Chapter 101 God is Dead

The fierce wind howled,
The whiskers on both sides of the dragon head slapped against the mask, making snapping sounds.
“Huff…”
Li Ang slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. Although he no longer needed to rely on inefficient methods like “breathing” to maintain his bodily functions,
Each time he expanded his lungs, exchanged gases, and expelled the old to make way for the new, he felt a joy of being “alive.”
It was time.
He silently raised the fifty-meter-long Xin Yuan (Mind Monkey) staff, drawing a straight horizontal line in the air.
The thin line slowly spread open, seeping out a dazzling light, accompanied by the Obsidian mech.
The Obsidian mech had clearly experienced a fierce battle. The surface armor was pitted and scarred, with deep cracks and dents everywhere.
Electrical sparks flickered at the joints, and thick black smoke billowed out.
Li Ang shrank Xin Yuan, stepped onto the stairs, entered the automatically opened cockpit of the mech, and reached out to press on the console.
Shasha—
Countless vines extended from his sleeves, growing and spreading in the cockpit, covering every metal panel, wrapping every rivet, and fusing every electronic component.
Hundreds upon thousands of advanced alchemical arrays lit up at the same time, completely integrating the vines with the mech.
The crashed central control system was reactivated,
The damaged light tubes shone again,
One after another, world-serpent-like dark green vines replaced the mech's broken hydraulic power rods.
The long-damaged energy system was filled with a new source of energy—Swamp Divinity.
Buzz—
The only liquid crystal panel in the cockpit that wasn't covered by plants lit up, and a soft, cold mechanical electronic sound came from it.
"Hive Mind Central Control System loading complete."
"Vector jet engine running."
"Spiritual organ nerve fiber bundle connected."
"Drift flow system online."
"A.T. Field deployed."
"Divinity application efficiency 100%"
"In the name of the flesh and swamp, to which all things return, Obsidian·Timber Titan self-start complete."
Li Ang listened to the electronic sound of the Hive Mind, felt the slight tremor produced by the Timber Titan's Divinity engine, smiled faintly, and inserted Xin Yuan into the groove in the center of the cockpit.
Kaka Kaka.
The platform holding the Xin Yuan staff rotated and sank, falling below the deck,
Following the pre-designed pipeline route inside the mech, leading to the Timber Titan's right arm, it was launched like a cannonball.
Bang!
The Xin Yuan staff rushed out of the palm of the Timber Titan's right hand,
Before it could fly far, it rapidly expanded in mid-air, turning into a two-hundred-meter pillar, firmly grasped by the same length of Timber Titan in the air.
The last puzzle piece was completed.
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Above the surface, Ding Zhensi, also a mech pilot, stared dumbfounded at the Timber Titan standing in mid-air tens of thousands of meters high, his mind blank.
Even without the Kui Niu mech to enhance his perception, he could still feel the blazing energy on the Timber Titan, like a scorching sun.
The pale monster form of Yahweh also noticed this.
Its attention finally shifted from the World Tree.
It turned its head, using the millions of eyes on its surface to look at Li Ang.
The eyes of the two sides met in the air. Just by looking at each other, the A.T. Field propped up by the Timber Titan's body erupted with dense ripples.
"This...caused damage?"
Ding Zhensi muttered to himself subconsciously. The Truth-Side next to him pursed his lips and said quietly: "No, that is an attack on the concept.
God cannot be looked at directly. Those who gaze upon God will surely die young.
If I guessed correctly, what we just destroyed with the Annihilation Singularity was just Yahweh's humanoid disguise - the already virus-infected Yahweh needs that disguise to bewitch mortals and absorb the power of faith.
The current Yahweh is the true, complete god form.
Moreover, it is not an ordinary god, but a god who is willing to abandon his self-awareness and has nurtured the power of faith of hundreds of millions of believers in countless worlds over a time span of two thousand years.
The current Yahweh is a true God of Gods..."
Along with the words of Truth-Side,
Yahweh moved.
The pale flesh on its surface trembled and wriggled violently, quickly condensing into three slender, conical arms, each with three fingers.
Two of the arms were placed in front of it in a cross,
One arm had its three fingers together, facing Li Ang.
