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In the past, Bing Xue would have never dared to go against su a and almighty being. She could tell it was strong. He was strohan most of the foes she has fought since she got here. In terms of physical prowess and abilities, it surpassed even the ancer whose only specialty was trolling Time Essence.
And his Level wasn’t low; it was very high!
Level 5000!
She didn’t know what Level the Gods had; it seemed as if they didn’t have any Levels themselves, w with aype of system she might have gotten. The thing is, she had both the systems of the gods and could tinue leveling up, uhem.
However, right now, Leviathan in front of her was the mightiest foe she had ever fought since her return from Murim; he wasn’t a god, and for the level of strength and his a aura, she had to admit he was someone slightly respectable.
“You seem unfazed!” Leviathan smiled, showing his tless teeth through all three of his gigantic heads. “Well, let’s see how you react to this now! Go, my army of the depths!”
Leviathan roared as hundreds of S-Rank O Beasts surged from the depths; Megalodons, Krakens, Bloodthirsty Whales, Golde Carapace Crabs, Titan Squids, and more creatures surged endlessly.
Yet Bing Xue remained unfazed by the approag, camitous army of the os. She looked towards her family and wi them; they immediately khere was nothing to worry about.
“Sit down and rex; I’ll take care of this little thing.” She smiled, tws appearing on her left and right sides.
shoh divine brilliand golden light. The other shoh dark, umbral energies. Both started spinning rapidly, growing rger and rger and rger.
She ehem to their very limits; each ring was as big as a hundred meters. Bing Xue nodded. “Barely acceptable, I suppose."
FLASH!
She sent bs towards the beast below her, and they spun rapidly at lightning speed, so fast they only left trails of blood and guts as the beasts that could take whole legions to defeat were sin within seds.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“E-Eh?”
Leviathan remained in the same position he was before, all three of his heads gring in utter disbelief as all his minions perished in a matter of... twelve seds.
“Phew, well, this should be enough food for a while.”
Bing Xue smiled. The seas were now pletely tainted with the color red, the blood and guts of all the monsters decorating them. There was an o of blood in front of her. The smell of fresh fish was strong; she already wao roast some of that and fry a few of those.
“So, do you truly want to bee a god, Leviathan?”
“I-I…! That’s…”
Despite being Level 5000, eveha a sudden pressure; a feeling ret slowly started emerging from within his brave and a heart. It has been almost a million years since he was born, another of the many sea monsters in the os of Eclipse.
However, uhe rest, he was a bit stronger, learned a bit faster, and became much smarter over time than other beasts. He hunted, ate, evolved, and slept. tinuously, for hundreds of thousands of years.
Every fight at the beginning was full of stakes; his life was always on the line; however, as he tinuously became stronger, he also felt like everything became much, much weaker.
Standing at the peak was lonely, and he went to sleep for eons.
His Level tinuously rose as his subordinates fought and killed other beasts through eons, until he reached Level 5000 as a beast, the maximum level he could reach within Floor 1, apparently.
And as someone bound by the os, he was uo explore the tower. Full of rese, he tinuously trained and cultivated his abilities, refining Mana through thousands of years.
His goal was simple: to wait for the opportunity to e—any opportunity!
And that opportunity preseself; the gods were sin, and their divihrones were empty; he could feel them.
He had reached the peak of this world below the gods, and now that they were gone, what was going to stop him from being the new God?
Well, what stopped him was a single woman. A rather young woman at that, only eleven thousand years old.
In fact, he was much older than her, as he was almost a million years old!
Yet the eleven-thousand-year-old woman in front of him vastly surpassed this old monster.
He could tell by merely looking at the massacre she left behind.
But could he give himself the privilege of stopping now, when his subordinates have all died because of him?
No!
“I have to defeat you, no matter what.” He spoke with his eyes fring with motivation. “For my foolish minions that died so pathetically, and to make sure to carry the title of the King of the Os!”
“Good, that is the spirit.” Bing Xue nodded. “Then e, Leviathan! Fight me to the death! Show me if you’re truly worthy of being a God.”
“I SHALL! RAAAAAHHH!!!”
With a furious and draic roar, the os obeyed Leviathan, swirling upwards. The people on the beaced in utter disbelief as the seas reached the skies. It felt like at any moment, Leviathan could simply drowire ti if he wanted.
SPLAAASH!
The os rushed down as Leviathan decided to drowhing, including Bing Xue! He saw she was strong, but inside his head, there was absolutely no way she could easily overpower the erength of the os.
“Drown to death!”
As the water engulfed everything, a fsh ht golden light and umbral darkness surged from within, splitting the os into not two parts but four, six, twelve, twenty-four, a huwo hundred, ohousand, ten thousand, two huhousand, one million, two billion, and more times!
Leviathan could see Bing Xue’s small figure floating below the seas; her very presence forced the os to not go down. Her very pressure defied gravity, f the seas to simply stay floating in midair. As she cut them, she cut all of the seas.
“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Radiant Echo}! {Umbral Cry}!”
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Bing Xue was usiws as bdes, sshing through the seas until, before everyone’s eyes, in just a few seds, the os were cut so much to a subatomic level, that they exploded into white clouds of mist, dissipating into the air.
Not only the water above her, but the ey of the wave, capable of drowning at least a tenth of the entire ti, disappeared into an explosion of mist!
“H-Huh?”
