Chapter 319

"How are you? Feeling like your body's fine?" Gil, the manifestation of Ice Shiva, stepped forward and asked.

"No problem! If this can save our world, then we don't need the power of the summoned beasts." Cid said.

At this moment, Thor, and Miss Azure Dragon Tyrellkosa, also walked in with a cloaked youth and a red-haired woman; this person was none other than the manifestation of another fire summon, the Phoenix.

Luode had no interest in watching the brothers' reunion.

Next, Luode began to extract the power of each summon from them one by one, while his father-in-law Kaido stayed by his side the whole time.

First the Earth Titan, then the Wind Garuda, then the Ice Shiva, the Fire Phoenix, and the Iron Odin.

The manifestations of the Titan summon and the Wind Garuda summon.

Luode wiped their memories and handed them over to Cid to handle. As for the Odin summoner, this guy was utterly heinous, even reaching anti-human levels, so Luode handed him directly to Thor.

Thor immediately summoned lightning to strike, turning the body of the Odin summoner Barnabas into charred bone.

Only at the end did Luode extract the power of Fire Ifrit; this guy was quite composed, and the importance of Ifrit's power to him went without saying.

Yet Ultima endured, choosing not to launch a sneak attack when Luode was extracting the power of the Fire summon Ifrit.

Then I'll see how long you can endure; after Luode finished extracting the power of several people's summons, he relentlessly headed for the Iron Kingdom.

Then he destroyed this sinful nation and directly drained the energy from its Mother Crystal.

The Mother Crystals are formed from the bodies of Ultima's kin; they inherently contain a trace of their race's divine power, as well as vast amounts of planetary ether energy.

In the story, when the protagonist's party destroyed these Mother Crystals, they completely wasted their power, but Luode would not.

Luode also completely extracted the power of the Mother Crystal; after clearing the Iron Kingdom, his next target was the Holy Sanbreck Kingdom.

While extracting the Mother Crystal's power, he also forcibly seized the manifestation of the Dragon King Bahamut, which, by rights, should be...

The manifestation of the Dragon King Bahamut should be the world's most powerful summon; this guy can even fly into outer space to fight, and his destructive power is off the charts.

But alas! The holder of this summon, the Crown Prince, turned out to be a homosexual, completely unable to unleash Bahamut's power, and was even suppressed by the manifestation of Odin.

This made Luode feel nauseous; he despised dead homosexuals, had no intention of communicating with them, directly extracted their summon, and then left it be.

Next was the Mother Crystal of the Crystal Self-Produced Territory; there was also a Water summon user here, whose battle prowess wasn't strong; Miss Azure Dragon Tyrellkosa and Thor together took them down and then extracted the summon.

The Mother Crystal of the capital of the Dalmexia Republic was also drained of all its power by Luode; in just over ten days, Luode's party shifted to the continent and utterly destroyed four Mother Crystal veins.

Then they set foot on the final continent, entered its territory, arrived at Wolru Kingdom, and the kingdom's capital began extracting the power of the last Mother Crystal.

The Heretic Magic Statue opened its maw and swallowed all the energy of the entire Mother Crystal into itself.

After the last Mother Crystal's power was completely extracted, the sky turned wholly gloomy; a man with a spiky hairstyle, pale hair, tall stature, and a stern expression descended from the heavens.

"I thought you wouldn't show up until the end, letting me finish everything; how come you only appear after I've destroyed the last Mother Crystal?" Luode asked.

"Hehe! I really have to thank you; if it weren't for your appearance, I could only use those humans' broken bodies.

But now, you've brought me a brand-new body, concentrating all my power within it; your body is far stronger than Mutos." Ultima let out a cold laugh and said.

From the moment Luode and his party arrived, he noticed them and began covert observation.

Upon seeing that the body he had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years, painstakingly nearing completion, been taken by the opponent, Ultima was extremely anxious; but then the opponent summoned a huge magic statue.

Then, after beginning to absorb other summon powers, Ultima was overjoyed and no longer anxious.

This body is far stronger than a human's, and it is filled with powerful life energy throughout; if I could obtain this body,

the benefits would be obvious—even surpassing my prime—so Ultima went into hiding.

