“If you own the Steel-Winged Angel bloodline, you’ll have a chance of receiving the Angel Gods’ priority grooming and receive a great deal of benefits for free like the Titan Spiritual God!”
“The Angel Gods’ grooming...”
Meng Lei’s eyes lit up. The allure was rather great. Would the Angel Gods be like the Theodore clan and bestow upon him a few hundred existential planes as his territory, too?
“As they say, big trees provide great shade. If you can join a powerful force, it’ll be greatly advantageous toward your future development and growth!”
Dodola snickered and asked, “Why do you think native true gods like the Dragon God and the Beast God desire so much to join a powerful force yet are unable to?
“It’s because they aren’t qualified enough! Now that you have such a fantastic opportunity, you mustn’t let it pass you by! Otherwise, you’ll receive divine punishment!”
“That makes sense!”
Meng Lei nodded incessantly. A shrewd glint flashed in his eyes as he said, “Even if we take a step back and assume that I don’t wish to join the Angel Gods, the assimilation of the Steel-Winged Angel bloodline itself is tantamount to having an additional choice!”
“Yes, that’s exactly it!”
“Alright, I know what to do now!”
Meng Lei nodded repeatedly. Then, he resolutely gave the command. “System, plunder the Steel-Winged Angel bloodline!”
“Ding! The Steel-Winged Angel bloodline is classified as a higher life form’s bloodline. This pair of Steel-Winged Angel wings belongs to an Eight-Winged Steel Angel,” The system stated coldly, “Price Estimation: Plundering said bloodline requires 19.6 million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!”
“(⊙_⊙)? 19.6 million?”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp. “That’s too freaking expensive! I won’t plunder it anymore! I won’t plunder it anymore! I can’t afford to!”
At once, the system’s presence vanished.
“Have you succeeded?” asked an excited Dodola.
“It failed!”
Meng Lei gave Dodola a wry smile. “This pair of wings belongs to an Eight-Winged Steel Angel. I can’t afford the cost of plundering it!”
“An Eight-Winged Steel Angel?”
Dodola was greatly disappointed. “Eight-Winged Steel Angels are comparable to higher deities. It has indeed exceeded the range of what you can plunder. It’s understandable why you wouldn’t be able to do it!”
“Yeah! I can’t plunder it mainly because it’s too expensive!”
“Expensive?”
“My bad, what I mean is that it’s too high a grade! When I become stronger, perhaps I’ll be able to plunder it in the future!”
“Alright! Speaking of which, this is rather strange, though. Why would an Eight-Winged Steel Angel’s—and on top of that, one who even has a metal-origin divine body—wings show up in a place like this?”
...
Meng Lei cast a habitual glance at his stats interface upon exiting the Tower of Time and started to take inventory of his new gains.
True enough, the interface had changed again!
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Primeval Bloodline: Primordial Human <16%>, Assimilated Bloodlines: Gods-Slaying Rat, Divine Netherworld Phoenix, Hundred-Armed Giant)
Wealth: 49.41 million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals
Physical Body Constitution: Metal-Origin Divine Body (1%)
Spirit: Half-Deity (Pinnacle-Grade)
Others: Some increase
“My Physical Body Constitution has become a metal-origin divine body!
“1%?”
“‘1%’? What does the ‘1%’ at the back mean?”
“Ding! A friendly tip: The metal-origin divine body is formed using metal-elemental laws of nature as a source. The host’s body is flesh and blood. Hence it hasn’t perfectly integrated with the host.”
“It hasn’t perfectly integrated with my body? In other words, the ‘1%’ represents my metal-origin divine body’s assimilation rate? It’s surprisingly rather similar to bloodline assimilation rates!”
Meng Lei understood now. He asked, “System, how much does it cost to buy credit for the metal-origin divine body assimilation rate?”
“Ding! Raising the metal-origin divine body assimilation rate by 1% requires 1 million Divinity Crystals!”
“1 million... Divinity Crystals? Forget it, forget it!”
