The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 512 - 323 Opening

Chapter 512: Chapter 323 Opening

Rod was startled.

Soul Fragments of the Sun Ancient God?

So, His Divine Envoy is actually something derived from His Soul?

No way...

So the Divine Envoy, who extols miracles and praises divine power, is essentially me praising myself?

If the scene were even grander, with the God descending into His Divine City, greeted by thousands of Divine Envoys singing hymns and flattering Him, that would be too absurd.

But Rod reconsidered and thought that something derived from Soul Fragments doesn’t necessarily have to be the original entity; perhaps it developed a new will.

Just like the remnants of the Rebirth Flesh God, Heragotos.

After corruption and mutation, it has become an entirely new monster.

Rod retracted his thoughts, and the idea occurred to him to check the information of the soul.

[Soul Fragment of the Sun Ancient God, Helios]

[From the Sun Ancient God Helios]

[Great Soul]

[Possessing 1 Source]

A small joy stirred in Rod’s heart.

He already had two Great Souls; he needed just one more for the "Star Shuttle" to reach its complete state.

This would most definitely cause a leap in his strength.

Moreover, among these two Great Souls, there were also two sources.

Rod wondered if there was a way to separate the Source and the Soul.

Once the Book of Knowledge woke up, he would ask it.

Rod turned his head; Cilly and Lannister stood at a distance, their expressions unchanging, like dried salted fish.

"Let’s go back!"

Rod said smilingly, casually picking up a clump of grey mud from the ashes, which was the Divine Envoy’s ashes.

"Mission accomplished."

Only then did the two snap back to reality, Cilly exclaimed with a blush on her face.

"Rod, you’re so awesome!"

Lannister’s expression was complicated, showing disbelief at the incredible event, joy over overcoming a difficulty, and an ineffable loss.

"How did you kill it?"

He paused for a moment, but reason prevailed and he asked.

"In the past whenever we dealt with it, it always took a massive effort. Although its Absolute Spiritual Power was weak, by our standards it should only be Primary Rank Strong, but its special nature, with an incredibly hard shell, meant that we couldn’t kill it without standards for dealing with High Rank Strong, and it would cause heavy casualties."

Lannister choked up before swallowing down the words, "Our combat standards are only enough to contend with Primary Rank Strong, facing Middle Rank requires discussions."

Rod nodded; Lannister’s words were not wrong at all.

Based on his experience, Primary Rank Strong could only gain a powerful or relatively powerful soul, Middle Rank would have a very powerful soul, while High Rank was between a soul "close to Great" and a Great Soul.

Only Super Rank was definitely a Great Soul.

All the Great Souls he had obtained came from fragments or remnants of an Ancient God.

"I just happened to counter it."

Rod thought about it and decided not to exaggerate his combat ability.

His absolute strength wasn’t as strong as it appeared; over-emphasizing his combat ability could lead to overturning.

This was a very likely occurrence.

If he continued this way, constantly boasting about his strength, Trolian’s high command might think, seeing how great you are and how shining your battle records are, you must be very dependable.

Then, the glorious and arduous task would be bestowed upon him,

assigning him solo to hunt down a creature like the Abyss Giant Snake.

Due to their great faith in him, they might not even prepare for a failure, thinking he considered no creature a match for him.

The result is predictable.

His raw strength wasn’t enough, he couldn’t breach the defense, and was killed instantly by the giant snake.

Although he resurrected, the giant snake had destroyed the town he was supposed to protect, and countless residents of the Fire Kingdom were dead or injured.

They couldn’t be resurrected.

Instead of giving humanity more hope, because of his underestimation, Rod caused a massive loss, and a great deficit would appear in the next divinity settlement, just like the last time he disturbed the Spirit Realm causing an anomaly in the Holy Fire.

Such an event absolutely must not happen.

Before obtaining true stable power, Rod would rather have them underestimate his strength than overestimate it.

So, he still chose to attribute most of the credit for killing the monster to the "counter" relationship.

"This thing’s shell is very hard, but its tentacles, the main body, are very fragile, lacking any Spiritual Protection, with the soul exposed. This seems to be related to the type of its fatal attack."

By this point, Lannister had understood.

Although Cilly didn’t understand, she felt it was impressive.

Rod smiled and continued.

"My Flame Creation ’Soul Defense’ can withstand a fatal injury once, and its tentacles are the weapons it uses for a fatal attack."

"In this case, it was a limit exchange between me and it, it shattered my ’Soul Defense’, and I shattered its Divine Soul."

"Just like that, it died, and I lost an item, a fair exchange, no losses on either side."

Rod paused for a moment, touched the flame mark on his collar, and continued.

"You guys can do the same; the flame mark can withstand a strong attack once, right?"

Lannister shook his head: "It has its limits. If the power of the attack exceeds Tenth Level Spiritual Energy, it’s not very effective. It’s better not to rely on this feature too heavily; the main use of the flame mark is for transmitting messages and locating."

"Rod, you’re so amazing yet so humble." Cilly said with a smile. "How about coming to my room tonight?"