Chapter 652 - A Quarter Of A Kingdom
Chapter 652: A Quarter Of A Kingdom
“There is no need for you to be so enraged with those people, God-King of Hell. After all, those mortals gave up their life in exchange for the opportunity to blow you up. What is the harm of getting a stain on the gates of hell?”
The God-king of Cthulhu taunted the God-king of Hell by shaking a handful of his tentacles.
The God-King of Hell snorted coldly. “That’s easy for you to say. Why don’t you let that type of bomb explode once if you have the capability?”
“Let us give it a shot. I am not going to be like someone who gets agitated after getting blasted once.”
The expression on the God-King of Cthulhu’s face was peaceful. He arose from the colossal throne and flew into the sky. From afar, the fifth planetary fortress rolled over in front of him. He did not even bother looking at the planetary fortress. The God-King of Cthulhu merely extended his tentacles and wrapped them around the planetary fortress. He crushed it without waiting for it to detonate.
“It seems like there are no bombs placed in that moving city.”
After crushing the planetary fortress, the God-king of Cthulhu even turned around and mocked the God-king of Hell.
“Then you are lucky.”
The God-king of Cthulhu curled his lips smugly. Just as he was ready to turn around and depart, a stinging agony erupted from the tentacles he had just destroyed the planetary fortress with. Then he turned around and witnessed a pitch-black space passage appear at the location of the planetary fortress. The space passage swallowed a few of his tentacles, making it impossible for him to get them out.
Unlike earlier explosions of the planetary fortress, that one did not explode. Instead, it created a hole that looked like a black hole. It kept absorbing things into itself. It was difficult to drag the tentacles of the God-King of Cthulhu out of the black hole.
“D*mn it, what is going on?”
The God-King of Cthulhu’s expression darkened. On the other side of the tunnel, he felt a great force envelope his body. In the hole, a layer of sky-blue ice spread down his tentacles, threatening to freeze his entire body.
Sensing the threat, he acted quickly and forcefully, breaking the tentacles in the black hole. He instantly escaped and rejoined the army of gods. He got a sensation that if he had acted a bit later, he would have turned into an immobile ice sculpture.
“How can mortals manage to be so cunning? The traps they set are unique each time. They did it on purpose, didn’t they?”
“Did not you just say, God-King of Cthulhu, that you would not be furious with mortals? What are you up to now? There does not appear to be any machinery in that planetary fortress. There has not even been an explosion. Why did you merely break a few tentacles?”
The God-king of Hell mocked the God-king of Cthulhu with the same tone. The God-king of Cthulhu was silent, and his visage was ghastly.
“I am too tired to debate with you. Those mortals have worked so hard in those sporting cities. It is quite difficult for them. When I see them again, I will undoubtedly reward them well and teach them what true terror is.”
The God-King of Cthulhu led tens of thousands of gods of his own kind into the Kingdom of Kings with a cold snort.
He realized one thing after passing through the sixth planetary fortress. The tactics devised by those mortals could yet endanger them. Even if they did not constitute a threat, they were repulsive. It was better to avoid them than to confront them.
All of the traps were concealed within the planetary fortress. It was quite simple to avoid them as long as they avoided those planetary fortresses.
The God-king of Cthulhu had a clear plan in his heart. He led his gods to walk around the planetary fortress. There was a wide river where they circled. The river water was emerald green, and the water flowing inside was the Spring of Life.
The God-king of Cthulhu was ready to lead his gods over the river, thinking there would be no difficulty when hundreds of black submarines drifted out from beneath the Spring of Life. The submarines blasted the Spring of Life, transforming into diamond-tier behemoths on the ground. Those behemoths were armed with massive black cannons mounted on their heads and shoulders.
“Antimatter Cannon!”
The pitch-black cannons emitted black jets of light. The space was annihilated wherever they went. More than a dozen Cthulhu gods had no time to react. Their corpses were obliterated and converted into nothingness by the antimatter cannonballs.
After a round of gunfire, the submarines reverted to their mechanical forms from the behemoths and dove into the water, disappearing before the Cthulhu gods could react.
“You want to run?”
