by <unknown>
Of course, Han Xiao would not take the initiative to explain the origin of the Holy Accord. Looking at the three of them, he could not help but smile.
Back then, he had hidden the strength of the Holy Accord organization to leave a path of retreat for the association, allowing the Beyond Grade As to be divided into two parts —the open and the dark.
He had originally planned to reveal the tip of the iceberg of the Holy Accord at the right time and make the three Universal Civilizations wary. However, his plans could not keep up with the changes. Now that he had stepped into the Transcendent Grade, the deterrence of a single person was comparable to the entire Beyond Grade A group. The Holy Accord Revivors trump card was not as important as before. However, it was still useful. It was not a bad thing to make the three Universal Civilizations warier.
Han Xiao paid attention to the battle once again. After watching for a while, he suddenly locked onto the Secret Tree King and Clotti who were fighting on the surveillance screen. “My prey has appeared. Excuse me.” The remote projection disappeared.
Only at this moment did the three Universal Civilizations’ leaders relax. They looked at each other and saw the fear in each other’s eyes.
In a certain war zone in the shallow layer dimension battlefield.
Bang!
The rainbow-like magic light penetrated the surging dark energy and landed on Clotti’s body, leaving a new wound. The powerful annihilation force sent him flying, crashing into the dark brown ground and smashing through hundreds of layers.
“Cough cough…”
The cells in his body withered under the influence of the Annihilation spell. Clotti quickly used his energy to stabilize his injuries before looking up at the enemy in the sky with a grave expression.
The Secret Tree King was floating in the air, looking down at him from above. Forbidden Spells were brewing around him, rapidly taking shape and falling like a storm.
Clotti gritted his teeth to suppress his injuries and manipulated the dark energy to meet the attack. However, the stalemate only lasted for an instant before he was sent flying once again, with many new wounds on his body.
“This Tree King… is too strong…”
Clotti clutched his wound, his eyes shining with shock.
He had judged the strength of the Tree King from the Subduing Tree King, the Heart Tree King, and the Lord’s Avatar of the Fortitude Tree King. He had thought that even if he could not defeat this new Tree King, he would at least be able to hold on for a long time. However, Clotti did not expect that this guy who called himself the Secret Tree King was stronger than the other three. He was the National Pillar, but the other party beat him like beating a younger brother. It was easy and relaxed.
Among all the opponents that he had fought, only Black Star and Wuornos could deal with him so easily.
If the other Beyond Grade A Mages were just ordinary magic cannons, then this Secret Tree King was a rapid nuclear bomb. The strength, frequency, and speed of his casting far exceeded all the Mages that Clotti had ever
seen!
In the sky, the Secret Tree King temporarily stopped attacking. He moved his fingers and casually played with a ribbon made of magic power.
“You actually dared to fight me one on one. Should I say that your courage is commendable, or you are overestimating yourself? Unfortunately, only that Mechanic or that Esper has the qualifications to fight me. Your strength is a little too weak. If this continues, I won’t have any interest in killing
you…”
The only opponents that the Secret Tree King cared about were Han Xiao and EsGod. Although Clotti’s combat strength was not low, and his dark energy control Esper Ability was rather penetrative, it was not much of a threat to him, a Mage who grasped multidimensional energy. Feeling the other party’s contempt, Clotti’s face darkened. He silently gathered his energy and prepared to go all out.
However, right at this moment, a spatial fluctuation appeared in their senses. The space wall in the distance opened up, and a figure covered in a hooded black robe appeared. His clothes fluttered in the wind, and the edges of his clothes were like black flames. He was brimming with the aura of a peak Beyond Grade A, attracting their attention.
“Who are you?” Clotti turned around. He did not know if he was friend or foe, but he immediately became more alert.
“We’re on the same side.”
Oathkeeper glanced at him before staring at the Secret Tree King.
“Another one?” The Secret Tree King narrowed his eyes. “You’re in cahoots with those new reinforcements, right? You should be their leader. Interesting, you still have a group of high-level combatants hidden… Heh, so what? You can’t turn the situation around. Sooner or later, we’ll wipe out all your forces in the secondary dimension world!”
Through the mental network, he had already found out about the Holy Accord Revivors reinforcing the three Universal Civilizations’ Beyond Grade As.
In the eyes of the Secret Tree King, facing an opponent like the World Tree, the three Universal Civilizations should have felt immense pressure and gone all out long ago. However, the other party was still holding back even now. It was truly unfathomable.
Furthermore, with the Secret Tree King’s personality, he was a little unhappy about this… Why, is our World Tree not worthy of your full strength ?
Ignoring the Secret Tree King, Oathkeeper communicated with Clotti telepathically.
“Leave this to me. Go help the others.”
“Can you do it? This Tree King is very strong. We’d better work together to deal with him.” Clotti expressed his doubts. “This Tree King is a Mage, and I can see that his spells have bonuses in the secondary dimension world. I should not be his match, but I only need to stall him. In this aspect, I’m more suitable than you. There’s no need to waste combat power on him.”
Oathkeeper responded.
