Chapter 1220: Clearing The Grey Rot 11
Chapter 1220: Clearing The Grey Rot 11
Silent Walker had chosen this law because, interestingly, it shared similarities with the grey rot itself. The grey rot's most notorious ability was its capacity to easily break down energy and elemental-based attacks, which Silent Walker's new law also gave him.
Naturally, he was a crazy fellow who decided to test the obvious question of who had a stronger breakdown ability. As such, he applied the law to his body and casually walked into an area of the grey rot.
Immediately, the grey rot surged as it tried to consume him, but then the veil of darkness that surrounded his body also surged and began to consume the grey rot. Two black holes met and rather than cause an explosion, they began to compete in terms of their ability to swallow each other.
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However, the strength of both, while reasonably strong, differed. This was not in terms of force, but in terms of expenditure.
In terms of force, this was an idle section of the grey rot, so it was naturally not as strong as the core of the grey rot, while Silent Walker's law was still at the beginner stage. Their power here was give or take about equal.
Where the problem lay came from the expenditure, or the source of power for the aforementioned force.
One cannot suck without strong lungs, after all.
For Silent Walker, the source was obviously Divine Energy from his Divine Source Origin. All laws were powered by this 'fuel tank' that all True Gods possessed and how much it cost as well as how much you could supply at a time varied.
For the grey rot, it was its mass. Unlike typical existences, and much akin to a type of devouring apocalypse, it used its own mass as the source of its expenditure, meaning that the harder it sucked, the thinner the fog became as it was spent to suck on whatever the target was.
So Silent Walker - with his various buffs and abilities - while competing with the grey rot, found that…
This was actually sustainable!
He didn't need to fire beams or exert himself, just measure his source origin's ability to generate new energy versus how much his law consumed to battle the grey rot, maintain a slightly positive balance, and he could farm forever by just standing there!
Oh, and occasionally taking a step forward too, haha.
Dreary Traveler, also part of the OG boys, was not struggling like the others. When it was time to choose his law, his choice had been the easiest and the most straightforward of all the core members.
Name: Dreary Traveler – True God
Level: The Law of Living Death (Basic)
Divine Energy: 100%/100%
Law of Living Death - Divine Law
Grade: EX+
Effect: This is a peak law of the death class that focuses on the concept of life in death, not after nor before, but during. It does not have any offensive or defensive effects, but provides a great boon to all undead related abilities used by the user of this law, granting a variety of effects that depend on the user's will!
Sources: The Lich King (Divine Class) + Turn Living (Active Skill)
There were many laws Dreary Traveler could have chosen, like the Law of Icy Death which merged his Lich class' ability to manipulate ice along with the death element for strong offensive, defensive, and cursing power, or even the Law of Endless Death, the Law of True Death, the Law of Pure Death, etc.
However, Dreary Traveler much rather preferred this law for it allowed him to effect the change he wished - within a certain range depending on the strength of his law and available energy - which synergized with his already strong skills from his former Divine Class.
Currently, the young man has used some ice element skills and spells to test the grey rot and found that it had some good effect, but he was bored immediately. He saw that Jade was on his team and knew ice was her thing, so he stopped using it despite Jade not even getting a chance due to Jada's machine gun style of attack.
He then saw that Happy Saint was already using the swarm tactic, so he disdained opening his netherworld gate and unleashing millions of undead into the grey rot.
As the young man idly wondered how to fulfill his obligations, he saw that the grey rot manifested a monster to fight back against the assault of others and it was as if a hammer had whacked him on the head.
That's it!
Dreary Traveler's mind became clear, like a sunny sky showing after the dark cloud dispersed.
The grey rot had taken countless lives into its midst, assimilating their bodies and souls to form a part of its mass, which could later be recreated or even 're-summoned' to defend it later on.
In a way, the grey rot was performing necromancy!
And in the field of necromancy, none were more qualified than he, Dreary Traveler, the Lich King!
As such, he smiled insidiously at the grey rot and raised his index and middle fingers up together, speaking softly. "Arise!"
Perfect Return – Active skill
Effect: Using the purest Death Energy, command every corpse within a Continent Zone to rise up from their graves and fight under your banner. All corpses raised like this retain 200% of their power, skills, abilities, and intelligence.
Cooldown: 15 minutes or 0.0008 Divine Points
Immediately, the grey rot boiled like someone had poured hot water over it, its mass beginning to shift and congeal crazily. One could hear roars and screams from within the grey rot as various forms manifested, those of various monsters and humanoids, as well as the various other races in existence.
The grey rot remained turbulent in such a manner while Dreary Traveler felt a sharp drain on his Divine Energy supply as he battled with the grey rot for control over the 'corpses' of the various entities it had assimilated into its own mass.
