Chapter 862 - 569: The Statue Bearing the Power of the World and the Saint Violet Empire
Chapter 862: Chapter 569: The Statue Bearing the Power of the World and the Saint Violet Empire
There were no unnecessary movements, no chanting of any Spells. Just that single glance.
The vigilance in the eyes of the two menacing Six-winged Angels dissipated instantly, replaced by a blank emptiness. Like puppets with cut strings, they collapsed stiffly to the ground. From their fierce shouts to their collapse, the entire process took less than three seconds.
Austin Sage withdrew his gaze, not even sparing them another look, as if he had merely swatted away two buzzing flies. He walked step by step toward the towering Light Deity statue, looking up at its blurry face.
"Raylo, the treasure is right here."
Raylo followed, his heart filled with confusion, wondering if it was just a stone statue.
Austin Sage extended his right hand, keeping his five fingers together, and gently swiped at the void.
"SWISH!" A Space Blade, gleaming with silver light, appeared silently at his fingertips. Under Austin Sage’s wave, that seemingly fragile Space Blade acted like the sharpest peerless Divine Weapon in the world, silently slicing across the waist of the Light Deity statue.
The next second, with a faint "CRACK...", a thin fracture appeared around the waist of the Divine Statue. Immediately after, under Raylo’s horrified gaze, the upper half of the hundred-meter-tall statue actually began to slowly slide to one side!
"BOOM!" A deafening crash echoed out as the severed half of the Divine Statue collapsed and smashed viciously onto the mirror-smooth floor. Countless stone fragments, mixed with blinding Holy Light, exploded in all directions!
The entire Divine Hall seemed to tremble violently from the impact! On the satellite, alarms blared through every corner of the Fortress!
However, Raylo could no longer be bothered with that. His gaze was dead set on the severed cross-section of the Divine Statue! There was no texture of stone there!
An extremely majestic and pure energy explosively erupted from the "heart" of the Divine Statue! That was not Holy Light! He was very familiar with this kind of Power.
Austin Sage reached his left hand into the center of that berserk energy and gently squeezed.
"Condense," he shouted softly.
That majestic energy actually acted like a docile sheep, frantically converging and compressing toward his palm.
The light dissipated. More than a dozen thumb-sized, irregularly shaped crystals of a chaotic grayish-white hue floated quietly in his palm.
Raylo’s breathing suddenly became heavy. Power of the World! These were shockingly over a dozen World Power Crystals!
"Kid, do you see this?" Austin Sage put away the crystals and calmly explained to Raylo, completely ignoring the chaotic noises drawing closer from outside.
"This statue is a converter, a vessel used to carry their so-called faith.
"And the so-called Power of Faith is nothing but a scam set up by the Light Deity. He makes billions of intelligent beings pray to him, offering their spirits and souls. Then, through this ’converter,’ he purifies and transforms those impure soul energies into the most primal Power of the World."
"BOOM!" The heavy doors of the Divine Hall were violently smashed to pieces by a berserk Power!
Dozens of Six-winged Angels wielding Holy Swords charged in, engulfed in monstrous fury. When they saw the Divine Statue broken in two, a destructive rage surfaced on every Angel’s face!
"Blasphemers of the Divine Spirit!
"Die!"
Austin Sage did not even turn his head. He muttered, "Noisy," and merely waved his robe sleeve casually.
A visible Magic Storm, like a breaching torrent, instantly crashed into the group of Six-winged Angels charging at the forefront.
"PFFT! PFFT! PFFT!"
Faced with that storm, over a dozen Catastrophe Level experts were as fragile as pieces of paper. Unable to put up even a decent resistance, they were instantly blasted away. Their Holy Light Armor shattered inch by inch, and golden Divine Blood sprayed out wildly!
Austin Sage grabbed Raylo, who was still in shock, and said, "Let’s go." Taking a step forward, space rippled beneath his feet like the surface of water.
Their figures vanished from the spot in an instant, leaving behind only a ruined Divine Hall and an Angel Legion caught in absolute rage and horror.
Raylo subconsciously looked back. He saw that in the miniature Fortress left behind, a point of rapidly expanding blazing light suddenly lit up at the location of its core Divine Hall!
Immediately after, that extreme white light transformed into a visible, ring-shaped shockwave, expanding, devouring, and tearing outward with brutal force!
In the face of the shockwave, the Solid clusters of Divine Halls instantly disintegrated and vaporized like sandcastles. Countless Four-winged and Six-winged Angels gathering and patrolling inside the Fortress did not even have time for Wailing before they were reduced to the most primal particles in that destructive light.
The entire War Fortress, which resembled a mobile Continent, was swallowed by a massive spherical void starting from its center.
"Just a little farewell gift I left behind," Austin Sage’s flat voice rang in his ears.
The power of such a terrifying explosion was probably no inferior to the full-force strike of a World Destruction Level expert. The Angels inside those satellite Fortresses, along with the Six-winged Angels that charged in to hunt them down earlier, were likely... completely wiped out.
This Sage’s methods were ruthless and decisive. Raylo did not even know when Austin Sage had set up this trap.
At this moment, the fierce main battlefield in the distance also seemed to experience a brief standstill due to this sudden, earth-shattering turn of events. Whether it was the Celestial Claw or the Announcing Death Angel Army forming their arrays, they all subconsciously looked toward that rapidly expanding ball of destructive light.
Right then, the golden shield on the surface of that core Divine Kingdom, which was like a golden Sun, suddenly rippled with intense, undulating light.