Waiting for Luode and his party to draw all the summon powers on the planet, as well as the Mother Crystals, into the Heretic Membrane Entity, only then did he reveal himself.

"After all this, it turns out you wanted to take on the Heretic Magic Statue!" Luode said.

"Hmph! You haven't forgotten, have you? The five Mother Crystals on this planet are all formed from the corpses of my kin.

And all the summons' power also comes from me.

I am the source of all; these powers rightfully belong under my control, yet you have sucked them all into that giant monster's body." Ultima said.

"Thunder Eight Trigrams!" Kaido suddenly appeared behind Ultima, circulating all his life energy, along with Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki, then struck with full force at Ultima.

Needless to say, the father-in-law's combat power is strong; even if Luode at this moment unleashed a full-power Thunder Eight Trigrams, it would only be slightly stronger than Kaido's.

This is despite Luode having an energy advantage.

Ultima let out a cold laugh, his body rapidly transforming into a purple giant in midair, raising a hand to block Kaido's ultimate technique.

Seeing this scene, Kaido was extremely excited; what he wanted was exactly this level of opponent! "Since you want to fight, then I'll play with you!" Altima had one hand burning with flame, the other hand showing Odin's Iron-Cutting Sword, and they directly clashed with Kaido.

The power of the ice summoning beast, the power of the wind summoning beast, the power of the earth summoning beast, Altima can easily use them.

The opponent's body would sometimes turn into a titan's giant fist, sometimes into ice, lightning, gale, and raging flames, constantly using various elemental attacks against Kaido.

"Flashy but useless! Your attacks can't hurt me." Kaido activated the Spiritual Energy Armor and also Armament Color Ambition protecting his body; Altima's various elemental attacks, even Odin's Iron-Cutting Sword, could not cause any harm to him.

"Blood Fury, Roaring Thunder Eight Trigrams!" Kaido's entire body was stained with crimson rage, and he directly used the Eight Gates Formation Technique, activating the Eight Gates state, causing the blood throughout his body to burn.

His entire body was wrapped in a streak of blood-red rage, then he suddenly rushed toward Altima and instantly broke the opponent's Iron-Cutting Blade.

How terrifying it is when father-in-law Kaido activates the Eight Gates Formation Technique, Luode knows all too well.

Moreover, when father-in-law activates the Eight Gates Formation, because of his terrifying vitality and his identity as a demigod of the wilderness, it basically has no side effects.

The damage the Eight Gates Formation inflicts on the body can be completely repaired by vitality; the Eight Gates Formation Technique, for Luode and Kaido, is essentially a move that indirectly boosts combat power.

"Don't get too full of yourself, big guy; this is only part of my power. I don't even have a body now, merely fighting in a state of pure soul and energy." Altima switched to offense first, beginning to fend off Kaido's fierce attacks.

"Then where did your body go? Idiot, you can't even protect your own body—what are you even fit to become? What qualifications do you have to call yourself a god?" Kaido snorted coldly, constantly waving his spiked club.

"Your life level isn't weak either; how about joining forces with me to create a brand-new world?" Altima, holding the Iron-Cutting Blade, blocked Kaido's fierce attack, looked toward Luode, and asked.

Just this big guy alone, he's already somewhat unable to cope; if this fellow makes a move, the consequences would be unimaginable! Damn it! He just had to show up at the most critical moment of my plan's execution—if you had come a year or half a year later, I might have already succeeded.

"Hahaha! You actually want to recruit us? Well, sorry about that—I'm not really interested in guys weaker than me." Luode sat to the side and said.

If this fellow were to recover his full power and regain his body, I would still be wary of him to a degree of three-tenths.

But in this state, Luode can only say, "Heh!"

Not to mention if I were to make a move—even if father-in-law Kaido made a move, this guy would already be somewhat unable to cope.

Now he's already in a precarious situation from the fight; at first he still had ease and even appeared nonchalant, but once the fight truly began, he would discover just how monstrous Kaido is, especially after being strengthened by himself.

Kaido, having evolved into a wild demigod, mastered various powers.

"Take this! Blood Roar Thunder Trigram!" Kaido's incredibly fierce strike finally shattered Altima's defense; the sword in his hand shattered and turned into energy, disappearing.