Eventually, his attempt failed as he had to cut off the skill when his supply of Divine Energy was about to bottom out, but Dreary Traveler still smiled since the grey rot was not only very unstable, but its mass and density had significantly decreased.
He paid the Divine Point cost for the spell and recharged his Divine Energy rapidly before unleashing it again, repeating the same process but this time being smarter about it by trying to control the intensity.
Dreary Traveler couldn't help but reveal a crazy and eerie smile, as he had finally found a fun way to deal with the grey rot!
Meanwhile, Slim Fatty, whose name didn't fit her now since she had gone from as thin as a stick due to her anorexia to a voluptuous beauty, was currently engaged with the grey rot in an intense battle.
She did not even spend a second contemplating her actions like the others. The moment she encountered the grey rot, it was on sight!
Name: Slim Fatty – True God
Level: The Law of Omnipotent Sword (Basic)
Divine Energy: 100%/100%
Law of Omnipotent Sword - Divine Law
Grade: EX+
Effect: One of the strongest offensive laws in existence. Its function is to greatly increase all sword, blade, or saber related damage by a minimum factor of 100% per rank of the law while also granting it all elemental effects. The user of this law can use any element while wielding a blade.
Sources: Goddess of the Blade (Divine Class) + Sword Goddess (Passive Skill)
Slim Fatty had always been about damage, previously ranking right after Jada in the damage rankings back in the day. Even with the God Serpent's and bestowal emerging, she was still a top damage dealer due to her powerful equipment as well as amazing class abilities.
When it came time to select her law, she found that most sword-related laws were actually focused on offensive damage along with some others that enhanced other effects like weakening, distance, piercing, etc.
However, she was not satisfied with any of them till she came upon this one because it gave her what she needed the most!
As a sword user, Slim Fatty often suffered from dealing with some of the enemies they faced when fighting world bosses down below because her skills and equipment focused on increasing damage but did not have any elemental effects.
Like the grey rot, there had been many enemies who were resistant to 'normal damage', much like ghost-type Pokémon.
It doesn't matter how big your 'hyper beam' is, honey, I didn't feel anything when you put it in!
So when she saw the chance to maintain a strong damage dealing ability while obtaining elemental damage, Slim Fatty naturally jumped on the train. With excitement, she charged at the grey rot to unleash her sword slashes that formed crescent-shaped waves that swept into the grey rot.
She cycled through various elements, going from fire, to water, to lightning, and even to space.
Slim Fatty's smile of excitement soon waned and changed into a pale expression as she realized that there really was no free lunch in this world. Yes, this law allowed her to imbue any element into her swings while increasing overall offensive damage greatly, but by god, the Divine Energy drain was horrifying!
Especially when she used higher elements like space. Let's not even talk about when she used destruction energy, it almost caused her to suffer the same fate as Noble Writer!
Slim Fatty hesitated. She decided her best method would not be to go at it raw like the other core members but to play to her own strengths.
As such, she cleverly imbued her law into one of her active skills and then cast it using Divine Points. This allowed her to bypass the Divine Energy cost since Divine Points replaced that necessity.
Golden Cross Slash – Active skill
Effect: The Goddess of the Blade forms divine light around their sword and swings it twice, forming a cross-shaped slash that shoots forward, dealing 25,000% sword damage to enemies in the area of effect.
Cooldown: 15 minutes or 0.0008 Divine Points
Slim Fatty wielded her strongest damage-dealing sword up as she rose into the air slowly. The blinding golden glow caught the eyes of those around as it was hard to miss and signified a bevy of martial power beyond the norm.
At the height of her ascent, the young woman roared and swung her sword twice at an incline, creating a cross shape. The giant golden cross caused the air alone to shake as it hurtled towards the grey rot's area.
The moment it connected, it lanced through the grey rot and turned it into a vaporous fog causing it to slowly dissipate like someone had turned on a fan. The golden cross itself continued through the grey rot slowly, its color rapidly dimming as the grey rot consumed its outer shell.
This was when Slim Fatty's eyes narrowed dangerously as she flourished her sword casually and spoke one cold word.
"Explode."
The presence of void energy hidden within the golden cross slash exploded outward just when it was about to dissipate, causing a giant orb of blackish light to emerge in that area, swallowing everything into null space.
When it disappeared, all that was left was a barren land and a small crater. Out of all the core members, Slim Fatty's method was the most destructive so far and most reminiscent of the Evil trio when they used to drop celestial bodies on the poor Divine Realm.
However, she did not feel shame because this suited her the most!
At most, it was just paying some money to repair the land right? She had plenty of that!
Meanwhile, to the eastern end of the Umbra Divine Pantheon were the Overpowereds, a group formed by Essence Stalker by those within their group whose powers were so broken that it just did not make sense.
Don't get him wrong, Essence believed in all the core members and acknowledged their strength, but the overpowered contained those that even some of the core members would pale at the idea of facing head-on both inside the game and outside.