I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 273 - 273 272.Scorching Sun_1

Chapter 273: 272.Scorching Sun_1 Chapter 273: 272.Scorching Sun_1 Lu Ban felt the jubilation of vegetation upon his body as the sunlight penetrated through the melting ice.

In his hand was a radio.

“Small-Scale Catastrophe Generator”.

This item, worth over eighty thousand Silence Points, had its knob currently twisted to the “Scorching” setting.

Lu Ban wasn’t sure which calamity this was, but according to his current body sensation, the temperature had surged from well below minus one hundred degrees to over fifty degrees in a short period of time.

Under normal circumstances, such intense heat from the sun would evaporate all moisture within a living organism in a short time, rendering the land barren and sinking it into eternal scorching heat.

Lu Ban estimated that this was probably the condition deep in the Sahara Desert.

As the sunlight hit him, Lu Ban’s body was rapidly healing.

Water from melting ice, the blazing sun—with water and sunlight, it was simply the perfect environment for the growth of plants.

Under the true scorching sun, the Winter Wolves howled in despair, gradually melting into water, and those shadows could no longer hide, warping and writhing as they collapsed; even the plague-bearing winds evaporated swiftly under such intense light, leaving no trace to be found.

Within a radius of several kilometers, the sun blazed down mercilessly.

If one were to look down from the sky at that moment, they would see a patch of light persisting in a corner of the Black Forest enveloped by Eternal Night, conspicuously catching the eye.

“It’s so hot…”

Lu Ban couldn’t help but take off his tattered coat that had been ripped to shreds, as plants grew over his body, gradually covering his exposed skin to shield him from the sunlight.

In the blazing sun, removing clothing might hasten death faster than wearing it.

He looked towards the Frost entity that was as tall as a small mountain.

Under the sunlight, the mountain peak stood Unmoving; the giant wolf’s eyes were fixed on Lu Ban’s position, seeming to ponder.

For many years, it had not encountered someone who required it to take additional action.

The device in that human’s hands carried a troubling aura, causing a ripple in Frost’s heart.

The massive Winter Wolf decided to stand up.

Its limbs supported its huge body, and from its position, a massive earthquake erupted, causing the ground in that area to cave in. The shock waves made the outer walls of the Black Keep Fortress shudder, throwing the entire fortress into disarray.

In the ensuing chaos, Jonah stared fixedly at the Winter Wolf.

Such a colossal creature could turn most of the Night Country into ruins by merely running a few laps around the ground.

What sort of existence had he been fighting against all this time?

Amidst his shock, Jonah had already forgotten what he was supposed to do.

In fact, in this earthquake, many of the Winter Wolves besieging the Black Keep were knocked down, and the landscape within tens of miles looked as though it had been hit by a super earthquake—changing completely with small hills rising, and ravines forming, transforming the original plain forest into a complex mountainous area.

Lu Ban continued to let the radio soak up the sunlight for power as he moved towards the Winter Wolf.

In his other hand, “Testament” was already loaded with a Speech Bullet.

Lu Ban just needed to figure out how to shoot this behemoth a few times, then wait for it to defeat itself, allowing Lu Ban to reap the benefits.

At the same time, Lu Ban also came to realize something.

That was why the rulers of the Demonic Tide were so powerful and yet had been at a standoff with humans for over a thousand years.

Why the Demonic Tide only arrived when the Blood Moon rose.

Why these Demonic Beasts feared the sunlight.

All these were actually for the same reason.

The true source of Pollution was the Blood Moon.

The deepest Pollution of the Night Country existed upon the Blood Moon.

Someone had used some special means to Seal the Pollution of the Night Country, with only the occasional leaks forming the Blood Moon that would awaken those things susceptible to Pollution.

It might have been a battle between Divine Beings, or perhaps an act of heroism by someone like those of the Ancient Capital.

But anyhow, the Night Country struggled to survive in this narrow gap.

Therefore, the rulers of the Demonic Tide could only affect this Foreign Domain when the Blood Moon was in the sky.

Perhaps they had indeed destroyed countless other realms and frozen numerous planets, but in the Night Country, these Demonic Beasts could only affect the world when the intermittently leaking Seal of the Blood Moon emerged.

If the Demonic Tide behind was the doing of an Indescribable Evil God, then the spells of Gray Tower, the source of these magics, were also from Indescribable Divine Beings.

“So that’s how it is….”

Lu Ban felt he understood everything.

It was somewhat amusing, yet also somewhat helplessly resigned.

Because the millennia-long struggle of the Night Country might really just be a game.

A chess match.

One side was the Divine Beings that brought forth the Demonic Tide, the other side the Divine Beings that bestowed spells.

Using humans and Demonic Beasts as chess pieces, and the Night Country as the chessboard, they intermittently engaged in their contest.

One day, when both sides grew thoroughly tired of playing, this chessboard would be discarded, and what would become of the humans on it, no one knew.

But at least for now, it wasn’t time yet for the Night Country’s game to be completely abandoned.

Under the sunlight, Lu Ban no longer needed to utter delirious words; he headed towards the frost, seeing the gigantic Winter Wolf readying to howl.

At a stone’s throw away, even under the scorching sun, Lu Ban could still feel a bone-chilling cold assailing him.

Along with the cold, countless sanity-eroding murmurs echoed around Lu Ban’s ears, trying to drive him into losing his sanity, to succumb to utter madness.

“Shut up.”

Lu Ban raised his hand, and his silver revolver aimed at the frost.

Bang—

The gunshot made no sound, the Speech Bullet shot towards the giant wolf, and in a brief moment unnoticed by anyone, the silver bullet penetrated the frost’s body.

Bang bang bang—

Lu Ban didn’t stop but continued firing, ten shots in succession, each one hitting the Winter Wolf.

Silence enveloped the battlefield.

Outside the blistering sun, the Demonic Tide of the Night Country continued, some were desperate, some went mad, and some were still fighting desperately in bloodshed.

The rulers of Eternal Night and plague ravaged elsewhere, savoring the sight of their Clan clashing with humans in the siege.

Inside the burning sun, the entire world seemed to fall into a still silence, as if frozen in time.

The frost just stared at Lu Ban, Unmoving, like a statue.

Even Lu Ban started to feel that something was amiss.

Suddenly, he realized what was wrong.

Those Winter Wolves, upon hearing the murmurs, would almost always go into frenzy, either turning on each other or convulsing on the ground.

If this colossal beast also began rolling on the ground…

“Then probably within a few hours, the whole Night Country would be completely destroyed.”

Lu Ban quickly envisioned what would follow.

It was possible that this very action of his might even aid these Demonic Tides.

He saw the Winter Wolf’s eyes growing redder; saliva dripping from its mouth formed a puddle on the ground.

The Winter Wolf’s body trembled slightly, as if on the verge of exploding.

“…I’ve got it.”

As he thought, an inspiration surged within Lu Ban.

He raised his hand and forcefully probed into his own wounded chest.

Lu Ban grasped his still-beating heart.

After that, he hesitated no longer and extracted it.

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