105: Chapter 105 Ascension to Golden Demigod and the Ice Storm Swarm
Su Chen withdrew his gaze from Theodore; the reborn demigod dragon was prostrating respectfully on the ground, restraining its newly acquired, vast divine might.
His gaze pierced through the dome of the temple, crossed the boundaries of the Zerg Swarm's divine domain, and cast itself toward the endless void that harbored countless covetous eyes and malice.
Having two demigod-level enforcers—one being the unrivaled King of Ultralisks on the frontline, and the other the immortal Biochemical Bone Dragon wielding the laws of death—already constituted a powerful force that would make any pantheon take notice.
But it was not enough.
Next...
Su Chen muttered to himself, the trace of cold anticipation in his voice transforming into tangible will.
It's my turn.
The moment his will was issued, the core temple of the entire Iron Hive emitted a low metallic resonance.
The magnificent temple gate, engraved with the genetic blueprints of billions of Zerg, slowly closed under the gazes of countless believers. The heavy sound of metal grinding was like the curtain falling on an era, while simultaneously signaling the dawn of a new one.
The temple was completely sealed, isolating everything inside from the outside.
Su Chen sat cross-legged upon the god throne.
His consciousness did not pause for an instant, sinking straight into the deepest depths of his godhead.
Here was an ocean of faith.
The viscous, brilliant, and purely golden Power Of Faith was no longer a gentle stream, but had transformed into a roaring ocean, whipping up towering waves and frantically scouring his divine body.
This body was long past being mere mortal flesh and blood.
But at this moment, it was undergoing an even more thorough transformation.
Every cell was being broken down, infused, and reconstructed within this golden ocean. The essence of flesh and blood was stripped away, filled with divine power, and converted into a vessel capable of bearing the supreme laws of the universe.
This was a process of completely erasing "I" from the material world and being reborn in a higher dimension.
Su Chen's consciousness hovered in the center of this golden ocean, watching all of this with indifference.
Divine Fire, ignite!
A low shout originating from the depths of his soul.
The Divine Fire coiled within his body received the command and instantly surged from a mere spark into flames that could incinerate the heavens!
The massive amount of faith value, which had just accumulated to over 40 million, became the ultimate fuel at this moment.
The raging Divine Fire was no longer nourishing, but scorching!
They attached themselves to the godhead, and those law patterns representing what he controlled began to groan under the unbearable heat of the flames, starting to twist, deform, and even melt.
An indescribable, excruciating pain instantly overwhelmed his perception.
It was not the pain of the flesh, but a fundamental, excruciating agony of the soul being placed at the core of a star and repeatedly calcined, crushed, and torn apart by billions of degrees of heat.
Even the toughest soul would instantly collapse and turn to nothingness under such pain.
But Su Chen's consciousness was like a piece of eternal black ice.
His mind did not waver in the slightest; it did not even ripple.
The pain was real.
But he was above the pain.
Time lost its meaning here.
It could have been an instant, or it could have been millions of years.
At the moment the last trace of the law patterns was smelted, recast by the Divine Fire, and deeply branded into the origin of his godhead.
Boom!
A crisp sound, like the first burst of light when the universe first opened, exploded in the deepest part of his soul!
That was not a sound.
That was the shattering of a shackle.
A shackle named "Limit," branded into the genes and souls of all living beings since the beginning of mortal life, was at this moment completely broken by him in the most brutal and resolute manner!
Ten thousand feet of golden light erupted from Su Chen's body without warning!
This was not the light of energy, nor the brilliance of magic.
This was the radiance of pure divinity.
It was the ultimate proof of a leap in life level, completely transcending the category of mortal creatures!
[Congratulations! Promotion successful!]
[You have become a Seventh-Turn Demigod (Gold Rank)!]
The cold system prompt, like the final note in this symphony of promotion, declared the completion of the ritual.
Su Chen slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes were no longer purely black; deep within those pupils, it seemed as if thunder and storms were being born and dying, and stars were coming into existence and withering away.