Kaido's fang club struck the opponent's chest with undiminished force, directly blasting Altima from his giant form back into human shape.

He fell from the sky.

"Damn humans! How could I lose? How, how can I lose?!" Altima let out an unwilling roar.

"You said you wanted to seize my Heretical Demon Statue to become your new body, right? Come on! The Heretical Demon Spear is right here—come get it." Luode pointed at the Heretical Demon Statue behind him and spoke with a smile.

"You bastard, do you have some scheme?" He so easily handed over this body to himself. "Just as you are supremely confident in your own power, I am also confident in mine—let's have a match to see whether I devour you with my Heretical Demon Statue or you devour my power with your Heretical Demon Elephant, then fully revive." Luode curled the corner of his mouth in a cold smile and spoke.

My bait is already set, kid—come bite the hook!

"Hmph! You'll regret it." Altima snorted coldly and charged straight at Luode's Heretical Demon Statue, intending to seize its power.

Just as he was about to approach the Heretical Demon Statue, a wicked smile curled Luode's lips.

Then he directly sealed the surrounding space, switched his eyes to Samsara Sharingan state, and transformed himself into Chakra Mode.

Now Chakra Mode is Luode's strongest combat form; in this form, twelve Truth-Seeking Balls orbit behind him, while his own Truth-Seeking Balls are black, wrapped in a layer of emerald-green light energy.

The twelve Truth-Seeking Balls instantly formed a great net, covering and binding Altima's soul with the power of the Soul Fruit.

"Do you know? You shouldn't get this close to me, nor be bewitched by my words—how could you trust me so easily? What you should do now is run, then find a corner and hide like a cockroach or a mouse."

Perhaps after I linger here for a while, if I can't find you, I'll leave.

"Or maybe you're just stupid! Altima, you've been defeated by humans twice in a row—not without reason." Luode spoke.

This guy is really stupid, really stupid. The humans he created developed the first civilization, possessing a very high level of technology, even reaching a spacefaring civilization.

As a result, these humans discovered that he was this creator god and knew his ultimate goal, so they went to war; the final outcome was that both sides suffered mutual devastation.

Altima was severely wounded and slept for hundreds of thousands of years before awakening, while the first civilization vanished, but humanity, as the seed, survived.

Afterward, to deal with the protagonist Kelaifu, Altima also gave him all kinds of cheats.

If you want to seize someone's body, you must make their spirit collapse—but what you did was completely and utterly to continually strengthen the protagonist's mental willpower.

This led to him ultimately being counter‑killed. From start to finish, Altima never showed any wit; although he controlled the Emperor of the Sangbureke Empire, this fool did nothing, completely ruining a great situation into a terrible hand.

You directly grabbed Kelaifu, forcibly infused him with summon beast power, then tortured him for decades to break his spirit—wouldn't that be better? Instead you kept provoking him, giving him a reason to fight, even to the death against you.

As a result, now I've caught you with my Soul Fruit power—come on, big brother, you're a soul right now! You're completely suppressed by my Soul Fruit; you don't even know my abilities, yet you dare to catch a cold and let him come kill you—how confident must you be! And do you believe whatever I say? You wouldn't think I really want to match strength with you, to see who can control the Heretical Demon Statue, would you? Why would I risk it? "You bastard, you're also a god‑level figure, and you actually, actually used this method to deceive me." Altima glared at Luode and shouted angrily.

"Tch! This kind of guy is also called a god; with his personality, if he went to the pirates' world he wouldn't last a few days before being picked clean." Kaido shouldered his fang club and walked over, saying with a sigh.

"Heh! This guy acts high and mighty, thinking he's an almighty god, and that humans should obey his orders." Luode spoke.

At the same time, he began increasing the force, sucking out all of Altima's soul energy.

Your soul energy is prime stuff—you're at least a god‑level lifeform, and I'm absorbing a god's soul energy for the first time.

However, Luode does not intend to drain all of Altima's soul energy at once.

That would be terribly wasteful—such excellent soul‑energy material naturally calls for as much as possible.