Meng Lei broke into a resigned smile at once. “That’s too expensive. I won’t fetch that high a price even if you sell me off!”
After adjusting his frame of mind, Meng Lei then continued to look through the treasures. There was a very ample amount of treasures in the Titan Empire’s treasury. Hence he looked forward very much to what he would see next.
He collected the items as he looked through them.
At last, he came to a box. The box measured four by two meters in length and breadth and was one-meter-tall. Densely packed laws of nature runes were inscribed all over it.
With Meng Lei’s prowess in his comprehension of laws of nature, he could tell at once that these runes formed a sealing magic circle.
“I wonder what’s inside the box for it to actually be sealed?”
Puzzled, Meng Lei began to break the seal. This didn’t pose any problem to him at all.
The seal was broken a brief moment later. Right away, a dense, rich aura of blood and death emanated from within, and the temperature around them fell by a few degrees out of the blue.
“For it to actually give off such a strong aura of blood and death, what can this possibly be?”
Meng Lei opened the box. A blood-red beam of light shot out from within, the resulting wind causing his cheeks to hurt. Meng Lei couldn’t help but step back.
A huge scythe that was fully blood-red in color as though doused in and forged from blood laid within the box.
The handle measured three-meters-long while the blade measured almost two-meters-wide. A blood-red chain was attached to the bottom end.
The incomparably sharp blade glinted coldly in the light, bewitching and evil, bloodthirsty and emanating a dead stillness!
As Meng Lei gazed upon the blood-red scythe, he felt as if he were staring at an incredibly evil demon, and chills ran down his spine.
“What an unholy scythe!”
Meng Lei was astounded. Nevertheless, he still grabbed hold of the blood-red scythe.
Buzz...
The scythe trembled lightly as a few icy glints of light flashed across the buzzing wide and broad blade!
Slash!
Meng Lei brandished the scythe. With a slash, the box, which was forged from an unknown kind of metal, was instantly sundered into two!
The scythe continued to slice through the air, actually slashing a tiny, barely-discernible space-time rift in the air!
“What a sharp scythe this is! It’s even sharper than the blood-red machete! What level of divine weapon is this?”
Meng Lei could hardly believe it. Nevertheless, he still dripped a drop of blood onto the scythe. As though a drop into the ocean, the blood seeped right into the scythe.
“Haha! This divine weapon doesn’t belong to anyone!”
Meng Lei was thrilled!
Buzz...
The scythe began to tremble vigorously.
The next moment, a dense beam of blood-red light shot into the sky. Meng Lei felt the world spinning around him, and then, he actually bizarrely went into a blood-red world!
Blood-red skies, blood-red lands!
Blood-red mountains, blood-red rocks!
An infinite number of dead bodies were strewn all over the blood-red lands!
There were Titan deities that reached as tall as one million feet!
There were Eight-Winged Angels with eight wings on their backs!
There were primordial Colossal Dragons that spanned as long as one million feet!
There were also dead bodies of various other lifeforms, which
gave off vast, majestic divine power that Meng Lei didn’t recognize...
But all the dead bodies had a common trait—they were headless!
Yes, that’s right!
Headless!
They were all headless bodies!
“Where have their heads gone?”
Puzzlement filled Meng Lei. Then, he saw a mud monument made out of stacked heads in the middle of the wide, spacious mountain of dead bodies!
There were Titan heads, Dragon heads, Angel heads, as well as the heads of other deities...
An infinite number of heads piled together to form a 100,000-feet-tall mountain of heads, and at the peak of the mountain stood a black figure dressed in a black hood and holding a blood-red scythe!
The howling blood winds blew across the black robe, causing it to flap loudly in the wind. Blood dripped from the blood-red scythe, forming a bewitching and unholy sight.
“Just what kind of unholy weapon is this?”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but swallow hard.
“Meng Lei!”
“Meng Lei!”
Dodola’s voice suddenly rang out beside his ear.
Whoosh!