Buzz—
A faint and rapid sound of air friction sounded,
A faint spot of light condensed on Yahweh's fingertip.
Something was coming.
Ding Zhensi and the others on the ground felt as if their bodies were instantly pierced by a deep chill, their body hair stood on end, and their souls trembled incessantly.
Truth-Side, Hohenheim, and Tai Hao, regardless of their poor condition, used various methods to set up a hemispherical magic circle with a diameter of ten meters in half a second.
Carrying everyone, it sank into the ground.
The Guard-class, Praetorian-class, and Hive Tyrants not far away also sensed the terrifying danger and directly gave up on besieging the angels, falling to the ground one after another.
At the same time, their bodies contracted into a ball, allowing the thorns armor on their surface to be wrapped into a spherical shape as much as possible.
Su Ni Sheng, high in the sky, also shook her sword to open the Archangels who were besieging her, shook her long sleeves, released shadows, and enveloped her and Michael.
The next second,
A pillar of light with a diameter of more than two thousand meters, starting from Yahweh's fingertips, erupted.
The light bloomed,
The distant World Tree was projected with a magnificent shadow,
The Hive units in the sky that were slightly closer to the pillar of light were directly burned into ashes by the high temperature.
Those flying insect soldiers and Hive Motherships that were directly swept by the pillar of light had no room for resistance, instantly annihilated, disappearing into the pillar of light.
Boom!!!
Under the pure white light,
The entire surface of the earth, as if being crushed by a giant palm, inexplicably recessed.
Millions of insect soldiers on the ground were pressed into the soil by the light pressure mixed with great divine power.
The bodies of the Heavy-class and Bastion-class insect soldiers creaked, dilapidated and unbearable.
The weaker Beast-class exploded one after another, and even the Creep couldn't save them—the Creep itself was also burning fiercely under the light.
"Cough cough!"
One hundred meters underground, Hohenheim coughed violently, spitting out a mouthful of turbid blood, and slowly lowered his arms, ending the maintenance of the magic circle.
The Truth-Side on the side trembled his hand and took out two tubes of light blue potion from the void, one tube was thrown to Hohenheim, and the other was drunk by himself.
Even through a hundred meters of rock, the aftermath of the pillar of light still affected them here, so what would happen to Li Ang, who was facing the pillar of light directly?
Hohenheim silently drank the light blue potion with bloodshot eyes, recovered some strength, and said hoarsely to Truth-Side, Tai Hao, and others: "You should go back to the real world first. The war there is still going on. We need to use the Doorway to transfer personnel."
Tai Hao frowned, "What about you?"
"I tore up the Annihilation Singularity scroll and permanently erased 10 points from each attribute value. Now, even if I return to the real world, I can't use the Doorway. Instead, I will become a burden."
Hohenheim said quietly: "I want to stay here and see the end of the matter."
He opened his palm, released magic, and a silver mirror rose from the palm of his hand, projecting the picture of the ground.
The pillar of light blasted by Yahweh directly traversed half of the Heart Chamber space,
It even continued unabated, piercing through the heart wall of the Heart Chamber, creating a deep crack in the heart wall and allowing a huge amount of blood to pour in.
As for Li Ang...
"How is this possible?!"
All the players were shocked. The Timber Titan was still suspended high in the sky, holding the Xin Yuan staff with both hands across his chest, propping up the A.T. Field.
He actually blocked the pillar of light.
"Is this the power of God?"
Li Ang in the cockpit of the Timber Titan, like the mech, kept the action of raising his left hand and opening his palm.
He slowly opened his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth.
"It seems...that's all there is to it..."
Accompanied by the indifferent voice echoing in the cockpit, the Timber Titan slowly adjusted its posture high in the sky, facing Yahweh's position.
Step!
Under the feet of the Timber Titan, the thousands of layers of invisible stairs formed by the Trapping Cloud Steps skill shattered.
The Titan itself, like a meteorite falling from the sky, swooped toward Yahweh.
Boom!!!!
The two sides collided tens of thousands of meters high in the sky.
The power of the Timber Titan's dive directly slammed Yahweh, who was floating in the air, to the ground.
