Chapter 326: Humans, Shall We Make a Deal?

Boom!!

Bang!!

The clash of spears, axes and swords, the chaotic and pure Spiritual Shock, seemed to drown out the fierce fighting across the battlefield.

Only a Poseidon standing just two‑meter‑three or four tall could actually exchange blows with a Rus close to five meters tall…

Of course, neither Astate, nor Keli Ge, the auxiliary troops, nor the UNSC soldiers could discern the moves of the "Sea God" and the "Wolf King".

Moreover, the fierce battle between Poseidon and Rus utterly devastated the terrain.

Whenever the two sides' weapons smashed or slashed, the muddy ground instantly "exploded" a crater, or kicked up earth, causing massive collapses, like a continuous violent earthquake.

Spiritual Energy clashing with Spiritual Energy also erupted visible shockwaves, indiscriminately striking all around, inflicting severe losses on demons as well as humans.

Thus the warring sides reached an unspoken tacit understanding: they would not actively interfere with Poseidon and Rus's duel.

At this moment Zeus was beside them, "appreciating" the demonic army's one‑sided assault on the human forces that had lost their OriginalBody and were holding the line.

!! Sensing the pain of his comrades' deaths made Rus even more angry and ferocious, and he swung his frost axe and frost sword with even greater vigor.

"Clang!!" a metallic shriek.

The trident finally was pried open by the frost sword, leaving Poseidon's façade wide open.

It seemed that, in terms of physical body strength, the OriginalBody still held the advantage, and then Rus, holding the frost axe in his right hand, immediately slashed at Poseidon.

"Splash!!"

But Poseidon's body turned into seawater, so Rus's full‑force strike hit a fluid that could not be solved by brute force, like punching cotton.

"Wham! Wham!"

Immediately after, the muddy soil, the humid air, even the moisture in living blood seemed to be controlled by Poseidon, condensing toward his location.

Rus was not afraid of Poseidon's petty tricks, but that didn't mean others could be; so he unleashed his least‑skilled Spiritual Energy shield, cutting off the horrific scene of soldiers' blood being sucked away through the air.

In the blink of an eye.

Poseidon transformed into a hundred‑meter‑tall giant titan made entirely of water, and the trident enlarged along with it.

"Insignificant humans, your planet, your star sector now belongs to us!" He raised the trident high and thrust fiercely at Rus.

"Boom!"

But the trident's tip only pierced the already dried, cracked earth, not harming Rus a single bit.

"Dong! Dong!"

At the same time, Rus's DivineBody rushed forward, its body matching his, to assist its master in battling Poseidon.

With the DivineBody helping to hold back the titan‑sized Poseidon, Rus found a brief moment of freedom, turned and rushed toward the Zeus behind him.

Closing in…

Gripping his weapon tightly…

He swung with all his might!

"Thud!"

However, it was Rus who was knocked airborne and crashed heavily to the ground.

!! This left Rus, and even the wolf leaders fighting around him, utterly stunned.

The attack's range was uncapturable, the force utterly crushed…

Such a situation could only occur when a mortal faces an Astate, or when an Astate faces an OriginalBody.

Previously Poseidon and their OriginalBody fought evenly; the wolf leaders could understand, after all the opponent was a chaos‑empowered "Sea God", but Zeus instantly felled Rus…

This shows Zeus has already become a being that surpasses the OriginalBody.

"Indeed, still just a child." At this moment Zeus walked toward the fallen Rus, who was getting up as if ready to continue the attack, shook his head and sighed: "Even if you're a child, you must answer for the words you've spoken; disaster comes from the mouth, this will be the last knowledge you learn before death, so…"

"So the one who should die is you, my son; it's not yet your turn, you scum, to lecture."

!!!

Hearing the reverberating words around, Zeus instinctively leapt from his spot and returned to the fallen gods, feeling a little safer.

When he landed and steadied himself, looking ahead he saw that at some unknown time the sky had suddenly opened a portal over a hundred kilometers in diameter, its edges bursting with golden radiance.

The blood‑colored clouds covering the sky seemed to dissipate under the golden light, allowing starlight to once again bathe the ground, and also shine on the battling Astate and the soldiers.

The Dark Angel's flagship Courage Anthem, and the Tutmos flagship Ten‑Thousand‑Radiance (Photep), along with numerous human warships of the Gorgon class, Achilles class, etc., were using the "portal" to sequentially rush to Fen Li Si, then various plasma cannons and Gauss cannons provided stronger fire support for ground troops.

