Listen While Reading: Shower of Swords
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[The Tower God {Insect Queen of the Frozen Lands} aims to slay you!]
[The Tower God {Stone Giant of the Ash Mountain} seeks your death!]
[The Tower God {Ruler of the Emerald Flames} desires your destruction before you become too big of a threat!]
[The Tower God {Ancient Weapon of Destruction} desires your complete deletion.]
[The Tower God {Decaying Princess of Zombies} wants to taste your flesh.]
[The Tower God {Dark Chaos Machine} wants you pulverized!]
Bing Xue found herself surrounded by dozens of Divine Avatars that had reached the highest Realm of Assimilation, practically becoming perfect second bodies for these Gods, who used most of their soul to inhabit them as vessels. She could tell, based on the notifications she was getting, that these Gods were from Floors 3 to 15!
[The Tower God {Lord of the Cursed Forest} has been called here to kill you in unison with the other Gods!]
[The Tower God {Seeker of Treasures} says it is a pity you’ll have to die, as your beauty is as big as a treasure.]
[The Tower God {Parasite Queen} aims to parasitize you!]
[The Tower God {Abandoned Puppet of the Divine Craftsman} wants your world]
[The Tower God {Carnival’s Clown} says that he’s done playing games.]
[The Tower God {Ultramarine Dragon King} desires your destruction!]
[The Tower God {Aberrant Chimera of the Abyss} wants your body parts…!]
She could immediately tell, based on their titles, who was attacking her. The insect queen of frozen lands was the massive ant, scarab, and spider hybrid monstrosity of over thirty meters rushing towards her, a huge insect-like creature covered in divine frost and with a powerful freezing aura.
“SHYAAAAGH! FREEZE TO DEATH!”
She swung her gigantic claws against Bing Xue, unleashing powerful shockwaves of freezing winds that immediately began to cover her in frost, slowing down her movements!
This was like nothing Bing Xue had faced—a cold so powerful it was slightly comparable to the coldness of the lands of Murim’s Blue Heavens.
It was a cold based on a Divinity, it froze even her very soul!
“I got her! She’s mine!” laughed the Insect Queen, suddenly conjuring thousands of frost spears against Bing Xue to finish her off.
“{Divine Frost Domain}: {Frozen Coffin}!”
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Each frost spear that pierced Bing Xue’s body exploded, covering her with more and more frost, freezing her every molecule, until absolutely nothing but a huge ice cube was left behind.
A frozen coffin!
“Huh? She’s already dead?”
"Well, that didn’t take too long…”
“What a disappointment! I wanted her flesh- Ah!”
Crack, crack…!
However, over the frost, suddenly, countless cracks began to spread. The gods glanced at the insect queen, who panicked, quickly trying to freeze Bing Xue more and more.
Yet!
Crack, CRACK!
“S-Stop! How is it possible?! I’ve frozen her down to her very molecules!” the Insect Queen screamed. “T-This is- ACK!”
CRASH!
The Frozen Coffin shattered as Bing Xue’s hands pierced through it, her body having slightly changed, covered in crystal-like dragon scales, now having a long dragon tail, wings, horns, and azure draconic eyes.
“You’re strong, you caught me off guard.” Bing Xue smiled. “It would have taken me ten seconds to free myself instead of five without this Skill, well done!”
Ding!
[You have activated the [Divine Winter Draconification (SSS): Lv1] Skill!]
[You have undergone a special transformation, becoming a {Divine Winter Half-Dragon}!]
[All Ice Element Damage is Nullified, and you can absorb it as Mana and Spirit Energy!]
[Your Physical Power, Magic and Physical Defenses, and Ice Elemental Magic Power have increased by 500%, doubling their effects when you’re surrounded by ice.]
“UAAACK!”
The giant insect queen screamed in agony as Bing Xue grabbed her neck, tightly grasping with her hands with tremendous force that broke through the goddess avatar’s powerful barriers of divinity.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
“H-Help…! Help you bastards!”
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The Insect Queen screamed as the Gods panicked.
