Chapter 77: Sacrifice

Badehaier mastered the surging power within his body almost instantly, then, in Oumibeila's eyes, merged the remaining few clusters of light into himself one by one.

He was now similar to Amanises, who had killed the Destruction Demon Wolf.

"Mother..." Badehaier turned to look at his mother.

Oumibeila's entire body turned cold and rigid; she could barely withstand the mental shock of this moment.

Her partner had collapsed under their eldest son's sword and was then "eaten"—for any sentient being, this was an extreme shock.

"Ah!" Oumibeila slowly opened her mouth, letting out a slightly shrill scream.

She turned and fled directly, a sense of terror rising; at this moment, she only wanted to get away!

"Ormir is dead." Lilisini looked at the twilight that had suddenly been stained blood-red and said coldly.

"Sasriel and I will go over." Chumen and Sasriel roamed to the outside of the Giant King's Court.

"Who dares to trespass in the Giant King's Court!?"

The silver knight guarding the gate still stood firm under these circumstances; only now could the entire Giant race awaken to the fact that the Giant King had fallen.

Some among them even knew the truth, but they still chose to guard the Giant King's Court.

"You..." Sasriel looked at these Giant race Warriors prepared to meet death heroically, pondered for a moment, "From now on, you shall pledge loyalty to me; for now, step aside."

Wherever Sasriel's gaze fell, the shadows at the feet of all the blocking Giant race Warriors seemed to come to life, controlling their actions.

"Giants will eventually die by betrayal." Chumen walked into the Giant King's Court; it had been a hundred years since he last came, and at that time, the Giant King's Court was one of the two poles of the Twin Era.

And now, it had already begun to decline.

Of course, this decline had no small connection to him as well.

"Badehaier!" Chumen arrived at the Twilight Palace, saw that fading light of life, and also saw Badehaier, who still had one twilight phantom remaining.

He did not dare to stay here to face Chumen either; after Oumibeila fled, he could only leave this place immediately, his true body hidden somewhere unknown.

The Giant who had just completed a perfect betrayal could not trust anyone.

"Dream!" Badehaier opened his single eye; the Dawn Armor in his eye had already begun to change, moving toward Twilight.

"And you, Sasriel!" Badehaier soon saw Sasriel, who looked as relaxed as if on an outing, and felt even more wary.

The status of Vice Sovereign of Heaven represented that Ancient Sun God.

After weighing the options, Badehaier looked at the Characteristics that had disintegrated all over the ground; that great sword had also shattered itself and was in the process of reconverging.

He could have taken all these things away, but he did not do so.

"I only took what I deserved; the rest belongs to you, but I need to take the Giant race away."

Badehaier made a concession; his true body did not dare to face these two, but his phantom had a bit of confidence to negotiate.

Chumen looked at the vigilant Badehaier and put away certain thoughts; if he joined forces with Sasriel to strike now, the probability of finding and completely erasing a certain future deity would be around thirty percent.

However, even if she took the Characteristics, Amanises would not dare to fuse them before the Doomsday arrived and she obtained the "River of Eternal Darkness"; she could only stuff them in the warehouse to gather dust.

That would be better than letting Badehaier go and block the Starry Sky during the Fifth Epoch, just like a Demon Monarch.

So Chumen and Sasriel exchanged a glance and agreed to Badehaier's terms.

"Fine."

The Giant race as a whole did not have much value to them.

The twilight phantom left by Badehaier gradually dissipated; he was cautious enough, and the power of the Authority of Decay erased all connections.

"This is probably the easiest Ancient God force to deal with." Sasriel sighed; the other Ancient God forces almost all required the Ancient Sun God to take action personally.

But the Giant King's Court had begun to disintegrate from within.

"The Underworld is likely next."

Chumen seemed to sense something; a powerful force flashed and vanished on the Dream Book.

But he did not go to investigate; Amanises was there in the Underworld, so he did not need to worry. He simply swept all the Characteristics of Demigod level and above in the Giant King's Court into his treasury.

Ormir had already completely become history; the next should be the Phoenix Ancestor Grejary.

Salinger did not go to hunt down the remnants of the Giant army led by the God of Honor; he came to the Shenshen deep in the Underworld, prayed piously to the Phoenix Ancestor, and listened to the Divine Oracle.

"Go repair the Underworld, then seal all passages leading to the outside world, completely isolating it from the world; the time is... infinitely long!"

The Phoenix Ancestor issued the Divine Oracle, deciding to shrink into the Underworld and never go out again.

The Elf and Dragon had already failed completely and would soon be eaten; the Ancient Sun God at that time would be irresistible, and she could only try to hide as deeply as possible, like a Demon Monarch.

This was the Phoenix Ancestor's initial thought, only to be disrupted by Ormir, and now she was also deep in danger.

"Yes!" Salinger knelt on the ground and responded respectfully.

Hum!

The Phoenix statue, which seemed to be carved from bronze, flickered with tiny specks of light, and an illusory portal descended onto Salinger.

This was the Phoenix Ancestor's bestowal.

Has the Phoenix Ancestor reached the point where even repairing the Rules of the Underworld requires a subordinate deity to do it...

Salinger had no extra reaction; having obtained this Underworld permission, he exited the Shenshen and diligently repaired the Rules that had been destroyed by the Giant King.

With the existence of Underworld permission, this was not too difficult, even somewhat simple—did this mean that the Phoenix's own state would deteriorate just by using power?

Salinger still did not show any abnormality, returned to that Shenshen Gongdian, prayed to the Phoenix, and held a simple sacrificial ritual to sacrifice that illusory portal to the Phoenix Ancestor.

Until the very last moment, Salinger had not received any warning from his partner, so Salinger made his own response.

At the very instant before the Sacrificial Gate closed completely, Salinger activated a certain Hidden spell, which allowed him to temporarily obtain the protection of the Hidden.

Then, an eyeball appeared in his hand.

This eyeball was mostly black, surging with a kind of pure feminine power.

The pupil of the eyeball was an eerie grayish-white; if one looked closely, one would find countless tiny tentacles within it that only had faint phantoms.

These tentacles were twisting and in a Frenzy like pythons, seemingly possessing a Destruction capable of causing the collapse of all things.

This eyeball was strange to the extreme; even Salinger, who held it, had irreversible changes growing upon his body.

His rugged face seemed to be becoming soft, and his hair was also growing longer and thicker in a strange way, as if it were about to transform into individual snakes flicking their tongues.

Salinger threw the eyeball in his hand into that sacrificial light gate which was about to vanish.