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  RUMBLE!

  The world around the camp started to ge immediately. Ohe Barbarian God decided to sacrifice the world itself just so he could defeat Bing Xue and win, he began to absorb the world of Elios’ very essence. All life within it started to wither and die, and even the core of the p was boiling rapidly, causing several sleeping voloes to erupt, and burning the surface with va.

  But that wasn’t even the worst part, as everyohat had survived until now saw the already enormous God bee even bigger, fusing with the world itself, its stones, ores, mountains, and all the life he absorbed, being fused with the very surfad also the heavens above, swirling around him.

  Those that were still alive started to fall into despair as they saw the end of the world. Pyers began running away oer another, and well, even the inhabitants escaped, running towards higher or lower floors of the Tower, abandoning a world they already thought was done for.

  Yet those with Bing Xue remained fighting, even as the Barbarian god's abhorrent body started squirming and abominably produg monstrosities from his flesh and blood, powerful Divis of War and Bloodshed, imbued with his Divinity!

  “ROOOAARR!”

  “SHAAAAHH!”

  “GRUOOHH!”

  They resembled distorted, horrible forms of the old beast gods he devoured or used to create his ons, r ferociously, made of flesh, blood, and burning stone, covered with crimson fmes. Each beast was at least thirty meters tall, gigantic behemoths—the smallest though. The tallest could reach as high as a hundred meters with ease.

  The etlefield shook stantly; the army that obeyed Bing Xue quickly panicked; demons, cavemen, and their generals alike saw in terrifying horror as everything was set abze and how these beasts rapidly started moving towards the camp, aiming to burn the pce.

  The camp erhaps the only area of the world of Elios with the most popution and also where entire families lived. Not every single person there was a member of the cult, most of them being tribes that were absorbed by them and forcefully made into devotees; evehey didn’t truly pray to the god, they feared him and did as they were told.

  “Dammit! Where the heck did these things e from?!”

  The Demons started screaming and running away; the beasts were simply too big; their curses and other teiques barely affected their powerful and giant bodies; they were all dying, being stomped oer another.

  “The Demons!”

  “No!”

  “Friends!”

  The cavemen panicked as they saw many of the demons, not as fast and strong as them to evade the stomps, die oer another, exploding into particles of red mist.

  “Don’t worry! Demon friends immortal! They revive inside Bing Bing book! Fine if they die!” Fiery Hair roared. “However…! Not so easy for us! I will fight!”

  Fiery Hair leaped into the battlefield after eating a recovery pill that Bing Xue had giveo use in emergencies, and she started g against the titanic beast all on her own.

  “SHYAAAGGH!”

  A giant cat-like divi roared, g against Fiery Hair with its titanic, bzing cws and trying to tear her to shreds, only to find out she was actually pretty damn tough, tough enough to not easily be hurt.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  “GRRRHH?!”

  The beast gred at its own cws, suddenly realizing they had been torn apart. Instead, it was as if hitting Fiery Hair was like trying to destroy a mountain with its bare cws! Fiery Hair’s Primal Power Aura surged, enpassing her in golden colors.

  “HYAAAH!”

  She rushed forward, g against the beast and pung its head, spreading tless cracks through its stony and rocky exterior.

  And then she pu again and again and again, all while kig it from below, jumping over it as much as she needed!

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

  “SHIEEEHHH!”

  The creature gave an agonizing scream as the tless cracks over its bzing body spread to the point it quickly began to fall into pieces, colpsing into the ground into a pile of stone, fmes, and flesh, and dying.

  RUMBLE!

  And Fiery Hair didn’t kill the little ones, but just felled a one-hundred-meter-tall ohe ohat were less thahe rest of the cavemen, both the Children of the Fire and the Hawkeye Tribes, were filled with inspiration.

  “Don’t fear! Not so different from home! Giant-scaled beasts we puo death!”

  “OOOOHHHH!”

  The cavemen roared, rushing towards battle, and surrounding the divis, unleashing barrages of powerful physical attacks. The children of fire mostly did the blunt work while the Hawkeyes helped them with mobility, c them with their winds and als their wind-powered arrows.

  BOOM! CLAASH! BAAM! CRAASH! RUMBLE!

  For a sed, the impossible happened. As the people of the camp escaped to the lower her floor, they gnced in disbelief as a group of cavemen started singlehandedly stopping an army of dozens of titanic creatures.

  “We also have help, Merkite!”

  “Yes sis!”

  Urbosa ae charged into battle, unleashing several pierg blows using their powerful element-powered spears of thunder and wind, their auras overflowing with spiritual energies, ki, mana, and small fragments of divinity.

  “I feel stronger and faster now!” Merkite said. “Is this because of the power we absorbed from Leos?”

  “Most likely, when he died, an explosion of divine spiritual energy from the beast spirits ended up falling over our bodies,” Urbosa nodded. “Bing Xue said that we grew strong from that, but let’s see how strong!”

  The twins charged against three gigantic divis at oheir giant cws and fiery breaths rapidly reached them, yet the twins easily evaded, using their elements to quickly leap into the skies and escape their deadly attacks.

  At the same time, they desded with their spears pointing at the monster’s flesh, lightning and winds shrouding their bodies as their growing divinity tio bee stronger and mightier, making their very presences shake the surroundings.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  Leaping down and up, their spears rapidly impaled the gigantistrosities, imbuiructive windstorms and thuorms iheir wounds and making the creatures explode into pieces from the i.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM

  Ihey had beuch strohan they ever thought they could bee; defeating Leos not only allowed them to aveheir fallen and also all those that were betrayed, but it also helped them reach a new level.

