In the Silent Forest, originally known as the Silent Ruins, is a graveyard where saints or dragons and other high-level beings have been buried for thousands of years.
Rody has always yearned for the divine tomb on God's Mountain. Previously, he couldn't venture there due to the unlifted ban on magic and martial arts, and lacked the strength. After lifting the ban, he had to hide his identity to avoid detection by the angels. So, before officially breaking with the angels and going to war, Rody had always suppressed his desire to visit the divine tomb. The great war between the angels and the demons had ended, and the visit of Marshal Von Desman rekindled Rody's old thoughts.
There lay the powerful saints and dragon skeletons, each of which presented a great opportunity to enhance the strength of the expeditionary force.
Training a Sword Saint is far more difficult than contracting with the corpse of one and turning it into a Dark Ranger or an Undead Knight. An Undead Knight under contract is absolutely loyal, much easier to command than a human Sword Saint with independent thoughts.
Moreover, the undead don't tire or hunger, feel no pain, and fear not death, making them far more suitable for expeditionary battles than living humans.
Dragons are proud beings, powerful, confident, and arrogant, unwilling to be controlled by others. But once contracted, whether as bone dragons or ghost dragons, they become completely dependent on their master, possessing great strength and absolute loyalty.
The expeditionary exile lands, hell, and heaven, all need more and stronger allies. The powerful buried in this divine tomb are undoubtedly the best choice.
Rody bid farewell to Kris and the women, and alone, returned to the Silent Forest. The magical map given by Marshal Von Desman guided him directly to the foot of God's Mountain without trouble.
God's Mountain, seen from afar, is a strange peak with snow-capped tops and flaming foothills.
Numerous space-time rifts caused many volcanic eruptions, turning red-hot magma into rivers and accumulating into lakes at the foot of God's Mountain. Unless one is a Sky Warrior with the ability to fly or an even more powerful being, it is impossible for ordinary people to set foot on God's Mountain. At the top of the towering mountain, due to extreme cold, perennial frost and snow accumulate, marking the resting place of the saints.
Rody flew over the magma lake, avoiding the space-time rifts, and for the first time, set foot on God's Mountain.
The space-time here is very stable, showing no signs of collapse.
The entire God's Mountain seemed to be protected by a mysterious force, like an invisible dome, safely shielding it from all the surrounding space-time rifts and volcanic eruptions.
On the mountain, there are birds and beasts, forests and rocks, flowers and wild fruits, varying with the altitude.
It seemed as if the mountain had four seasons: the foot was a hot summer with tropical flora and fauna; the lower half was spring, with small animals darting in and out of the abundant flowers; the upper half was autumn, with fruit-laden trees; and at the very top, a harsh winter with coniferous forests standing tall in the snow, void of birds and beasts, with only the howling wind and snow.
The divine tomb was not at the very top of the mountain, which was merely an entrance.
A city of ruins larger than the capitals of great nations stood silently in the snow, silently telling of its past glory.
In the large square, dozens, nearly a hundred huge magic array pillars, though abandoned, still maintained the city's magical mechanisms for thousands of years. Ten-meter-tall puppet automatons have also silently guarded the city, now a graveyard for saints, with unchanged loyalty.
Rody descended from the sky, and their eyes immediately lit up. Their frost-frozen bodies began to move.
They rushed towards Rody, fulfilling their duty to guard and expel intruders.
"I am the master, your master, the master of this place..." Rody extended his hand, his psychic power enveloping the space. These puppet automatons, operating on magic and psychic fluctuations, were unable to resist Rody without their master's psychic control. Within seconds, Rody had imprinted his life mark on their psychic magic sensing devices.
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The towering steel puppet automatons immediately lost their hostility, replaced by obedience and respect.
Rody admired the great magician who created these automatons thousands of years ago. These steel giants were still functional as guardians after thousands of years, a testament to the perfect combination of science and magic.
On the massive magic array pillars, countless names were inscribed.
Every powerful being who had been here left their name on these pillars. The more powerful and wise, the higher their name and closer to the center of the pillar.
Initially, Rody thought these were manually recorded as a sign of respect to predecessors. He found Marshal Von Desman's name at a height of five meters on an outer pillar.
