Fei Si whispered her plan, and Dulufu nodded slightly, handing his sacred artifact to her.
“Assemble! Annihilation formation!”
At his command, dozens of mercenaries surrounded A Ke Lei En.
“Foolish. You pose no threat to me. Are you all so eager to die?”
“No threat? We’ll see about that!”
“Attack!”
Almost simultaneously, everyone’s attacks rained down on A Ke Lei En.
But the result was much as he had said—minimal effect.
“All of you, die!”
With a ripple of spatial distortion, the mercenary closest to him was instantly crushed flat.
Seeing his comrade fall, Dulufu’s veins bulged and his whole body trembled.
He swung his giant hammer with all his might, smashing it toward the enemy.
But this time, A Ke Lei En neither dodged nor blocked. He simply tapped the hammer, and Dulufu could advance no further.
Even Fei Si’s supporting attacks passed right through the two of them, wildly striking the surrounding mercenaries.
“It seems killing you first will save me a lot of trouble…”
Staring into that twisted face, even though the creature had no eyes, Dulufu felt an involuntary chill creep up his spine.
This bastard was serious for the first time.
He felt as if something had fixed him in midair; his giant hammer was no longer able to swing.
“Captain!”
“Captain Dulufu!”
No one expected the man to capture Dulufu so easily. Everyone rushed to save him, but Dulufu stopped them.
The bastard was serious now. Getting too close was too dangerous.
“No… don’t come!”
“He can’t do anything to me!”
Dulufu’s war hammer fell from his grasp, and he threw a vicious punch straight at A Ke Lei En’s face.
A bone-cracking sound echoed as Dulufu’s arm was forcibly bent backward.
A miserable scream tore through the air, and A Ke Lei En’s face grew even colder.
“Did you think you could use the same trick twice? I’ve been underestimated…”
From the excruciating pain, Dulufu’s pale face was drenched in sweat.
“Heh… heh heh…”
“Have you lost your mind? You’re nothing but a reckless brute. Die!”
“Didn’t you notice? I’ve been blocking your line of sight…”
As he finished, Dulufu’s head immediately tilted to one side. A deep purple mana bullet rushed toward A Ke Lei En’s head at high speed.
“Hmph, pointless…”
Before he could finish, the bullet shattered the barrier and accelerated even further.
A Ke Lei En immediately sensed something wrong, but it was too late.
The mana wrapping the bullet gradually faded, revealing the holy artifact’s true form.
With a dull thud, it punched a bloody hole through the side of his neck.
The force binding Dulufu vanished instantly. He crashed heavily to the ground, utterly spent.
“Hurry… use the sacred artifact to restrain him completely… We’ll deal with him when the captain returns!”
Soon, A Ke Lei En was bound hand and foot.
“We won… we actually won… hahaha…”
Dulufu lay flat on the ground, gasping for air.
Yet even captured, A Ke Lei En remained calm.
“Coming up with such a reckless plan—I’ll give you credit for that.”
The next moment, a massive black mana sphere appeared abruptly above his head, floating up and down.
“Not bad… right on time.”
A Ke Lei En curled the corner of his mouth, his expression still indifferent.
Seeing the danger, Fei Si immediately fired a mana bullet at his head.
“Hurry! Kill him!”
“You think you can?”
The others rushed forward too, but the black mana sphere suddenly burst, and the high-density mana blasted everyone away.
Then, a flood of ominous mana slowly seeped into A Ke Lei En’s body, and the sacred artifact inside him was instantly expelled.
He slowly rose into the air, his body surface wrapped in eerie black mist. His face grew even more grotesque, with several eyeballs sprouting from his forehead and mouth—utterly horrifying.
Looking at his own monstrous form, A Ke Lei En was extremely satisfied.
“Endless mana… this feeling is amazing…”
“Now I… am practically a god!”
His hands hung loosely at his sides as he looked up, bathing in the sunlight.
A moment later, he shifted his gaze back to Fei Si, who had wounded him.
“Blasphemer, it’s time to pay the price!”
Fei Si sensed the danger and tried to flee, but she suddenly rose into the air.
She struggled desperately, attacking A Ke Lei En wildly, yet it had no effect at all.
He looked down at her, his alien eyes devoid of any emotion.
“Now, your life shall play its final movement!”
An enormous pressure slowly closed in on Fei Si from all directions, as if it would slowly crush her—the merciless judgment delivered by A Ke Lei En, now a god.
Intense pain continuously assaulted Fei Si’s mind. Just as she was about to lose consciousness, a flash of light streaked past—a pure white dagger severed all the restraints.
“Heh… I’ve been waiting for you a long time. Looks like the grand show I prepared can finally begin.”
A Ke Lei En sneered at Man En, who was kneeling on the ground, gasping for breath, contempt all over his face.
“Your old wound hasn’t healed yet. Is it wise to show up now?”
Man En looked up at the god in the sky, as if facing a great enemy.
“Fei Si… Principal… can you still move? Take the Griffin Mercenary Corps and… retreat…”
“And… warn the people in the city… run!”
“…Take care!”
Watching Fei Si leave, Man En struggled to his feet, but then fell to one knee again.
His body was at its limit.
“Not bad. You mortals should bow before a god.”
Hearing this, Man En used every ounce of his strength, biting down until his teeth bled.
He staggered back to his feet.
“A thing like you… dares to call yourself a god? Isn’t that laughable?”
“You’re nothing but a monster who calls himself a god!”
“Pathetic… truly pathetic…”
A Ke Lei En shook his head in disappointment.
Then, under the control of an invisible force, Man En slowly rose into the air.
“Damn it! Let me go!”
“You can enjoy the power of a god from the special seat I’ve prepared for you!”
“And it seems the next protagonist has arrived.”
As A Ke Lei En’s gaze shifted to the side, a pure-white dragonman was rushing toward him at full speed.
“A Ke Lei En! What exactly are you after!”
Just as Sophien’s attack was about to land, he used Man En as a shield.
“Man En?…”
In that moment of hesitation, an invisible force slammed her directly into the ground.
“I don’t know how you learned our purpose ahead of time, but fortunately, we’ve already gathered enough magic stones.”
“And now, the final performance begins!”
A Ke Lei En’s aura surged, and the space power began to churn violently, like water brought to a rolling boil.
With such an anomaly and connecting the visions from the Divine Revelation, Man En immediately understood his intention.
“No! Stop him! He’s summoning his god!”
He struggled frantically, but it was useless.
Sophien also charged toward him.
“…Too late.”
A Ke Lei En didn’t even glance at her. Behind him, countless irregular cubes were assimilating his body.
“Great God of Space, heed my summon!”
“I will wait here, welcome here, and offer myself completely!”
“Descend! Keerboenweisitan!”
A blinding light swallowed everything around.
When the light gradually faded, a humanoid figure thousands of meters tall, composed entirely of hundreds of transparent cubes, stood upon the earth.