After a round of gunfire, the King of Cthulhu was enraged by the submarines’ activities. He hurled his tentacles at the riverbank. His tentacles expanded eternally in the air, like a massive mountain range plummeting from the sky. The tentacles’ strength completely blocked the river. The ground beneath the river was shattered, and smoke and dust filled the air.
The submarines were nowhere to be found beneath the shattered river or on the ground. Instead, a massive bomb with a steel shell was unveiled. The bomb’s surface had been blasted into bits.
When the God-King of Cthulhu saw the bomb, he had a look of sadness on his face. Regrettably, it was too late. The bomb detonated violently, engulfing everything in its path with burning light. The river, soil, and even the air had all vanished. The body of the God-King of Cthulhu was blown away by a massive mushroom cloud. A third of his body was burned black, and hundreds of his subordinates nearby had been devoured by the explosion and transformed into gods’ remains.
“Despicable mortals, I will kill all of you.”
The mortals had actually plotted against them, planting a bomb in the non-planetary fortress region and personally detonating it. That made him feel as if his IQ had been called into question. It was also because of his error, in which hundreds of his comrades were slain by the bomb, that he despised mortals.
The red-eyed God-King of Cthulhu no longer marched slowly forward. Instead, he pulled a golden crescent moon-shaped chess piece from his bosom. The golden moon chess piece was the Cthulhu’s race chess piece.
The moon represented mystery, while gold represented nobility. The Cthulhu chess piece’s ability pertained to the energies of life, matter, and energy, the universe’s three sources. It was known as spiritual defilement. It could destroy and repair a living organism’s soul fundamentally.
“Spiritual Pollution!”
With the Cthulhu chess piece, an invisible wave stretched out. A few human troops in the forward-moving planetary fortress intended to touch the explosive button, but an invisible tipple covered their fingers before they could. Their once-godly eyes faded, and black tentacles with suction cups sprouted from their backs and limbs.
They had evolved from humans into puppets under the direction of the Cthulhu race. Not only them, but the entire planetary fortress was covered in uneven tentacles, some long and some short. They lifted the planetary fortress upward, gripping the earth.
The God-King of Cthulhu hooked his finger, and the tentacle-covered planetary fortress immediately drew a lovely parabola, like a cannonball flying into the Kingdom of Kings’ realm. A massive explosion erupted from the planetary fortress, and the tall walls of the Kingdom of Kings crashed. A massive explosion erupted, and among the flames that scorched the ground and shattered the heavens, a gigantic hole emerged in the Kingdom of Kings’ wall.
The God-King of Cthulhu scowled and went toward the damaged wall, holding the chess piece of the Cthulhu race.
Tens of thousands of Cthulhu troops and gods surrounded him.
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“Warning! Planetary fortress number six has been destroyed by the enemy! I detected that the enemy has a mind control item. Temporarily stop the attacks on planetary fortresses number eight and nine. Activate the second plan to lure the enemy into the Kingdom of Kings. ”
“Roger.”
The message broadcasted from planetary fortress number seven soon circulated via mobile phones to all the other fortresses. The soldiers were on high alert, delaying the rate of planetary fortress revolution and preparing to wait for the gods to infiltrate the Kingdom of Kings’ realm.
The ability to converse at any time and place gave them an advantage against the gods. The combat strategy of the planetary fortress was relayed to their leaders via cell phones, who then made it appear flexible and malleable.
“There will be Blackmoon Knights to deal with the enemies when they have been led inside the Kingdom of Kings. You must detonate the planetary fortress and cut off the gods’ escape routes.”
“Roger that.”
After the numerous gods entered, with the seventh planetary fortress as the leader, the remaining planetary fortresses immediately circled behind the gods, and massive explosions sounded out one after the other. The earth trembled, the sky split open, and the entire globe appeared to be on the edge of collapsing.
When the gods arrived, amidst the terrible vibrations, whether on the land or in the sky, even the air was hurled into turmoil. The world appeared to be blank and black, with tightly packed spatial gaps in the air. It seemed as if they could not get in.
“What are mortals up to? They will not close off our escape path, will they?”
Some gods scowled. That move would be incredibly powerful if used by a strong person against a weak person. They were, nonetheless, the strongest when compared to mortals. Using that maneuver would almost certainly result in death.
