Chapter 7: 1756-1760
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Legion-1's axe was going for the neck of the ice wolf because it was the easiest part to hit, but the wolf blocked it with its paw. The paw failed to block the attack, so it was cut off, and the axe also cut into its chest.
-You Hit Ice Wolf with Large Axe.
-Strength (11) vs Endurance (6)
-Judgement: Attack Success.
-Damage: -6hp.
-You Hit Ice Wolf with Large Axe.
-Strength (11) vs Endurance (6)
-Judgement: Attack Success.
-Damage: -6hp.
The single attack damaged the wolf twice. It lost one of its legs and gained another gash to its chest. This reduced its hit points to 28.
He rushed forward to take advantage of the handicapped enemy, but the wolf healed its forelimb immediately. Its health fell by another 5 points, but it was able to dodge him.
Its health fell to 23, which is less than half of its total hit points, so it activated its berserker ability. It is an innate ability of all ice wolves.
5 of its hit points disappeared as it was used to boost its power. Its speed and strength increased by 3 and 2 points, respectively. They became 8 and 9, while its endurance fell by 1 point to become 5.
The eyes of the wolf changed from blue to red, and its hit points fell to 18 after becoming berserk. Then it rushed at Legion-1 again.
This time it didn't jump. It seemed to have learned its lesson. Instead, it circled around him to attack any opening in his defense. It was quite a sight for something so big to stalk someone. But Legion-1 was far from impressed.
He didn't make any extra movement. He simply turned around on the spot to face the wolf. The wolf was faster than him now, but it was easier and faster for him to simply turn.
The wolf eventually got impatient. It howled again, and the red glow in its eyes increased in intensity. It had used Berserker again to increase its stats. Endurance fell to 4, and it lost another 5 hit points to make 13.
Meanwhile, its strength and speed. This put its speed at 11 and strength at 11. It could finally circle Legion-1 faster than he could turn. It used this advantage to execute hit and run tactics. It would claw at him and back off before he could respond.
Legion-1 didn't like how things were going. He could kick the wolf just fine, but any movement with his hands, such as a shield bash or axe cleave, was too slow to hit the wolf. He wasn't in any danger due to his high Endurance, but at this rate, he wouldn't be able to do anything to the ice wolf either.
He was frowning mentally, but his face remained frozen because of the inability to express anything on his puppet body. This made him appear calm and collected. But he was already frustrated.
This is because a single blow would deal 6 damage, so three hits would kill the wolf. Unfortunately, he is not fast enough to make a hit. The wolf had traded survivability for speed and strength, but its survivability doesn't appear to have reduced at all.
There was a simple solution to the problem. Legion-1 moved around until the wolf positioned itself between him and the other clones. Then Legion-8 threw his harpoon at it. The harpoon sank into the flesh of the wolf and lodged itself deep within it.
-You Hit Ice Wolf with Harpoon.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
-Strength (7) vs Endurance (4)
-Judgement: Attack Success.
-Damage: -4hp.
The strength of 7 against a defense of 4 reduced its health to 9. This wasn't the end. The harpoon was chained, and Legion-8 was pulling on it so the wolf couldn't utilize its speed.
It had just howled in pain because of the harpoon when an axe buried its blade in its head. Its head was divided cleanly in half by the attack. Its hit points fell to 1. He had done an increased amount of damage to it because of its reduced Endurance.
It tried to heal itself, but 1 hit point wasn't enough for that, so its vitality fell to o and it died. Its body turned into snow that fell to the ground. At the center of the snow was a white, opaque crystal. Legion-1 picked it up hurriedly and stored it in his inventory space.
The movement of the other clones caught the attention of the other ice wolves and caused them to become aggressive. They rose up to interfere in the fight too. Only 9 of them rose up to fight, but they prioritized killing Legion-1 first because he had a higher perceived threat level.