The blood-red world instantly broke into blood-red fragments. Meng Lei then found himself back on the half-plane again, with Dodola currently calling out to him.
“This scythe...”
Meng Lei gazed at the blood-red scythe in his hand, a few beads of cold sweat forming on his forehead.
“Why aren’t you replying, Meng Lei?”
Dodola started to shout again.
“I’m here, Dodola!”
Meng Lei asked, “Is something up?”
A rather incensed Dodola asked, “What’s wrong with you, kid? Why did you take so long to respond?”
A puzzled Meng Lei asked, “What’s the matter?”
“I discovered something incredible when I was looking up something just now, Meng Lei!”
Dodola said excitedly, “Among all the Steel-Winged Angels of the Angel Gods, there’s only one person that owns a metal-origin divine body!”
Meng Lei quickly asked, “Who is it?”
“It’s that Great Perfection true god!” Dodola snickered as it asked, “Do you know what this means?
“It means that this pair of wings comes from that Great Perfection Steel-Winged Angel! If you can assimilate his bloodline and form a connection with him, you’ll become an impressive figure!”
“Let’s leave the matter of assimilating the Steel-Winged Angel bloodline to another time!” Meng Lei shook his head. Then, he said, “I have a weapon here that I’d like you to take a look at!”
Chapter 243: The Death Gods, The Fire Demon Overlord
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“What the heck! Where did you get this from?”
Astonished by the sight of the blood-red scythe in Meng Lei’s hand, Dodola looked as if it had just seen a ghost.
“I took it from the Titan Empire’s treasury!”
Meng Lei said honestly, “I’ve tested it. This scythe is extremely sharp and has astonishing might. It’s probably a very powerful divine weapon!”
“How does ‘powerful’ even cut it?!”
With a shake of its head, Dodola said, “This is the Grim Reaper Scythe. It’s the companion weapon to the Netherworld’s Grim Reapers and has beheaded so many deities that one can’t even keep count anymore!”
“The Grim Reaper Scythe?” Meng Lei gasped. “What’s a Grim Reaper?”
“The Grim Reaper is also known as the God of Death and refers to the deity that rules over death. Of course, the Grim Reaper doesn’t just represent one person. Rather, the name refers to a whole clan instead—the Death Gods!”
Dodola explained, “Although there are only very few Death Gods in comparison to clans with great numbers like the Titan Gods and the Angel Gods, every single Grim Reaper is an extremely fearsome existence—because all the Grim Reapers are higher deities!”
“They are all higher deities? My goodness, had there been more of them, would other races even have a shot at survival?”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp. A clan where every single person was a higher deity—just what kind of concept was that?
“Thus, the Death Gods are one of the most powerful forces in the Netherworld. Although there are only very few of them, no-one dares to look down on them!”
Dodola added, “In particular, the Death Gods’ ruler—the Grim Reaper King—is even one of the greatest and most noble existences in the vast universe!”
Meng Lei could hardly contain his excitement. He asked, “So, this means that this scythe is a higher deity’s weapon?”
Dodola nodded slowly. Then, it said, “But I wouldn’t recommend that you use it because the Grim Reaper Scythe is extremely bloodstained and unholy. It’ll affect your state of mind!”
“Weapons are inanimate, whereas humans are alive,” Meng Lei remained noncommittal to Dodola’s suggestion. He said, “As if inanimate objects can take control of a live human! Don’t worry. I know what I’m doing!”
Dodola chastised him. “You mustn’t be negligent!”
“Alright, alright!”
Then, Meng Lei left the Tower of Time.
One must admit that the Grim Reaper Scythe indeed looked very impressive and domineering. When Meng Lei hoisted it over his shoulder, even he felt that he looked rather cool!
“I must try this treasure out when I get the chance to!”
Meng Lei had taken a huge fancy to the Grim Reaper Scythe. Only after fiddling with it properly for quite a while did he leave the half-plane and return to the Titan Spiritual Peak summit.
“Master!”
Nadja, Seisia, and Bubbles hurriedly came forward to receive him. Klaus, who had previously headed to the Great Earth Pillar Nation, was also back.