The gods disdainfully crossed the lofty walls of the Kingdom of Kings and headed towards the hinterland. Some gods, who had been wary along the trip, did not let go. They would cast a divine kingdom from afar or cast a tremendous spell to destroy those cities as long as they saw it.
The gods were relieved that the demolished cities did not continue to explode. Some gods even wondered if those blasts were the Kingdom of Kings’ most powerful attack method and could only be employed so many times. That was why they stationed them outside the Kingdom of Kings to serve as a deterrence.
Without that layer of deterrence, the Kingdom of Kings was actually vulnerable.
They had already arrived in the Kingdom of Kings’ hinterland with that thought in mind. A large holy mountain floated in the sky in front of them, and below it was an unending ocean with black fog floating on it. A few specters were floating around in there too.
“According to the mortal king from the Thorn Empire, this is Mount Creation, the capital of the Kingdom of Kings. As long as we take that place down, we will win this battle.”
As he exchanged looks with the God-king of Hell, the God-king of Cthulhu whispered to himself. They both raced out simultaneously, showing no symptoms of weakness.
A hundred thousand figures suddenly flew out of the mountain before the two god-kings arrived in front of Mount Creation. All of those people were dressed in cumbersome protection gear. They wore spherical glass masks and carried a magical weapon the length of an arm. They both held identical weapons on their backs and aimed them at the gods.
“Those guys appear to be in the starlight tier. It looks like the mortal king wasn’t lying. However, what are they wearing? They look so strange. I can’t feel any strong magic aura.”
Even though he could not detect any strong magical aura, the God-king of Cthulhu felt a chill in his heart. He felt a strong sense of impending danger. The other gods appeared to be feeling the same way. Many of them retreated two steps.
“Forget about it; who cares? First, use the power of the race chess pieces to manipulate those individuals. Whatever their weapons are, they are mine! The Cthulhu race chess piece, Mental Pollution!”
An invisible wave spread forward along the chess piece on the God-king of Cthulhu’s chest. That wave quickly approached the Blackmoon Knights. Many of the Blackmoon Knights, dressed in protective armor, trembled as if they had been greatly stimulated. Madness began to form on their features, and tentacles sprang from beneath their bodies.
“The power of the Dwarven Kingdom’s chess piece, Absolute Technology!”
A sweet voice followed, and a young man wearing a crown and a starlight robe emerged midair. A three-in-one chess piece drifted across his chest, and the chess piece representing the dwarven kingdom lit up. It swept past every Blackmoon Knight’s body.
It started out as a spherical, translucent glass mask, but it had an antenna on it. A signal blocking device appeared on the ear, completely blocking the signals transmitted from outside.
The Cthulhu race’s chess piece ability is spiritual contamination. That energy could pass through most of the world’s barriers and affect things, but Watson’s Dwarven Kingdom chess piece was even more potent, especially after fusing with the other two races’ chess pieces. Sublimation had occurred with the dwarf race chess piece. Watson thought that absolute technology might be modified in real-time.
The Blackmoon Knights’ protective equipment had been improved at the time. Initially, that armor could only endure the impact of physical or conventional energy on the gods’ level. All signals were blocked with the inclusion of a signal blocking device. The mental pollution caused by the Cthulhu race chess piece appeared to be exceedingly potent. It was also a signal that might be suppressed.
“We want the chess piece on that young man’s chest. It is not what I was expecting. Three chess pieces should have been handed to that youngster. Why is there only one chess piece, and why is its appearance so unique? Is that even possible?”
The God-King of Hell pondered for a moment before shaking his head. The most essential thing now was figuring out how to defeat the young man before him.
“Since the Cthulhu race chess piece is ineffective, let us try the Hell Baron Race chess piece! Hell Baron race chess piece, Hell’s First Layer!”
The Hell Baron race chess piece was a chess piece derived from the origin of matter. It symbolized hell. At the time, the God-King of Hell was using the ice hell, the first level of hell created by the race chess piece.
The entire Mount Creation was quickly encased in a coating of solid ice as the power of the race chess piece fanned out. That ice was out of the ordinary. Not only was the temperature terrifyingly low, but each chunk of solid ice had been fashioned into the shape of a spear and a sword. It was as if a jagged monster’s mouth was aimed toward Mount Creation—as if it wanted to devour the entire mountain in one gulp.