They rushed towards him, but they were attacked with arrows before they reached him. An arrow from Legion-2's bow pierced into the eye of a wolf. It dealt just -1 hp damage because his total strength was 6 against the defense of 6. But the eye was damaged enough to make the wolf blind in one eye. It decided to heal the damage, which cost it 5 more of its hit points. Legion-1's fight has taught them a lot of things about the wolves. The most important lesson they learned is that it is best to make critical damage that would reduce the fighting strength of their enemy.
They have learned that skill and technique are not entirely useless. They have also learned that even though Divine creatures don't have weaknesses, it is best to aim for critical parts of their body, such as limbs, eyes, and heads.
This is where skill becomes useful. It helps them to land hits on these critical parts of the body. This way they would be able to deal double damage with a single attack or even force their enemies to waste divine energy to heal.
Legion-2 rained down arrows on them, which made the wolves dodge to avoid damage. This inevitably slowed them down and allowed Legion-1 to be reinforced by Legion-7.
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The two of them in heavy armor were followed closely behind by Legion-5 with his spear and Legion-9 with his bladed whip. They stuck to their backs and used them for protection while using the long reach of their weapons to score hits from safety.
Legion 4 and Legion 6 flanked the two and used their weapons to attack enemies that were entangled with Legion-1 and Legion-7. Their single-edge blades and small axes don't have as much strength as the large axe, but they have two of them each and could attack faster, so they could deal damage faster than Legion-1 and Legion-7.
Legion-2 and Legion-8 used their bow and harpoon from far behind to assist, while Legion-3 guarded them with his twin daggers.
The two sides were equal in number but not in mind. The clones would first choose a target to concentrate on. They would blind it and harpoon it to restrict its movements. Then they would all concentrate on it to kill it.
This way, instead of spreading out their damage, they were also to quickly eliminate one enemy and make the fight easier for them.
They made sure to make Legion-1 deal the finishing blow so his threat level continued to increase. He remained the focus of the aggression of the wolves, which enabled the clones to continue whittling them down one by one.
Not everything is perfect, though. Some ice missiles attacked Legion-4 and Legion-6 when they moved too far away from Legion-1 and Legion-7. Their proximity to the ice wolves made them a better target to attack than Legion-1.
Fortunately, their defenses were strong enough to withstand the attacks, so they only lost a few divine energies. Losses of 2 or 3 DE were insignificant compared to total DE of 532. But it taught them to be cautious.
They made Legion 2, 3, 8, and 9 with light armor and a defense of 4 who could be harmed badly by the long range elemental attacks to remain behind cover at all times.
Eventually, they killed all the ice wolves. Then they took stock of their losses and gains. The 10 ice wolves dropped one divine crystal each. Only one of them dropped a tooth. Meanwhile, they lost 10 DE in total.
Legion-1 said with a shrug, "So we gained one divine crystal for each unit of divine energy that we lost. Seems efficient."
Legion-7, who was enjoying the experience of having his own body, said with enthusiasm, "We can do better next time. We can kill them faster and lose less divine energy or no divine energy at all."
Legion-2 picked the icy tooth and asked the angel, "What is this for?"
The angel replied, "It is useful material that can be used to forge divine weapons. It will be divine weapons of the lowest grade, but they will be better than what you are currently using."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"We need 10,000 of these divine crystals to build the altar, right?"
"Yes. I should mention that we will also need 1,000 of it to buy the code of the altar. But that is not the end of it. We still need other items such as mortal gold, mortal souls, and divinity." This reminder made Legion go through their inventory to be sure that they have at least 100 gold coins. These gold coins were gained through the offerings of their believers.
If they don't have enough, then they will need their believers to cough up more or raid other villagers for their wealth. Fortunately, they already have enough.
"So we need a total of 11,000 divine crystals. If they all drop one divine crystal, it means we have 10,990 more ice wolves to kill."
"And we have to do so before other gods. So let's get going."
