Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 729 - 328: Dream of the Stars

Wu Chang and the two others looked at the giant Divine Temple before them, instinctively entering a vigilant state.

Having witnessed the Master of the Deep Sea’s Divine Kingdom along the way, they had no choice but to heighten their alertness.

Originally, Wu Chang was the most relaxed, but after discovering the secret of the Lost Continent, he also became cautious.

The Master of the Deep Sea in the Divine Temple was different from any divine projections he had seen before, including the Evil God Remains in the Shipwreck Belt.

This was a real divine avatar with a complete Divine Kingdom.

Even for him, encountering such a creature in the Desolate Realm was beyond expectation.

But now that they’re here, they can’t just flee without even seeing the Master of the Deep Sea.

He took a deep breath, gripped Erin’s hand, and then said, "Let’s go in."

The three of them approached the giant Divine Temple and, upon entering within a hundred meters of the temple, felt a dangerous aura emanating from the two stone statues at the temple entrance.

The statues were shaped like humanoid octopuses crouched on square stone tablets, resembling Master Ke in some ways, but with much thinner bodies, and "evolution" wasn’t as complete as Master Ke.

Compared to a human body with an octopus head, the stone statues more closely resembled octopuses with limbs.

Upon sensing the intruders, the two stone statues began to tremble, shedding their stone shells as they slowly descended from the stone tablets, speaking in a garbled eerie tone:

"You have disturbed the awakening of the great being, intruders."

A clear divine aura emanated from the two Temple Guards, each possessing strength not inferior to Da Gang.

The Master of the Deep Sea had yet to appear; Wu Chang wasn’t eager to reveal his power, so he furrowed his brow and immediately retreated behind the Great Saint Mother.

The Great Saint Mother glanced at him disdainfully, then gestured a signal to Erin, one for each.

The two of them floated into the air, simultaneously manifesting their True Divine Bodies.

Unlike Wu Chang, they didn’t possess the Blasphemer’s ability boost; they had to transform into divine forms to harm targets with divinity.

Erin’s transformation was remarkably smooth; her wings extended the moment her True Divine Body was switched on.

The Great Saint Mother’s transformation into the divine form was slower, but the Temple Guards, unlike Wu Chang, were honorable. Although slightly slower than Erin, she too transformed into her divine form.

The divine form of the Great Saint Mother was completely different from Erin’s angel state; she maintained a human form, donning the yet-to-be-fully-formed Pure Battle Armor, resembling a Valkyrie on the battlefield more than a benevolent Saint Mother.

Both simultaneously cast Light Attribute Magic, using chains to bind the Guard of Light, then embedding their weapons with light, transforming them into Flying Light Slash against the Temple Guards.

The Great Saint Mother wielded a pure white Knight’s Sword, while Erin wielded a golden Warhammer.

After all, the Temple Guards were just indigenous divine beings of the Desolate Realm, and at that moment were on land, unable to leverage the advantages of the Deep Sea Race.

The offsetting strengths led to a one-sided situation.

The Great Saint Mother possessed an ultimate mechanism; her Pure Battle Armor couldn’t shield against Wu Chang’s Mamba Iron Elbow, but it proved lethal against the Temple Guard.

Neither the tentacles striking, nor the black water sprayed from its mouth, nor the eerie mist emanating from its body could touch the absolutely pure-status Great Saint Mother.

No matter how desperately the Temple Guard tried to block her, only one outcome ensued—the Great Saint Mother remained unaffected.

In contrast, every attack by the Great Saint Mother was greatly damaging to the Temple Guard.

The Knight’s Sword was clad in Undying Sacred Fire, and as soon as it sliced the Temple Guard’s surface, the fire clung tenaciously, refusing to relent until the Temple Guard turned to ashes.

In addition to the sacred fire, the Great Saint Mother was also a Sword Master, wielding the Knight’s Sword with elegant deftness, yet its blade was extraordinarily swift and sharp, slicing any tentacle of the Temple Guard with the slightest misstep.

The Temple Guard’s attacks had no impact; every strike of the sword inflicted massive damage.

It didn’t last three minutes before being pruned of tentacles and enveloped by White Sacred Fire, reducing it to ashes.

If the Great Saint Mother’s pure armor, undying sacred fire, and high-level swordsmanship represented absolute mechanism, then what Erin displayed embodied absolute numerical superiority.

Under typical conditions, Erin’s attributes correlated with those of Wu Chang; once in her True Divine Body state, these attributes were further amplified from their base values.

With the Great Saint Mother possessing dolls and reaching close to 300 points—the benchmark for player ascension in the Desolate Realm—in the C-Level Plane of Peaceful Town, it was deemed overpowered.

Meanwhile, Erin’s attribute sum matched Wu Chang’s at 866 points.

This didn’t account for Wu Chang’s activated Abyssal Python Transformation and attributes increased by the Master of Breaking the Game, along with the lack of Desolate Realm rejection, rendering Erin’s True Divine Body more complete than the Great Saint Mother’s.

Put simply, Erin’s True Divine Body state boasts at least four times the attributes of the Great Saint Mother.

This massive numerical difference resulted in a change in Erin’s combat style.

Manifesting was her wielding a Warhammer for a Determined Charge, immobilizing the Temple Guard, with the Holy Light enhanced by Will Attribute on the Warhammer, directly melting away a third of the Temple Guard’s body.

Then Erin swung the Warhammer at the stunned Temple Guard, delivering a blow with the majesty of a Great Sword, vertically smashing the Temple Guard in two.

From the beginning to the end of the battle, the entire process took less than ten seconds.

When the Great Saint Mother elegantly vanquished her foe and looked back at Erin, Erin had already returned to Wu Chang’s side, seated on a small stool and observing the sophisticated combat techniques of the intermediary deity, promptly applauding at the battle’s conclusion.