The Era of Gods - Chapter 520 - Chapter 520: Chapter 520 Transformation Incomplete Star Soul (Brothers, please vote for the monthly ticket)

Chapter 520: Chapter 520 Transformation Incomplete Star Soul (Brothers, please vote for the monthly ticket)

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He used the Creation Rubik’s Cube to extract and purify all the Divinity and spiritual Branding from within the Fragments originally belonging to the God of Light, and then consumed a full twenty units of Creation Energy and a considerable amount of Divine Power to reweave these Fragments of Godhood, bestowing them with an ability system he had already prepared.

This was considering that after he leveled up to Level 75 and transformed, all of his Skills and abilities would become fixed, and random Hero Skills exclusive to him might emerge, just as how, when Swen reached 5th Level and ascended to Hero status, he gained the exclusive name of Wandering Swordsman along with several exclusive Hero Skills.

Lin Xiao currently specialized in the Lightning Mage proficiency. After his transformation, it was highly probable that his exclusive Hero Skills would evolve from his existing Spells.

Lightning Spells might be powerful in their bursts, but they lacked survival capabilities. He wanted to design a powerful Hero to his own liking through his crafting.

This idea came to him after glimpsing the Wandering Swordsman Sven, whereupon he thought of a certain mythical being and decided to model his unique Hero after it.

That mythical being was none other than Enigma—a renowned great life form from the Chaotic Void Sea!

There are many legends about this formidable entity. Some say it is the will born from the collapse of a Crystal Wall Universe, others believe it to be an entity born from a terrifying presence that devoured a Crystal Wall Universe, or a supermassive black hole that has developed self-awareness. There are even claims that it’s a super Chaos Being with a Talent for devouring.

Rumors about Enigma abound, but one thing is known to all: Enigma is the great nemesis of all living universes within the Chaotic Void Sea.

This terrifying presence wanders unconsciously in the form of a black hole within the Chaotic Void Sea, devouring any Matter or Energy it encounters. Some smaller Crystal Wall Systems cannot resist its automatically emitted gravitational pull and are consumed.

It is said that once, a Crystal Wall Universe governed by a Great Dominator was captured by Enigma, and in the struggle that woke it, the entire world and its Dominator were devoured.

Such a terrifying existence…

Lin Xiao’s crafted exclusive Hero ability took Enigma as a reference.

He wasn’t certain whether the abilities he’d gain post-transformation, upon integrating the Fragment of Godhood, would align with his expectations, but it was worth a try.

Allocating the experience stored in his experience pool to his levels, his level instantly increased to Level 75 with an additional twenty percent. System prompts flashed rapidly in the corner of his vision, confirming his intuition about the impending transformation:

“Congratulations, player. Your level has been raised to 75, and your Heroic Strength has been stimulated. In fifteen minutes, you will enter a state of transformation. Please ensure your surroundings are safe and free from disturbances.”

Lin Xiao quickly retrieved the Fragment of Godhood from the Creation Rubik’s Cube and swallowed it. Then all his subordinates gathered around to protect him, and he opened the panel. As expected, the system prompt had a new development:

“An unknown external force has been detected interfering. You will receive a new transformation direction. Please confirm your direction of transformation within any fifteen-second period. Failure to choose will result in a random selection of transformation direction.”

Clearly, this new direction for transformation was the integrated Fragment of Godhood.

And because the power of the Fragment of Godhood was so immense, he would involuntarily enter a transformation state just by merging with it, hence only fifteen seconds were given for contemplation; beyond that time frame, he would lose the opportunity to choose autonomously.

There was no need for choice. Having spent so many years accumulating all his bonuses and benefits to exchange for this Fragment of Godhood, it wasn’t just for show. Without hesitation, he silently made his choice in his mind:

“Select the new direction for transformation.”

As soon as the words were uttered, Lin Xiao felt an indescribable power burst within him. His entire being disintegrated into a golden mist that dispersed over ten meters away, and the next second, the golden mist rapidly contracted into a golden globe suspended three feet above the ground.

“He’s transforming!”

Afar, one of the Children of Nightmare saw this and quickly said to its companion:

“Quickly notify Lord Ricks.”

No sooner had the words been spoken than the golden globe expanded rapidly, sending a golden beam skyward, dispersing the dense grey mists of the Vault of Heaven, and waves of golden light slowly emanated around the column.

Dozens of kilometers away, behind the lines of the Ancient God Array, a colossal Child of the Ancient gods towering five hundred meters high slowly turned its head. More than a dozen gazes moved in this direction, and an overwhelming voice resounded:

“Children, kill him!”

In an instant, all the minions of the Ancient gods nearby were driven by an unstoppable force and launched a frenzied attack in this direction.

Meanwhile, from the depths of the Bone Wasteland, numerous streaks of pure light shot out and coalesced high in the sky into a colossal figure blackened and covering half the sky. The figure pointed a finger at where Lin Xiao was transformed into a Light Cocoon. It seemed as if nothing had happened.

At another end of the distant Bone Wasteland, Wu Zhonglin, transformed into the Red Dragon, breathed fire and killed several Flesh Corruptors and then crushed a Flesh Corruptor with one claw. He was about to unleash another Dragon Breath when he suddenly stopped and looked behind him.

