625: Chapter 677 Forcing An Ke to Enter the Peak of Ascension

But just as Ai was halfway through, this incident occurred.

For a moment, the others didn't dare to approach easily.

What if they were affected too?

Before figuring out the situation, everyone remained cautious.

However, even if the demigods didn't go over, Xiao came to them.

The soaring pillar of energy suddenly retracted, converging onto Xiao's body.

At this moment, Xiao no longer wore a long robe like the other demigods.

He was composed entirely of darkness, which draped over him like a long garment.

On his head, he wore a skull similar to that of a goat.

In his hand, he held a long sword.

He floated in the air, his mere presence exerting a terrifying pressure.

The demigods present looked grave.

"No matter how you look at it, this guy doesn't seem like he's about to fall."

"How did he extend his life?"

"He must have been influenced by something inside Ascension Peak."

"Do you all remember the scene that appeared before??"

"Back then, someone invaded the game, but they were quickly pulled into the tower by the darkness gushing out from Ascension Peak."

"Isn't that darkness exactly the same as the darkness on Xiao?"

"So you mean, even if we haven't entered Ascension Peak, the thing inside is forcing us to take on the challenge?"

"..."

Since the demigods didn't know the true situation,

their guesses could only go this far.

"What should we do now?"

"What else can we do? Since it's a challenge, let's all attack together!"

"..."

At that moment, Xiao tilted his chin up and pulled a terrifying smile.

Wanton, flamboyant, confident, and evil.

In the next second, the eyes beneath the skull snapped open, and Xiao appeared right in front of a demigod.

"So fast?"

"Is this a dream?"

When facing an opponent with powerful Mental Strength, the trickiest part is being unable to tell if you're currently under their mental influence.

"It's definitely a dream; otherwise, Xiao couldn't be this fast!"

"Quick! Let's break the dream together."

The demigods joined forces to shatter the mental power enveloping them.

In the next second, accompanied by a "crack, crack" sound,

the mental power surrounding the demigods shattered.

The demigods were still where they were, but Xiao was also still in his original spot, not having arrived in front of them.

"As expected, it was a dream..."

"Heh! Just judge anything unreasonable as a dream."

"As long as we aren't affected by the dream, he's useless."

"Wait, wait a minute!!"

"Xu, watch your back!!"

The demigod Xu frowned and quickly looked behind him.

He saw Xiao holding a long blade, slashing down towards him.

"How can he be behind me?"

"Is it still a dream?"

No! It wasn't... it wasn't a dream.

"Damn it!!!"

Xu felt a very real crisis of falling.

From this, he could determine

that the Xiao in front of him wasn't from a dream, but was real.

"Virtualization!"

Xu immediately tried to erase the long sword in Xiao's hand.

Gradually, the long sword began to enter a state of disappearing.

But the speed was very slow.

Xu felt the pressure.

Before, when he virtualized other things, it was very easy.

But now, trying to virtualize Xiao's long sword was extremely difficult.

The opponent's sword was like a complex formula or code that required a long time to crack.

But there was no time left.

"Courting death!!"

Xu erupted with his source, manifesting a long spear from it.

The spear thrust out to block Xiao's descending sword.

But as the two weapons composed of source energy collided,

Xu was shocked to find his spear snapped upon contact.

He immediately virtualized his own body, vanishing from the spot to dodge the strike.

Not far away, Xu's figure reappeared.

He looked at Xiao solemnly.

"This guy's source naturally counters our source energy... everyone, be careful."

"Let him taste this." The demigod Shi barked.

He then pulled Xiao and Xu out from a historical fragment.

Then, he threw a punch at Xiao's head.

This punch clearly hit the Xiao pulled from the historical fragment.

However, the present Xiao's head snapped back as if he had been struck by a heavy blow.

The goat skull even cracked slightly.

Seeing this, the demigods were overjoyed.

It worked!

It had to be said that Shi's trait was truly strong, ranking among the top of the demigods' traits.

The only downside was the massive consumption.

To cause damage to the past and apply it to the present consumed at least 1/5 of one's source.

In other words, this trait could only be used five times at most.

After five times, Shi would be in a weakened state for a long time.

"Wu, pull out the past Ai and bestow it upon the current Ai."

At this moment, Wu shouted.

He was still being entangled by Ai.

Even though he was stronger than Ai, she was still one of their own.

Furthermore, she was a demigod; it truly wasn't easy to kill her.