The clones began to approach more ice wolves. They were met with hostility and attacks. But through it all, only nine ice wolves fought them at a time.
Their angel informed them that things would be different in the future when they grow stronger or when the ice wolves consider them a greater threat.
For now, they can hunt the wolves without being outnumbered. It was not fair for the ice wolves, of course. Just the fact that they share each other's vision gives them an unfair advantage. Adding the fact that they can share divine energy, one might say that they are cheating.
They didn't use divine energy, though. They only used their divine bodies. It is more than enough to take care of the wolves. Anymore would be a waste. After all, the wolves are not their only enemies.
Their mission is clear, so they could make straightforward plans that they can put into action immediately to achieve it. Their current plan is to hunt ice wolves and only ice wolves. They didn't choose the earth golems, water serpents, wind zephyros, fire lizards, or the myriads of other divine creatures available.
They chose the ice wolves because of the environment that they have to fight them in. The ground of this ice domain is slippery, but it is better than the lake of water serpents, hurricane infested lands of the wind zephyros, lava grounds of the fire lizards, or the sand pits of the earth golems. They like safe and solid ground under their feet and clear visibility for their eyes, hence why they are slugging it out with ice wolves.
There might be other information that they don't know, as their angel didn't tell them all that was there to know about fighting the elementals. Such information, like the strengths and weaknesses of the elements, might make other divine creatures more efficient to kill than ice wolves. But until then, they don't intend to change their targets for now.
Unfortunately, trouble came looking for them. Their actions couldn't be hidden from others. A particular god seed scouting for prey witnessed the efficiency at which they used to dispatch the ice wolves and felt a chill.
The god seed muttered to herself, "This is unnatural."
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As an immortal, she has seen a lot of things enough to desensitize herself and make it difficult for her to be surprised. But Legion's display of synchronized coordination in bodies that are difficult to move has managed to overcome the barrier needed to surprise her.
What they are doing will not be strange if they were in the void universe. They would all have their divine sense to have a complete visual map of their surroundings for them to move so accurately. But this is not the void universe.
This is a world that makes them feel like they are pushing a boulder with their finger while held back by tar. Every one of their actions is rough, inefficient, and robotic, as their divine bodies are not their true bodies but puppets they manipulate.
This is the first time they are manipulating such a puppet, so it is understandable that their movements will be jerky. But the nine of them appear to be controlled by one highly proficient puppeteer instead of many inexperienced ones.
Their actions, though still jerky separately, come together in a glorious choreography of purpose. Each one of them acts separate in a way that's foolish only for an ice wolf to impale itself on a seemingly random sword. It is truly unnatural.
She was looking for god seeds to target so that they could extort divine crystals from them or take their divinity by killing them. But this unnatural performance takes precedence.
She was determined to get to the bottom of it to gain the ability or eliminate the nine of them if they refused to share their secret so that they would fail. So she ran back to call for helpers.
Most of the god seeds are immortals participating in this competition alone. But some came with others. Their connection through family, business, special organizations or association with world gods made them work together in this world.
She is one of the few who are working with others. She was to scout for viable targets for extortion and then report back. So it didn't take long for her to return with a group of 10 god seeds to attack Legion.
Legion was attacking another set of ice wolves when trouble came. The appearance of 10 more enemies agitated the ice wolves and made 10 more of them join the fight.
But they didn't attack the 10 unwelcome guests. They attacked Legion-1 because his threat level was very high, and they also tried to corner the other clones. This turned into 15 ice wolves they have to fight instead of the remaining 5.
Not only was this bad for Legion, the 10 god seeds also sealed their escape route from the back. So the clones became sandwiched between the bloodthirsty ice wolves and the sinister god seeds. All in all, they gained an extra 20 enemies to deal with for a total of 25.
The leader of the 10 bandits made their demands first. She stepped forward and said, "How are you moving so well? Tell us, and we will let you go."
