Chapter 282: Bozanka, the First Apostle of the Lava God

At the rear of the Stone Man army.

A grayish-brown stone man frantically ran to this location.

It knelt before a pure black stone man with an extremely burly physique ahead.

"A-Apostle, Lord Apostle! We, we have been routed!"

Lava God's First Apostle, Bolanu.

He crushed the massive stone cup in his hand, the scalding molten lava within flowing down his fingers onto the sandy ground.

"I can see that."

Bolanu stood up, casually pushing aside a female stone man next to him.

He stood atop a sand dune, gazing at the battlefield where the stone legion was being slaughtered one-sidedly.

"Demons? And... machinery?"

"Indeed... as the divine prophecy foretold, these Train Conductors possessing things called Card Sequences, if allowed to grow, would absolutely become a serious threat to the gods."

"But being here, hmph, able to enter the Stellar Core level arena, indicates this human's level cannot be too high. Now is the perfect opportunity to eliminate him."

"But these machines... what exactly are they?"

Bolanu looked up at the Hunt-Patrol Mech-Dragon continuously firing its autocannons in the sky, slightly puzzled.

"Enough, it doesn't matter. As long as we kill their master, whether machines or Card Sequences, they will all become stepping stones for my god to ascend to the supreme order!"

"However..."

His gaze shifted downward again.

The malice emanating from the headless goblin apostle sent shivers of fear through Bolanu.

"Why is there an apostle's aura? And this aura... feels like at least a first-level apostle equivalent to me... Could it be this human has cooperated with other gods?"

"No, that should be impossible... Gods and Card Sequence holders are locked in mortal combat, how could they cooperate?"

He knocked on his own stone head, molten lava stone condensing in his right hand into a black stone greatsword over three meters long.

His other hand wasn't idle either.

A massive tower shield made of the same black stone.

With sword and shield in hand, he advanced forward, each step causing the earth to tremble.

His weight alone equaled that of thousands of stone men.

Atop the train, Ye Qiyan looked toward the direction where Bolanu had appeared.

He flipped the Book of Reality and Illusion to the second page.

"Finally decided to show yourself."

"Since you're an apostle, Gluttony, go test this guy's mettle."

Ahead, the headless goblin apostle transformed by Gluttony stopped its pursuit after smashing a stone man with its warhammer.

Hoisting the warhammer, intense malice directly locked onto Bolanu.

"!!"

Bolanu's pupils constricted the moment he appeared.

"It really is a first-level apostle!? And this kind of malice..."

"Damn it... it's a goblin!"

Bolanu's mind flashed back to when he had visited the Goblin Empire created by the Goblin God who had thoroughly humiliated him.

That was the goblins' world.

A divine kingdom ordinary gods yearned to create.

But unfortunately, the Lava God that Bolanu worshipped did not possess the qualification or ability to do so.

"No, what am I afraid of? This isn't a real apostle's body! This is just a Mental Projection! Damn human! Actually creating such a fake thing!"

"Lava God! Please gaze upon me!"

With a furious roar!

Golden-red lava patterns emerged on Bolanu's stone skin.

The temperature around his body skyrocketed rapidly.

With each step forward, the shattered remains of the stone men destroyed by Ye Qiyan's machines and demons were all drawn toward him, becoming part of his body.

Condensing! Continuously condensing!

His weight and mass were increasing wildly!

"Even a real goblin apostle is no match for me, let alone a mere fake!"

The stone sword swung out.

The headless goblin apostle blocked with its warhammer.

The scene Bolanu imagined of cleaving it apart with one sword did not materialize.

His sword collided with the goblin apostle's hammer.

True, his strength was greater, and the headless goblin apostle was gradually being pushed back.

But was this really something a fake could accomplish?

"Hmm~ only half a Mental Projection, indeed still a bit lacking. No matter, when we find the other half later, I'll let you eat it too."

Ye Qiyan's voice was neither loud nor soft.

But Bolanu heard every word clearly.

What did that mean? What did he mean by, eat it?

Ye Qiyan jumped down from the train.

He walked straight forward.

The path between him and Bolanu was completely unobstructed.

He arrived at the center of the battlefield.

Bolanu's eyes immediately lit up.

"Mad human, you dare appear before me like this?! Hahaha, no matter what method he used, just kill him!"

With a full-power strike, the headless goblin apostle, being only a Mental Projection, was knocked aside.

Bolanu charged forward, his presence now like a massive mountain.

His charge was like a mountain rushing forward.

Ordinary attack methods would find it difficult to break through this guy's defenses.

Ye Qiyan didn't have Red Tears draw her sword, nor did he activate the Hunt-Patrol Mech-Dragon's Transcend Mode.

He simply flipped the Book of Reality and Illusion in his hand to the third page.

"Want to experience what it feels like to be eaten? I imagine a god's apostle should be able to endure it for a while."

Bolanu, charging forward, didn't understand the meaning behind Ye Qiyan's words. He only saw a gale spring up ahead, and within the desert, the illusory image of a holy snow mountain flickered in front of him.

[Book of Reality and Illusion]

First ability.

Consumes mental energy to briefly banish enemies to the illusory Bewildered Snow Mountain for ten minutes. During these ten minutes, the snow mountain man-eating incident will repeat 47 times.

Lava God's apostle Bolanu became the second performer on this beautiful snow mountain~

"Snow Mountain Banishment."

Light gathered and flashed, Bolanu's body instantly vanished from sight.

The surviving stone men witnessing this scene felt boundless terror.

The apostle disappeared?!

This human instantly killed the apostle?!

"Ah! Aah!! Aaaah!!!"

Already terrified of the battlefield due to Red Tears' power, they completely lost their composure.

Coupled with the mental synchronization reduction of the Book of Reality and Illusion's second ability triggering after Ye Qiyan used its first ability.

The stone man army completely collapsed.

Ten minutes.

When Bolanu reappeared in the desert, letting out agonized wails, his hard stone body trembling uncontrollably, the stone man army had been reduced to less than a tenth of its original numbers.

"H-human! You deserve to die!"

Truly worthy of being a god's apostle, still so spirited after being eaten forty-seven times~

But Ye Qiyan's objective had already been achieved.

"Look above you."

"!!?"

Bolanu instinctively looked back.

BOOM——!

Crimson lightning illuminated the world.

A demon girl with bloody teardrops sliding from the corners of her eyes hovered mid-air, flapping the demon wings at her waist. She held an unsheathed longsword high above her head, her face concealed by a veil that fluttered in the strong wind, revealing the cold expression beneath.

"Useless! My body is——!"

Before he could finish speaking.

The Tear-Engraving Sword had already descended.

Simple and unadorned.

One sword strike.

Cleaved in two.

Bolanu's body was directly bisected at the waist by this single sword strike.