The Era of Gods

Chapter 660: Chapter 660 Merging with the Angel Birth Pool

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First, Lin Xiao utilized the Creation Rubik’s Cube to extract the Eternal Cloud Palace from his true body, transforming it into a card that could be transmitted across vast expanses of the void to his avatar’s hands via the Cube. The previously summoned crowd of around three to four thousand Rank 7 Titan Giants and three hundred and twenty Rank 8 Thunder God Lords were still retained.

Then, he extracted the Creation Ancient Tree. This would interrupt the production of Steel Golems and Diamond Golem models, but it wasn’t a big problem. After all, there were so many Star Spirit Mages within the Divine Realm, and they had already stockpiled several hundreds of thousands of Steel Golems. He could craft them slowly by hand as well.

Besides, he was only embedding it into the Abyssal Blood Pool, not losing it entirely. It might even retain this capability after merging.

Haven’t synthesized cards with the Creation Rubik’s Cube in a long time, Lin Xiao was not rusty at all and efficiently dismantled various cards, separating the essences, refining away the useless, and categorizing the useful aside.

Of these, naturally, the most important were the few key factors disassembled from the Abyssal Blood Pool.

These were the Waters of the Lethe and the Blood Pool itself.

Putting aside the Stygian Water for the moment, that substance was akin to potent poison for True Gods. In fact, without the Creation Rubik’s Cube, he simply could not have isolated it. As a True God, he dared not handle the Blood Pool directly for study.

The Blood Pool was the key to the demonic birth in this seven-star Divine Card; the internal structure of the artifact wasn’t overly complex. After all, whether it was the Creation Ancient Tree or the Eternal Cloud Palace, they functioned on the same principle, birthing Titan Giants or golem models. It was just focusing on different aspects and appearances, but the internal essence was quite similar.

Ah, and the most important difference was that the templates each contained for creation varied.

The Eternal Cloud Palace’s templates were for constructing Titan Giants and Thunder God Lords—those two types of golems—while the Creation Ancient Tree, aside from the numerous biological gene templates it originally stored, predominantly used the templates for Steel Golems and Diamond Golems. Naturally, the Abyssal Blood Pool had the template for demons.

Worth mentioning is that the demons born from the Abyssal Blood Pool had limits. There were only a few types that could be derived, and they couldn’t evolve into an infinite variety like the demons from the true Bottomless Abyss.

After all, if that were the case, this wouldn’t be just a simple seven-star Divine Card; it would be a Rank 9 God Card.

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If so, Lin Xiao would not have so readily dismantled it. He would have delved into its secrets because the demon creation system of the Bottomless Abyss was a coveted thing even for those with great divine power.

What Lin Xiao needed to do was simple: he would dismantle the Blood Pool, Eternal Cloud Palace, and the Creation Ancient Tree. Then, using Creation Energy, he would form a massive, whirlpool-shaped furnace within the Magic Cube Space, melding the dismantled systems of these three entities, as well as the dissolved systems from the other cards. He would remove the overlapping or redundant parts, extract the essence, and harmoniously fuse them into one through his understanding of the Creation Law, all with the aid of the Creation Energy.

At this moment, Lin Xiao still had over five thousand points of Creation Energy at his disposal, with a continuous flow pouring into the whirlpool. His will also immersed within it, comprehending the plethora of information and nuances that came from this act of creation.

This was all a manifestation of the Creation Law; creation wasn’t limited to just the act of birthing life.

Unfortunately, his current level of comprehension of the Creation Law was already extremely high, so the benefits this synthesis offered him were not that great.

Minutes later, the whirlpool, having absorbed close to a hundred units of Creation Energy, no longer accepted the influx of energy, but the amount of Creation Energy held within the whirlpool was far more than just one hundred units.

One must remember how much Creation Energy Lin Xiao had spent when he first refined the Creation Ancient Tree. As he re-forged it now, naturally all of it was included.

As the whirlpool quickly shrank, a transparent and irregular orb, resembling water, gradually appeared.

Lin Xiao pondered for a moment and didn’t allow this concentration of essence to take shape. Instead, with a thought, he unfolded the still-shifting essence into a mirror of water and then, with his finger, he touched the surface. A strand of invisible spiritual power was branded into it. Following the swift motion of his fingers, an image of a tall humanoid creature, about four meters in height, with wings, a shield in one hand, a sword in the other, and two bundles of javelins on each shoulder, appeared.

The moment the branding of this spiritual power took shape, Lin Xiao immediately sensed an indescribable change occurring within the essence.

He had the measure of it, and using the humanoid creature as a template, he sketched out another much larger creature, nearly identical to the first.

The reason it was nearly identical was that the second humanoid creature stood about ten meters tall in similarly exquisite armor, but it had two pairs of wings.

However, as he was halfway through drawing the second creature, the transparent essence began to tremble slightly. It seemed as though the light mirror was about to collapse unstably. Lin Xiao, understanding exactly why this was happening, quickly injected more Creation Energy to stabilize it again.

By the time he finished drawing the second humanoid creature, he had inadvertently spent over three hundred units of Creation Energy.

But Lin Xiao felt not the slightest pang of regret; rather, he looked at the significantly altered essence with a hint of pleasure. As the master of the Creation Rubik’s Cube, he could sense the change occurring within it.