The Origin god controlling her body didn't know them and doesn't speak any language they know. But the puppet she was controlling translated her thoughts into sounds. The sounds themselves were incomprehensible, but the puppets of the clones translated the sounds into information that Legion understands.
This mechanism ensured that the clones understood what she said. It also ensured that they could express their dissatisfaction fluently.
Legion-2, who was standing at the back of the formation, asked, "Do you really think we are fools? What guarantee do we have that you will let us go?"
They don't know exactly what they meant by moving so well, but they can understand the source of the confusion, and they know that giving in to threats rarely leads to a good ending. They will be admitting that they are weak, which will lead to more demands or worse.
The leader's face remained impassive but she was sneering in the void universe as she said through her puppet, "You have no choice. You are outnumbered many times over. You either give us what we want for the chance of survival or you die here, lose half of your divinity and lose time resurrecting."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
These god seeds have different races, so they look different and mismatched. They also have a translucent and shimmering barrier around themselves, which signifies that they are ready to do battle.
The first thing Legion did was to use insight on them.
NAME: ????
RACE: Local Deity (Gnome)
TITLE: ????
TIER: 0
LEVEL: 6
DIVINE ENERGY: ????
STRENGTH: ??+7
ENDURANCE: ??+7
SPEED: ??+7
AUTHORITY: ????
They didn't see much. What they saw was only their race, tier, level, and the weapons they were carrying. The rest of the information was blocked by their resistance to insight. What they saw was enough to make them come to some conclusions, though. The first conclusion was that each of these god seeds has a minimum of 60 stats because each level at Tier o is 10 stats. This means each of them has a greater number of stats than all of them except their strongest clone, Legion-1.
The second thing they can conclude is that while they are lacking in overall levels, they have the advantage of Authority. This is an undisputable fact since Legion-2 was able to gain some information through insight despite being at level o. That means they have a chance of victory in this fight.
Unfortunately, using Insight made them lose the element of surprise. The bandits were not ignorant of the use of insight on them. They felt the disgusting wave that washed over them. It made them understand that hostility was imminent. So they roared in anger and attack. They rushed forward to overwhelm the clones with their divine bodies while the clones retaliated with divine spells. It was the only thing the clones could do.
Legion-3 was behind protecting Legion-2 and Legion-8. His twin daggers had been useless in the fight with the ice wolves because of the need for close combat. His speed was too low for him to do that, but he doesn't need speed to utilize divine spells.
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All he needs is Divine Energy and Authority. Then he can create Divine Strikes in the direction he is pointing his finger. It was very easy to do.
All three clones at the back were designated to deal with the god seeds. The three of them combined their sights and aimed im sync. This way they didn't have any blind spots. Each of the Divine Strike that they used hit their targets accurately.
The divine strike is an arrow of white light. It is small but fast. The first divine strike hit the closest god seed to them. This god seed had a divine shield on, but the shield broke on contact, and the arrow struck the god seed's unprotected head.
The second arrow was right behind the first, so it stuck the god seed without the barrier to protect him.
-You Hit God seed with Divine Strike.
-Judgement: Attack Successful.
-Damage: -8hp.
-You Hit God seed with Divine Strike.
-Judgement: Attack Successful.
-Damage: -30hp.
-You Hit God seed with Divine Strike.
-Judgement: Attack Successful.
-Damage: -23hp.
A large portion of the damage of the first attack was blocked by the Divine Shield, but the second attack scored a clean hit on the head.
The third attack was not so lucky. The god seed was pushed back by the first two attacks and was also trying to dodge, so the third attack missed his head and hit his chest instead. There was no Divine Shield, but the armor the god seed was wearing was in the way.
All in all, Legion managed to deal 61 damage in exchange for 30 Divine Energy. Considering that the god seed had to use 10 DE to create the Divine Shield, then the total damage was 71. So their use of divine spells was efficient.
The series of notifications were received by both Legion and the god seed they struck, so they are both aware of what each other was capable of.