Not long ago, the expeditionary army outposts had been attacked, and Han Xiao had finally informed the Holy Accord Organization to take part in the battle. Many of the Holy Accord Revivors had already prepared themselves mentally. They did not need any mobilization and set off on their own. On one hand, it was for the sake of the Sanctum Revival qualifications, and on the other hand, it was also because they were in the same boat.
Other than that, Han Xiao also requested the Holy Accord to bring along Dimensional Exile Bullets, High-Level Lifeform Energy Disorder Shockwave, cross-dimensional detection radars, and other special technologies to provide support. Oathkeeper had no choice but to do as he was told. As the Holy Accord organization’s troops had always been on standby, they quickly came over.
Clotti did not respond, but at this moment, the Secret Tree King suddenly attacked. All kinds of powerful forbidden spells were cast continuously, firing at the two of them.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Magical lights flashed in the sky, beautiful and deadly. Oathkeeper and Clotti immediately reacted and moved around, dodging nonstop.
On the other side, the Secret Tree King was multitasking. While quickly constructing spell models and casting forbidden spells, he communicated with the Ancestral Tree King through the mental network.
“There’s no sign of that Mechanic in the frontline battlefield or the secondary dimension battlefield. He has that sealing ability, so there’s a high chance that he’s targeting a tree king. Therefore, his target should be me. Maybe he’s secretly observing. After I fight these two opponents for a while, he should jump out and ambush me.”
Hearing this, the Ancestral Tree King expressed his approval in the mental network and said with a deep voice, “Your judgment is very reasonable. Continue fighting. As long as that Mechanic is lured out, I will immediately descend and catch him off guard.”
“Okay.”
The two of them quickly came up with a plan. They planned to use the Secret Tree King as bait to lure the snake out of its hole.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Since it was very
likely that Black Star had his eyes on the Secret Tree King, the Ancestral Tree King also chose to launch an ambush. He had two goals. One was to find an opportunity to kill Black Star, and the other was to think of a way to save the Heart Tree King. If he did not deal with Black Star, how could he talk about unsealing the Heart Tree King? At the very least, he had to snatch that Universal Treasure with the sealing ability.
It was not that he thought too highly of the Heart Tree King. Even the simple-minded Subduing Tree King had ‘decisively’ self-destructed twice to escape from being sealed. Only the Heart Tree King had been affected. The Ancestral Tree King only wanted to take back the sealed Tree King Crown. Otherwise, there would always be a gap in the five Tree Kings. With Oathkeeper joining the battle, the two of them were finally at a stalemate with the Secret Tree King. The three of them fought intensely, chasing each other non-stop. The battlefield changed again and again. One moment, it was an abyss-like blackish-purple space, then it was a holy land-like silver kingdom, then it was a nascent dimension born in the void, and the next moment, it was an unstable secondary dimension at its end. Without exception, every battlefield was shattered by the aftershock of their battle, and batches of fleets were devoured by the space storm.
The three of them arrived at a shadow dimension. Suddenly, the space wall in the distance opened, and another figure entered the battlefield. It was Han Xiao.
The Secret Tree King noticed Han Xiao at first glance and immediately ignored the other two opponents. He stared at Han Xiao with a strong battle intent and killing intent in his eyes.
“You’re finally willing to come out ?”
Han Xiao glanced at him, waved his hand, told Oathkeeper and Clotti to stop and retreat to the side, then spoke to the Secret Tree King in the public channel.
“There are three of us here. Aren’t you going to run?”
“Run? Who do you think I am ?”
The Secret Tree King suddenly waved his palm, and an invisible spatial fluctuation swept across this space. The entire secondary dimension instantly turned into a mirror-like space, as though it was trapped in a crystal. The images of the battlefield were flowing in the sections of the space, overlapping and dazzling. The spatial barrier suddenly formed, isolating Clotti and Oathkeeper in the outside world. They could only see what was going on inside the barrier, but they could not participate in it. It was as if the two of them were in parallel spaces that had no intersection.
Inside the barrier, only the Secret Tree King and Han Xiao were looking at each other. “You want to fight me one on one?” Han Xiao looked around at the barrier and smiled strangely.
“I’ve always wanted to fight you, so why would I run? I thought you would launch a sneak attack, but I didn’t expect you to appear so openly… However, this doesn’t matter. This barrier is our battleground. If you have the ability, don’t use that teleportation technique to escape. I’ll definitely kill you today!”
The eyes of the Secret Tree King flickered. He knew that Black Star had the teleportation technique that could ignore crowd control, so this barrier was only to prevent the other enemies from disrupting the battle and create the illusion of a one-on-one battle. As long as Black Star did not teleport away and stayed behind to fight him one-on-one, the plan would be half complete.
He did not hesitate and immediately cast all kinds of spells toward Han Xiao. On the surface, it seemed like he was going to fight Han Xiao one on one, but he had already secretly used spells to guide the Ancestral Tree King into the barrier, preparing to launch a pincer attack.
However, before the spell could hit its target, a powerful pressure swept out like a storm with Han Xiao at the center, shaking the Secret Tree King’s mind! Boom!
Countless machines surged out from the Godly Stronghold and instantly condensed on Han Xiao’s body. They combined into a gigantic Mechanical Divine Body, which was the Supreme Heavenly Venerate. Transcendent Grade’s energy fluctuations erupted without restraint!
