Defying the Fate of Beheading

Chapter 886 - 453: Martial Arts Network Major Upgrade, Withdrawal Symptoms

In fact, gaining Divine Realm-level combat power is not that easy.As for Louis...

That’s a cheat.

There’s no point talking too much about Brother Gua; he’s outside the scope of normal discussion.

Even for the three girls, who can now draw on more than enough World Power, comparable to a weak lower god, in actual combat there’s still quite a gap before they can truly bring Divine Realm power into play.

The three major factors that constitute Divine Realm combat strength.

First, the Extraordinary power of the Divine Realm.

Second, the offensive means of the Divine Realm.

Third, the body of a god.

On the first point, the three girls have met the standard. Although they don’t have a Divine Kingdom, their demi-planes have already been promoted to small-world level.

On the second point they still have a rather obvious gap.

Among the three, the one closest to the Divine Realm is Ais.

A queen who once wielded part of the power of faith, after obtaining a portion of the power of the great sin of Sloth, her output can infinitely approach the Divine Realm.

But it’s precisely that tiny difference that separates her upper limit from Louis’s.

The Curse Binding Legion, whose strength rivals Divine Kingdom Warriors, nuclear blast spells, Judgment...

Once you’re at the Divine Realm, to unleash their true power, it inevitably involves deep exploitation of rules.

Even ordinary rules refined to the second layer don’t work that well anymore.

You have to be like Louis and go straight to triple refinement, or stack authority abilities multiple times onto ordinary skills, pushing them to the extreme.

On this point, even Ais, the closest one, still has to slowly figure it out.

On the third requirement, the body of a god, they’re even further from meeting it.

In fact, without the blessing of special authority abilities, god-bodies shouldn’t appear at all on the Star Continent.

Even Louis, in terms of pure physical power alone, hasn’t reached that level.

He has to stack the Sin Dragon Armament.

After receiving the blessing of the Soldier Realm, the power of the Cursed Dragon can exert force up to the continental limit, boosting his bodily functions to the Divine Realm.

But that doesn’t count as his own power; it’s external support.

Still, in any case, Divine Realm Extraordinary power is already enough for the three girls to fully exert all their current methods.

Even Helmer couldn’t possibly kill them in the very first instant.

And as long as they aren’t one-shot...

Thinking of what happened this time, Louis once again emphasized to the three girls:

"Make sure to use the effect of the Crown of Desire. If you’re besieged, you must teleport away at the first moment. Now that ’I Love You’ comprehensively amplifies all major authority abilities, an ordinary Divine Realm can’t stop your teleportation."

The three of them nodded.

Ais thought for a moment and then said:

"In a while, I’m going to leave Ense."

"Hm?" Louis froze. "Didn’t you just get back? You’re already planning to leave?"

"The main reason I came back this time was to check on Beatrice," Ais said irritably. "If it weren’t because Beatrice is too busy over there, I would’ve left long ago, okay."

Louis let out a fake sob and said:

"What should I do, this family’s about to fall apart again."

"Hmph, don’t mess around, I’m serious." Ais said softly, "Ense doesn’t need me right now. A powerhouse close to the Divine Realm lurking outside has a much greater deterrent effect on hostile forces."

"And it’s easier to ambush enemies too, right?"

The Little Swan added a line.

Ais nodded.

To be fair, given the current situation, no one needs to make more preparations than Ense.

It’s not that other countries don’t have trump cards.

But clearly they haven’t yet reached the point where they have to go all out.

They can’t exactly, like in that IF route, open Ninos’s Wrath to blow their own capital sky-high while also activating Marrow Celestial Strike *10 to blow the entire Secret Forest Capital into the sky, right?

When it’s inconvenient to use trump cards, the Star Continent at this stage has already entered its weakest period in the past thousand years.

From over a hundred years ago until now, the harbingers of great chaos have been like a blunt knife cutting flesh, bleeding the nations dry.

And this past year or so goes without saying.

Just the number of Demigods who’ve died is already high enough to count as crippling blows.

And new Demigods are extremely rare.

Or rather, this is actually the normal rate at which Demigods are born.

Without a large amount of resources to replenish them, having to rely solely on one’s own accumulation to advance is undoubtedly a form of torment.

Fortunately, the situation isn’t on a straight downward slide.

The resources from the Cosmic Serpent are enough to fill the resource gap of several thousand years.

With such abundant supply, the top-tier Legends that each nation has accumulated over many years will spring up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, ascending to Demigod one after another.

—Provided that Louis and the other Star Continent weightlifting champions don’t have anything happen to them.

Top-level combat power is in short supply; in this respect, even Ense is no exception.

But now that the three girls can each hold up a main pillar, Louis’s burden has lightened a lot.

"Maybe it’s time to try something."

Louis took a deep breath, a hint of resolve appearing in his eyes.

"Hm? Louis, what bad scheme have you come up with now?" Olivia poked his ticklish side.

"What do you mean bad scheme? It’s just that I’ve had an idea for a long time, but since the basic conditions weren’t met, it never made it onto the agenda."

He spread his hands and looked at Beatrice. "Bea, do you think the time has come?"

Beatrice thought for a moment and then said:

"Originally I felt there was still a long road before that plan could be realized, but now it’s hard to say."

Olivia seemed to be in thought.

She’d vaguely heard Sister Wang and Louis mention a crazy plan before.

She lowered her voice and said, "The Soldier Realm Upgrade Plan?"

"Yeah."

The Soldier Realm Upgrade Plan.

At the beginning, it was a plan Louis came up with to optimize and upgrade the people under Soldier Realm contracts and to categorize those contracts.

But later, as the Soldier Realm kept expanding, the classification of contracted groups got pushed to the back instead.

Because the power of the Soldier Realm couldn’t be brought into play very well.

The Soldier Realm excels at information projection; the Martial Skill Net is the top priority.