With just the action of lifting his eyes, the entire sealed temple space let out a faint, groaning sound of being unable to bear the divine might he was unconsciously emitting.
Promotion alone is not enough.
He felt the surging divine power within him, more than a hundred times stronger than before, yet there was not a hint of joy on his face.
I want to fuse my divine portfolios.
He reached out his right hand and opened his palm.
As his thought stirred, three distinct beams of light slowly emerged above his palm.
One was deep cyan, with the ceaseless howling of gales inside, full of the aura of tearing and turbulence.
[Gale]
One was dark blue, exuding endless moisture and cold, as if it could penetrate into the depths of the soul.
[Rain]
The last one was an extremely unsettling dark red; merely looking at it would make one feel the despair of the apocalypse descending and all things withering.
[Calamity]
These were the three minor divine portfolios he had accumulated previously.
Any deity, just after promotion, would carefully nourish their godhead and adapt to the surging power.
Forcibly fusing divine portfolios with conflicting natures, especially when the foundation was not yet stable, was a taboo behavior equivalent to suicide in any theology textbook.
The conflict of divine portfolios was enough to instantly detonate the godhead, causing the newly promoted demigod to fall on the spot.
But Su Chen was going to do this suicidal thing.
Fuse!
He spat out a cold syllable.
His five fingers suddenly clenched!
The massive divine sense brought by his recent promotion transformed into an invisible giant hand, forcibly squeezing those three fiercely resisting and conflicting beams of light together!
Zzzzt—!
The cyan, blue, and red lights flashed wildly, and the violent energy conflict caused the space in his palm to start twisting and shattering!
The wind tried to blow away the rain, the rain tried to extinguish the calamity, and the calamity was frantically eroding everything!
The balance would be broken within one hundred-millionth of a second.
However, Su Chen's consciousness transformed into a supercomputer that surpassed everything at this moment.
The system's terrifying computing power turned into billions of data streams within his divine sense.
Countless possibilities of fusion failure and countless consequences of energy explosions flashed through his mind.
Then, at the end of all failures, he forcibly found the only path to success that didn't exist at all!
That absolute equilibrium point!
Wind aids the rain, rain borrows the wind's might!
Take Calamity as the core to govern everything!
Su Chen's divine sense precisely found that point, and then nailed his will into it fiercely!
Hum—!
All the violence and conflict ceased abruptly at this moment.
The blinding light suddenly dissipated.
A brand new divine portfolio rune, exuding a terrifying aura, floated quietly in his palm.
It was a faded dark cyan color, with the edges of the rune showing countless tiny ice crystals and phantoms of wind blades, while the core was a dark red droplet exuding a corrosive aura.
[Triple · Acid Rain Ice Storm]
This was no longer a simple natural phenomenon.
This was a death storm contaminated by Calamity, capable of corroding all things and cutting through steel!
At the same time, the [Thunder] within him, serving as his life-bound divine portfolio, had also completed its transformation under the nourishment of the massive divine power, evolving to triple power!
Su Chen felt the two brand-new triple divine portfolios within him; the surging sense of power gave him the illusion that he could easily crush stars.
Just at this moment.
A burst of urgent, sharp alarm sounds, loud enough to pierce the eardrums, rang through the entire temple without warning!
[Alarm! Alarm!]
[High-intensity spatial rift reaction detected in the southeast of the divine domain!]
[Determined to be an Abyss beacon positioning! A large number of Abyssal creatures are pouring in!]
The cold system prompt carried an unprecedented sense of urgency.
Su Chen slowly stood up from the god throne.
The dome of the temple turned transparent under his will.
His gaze instantly locked onto the scarlet rift in the southeast of the divine domain that was twisting, cracking, and revealing an endless aura of sulfur and evil.
The corners of his mouth slowly curled up.
It was a cold, cruel, yet somewhat joyful smile.
The knife has just been sharpened, and someone has already offered their neck.
He raised his hand and issued the first oracle after his promotion to the entire Zerg Swarm divine domain.
War.