novelraw Chapter 159 -159-Killing Kahn by Force, Divine Protection
Chapter 159 -159-Killing Kahn by Force, Divine Protection
Daniel swept his gaze across the battlefield. At this point, Kahn was the only one left standing.
Kahn was still maintaining his golden-body state, but Daniel was in no hurry.
If he wanted to, he could keep bombarding him with forbidden spells until the end of time.
But Kahn was in a hurry.
At higher mastery levels, Divine Protection could last for a very long time—but he had not reached that level yet.
By now, he could already feel himself nearing his limit.
Kahn hurriedly spoke up. "Faustus! You dare kill me?"
A cold smile curled at Daniel’s lips.
"What? Only you’re allowed to kill me?"
Kahn grew anxious. "If you kill me, your human race will be abandoned by the Godkin—driven out, perhaps even exterminated!"
Daniel’s eyes sharpened.
The moment Kahn noticed the change in his expression, joy surged through him.
"I am the son of the Godkin Divine King! If you so much as touch a single hair on my head, humanity can wait for divine punishment!"
His calculation was simple enough. Weren’t all Otherworldly Prodigies who came to Heavenscar fighting for the sake of their race?
He refused to believe Daniel could be so selfish that he would disregard the survival of his entire people.
Unfortunately for him, he had miscalculated.
Daniel had lived through the darkest days of humanity in his past lives. He had died several times amid endless catastrophes.
What could possibly be worse than that?
"So this is your threat?"
A cold light flashed in Daniel’s eyes.
Just then, the golden radiance around Kahn abruptly scattered.
Swish, swish, swish—!
Countless forbidden spells engulfed him in an instant.
-100,000,000!
-100,000,000!
-100,000,000!
...
Boom! Boom! Boom!—
"Pwah!"
Kahn was blasted deep into the earth.
"Faustus! You lowly slave, you dare murder your master?!"
"Your entire human race can wait to be buried with me!"
A moment later, Kahn died.
Daniel smiled and shook his head. Regret?
One day, he would march straight into the God Realm and make those Godkin regret everything before they even had the chance.
They had taken advantage of humanity in its hour of need, forced them into signing a vassal race contract, and then utterly failed to uphold their duty of protection, treating humanity as nothing more than a tool to be used.
The Godkin were courting death.
[Ding! You have killed the prodigy Kahn and obtained the special skill "Divine Protection" (SSS-Rank Forbidden Spell), Gold Coins +9,500,000!]
[Ding! You have killed twelve Otherworldly Prodigies and completed the achievement "Supreme-Grade Heavenly Punishment" — Mission Progress: 2/3!]
[Ding! You have exceeded the requirements for the Heavenscar side mission "Repel the Empyrean Faction’s Assault" and obtained 1,000,000 Fortune Points!]
[Ding! Heavenscar comprehensive evaluation complete. Reward granted to the human race’s Faustus: World Fragment "Aerial Realm"!]
[Ding! Your Fortune Points have exceeded the threshold! Mission difficulty has increased ten thousandfold!]
[Ding! Heavenscar (Mid-Grade) mission has changed. Powerhouses from the Mid-Grade battlefield will descend to the Lower-Grade battlefield to hunt you down. Prepare yourself!]
The rapid succession of system notifications left Daniel a little stunned.
Still, he immediately grasped the key points.
This wave had been an absolute windfall. A massive profit.
At the same time, however, experts from the Mid-Grade battlefield were now going to descend into the Low-Grade battlefield—just to kill him!?
What the hell? Since when was it the Mid-Grade battlefield’s business to interfere in Low-Grade affairs?
[Notice: Your current rank on the Fortune Points Leaderboard has risen to second place!]
Daniel’s eyes flickered.
Originally, he had been dead last on the Fortune Points leaderboard. But after slaughtering all the prodigies, his Fortune Points had skyrocketed.
Humanity’s Fortune Points had surged to one million, earning him an outrageous Fortune Point reward—but it had also pushed him past the threshold limit.
Once the threshold in Heavenscar was exceeded, mission difficulty would rise in proportion to the increase in Fortune Points.
