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Chapter 1136 - 515: Soul Reaper

Chapter 1136: Chapter 515: Soul Reaper

"Currently, our idea is to divide our forces for battle," the Son of Heaven said. "One group will be responsible for subduing the Swamp Demoness, while another group will specifically try to stop the Titan until the conquest is complete."

Mu You nodded, agreeing that this was the most direct approach on the surface.

Battling the Swamp Demoness without Divine Skin and relying on sheer numbers could also work, but it would inevitably lead to heavy casualties among the participants. Moreover, now that the creature had evolved mobility, it was uncertain if they could successfully kill it.

"Okay, I’ll head over shortly."

Mu You naturally took on the task. After all, this Swamp Demoness had devoured a great number of Fools in the past, and it was expected to drop plenty of spoils of war upon death.

After closing the private chat, Mu You contacted Lin Xue, who along with Little Ya had been clearing the land near the entrance of the tower of heroes these past few days.

Mu You discussed the matter with the two, instructing them to head over and assess the situation first.

Then he also logged into the game, but he didn’t rush to the tower of heroes; instead, he first made a trip to Dawn City.

"You appear in Dawn City."

"You arrive in the southern part of Dawn City, and ahead of you, dense forests abruptly rise from the ground. Various colored fairies flit through the woods like fireflies, ceaselessly transporting the ores piled up on the forest’s perimeter inside, while in the depths of the forest, the constant clanging of hammering is heard."

"Under the watchful eyes of countless fairies, you step into the forest and make your way deep inside. You then see two giant god Statues rising abruptly from an open area ahead. Crowds of fairies wielding fine hammers and silver picks float around the statues, busily sculpting and carving in a bustling construction scene."

"With the fairies’ effort, the two statues now faintly reveal human-like silhouettes..."

Three days ago, the Fairy Lady led the Fairy Race to Dawn City, and they immediately engaged in the sculpting of divine Statues—constructing two statues simultaneously, one of the God of Order as a quest reward, and the other, Lin Xue’s Statue of the Grim Reaper.

Within each era, the first statue of each deity can be built for free. Here, ’first’ refers to a situation where no statues of that deity exist in the Star Spirit World or if the existing statues are damaged, much like Lin Xue’s situation where the Grim Reaper’s statue had been lost during the transition of eras, prompting the fairies to build it without charge.

However, the statues of the twelve City Lords were no longer eligible for the ’first free’ privilege since Sky City already had one of each.

Due to the quest reward, Mu You’s was still free, but other City Lords who approached the fairies to cast god Statues would need to pay, and the price was quite steep; the first would need tens of thousands of Divine Points, and if they wanted to construct even more statues, the cost would double with each additional statue. This rule was set to prevent gods from expanding without limit.

Mu You had asked the Fairy Lady, and according to the current conditions, casting a statue would take about 15-20 days. It was still early in the process, but with the silhouettes formed, some features of the Proxy God Walkers could already be utilized.

Just this morning, before the three avatars returned, Lin Xue had already opened her belief system at the Statue of the Grim Reaper, officially becoming a Proxy God Walker of the Grim Reaper and receiving the nine main Divine Arts of the Grim Reaper series directly.

Mu You briefly reviewed a few of the Grim Reaper’s Divine Arts and couldn’t help but admire; the Grim Reaper, being one of the most renowned deities, had main abilities that were exceptionally useful.

Previously, Lin Xue, despite not having Divine Skin and only being a Pactress, wielded the Reaper’s Scythe possessing the bug-level ability to ensure a kill with ten consecutive hits. However, this ’certain kill’ was actually a pseudo-sure-kill since after ten hits, the effect wasn’t to kill the opponent outright but to summon the Grim Reaper Phantom, essentially a prototype of the Divine Skin, to harvest the opponent.

During that period, when neither Star Level nor Divinity had been revealed, the emergence of Divine Skin undoubtedly meant a dimensional strike, hence the notion that ten hits from her were certain death.

Now that Divine Skin had become widely known, even in encounters with Divine Creatures, Divine Skin wasn’t invincible anymore. However, the Divine Arts of the Grim Reaper series continued to reflect the characteristics of the Pactress effectively, mainly focusing on ’harvesting souls’ and ’special attacks against evil’.

Every creature, aside from the health bar, actually has a hidden ’soul bar,’ akin to another type of ’health,’ where the creature would immediately die once either bar hit zero. The sole difference is that death from the soul bar reaching zero is irreversible!

This was why, previously in the Star Spirit World, opponents whose souls were harvested by the Pactress couldn’t be revived.

Only believers of the Grim Reaper series could see the soul bar, and the Divine Arts of the Grim Reaper series exclusively targeted the soul bar, bypassing the health bar to inflict damage.

This meant that in battles against the Grim Reaper series, you might appear healthy and vigorous on the surface, but in reality, your soul bar might already be critically low, and you could be completely harvested with the next strike.

As for the length of the soul bar of each creature, Lin Xue had already observed in the game and concluded: the soul bar, much like real life, is directly linked to the Star Level!

For 0-star creatures, which make up the majority of the original inhabitants of the Star Spirit World, the soul bar was almost imperceptibly thin, entirely within the harvesting range of the Reaper’s Scythe. Hence, for the creatures of the Star Spirit World, the Death God’s Mantle could harvest them with a single strike.