Chapter 530: Fire Dragon, Giant Elephant

"Brother…"

Leading a hundred Sic Maytes (the Honor Guard of Tutmos), using armor‑teleportation ability from low Earth orbit, they arrived directly at the battlefield's core where Magnus stood, and, seeing Wokan brimming with hatred and loathing, he couldn't help but reply:

"Your eyes have already been blinded by the evil god, and your thoughts have become beyond salvation…

Only by receiving your father's Spiritual Energy cleansing, and undergoing the doctor's experiment to death, can you be reborn."

"Nonsense!"

Wokan let out a roar, then mustered all his force and charged at Magnus in a single rush.

"Clang!"

"Boom!!!" A space distortion visible to the naked eye swept outward.

Magnus also drew a massive curved saber called "Blade of Wisdom", blocking the war hammer's strike.

Magnus's feet stepped back, while Wokan's arms gripping the war hammer trembled; at this stance, it seemed the two OriginalBodies could not yet determine a victor in terms of force.

The hundred Sic Maytes standing on the left and right showed no intent to assist, spreading outward in pairs or groups of four.

At this moment, a Sic Mayte sprinted forward while raising his left hand…

With a "Snap!!" sound, he released from his palm a Spiritual Energy lightning that glowed radiant blue, its path tracing a "Z" shape.

"Crack!!"

The lightning swept across, chaining all demonic creatures in its path, ultimately shattering the Spiritual Energy barrier formed by chaotic ceramic‑steel armor, then striking the fire lizard whose "central gate was wide open".

"Ah—!!!"

Accompanied by a heavy, guttural scream, the smell of burnt char and black smoke spewed out from the seams of the ceramic‑steel armor.

Then the fire lizard struck by the lightning went rigid, maintaining its charge posture as it lunged forward and "thud!" slammed onto the ground, remaining motionless.

At the same time, the demonic creatures that had been chained and were heavily crit‑hit turned to ash from the lightning, and an odd "grilled" smell lingered in the sky above the area.

It wasn't just this Sic Mayte; any member of the Honor Guard who followed Magnus to activate the teleportation device and reach the battlefield's core became a Spiritual Energy master.

They could unleash a tsunami that cleanses all, or a fire sea like a furnace, or a tornado interlaced with solid wind blades.

If viewed from the sky, the hundred‑plus Sic Maytes would, in a brief instant, carve out a vast "vacuum" zone within the chaotic army, providing their OriginalBodies with an ideal environment to focus on battling the fallen fire dragon.

As for assisting the OriginalBodies in joint combat?

Impossible.

Even if their Honor Guard were stronger and their Spiritual Energy spellcraft more proficient, a single combatant still pales compared to the Imperial Guard Commander Kang Sitan Ting.

Astate's clash with Astate is like a "War of the Gods"; mortals die upon contact, so a duel between OriginalBodies ends the same as Astate's fate with mortals.

No fool would, like the veteran Terminator who was once Helusi's son, actually believe A Ba Dun's claim that the OriginalBody of the primary universe poses no threat, and then truly launch a melee charge at Sparta OriginalBody John…

The result was a death so baffling that he didn't even know how he died.

At this moment.

At the center of the vacuum zone, this side.

"Clang!!"

"Clang!!"

Weapons clashed fiercely.

The close‑quarters duel between the two giants, to the nearby Sic Maytes, fire lizards, and demons, resembled a contest between after‑images.

It is worth noting that several Sic Maytes, while moving away from this side, also remembered to take the already "decommissioned" centurion and the Imperial Guard within him, preventing a "gods fighting, mortals suffering" scenario.

"Snap!!"

Just as Magnus used his wisdom curved blade to forcefully pry open the chaotic war hammer, he released Spiritual Energy lightning in a near face‑to‑face clash.

"Ah!!"

Wokan was caught off guard by the blow; the Spiritual Energy barrier failed to block the attack, causing him to instantly pull his left hand from the hammer handle, cover his smoke‑emitting face and retreat repeatedly, while his right hand swung the chaotic war hammer vigorously.

Seeing this, Magnus—who is over half a head shorter than Wokan—did not press the advantage; after all, an OriginalBody's sixth sense rivals its eyes, and he didn't want to gamble that the chaotic war hammer wouldn't strike his own Spiritual Energy barrier.

