Chapter 225: Sun Wukong Will Be the One
The flames spread through the city, and everything that wasn\'t alive turned to ice. It was as if Ruby herself had managed to adjust the fire element just for this to happen. James\'s respect for Ruby was truly enormous; it was impossible for him to even imagine having such elemental control right now.
Ruby had descended from the sky to the earth and had entered James\' inventory without speaking as soon as she changed into bird form.
They had managed to stay where they were without any problems as the little girl Miracle had protected both herself and her father from the impact of the fireball.
When James looked at his daughter Miracle, he said, \'We\'re going to attack.\' and then started to move forward.
The holy sword still held Clarent tightly, knowing that one of the Fallen Gods was already dead, or at least on the brink of death, he chose to keep moving forward quickly.
After a short while, he was engulfed in white flames and was confronted by a huge block of ice.
The ice mass was scattered around and two dark beings were waiting in the centre. The male-looking one of the dark beings was incredibly injured. Both of his arms were broken by the ice fire his legs were immobilised, and he was leaning against the ice boulder, barely breathing.
The female was nowhere to be seen and this was worrying, she appeared to have escaped, but she was a Fallen God and there was no limit to the abominations she was capable of. That included deceiving others.
James lunged forward and then drove the holy sword Clarent through the heart of the barely breathing Fallen God in front of him and continued to pierce him.
After only a few seconds, the Fallen God was no longer breathing, the black matter in its body had vanished with it, and the number of Fallen Gods had dropped from two to one.
[You\'ve gained seven levels!
You\'ve gained 17,500,000 gold!]
James directly won the slaying reward and then looked around with his eyes, searching for the female Fallen God.
The little girl Miracle transformed into her dragon form and started flying through the air, searching for the female Fallen God in case she had escaped.
James, on the other hand, began to search for the female Fallen God among the layers of ice scattered around on the ground.
Unfortunately, after almost an hour, nothing had turned up. The female Fallen God had probably been so injured that she had managed to escape, even though she was likely to die.
After that, James suddenly entered the city walls in case something happened to the people in the city and realised that hundreds of races had started praying to him differently. They were officially welcoming him with applause.
[The Way to Be a God ability is activated!
Over 35000 people began to worship you with all their hearts and the deepest depths of their souls!
The user has gained 13500 Holiness status!
25,000,000 gold has been earned!
Broken Diamond Essence won!]
James saw that this was indeed what was likely to happen and instantly closed the system window and got on with what he needed to do.
As Eve and Ariel quickly followed James, Ariel\'s voice was heard:
"I didn\'t expect it to be over so fast, I haven\'t even joined the battle yet, it\'s so lame."
At Ariel\'s words, James smiled and then said, "Then you can go and look for the female Fallen God, she can let me know and I can come there with Eve."
Ariel instantly nodded her head as if she understood and then left the city gate she had entered and started heading east towards the most likely place for the female Fallen God to escape.
This would be the second time for James to chase someone. The first time, Ariel had chased the man who had tried to kill James, and although he had been incredibly weak, he had managed to evade her for a long time.
Now it was a Fallen God that Ariel had to chase and locate.
Still, Ariel was lucky. After all, Ariel was now able to give orders to forces like Olympus and Asgard, after all, he was the first general of the Chaos Guild, and on top of that, he was James\' first knight.
It was not known exactly how many people Ariel could command, but it was certain that the number exceeded one million. Now Ariel needed the powers of the Asgardian guards and heroes on the 35th floor.
The female Fallen God wouldn\'t be able to escape for long.
"You\'ve done an excellent job, Mr Umbra," Eve suddenly said, seemingly not wanting to use James\' real name since he was with the public.
When James heard these words, he looked at Eve and smiled.
"That buff you gave me came in handy, I didn\'t even need to use my skills," James said. Of course, Ruby was a huge help and that was the reason why James didn\'t even need to use his abilities, but the buff support Eve had given him could not be overlooked.
Breaking someone\'s physical limits and making that person 25% stronger was something that could be done hard.
"I am honoured." Eve said, turning to her people, "We came as fast as we could to deal with the darkness that fell upon you. Any losses will be paid for by the empire. Please forgive your empress for your losses."
It was obvious that no one in the crowd blamed Eve, on the contrary, words of thanks and weeping could be heard from everyone.
It was impossible for James not to be amazed. This was a kingdom whose families had probably been slaughtered long ago by Desmond and Eve\'s ancestor, a territory that had been annexed to the empire. But how good an empress must Eve have been for the people to love her so much?
This woman was truly admirable, she managed to dispel everyone\'s worried looks with just a few words.
"So we\'re going back then?" James suddenly questioned himself, but then it occurred to him that more than half the city was covered in ice.
Since this was partly his fault, he reached for his inventory and then turned to Eve and said, "Send anyone who needs food here."
Who knows how many people were in the city, but James felt he had to help, at least until help arrived from distant cities and settlements.
With that, his work began here.
At Nyx\'s temple, however, different things began to come into play.
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For a long time, Uranus had been trying to find people who could be considered \'criminals\'. He was especially careful about people who raided churches and stole forgotten items.
After all, even if they were probably the ones who had summoned the Fallen Gods, they might otherwise have been put on trial for confiscating sacred items when it wasn\'t them.
No one had seen Uranus this frustrated in a long time.
"We managed to find a few people. My servants were able to extract information through torture. There\'s a bigger disaster coming than we thought," Uranus said.
Nyx and the others looked at Uranus in confusion as they heard these words, and Erebus\' question, "What kind of disaster?" broke the silence.
"These bastards...they are made up of 18 different units. I\'ve only been able to locate one of them, I\'ve already warned Asgard and Olympus, I\'ve even asked and for help from Sun Wukong, the maniac who doesn\'t listen to the rules of the tower, he\'s the one who will lead the armies," said Uranus, it was not even possible to understand how deep these words were.
"Sun Wukong... is he going to lead the armies?" Hyperion asked, obviously everyone knew what a good-hearted psychopath he was.
"Yes, I only asked him to help destroy a region, but he wanted to lead the armies. It seems that even Sun Wukong himself doesn\'t want a repeat of the great war...after all, he was a dear friend of Desmond\'s and ours," replied Uranus.
"He...I mean, Wukong doesn\'t know, right? Should we tell him?" asked Nyx, genuinely worried.
"He\'s going to know sooner or later, I think we should tell him, he has a right to know," said Gaia, and that was the truth.
"He did great things in the war...he is the only reason Asgard is still alive..." Erebus said, he seemed to agree with what Gaia said.
The war was getting closer. So close, everything was incredibly close.