The two demon gods fell toward the mountains on the ground.
The entire mountain collapsed and recessed
Solid rock was easily plowed open like soft clay.
The Timber Titan stepped on Yahweh with one foot, heavily waving the Xin Yuan staff, hammering at the so-called God.
Dong! Dong!
Yahweh's head and body were distorted and deformed under the heavy blow.
The millions of human faces on the surface kept bursting and tearing, leaking out blood-like light.
"No!!!"
Archangel Raphael, seeing this scene, retracted the Sword of Flame and rushed towards his god at all costs, but was blocked by Michael in mid-air.
The Burning Sword and the Bloodstained Pu Dao collided with each other, bursting out a monstrous flame, illuminating Michael's pale face, "Your opponent is me."
"Traitor! Die!!!"
Raphael roared in grief and anger. The human face under the silver helmet was twisted and swollen, no longer in human form, but transformed into a terrifying inhuman form like other four-winged and two-winged angels.
The two sides broke out in battle again high in the sky.
As for Li Ang, he was still crushing and hammering Yahweh.
The power of the Timber Titan acted on the rock layer through the constantly deformed Yahweh in the trap, causing the rock layer to surge like a wave.
The Timber Titan itself gradually began to burn with flames.
It was not the holy fire ignited by Yahweh's light, but a red-black flame that simultaneously exuded death and life.
Boom boom boom—
The surface of the Timber Titan was completely covered by red and black flames, and accompanied by the flames, there were also strands of gorgeous light emanating from the Timber Titan itself.
That was... divinity?
The players were stunned to find that the surface of the Timber Titan began to constantly evaporate the essence of God.
Those divine essences were either as violent as thunder, or as noisy as wind, or as gentle as water,
Only one thing could be determined - they were unrelated to the swamp attribute.
"Could it be..."
Truth-Side suddenly realized and said in a deep voice: "During the time he disappeared, he went to devour the divinity of other gods in the giant's body, and with the help of a massive amount of divine essence, ignited his own divine fire and officially stepped onto the last step of the path to becoming a god."
"Li Ang has become a god?"
Ding Zhensi asked in surprise, "Doesn't that mean he has become an existence equal to Yahweh?"
"Ignite the divine fire and remove the chaotic divinity that was swallowed. It is true that he has become a god, but..."
Truth-Side lowered his voice and whispered: "Yahweh became a god earlier than him.
When those chaotic divinities are burned out and all the energy is exhausted,
It's time for both sides to compete for their own divine power."
As if to confirm Truth-Side's words,
The red and black flames burned more and more fiercely,
The Timber Titan's actions became faster and faster.
The earth was plowed and flattened again and again,
Yahweh was squeezed into various shapes like plasticine, splashing out a massive amount of light-form blood,
But it still did not die,
Instead, it seized the opportunity, waved one of the three arms, grabbed the Xin Yuan staff, and prevented it from falling.
The other two arms bloomed with infinite light.
Boom!
The Timber Titan was hit head-on by the double pillar of light, and its huge body retreated more than three thousand meters, leaving long ravines on the ground with its legs.
When the light dissipated, the front armor of the Timber Titan was already dilapidated, and thick smoke rose from the joints.
Yahweh slowly rose from the trap.
All the four-winged and two-winged angels abandoned their respective enemies and flew towards Yahweh itself.
Without any hesitation, they rushed into the light emitted by Yahweh and were assimilated and devoured.
The angels returned to the embrace of God again, which also meant that God was taking back his power.
The wounds on Yahweh's surface recovered quickly,
While ascending in the air,
The three arms converged at one point, and after a few seconds of delay, they released a beam of light towards the Timber Titan again.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Pure whiteness filled the entire world,
The earth was torn apart, and tens of millions of Hive units were evaporated out of thin air.
The Timber Titan tried its best to maintain the A.T. Field, but was still hit by the light pressure and retreated again and again.
Dong!
The Timber Titan crashed into the towering trunk of the World Tree, and most of the armor on the chest, back, and limb joints shattered and exploded.
Even the newly ignited swamp divine fire was constantly swaying like a candle in the wind.