Thus Magnus prepared to further expand his Spiritual Energy advantage, deliberately pulling back while also drawing his left hand the waist‑hung staff resembling a pharaoh's scepter, a pure‑gold "Wisdom Scepter", and, pointing it at the rapidly healing Wokan, murmured:

"Fallen warriors, I, on behalf of the Human Emperor, petition you to aid me in subduing the genetically OriginalBody that has been bewitched and blinded by the evil god!"

By the end, Magnus's tone and voice rose and intensified.

At the same time, the Wisdom Scepter emitted a dazzling golden radiance, appearing ready to unleash an extremely "powerful" spell.

Sure enough.

His sight restored, and with both hands re‑grasping the chaotic war hammer, Wokan suddenly manifested three golden light spheres out of thin air.

These three spheres rapidly expanded, and in the blink of an eye formed three "human" silhouettes about three meters tall, bodies faint and ghost‑like.

However, these three figures were not all human heroes; two were "half‑bloods", and the other was a "deity" with no human lineage.

The most imposing figure, over four meters tall, clad in a red Greek‑style robe and bearing heavy armor, helmet, war shield, and spear, was the "deity" Ares, who fell in battle millennia ago.

The remaining two were the aforementioned "half‑bloods": both dressed in armor similar to Ares but more slender and, at only two meters tall, were demi‑god heroes—Achilles.

And also a demi‑god, the most muscular, wielding a massive club and wearing a lion's skin as a cloak—Hercules.

These three heroes should rank among the mid‑to‑high tier deities of Olympus.

As for why Magnus does not summon deities from other pantheons, such as Norse, Egyptian, or ancient Chinese…

He feels somewhat ashamed.

First, Magnus is not as powerful as his father and cannot perform summons.

Second, and most importantly, because Artemis and the other surviving Olympian gods have a fairly good cooperation and friendship with the Human Emperor and the Empire.

Consequently, Ares, Achilles, and Hercules—whose souls have long returned to the Sea of Souls and never corrupted by chaos—feel a strong affinity toward the Human Empire.

Put bluntly, Magnus lacks the "face" to summon the high‑ranking deities of the Norse, Egyptian, and ancient Chinese pantheons.

Moreover, the souls of most high‑ranking gods have already flowed into the multiverse; why would they concern themselves with the "little war" erupting in Sanosche?

"Whoa…"

Just awakened and stepping again into the material universe, Ares looks up as his physique expands again, reaching a terrifying fourteen‑meter‑tall Wokan, and can't help but utter:

"Magnus, I'm friendly with you, but you bring me to face such a big guy right away—aren't you overestimating me?"

"Scum!!"

But before Magnus can respond to Ares's teasing, the increasingly angry Wokan immediately raises his war hammer and smashes toward the nearest Ares.

"Clang!!"

Ares doesn't have time to think, lifts what appears to be a "transparent", non‑material war shield and blocks.

This strike somehow creates a shallow pit one meter deep centered on "him" at the war god's feet.

If you look closely, you can also see a faint, perfectly arced Defensive Barrier emanating from the war shield and enveloping Ares, which is why Ares sinks as a whole rather than his feet piercing the ground.

Immediately, Ares performs a left dodge, letting the hammer edge graze past and strike the ground, and while spinning quickly, uses the momentum to thrust the war spear in his right hand toward Wokan's left calf.

At the same time.

The demigod heroes Achilles and Hercules are not idle either; taking advantage of Ares holding Wokan, they swing their respective weapons and launch attacks.

And Magnus, who dislikes and is not adept at close combat and positions himself as a "mage", doesn't wait to answer Ares's tease, and at once uses his wisdom staff to unleash lightning and wind blades.

"Puff!! Psch!!"

Magnus's attack tears through Wokan's Spiritual Energy Defensive Barrier, and after the initial strike, Ares and Achilles also use their war spears to pierce straight through Wokan's left and right calf armor and skin.

"Bang!!! Crack!!!"

Hercules, possessing unknown tonnage of strength, somehow swings a massive club, smashing the knee armor and knee of Wokan's right leg.

"Ah!! You bunch of dogs!!"

"Boom~—————!!"

Wokan, his lower limbs covered in scale wounds, unable to endure, lets out a roar and also releases a deep‑purple Spiritual Shock, flinging Ares, Achilles, and Hercules aside.

And that's not all.

Wokan's height and body swell again, and this time the mutation speed is visible to the naked eye.

Just watching Wokan continuously expand, after a while his chaotic armor bursts, and soon Wokan's body grows to sixty meters, becoming a more agile chaotic titan.

