After a moment of trance, it was as if I had just woken up from a dream.
Xia De sat on the main seat in the banquet hall, and stood up in the dark banquet hall that had returned to normal. The bloody smell of the living sacrifices fighting did not dissipate because of the evil god's departure. But the blood mist disappeared, and even the body behind him disappeared, as if that moment of tenderness was just an illusion when he was dying.
"You really showed up?"
He asked in a daze.
You have opened the door to the extraordinary, and the path to sublimation is now revealed. Stranger, you have discovered a special path to sublimation, and you have gained a drop of divinity.
On the life ring that slowly disappeared behind him, the brass-colored ring was wrapped with imperceptible golden flashes.
"What's the use?"
Xia De stared at the silent banquet hall. The moonlight poured in from the window, falling at his feet and on the remains of the living sacrifice on the ground.
Got the message from the Divine.
Each time you are promoted, use a drop of divinity to wash the spirit rune corresponding to the sublimation words. When you are promoted to the thirteenth ring, if you complete the washing of the twelve spirit runes corresponding to the three sublimation words, then recite those sublimation words that belong to you, and you will be promoted to a god.
It was something that he couldn't even imagine, but Xia De surprisingly wasn't too excited:
“Can everyone do this?”
He asked in his heart.
No, you are special. No mortal soul other than yours is strong enough to withstand the power of divinity.
"You just manifested?"
The power of divinity gave me a moment of entity, and the ring gave me a moment of possibility, allowing you to absorb the power of the evil god. Of course, He will also watch you because of this, so it is worth being vigilant.
"Will you always be by my side?"
certainly.
In the dead silence, Xia De walked to the back of the banquet hall, opened the door and came to the third-floor terrace. The blood mist dissipated in the evening breeze, but the courtyard of Lake View Manor was already in chaos. He felt that at this moment, he had an unprecedented powerful force.
"What else does divinity do?"
By burning the divine power with the Life Ring as a consumable, you can temporarily transform into a god and gain a short-term "divine burning" state. You are not a god, but you can rival any god.
Xia De remained silent, looking towards the courtyard of Lake View Manor. The blood mist in the courtyard dissipated, and people were still lying on the ground. In the center of the manor courtyard, the long table was broken up, and two teams of ring warlocks from the Orthodox Church were fighting against a middle-aged man with silver eyes. The middle-aged man was protecting "Madam Lazoya" who had just seriously injured Schneider and the other two.
On the third floor terrace, Shade muttered to himself:
"The Silver Eyed One with Mercury Blood, he's here to pick up that guy. But I don't think it's necessary to use divinity for a mortal."
Within ten minutes of obtaining divinity, due to the slight overflow of divine power, you possess a nearly immortal body and a nearly infinite spirit, but once you use the overflowing power, you will fall into a long coma afterwards. This is the state of "divine overflow".
While holding divinity, the power of divinity is locked in the life ring, and the escaping glow will keep you in the state of "divine afterglow". During this period, any magic, spells and rituals used will be strengthened.
"So, this is the afterglow of God that the old god mentioned... So, my next mission in this life is to travel through time and space from the past to the present, just to collect twelve drops of divinity? For you? For me?"
There are no tasks. Everything is up to you. Stranger, you are outside of fate.
The nine-sided brass life ring behind the Silver-Eyed Man showed his power. A team of more than 20 ring wizards surrounded him, but no one could get close to him.
The brilliance of mercury appeared behind the silver-eyed man, and as the magic was fully exerted, a huge mercury giant appeared. It held up the silver-eyed man, held up the wheel of life, and stood on the soil of the courtyard.
The power of magic prevented people from approaching, but the young girl with long brown hair, Iluna Beyath, was able to bravely stand in front of the injured to protect her companions. Shade saw her, and she suddenly looked up and saw the masked stranger on the terrace on the third floor.
"Who is she, then?"
You should ask your friend Anat, not me. But it is obvious that even if there is a so-called protagonist in this world, it will not be you. As an outsider, no one can interfere with the choices of people outside of fate, but the audience of the story cannot become the protagonist.
"With the twelve divine natures and the path to godhood, I don't want to be a troublesome chosen one. But are you an old god with the priesthood of Silver Moon? Are you the Witch Emperor of Silver Moon in the Fifth Era? Are you choosing me so that I can help you after I become a god? This is the last time I ask you."
No, I am you.
Shade nodded, accepting that the other was with him.
Standing on the terrace, he took out a frog leg, rolled it between his fingers and chanted a difficult spell, using the spell Frog Leap.