Truth-Side was right. Although Li Ang had ignited the divine fire, the accumulation time was too short.
The divinity he devoured from other gods gradually evaporated and exhausted, while his opponent Yahweh could continuously heal himself by absorbing the power of the angels.
"Sure enough, is it still not enough..."
The light gradually dissipated. Li Ang in the cockpit looked down at the God's Mark on the back of his hand, which was flashing frantically.
Maintaining the Timber Titan's form required a huge amount of faith power every moment. Even with twenty-two billion pious and fanatical believers in the Star Gate world constantly providing thought power,
It was still not enough to maintain a high-intensity battle with Yahweh.
Ten thousand meters away, Yahweh, who was slowly rising, had expanded another circle in size.
It looked down at Li Ang from a high position, and the millions of human faces on its surface silently opened their mouths, as if uttering the most vicious and hateful curse on the blasphemer.
The three arms were raised again, converging at one point, with unprecedented violent light accumulating at their fingertips.
Li Ang took a deep breath, manipulated the Timber Titan to slowly stand up, and all the props and skills he possessed flashed in his mind
Clean earplugs, phase boots, Abyss magic mirror, biological mother version...
All the items seemed unable to solve the current predicament. This was a battle between gods, and the power of mortals was still too weak.
Then there was only the last way left.
Li Ang lowered his eyes and took out a round and flawless transparent sphere from the void, which was firmly bound by vines.
Cancer cells.
Cancer cells in the giant's body.
After entering the Fate War, Li Ang scattered the Hive in every corner.
The rapidly proliferating insect swarms not only discovered the existence of angels and Yahweh, captured many gods and saints,
But also encountered the immune system in the giant's body, as well as cancer, which was launching a full-scale war with the immune system.
The essence of cancer cells is cells that have undergone erroneous mutations. They do not die normally like other cells, but absorb the nutrients of surrounding tissues to proliferate infinitely.
For ordinary creatures in the real world, the occurrence of cancer cells is only a matter of probability. In a short life, they may suffer from cancer, or the cancer cells may be eliminated by the immune system as soon as they appear.
For giants with a volume comparable to that of a planet and an unimaginable lifespan, the cancer cells in his body have a terrifying proliferation ability comparable to that of the insect swarm.
The reason why the sleeping giant has not been completely occupied by cancer cells is partly because of the loyal protection of the immune system for countless years,
On the other hand, it is the special mechanism of the cancer cells themselves - super tumors.
In order to survive, cancer cells will deceive the body into building new blood vessels for him and reach the tumor site to obtain nutrients.
The more nutrients obtained, the faster the cancer cells grow.
But at the same time, cancer cells have genetic instability. Once they begin to proliferate, they will continue to mutate.
During thousands of mutations, a certain generation of cancer cells will mutate and no longer belong to the original tumor tissue,
Instead, they will continue to split their offspring and compete with the original tumor tissue for nutrients on the same blood vessel line.
This leads to the appearance of super tumors parasitizing on the initial tumor tissue.
Moreover, the super tumor itself has a certain probability of giving birth to the next generation of parasitic tumors.
That is, cancer cells kill each other for nutrients.
This theory can explain the phenomenon that large animals such as blue whales and elephants in the real world are less likely to suffer from cancer (from the number of cells, the lifespan of organisms, and probability, large animals should have a higher rate of cancer).
And in the giant's body, super tumors have evolved into something even more terrifying - generations of gene mutations, generations of mutual killing,
The countless cancer cell tumors compete and evolve like Gu worms until they break through the critical point and give birth to a cancer cell that is so powerful that it is difficult to imagine.
That is, the one in Li Ang's hand.
"Devour everything, absorb everything, and never die. From a certain point of view, this cancer cell has the same properties as the Hive."
Li Ang's eyes swept over the transparent sphere,
He took a deep breath, grabbed the sphere, and pierced it with swamp vines.
Extract...gene fragments.
Inject...swamp divine power.
The body...begins to proliferate.
"Huh??"
Hohenheim, who was peeking at the outside world through the Water Mirror Technique, was stunned to see that the swamp divine fire on the surface of the Timber Titan suddenly extinguished. The entire mech seemed to have given up resistance and stood blankly in the direction Yahweh's fingertips were pointing.