To his senses, something seemed to be converging in the cosmos.

After a moment of puzzled sensing, he felt nothing unusual.

But at the moment the colossal Light being took shape, on the opposite side of the planet, if someone had been observing from outside in the Void, they would have seen the planet’s grey-black atmosphere suddenly begin to churn, forming an immense atmospheric vortex, and a tentacle too thick to gauge stretched from the vortex into space for thousands of kilometers, slowly turning and viciously penetrating into the planet.

“Hum!”

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The entire planet trembled slightly, and Wu Zhonglin faintly felt that the whole world was crying out in pain.

Within the huge sphere of light, Lin Xiao was slowly stretching his body. Invisible forces were converging upon him, and he felt his strength growing ever more powerful. Soon he surpassed a certain limit and then…

“Buzz!”

The massive golden sphere suddenly shook and in the next second rapidly shrank into black, drawing in all the subordinates protecting him, catching them off guard and sucking them into the black sphere.

This action seemed to trigger some kind of switch. After swallowing all his subordinates, the black sphere began to emit an even stronger gravitational pull, spreading rapidly into the distance. The omnipresent aura of death and the malevolent breath of the ancient gods were rapidly sucked into the black hole, resembling a black hole that spanned across the Earth, drawing in energy into a vast accretion disk.

Soil, rock, the undead, and even the minions of the ancient gods—anything within the gravitational field of the black hole was irresistibly drawn into it.

The prophet Ricks had already rushed over to try to stop Lin Xiao, but halfway there, the pull of the black hole had reached him, and several of his subordinates were sucked in and lost contact instantly. Even his mental connection with his subordinates began to stir restlessly, wanting to break free from him, which frightened him into hastily retreating.

“What has he transformed into? How is he so powerful?”

No one had answers. At this moment, even the Children of Nightmare had to temporarily avoid the sharp edge as the range of the black hole’s gravitational force continued to expand, forcing them to order a retreat.

After an unknown amount of time, a terrifying void several dozen kilometers in diameter appeared in the middle of the vast Bone Wasteland. Within a hundred-kilometer radius, there was not a single living creature that could move. A profound black hole spanned the center of the void, with nothingness within a range of several dozen kilometers—every bit of energy had been devoured.

Only from beneath the tremendous void did endless streams of transparent vital energies rise, feeding into the black hole. With each stream consumed, the black hole showed no change, but within it, a slumbering will grew stronger.

Though it was a slumber, Lin Xiao was not entirely without sensation.

Or rather, what others might consider slumber was actually his spirit and soul undergoing some kind of transformation.

During this transformative state, his soul was growing rapidly, evolving towards an unknown state.

As the unending flow of vital energy from deep within the Earth surged into the black hole, the slumbering will of Lin Xiao sensed a Light being, dyed mostly in darkness, appear in his consciousness, passing on some information that he currently could not comprehend.

He tried to understand, but could not grasp anything. He could only feel that as time passed, he was becoming stronger and the Light being was becoming weaker, while the darkness that stained it continued to spread to other parts of its being.

Lin Xiao vaguely understood something and no longer forcibly tried to understand, but just quietly listened to the incomprehensible things being transmitted by the Light being.

Until, the forehead of the Light being split open, and a speck of light that was indescribable and which he instantly longed for, flew towards him, blending into his soul—Lin Xiao understood everything in a flash.

This near-endless consumption continued unabated until the powerful consciousness within the black hole awoke, and it finally stopped.

“I’ve succeeded!”

Without needing to check the system panel, Lin Xiao knew that as he had wished, he had truly transformed into an existence very similar to one of the legendary Great Dominators from the Chaos Sea of Void.

Deified Hero (Player): Level 75, Child of Du Longer.

Talent: Star Soul (incomplete), Nature of Black Holes.

“Child of Du Longer!”

“Incomplete Star Soul!”

“Nature of Black Holes!”

Lin Xiao was silent; he knew exactly what this meant.

The meaning behind the Child of Du Longer was clear—he had been chosen by the Star Soul of this world to become the Child of the World.

The meaning of Nature of Black Holes was also easily understood—it was the essence of the great being he had emulated using the Creation Rubik’s Cube, a black hole that devours everything.

As for the incomplete Star Soul, that was the speck of light that had merged into his body during his transformation.

The Star Soul Du Longer had given him a part of its essence, allowing him to possess a portion of the Star Soul’s origin, which meant that he was now akin to an incomplete and infantile Star Soul.

Of course, such a stroke of luck was happening because this world was on the brink of destruction.

He had already received all the history of this world from the Star Soul Du Longer; anything the Star Soul knew, he knew.

In the beginning, all four ancient gods arrived in this world, corrupting the nascent Star Soul Du Longer. By the time Du Longer had grown enough to influence the intelligent creatures on the planet, half of the world had been corrupted.

Not willing to succumb, the Star Soul resisted fiercely, clashing with the ancient gods.

But facing the combined strength of all four ancient gods, Du Longer was forced to retreat, until now he could no longer turn the tide.

Now, only one of the original ancient gods remained. The other three ancient gods, over the course of the war that spanned tens of thousands of years, were continuously devoured by the others due to injuries, until now there was only one left—the strongest of the ancient gods, the Lifespan Devourer Zagulon.