Even though the stat interaction was not indicated, they were able to glean more information about each other from the damage they did.
Legion, for one now knows that the Endurance of the divine body of the enemy is 23, that of the armor is 7, while the Authority is 150. These values would explain the outcome of their attacks since their Divine Strike should deal a maximum of 53 damage.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
This number made Legion become bolder while their enemy became discouraged. She stopped rushing forward and was about to speak to diffuse the enemity between them. She doesn't think it will work, but she wants to try anyway.
She spread her arms to stop her fellows and said to the clones, "It seems we got on the wrong foot. There's no need to use Divine Spells to resolve this. You will be losing out too. You can only acquire a pyrhicc victory."
But Legion didn't give her any chance. Legion-2 stretched out his hand towards her and cast Divine Hold on her. Then more Divine Strikes flew forward one after the other from the clones at the frozen god seed.
Some of the clones didn't even look back as they cast Divine Strike. They were fighting the ice wolves and would point their fingers to a target behind them without looking. But they were always able to hit their target.
A Divine Strike flew out of their fingers each second, aiming for her head. The god seed had already lost 60 of the total 150 Divine Energy. So she was in a precarious situation.
She was very fast and might have been able to dodge one or two Divine Strikes, but with Divine Hold and the large difference in Authority keeping her still, the only thing she could do was use Divine Shield to resist.
The difference in Authority meant that the Divine Hold spell would only be able to keep her still for 3 seconds. But she couldn't last one second after four spells plummled her vulnerable head one after the other.
She said to her fellows as she died, "Make them pay."
Then she turned into motes of light and dropped a white glowing ball. It was a sight that enamoured Legion, but shocked their enemies.
What made the other god seeds shocked apart from the death of their leader was that more divine strikes followed soon after. Most of them came without warning too.
At least they could tell who the three clones at the back are targeting, but they didn't even notice when the other 6 attacked or who they were aiming for.
They didn't give up, though. They used their superior speed to try and dodge the attacks. Each one of them has at least 20 stats in their speed, while some have above 30 thanks to their equipment, so dodging as long as they can anticipate an attack is not a problem.
Plus, they are experienced with fighting other god seeds. They know that Divine Strikes are powerful, but they can only be used once every second, and that as long as they exhaust their enemies' Divine Energy, they have already won. So they stuck around and didn't retreat.
But the clones are far from normal. Not only are the 6 random attacks from the clones fighting the wolves unpredictable, all 9 of them can also synchronize their attacks to make them undodgeable.
Then there is Divine Hold, which renders the advantage in speed mute. First, the clones froze all nine of them. Then they used the time to produce attacks. They could only produce 5 Divine Strikes every second because of the wolves, but that was more than enough to deal
catastrophic damage.
Four attacks killed each god seed because they only had an average of 100 in Authority, so their pool of Divine Energy was low and the power of Divine Shield was poorer.
That meant that instead of just three seconds, the god seeds were frozen for four seconds or more. Legion was able to produce 20 Divine Strikes in that time, which killed 5 of them. Then they killed the weakest god seed that was still frozen after four seconds to make a total of six.
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Their cooperation was flawless and silent. They didn't speak to each other at all. Their enemies, on the other hand, were shouting orders to each other so as to coordinate. Legion could also hear these orders, so they were able to prepare for the coordinated attacks of their enemies.
The bandits had decided to use their divine spells to attack, but it was too late and nearly useless. They were already frozen when they decided to create Divine Strikes of their own. By then it was too late to turn back the tides. Only 3 remained after 5 seconds.
These three continued slinging Divine Strikes, but they were also retreating at the highest speed. They had decided not to wait for the ice wolves to pressure the clones. The sight of Legion-3 turning his finger towards another enemy and that finger lighting up in the white glow of a divine strike was all the motivation they needed to interrupt him with a Divine Strike of their own while running for their lives.