Aside from the sharp icicles on the ground, ice-cold snowflakes floated in the sky. When the snowflakes hit the ground, they made a harsh sound of friction and appeared to be exceedingly sharp.
As the name suggested, that was the world’s coldest location. Only the sinner’s blood would be barred in that place, no matter how powerful he was, even if he was a god. As a result, his body and intellect would be encased in ice.
A layer of solid ice formed quickly on the Blackmoon Knights’ protective equipment in the ice hell. Their glass masks were also frozen, and cracks formed in the cracking sounds. The God-king of Hell was already overjoyed when he saw that the Blackmoon Knights’ protective gear was going to shatter, revealing their frail bodies.
The youth wearing the crown in the sky spoke again. “Supernatural Evolution.”
Mount Creation was completely coated in emerald green. Sharp fangs or limbs sprouted from the frozen plant mountain’s surface. They sprang from the ground with a strange roar and tore the ice on the surface of their bodies into pieces.
Those non-living entities had evolved into powerful living beings due to miraculous evolution. Their power was still growing. The Blackmoon Knights’ protective armor also showed their crimson mouths; they devoured the snowflakes that fell from the sky, and the frozen ice on their bodies gradually vanished.
“How could that be?”
The God-King of Hell had an unappealing grimace on his face. It was one thing for them to obstruct the Cthulhu race’s chess pieces, but he was fully aware of the Hell Baron’s race chess piece’s potency. They were capable of obstructing the freezing hell’s incredibly low temperature. The Blackmoon Knights’ defensive gear was of unrivaled caliber.
“Molecular Acceleration!”
The kid in the sky extended his right hand to all the Blackmoon Knights while he was still in astonishment. The Blackmoon Knights, who could already tolerate the cold, radiated a brightness that made it difficult to look them in the eyes. The aura they emitted grew stronger once more. It was several times more powerful.
The Blackmoon Knights raised their magic weapon and aimed at the gods in front of them. Beams of cannon light intertwined into a vast net that covered the front after being accelerated innumerable times by the force of molecular acceleration.
The gods were not about to be outdone. They summoned a massive godly kingdom, which collided with the gun lights in the air, resulting in a thunderous blast. Some divine realms stood firm and blocked the ray’s attack. Some of them were injured by the molecular acceleration’s light, and their walls collapsed.
The divine kingdom’s fall symbolized the death of the gods. More than a thousand individuals were killed in just one wave of attack, but the Blackmoon Knights were uninjured.
That scene struck significant damage to the gods’ faith. When they realized that the mortals they assumed were at the mercy of others had actually killed so many gods, some of the gods considered fleeing.
“The second level of hell, Inferno Hell!”
The God-King of Hell waved his hand, and the frozen hell where Mount Creation was located instantly became a prison of fire. The flames engulfed the Blackmoon Knights, consuming hundreds of them who had not had time to shift into their protective gear. The jaws of the remaining Blackmoon Knights protruded from their protection garments. After adjusting to the heated environment, they began to spit out the ice and snow they had just consumed, proving that they could survive the heat.
“How long do you intend to watch the show, Your Excellency, Dragon God?” When he saw that the onslaught had failed, the God-king of Hell clenched his teeth and turned to face the Dragon God, Orianna, who had been standing coldly with her arms crossed behind them.
Orianna put out her right hand and pulled a jade pendant from her robe at his prodding. She took it in her palm and hurled it forward.
When the jade pendant flew out, it transformed into a planet-sized pendant. A world shot through the sky at breakneck speed, destroying all of the Blackmoon Knights in its path. It was a suit of armor that could endure hell’s frost and fire. It lost its potency in the face of absolute might and could not be further destroyed. The Blackmoon Knights were even more uncomfortable under the protective garment, with fresh blood splattering on the ground.
The fast-flying world disappeared behind Mount Creation, the territory of the Winter Nation, which then collided, canceling each other out. The endless earth crumbled, revealing a vast expanse of nothingness.
The territory of the Kingdom of Kings had been reduced by almost a quarter with only one blow from Orianna..