know what would happen in practice.

  He onl
y knew that if he met with another event like being trapped in the Wilderness Hall, his Legend Laws wouldn’t be removed again, because he could make his Domains tangible, allowing him to have strength on the same level as Gods.

  Although it would use up his limited Divine Power, it could greatly bridge the gap in power between Gods and mortals.

  Marvin understood how the Winter Assassin was nearly able to assassinate a God.

  In their previous discussion, he had learnt that Isabelle’s teacher also had a False Divine Vessel!

  ‘In this world, becoming a God really isn’t the only path to break through the limits and gain formidable power.’

  Marvin’s confidence was rekindled.

  He tightly gripped the daggers in his hands and suddenly disappeared, causing Hathaway to look over in surprise.

  The end of the passage appeared before them.

  An earth-shattering roar echoed!

  Chapter 536: Sacrifice! Life and Death!

  Chapter 536: Sacrifice! Life and Death!

  Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation

  This terrible roar was very familiar.

  Marvin had heard it in the depths of the Wilderness Hall.

  But this time, the power contained in the roar seemed a lot more powerful.

  It sounded like a beast gradually awakening.

  The Wilderness God!

  Even though Marvin was in Stealth, his speed was still extraordinary. He rushed to the edge of the cliff, overlooking the entire dungeon.

  The other two also caught up just behind him.

  The three stood side by side on the cliff, watching the shocking ritual that was taking place in the center of the dungeon!

  “No good, he already started!” Minsk’s eyes were very sharp, allowing him to clearly see what was happening on the public square.

  Marvin’s heart was beating very fast.

  He also saw the array.

  On the square with Miss Silvermoon’s statue, a huge array had already been set up.

  A rare jewel, a magic plant emitting an evil aura, tools containing all kinds of colored liquids… They were arranged in a certain pattern, forming the array.

  When seen from the cliffside, it seemed to be a very simple design.

  A six-pointed star.

  The original symbol of magic.

  Marvin recognized this array.

  It had a very simple name, [Life and Death].

  The upper part of the six-pointed star seemed to be painted spotlessly white, but after looking at it carefully, it could be seen that it was actually wiggling grass.

  That grass’ color was clearly very special. Who knew where Lich Bandel got them from?

  The lower part was pitch-black, and it was also made up of the special wiggling grass.

  The ritual tools were set up on the edge.

  The tall Two-Headed Bone Dragon standing guard over the array. Lich Bandel had already turned into a black fog and was frantically flying along the edge of the array, making final arrangements.

  The Jade Banshee was helping him finishing up.

  What worried the three on the cliff was the coffin they saw at one end of the array.

  Bandel had obtained the Divine Source spark from the Life Severing Ivies, and it was now floating peacefully in the coffin.

  That roar had also come from the coffin.

  Given such circumstances, even a fool could guess that the Wilderness God’s slumbering body was in that coffin.

  Only in that way could the spark used as a seed of resurrection calm down.

  Surprisingly, on the other end of the six-pointed star was the statue of Miss Silvermoon!

  ‘Hold on… What’s going on with that guy?’ Marvin felt rather startled when he noticed the arrangement.

  When he came here last time, he had heard some things, clues that suggested that Bandel was very infatuated with Miss Silvermoon.

  But based on the array before him, Miss Silvermoon statue’s location was shockingly in the [Death] location, while the Wilderness God’s coffin was standing in the regular resurrection location!

  This made Marvin feel puzzled.

  Could that guy really want to just resurrect the Wilderness God?

  Apart from those two, there was a surprising silhouette in the center of the array.

  The young girl, Molly!

  The girl that Paladin Griffin had sworn to protect.

  She seemed to be in a bad state. Apparently, the power of the curse was flaring.

  Marvin frowned and asked, “Why does this array require Molly?”

  Hathaway said, “The [Life and Death] array needs a medium. That girl’s body is very special. When there is a lack of energy, her hidden treasure might be able to charge the array. Her constitution is also very suitable for handling the conflict of Life and Death.”

  “Her condition looks terrible. Regardless of the outcome of the ritual, she might die soon!”

  Marvin’s heart tightened. He looked around.

  Molly wasn’t the only one brought here by Bandel. Isabelle was also there!

  But soon, Marvin felt somewhat relieved.