Of course, tens of thousands of drop pods and transport aircraft left the hulls, roaring as they slammed onto, landed on Fen Li Si's surface.

The pod doors and hatchways opened, allowing the Dark Angel and Tutmos's Astate, leading two legions of auxiliary troops, to come to aid the embattled wolf brothers.

In an instant, humanity, now commanding three legions, eliminated the one‑sided situation.

Conversely, at the center of the battlefield.

Rus, having retrieved his frost axe and frost sword, stood up and saw many Terminators floating beside him, as well as blue energy spheres that appear only when powered armor transmits.

When the spheres faded, Rus saw a single person before him…

"Father… Father!!" he shouted hoarsely with his big voice.

Because standing before Rus was Sui Bian, clad in black‑gold armor, wielding the Governing Sword in his right hand, while around them hundreds of guards brandished thunder spears.

Sui Bian walked slowly to Rus's side, comforting him: "You've worked hard, child, I'll take over from here, rest well."

"Yes, Father!" Rus nodded repeatedly.

"Boom! Boom!"

At that moment, the titan‑sized Poseidon successfully repelled the DivineBody that was in a "soulless", "unmanned" state.

Then Poseidon raised his trident high and lunged fiercely at the "insignificant" Sui Bian.

"Rou～!!!" the sound ripped across the battlefield.

Just as the trident tip was about to crush Sui Bian, from the moment Poseidon launched the attack, Rus, the guards, and the wolf leaders showed no sign of panic, nor any tension, shouting "Father in danger!" "Father, dodge!" and the like.

After all, the one truly in crisis was not Sui Bian, but Poseidon…

Boom—!

Only seeing Sui Bian, who wanted a quick battle, too lazy to make the motion of drawing his sword to deflect the trident, also too lazy to waste words, he immediately ignored the attacking Poseidon and directly released Spiritual Shock.

Sizzle—!!

Roar——! No-!!

Poseidon, the first to suffer the Spiritual Shock, had his water-composed titan body "evaporated" and "vaporized", letting out an extremely unwilling wail before dissipating and vanishing.

As one of the chief gods of Olympus, the sea god was nonetheless scorched to near nothing by the "flames".

Of course, eliminating a mere sea god is far from enough; the Spiritual Shock bursting with golden light, like the substantive manifestation of Sui Bian's wrath, even the vengeful spirits of billions of dead compatriots, seemed to be caught within the radiance, coming to demand payment from these fallen gods and demons.

In the blink of an eye, the originally bloody, foul air was thoroughly purified; the rampaging demons, like loose sand meeting a strong wind, were blown apart, their physical bodies and souls destroyed, proving the source of their existence—the chaotic Spiritual Energy that allowed them infinite "rebirth"—was also directly plundered.

Bloody giants, seductive snake demons, fallen divine servants, and those weak demons were all erased.

Along with Hermes, already felled by Rus's axe and severely wounded, and Apollo, who had completely turned to desire, and the rest of the Olympian gods, were all erased and plundered.

Even if they had Spiritual Energy barriers, even if they were "gods"……

So what?

The "generous" golden radiance treats all equally.

At this moment, if one were to observe from a position tens of thousands of kilometers away, one could see the Spiritual Shock enveloping the entire Fenris.

In near-Earth orbit, the "octopus" and "whale" that were ravaging human warships, those gigantic interdimensional beings, also could not escape annihilation and plunder.

The thirteen rifts that released those interdimensional beings were also forcibly closed due to the radiance, and the distorted space returned to its original state.

And likewise, the closed surface fissures…

"Just now... what's the situation?"

"Has the battle ended? Did those trash all die?"

"The golden radiance... the portal in the sky... my goodness..."

The war ended in an instant, leaving the soldiers inside the lines and those who had charged out of the trenches to fight, still holding their blocking and slashing motions, utterly unprepared, all couldn't help but sigh at the Spiritual Energy released by Sui Bian.

However, the war was only nearing its end, not actually over.

Because that Zeus, the god king who had received the blessings of many evil gods and whose power far surpassed that of the god king from ten thousand years ago, was the sole "survivor" of the Spiritual Shock, especially having faced Sui Bian head-on at close range.

Poseidon, Apollo, Hermes, and the other "gods" have vanished into thin air; on the dried ground, only the divine weapons they once used remain.