And that, in turn, had caused the upcoming mission difficulty to explode by a factor of ten thousand.
Daniel felt somewhat helpless, but there was nothing he could do about it.
"If they’re coming, then let them come. Who’s afraid of who?"
...
The harvest from this round was simply insane.
First, he took out a sphere the size of a small watermelon—the fragment of the Aerial Realm.
It was his largest gain, and also the one he had never dared dream of.
A world fragment.
He held the sphere in his hands and examined it closely.
[Aerial Realm (Ultra-Rare · World Fragment)]
Restriction: Exclusive to the human race
Effects:
After use, it can derive a small world from the main world. The contents of that world are generated randomly.
Only the player Faustus may control permissions such as the world entrance and quest system.
The small world can be upgraded and has a chance to mutate.
Upgrade Requirements: World Tree Branch Fragments, World Tree Leaves
Daniel read it over several times, taking several deep breaths before finally suppressing the excitement welling up inside him.
An undeveloped world.
Perhaps it was only a secondary world—but what did that mean?
It meant humanity finally had a territory of its own.
Aetheria was more like land the Godkin had tossed to humanity as alms; humans living there were no different from tenants.
But the Aerial Realm was completely different.
It was territory belonging solely to humanity—the human race’s own homeland, a true dominion that belonged to them and them alone.
Something they could hold firmly in their own hands.
Besides, Aetheria itself was not even a complete plane. At the end of the day, it too was merely a world fragment.
And this Aerial Realm meant that Daniel—and humanity—had just acquired, for free, a brand-new, unexplored Aetheria.
This reward was so absurd it bordered on the outrageous.
"As expected of a gift born from a massive surge in Fortune Points."
Daniel slowly clenched his fist.
This treasure was precisely what those one million Fortune Points had bought him.
He didn’t even dare imagine it—if his Fortune Points ever reached ten million, what kind of heaven-defying reward would descend then?
Taking a deep breath, he pulled out his second piece of loot.
An SSS-Rank Forbidden Spell Skill Book.
[Divine Protection (SSS-Rank Forbidden Spell)]
Effect: After activation, gain the blessing of divine power and become immune to all attacks.
Cost per second: 10,000 points of Immortal Singularity
Note: As the skill level increases, the cost will gradually decrease.
Proficiency: 0 / 100,000
Upgrade Requirement: 0 / 10 SSS-Rank Skill Books
Daniel sucked in a sharp breath.
Invincibility.
Too bad it wasn’t the complete version. Burning ten thousand points of Immortal Singularity per second was a terrifying cost.
Thankfully, it could still be upgraded. At max level, the cost would drop to only one thousand points per second.
The skill had clear limitations, but Daniel currently had Replica Crystals, which could duplicate Immortal Singularity Fragments, so for the time being, he did not need to worry about the consumption.
Still, this was not a long-term solution.
The safest path was to raise himself to Level 100 and fuse with a godhead.
Only after advancing to Legendary Grade would he be able to continuously generate Immortal Singularity on his own.
He immediately designated this as his final life-saving trump card and learned it without hesitation.
[Ding! You have learned the skill "Divine Protection." Your skill bar has been updated.]
He opened his skill menu and, without the slightest hesitation, fed all the SSS-Rank skill books in his possession into it at once, instantly raising it to maximum level.
[Ding! "Divine Protection" has been upgraded to Lv.10 (Max Level)!]
At max level, the cost had dropped to 1,000 Immortal Singularity per second.
He glanced at his inventory. The previous battle had consumed a great deal of Immortal Singularity, and he only had 2,000 points remaining.
In other words, this so-called invincibility would only last two seconds.
As a life-saving trump card, two seconds of invincibility was far too short—especially when Immortal Singularity was needed for other purposes as well.
Without a second word, he pulled out a Replica Crystal and synthesized 394,000 points of Immortal Singularity.
Adding that to what he had left before, he now had a total of 394,200 points.
That meant his invincibility could last for 394 seconds—a little over six minutes of invulnerability.
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