Defying the Fate of Beheading

Chapter 877 - 449: Strife of Divine Scourge, Mutation of the World-Serpent’s Remains (Part 2)

"Understood.""Third, seriously remind our executives that this time, the guild won’t oversee the play. They can decide how to play, but it must not turn into a team-building exercise, which doesn’t align with our guild culture. They should eat and play appropriately."

"Alright."

"If there are any remaining areas lacking, please supplement them yourself."

After giving instructions, Louis finally exhaled a breath of relief.

With this, all plans for the Mayer Floating City were on track.

However, recalling the warehouse in Mayer City made him feel a faint pain in his brow.

Next time, he must remind this group that when it comes to gift-giving, too much can be too much.

How excessive were these gifts?

So excessive that they startled Louis, who had already accepted the illicit gains of the Cosmic Serpent, causing a slight twitch in his brow upon receiving them.

Even the deeply suppressed delusions of the sin of greed began to spread.

Tsk, tsk.

Imagine how envious people would be if Kaelin’s little treasure vault were exposed.

Of course.

Mainly to celebrate the birth of the Eldest Princess, the Ense Empire also prepared a lavish gift internally.

The combination of these two has reached the sky-high level.

As for how much.

Louis stated, it’s roughly equivalent to the annual GDP of a T1 country.

Tense.

He was embarrassed to say this publicly.

After all, saying it seems a bit mocking.

The Giant Demon Empire, currently booming with construction, looks impressive, doesn’t it?

The Curse Binding Legion initially relied on the heritage of the Giant Demon Empire to grow rich.

But if you were told the annual wealth generated by the Giant Demon Empire barely matches Kaelin’s little treasure vault...

Those hearing this would be astounded.

To spare them, Louis decided to keep this matter to himself.

However, soon the Little Swan came looking.

"Louis, there might be something you need to decide."

"What is it?"

"Let’s talk while we walk. Let’s go to the teleportation array first."

"Alright."

On the way to the teleportation array, Louis roughly understood the problem the Little Swan was facing.

Mainly regarding the remaining half of the Cosmic Serpent’s body.

They had discussed this matter before.

The remaining half of the Cosmic Serpent’s body must be dealt with.

Leaving it in the Jade Phoenix Alliance’s demiplane will cause great troubles.

At his level, many things are no longer secrets.

Such as some of the secrecy information regarding deities.

Deities are strong, but that doesn’t mean they won’t fall.

Many years ago, Eternal Fierce Sun, still a powerful divine force, became increasingly weary through prolonged battles.

After killing the Evil God, Master of Crimson, he disappeared from the sight of believers.

Until recently, when Aaron chose to ignite the last of Eternal Fierce Sun’s power, burning the dark side of the Love God, did he realize the deity had decayed to such an extent.

Eventually, Eternal Fierce Sun fell, and Aaron, bearing Louis’ faith, transformed into the Child of the Sun Chaser, which turned out to be a positive development.

Only a few on this continent know that the corpse of a god is a great terror too.

It has an extreme probability of turning a region into a forbidden zone.

The god-spawns hatched from the god’s corpse, purely in terms of combat ability, may not surpass the deity itself.

But in terms of threat level, they might even exceed the deity.

Historically, many deities have given birth to divine offspring after divine marriage.

However, even for a god, controlling the outcome of giving birth to a divine offspring wasn’t certain.

There was a case where a god-child was stillborn, and neither deity intended to deal with the stillborn, hoping to resurrect the child with some method.

Yet things didn’t go as planned.

Before the deities could find a way to resurrect the child, a god-spawn was born from the stillborn.

On the day it emerged, a terrifying wail echoed outside the star realm, and even perceptive demigods faintly sensed its presence.

The god-spawn was called "Flesh Addiction."

From its birth, it polluted the father god and mother god with virulently venomous divine pus, creating the horrible achievement of slaughtering a lesser pantheon.

Afterward, Flesh Addiction was active in the star realm, leaving countless worlds devastated in its wake.

It even directly inhabited a resource-rich star, turning it into a fleshly domain.

However, initially, the god-spawn wasn’t that strong; it was just relying on a special power restraining the father god and mother god to break through the divine kingdom.

Only after consuming its parents did it start to snowball, becoming truly rare and unmatched.

This is god-spawn.

Born of the world’s malice and resentment, nearly immortal, a myth’s poison pus.

"In fact, we’ve dealt with god-spawn before."

Olivia said slowly, "Do you remember the battle in the Shadow Country? We encountered the Shadow God-spawn."

Louis recalled the scenes from then, instinctively shivering.

Those were among the few moments he was at the brink of death.

But this wasn’t the most terrifying.

In the Shadow Country, what they faced wasn’t the true form of a god-spawn.

That was merely a divine incarnation of the Dark Night Goddess.

In terms of overall combat strength, roughly demigod level.

Back then it seemed formidable, but now it seems rather ordinary.

If that was the Shadow God-spawn’s strength, Louis would confidently say, "The advantage is mine."

But the problem is, it wasn’t.

The true Shadow God-spawn never appeared before anyone.

The Lokeshi Empire poured in many elites, even leading to the death of a demigod, just to barely delay the monster for a moment.

And then...

The Emperor rarely stood up to join the battle.

That’s right.

At the cost of sacrificing an Iron Guard, the Emperor rose to fight.

Perhaps now it seems it’s just a Legendary Iron Guard, nothing much to say about.

But considering no emotional factors, the value of a Legendary Iron Guard is incomparable to a common legend.

The legends of the Cangqing Mechanical Corps, frankly speaking, their strength is just so-so.

But the Cangqing demiplane’s ability to counter information interference significantly determines the current Soldier Realm’s prosperity.

And many years ago, following the complete annihilation of the Cangqing Mechanical Corps, Ense could never cultivate a second Cangqing Mechanical Corps.

Because it was completely exhausted.

So can the Cangqing Mechanical Corps merely be measured by the legend?

Evidently, it cannot.

Iron Guard too.

A Legendary Iron Guard can, for a short period, bear 60% of the Emperor’s power at the cost of self-destruction.

In other words, each Legendary Iron Guard represents 0.6 of an Emperor.

Even if it’s just the temporary, youthful version of Emperor’s power, it’s extraordinarily terrifying.

How many of such existences, diminishing one by one, are still in the empire now?

The answer is two.

One is self-sealed, awaiting the Emperor’s unseal for the Empire’s final loyalty, the veteran Iron Guard.

The other is Qian, now alongside Beatrice.

Having the dual traits of shadow creature and human, she can also bear the Emperor’s power once.

But the Emperor is unlikely to use this.

It’s reserved for Beatrice as a trump card.

The Iron Guard loyal both to the Emperor and Beatrice, throughout these years, has been the only one.

The Emperor’s former Personal Guard, Rudolph, exhausted his life force and perished in the Shadow Country battle, to give the Emperor time to stand.

For what purpose?

Just to resolve the Shadow God-spawn.

And all these years later, the Emperor hasn’t used the last reserves again, for one reason Louis eased his pressure.

But more so still...

The opponents afterward weren’t severe enough to require him to stand up.

The weight of the Shadow God-spawn is imaginable.

"We must deal with the remaining half of the serpent’s body quickly; I have a bad feeling that if not handled, a great horror might emerge from the corpse."

Louis pinched his brow.

To deal with that corpse, he really needs to go there personally.

A common demigod would struggle to breach its defenses.

"Let’s go, I’ll accompany you to the Jade Phoenix Alliance."

Without lingering, the two set off toward the city where the Jade Phoenix Alliance’s demiplane is located.