Swish, swish, swish!
Green felt that sensation again, both familiar and strange. His consciousness continued to climb upward, the surrounding scenery changing rapidly, and everything in his sight became increasingly small.
Teresa, Andy, the Orc General Love, and the masses of living beings within the Absolute Defense Line gradually became… trivial and insignificant in Green’s eyes at this moment.
“Great Shaman.” Green raised the two divine artifacts in his hands high, approaching the Orc Great Shaman step by step.
“You, you stay back!”
Watching the aura on Green’s body suddenly surge, his rank instantly leveling with his own, the Great Shaman’s mental state almost collapsed.
“How? How can this be!” the Great Shaman questioned loudly. “How can you be a demigod too?”
How much had he sacrificed to possess his current power?
Honor, dignity, pride, faith, friends…
The Great Shaman had abandoned every beautiful thing he once yearned for in exchange for his current strength.
But, but this human before him?!
“Mr. Green?”
Andy looked at Green in a daze. He had completely failed to expect that the legendary practitioner he originally thought was similar to himself would suddenly transform and become a demigod in an instant.
“Hmph.” The Imperial Princess, who had known Green’s true strength since his previous duel with the capital’s special envoy, showed a smile on her face and looked at him with excitement.
Looking at the two people beside him who were wholeheartedly supporting Green, the Great Shaman’s heart gave a sharp crack, feeling as if some soft place had shattered.
It was unfair!
It was too unfair!
“What is it, your excellency Great Shaman? You couldn’t possibly be trying to say…”
Green looked at the Great Shaman expressionlessly. “That you, who have obtained so-called immortality and possess a greater perspective beyond the mundane world, lack the courage to face me directly?”
Thump, thump, thump.
The Great Shaman felt his heart pounding constantly. His aura weakened unconsciously, yet he found to his astonishment that, just as Green had said, he truly lacked the courage to lift his head and look at him.
Why?!
The Great Shaman frowned in confusion.
He is a demigod’s chosen? But I am too!
Why, why should I be afraid of him?!
The Great Shaman constantly questioned himself, searching for a reason for his fear.
Thud.
“This, this lord.” Just as the Great Shaman was filled with confusion, the Orc general nearby suddenly fell to his knees with a thud.
“I beg of you, please save everyone.” General Love’s tone was dejected but full of sincerity as he said, “As long as you are willing to save everyone, I… I am willing to let you dispose of me as you wish. Also, I will hand over this defense line to you.”
General Love decided to risk everything.
Although he did not know the specific strength of this human named Green, he could clearly see the Great Shaman’s wariness toward this person.
In that case… he was his only hope.
“Fine, I promise you. Hmm, unlike that fellow, my power belongs only to myself, so my promise is also beyond question.”
After speaking, Green looked at the Great Shaman with contempt.
“Come then, Great Shaman. Let me see just how powerful the strength you obtained by sacrificing your own compatriots and subordinates through any means necessary truly is.”
“Don’t come any closer!”
Great Serpent, save me!
The Great Shaman prayed frantically.
Buzz.
As if responding to the call of this ‘benefactor’, just as Green was about to act, bursts of black smoke suddenly rose around him, wrapping around him as if trying to devour him.
“Is it that Ancient Evil? Hmph, I originally thought about dealing with him later, but since he insists on interfering…”
Green smiled faintly. “Then I can only risk my life to accompany a gentleman.”
Buzz!
At his command.
Holy Light!
Green, wrapped in sacred, pure, golden Holy Light, felt as if he had inexhaustible energy throughout his body. The life and death of all things in the world seemed to depend on his single word.
And those once profound and unpredictable Laws of the World were even clearer in his eyes, inexhaustible and limitless.
For a moment, Green almost forgot who he was in a daze.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
But the twisted figure beside him that kept letting out roars weirdly reminded him of his situation.
Green raised his head slightly, looking at the hideous serpent head before him that was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, letting out terrifying roars from time to time, and…
Wooooooo!
Souls attached to the scales of the Great Serpent were constantly letting out cries of agony.
“Sacrificing your own compatriots for the sake of immortality and power?” Green snorted, unable to help feeling a bit ironic.
Not just for the Great Shaman, but also for this world.
“Speaking of which, I wonder what Teresa’s father was thinking in his heart when he originally wanted to refine his daughter into a medicinal pill?”
Clang—
Green drew both divine artifacts simultaneously, his gaze like a torch as he stared at the Ancient Evil that had just broken free from its restraints and was about to wreak havoc on the mortal world.
“Forget it. As long as I kill you and destroy the plans of the Circus members, I will be able to know the truth of the story.”
But for some reason…
Green always felt that the Great Shaman’s actions, as well as this twisted Ancient Evil, gave him a sense that something was wrong.
“Forget it, let’s solve the trouble in front of me first!”