"Wu, I don't want to waste my source energy..." Shi flatly refused.

Rather than spending it on something meaningless, it was better to save a bit of source.

It could be used at a critical moment.

Besides, historical fragments could only last about five minutes in the real world.

Once the time passed, Ai would lose her mind again.

Why do such a thankless task?

"You bastard, from what I see, you just want to preserve your source to claim more benefits."

Wu gritted his teeth, absolutely furious.

Shi didn't say a word.

The fact was indeed so.

When Xiao fell, he could obtain source from the historical fragments,

thereby changing the current outcome.

Wu was enraged.

He began to disregard Ai's life and used his own trait.

A warhorse appeared beneath him.

Flames appeared on the warhorse—flames that could burn source energy.

At the same time, a large blade burning with flames appeared in Wu's hand.

"Yoho!"

Ai was surprised.

"You're actually imitating a senior's trait."

"I'll teach you to imitate!"

"Dismount your horse!"

"Fall in love with me!"

Ai used her trait on Wu's warhorse, making it develop feelings for her.

Wu immediately felt the warhorse beneath him start to resist him,

trying to buck him off.

He snorted coldly, and the flames began to burn the warhorse beneath him; soon, the horse quieted down.

He burned away the influence of Ai's trait.

"Ai, don't blame me for being impolite!"

Wu shouted, his long blade going straight for Ai.

The two demigods of the 001 Realm Domain Mansion erupted into battle.

On the other side.

Xiao's gaze turned toward Shi, and he spoke in an unspeakable language: "Your trait is quite good."

The pupils beneath the skull narrowed again.

Shi felt himself being enveloped by darkness as well.

He began to lose sight of his surroundings, unable to distinguish friend from foe.

Shi suddenly realized, "So Ai was also affected by this, which is why she's attacking randomly?"

"Unfortunately, this thing is useless against me!"

Shi created another historical fragment and pulled Xiao out of it.

Then he gave him another combo of attacks.

Soon, the surrounding darkness vanished.

As for Xiao, he was blasted until his body was covered in shattered darkness.

Despite his powerful Mental Strength, his physical body wasn't much to speak of.

Shi laughed, "Xiao, do you see how powerful I am now?"

"Stop struggling; you can't possibly be our match now!"

Wu attacked, going straight for Xiao.

However, in the eyes of others, the person he was attacking was Wu.

Wu cursed loudly: "Again??"

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Outside, in the live broadcast room bullet comments.

"Why are the demigods fighting among themselves?"

"Are they all being controlled?"

"Hey! Wake up already!"

"Stop fighting, please stop fighting!"

"If this continues, we're the ones who will suffer the losses."

"..."

In the eyes of the audience, over 40 demigods were fighting each other.

They kept shouting at each other: "Xiao!"

However, Xiao himself was standing on the periphery, quietly watching it all.

While everyone was fighting to the death, Xiao hadn't taken a single bit of damage.

In the United Nations hall.

"These idiots..."

General Fama cursed loudly.

"Knowing full well the opponent has powerful Mental Strength, they still got influenced so easily."

Tike shook his head: "You can't blame them."

"Xiao is using a mental field deeper than a concept body—the Simulation Field."

"It's perfectly normal for demigods who haven't encountered this field to be unable to distinguish it for a while."

General Fama curled his lip:

"If this continues, it will give Xiao the chance—the chance to control the demigods."

Dainike nodded: "So, next we'll see how An Ke competes with him for people."

"Has that guy An Ke become a demigod yet?"

"Don't know, they're still inside Wu's concept body, there's no live broadcast room."

Inside Wu's concept body.

An Ke had successfully swapped souls with Wu.

Wu was a Sequence 4 demigod.

Therefore, An Ke had leaped to become a Sequence 4 demigod.

His physical body began to shatter, and his form began to transform into darkness.

And his mental body turned into a robe, covering his body.

Various patterns also emerged on the robe.

Patterns unique to An Ke.

Every demigod had different patterns on their body.

At the same time, in An Ke's mind, the system's voice sounded:

[Reached Sequence 4 Demigod.]

[source mastery at 94%.]

[Can self-select 4 types of traits to master. Please choose, host.]

Two traits!?

An Ke remembered that demigods could only master one trait.

But he was able to master two.

This was quite interesting.

After thinking for a moment, An Ke decisively chose to master mental-level traits.