  Their Martial Cores were already about to asd into Rank 6 with all the surplus energies they had gaihanks to Bing Xue’s special formations within their bodies, their growth in levels and other energies hasteheir Ki cultivatioly!

  “I feel it… Within me, something is surging!” Urbosa said. “This Aura is different…”

  “Yeah, me too, sis!” Merkite agreed. “Our Martial Aura… it’s growing stantly!”

  They had already reached the pinnacle of Rank 5, and the st thing they o do was biheir Soul and Aura together to acquire an Immortal Spark within the core of their Souls. Ohis process was fihey could finally asd into Immortals.

  And as they battled, almost instinctively, their Aura and their Souls were rapidly melding together, as if they had dissolved and bined, being a single force, a single power within them. What emerged from their bodies was no longer just the excess energy that geed Auras.

  No, it was the very aura of their soul, the radiance of their Ki, Spirit Energy, Mana, and the Spiritual Divinity Fragments they obtained from Leos.

  “Keep going; we’re getting somewhere, but we o keep fighting!”

  “Leveling up will help us get there!”

  The pair tinued fighting, g against the beasts oer another. At the same time, Mursha and Peperina also joihem and Fiery Hair in their battle against the invading creatures.

  “They’re progressively growing stronger or is that my idea?!”

  Peperina rushed across the burning grassnds as her entire body was set abze, making her resemble a rabbit goddess of blue fmes. She leaped with her superiility and abilities, easily crushing her foes with her hammer, which she shapeshifted in a myriad of ways or even enhas size temporarily.

  CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

  RUMBLE!

  The ground shook as she finished off her fifth beast, pulverizing their heads into pieces. After hitting it five times in a row, the creature died, colpsing, and immediately turning into a pile of stone and fmes.

  “GRUOOOHHHHH!”

  The beasts tinued r furiously, charging against the st stand, proteg the camp and the thousands of people behind it.

  Mursha stood in front of them, and only minutes after having killed the cult leader, the battle had yet to end as the monsters tinued emerging.

  She could see in the skies as Bing Xue battled the God of Destru in his stro form. Her attacks were tremendously potent, but the bastard was stantly rec and regrowing.

  “He’s using the power of the world tee endlessly! And Bing Xue is takiime because she doesn’t want him to end up destroying the world either…” Mursha immediately tell what was happening. “Dammit… DAMMIT!”

  She grew furious; even after avenging her family aribe, the world was still in peril, and the monstrosity that the cult created was running rampart, left alone for too long. It ended up being too powerful, capable of trolling the Elemental Lailrs of Elios and emp himself endlessly.

  “RAAAAHHH!”

  With a furious roar, Mursha harnessed her new Divinity, overflowing with the Aura of not just a mortal anymore, but a Demigoddess. The body of a mortal was there, but her soul was now that of a goddess, and her divinity overflowed with great power.

  The Divinity of Hope harnessed millions of small particles of light around her body, givihe strength that the people of Elios possessed. Their hope, their prayers—everything became her strength!

  Like a charging and unstoppable bull, Mursha sliced apart dozens of divis at once, using her sheer body prowess to easily cut through them and shatter the divis into pieces.

  Her titanic axe overflowed with its cursed powers, capable of breaking the pathways of mana and the es it produced within magid beings, easily making it possible for her to ignore most of her foe’s defenses.

  BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

  The explosions caused by her attacks were the divis themselves, which were exploding like bombs oer ahe explosions were powerful enough to send flying the other creatures, weakening them in the process.

  This helped Mursha pick them up and kill them quickly. While everyone else was also fighting right behind her, Mursha was the ohat was singlehandedly pushing forward the most, yet even with her newfound powers, she was growing weary and tired.

  “Hahhh… Hahhh… When… when is this ending?” She muttered, looking at the sky. “Dammit…!”

  The rest of the warriors behind her were already beginning to have simir thoughts; the monstrosity that the God of Destru became tinued creating more and more divis from his flesh and blood, endlessly.

  “Was destroying this world entirely alart of their pns?” Mursha thought. “That bastard and his tribe... They have he entire world to catastrophic destru. Why? Just why did he accept the offer from those outsiders?!”

  Mursha recalled the memories the Bloodfang Wolf shared with her of those mysterious beings, or "people,” that had talked with Ultimus' tribe three hundred years ago.

  The ohat grahem the artifacts and the grimoires taining the knowledge to create a God quite literally, an Evil God that didn’t embody natural elements of the opposite.

  Gods created to destroy, bring demise, and curse all living beings.

  “I don’t know what even their goal is, but those beings… those people…” Mursha muttered. “They have already targeted many worlds; ours is only one of many… I have to tell this to Bing Xue somehow…!”

  “ROOOAAARRR!”

  As Mursha kept pushing forward, a titanic divine monster reached her, with three lion heads and the tail of a snake, set abze and covered by volic sto charged against her.

  Mursha gritted her teeth, preparing herself for the worst. At this point, she didn’t know if she would be able to win against such a behemoth or not.

  “RAAAHHH!”

  She roared back at it, swinging her axe against it!

  Yet, amidst the despair...

  FLASH!

  Suddenly, the sky was illuminated, as five bright lights illumihe sky above and then rapidly desded towards the surface.

  And then, it was as if the world’s time itself had suddenly stopped.

  Mursha found herself standing, bleeding and exhausted, in front of a creature of myth.

  A huge animal made of blinding spiritual light, exuding divinity!

  It was a beautiful phoenix made of golden light and fiery fmes.

  “Mursha Bloodfang, the st member of the stroribe of Elios... I have a request for you.”

  “H-Huh?”

  “Please, bey vessel and help me save our world from its demise.”

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