Chapter 84: Under the Silver Moon (End of this Volume)

After a moment of trance, it was as if waking from a big dream.

Xia De sat upright in the main seat of the banquet hall, stood up in the dim banquet hall that had returned to normal. The bloody smell of the living sacrifices fighting didn't dissipate because of the evil god's departure. But the blood mist disappeared, and even the body behind him was gone, as if that fleeting tenderness was just a hallucination when near death.

"Did you really appear?"

He asked blankly.

【The door to the supernatural has been pushed open by you, and the path of sublimation is now revealed. Outsider, you have discovered a special path of sublimation, and you have obtained a drop of divinity.】

On the Life Ring slowly disappearing behind him, the brass-colored ring body was entwined with golden flashes that were difficult to detect.

"What's the use?"

Xia De gazed at the silent banquet hall. Moonlight spilled in from outside the window, falling at his feet, falling on the remains of the living sacrifices on the ground.

【Information obtained from divinity.】

【Each time you advance, use a drop of divinity to wash the spirit rune corresponding to the Word of Sublimation. When you advance to the thirteenth ring, if you complete the washing of the twelve spirit runes corresponding to the three Words of Sublimation, then by reciting those Words of Sublimation that belong to you, you will advance to become a god.】

Clearly, it was an unimaginable thing, but Xia De was unexpectedly not too excited:

"Can everyone do this?"

He asked in his heart.

【No, you are special. Except for you, the soul of no mortal is sufficient to withstand the power of divinity.】

"Did you manifest just now?"

【The power of divinity gave me a fleeting physical form, and that ring gave a possibility for an instant, letting you absorb the power of the evil god. Of course, He will also watch you because of this, which is worth being vigilant about.】

"Will you always be by my side?"

【Of course.】

Xia De walked to the back of the banquet hall in this dead silence and pushed open the door to reach the third-floor terrace. The blood mist in the evening wind had dissipated, but the courtyard of the Lake View Manor was already in a mess. He felt that he had unprecedentedly powerful strength at this moment.

"What other uses does divinity have?"

【By burning the power of divinity with the Life Ring as a consumable, you can briefly incarnate into a god and obtain a brief "divine burning" state. You are not a god, but you can rival any god.】

Xia De remained silent, looking at the courtyard of the Lake View Manor. The blood mist that had been diffusing in the courtyard dissipated, and people were still lying on the ground. In the very center of the manor courtyard, the original long table had been shattered, and the two Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi squads of the Zhengshen Sect were battling a middle-aged man with silver radiance in his eyes. The middle-aged man was protecting "Lady Lasoya," who had severely injured the three of Shi Nai De just now.

Xia De on the third-floor terrace muttered to himself:

"The Silver-Eyed One of 【Mercury Blood】, he came to meet that fellow. But I think there's no need to use divinity for the sake of mortals."

【Within ten minutes of obtaining divinity, because of the slight overflow of divine power, you possess a near-immortal body and near-infinite spirit, but once you use the overflowed power, you will fall into a long coma afterward; this is the "divine overflow" state.】

【During the period of holding divinity, the power of divinity is sealed in the Life Ring, and the escaping radiance will keep you in a state of 'divine radiance'. During this period, using any strange technique, spell, or ritual will be enhanced.】

"So, this is the divine radiance that the Ancient God spoke of... So, my task for the rest of my life is to shuttle through the time and space of the past and present, just to collect twelve drops of divinity? For you? For me?"

【There is no task; everything is decided by you. Outsider, you are outside of fate.】

The nonagonal brass Life Ring behind the Silver-Eyed One displayed his power, and the Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi squad of more than twenty people surrounded him, but not a single person could get close.

The radiance of mercury manifested behind the Silver-Eyed One. With the full display of the strange technique, a giant mercury giant manifested. It lifted the Silver-Eyed One and the Life Ring, standing above the soil of the courtyard.

The power of the strange technique made it impossible for people to get close, but the young girl with long brown hair, Yin Luna Beiya, could bravely block in front of the wounded to protect her companions. Xia De saw her, and she also suddenly looked up and saw the masked stranger on the third-floor terrace.

"Then who is she?"

【You should go and ask your friend Anate, not me. But obviously, even if there is a so-called protagonist in this world, it won't be you. Outsider, no one can interfere with the choices of those outside of fate, but the audience of the story cannot become the protagonist.】

"With the path of sublimation of twelve divinities, I don't want to become any troublesome Chosen One either. But are you an Ancient God with the Silver Moon priesthood? Are you the Witch Empress of the Silver Moon of the Fifth Era? Choosing me is to help you after I become a god? This is the last time I will ask."

【No, I am you.】

Xia De nodded; he accepted that the other party was with him.

Standing on the terrace, he took out a frog leg, and while grinding it with his fingers, he recited the awkward incantation, using the spell 【Frog's Leap】.

Afterward, with a light jump, he jumped from the third-floor terrace to the roof of the manor, standing under the brilliant starry sky, standing beside the stone statue on the roof.