Then he jumped lightly from the third-floor terrace to the roof of the mansion, standing under the bright starry sky, next to the stone statue on the roof.
Everyone in the courtyard also noticed the young man under the starry sky. He was high up, bathed in the light of three full moons, but only the light of the silver moon seemed to be draped over his body.
Shade's whispers were heard at this moment, and the overflowing divine power and the memory of the Silver Moon Dream not long ago urged the Silver Moon Spirit Rune to cast the magic of Moon Shadow.
At this moment, the silver moon in the sky seemed to be separated from the other two moons. The silver moon disk grew larger and larger until it appeared behind him, as if it was shining through his head and emitting light from his right eye. At the same time, the figure of Shade standing on the roof in front of the silver moon was reduced to a vague black shadow.
Xia De once again thought back to the dream of the silver moon and the traces of the silver moon's light in the night sky.
He put his feet together, raised his hands slightly at his sides, and jumped lightly into the night sky.
A huge silver moon hung high in the sky. Shade's body turned in front of the silver moon. When his body reached the center of the silver moon, he just raised his arms horizontally, with his head down and his feet up, hanging upside down under the sea of stars in front of the silver moon.
As the body fell, the left foot with the glow of the silver moon slid forward, leading the right foot to follow downwards.
Hanging upside down in front of the silver moon, Shade was only a black shadow, but his feet left a brilliant and gorgeous silver light mark in the air. The dazzling light mark broke away from the trajectory of his feet and gradually grew larger in the night sky.
Breaking through the night sky, splitting the tranquil summer night, under the stars, the slashing of silver moonlight fell towards the courtyard of Lake View Manor like a falling white silk.
"This is... ... "
The color of the moonlight made people lose their minds for a moment, and everyone's face was sprinkled with silver light.
The team of church ring sorcerers that besieged the Silver-Eyed Man pulled the unconscious guests around them back. The mercury giant turned his huge body, raised his arms, and was evaporated by the gorgeous silver moonlight without any resistance.
The Silver-Eyed Man, who was attacked by the magic, vomited blood and left "Madam Lasoya" behind to dodge. "Madam Lasoya", who was completely unaware of her current situation, was also evaporated by the moonlight, and the white pebble ring fell to the ground below.
The brilliant silver moonlight finally fell to the ground, and in the earthquake that shook almost the entire southern suburbs of Tobysk, a permanent moon mark was engraved on the ground of the manor courtyard.
The figure disappeared in the air, and Xia De fell on the terrace on the third floor. This time he really fell into a coma.
Miss Annat reached out and pulled him back into the shadow of the terrace, away from the sight of the Orthodox Church, and then pulled him back to the banquet hall on the third floor where the bodies of the living sacrifices were piled.
Father Augustus, who had regained consciousness, was taking care of Dr. Schneider and Miss Louisa, who were still in a coma. Except for his pale face, he looked completely healthy again.
"Does he really believe that we will take him away in time?"
The lady with purple eyes whispered as she looked at the sleeping face of the detective, she was the only one who was not seriously injured tonight.
"Detective Hamilton is actually a young man who trusts others very easily. He is too young and has just awakened from his blind stupidity. He still lacks a lot of life experience, which I will teach him in the future. But the detective is indeed a good person."
The pale-faced priest Augustus shook his head and said, his complexion was 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, Father Augustus? Like you, no matter how badly you've been hurt, you can always recover."
Miss Anat said, looking at the sleeping young detective with sparkling eyes:
"For example, my predictions have always shown that there will never be a fifth person in our group. He comes from outside of fate."
"Let's go, you take the three of them with you, I will stop the church's ring warlock team."
The old man said tiredly:
"Today, it is really fortunate that you finally destroyed the ritual node and prevented the evil god from coming to our world. Annat, you saved the world again."
"Yes, I did destroy the node, but..."
Miss Annat, with short brown hair and purple eyes, looked at Shade, but before she succeeded, the shadow of the evil god had clearly partially appeared. 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.
"He was lucky. He lasted three seconds in front of the evil god's shadow, allowing me to completely destroy the ritual."
Shaking his head and preparing to leave, Father Augustus straightened his clothes and looked at the messy banquet hall:
"I have a feeling this is definitely not the end."
The moonlight shone through the window, casting the priest's huge shadow on the wall of the banquet hall. The shadow swayed, as if a pair of wings flashed behind the shadow.
Miss Annat's purple eyes glowed slightly. She looked at Shade's face tenderly, as if she was talking to herself:
"Priest, all this is just the beginning. The epic of the Sixth Era has begun."