The face of the Secret Tree King instantly changed, and the ferocity on his face turned into fear and disbelief. “This is the level of the Tree God ?”
He was not mentally prepared at all.
At this moment, all tactics and plans were thrown to the back of his mind.
The Secret Tree King did not hesitate to construct a transportation door and escape. He was no longer arrogant and only panic remained in his mind.
However, Han Xiao was faster than him. With a flash, his gigantic body teleported behind the Secret Tree King and tore the roots of the World Tree apart. Then, the Emperor Skysplitter Blade slashed down and invisible psionic energy waves exploded like a blade wave.
Crack!
The sound of a mirror shattering could be heard. Within the range of the psionic wave, the space barrier, various forbidden spells, transportation door, and everything else that was constructed by magic power rapidly collapsed like a sandcastle!
There was not the slightest bit of resistance!
“What?!”
The Ancestral Tree King, who had just teleported behind Han Xiao and was about to launch a sneak attack, froze on the spot. His expression changed drastically!
Chapter 1415: Overwhelming Combat Strength; Wrecking the Tree God |
The Emperor Skysplitter Blade and the psionic wave launcher had already been enhanced by Han Xiao’s (Beyonder Artifact] to become a ‘Divine Artifact’. With just a simple press of the A button, its power was no different from a destructive ultimate move!
(TL Note: The author is probably expressing the huge damage caused by a normal attack, hence describing it as the press of an A button like a normal attack on a console.]
Facing the Secret Tree King’s terrified gaze, the Emperor Sky Splitter stabbed forward. The huge blade expanded rapidly in his eyes, and he could not react in time.
Boom!
The huge blade slammed into the dimensional wall of the secondary dimension, creating countless cracks like cracking porcelain. The power of the attack was transmitted to the entire secondary dimension, exceeding the upper limit. The entire shadow dimension exploded, and all the darkness dissipated.
However, the Secret Tree King was not sent flying. Instead, it was firmly stuck to the tip of the blade by an intense gravitational force field. At the same time, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate extended a finger and pressed it against the Secret Tree King’s body. The invisible power of the Spacetime Amber passed through his finger and began to make amber on the Secret Tree King’s body. The soul link of the Spacetime Amber had already reached the highest fifth level in the past decade. There was no need to touch the target with the original body of the Spacetime Amber, only physical contact was needed to activate the seal. This meant that the Spacetime Amber no longer needed to be carried around, and it could be placed anywhere.
At the same time, due to the [Energy BaseGod of All Machines] talent of the Super God Mechanic, the form of his basic existence was not limited to his physical body. The Mechanical Deity that he had fused with was also his main body. This meant that he could use the Mechanical Deity’s body to touch the target, which would also satisfy the judgment of the Spacetime Amber!
The Secret Tree King was rooted to the ground by a bunch of Universal Treasure-level control devices. The extremely destructive psionic energy waves flowed along the blade and entered his body, crushing large amounts of his cells. The energy in his body was suppressed by the Super God-level energy, and he could not even self-destruct. Furthermore, he did not dare to self-destruct in front of a Super God. That was truly ‘courting death’.
Black Star was too fast, exceeding the Beyond Grade A realm. He could not react much at all, as if he had fallen into such a state the moment he came back to his senses.
“How can someone break through this limit? This kind of power cannot be controlled by an individual!”
The Secret Tree King panicked, his face pale.
He did not expect a Tree God to appear in this civilization. How could there be
such a huge change in just ten years?
The World Tree had been growing for countless years. Other than the Ancestral Tree King, the other four Kings had all changed positions before. Although the Ancestral Tree King had the authority to remove the other Kings, he rarely used them. Generally speaking, unless the Tree King was dead, he would not do any personnel changes.
However, the Tree Kings could revive, so why would they still die? This was the problem. Some of the Tree Kings had tried to reach a higher level, but all of them died without exception. They thought that they could revive through the World Tree, but after suffering from mutations and dying during the Promotion, the information form would directly leave the connection of the World Tree, unable to revive and be completely dead. After failing time and time again, they learned from the previous mistakes, and the later generations of Tree Kings did not try to advance anymore.
In their eyes, the Transcendent Domain was an insurmountable chasm that could not be crossed by an individual. It was the limit of a single life form. Only by using a different method could one temporarily step into a higher level. The Tree God advent was one of the methods.
This kind of thinking was not strange. Having a powerful Superpower system did not mean that one could become stronger indefinitely. Although many civilizations liked to confuse the differences between the two, these were two different concepts. Be it the World Tree experts or the Beyond Grade As of the three Universal Civilizations, they all were similar in that they recognized the existence of an individual limit… The difference lay in how both parties had determined the limits of their individual strength. Because up till now, no one had truly reached the absolute limit, thus there appeared many different boundaries of strength.
“I have to break free from his control, or else…”
The Secret Tree King made up his mind and activated his cell reactor crazily. Ignoring the damage to his cells, he squeezed out all his magic power and attacked the energy lock. After struggling without caring about the consequences, the control field finally loosened.
