It was a powerful barrier!
Marvin was a bit startled.
This was the first time a full-on attack of his met such resistance!
Sodom’s Blades had a powerful Divine Restriction effect, and most spells used by those from the God Realms were included in that category. This was also one of the reasons that it had been so easy for him to kill that large group of Clerics.
‘This is…?’
‘Bireger’s Spinning Barrier again?’
Marvin wasn’t dismayed at all, and he was actually rejoicing. He definitely felt this when he was chasing Wayne earlier.
This was a wonder of Ancient Magic!
But last time, Marvin hadn’t dared to attack with his blades, not knowing what defenses they might meet. This time, he took the initiative to attack, and even if it was Bireger’s Spinning Barrier, it wouldn’t be able to stop Marvin!
He quickly adjusted his strength and calculated the perfect angle before striking once again.
“Crash!”
Something invisible seemed to shatter!
This time, Marvin’s slash ruthlessly stayed its course.
Ajani’s body seemed to shatter like porcelain, breaking into pieces!
Marvin sneered, quickly locking onto his target!
Night Tracking!
Not far off, Wayne seemed somewhat disconcerted as he looked at Marvin. “How could you see through my disguise?!”
But his voice didn’t sound like a small kid’s. It sounded like it was coming from a hysterical old woman!
The shadowy figure of Dark Phoenix was slowly spreading behind Wayne.
“Isn’t that Dark Phoenix?”
“Wasn’t she already dead?”
“What is she doing with Wayne’s body? Is this reincarnation magic?”
Those from Feinan were shocked.
They finally understood why Marvin wanted to find Wayne.
His foe was attached to the body of his younger brother. Anyone would feel anxious about something like that.
As for the others, they decided not to interfere in this matter.
The more troubles Marvin had, the better it would be for them.
Because as Marvin was confronting Wayne, another azure glow flew out of the Sky Tower!
But this time, it wasn’t just one, it was three stones!
The Sky Tower really started increasing the number of passes.
Most of those gathered were becoming restless.
“Don’t worry about me, I’ll handle this properly.”
Marvin glanced at these newly appearing runestones and immediately told Jessica, Professor, and the others, “Try to get as many Azure Stones as you can!”
Professor and the others nodded and stopped focusing on the showdown between Marvin and Wayne, instead going to try to gather the Azure Stones like the others.
…
“Your acting skills are pretty amazing, and the spell you used for your disguise also fooled me.”
Marvin looked at Dark Phoenix calmly.
Since he found her, he wasn’t worried about not being able to force her out.
She had been hiding from Marvin all along, which showed that she currently was far from confident about facing Marvin.
Back then, Marvin had still needed the Four Totemic Pillars to take down Dark Phoenix, but now, even if Dark Phoenix was standing in front of Marvin at her peak, she would still be trampled by him.
‘Maybe I really should have just ascended in the 3rd Era.’ This intense thought was at the forefront of Dark Phoenix’s mind.
Her meticulous plan of a thousand years had been destroyed by Marvin. The feeling of anger and frustration from this setback was something others couldn’t understand.
Now that she was in Wayne’s body, she could see the hope of rebirth.
The kid’s luck was very good. He actually obtained the inheritance of Ancient Magic, and it was very likely that it originated from the Wizard God’s inheritance!
She would get everything as long as she got the Fate Tablet!
As long as she had that Azure Stone!
But this opportunity was once again thwarted by Marvin.
She bellowed hysterically at Marvin, “How could you see through it!”
Marvin shrugged. “Because I know the Apostle of the God of Stars. She doesn’t look like that, and her name isn’t Ajani.”
Dark Phoenix was completely at a loss when she heard those words.
She definitely couldn’t have guessed that this was the reason!
After all, she had planned it very carefully when she chose her fake identity.
The God of Stars was one of the most reclusive Gods of the Astral Plane. He had very weak Divine Power, and both his Godhood and his Domain were quite lacking in usefulness. His Divination and Divine Spells were way too inferior. And the Apostle of the God of Stars had yet to appear in Feinan. That was why Dark Phoenix had decided to adopt her identity.
Who would have thought that Marvin actually knew the true Apostle of the God of Stars?!
This was absolutely impossible!
Dark Phoenix felt like the world was collapsing into a feverish delirium.
She pointed angrily at Marvin as she shouted, “You deceived me!”
“I’ll be born again! I am the Goddess of Magic chosen by Fate!”
Marvin looked at that woman’s shadow with a faint trace of pity. Since things had reached this stage, there was nothing more to say.
Should he bother telling Dark Phoenix that he actually knew all the Apostles and the Divine Servants of the Gods?
In the game, Marvin crossed paths with most of the Gods, as he eventually became one himself. And although the God of Stars was antisocial, he also developed somewhat in Feinan after the Great Calamity. Marvin actually did some side-quests for him…
When Dark Phoenix tried to pass herself as that Apostle with an inaccurate name and appearance, she was just shooting herself in the foot.
But since she dared to cross Marvin’s bottom line, she should be ready to die!