The people in the courtyard also noticed the young man under the starry sky. He was in a high place, bathed in the radiance of the three full moons, but only the light of the Silver Moon seemed to be draped over him.

Xia De's whisper sounded at this moment. The power of divine overflow and the memory of the Dream of the Silver Moon from not long ago drove the 【Silver Moon】 spirit rune to perform the strange technique 【Moon Shadow's Illusion】.

At this moment, the Silver Moon in the sky seemed to detach from the other two moons. That silver moon disk grew larger and larger until it appeared behind him, as if through his skull, shooting radiance from his right eye. At the same time, it also left Xia De, who was standing on the roof in front of the Silver Moon, as only a blurry shadow.

Xia De recalled the Dream of the Silver Moon just now, thinking of the traces of the Silver Moon's light traces under the night sky.

He brought his feet together, raised his two hands slightly at his sides, and with a light jump, came into the night sky.

The huge Silver Moon hung high in the air, and Xia De's body turned in front of the silver moon. When his body came to the very center of the Silver Moon, he happened to hold his arms flat, his head downward, and his feet upward, hanging upside down under the sea of stars in front of the Silver Moon.

Following the fall of his body, his left foot with the radiance of the Silver Moon slid forward, driving his right foot to follow downward.

Xia De, hanging upside down in front of the Silver Moon, was only a shadow in front of the Silver Moon, but his feet drew brilliant and gorgeous silver light traces in the air. That dazzling light trace detached from the trajectory of his feet and gradually grew larger in the night sky.

Breaking through the night sky, splitting this quiet summer night, under the stars, the slashing of the silver moonlight fell toward the courtyard of the Lake View Manor like a falling white silk.

"This is..."

The color of the moonlight made people lose their minds for a moment, letting silver light sprinkle on everyone's face.

The church Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi squad besieging the Silver-Eyed One retreated while pulling the fainted guests around them. The mercury giant turned its huge body, raised its arms, and was evaporated by this gorgeous silver moonlight radiance without any resistance.

The Silver-Eyed One, backlashed by the strange technique, vomited blood and abandoned "Lady Lasoya" to dodge, letting "Lady Lasoya," who was completely ignorant of the current situation, also be evaporated by the moonlight, and the white pebble ring fell to the ground below.

The gorgeous silver moonlight finally fell to the ground. In the earthquake that shook almost the entire southern suburbs of Tobeisi, a permanent moon scar was engraved on the ground of the manor courtyard.

The figure disappeared in the air, and Xia De fell onto the third-floor terrace, falling into a coma for real this time.

Miss Anate reached out and dragged him back into the shadows of the terrace, away from the sight of the Zhengshen Sect, and afterward pulled him back to the banquet hall on the third floor piled with the corpses of living sacrifices.

The awakened Priest Ao Gu Si was taking care of Doctor Shi Nai De and Miss Lu Yi Sha, who were still in a coma. Except for his pale face, he looked completely recovered.

"Did he really believe that we would bring him back in time?"

The lady with purple eyes looked at the detective's sleeping face and whispered. She was the only person who hadn't been severely injured tonight.

"Detective Hamilton is actually a young man who easily trusts others. He is too young, having only just awakened from blindness and ignorance. He still lacks a lot of life experience. I will teach him these things in the future, but the detective is indeed a good person."

The pale-faced Priest Ao Gu Si shook his head and said, his face recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye, but he hesitated:

"That silver moon slash just now..."

"We all have secrets, don't we, Priest Ao Gu Si? Just like you, no matter how severely injured you are, you are always able to recover."

Miss Anate said, her flickering eyes looking at the sleeping young detective:

"Just like, my prophecy has always shown that our group will absolutely not have a fifth person. He is from outside of fate."

"Let's go quickly. You take the three of them away, and I will block the church's Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi squad."

The old man said wearily:

"Today, it is truly fortunate that you finally destroyed the ritual node, letting the evil god fail to come to our world. Anate, you have saved the world once again."

"Yes, I did destroy the node, but..."

Miss Anate, with short brown hair and purple eyes, looked at Xia De, but before she succeeded, the shadow of the evil god had clearly appeared partially. Although it was only for three seconds, in front of a god who could distort time and space, three seconds might not be three seconds.

"It was his good luck that he persisted for three seconds in front of the evil god's shadow, allowing me to completely destroy the ritual."

Shaking her head and preparing to leave, Priest Ao Gu Si tidied his clothes and looked at the messy banquet hall:

"I have a premonition that this is absolutely not the end."

Moonlight shone in from outside the window, casting the priest's huge shadow onto the wall of the banquet hall. The shadow swayed, as if a pair of wings flashed past behind the shadow.

Miss Anate's purple eyes were glowing slightly. She looked at Xia De's face gently, as if talking to herself:

"Priest, this is all just the beginning. The epic belonging to the Sixth Era has begun." ===== CHAPTER 85 =====