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Chapter 443 - 370 Ghost King Chains

Chapter 443: Chapter 370 Ghost King Chains

"Could it be... a Divine Being!?"

As the murderers who slaughtered the commoners hid in underground tunnels checking the rankings, countless people outside were also concerned about their own fates.

Mongfera, one of the top ten cities of the Kingdom of Gospel.

Like Azura, Mongfera had completed the expansion of its second layer, with inverted skyscrapers rising everywhere. However, unlike other cities, the space above the second layer of Mongfera was not a public city space, but private family territories.

A single family owned nearly half a million hectares of private land!

With the help of Miracle’s power, this private garden simultaneously hosted forests, swimming pools, winter snow, lava, cemeteries, seas of clouds, and even Hell-like environments, creating the most outrageous of all, ’Mongfera’s Sea of Knowledge’—a sea area shrouded in white mist at the center of the garden, truly breeding creatures like the Fish-Slicing Dragon. However, these creatures of knowledge, when killed, would not drop any spoils and would immediately disappear once they left the misty sea area, serving purely as entertainment toys.

Maintaining the operation of this private garden alone required eighty thousand servants, yet the number of family members living in this garden could be counted on one hand.

In the mansion at the center of the territory, which overlooked the entire garden, the young girl Yvalin, dressed in pajamas, was lying on her bed, swinging her calves back and forth. With one eye open, she stared intensely at the Gospel Book, her lips pressed tightly in seriousness.

If she hadn’t known, it might have been fine, but the knowledge of the huge revelations from these images left many unable to remain calm at this moment.

Yvalin was no exception, and even though her family owned the wealth of an entire city, in front of the legendary Divine Beings, they were but dust that could be wiped away in an instant. According to ancestral records, Divine Beings and Technique Spirits were entirely different entities; if Technique Spirits represented ’technology,’ Divine Beings were manifestations of ’truth.’

Each Divine Being possessed the grand authority to distort reality, overturn laws, and rewrite physical parameters—even being natural laws themselves, where their injuries could cause natural disasters and their destruction could disrupt reality!

The power of Divine Beings was beyond the control of even a Legendary Mage, as human souls could not contain the dominion of a Divine Being!

Thus, only when life forms evolved to a higher level, successfully igniting the Divine Fire in their souls, and ascending to the heights of the Void Realm as an Angel or even a Divine Lord, would they be eligible to command Divine Beings and wield truth!

As the moment to announce future rewards approached, Yvalin was extremely nervous.

If the Gospel Book indeed awarded the ’Divine Being’ to Archibald Harvey, Yvalin was sure the entire Kingdom of Gospel would cease their pursuit of Harvey and his comrades, the Red Hats would retreat quietly, and even the royal family would rescind its warrant!

Ordinary people might think Divine Beings were nothing special; with enough cannons and enough people, they believed even gods could be shown to be killed. Among the Mage community, this idea thrived especially—within the highest professional discussion group in the Gospel Veil, named the ’All-knowing Weaver Murder Association.’

Such sentiment was actually normal, as under the glory of the Gospel, commoners never had the chance to witness the power of Wonders or for Mages to understand the gap between them and a Divine Lord; even a Legendary Mage might harbor contempt for a Divine Lord.

After all, they believed if they could destroy a city, how much more powerful could a Divine Lord be—a country destroyer perhaps?

Only the Mages in families with Angel Inheritance realized that ascending life levels brought not quantitative but qualitative transformations. The strongest Miracle of a Legendary Mage couldn’t breach an Angel’s defense; the weakest Wonder from an Angel could easily crush a Legendary Mage’s dignity.

To put it metaphorically, a Legendary Mage was like a character in a painting, able to attack enemies using various pigments and solvents; an Angel was someone outside the painting, who only had to slightly exert themselves to tear the entire painting apart.

The shadow in the images was not an Angel but merely residuals of an Angel, perhaps not even knowing if they held one ten-thousandth of their original strength. Yet even so, the methods employed by the Shadow far surpassed any Miracle, with ordinary Legendary Mages completely unable to resist the encroaching dominance of the Shadow.

It was precisely because Harvey was a Necromancer, possessing methods to counteract the Shadow, that he could stage such an epic and splendid counter-kill, thoroughly thwarting the ancient Angel’s hope for rebirth.

