Chapter 1402
Damn it, that bastard Leon Merlin calculated perfectly that I can't do anything about these stone pillars. If I keep guarding them, all the resources outside will probably be dug up by that greedy vampire.
If I give up this area, the stone pillars are basically a gift to Leon Merlin. But at least I'll still be able to get a lot of rare resources outside. Leon Merlin brought a thousand Mining Golems, so those veins will definitely be emptied out...
Delton thought it over. If he kept stubbornly fighting here, he'd get nothing. If he gave up, he could get everything. Might as well let it go for now... just endure it a little longer.
"Archmage Merlin, you misunderstand. I can't do anything about these stone pillars. Since you want to try, go ahead. We agreed before: whoever can take something gets to keep it..."
Delton decisively led the Sanctum of Light members away from here and joined the mining effort. But after one round of flying, he realized the richest spots had already been monopolized by three factions. Only the farthest places were still open.
Especially when he saw that Lin Yun's mining vein had at least five thousand Mining Golems working, he nearly spat blood...
At first, he'd only seen a thousand Mining Golems and didn't pay much attention. But Leon kept increasing their number, now up to over five thousand. It's not that there aren't more Mining Golems, it's just that the vein is only so big—five thousand is the limit. Any more would actually lower efficiency...
In other words, the thousand Mining Golems Leon brought earlier were just for show...
Delton, furious, was just about to go back and give Leon trouble, but held back. In just a few minutes, those Mining Golems had already gathered a huge pile of materials. Wait a little longer and even the ore slag would be gone...
Leon was pulling out King's Pillars one after another in that empty clearing. Delton didn't come back to cause trouble, which was a bit unexpected.
Delton was gritting his teeth, mining at the outskirts of the three factions, while Leon grinned in the center, pulling up King's Pillars.
Seventy-two King's Pillars—legend has it that if you gather all seventy-two, they grant immense power. A strong mage with a Natural Semi-Plane once obtained a few, and supposedly they greatly benefited the development of his semi-plane. But the details are far from certain.
Time ticked by. Ore was continuously extracted, and Leon's speed at pulling up King's Pillars kept increasing. These twenty-four were the lesser-known ones, and it took much longer to pull them out—many required several attempts before they came free.
The moment Leon pulled the last King's Pillar out of the ground, the entire ruin underwent a sudden, massive change.
The fragmented spaces within the ruin began to ripple. In an instant, the previously warped space normalized, forming a circular world surrounded by a vast barren plain. At the center stretched a mountain range hundreds of kilometers long, and at its heart was that hidden, circular clearing.
Now that all the King's Pillars had been removed, a terrifying power surged from the center. Waves of energy rippled outward, expanding from the core.
Leon, still at the center, was blasted away by the energy waves. Over ninety-five percent of the Law Sigils on his fusion shield were flashing. If he hadn't dodged fast enough, he would've been torn to shreds the moment the waves hit.
Leon escaped, but the thousand Mining Golems still digging at the center were all ripped apart, instantly reduced to piles of parts. As the energy waves spread, those pieces were crushed and shredded into unrecognizable debris.
The sudden change at the center stunned everyone. Even Leon hadn't expected such a transformation.
The twenty-four King's Pillars at the very center were meant for protection, but now, with nothing left to guard, their effects had faded. And yet, things had turned out like this...
With the emergence of those energy waves, a giant egg over five meters tall appeared at the center. Strange patterns and runes used by Elder Gods and Demons flowed across its surface, absorbing wisps of gray mist. A layer of gray radiance enveloped the egg—power from the Elder Gods and Demons.
"God-Demon Reincarnation! Damn it, that's an Egg of Rebirth—there's a god-demon reincarnating here! And it's not even fully reborn yet!"
Delton screamed, rushing in from afar. His eyes, filled with greed, were completely unrestrained. Not just Delton—Daenoson and Rives looked even more devilish than a demon lord, their eyes glowing with ravenous hunger.
A god-demon in the midst of reincarnation, not yet fully born—everyone knew exactly what that meant...
God-demon reincarnation means starting over, like an unborn beast. If you find a way to forge a contract or gain control, it's as good as owning a reborn god-demon.
Even if you can't control it, just being present when the Egg of Rebirth awakens—or even before it's born—using every trick to build intimacy, you could practically brand it as yours once it hatches.
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A terrifying being destined to ignite the Divine Flame—and likely hundreds of times faster than even the strongest human mages. For the rare few among humanity who ever reach this stage, it takes three to four thousand years from apprentice to igniting the Divine Flame.
In the history of the Northend World, the fastest record from apprentice to peak Sky Rank took just over a hundred years. But to ignite the Divine Flame? The quickest still took more than a thousand years!