Unfortunately, they were only able to stop the first three clones from casting spells against them. They couldn't prevent the other 6 from taking them off guard with a Divine Hold. Legion didn't let them go because they wanted to run. They managed to kill the remaining god seeds as they ran. With the god seeds gone, only the ice wolves remained.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Unlike the god seeds, the ice wolves didn't fall back because of the impressive display of divine spells. They were willing to fight to the death and wanted to surround them completely.
However, what they have in ferocity, they lacked the power to go through with it. Legion still made quick work of them. Then they collected their loot and examined it.
-Divine Orb
-LEVEL: 3
-DIVINITY: 33
This was the loot that the leaders of the bandits dropped. It made Legion-4 whistle appreciatively.
"Impressive divinity," he said. "And this is just half."
Legion-1 asked the angel, "How can they have so much divinity but so little Authority? Is there a way to get divinity that we don't know about?"
The angel shimmered into existence and replied, "There is no way to get divinity except from what you have just done. God seeds have to kill other god seeds for their divinity. As for the low Authority, I am guessing these god seeds are poor at converting mortals or they haven't spent much time converting mortals or both."
Legion-1 shook his head and said, "Either way, this is still impressive. It shows that we are lagging behind."
Legion-2 refuted. "We are lagging behind in divinity, but not Authority. It means we are doing something right."
He is not wrong to say that. They had to combine all the free divinity they got to give Legion-1 his impressive stats, but these god seeds on the other hand came early to the divine plane and took the divinity of other god seeds to strengthen themselves far beyond the average level of power.
Level 6 is quite impressive since most god seeds are level 1 or 2. Whatever level they are is dependent on if they forwent their divine spells, so it is usually 10% of their Authority. But these god seeds have more divinity than their Authority can grant them.
Unfortunately it came at a cost. They rushed the creation of their religion and didn't have time to convert a lot of believers before ascending to the divine plane. They spent an average of two days in the mortal realm while Legion spent 4 days.
They came early to the divine plane so were able to bully others with their numbers and gain divinity, but their Authority was lacking. Their advantage in divinity was supposed to snowball since they will meet less and less gods who could hurt them. Unfortunately, they met with Legion who managed to convert their whole tribe before ascending.
Legion-6 said as he went about collecting the other divine orbs, "We lost so much divine energy from this fight. I hope the rewards will be worth the 540 units of divine energy that we spent."
Legion-1 looked at the orb in his hand and said, "I'm sure it was worth it. At the very least, we have learned more about the pros and cons of Divine Spells."
Eventually they tallied all they gained and it amounted to 258 divinity from the god seeds, armor and weapons from.those god seeds, and divine crystals from the divine beasts. The amount of divinity was not as much as Legion-1's stat, but it was still a lot.
They decided to return to Gemmis to replenish their Divine Energy and take care of their loot. The most important loot they gained are the 10 divine orbs that their slain enemies dropped. These orbs couldn't be kept in their inventory so they had to carry them around.
This undoubtedly drew the attention of others and caused them to be attacked on their way to the divine city.
The fact they have 10 divine orbs is enough to tell that they just killed 10 god seeds. Anyone in their right minds should know that they are dangerous and steer clear of them. But the fact they killed god seeds means that they have used or lost Divine Energy in the fight.
The fact that they are retreating to Gemmis also means that they have probably used a lot of Divine Energy and are going to replenish it.
All of these made them too tempting to be overlooked. After all, without Divine Energy, a god seed, no matter how powerful, is an arrow at the end of its flight. Any moment, and it will hit the ground. If something blocks its way now, then it will stop earlier and easily. That's what their enemies thought.
Legion realized that it was foolish to carry around the divine orbs. They decided that it would be better to absorb the divine orbs. But then they managed to kill two more god seeds and gain two more divine orbs. That changed their minds about the foolishness of dangling bait in front of others.
A/N: Bonus Chapter for 200 golden tickets goal.
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