The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 175 - 129: Besieged

Chapter 175: Chapter 129: Besieged

The consumption of Spiritual Energy by the Spirit Boat made Rod acutely aware that his Spiritual Energy, although increasing rapidly, was far from strong.

If it weren’t for "Justice Execution," without the Thunder Stone or Spirit Gun, he could hardly inflict any damage.

Still too weak!

In the following days, Rod hunted monsters with even greater effort.

The strength of the dark tide also increased rapidly and soon surpassed the previous peak.

However, the range of the Guardian Fire dropped to two hundred yards, the pressure on Sword Pass was immense, but everyone was confident because reinforcements from Dawn Fortress would arrive soon.

But three days later, the reinforcements were nowhere in sight, yet the intensity of the dark tide had exceeded expectations, and some very troublesome monsters appeared before Sword Pass.

The most troublesome were the monsters known as Horror Demons.

They looked like huge, swollen stillborns, dragging a long umbilical cord, with mouths full of backward-facing barbs.

Their bodies were covered in deadly poison and continually affected the minds of those around them.

They also had an exceptionally strong climbing ability, capable of scaling ninety-yard-high walls in a matter of seconds.

Whenever a Horror Demon appeared, everyone had to go up to the wall to fight.

As the battle continued, many started to experience mental trances, muttering, and sudden amnesia among other symptoms.

Steel Hand knew their spirits had been contaminated and they must rest near the fire for a while, unable to join the fight.

This undoubtedly intensified the pressure on Sword Pass.

But if they were forced to continue fighting, the pollution of their spirits would worsen, and once the infection spread to their very souls, it was all over.

For this reason, Steel Hand, Dark Leaf, Mo’er, and others carefully worked out a combat rotation strategy. Meanwhile, Mina, serving as both a researcher and a pharmacist, concocted special potions to cleanse the warriors’ souls of impurities.

Among all, only Rod was an exception.

He spent the longest time fighting on the wall, faced Horror Demons the most, but never showed any mental symptoms.

Rod’s explanation was that he had high spirit resistance.

Moreover, "grass" could purify pollutants.

This claim was supported by Mina, who noted that their research on plants found that grass could indeed purify impurities in water.

An environment full of grass also had a soothing effect on the mind.

From this, it could be inferred that the fire type called "Grass" should have similar abilities.

Upon hearing this, Steel Hand couldn’t help but exclaim, "If Rod were my son, this life would be worth it."

His words represented the inner voice of many.

With such a person, unafraid of pollution, Steel Hand immediately changed tactics.

Whenever a Horror Demon appeared, everyone would support or cover Rod from a distance, while he himself rushed forward to individually slay each Horror Demon.

If it weren’t for such a good thing, Rod would definitely beat all the people of Sword Pass into submission.

With me as your father, you can also feel proud.

Horror Demons were the fattest souls Rod had ever seen.

A Soul Without Spirit of at least 700, plus more than a dozen pieces of Spirituality and a Fear trait.

Although he didn’t know what use the Fear trait had, it didn’t prevent Rod from collecting them.

Thus, on the fifth day, Rod once again possessed sixty-thousand Souls Without Spirit.

Returning to his room, he immediately entered the Dream Realm.

Looking up, he saw the inscription at the top of the Obelisk.

Soul Strength: 1100

Soul Star: 4

Humanity: 109

Divinity: 35

Souls Without Spirit: 60922

During this period, what was consumed the most was Humanity.

The Humanity required to fuel "Justice Execution" daily was 9, and the stronger the Star, the more Humanity needed to fuel it.

The prematurely ignited Spirit Boat also consumed 1.

A total of 10.

Fighting against Horror Demons, Humanity was constantly decreasing, at least 1 per kill.

If he were slow, then it would cost 2.

Rod had already used nearly 1000 points of Humanity, had he not been fiercely amassing it, it would have been exhausted long ago.

Need to get more,

Rod thought.

He walked to the front of the Obelisk and placed his hand on its surface.

In the deep night sky, four stars twinkled with distinct glows.

Rod shifted his gaze to the one that shimmered in pale yellow like a ribbon, mentally directed all the Souls Without Spirit into it.

The star’s flames began to leap, fiercely igniting.

But it was far from reaching its limit.

Rod increased the intensity, the Souls Without Spirit in the upper right corner rapidly declined, and the flames started to burn violently, the pale yellow light illuminating the night sky.

Suddenly, the light solidified.

Rod immediately poured all his Souls Without Spirit, countless black-and-white fluffy substances falling into the star’s flames.

It trembled, struggled, as if something was about to break free from its cocoon.

Suddenly, the flames contracted inward and burst forth violently, pale yellow light enveloping the night sky, the burning Starfire seeming to pierce through the obelisk.

Rod then shifted his gaze.

"Justice Execution"

"State: Superlimit Burning"

"Star Energy: Spiritual Power Fifth Layer Melody"

"Inject: Complete Soul"

"Fuel: Humanity"

"Quantification: Unavailable"

"Position: Golden Fire"

"Strength: 1000"

"Description: Incapable of crying out in despair, I just want to embrace such a helpless you"

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So strong!

Rod was almost blinded by the flashing golden light.

Indeed, the Fiery Fire, Golden Fire, and Eternal Fire, these three positions signify transformation.

The Star had reached a new stage, many of its requirements and descriptions had changed.

Especially these descriptions, made Rod always feel like they’re akin to epitaphs or inscriptions on tombstones.