Marvin’s expression turned even colder.
“You lunatic. You still haven’t figured it out? Some things are bound to be impossible.”
Marvin stared at Dark Phoenix’s shadow. “You harmed my younger brother! Even if you were the true Goddess of Magic, I’d still kill you today!”
Dark Phoenix was about to retort, but Marvin made a move out of nowhere!
The shadow behind his body lengthened, and it felt as if a pair of eyes were watching her attentively.
She suddenly felt fear.
It was as if an invisible saw was penetrating her defenses and carving apart the bits of Divine Source that were still recovering within her!
She shrieked, almost unable to keep her shadow condensed!
[Source Harvest]!
This was the result of the Harvest ability that developed from Night Kill’s Spirit Orb passive after Night Kill reached the 4th level and fused with the False Divine Vessel.
This skill had been upgraded from a soul attack to one that could directly target Divine Source!
Since Marvin hadn’t used it yet, he was testing the effects of the skill in a probing sneak attack. He hadn’t expected the results to be so good.
The Divine Source that Dark Phoenix had painstakingly recovered almost completely scattered.
The shadow disappeared back into Wayne’s body.
She used Blink to cover as much distance as possible in one cast, trying to escape from this place.
But Marvin wouldn’t let her run away this time.
With the Azure Stone in his hand, the Order Power blanketing the area had no restraining effect on him.
Endless Path!
Marvin locked onto Wayne’s body while the latter tore away, running purely on survival instinct and continuously using teleportation spells, trying to shake Marvin off.
Unfortunately, she didn’t succeed.
In fact, as she tried to warp again for the
third time, she was blocked.
“It’s you…”
When she saw the person that just arrived, the voice of the shadow in Wayne’s body clearly started quivering.
It seemed that in Dark Phoenix’s heart, this person was even more frightening than Marvin!
Chapter 682: The Root of the Problem
Chapter 682: The Root of the Problem
Translator: Shiraishi Editor: TheAlliance
Layers upon layers of black clouds gathered above the sea as if to overwhelm the waters.
The dark light from the black clouds reflected down there, and the originally deep blue sea became somewhat murky.
The sea breeze whistled past. At this moment, the atmosphere over the sea seemed frozen.
Marvin’s figure was a bit sluggish as he showed an expression of surprise.
‘We’re at…’
‘Black Coral Islands?’
A wonderful feeling rose up in Marvin’s heart.
Even if Dark Phoenix occupied Wayne’s body, she was still far from being Marvin’s opponent. Marvin had used Source Harvest, directly attacking her Divine Source.
Dark Phoenix couldn’t have expected Marvin to have such an ability, as even he hadn’t known about its effects before.
All of a sudden, her only option was to flee.
But the escape didn’t go smoothly for her at all.
Wayne’s long-distance teleportation spells were really amazing and would have been enough to get rid of most of this world’s expert trackers.
After all, the vitesse with which the Legend teleportation spells were cast was shocking.
But she couldn’t get rid of Marvin.
After levelling up his Ruler of the Night class, many powerful abilities emerged, and Endless Path was one such ability.
Naturally, if he hadn’t trained and enhanced himself so much, he wouldn’t be able to use Endless Path so frequently.
There were too many wonders on Marvin’s body. Whether it was the tempering of the Hellish Black Flames or the Fate Power from Lorie, these powers all fused perfectly with the False Divine Vessel, supporting him and allowing him to use his abilities freely.
With Marvin bearing down at her with Endless Path, Dark Phoenix was already despairing.
Not to mention that when she wanted to use long-distance teleportation again for the 3rd time, she was interrupted!
And when she realized what had happened, she sank into a hysterical breakdown.
…
The blue ice crystals from half a year ago had disappeared from the black reef.
In their place, there was now a silent and conceited person.
Hathaway.
She didn’t appear in the battle for the Fate Tablet, but she was here now.
Marvin noticed that her aura had an indescribable change from the time when they met in the Crimson Wasteland.
She had become more… perfect.
The seven-colored flower in her hand now looked flawless. She had completely received the inheritance of the Ancient Anzeds.
She was the true Witch Queen.
She could easily stop Dark Phoenix’s act!
The Witch Queen, the First Plane Guardian.
…
“A few months ago, you almost killed me.”
Hathaway looked deeply at Wayne, and her eyes seemed to pierce straight through his physical body as she watched that dark shadow.
“I originally thought you died completely. I hadn’t expected that you had come up with a reincarnation skill as a backup for if your plan failed. I suppose your thousand years of plotting weren’t spent being completely idle.”
“Unfortunately, a lunatic is still a lunatic. You underwent a rare death and rebirth, and still dared to show yourself again.”
As Marvin watched Hathaway from a distance, he felt that something was a bit wrong with her.
This made him feel uncomfortable.
He thought about it carefully, before finally understanding where it came from.
She seemed more mature now, but in fact, her age right now should be almost exactly the same as when she left the Crimson Wasteland.
But that kind of high and mighty temperament couldn’t be hidden.