Once Harvey acquired a Divine Being, even if he could only exert one percent of the Divine Being’s power, it would be enough to overturn the entire Evangelism. If that Divine Being possessed defensive capabilities, then Legendary Mages would absolutely be unable to breach his defense; gunfire, cannonades, and map-wide barrages would only tickle him;

If that Divine Being had killing power, then no matter how many Miracles a Legendary Mage wrapped themselves in, it would be like stacking a few sheets of paper, and the firmest walls would crumble like building blocks.

Unless one could fully know all the effects and weaknesses of the Divine Being, no one would dare provoke someone near the combat power of a god.

Perhaps in response to the prayers of many, the Gospel Book finally updated:

"Archibald Harvey has received the reward ’Ghost King Chains’."

"Ghost King Chains: Allows the Mage to freely switch among ten types of necromancy troops, including Mist Spirit, Mechanical Spirit, Capturing Spirit, Shadow Spirit... Netherworld Knight, Dragon Witch Ghost, Corpse King of Blood Moon. However, the Mage must fully master the knowledge of the new necromancy troop in order, to unlock the next one. The first unlocked troop: Mist Spirit."

Exhale.

It seemed to Yvalin that the entire Kingdom of Gospel breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as it wasn’t a Divine Being, everyone could accept it, let alone the fact that the reward wasn’t highly valuable. According to Yvalin’s perspective, apart from the Netherworld Knight, Dragon Witch Ghost, and Corpse King of Blood Moon, the other necromancy troops, though each had its features, were at most at the level of Two-winged combat power and hardly a threat to a Three-winged Mage.

This also meant that for a long time to come, the necromancer who sought to bury the entire Kingdom of Gospel would not surpass the combat power of a Holy Sanctuary Mage.

Actually, upon reflection, one would realize that it was impossible for the Gospel to reward a Divine Being. Although the specific reasons were unknown, it was clearly stated in the ancestral records that each Divine Being was unique; as long as the Stone Coffin God within the Evil Soul Path still existed, the Gospel, no matter how powerful, could not create a second Stone Coffin God.

However, Yvalin felt that the other families would now be having sleepless nights.

If the Gospel had directly rewarded a Divine Being, then needless to say, everyone would have lived well for the remaining years.

If the Gospel had rewarded the Corpse King of Blood Moon, then most would have cooled their efforts, considering that it was of Legendary combat power according to the records.

Although it wasn’t impossible to kill a Legendary, the cost was too great, so great that a single family couldn’t bear it. Families adept in finessing both internal and external battles would definitely remain neutral, leaving the royalty and the Red Hats to handle the trouble.

Yet, the Gospel rewarded them with the ’Corpse King of Blood Moon which would take a long time to unlock,’ making the consortium families surely feel that they had a great advantage.

The Weaving Festival wouldn’t deceive anyone; capturing Harvey implied gaining the key to inheriting the Angel Inheritance—who could resist such a temptation?

But if they failed to capture Harvey and instead deeply offended him, then congratulations on becoming one of the top ten families for the next fifty years.

Want to advance, can’t sleep.

Don’t advance, can’t sleep.

Hear that others have advanced, can’t sleep.

Finally resolve to advance, and then you’ll never sleep again.

However... Yvalin sighed, other families might still have the chance to hesitate and waver, but her family had had only one option from the beginning.

"Allow me this night to play the old role, permit me to joyously reenact a segment of a beautiful story, Master~"

The communication ring chimed, the call was from the headquarters of Bluebeard.

Yvalin felt a bit odd and connected to ask, "What happened?"

"Six people suddenly appeared in District Three of the Abyss," the other side quickly replied. "There’s no movement trace; they must have come through the Abyss Channel."

"Abyss Channel? At this time?"

Had it not been for her recent venture into the Abyss for cultivation, Yvalin might not even have remembered what the Abyss Channel mechanism was.

Normal people would not consider the Abyss Channel as an alternative mode of transportation; the entire Evangelism’s Abyss was unstable, the only unchanging terrain of the Abyss was Vatican Mura...

Vatican Mura... Abyss Channel... At this time...

Yvalin opened the Gospel Book to check the situation in Vatican Mura and immediately understood the origins of these little rats.

"Suppress this news, block all information channels of the Red Hats, and order Bluebeard to assemble and seal the Abyss!"