NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter250-Returning to Ascension City
"Inside... I don't know what's in there! As soon as I entered,
I felt like my entire body didn't belong to me anymore."
"The longer I stayed inside, the stronger this feeling became."
"Luckily, I sealed off all my senses in time,
or I wouldn't have been able to escape."
The leopard God Sovereign spoke with lingering fear.
That courtyard was simply too terrifying.
Although there was definitely treasure inside,
it never wanted to experience anything like that again.
It was too unbearable.
"We should return and bring a God King here!
With just the two of us,
we can't possibly break through this magic array.
There must be an extremely powerful human magic array in there;
otherwise, this wouldn't be possible!"
The leopard God Sovereign declared confidently.
"What are you two beast clan members doing at my house?"
At that moment, a voice unfamiliar to them spoke.
The rat God Sovereign and the leopard God Sovereign turned around,
only to see a stranger standing before them.
"Well! It seems there's still a survivor!
All humans in the 5-Element God Realm must be killed!"
The leopard God Sovereign roared,
charging straight at the human in front of it.
But in the next instant,
it lost consciousness.
Daniel frowned.
Should he commend the beast clan God Sovereign's courage,
or criticize its lack of self-awareness?
What made it think it could attack him?
He knocked it unconscious,
leaving it alive to extract information later.
It might serve another purpose in the future.
The rat God Sovereign,
seeing the leopard God Sovereign knocked out in an instant,
immediately panicked.
It surrendered without hesitation,
its voice trembling.
"Mercy, my lord!
I didn't do anything!
I just came here because I sensed treasure might be inside.
Oh, right! My talent is treasure hunting.
I can find deeply hidden treasures."
Hearing this, Daniel became slightly intrigued.
Treasure hunting?
Could this really be a talent?
"Fine. You stay here for now."
With that, Daniel used a bit of his power
to drag the unconscious leopard back into the courtyard.
The magic array he had left here earlier was proving quite effective.
In one go, it had captured two beast clan God Sovereigns.
On his way back from the Eastern Wastes,
Daniel had contacted the Ink Sea God King.
At the time, the Ink Sea God King had been so excited
that it was as if his eyes were shining with gold.
According to him,
he had been considering returning to the ruins
to plead for Daniel's help in the next few days.
The 5-Element God Realm truly couldn't hold out any longer.
Facing the alliance of human and beast clan God Kings,
it was already a miracle they had lasted this long.
The Ink Sea God King had been preparing to seek assistance.
If Daniel had responded one day later,
he might have caused a mix-up,
with the Ink Sea God King heading into the Eastern Wastes ruins
just as Daniel was arriving at the 5-Element God Realm.
Upon learning that Daniel had emerged from seclusion,
the Ink Sea God King was overjoyed.
He immediately poured out his frustrations,
lamenting all he had endured during this time.
Daniel casually reassured him and instructed
not to inform the 5-Element God King of his return.
The fewer people who knew Daniel was heading to the 5-Element God Realm,
the better.
The 5-Element God King couldn't keep secrets well.
If their enemies caught wind and became alert,
it would ruin Daniel's plan to take them all down in one go.
Based on the Ink Sea God King's estimates,
the enemy's final assault was likely in about a month.
So, Daniel didn't head straight to the 5-Element Temple.
Instead, he returned to Ascension City first.
As it turned out, there was indeed an unexpected reward waiting for him.
The rat clan member with its treasure-hunting talent—
he wasn't sure if it was genuine or not.
The four beast clan God Kings gathered together.
The serpent God King looked irritated.
For two whole years,
it had been stuck in the 5-Element God Realm,
with no progress to show for it.
Normally, four God King-level beast clan members
attacking a single God Realm
without any assistance from other God Realms
should have been an easy task.
But...
Why was it so difficult this time?
At the beginning, after witnessing the formidable magic arrays protecting the massive cities outside the 5-Element Temple, the serpent God King demanded help from the human God Kings allied with them.
And yet...
Those humans lived up to their reputation.
They had promised to attack together and take down the 5-Element God King in one blow.
But when it came down to it,
they didn't lift a finger.
The serpent God King flew into a rage.
It immediately led the million-strong beast clan army to attack the Giant Mountain God Realm instead.
The 5-Element God Realm's defenses were strong
because of the previous beast clan invasion.
But the Giant Mountain God Realm didn't have such formidable defenses.
Sure enough,
the combined strength of four God Kings and a million soldiers was terrifying.
In a short time,
half of the Giant Mountain God Realm fell into beast clan hands.
This success restored the beast clan army's confidence.
After seeing the defenses of the cities around the 5-Element Temple, many beast clan warriors had been filled with dread.
Were human defenses always this overwhelming?
But after their success in the Giant Mountain God Realm,
they realized it wasn't so.
It was only the 5-Element God Realm that was exceptional.
Everywhere else was just average!
It was then that the human side compromised.
All six human God Kings joined the battle,
alongside the four beast clan God Kings,
to attack the 5-Element God Realm together.
Even so, the stalemate dragged on,
and they still hadn't taken the 5-Element God Realm.
The serpent God King's gaze toward the six human God Kings became increasingly distrustful and disdainful.
These people—
were they even reliable?
If it had known things would turn out like this…
Had it cooperated with the 5-Element God King
to attack these six God Kings instead…
They might have won already!
These six incompetent allies,
their plans rarely succeeded.
"Don't worry. This time, we'll win!
Over the past two years,
we've already weakened them several times.
They're practically out of resources.
There's no way we'll lose this time!"
The Giant Mountain God King assured the serpent God King.
"You'd better be right,"
the serpent God King replied coldly.
"We will win.
This time, we've brought out our secret weapons.
The 5-Element God King won't stand a chance."
The Giant Mountain God King sounded confident.
"Good. You humans always like hiding things. If you had gone all-out from the start,
none of this would've been necessary."
The serpent God King sneered.
If they had such tools,
why didn't they use them earlier?
Over the past two years,
they had suffered no small amount of setbacks.
They had no effective way to deal with the 5-Element God King.
These six human God Kings were nothing but schemers.
They had plenty of ideas,
but none of them seemed to work in practice.
They were practically useless.
Even many beast clan members were deeply dissatisfied with the humans.
The Giant Mountain God King smiled faintly, saying nothing.
Could he argue? Of course not.
Such secret weapons—
How could they have been used earlier?
His goal was to let the 5-Element God King
and the beast clan wear each other down.
If he used the secret weapons too soon,
they would be meaningless.
It wouldn't achieve their original aim.
But on another note…
The 5-Element God King was incredibly resilient.
They had thought that an alliance with the beast clan
would quickly bring down the 5-Element God King.
But when everyone saw the magic arrays
on the cities around the 5-Element Temple,
they were all stunned.
Those arrays were practically made of divine stones!
It would take trillions of divine stones to build such defenses!
How bizarre.
Wasn't the 5-Element God King notoriously poor?
Hadn't the Giant Mountain God King once seen him so desperate
that he had auctioned his Supreme Artifact
through the Godlink Consortium?
How had the 5-Element God King suddenly acquired so many divine stones?
It defied all logic!