Marvin and Wayne were both there, but she was apparently only looking at the latter, because within Wayne’s body was hidden the imprint of her foe.
Marvin was ignored by her.
The coldness and indifference in her pretty eyes were even stronger than before.
Marvin noticed what sort of expression that was.
The outsiders that descended from the Astral Sea had this expression when looking over the world.
It gave a kind of inhuman aura.
This was also one of the reasons that Marvin didn’t want to choose the path of ascension to Godhood. Back in his world, he knew that such a decision wouldn’t affect his real personality and make him indifferent to the lives of others, as it was only a game. But now, he was in Feinan and everything was real. He didn’t dare guarantee that it wouldn’t happen.
The Fate Tablet in itself was an extremely mysterious thing. It might really change a person’s thoughts and temperament. Why else would all the Gods seem to care so little about those in Feinan? Surely some of them had loved their homeland before ascending?
If the Fate Tablets were like this, the inheritance of the Anzeds might also be the same.
These were the mightiest powers in this world.
She was the Witch Queen.
But Marvin’s heart felt uncomfortable. He preferred that dependable Legend Wizard. He liked that woman who had always stood on the tallest peak with a faint smile, looking into the distance.
Looking down on something and watching over it were two different things.
Unfortunately, regardless of what Marvin liked and disliked, things had already happened in this way.
Hathaway broke the curse and was reborn, gaining the crown of the Witch Queen.
A lot of her memories disappeared. Of course, it was also possible that she deliberately didn’t want to remember. They shouldn’t be enemies, but it was unknown whether they would become close friends again.
Marvin had already had a feeling that it would end up this way as early as when he was in the Crimson Wasteland.
Because at that time, he occasionally saw the indifference in her eyes.
As time passed, she became stronger and stronger, while fewer and fewer things would be able to enter her eyes.
Marvin couldn’t help but sigh.
But these things weren’t important now.
He shook his head, focusing on Wayne’s body once again.
He was about to use Source Harvest again to drive Dark Phoenix out of Wayne’s body, but Hathaway made her move first.
…
Under the effect of an invisible Witchcraft, Dark Phoenix couldn’t even move.
As Marvin watched attentively, Hathaway extended her hand and gave something a gentle tug.
The malicious shadow within Wayne’s body howled in grief as it was pulled out.
The body automatically fell down.
Marvin’s eyes twitched and he rushed over, catching his younger brother.
‘Plane Guardian…’
Marvin’s heart lurched.
He definitely hadn’t made a mistake!
In that split second, Hathaway showed the abilities of a Plane Guardian.
This was the first time Marvin saw the power of a Plane Guardian in Feinan after the Four Guardians died!
‘That flower was actually so important to her…’
Marvin examined Wayne and found out that his body was fine, which calmed him down. Wayne was just sleeping.
Although Dark Phoenix was vicious, her reincarnation ability must have been limited in some ways. If she wanted to survive, she definitely couldn’t afford to harm Wayne.
But neither Marvin nor Dark Phoenix had expected to run into someone like Hathaway during the pursuit.
They hadn�
��t even known that this young Anzed Witch Queen had regained her frightening power.
…
Black Coral Islands.
Hathaway still didn’t look at Marvin, instead keeping her attention on a shadow that was floating above her hand.
The shadow seemed very weak, and an ugly face would occasionally appear from time to time before dispersing into particles of dust as if trying to escape.
But a powerful force was locking her there, unable to move.
“This is a very interesting reincarnation ability. How many centuries did it take you to figure out something like this?” Hathaway coldly watched Dark Phoenix as she observed, “You can actually turn your consciousness into a ball of Chaos Power.”
“No wonder you were able to escape death.”
“You have always been trying to find the right body, but the will of a Legend Wizard is too powerful. Mortals can’t handle it, and most of the Wizards already died in the Great Calamity. You must have worked hard to find a proper medium.”
“A young Legend Wizard who had a calm mind and great potential, yet lacked the appropriate resistances… no wonder you could sneak in.”
After saying this, her eyes left Dark Phoenix’s shadow and casually looked at Marvin and Wayne a few times.
Dark Phoenix convulsed with fear. That shadow struggled a few times, but Hathaway waved her palm with a blank expression.
That shadow instantly disappeared.
She didn’t die, she was put away.
Either way, it showed Hathaway’s power.
She still stood on the reef, looking at the sea in a daze.
Marvin gently carried Wayne and looked at her with worry.
Suddenly, she turned back to Marvin and asked, “Don’t you have some questions?”
Marvin smiled and shook his head wordlessly.
It wasn’t that Marvin had nothing to ask… he shook his head precisely because it was the opposite. He had too many questions and didn’t know where to start. If she was willing, he probably had enough to last for days.
Ever since his transmigration, he had almost always felt short on time. He was always in the middle of something or going somewhere.
It was also like that right now. After resolving the problem with Wayne, he needed to get back to the Sky Tower.
With Professor and Kangen there, Feinan’s side shouldn’t suffer too much.
But even if they believed in Marvin, believed that nothing would happen to him, they would only feel completely relieved if he returned in person.
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