What he had just branded with his spiritual power was a model of a Battle Angel created by himself, drawing inspiration from the multitude of angelic beings in the Toriel Multiverse’s Heavenly Realm.

Whether it was the Abyssal Blood Pool, the Eternal Cloud Palace, or the Creation Ancient Tree, as well as many of the core functions of the amalgamated cards, all had the commonality of utilizing resources to create various combat entities.

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This essence fusion integrated all its functions into one—naturally surpassing its predecessor, possessing its functionalities as well.

Most importantly, the essence that had just been fused was in a blank state; at this time, he could choose to load the battle creature template originally associated with the card, or he could reset and define a new battle creature template. Lin Xiao opted to set a new battle creature template, his target very clear—Battle Angels!

The name of Battle Angels resonated with extraordinary fame within the Elements Crystal Wall in the Chaos Void Ocean, known for their high aesthetic value and formidable combat power, as well as their plentiful numbers, making them the most coveted clans or soldiers by the gods.

However, the vast majority of True Gods in the Main World could not obtain Angels.

To be precise, the majority of the Main World—even within the Divine Kingdoms of True Gods from different domains—possessed Angels. Even within the territory of Lin Xiao’s Avatar’s Divine Kingdom, there existed Caveman Angels, but these Angels were quite different from the ones he was now creating.

The Caveman Angels were merely Ground Dwellers whose forms had been slightly altered by Prayers; at their core, they were still Ground Dwellers and Prayers.

What exactly are Prayers?

They were the souls of deceased devotees, transformed by the Divine Kingdom, with significant inherent limitations.

In contrast, the Angels he was currently preparing to create were the real deal—authentic Battle Angels. They were not only a race but also akin to combat weapons like Magic Puppets, including the attributes of Prayers—an essential point since Prayers could provide the Deities with the Power of Faith.

Although they could only provide one percent of the Power of Faith compared to regular devotees, it was still the Power of Faith, which could serve as a source of Divine Power for the Deities.

Most crucially, Battle Angels didn’t have the limitations of Prayers; they could reside for long periods both within the Divine Kingdom and the material plane. When needed, they might stay in the Divine Kingdom as guardians or leave at any moment to embark on a campaign against enemies of the Primary Material Plane.

Leading the Caveman Angel Corps of Lin Xiao’s Divine Kingdom on a campaign would consume a large amount of Divine Power to ensure their existence in the material world.

The consumption for a short campaign wasn’t significant, but if the battle lasted for an extended period, the Divine Power required to maintain their presence would be rather exaggerated.

Yet, Battle Angels had no such concerns. They didn’t need food—only the presence of energy in the world they inhabited. They could sustain themselves by absorbing the energies of the surrounding Void, and even if they were injured, they could slowly recuperate, albeit the process was quite slow.

If there was no energy around, they would gradually weaken, which was an inevitable downfall.

The first Angel, as per the settings, had the strength of Rank 6. It required certain flesh and blood and ten units of Divine Power to be derived, and Lin Xiao named it Battle Angel.

The second Angel, towering at ten meters, achieved the strength of a Rank 8 at Legendary Level. To match such a sizable frame, corresponding flesh and blood, along with a hundred units of Divine Power, were necessary for creation, and Lin Xiao named this one War Angel.

Beyond that, Lin Xiao invested no less than 3,600 units of Creation Energy to stabilize the essence before inscribing upon it the third template, which he named Titan Angel.

This new template, reaching about thirty meters in height and endowed with the strength of Rank 10, boasted three pairs of wings on its back, enveloped in a halo of formidable power, with even a pair of energy-formed tiny wings behind its head, invoking an aura of holiness and majesty.

The Divine Angel required the flesh and blood of exceptionally powerful creatures for its emergence, such as the flesh of Mythical beings like Dragons and Giants. Besides this, as much as a thousand points of Divine Power and a speck of Divinity were needed.

Divine Power was easy to come by, and the flesh of Mythical beings wasn’t a challenge either—he had plenty of Supreme Nagas in his Divine Realm, and their naturally deceased bodies could be readily offered up without issue.

However, that bit of Divinity was somewhat troublesome; it was foreseeable that the number of these top-tier Angels wouldn’t be that large.

With the branding of the three models complete, although theoretically possible to imprint even stronger models, the Creation Energy he had left was insufficient to stabilize the essence.

The consumption of Creation Energy wasn’t linear but increased in geometric progression.

To stabilize the second War Angel model, a little over three hundred units of Creation Energy were used, and to cement the third Titan Angel model, he used more than 3,600 units. If he were to inscribe a fourth one, he estimated that at least 100,000 units of Creation Energy would be needed for stabilization, and even that might not be enough.

Now, with only 1,400 units of Creation Energy remaining, that was not even close to sufficient.

With a satisfied heart, Lin Xiao solidified the essence into a large… pool.

He didn’t go for anything unconventional. Without even congealing a card, he directly created an Angel Birth Pool, transferred it back to his True Body through the Creation Rubik’s Cube, and then deployed it within his Divine Realm’s… Heaven Divine Realm.

In the future, merely by injecting flesh and blood and Divine Power, he would be able to continuously birth Angels of all levels to wage his wars.