"Von Desman, battled the Orc Axe King Leon at the peak of God's Mountain, died without regret..." Von Desman's name and inscription were in light blue, below him were names in cyan and dark green, and three meters down, in light green and gold. Names below two meters were in orange and fire red, and below one meter, there were very few names, all in pale red.
Several meters above Von Desman were names Rody had never heard, all belonging to saints, inscribed in purple.
After observing, Rody understood the hierarchy. It was categorized by the colors 'red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet'. Pale red likely represented Sky Warriors, present in very few names below one meter. Fire red, orange, gold, and light green represented Sword Emperors, with varying strengths. Dark green, cyan, and light blue were for Great Sword Emperors, with light blue being the strongest.
As for the purple names, they belonged to beings of the saint rank.
The names included not only humans but also angels, demons, dragons, elves, fairies, orcs, monsters, and other powerful beings. They were strictly ordered by their strength, whether Rody had heard of them or not.
When Rody also inscribed his name, he immediately understood the process. With a thought, the magic array pillar shone brilliantly.
Rody inscribed: "Rody, human, a man seeking to explore the limits of life and past and present lives..."
Originally, his inscription was below Von Desman's, but upon completion, it emitted a dazzling array of rainbow lights and disappeared.
Rody searched for a while and finally found it on the most central and largest magic array crystal pillar. At this pillar, the names at the base, all in deep purple, while above the two-meter base, all names shimmered in rainbow colors. Each name had a different magic array pattern with a base color of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Dozens of meters high, below Rody's name, were a few names, all shining in rainbow brilliance.
"These names, not only do they have multicolored magic arrays, but they also have unique halos.
Rody's name, too, had a galaxy-like rotating magic array pattern, along with a gentle silver halo.
Every name on the magic array crystal column had an evaluation. Behind Rody's name, it read: 'A human male with potential equivalent to a Main God, currently at the ninth level of Saint, just one step away from the God level, with an immeasurable future.'
Above Rody's name, there were only eight other names.
At the very top was the 'Goddess of Wishes.'
Her evaluation was: 'A human female of Main God level, infinitely wise, with a maximum strength of the sixth level above God, ranking first overall, already fallen in battle.'
Below the Goddess of Wishes was a 'Goddess of Storms,' whom Rody had never heard of before. She was also human, her strength reaching the sixth level above God, but ranked slightly below the Goddess of Wishes, presumably a goddess of the same rank but slightly less powerful than the Goddess of Wishes. Unique and unparalleled, this Goddess of Storms had also fallen in battle.
The third was the surprising Ascetic Saint, an unimpressive and grumpy old man with a near-dead appearance, yet his strength had reached the eighth level of Celestial Gods. He was the only living human close to the 'God level.'
The most terrifying thing about this old man was that he had already possessed the power of the 'eighth level of Celestial Gods' before he even entered the realm of gods.
Seeing this, Rody couldn't help but be astounded.
The fourth was a deity unknown to Rody, called the Proud Sky Mad God, belonging to the dragon race, not human. The fifth was the Moonlight Goddess of the Elves, which Rody seemed to have heard Night Moon mention. The sixth, seventh, and eighth places were all acquaintances of Rody. Ranked sixth was the Silver-Eyed Singer, and seventh was Azure, both super Saints who had led the resistance against angels hundreds of years ago with Philek; Rody knew their deeds by heart.
The eighth was known as the Tempest Saint, Alecres, an enigmatic Sword Saint whose true strength was 'Celestial God third level.'
As for another, the Wise Saint, Rody found his name in the nineteenth position below his own.
Although the Wise Saint's strength ranked below Rody, he was clearly a sage of the highest wisdom, and his own strength had already reached the sixth level of Saints, with undeveloped potential for the God level, remarkably considerable.
Having seen this group of exceptional beings, Rody now understood why these old fellows could be so arrogantly complacent.
It turned out that even the weakest among them had the strength of a Great Sword Emperor.
Just pulling any one of them out, they would be a Sword Saint or Magic Saint. To be ranked on this central magic array crystal column, besides the three Saints Ascetic, Wise, and Tempest, there were actually nine other names, causing Rody to break into a cold sweat."