What was going on?
Did he give up?
Hohenheim gritted his teeth, looked at Truth-Side and Tai Hao,
The three quickly discussed in the slowed-down spirit network, calculating all the possibilities of the items they carried, and trying to save Li Ang from the Timber Titan before the two-thousand-meter-diameter pillar of light officially blasted out.
Someone was faster than them.
Su Ni Sheng swung her sword to block the Archangel who was tightly entangled, threw out the Purple Lightning Sword, and ordered it to draw a z-shaped trajectory in the air, instantly arriving in front of the Timber Titan, trying to cut open the cockpit and rescue Li Ang from it.
However—
Zheng!!!
The A.T. Field propped up again on the surface of the mech and bounced away the Purple Lightning Sword.
The Timber Titan raised its head, and the raging divine fire in its eyes exploded and burned.
The vines on the surface of the mech became unprecedentedly active, dancing wildly like hair in the sky
One hundred thousand vines shot out, piercing through the Hive Mothership in the sky and extracting biomass resources.
More vines were nailed into the trunk of the World Tree, frantically plundering the energy of the World Tree.
Li Ang's eyes were blood red,
He could feel the infinite madness and greed contained in the cancer cell's life essence, urging him to carry out endless proliferation, reproduction, and assimilation.
The Timber Titan, or rather the Timber and Flesh Titan, continued to expand in size,
Three hundred meters, four hundred meters, five hundred meters...
One Hive Mothership after another was drained of biomass resources and crashed to the ground.
Even the trunk of the World Tree began to gradually fade.
Power,
A continuous stream of power poured into Li Ang's body, causing the A.T. Field to open up and crack, causing the swamp divine fire to burn wildly, and causing the spirit energy to echo agitatedly.
Yahweh in the high sky also seemed to realize Li Ang's changes and trembled violently.
Raphael, who was entangled with Michael, looked back at his god, showing a look of sadness and firmness, and directly detonated himself.
The explosion light of Raphael broke through the cloud curtain, and other archangels such as Raguel and Sariel also took advantage of the self-destruction to rush towards Yahweh and sacrifice themselves to merge with Yahweh.
Yahweh finally took back all its power in the giant's body and released the final light with all its might.
No language can describe even one ten-thousandth of its pale light.
The world was left with only one color, one sound.
The wooden layer on the surface of the Timber Titan instantly peeled off, and the alloy armor built with advanced alchemy underneath melted in an instant. Even the Xin Yuan staff split and disintegrated.
Only the swamp vines, which had absorbed the life essence of cancer cells, were born and destroyed, and destroyed and reborn, and confronted the light curtain that destroyed everything.
One second, two seconds...
The Timber Titan in the beam of light continued to regenerate, gradually stabilized its balance, walked steadily, and stepped across ten thousand meters slowly and firmly, arriving in front of Yahweh.
Retracting its broken right arm with only its wrist left, it used its arm as a gun and thrust it out.
Ci——
The Timber Titan's arm pierced straight through Yahweh's body.
Thousands of vines rapidly proliferated, absorbing everything, including divinity and divine power,
While releasing endless greedy thoughts.
The faces on the surface of Yahweh's body were rapidly changing their expressions.
They, or Yahweh itself, were afraid of their own weakness.
They were also affected and assimilated by the greedy thoughts emitted by the vines. They refused to give up their last hope and were still releasing the gradually weak beam of light, burning the Timber Titan's body.
It was time to end it.
Li Ang raised his hands, manipulated the Timber Titan, grabbed both sides of Yahweh's body, applied force, and slowly tore it apart.
Tear——
Cracks appeared on the surface of Yahweh's body. The huge deformed body finally lost its ability to deform and shattered like cloth, turning into thousands of pure light rain and sprinkling on the earth.
The top of the cockpit of the Timber Titan automatically opened,
Li Ang raised his head and looked up at the dome of the Heart Chamber.
The lush canopy of the World Tree had stopped growing.
The dense and spectacular dense leaves were slowly swaying in the breeze, peaceful and serene.