And Zeus…

This god king, aside from looking somewhat disheveled in appearance, still retained the strength to fight one battle; however, his originally ferocious, bloodthirsty demeanor seemed to have eased, even his gaze becoming somewhat clearer.

"Thud, thud…"

Accompanied by the heavy sound of magnetic boots, Sui Bian walked to a distance of several meters before Zeus and stopped.

"Finally meeting you, the current master of humanity." Zeus spoke first.

Furthermore, this god king's expression was extremely relieved, as if he had made some kind of preparation.

"Farewell." Sui Bian also replied briefly.

Afterward, he raised his right hand holding the Sword of Governance; golden flames flickered and burned under the starlight, and without hesitation he swung downward…

"Swish!"

"Sizzle!" The body was split in two by the blade's edge.

"Puff!!"

The Olympian gods' unique "phosphorescent" blood spurted out, but this blood had long been turbid, turning into a dark, purplish, foul-smelling liquid.

"Thud! Thud!"

Zeus's body, now in two halves, fell left and right, lifelessly collapsing to the ground.

Then, the body severed by the Sword of Governance was swiftly devoured by fierce flames.

Sui Bian stared expressionlessly at the burning body, then returned the Sword of Governance to its sheath.

This god king did not resist because, while Sui Bian was executing the Spiritual Shock, he erased all effects of the interdimensional on Fenris, naturally also inflicting heavy damage on Zeus.

If, before the interdimensional storm raged, setting aside physique and considering only Spiritual Energy, Sui Bian would still be stronger than Zeus, but completely defeating Zeus is no easy task.

Afterward, the interdimensional storm initiated by the evil gods successfully allowed countless demons to enter the physical universe, but also enabled Sui Bian to successfully plunder the Spiritual Energy of countless demons.

This is why the evil gods and demons went to great lengths to lure him to the frontier fortress.

And Zeus took this opportunity to prepare to slaughter and sacrifice the 45 billion humans of the Oslo Star Region, to gain greater strength while also securing a foothold in the physical universe.

Then, the evil gods and demons who had secured a permanent foothold would be better able to deal with Sui Bian.

But they did not anticipate that Sui Bian could likewise open a "portal".

Faced with the current Sui Bian, Zeus's defeat was inevitable; and the brief moment when his body and soul suffered heavy damage allowed the rational Zeus to realize that himself, his brothers and children, and even the Olympian gods had all become playthings of the interdimensional, becoming aware of the heinous crimes "he" had committed against humanity and other races.

Thus, as the former god king, Zeus chose to atone with his death.

Seeing this, Sui Bian naturally gave Zeus a quick end, and in doing so mourned the billions of dead compatriots.

As for revenge?

The true culprits are those evil gods hiding in the "dark"…

At this moment.

The purplish Spiritual Energy representing Zeus floated around Sui Bian after he finished sheathing his sword; soon, this energy turned gold, pierced his black-gold armor, and merged into his body.

After he completed the plunder.

Sui Bian sensed that nearby, as if a "pause" button had been pressed, the warship halted its advance, even the air ceased flowing, silent and still.

Suddenly, the surrounding environment also seemed to switch to a "black screen", plunging into endless darkness.

Seeing this, Sui Bian drew the Sword of Governance again.

"Boom—!"

Golden flames followed the blade as it left the sheath, lighting up the radiance and dispelling the darkness.

And Sui Bian, who wielded the Sword of Governance as a torch, also saw the perpetrators of this "pause", this "black-screen prank"...

They were countless "colossal beings", and countless pairs of eyes that did not blink, staring fixedly at his "eyes".

Seeing this group of beings, Sui Bian felt neither surprise nor unfamiliarity; through their blurry appearances, he even recognized four "acquaintances" among those "colossal beings"...

Jian Qi, Se Nie, Kong Nue, Na Gou.

These four evil gods, even if they possessed their respective material forms, remained elusive and chaotic void.

Moreover, their looming gazes were filled with greed, provocation, bloodlust, and "loving kindness".

As for the other towering, massive beings, they are naturally the evil gods unique to the otherworld, and those countless pairs of "eyes" are the demons that have formed a united front.

But demons cannot, like the four gods and the evil gods, manifest a substantial form in this space; they can only reveal their "eyes".

"Humans..."

As the god who loves to scheme and play tricks the most among the gods, Jian Qi spoke first in a low, hoarse voice:

"Let's make a deal, how about it?"

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{Author says: Everyone, participate in the fan title activity~ hahaha! } 。

Fan title is "Genetic OriginalBody". } (End of chapter)