Chapter 549 - 547: The Most Miserable Main God?

Hilia, who was feared by heretics and even the Dawn City Scouting Team, had already entered the hidden pathway of the stronghold.

The good news was that there were no guards within this hidden pathway.

But there was also bad news.

"The death energy here is so dense, it even affects people."

Hilia frowned.

She summoned her magic puppet, and life magic power emerged from the puppet, transmitted to her, resisting the erosion of death energy.

The death energy here had almost liquefied, and with each breath, it would lead to a large amount of death energy entering the body, causing severe effects.

The most direct impact was that the body showed signs of aging and death.

Hilia couldn’t help but feel lucky; fortunately, her magic puppet belonged to the life faction, and it could just resist such adverse effects.

"No wonder there are no guards inside."

With the concentration of death energy here, no guard could withstand it.

Hilia grumbled inwardly and then quickly sprinted deeper inside.

Even with the life magic power from the magic puppet resisting the erosion of death energy, she didn’t want to stay here and just wanted to quickly find the target and leave.

The hidden pathway was very deep, essentially spiraling downward in shape.

About ten minutes later, Hilia reached the deepest part, and before her eyes, a vast underground space appeared.

This underground space was filled with array patterns, and between these patterns flowed not neutral magic power, but death-tinged death magic.

And at the center of the array, two magic-guided machines appeared, divided along the central axis, distinct and clear.

In between the two magic-guided machines, a black death energy-emitting—

"Heart of the Magic Puppet!"

Hilia’s eyes lit up as she was about to step forward.

Rose blocked her, "Don’t move, you just watch from here. This Heart of the Magic Puppet serves as the cornerstone of the death energy in the entire Twilight Tomb, the concentration of death energy in the middle is so high, not even life magic can stop it."

Hilia hurriedly stopped, "What should we do then?"

"First, modify this array to change it from releasing death energy to gathering it, only by stopping the Heart of the Magic Puppet from releasing death energy can it be collected."

Hilia blinked, "Lord Rose, this array... its level is even higher than the one outside, I feel like it can compare to the array level of the Golden Apple Stone Forest..."

Rose nodded without surprise, "That’s why I asked you to stay on the side."

"Oh."

Hilia obediently squatted in the corner, drawing circles on the ground.

Rose controlled Hilia’s magic puppet, slowly approaching.

Through the magic puppet, he released a layer of life magic, forming a verdant shield around the puppet, resisting the erosion of death energy.

He approached the Heart of the Magic Puppet... the Divine Format fragment, observing the fragment releasing death energy in front of him, shaking his head silently.

"God of Life and Death, you pitiful soul, more unfortunate than Ethel; Ethel at least has a complete soul, perhaps even a complete shell, but you, shattered Divine Format and divided."

The God of Life and Death controls the authority of birth and death.

It’s not that he possesses two Divine Formats, rather, when he was condensing his Divine Format, he already had two opposing authority capabilities, which fused together into a Divine Format of life and death attributes.

A Divine Format doesn’t have only a single attribute; although one can’t simultaneously wield multiple Divine Formats, during the condensation, if one is bold enough, multiple elements can be condensed at once, but generally, only two attributes can be condensed; any more would increase the difficulty of condensation, and the probability of successfully condensing a three-attribute Divine Format is minuscule.

Only the Divine King possesses a three-attribute Divine Format.

And dual-attribute Divine Formats are only owned by a few Main Gods.

The God of Life and Death is one of them.

Rose is capable of differentiating whether the Divine Format is that of a Main God.

Previously in Letes City, he had once blasted the magic puppet of a Level 6 heretic to pieces, and upon obtaining a life attribute Divine Format, he was left pondering.

Because he felt that this Divine Format fragment seemed to belong to the God of Life and Death, yet its performance was weaker than the Sea God’s Divine Format fragment, seemingly it was a fragment of the God of Life and Death’s Divine Format, yet like a subordinate god, a fragment of the God of Life’s Divine Format.

Only now did he affirm.

Hilia had acquired a fragment of the God of Life and Death’s Divine Format.

Except, it was not one-tenth, but one-twentieth.

The God of Life and Death’s Divine Format was not only shattered but also divided into fragments of life and death attributes!

Through the array beneath his feet, Rose suspected that the ’culprit’ who shattered the God of Life and Death’s Divine Format was the Divine King.

Of course, it’s also possible that the God of Life and Death shattered it himself.

"If it’s the Divine King, then the death energy of Dusk Town must be part of his strategy. If it’s the God of Life and Death, then he painfully divided his own Divine Format into two attributes, the purpose of this..."

Rose shook his head.

No point worrying about it too much, just blame Zeus it all.

"Since we’ve encountered it, there’s no way it’s not getting dismantled."

Rose pondered for a moment and already conceived how to modify the array.

Perhaps for concealment, the array did not spread throughout the entire death energy influence range, only this underground space.

Here lies the entirety of the array.

"Simply reverse the effect, absorbing all the death energy back, that’s all."

Rose started to take action.

At the entrance corner, Hilia rested her chin in her hands, watching Rose control her magic puppet busying around the array.

She sensed her magic power rapidly depleting.

"Luckily I reached Level 4, if I was still Level 3, my magic power would never withstand Lord Rose’s consumption." The girl muttered.

As a precaution, Hilia thought for a while, took out a few bottles of magic-replenishing potions, drank them down directly, then entered a meditation state, striving to restore her magic power.

Time silently passed by.

Outside, the battle reached a fevered pitch, and the array, bombarded endlessly by Flora, slowly developed cracks, and its energy depleted rapidly.

Meanwhile, underground, Rose’s modifications neared completion.

Finally, he stepped before the two magic-guided machines and snapped his fingers.

The two machines quivered slightly, slowly switching positions.

Once fully swapped, the release of death energy from the Divine Format fragment halted instantly, then the death energy released began to retract slowly.

This process grew faster and faster, ultimately, the death energy seemed to materialize, flying in from all directions, absorbed into the Divine Format fragment.

The absorption of death energy immediately precipitated various anomalies outside.

The core of the Divine Format fragment gradually transformed into a vortex, feverishly absorbing surrounding death energy, generating a chaotic area akin to the Golden Apple Stone Forest, wind stirred, even pollutants were swept up, simulating chaos comparable to that of the Golden Apple Stone Forest.

This chaotic area even affected the two battling sides.

Once they felt the force of death act upon them, everyone ceased fighting, retreated aside, uncertain and alarmed.

The faces of the two Level 5 heretics from the Dusk Sect suddenly turned, realizing something.

"Not good!"