Whoosh—— After speaking, Green swung his twin swords.
In the pitch-black night sky, a brilliant arc shot straight into the clouds, heavily penetrating the twisted figure obscuring the sky.
Boom!!!
Accompanied by a massive roar, that Ancient Evil, the ‘Great Serpent’, which once soared through the sky constantly devouring souls, had now fallen into the mortal dust.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
Although the area around that twisted figure was filled with a foul aura capable of twisting people’s minds and turning them into puppets who only knew how to follow orders, Green’s sharp eyes seemed able to penetrate any obstacle, accurately finding the flaws of this twisted thing.
Puff, puff, puff!
He constantly brandished the twin swords in his hands, like a light and graceful dancer on a ballroom floor, easily dodging the Great Serpent’s furious counterattacks and firmly striking the Great Serpent’s body with infinite Holy Light again and again.
“Roar!!!”
The Ancient Evil showed a human-like expression of fear. After clashing with Green for several rounds, it seemed to realize the strength of the mysterious figure that had appeared for no reason was still above its own. Shaking its body, it actually began to fly toward the other side.
As an Ancient Evil possessing the rank of a demigod, this monster was bred and born after the source of pollution from beyond the stars arrived in the starry sky hundreds of years ago.
Although this monster had been suppressed and sealed within the Absolute Defense Line under the joint actions of magic technology and the Orc Ancestral Spirits, preventing it from doing evil for many years.
But after the Great Shaman sacrificed a full tens of thousands of fresh souls, including over a hundred high-level practitioners, this monster’s power had already recovered by seventy or eighty percent.
Facing a chosen of the God of Justice like Green, although it was no match, it was not difficult if it wanted to escape.
In almost the blink of an eye, the Great Serpent’s twisted figure disappeared from Green’s sight.
Even Green, who was in the form of a demigod’s chosen, could not sense exactly where that monster was at this moment.
Demigod against demigod, it seemed normal to be able to defeat but not destroy.
This earth-shattering battle seemed about to conclude in such a lackluster manner.
But…
Green smiled.
“Trying to run?”
Swish!
A quill appeared in Green’s palm. “In my story, your plot doesn’t develop like that. After all, as a bard, it’s quite normal for me to write an enemy to death at the hands of the protagonist hero according to my personal preference when writing a plot, isn’t it?”
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
Just as Green quickly wrote down lines of text, a miracle occurred.
The Great Serpent, which had originally disappeared from the material realm and entered another plane, unexpectedly and abruptly reappeared out of thin air. That hideous head that had once brought immense pressure to Green now held nothing but infinite fear.
“What? Are you surprised?”
Green approached slowly with a faint, half-smile.
***
Rustle, rustle, rustle!
Ten thousand meters high in the air, amidst the layers of the sea of clouds, that massive twisted figure stopped shaking. A sharp glint flashed in its enormous pupils, and within the flowing light, it seemed to have made some decision.
Immediately afterward, it opened its huge mouth again—but not toward Green.
“Ahhhhh, you, you’re violating the covenant?!”
Bang.
In the sea of clouds, a figure stumbled out, looking at the Great Serpent in an extremely pathetic state, his voice filled with terror.
The Great Shaman of the Orc Kingdom was currently shivering in a corner.
“You, you’re not dead?!”
The Great Shaman looked at the man who had just mysteriously disappeared in disbelief. “How, what’s going on? Great Serpent, didn’t we agree that I would help you break the seal and offer souls, and you would help me deal with this… this guy?”
Facing the Great Shaman’s sharp questioning, the Great Serpent did not answer. It only looked at him silently, remaining motionless for a long time.
“Great Serpent? Great Serpent, answer me!” Seeing Green staring at him excitedly, the Great Shaman felt increasingly uneasy.
Even though he had been promoted to a demigod, for some reason, he instinctively felt that he was absolutely not a match for the human before him.
An illusion?
No, the Great Shaman knew very well that this was a fragment perceived from the river of fate by him as a demigod.
It was precisely for this reason that after Green had just revealed the two divine swords, he had immediately teleported Green in front of the Great Serpent, thinking of using that Ancient Evil to handle this troublesome human.
But, but…
“Why!”
The Great Shaman angrily questioned the Great Serpent, the Ancient Evil he had signed a covenant with.
The Great Serpent did not answer; it only turned its head toward Green, as if hinting at something.
“Oh, you’re willing to hand this person over to me?” Green understood this monster’s plan.
“What?!” The Great Shaman looked at the Ancient Evil in disbelief. “But, but the covenant, the covenant didn’t say that!”
“Do you still not understand, your excellency Great Shaman?”
Green narrowed his eyes.
“Just as you viewed General Love and your other compatriots as having no utility value back then, do you think you still have any utility value to this Ancient Evil now?”
Green calmly stated this simplest of truths.