“S-Stop her!”
The other Gods rushed towards Bing Xue, unleashing their Divine Techniques against her.
But it was already too late.
“{Primordial Spiritual Body Arts}: {Divine Photon Injection}”
Before their attacks could reach Bing Xue, the insect queen’s avatar suddenly started releasing lightning and blinding fiery light from her eyes and jaws, until her entire body inflated.
And then exploded.
BOOOM!
Her Divine Soul, which was taking over the avatar, had attempted to go back, only to be grabbed by Bing Xue’s draconic claws and slashed apart into countless pieces.
“{Quadruple Slash}”
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“G-Gaaaggh?! Impo… ssible!”
The Insect Queen was shocked to find her very divine soul being divided into four pieces, and then eight, seventeen, and more, until she was reduced to smithereens, exploding into azure ice smoke, and then being absorbed by Bing Xue’s aura.
“KILL HER!”
“DIE!”
“STARTING EXTERMINATION PROTOCOL!”
Bing Xue quickly glanced around her as she noticed dozens of divine techniques rushing down towards her: giant gusts of wind, amorphous masses of decaying flesh unified together into massive jaws, infernal waves of flames, emerald fire meteors, and a gigantic cannon of dark energy, among many more.
Without hesitating, she quickly imbued her Divine Photon Essence into her hand, alongside her Primordial Venerable Ki. Her entire surroundings, even above the sky, seemed to expand into a domain where she was standing.
And everything turned completely red; the gods saw an endless wave of infernal flames coming towards them!
“{Primordial Heaven Soul Blade: Red Heaven Inferno}”
In a rising inferno, the skies turned red. The heavenly flames of the Red Heven of Murim surged endlessly as Bing Xue’s hand, her Soul Blade, swung horizontally as she spun.
SLAAASH!
A gigantic slashing wave of flames was unleashed, destroying all divine techniques immediately and without any effort, and then, reaching the Godly Avatars, they quickly conjured their barriers to protect themselves, only for the barriers to immediately break and explode into pieces.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“T-This is impossible…!”
“Ugh…! My body!”
“Those flames burn through everything, even my own flames?!”
Bing Xue didn’t waste time doing small talk, quickly reaching the closest god to her, a giant made of stone and ores whose body had been the least damaged.
He was tough, so she wanted to take him down quickly.
“Aagh!”
He gasped as he saw her appear in front of him. Within that split second, he unleashed his Divine Domain, trying to capture her within an endless storm of boulders.
“{Divine Earth Domain}: {Boulder Catastrophe}!”
“No.”
However, Bing Xue moved forward, and every boulder rushing towards her and hitting her was instantly slashed apart by her own body.
She had become a sword; her very body was as sharp as a blade!
“{Primordial Nirvana’s Spear: Red Heaven Echo}”
FLUOSH!
The flames of the Red Heaven Soul Blade technique gathered in her hands, fusing with her technique to generate a giant spear made of rumbling crimson clouds and spiraling golden light.
“W-Wait! Wait a second! Time out!”
The giant quickly attempted to escape, but it was just too late.
CRASH!
Bing Xue pierced his chest as the rest of his body gained countless cracks through the flames expanding across it, suddenly exploding into countless rocks.
BOOOM!
Even his Divine Soul screamed in agony as it was shattered and eaten by Bing Xue’s powers, her Aura of Ragnarök only growing stronger and denser. Even if she had already Ranked Up, any Class would always remain within the individual; it wouldn’t get replaced.
“STOP HER, YOU USELESS BASTARDS!”
The Barbarian God ordered the rest of the gods to attack Bing Xue at the same time; she easily noticed how he somehow had the power to order them around despite belonging to the second floor.
“Could it be? Has this guy been holding back his powers and saving them to pretend he’s weak?” she wondered. “If they obey him to this extent, it’s not just a deal; they probably recognize his strength as well.”
“INITIALIZING EXTERMINATION.”