However, Wokan is no longer a four‑limbed, torso‑bearing human; instead he increasingly takes on the form of a giant dragon with dark scaly armor and skin.

During this period, Magnus, the war god, and the two demigod heroes all retreat; Magnus even while retreating continues to fire Spiritual Energy bombardments at Wokan, but the wounds and cracks heal rapidly, yielding little effect.

Finally.

When Wokan's body length extends to about a hundred meters, a pair of wings blazing with fierce fire sprout from his back, spanning four hundred meters; the mutation and expansion finally cease.

"Roar~!!"

Transformation complete…

Or rather, having completed an alternative demonic ascension ritual, Wokan lifts his head and exhales a flame that lights the murky night sky.

And the ascended Wokan becomes the absolute focal point of the entire battlefield.

Seeing this,

Asasstiye no longer focuses on "small skirmishes", instead growing countless tentacles to aid its sprint across the surface, charging toward the fully demonic Wokan.

Moreover, this former ruler also emits its species‑unique brainwaves, disrupting the vast majority of fire lizards that still, in some sense, belong to "humans".

Some fire lizards with weak will, when their souls are plundered, instantly change their faith, and their bodies sprout writhing tentacles representing the former ruler's slaves, leading to internal conflict with other fire lizards and demons that should be brothers or allies.

As for the demons…

They do not belong to the category of material‑universe beings at all; at most, after stepping into the material universe, their bodies must endure various physical rules, so they are completely unaffected by Asasstiye's brainwaves.

"Whoa!"

Keeping a greater distance from the two demigod heroes and Magnus, Ares plants the tip of his war spear into the ground, raises his right hand to his waist, watches the Wokan transformed into a fire dragon, and delivers another out‑of‑place jab:

"Fine fellow, this thing is beyond cure, tsk tsk, still want to capture it?"

Saying that, Ares turns his gaze toward the distant Magnus.

If you only hear Ares's tone, demeanor, and posture, it's hard to link that war god—who would rather die together than let Lilith live—to this scene.

Having seen Ares's skeleton since youth, Magnus has taken this war god as one of his role models.

But when this OriginalBody's Spiritual Energy grew to a certain point, and after learning the summoning of heroic spirits from his father, he established communication with Ares, who lies dormant in the Sea of Souls…

Consequently, the majestic heroic image from his youth collapsed in Magnus's mind, yet this did not prevent the two from forging a deep friendship.

"Roar!!"

At this moment Wokan turns his body, and instead of targeting the similarly sized Asasstiye as the primary objective, he breathes fiery flame toward the "tiny" Ares.

??!!

Ares hurriedly raises his war shield to block.

"Boom!!"

The fiery breath is deflected by the curved force field generated by the war shield, but Ares also cannot stop retreating, about to be swallowed.

And the war god cannot understand why "he" attracts such "hatred" from the ascended OriginalBody.

But…

"Audacious!!"

Accompanied by a resonant war cry, Ares also begins to swell; one could say he starts the giant‑elephant transformation of the Olympian gods.

In the blink of an eye, Ares becomes a hundred‑meter‑tall giant, his eyes flashing a pale gold light, his cloak, war spear, and war shield also igniting with golden flame.

Then, with just a shield‑swing motion, Ares deflects the fiery breath, picks up his war spear again, and attacks Wokan.

"Boom!!"

"Bang!!"

The clash of the two colossal beings shakes heaven and earth.

Even after giant‑elephant transformation, the war god's heroic soul, unable to match the ascended OriginalBody, seems to receive some Blessing, and now fights Wokan on equal footing.

After Asasatiye joins the battle, Magnus also no longer considers taking prisoners, immediately 'compresses' and releases a Spiritual Shock capable of destroying a star system…

Wokan finally experiences his first death.

Before the Ascending Demon OriginalBody attempts to resurrect, its corpse is personally brought back by Magnus and transported to the Glory Master Class flagship of the Imperial Army fleet.

Everyone, these days after work I start writing, going until 2 a. m., and on the sixth I've also been sorting out the rental (the cockroaches are almost gone), I'll take a day off tomorrow, and stockpile some drafts.

Then after completing this interstellar expedition, I will write some 'small' but very desperate world, while also preparing to start a new book (I've been saying it for a long time, but never had the time to put pen to paper).

Finally, thank you everyone for your support; these days comments aren't usable, but I'm still very grateful for subscriptions, recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, and tips~~!

(End of chapter)