Leviathan couldn’t prehend what he saw, but Bing Xue already appeared right above him; her rings spun rapidly and then biogether into an even rger spinning ring, which she moved downwards.
“Ah!”
Leviathan quickly swam into the seas, using them as prote. Explosions of white mist erupted every time the ring ran through the waves of oic water. Leviathan quickly jured thousands of swirling spears of high-pressure oic water, capable of easily carving through mountains.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
However, they were all futile and useless; Bing Xue was pletely unmoved and ued by anything. The three-headed behemoth was uo prehend how it ossible for such a small body to take on all that damage with ease!
And the expnation was rather simple: Bing Xue had refined, recreated, and refed her own body hundreds of times through her long life, each time making it tougher, each time making it even more dense.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say her body density was higher than anythihan had ever fought.
Yet…
“Dammit!”
He rushed out of the seas, realizing his attacks were useless. He fronted her head-on, opening his jaws and going for his deadly triple bite, a powerful teique that nobody that ever took it survived!
Yet.
CRASH!
The moment his first head tried to bite through Bing Xue, it felt like he was trying to bite through an incredibly hard metal for a baby without teeth!
Utterly impossible.
And painful!
Crack, crack…
CRASH!
“UUAGH!”
His teeth shattered on the spot, his eyes full of disbelief as he g the fly-sized (for him) woma him with her bright, rainbow-colored eyes.
“Your breath stinks. My turn.”
She swiftly disappeared from the se and then reappeared behihan. The hing he knew, he felt utter agony through half of his body as his tail was immediately cut into tless round slices, which spshed into the os, geing enormous ripples that almost created asunami.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“S-Stop! STOP!”
Leviathan fought back with teeth and tails, but to no avail; Bing Xue was overwhelmingly strong and tougher than him. Each of his bites did no damage, and each of her attacks cut ly through his incredibly hard scales.
In the end, the giant, three-headed sea dragon had to beg for his life!
“Please five me! I won’t do it again! Don’t kill meeeee!”
He was already missing two heads, and Bing Xue was about to go for the third and finish him off. She looked at her family and noticed that her mhed as she saw her about to kill yet another being.
“…No, there’s another way to solve this.”
Perhaps it was the desire to not disappoint her mother for onaybe it was her wanting to do something different. For o just goes against her own "logic,” the logic that she fed inside a world of bloodshed and vengeance.
Her mind told her to just kill the talki. So she decided to do the plete opposite of that. It wasn’t like he was a genocidal god like the other two, so certainly he deserved a bit more time to expin himself to her.
“I’ll stop.”
“Eh? R-Really?!”
Leviathan screamed in surprise as he looked at Bing Xue making her rings disappear, her Divinity Aura still exuding an almighty pressure that forced him to bow his head to her.
“Yes, tell me, Leviathan. What is your true purpose in this world? And why do you want the throne of the Gods?”
“I… I just want to surpass them; inally, I wao be able to walk on nd and explore the tower! But I was born too big and bound to the os…”
“I see.”
Bing Xue detected no lies; despite how monstrous and savage he was, this beast was more pure-hearted than most of the people she had met throughout her life.
“Hmm, how many i lives have you taken, though?”
“E-Eh! Ah… Ugh… N-None?”
SLASH!
Bing Xue quickly cut with her bare hands one of his gills, making him scream.
“Don’t lie to me, beast.” She spoke. “I see through your lies! Speak with hoy!”
“I-I have sunk several ships through my long life!” He screamed. “I-I’m sorry! I might have also caused disasters through history with the tsunamis."
“Hmm…” Despite that, Bing Xue saw that such deaths were too scard spread over almost a million years. Most of them were without him knowing what he was doing or by act. “Huh… Hmph.”
Leviathan would be sweating the entire o if he could right now. Below her sharp gaze, there was absolutely nothing that could escape!
Yet, suddenly, her eyes rexed and were full of benevolence.
“You’ve done great crimes; as an intellige, you still must take responsibility for what you’ve done!” She said.
“Y-Yes!” He nodded. “Anything, but I don’t want to die!”
“It’s fine; I will not kill you. For once, I shall go against my own beliefs.” Bing Xue sighed. “Maybe because I am desperate for the approval of my soft-hearted mother, or perhaps because you are just a beast without truly evil iions. Or maybe… Maybe, just maybe, you be useful to me.”
“U-Useful?” Leviathan’s titanic body started to tremble.
“Leviathan, I have a job for you!” She smiled. “Bee the God of Eclipse for me, will you? I don’t want such responsibility myself, and I would be bound to this world as well, which is not something I want.”
“Wha… Eh? HUH?!”
Out of nowhere, Leviathan was granted what he inally wanted!
However, why?
Why did this feel so unsatisfactory?!
He had not earned anything, and it felt like Bing Xue was just handing him a very heavy responsibility.
But what else could he do now?
It was either being a God or dying.
“I-I accept…” He nodded with his st head.
“Good. There you go.” With a simple thought, the two thrones were finally occupied again.
The Primordial Energies of Eclipse shone brightly, blessihan with new powers.
His body ged in form, size, and appearance.
He was overflowing with a divine aura!
“By the way, I will be taking 90% of the Faith Points you earn.” Bing Xue smiled. “I hope you accept my terms and ditions.”
“WHAT?!”
Poor Leviathan was about to bee Bing Xue’s first-ever worker in her ever-growing pany of rept gods.
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