The reason was simple: the first thing to face now was Xiao.

And the opponent's trait was mental power.

In that case, he would add points to mental power.

He had seen the pathetic state of those demigods.

Being played with like toys by Xiao was truly too embarrassing.

Next, An Ke chose physical-level traits.

Not only could it enhance his physical strength, but it could also increase his defense and vitality.

As for other special traits, An Ke didn't care.

Because if he needed to use them, he... no!

The current An Ke was a He!

He could borrow the abilities of King Kong, Old Crocodile, and the others.

They took a singular path, so their traits were also their previous attributes.

King Kong was the strength trait.

Three Hairs was the hardness trait.

Old Crocodile was the Linguistic Attack trait.

Tiger Mom, Leopard Mom, Sister-in-law Crocodile, Aman, Hua Hua... and so on.

An Ke suddenly discovered something.

His traits didn't seem to be just two, but many, many kinds.

"It... it worked!!"

Wu was incredibly pleasantly surprised.

He had originally thought it would be extremely difficult.

After all, An Ke was promoting to a demigod.

However, Wu found he was dead wrong.

An Ke's promotion to demigod was truly too simple.

It was just like drinking water; he just casually promoted to demigod.

It was too ridiculous.

This also made Wu incredibly envious.

From Saint to demigod, An Ke only took a few seconds.

That's right! Just one second.

Shout "Exchange," then he agreed, and then... he became a demigod.

As simple as drinking water.

Opposite him.

An Ke let his appearance manifest back into his original form.

He hid the robe and the darkness.

Wu was stunned.

He asked in surprise: "An Ke, why don't you show your demigod form?"

The demigod form was the glory of demigods.

This was also why everyone, after promoting to demigod, wouldn't manifest back into their original form.

Displaying the demigod form was originally to make others not dare to disobey and only have respect for oneself.

However, An Ke didn't care about these things.

He directly hid his demigod form.

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Outside, in the United Nations hall.

The several nobles at the head looked at An Ke (Kuku).

A Noble Cieno spoke in a deep voice: "An Ke, have you become a demigod?"

"Hurry and go compete with Xiao for people."

"Don't wait until the demigods have all been assimilated by him."

"By then, your trouble will be huge."

Before An Ke (Kuku) could nod, Tike spoke in a low voice:

"I'm afraid there's no chance..."

"Look for yourselves at what is happening to the various contestants in the Realm Civilization Game."

An Ke heard this and looked up at the live broadcast room.

He saw a contestant with an excited face, laughing loudly: "I'm willing, I'm willing!"

"As long as I can become stronger, I'm willing to do anything."

He seemed to hear a voice that ordinary people couldn't hear.

In the next second, his body began to twist and change.

His body was gradually swallowed by darkness.

His originally excited laughter turned into a miserable howl: "No! It hurts!"

"This isn't what was agreed upon!"

"I refuse the deal, I don't want this power anymore... aah!"

However, while agreeing was easy, refusing was extremely difficult.

That contestant was like a person on fire, struggling frantically, his body twisting.

This scene made everyone tremble with fear.

But soon the shrill howl disappeared, and a sinister laugh rose again.

That person was also shrouded in darkness, and a bone mask also appeared on his face.

"This guy has also become part of the disorder camp."

General Fama said solemnly.

"How pitiful, thinking they could gain power."

"But they didn't expect to be stepping into death."

That's right!

When those contestants were swallowed by darkness, their deaths were announced.

Because the planets behind them were erased, completely vanishing from this universe.

This meant they were already dead.

Inside the Civilization Game, more and more contestants were being seduced and swallowed by darkness.

They joined the disorder camp, becoming parts that obeyed disorder.

Their consciousness split into two.

One was to pollute those who hadn't joined the disorder camp.

And the other was to hunt An Ke.

To make An Ke die!

Those contestants swallowed by darkness began to move.

They were like beasts starting to hunt for food, beginning to search for targets.

Whenever they saw a contestant unaffected by darkness, they would pounce and kill without hesitation.

Then they would use their own darkness to try and swallow the target they saw.

The contestants who originally had to dodge An Ke were now starting to dodge those contaminated by darkness.

These contestants might have once been old acquaintances, but now they had all become enemies.

The Civilization Game was in chaos!!

The five nobles watched all this in silence.

After a moment, Tike frowned: "An Ke, I feel like the opponent is trying to force you into Ascension Peak..."

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