The ancient remnant sword twisted rapidly in the silver light, growing a brand-new blade at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Hundreds of fragments continuously reforged above Bai Xiaodu's head, emitting a terrifying, pale-white sword light.
Yet, the silver light that seemed utterly terrifying to others felt incredibly warm to Bai Xiaodu.
It melted into his limbs and bones.
Bai Xiaodu could hardly describe the comfort of every cell in his body cheering and jumping.
He was already on the verge of completing his ascension, and this prayer technique only accelerated the process.
The notification sound of the Galgame Love System popped up.
【Ascension in progress...】
【Pathway: Spellcasting】
【Pathway Sovereign: Mage Emperor】
【Class: Warlock】
【Your path of practice, the method of condensing your origin is...】
【Exterminate all heretics!】
【Ascension successful!】
【You have obtained one hundred strands of Spellcasting Pathway Origin. With endless origin, transcendents are immortal!】
【Your physical attributes have been greatly improved. All attribute points +1.】
【You have obtained three spell slots, which can be used to cast Circle-tier spells.】
【You have obtained one Designated Skill Enhancement (Spellcasting Pathway).】
【You have obtained a passive talent:】
【Execute】 (Blue) (Scales with level)
【Type: Talent】
【Description: Slay heretics, or participate in an event that slays heretics, to pray for blessings based on your merits.】
【The greater the number of kills and the stronger the enemies, the higher the rewards of the blessings.】
【Remark: Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!】
The level-up information rained down on him. Bai Xiaodu accepted the silver light surging within his body.
The word "strand" was incredibly accurate. He could mobilize this silver light with his thoughts, and it was indeed drawn out strand by strand.
But while Bai Xiaodu was still researching how to use it, a red light slammed into him.
Without even thinking, Kiru's remnant spirit braced against the silver light and flew rapidly back into the blood orb.
Cowering tightly inside the orb, he cursed loudly.
“You fucking reported false military intelligence! Do you have any idea what kind of thing you'll summon by reciting that? I'm half-human, half-dragon! You're fine, but what if I get chopped to death in passing?!”
Buzz!
After just a few seconds, the rapidly ascending remnant hilt was completely repaired.
A silver sword with a blade like frost hovered in the air.
It spun rapidly in mid-air, trailing a dazzling silver light.
Then, it flew into the hand of Bai Xiaodu, whose head was still buzzing from the system notifications.
Bai Xiaodu tried swinging it. It fit his hand perfectly.
He scratched his head, a bit confused about what was happening.
After all, it was an emergency, and there was no time to think. Bai Xiaodu had no choice but to recite the prayer that way.
However, why didn't the Mage Emperor send someone to help, but only repaired his remnant sword?
Wait.
Ah, that's not right. I remember there was some other presence inside the remnant sword...
Bai Xiaodu's expression changed. He realized that spell runes were uncontrollably forming on his hand.
The mana inside his body was rapidly being drained.
A cold, solemn voice carrying sky-high killing intent echoed through the heavens!
“I am Kalugar!”
At that moment, the silver stream of light that had soared into the clouds suddenly poured down like a cascading river.
In an instant, it cast a towering, majestic figure as grand as a giant.
He was clad in a full set of heavy, pitch-black knight's plate armor covered in complex magic runes.
In his hand, he held a greatsword of the exact same style as the sword in Bai Xiaodu's hand, only magnified several times.
The moment his figure manifested, realizing that the ground below was crawling with mechanical beasts, the enraged Kalugar roared toward the sky.
“Heretics!!!!!”
Kalugar swung with all his might, his greatsword drawing a long arc.
The arc sliced through the air, continuously stretching and transforming as it flew, finally forming an incredibly dazzling and terrifying sword light.
With an overwhelming force, it swept across the beast horde below!
Screeech—
An ear-grating sound rang out. The bodies of hundreds of mechanical beasts seemed to be snipped open by scissors, neat and bizarre cuts appearing across their frames.
Then, they fell apart with a clatter, collapsing to the ground.
The beast horde that Arad had spent half an hour summoning was completely wiped out just like that!