Luode plans to lock him up, let him slowly recover his soul ability, and from time to time provide himself with a wave of god‑level soul energy.

When the extraction of Altima's soul had already begun to turn to nothingness, Luode finally stopped.

Furthermore, he took out a soul‑sealing container, sealed it inside, and placed it in his private space.

After dealing with this final boss, Luode began his next plan, reinjecting all the life energy and etheric power from the five mother crystals into the planet's core.

He even added some of his own vital force, letting the planet's energy begin to renew its vitality.

In just an instant, Luode felt the planet emit a sound of joy—it had returned from the dead.

The once‑magic‑and‑life‑lost deadlands, nourished by vital force, also began to regain vitality.

The whole planet underwent tremendous change; Luode altered the fate that doomed the protagonist and his companions, altered the fate that doomed Xide, and altered the fate that doomed several other manifestors.

And after disposing of the final boss, he finally completed this rescue mission, letting the planet fully recover.

Besides that, Luode reaped all of Altima's power, and the few summon beasts conjured from his divine power.

These special summon beasts, Luode intends to return and discuss their usage with Aizelasi.

If possible, these summon beasts possess considerable strength, not much inferior to a wild demigod.

Infusing them with vital energy might even cultivate entirely new wild demigods—as many as nine.

Since they inherently possess supreme power, Aizelasi need only expend some vital energy to turn them into wild demigods of his own world.

After all, the ice god Shiva is quite beautiful, and Luode eagerly awaits what the ice‑clad Shiva will look like once granted life.

After confirming that the planet's vital energy had recovered and begun self‑repair with no issues, Luode nodded in satisfaction and then returned to the Aizelasi world.

First he let Kaido and Thor, etc., stay behind, then he brought Alice back to the Final Fantasy VII world to meet the planet's will.

"Planet's will, I think I won that bet—I've successfully saved that planet, and that evil god is now my prisoner." Luode spoke.

After hearing Luode's words, the planet's will fell silent for a moment, then spoke.

"We truly didn't expect you to have the ability to absorb the planet's vital energy and give it back."

Moreover, we never imagined you could find two such powerful allies.

I also never thought you possessed the power to harm souls; if you had shown that earlier, perhaps this trial wouldn't have happened. The planet's will fell silent a moment, then spoke.

Isn't that right? The power Luode shows in his own world and that in another world are completely disproportionate!

That shapeshifting ability, that soul‑manipulating power, and that huge magic elephant capable of absorbing the planet's entire life force—

More importantly, this guy recruited two extremely powerful foreign allies to help him—this is outright cheating.

Moreover, his combat power also shocked the planet's will; in his own world he never had the right to unleash such power, and Sephiroth is absolutely no match for him.

"When we made the bet, we never said I couldn't seek outside help or couldn't use whatever." Luode spoke.

"We accept all your conditions—Alice will become this planet's spirit, and we will go to your universe."

Then, following that universe's way, we will make Alice the new planet Titan. The planet's will spoke.

"Isn't that settled then? Let's go! Let's go watch the final battle."

「In a moment I will use the power of the planet to help you, letting your soul energy spread across the entire planet, and then annihilate all the Jienuowa。」

After spending a little over a month going to save the world, Kelaode and the others had also fully grown, and they launched the final showdown against Safiluosi。

Kelaode's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode was fully unleashed, and the Eight Gates technique burst forth with immense blood-red rage。

With a single move, the Ultimate God-Slaying Strike, he finally killed Safiluosi's true form。

And Luode, with the help of the planet's will, spread his soul power, annihilating all the Jienuowa on the entire planet。

Luode's actions that completely changed fate finally caused turmoil in the world; a powerful void energy emerged, seeking to devour the planet of Final Fantasy VII。

Seeing this, Luode immediately used his spatial energy to open a gigantic portal, then took out the prudent spatial gem energy, beginning to envelop the entire planet。

He sent the planet of Final Fantasy VII into his own world, completely completing all the tasks of this mission。

A massive black hole capable of devouring the entire planet cannot cross the world。

"How about it, the planet's will—I didn't lie to you, did I?" Luode said。

"You kept your promise; we will also fulfill our vow, and Ailisī will become the new spirit of the planet." (End of chapter)