  Isabelle had been bound by a special method of the Lich and was standing outside the array, like she was really being treated as a “spectator”.

  She seemed helpless, but fortunately, she wasn’t part of the array, so she wouldn’t be harmed by it.

  With this in mind, Marvin checked the array once more.

  Besides the tools, the most important thing the Lich prepared was a crimson stone.

  That crimson stone was wrapped in a huge piece of amber.

  When the Lich took the amber from a different dimension, the entire space shivered.

  The continuously roaring voice in the coffin also started trembling. It was quite clear that the Wilderness God was longing for this stone!

  “This is the Death Vessel.”

  “The energy of those who died in the Autumn Hunting Ground and the Legends who had been sucked dry coalesced into that stone through a sacrificial ritual.”

  “The power in that stone is too frightening, and thus it needs the [Origin Amber] as a seal. No wonder the Wilderness Hall weakened after he left. Bandel took the core of the Wilderness Hall with him!”

  Without waiting for Marvin to ask, Minsk explained what he knew.

  As it turned out, the energy obtained by Bandel in the Hunting Ground was all in this Death Vessel.

  If someone freed that energy all at once, it would be enough to destroy this world!

  Naturally, it could also support a God’s resurrection!

  Actually, the Wilderness God should have needed far more power than this to resurrect.

  But after obtaining the Domain of the Wilderness God’s avatar, Marvin understood that if Bandel wanted to resurrect the Wilderness God, a spark was enough. He just needed to turn the spark into a small flame and it would burn on its own.

  As long as there was any sign of resurrection, the Domain on his body would automatically speed up the absorption of Divine Power.

  However, Bandel had still needed to do so many crazy things in order to get enough “nourishment”. It showed how frightening the power of the Wilderness God was.

  Marvin felt cold.

  He definitely couldn’t let that guy succeed.

  The other two clearly agreed.

  But when Marvin was about to suggest that they coordinate to make a plan, Hathaway suddenly flew out!

  “Hold on! We need a plan!” Marvin let out in a low voice as he ground his teeth.

  Hathaway’s voice softly floated back. “There is no we. You helped me find the Lich, which I appreciate. But we don’t have the same goals, I only want to get my things back.”

  “As for stopping the Evil God’s resurrection or saving the world, I have no interest in this.”

  With a “Woosh”, she sped up and rushed above the array!

  Marvin and Minsk glanced at each other, they could only clench their teeth
and rush down the cliff, using their peak speed to charge up to the array.

  She was right: the three had come here with different goals. Hathaway wanted to recover the last power of the Anzed Witches, while Marvin came in order to save Isabelle and Molly. As for Minsk, he was the only one of the three who addressed the big picture, wanting to stop the Evil God’s resurrection.

  In such a situation, talking about cooperation was nonsense.

  They were all fighting for their own goals.

  …

  When Hathaway’s silhouette stopped above the array, the fog moving around the edges of the array also stopped.

  Bandel’s voice came out. “Witch?”

  “What are you planning?”

  He sounded quite surprised!

  Hathaway expressionlessly said, “I have no interest in your plan. Return to me what belongs to the Anzeds and I won’t get involved.”

  Bandel let out a forced laugh. “I don’t remember taking anything belonging to the Anzeds.”

  Hathaway pointed to a certain location.

  Bandel followed the direction of the fair finger and noticed the coffin… No, it was actually pointing to the daggers on both sides!

  Cold Light’s Grasps!

  …

  “I didn’t expect it, I didn’t expect it… That damned Witch actually snatched my Artifact in order to stab it in the Wilderness God’s coffin. What was it used for in the end, a lock?”

  “Moreover, this is the array of Life and Death. It looks like the Wilderness God will really resurrect. I really brought a disaster onto you this time.”

  The Winter Assassin sighed in Isabelle’s ear.

  Although Lich Bandel didn’t do anything to her, it was clear that she wouldn’t be able to survive alive if the Wilderness God resurrected.

  The Wilderness God was an inauspicious name in the ancient era. He was a very brutal God, so how could he let a mortal like Isabelle get away?

  At this time, even the knowledgeable Winter Assassin didn’t know what to do.

  The spell that the Lich used on her wasn’t any kind of spell he knew about!

  The Winter Assassin and Isabelle went all-out, but couldn’t remove the binding.

  She couldn’t even move, let alone get hold of Cold Light’s Grasps.