Klaus handed a spatial ring over and said, “Master, these are the Chimeras’ assets!”
“Thanks for your hard work!” said Meng Lei received the spatial ring from him. The Chimeras’ assets certainly in no way matched up to the Titan Empire’s, but one shouldn’t underestimate them, either.
An inventory of the assets showed that they had brought Meng Lei another two million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, as well as innumerable other rare and precious treasures!
“Our trip is complete. We can leave now!”
After collecting the rest of the treasures, Meng Lei summoned the Thunder Titan Emperor over again. He said, “Thunder Titan Emperor, you’re a pretty nice guy, so I won’t take your life!”
“Thank you for sparing my life!”
The Thunder Titan Emperor was so grateful that he was close to tears.
“I’m about to leave. I’d like to ask you for one last favor!” Meng Lei asked, “I wonder if that’s okay?”
The Thunder Titan Emperor quickly replied, “Your wish is my command, sir! I will definitely do my best to fulfill it!”
Right now, all he wanted was to see Meng Lei off—never to return again, preferably!
“Spread the news of everything that has happened here everywhere. Let the Titan Empire’s people know what exactly has taken place here!”
Meng Lei smiled calmly and asked, “Can you do that?”
“Yes! Absolutely!”
The Thunder Titan Emperor hurriedly gave his word.
“Great!”
Meng Lei gave him a slight nod. Then, he said, “Let’s go!”
“Yes, Master!”
Klaus transformed into his true form and left with Meng Lei and the others on his back.
The Thunder Titan Emperor watched as they went far away into the distance until all he could see was a tiny black dot. Only then did he finally heave a long sigh of relief and collapsed onto the ground weakly.
“He’s gone! That devil is finally gone! I’ve managed to stay alive somehow, thank goodness!”
“Your Majesty!”
The Titan Empress and other survivors walked over, their expressio
ns one of relief from surviving the ordeal.
The Thunder Titan Emperor felt like crying as he looked at them, however. The half-deity grandmasters were all dead while only a handful of court officials, nobles, and Saint Domains were left.
How were they supposed to survive?
“That renegade! Knave! Treacherous bandit!”
The Thunder Titan Emperor gnashed his teeth, wishing he could rip Meng Lei into shreds. “I’m so mad!”
“It’s over! All over!”
“Oh, my empire...”
...
As though a red bolt of lightning, Klaus soared swiftly in the sky while Meng Lei, Bubbles, and the others sat on his back and chatted idly.
“Are you also a Titan, Master?”
Bubbles asked as he watched Meng Lei, his eyes full of excitement and curiosity.
“Not really, I guess! I’m a Hundred-Armed Giant!”
Meng Lei shook his head with a laugh.
“A Hundred-Armed Giant?”
Bubbles broke into a slight frown—he’d never heard of the Hundred-Armed Giants.
“Hundred-Armed Giants refer to the legendary Titan mutants. However, they were expelled by the Titans and became the Supreme God of The Underworld’s guards in the end,” explained Seisia, the Thunderbolt Queen.
At the same time, an even stronger sense of curiosity also filled her eyes as she gazed at Meng Lei.
First, it was the Divine Netherworld Phoenix bloodline, and now, it’s the Hundred-Armed Giant bloodline. Master has simply too many secrets. He’s just like a ball of mystery!
“A Titan mutant? That’s also a Titan!”
Bubbles’ eyes lit up as he burst into loud laughter. “Master, the same blood flows through our veins! Hahaha!”
“Well, I guess so!”
Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Then, he brought out about 100 half-divine weapons that were giving off power of divinity energy fluctuations.
“I took these half-divine weapons from the Dragon God Empire and the Titan Empire’s treasuries. Each of you can pick a few for yourselves as weapons!”
“So many half-divine weapons!”
Bubbles and the other three half-deities were so astonished that their eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets. They were half-deities, hence in terms of weapons, half-divine weapons suited them best.
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