After delivering this strike, Kalugar did not stop. His merciless eyes continued to scan the area.
He was trying to find the figure of the heretic.
Seeing this, Arad, who had long since played dead and lay to the side, secretly lamented his bitter fate.
In fact, the moment Bai Xiaodu shouted that absurd prayer, Arad had already thought about running.
What a fucking lunatic!
To dare lie to his own sovereign deity during an ascension ceremony—wasn't he afraid of the consequences later?!
But with that treasure sword hovering in the sky, Arad hadn't dared to move a muscle.
He was terrified that the sword would suddenly cleave down and slice him in two.
Turning off his emotion simulation module, Arad quietly reached toward his chest.
Fortunately, this fox had only just stepped into the Transcendent Rank, and his prayer technique was very low-level.
The black-armored giant in the sky had not fully awakened yet. He should be able to slip away quietly.
Thinking of this, Arad's hand had already touched the location of his chip.
However, in the next instant.
Bai Xiaodu's wine-red eyes narrowed slightly.
He pointed a finger straight at the spot where Arad was hiding.
With the aggrieved tone of a bullied child snitching to a teacher, he bellowed!
“Lord Kalugar, he's right there! He's the one who killed so many innocent, poor human children!”
“He is a pure beast! Everyone in the orphanage had no family and could only hug each other for warmth, yet he wanted to extinguish even this last bit of warmth!”
“Don't let him escape!”
Feeling the focus of a gaze as sharp as a god of slaughter locking onto him from the sky.
Arad's emotion simulation module went haywire.
“You damn fox! You're framing me! Let alone killing them, when my disciple arrived here, there wasn't a single soul in sight!”
“I didn't kill anyone!”
Bai Xiaodu shouted angrily.
“The cunning heretic is still lying! Lord Kalugar, don't waste any more words on him, kill him quickly!”
Kalugar nodded heavily, his armor clashing with a dull metallic thud.
He said in a deep voice.
“All heretics deserve to die. This fellow actually dares to lie to me! He deserves to die even more!”
As he spoke, Kalugar swung his sword with all his might once more!
This arc was smoother than the last, likely transforming a single-target attack into an area-of-effect strike to prevent the target from escaping.
The silver arc manifested once more, seemingly about to cleave down again.
With alarms blaring wildly all over his body, Arad knew there was no way to dodge this wide-range sword light.
He abruptly ripped out his own chip.
Staring at the rapidly approaching sword light, his mouth quickly chanted an incantation.
Boom!!!
The sword light struck the ground, creating countless fissures like an earthquake!
As dust swirled, Bai Xiaodu's figure flickered and appeared beside Arad's remains.
Calling it remains was generous; it was actually just a large pile of badly shattered metal scraps.
He nudged them with his foot.
Dead?
A transcendent of this level died just like that?
...
Pingshan District Federal Government Building.
As one of the only two transcendents in the district, District Chief Liu Yide's usual life could only be described as luxurious, like a local tyrant.
But right now, this local tyrant was curled up like a cooked shrimp, coughing violently.
Starting from his bloodshot right eye, patches of metal began to spread, rapidly covering his entire body.
“Sss...”
Liu Yide—or more accurately, Arad—adjusted his clothes and stood up.
As long as the origin remains, the transcendent shall never perish.
Kalugar's strike had almost killed him. Arad had to mobilize the origin of his blood-refining Pathway.
He had consumed a full several hundred strands before he barely managed to survive.
And regain conscious awareness.
Having suffered such a massive loss without gaining anything, he glared hatefully in the direction of the orphanage.
Arad grit his teeth.
“Damn fox, I will remember your face. Just you wait, once my plan is set in motion again...”
A female voice echoed eerily from behind him.
“Oh? And what exactly are you planning?”
Arad spun around, his pupils shrinking violently!
A woman with silver-white hair and blue-green eyes had appeared silently behind him at some point!
Seeing that Arad did not answer, Director-General Shen slowly extended her fingers.
Instantly, the entire room erupted with brilliant golden light, and thousands of dark-gold small swords rained down upon him!
Arad's miserable screams echoed throughout the entire building!
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