A giant machine entity of silver and azure colors, made completely out of hard metal plates in the slight shape of a human but with a snake-like tail instead of legs, reached Bing Xue, its head, only composed of a huge, red-colored light and charged energies, firing a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energies.
TRUUUM!
“They even got robots here.” Bing Xue smiled. “Must be the Ancient Weapon of Destruction, right? {Divine Soul Blade}: {Divine Photon Slash}”
SLAAASH!
With a single slash of her hands, a huge wave of divine photon energies in the form of a sword was unleashed, splitting the heavens, and reaching a robot of over thirty meters in height.
CRASH!
And slicing it apart into two perfect halves, only for the slash to suddenly multiply into four more slashes, slashing apart the creature until it became nothing but junk!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“ERROR. MAIN SYSTEM FUNCTIONS HAVE BEEN DISABLED. SEVERE INTERNAL DA-DA-DA-DAMAGE…!”
BOOOMMM!!!
The giant machine god exploded into pieces after it was divided into so many fragments it could no longer recover from that, but Bing Xue noticed it had no “soul” but a large quantity of Divine Electromagnetic energies she ended up absorbing instead.
“How strange; robots indeed have no souls, huh?”
Although she was curious about this God’s world and how it came to become a God themselves, she didn’t really have the time to think. Three more Gods appeared behind her.
“{Divine Emerald Fire Domain}: {Green Demon Infernal Hammer}!”
A ten-meter-tall green and red-skinned demon-like man roared; with four arms and three heads, it conjured a powerful divine domain, completely engulfing Bing Xue and combining all his emerald flames into a massive hammer to crush her.
“{Divine Treasure Domain}: {All-Consuming Golden Sea}!”
A dark elf-looking man wearing desert clothes expanded his divine domain, resembling a sea of treasures and gold, which combined together into a gigantic wave of pure gold, capable of consuming everything and turning it into more treasures for him.
“{Divine Decaying Domain}: {Endless Zombie Apocalypse}!”
And a young-looking woman whose body was decaying and falling apart, a zombie, unleashed a disgusting domain of decaying flesh that took the form of millions of zombies fusing together, howling, and screaming in hunger and fury.
“As strong as she is, she won’t be able to easily take three Divine Domains at the same time…!” the Barbarian God smiled, slowly trying to regenerate the arms Bing Xue cut from him. “I don’t even need her to die, just grow weak enough so I can reap all the benefits later!”
Bing Xue was engulfed by all three Divine Domain Techniques at once. For a moment, her body disappeared beneath the giant explosions of emerald fire, zombies, and gold everywhere.
Yet…
“I guess your Domains can trap someone within a certain space; unfortunately, I can move through space as I please.” Bing Xue appeared above the three gods, who realized their Divine Domains ended up clashing against each other. “Well, as long as their domains don’t encompass me completely.”
“D-Dammit!”
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
The shockwave and backlash that came quickly pushed all three gods away, which Bing Xue took the opportunity to swiftly eliminate mercilessly, skipping through space using her movement techniques.
“D-Defend- ACK!”
CRASH!
The Treasure God screamed in agony as his chest was suddenly pierced by Bing Xue’s own body as she moved through him after turning into a mass of thunder and light and also becoming a Soul Blade.
“Stop her!”
The Zombie Princess cried, her entire body turning into an aberrant mass of decaying limbs, trying to get Bing Xue, only for the Venerable to conjure two spheres of blinding light containing two spectrums, Yin and Yang.
“I have reached a level you simply cannot fight against; your struggles and your attacks are futile,” she said.
“{Dual Rings of Radiant and Umbral Harmony}”
The two spheres grew in size, becoming spinning rings of light and darkness, cutting and slashing through the monstrosity and reducing her to ashes within mere seconds.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“Gryyyaaagggh!”
BOOOMMM!!!
“Hm?”
Bing Xue noticed the Emerald Fire wielder appear behind her, conjuring two enormous, divine weapons made out of his elements.
“I’ll seal your power! {Divine Emerald Flame Dual Blade Arts}: {Twelve Meridian-Sealing Stabs}!”
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
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