Chapter 242 Flood and Godslaying (, 10,000-Word Chapter for Monthly Tickets~)

The gigantic shadow in the sky, colossal and unparalleled, was practically an island floating in the heavens.

“——Ooooooh, Ooooooooh————!!!”

The mountain-sized whale sang loudly, its song resounding through the clouds. Its breath stirred up tremendous turbulence in the cloud-filled sky, and countless clouds were pushed away like waves by the torrent of spiritual energy erupting from its back, only to condense once more high in the dark firmament.

The soft mist transformed into hard hailstones and frosty rain, whistling as it plummeted toward the earth.

This enormous island whale, its main body stretching over seven hundred meters, with its tail adding up to nearly a thousand meters in length, was covered in a layer of crisscrossing, blue-gray glowing armor. Three massive cyan crystals were embedded in its skull, shining like a crown.

These three crystal crowns radiated a vast spiritual power, enough to influence the weather of an entire region. The spiritual energy gushing out from the whale mixed with the endless cold rain clouds, spreading from the highest reaches of the sky, dyeing half the firmament a sea-like cyan blue.

"Commander-tier..."

On the ground, gripping the divine blade in his hand, Su Zhou stood in the hailstorm, raising his head. His gaze pierced through the heavy rain, silently gazing up at the behemoth in the sky, the beast called the 'God of Water.'

This was the near-divine power of this world—the power of the Commander-tier.

Merely its appearance easily changed the weather of an entire region, causing lightning and thunder to flash across half the sky, pouring down icy rain and frost.

"God, this power..."

"What kind of magical beast is that?!"

Everyone in Nesser, whether city guards, civilians and refugees who hadn't entered the shelters, or adventurers who considered themselves well-traveled in the labyrinth, were shocked by the power of the Water God. In these thousand years, no near-god or god had ever appeared in this otherworld, and no one had ever witnessed such great power.

Except for Su Zhou.

Su Zhou wasn't shocked. In fact, Su Zhou could use his spiritual vision to see the strangeness of the giant island whale in the sky.

"A normal Commander-tier would never be this big, and although this Water God seems incredibly powerful, it gives me a feeling of weakness..."

Surging his spiritual energy, cyan-purple spiritual light condensed into a semi-transparent shield, blocking the hailstones and rain falling from the sky. Su Zhou frowned, his gaze sweeping over every detail of the Water God's body. "Clearly, its power doesn't match its enormous body, nor this terrifying change in the weather!"

But this wasn't surprising.

Su Zhou knew very well that the Water God of the past must have been even larger and more powerful than it was now. In its prime, it should have been a Overlord realm being like the Dragon King of Tianchi, an existence capable of suppressing the entire world with its own strength, worthy of being called a god. It was also the only true god of this Tartadis world!

But the current Water God was just a weakened god who had revived during the world's end, at the changing of an era. A whole era of slumber, coupled with the fact that much of its divine power was buried in the underground shrine, not yet retrieved, meant that it now possessed only the strength of a Commander-tier, not even enough to match its enormous body.

Su Zhou could even guess that if the Water God couldn't seize the protagonist position in this era transition, then it would only be able to return to the labyrinth and continue its slumber. Moreover, if it suffered heavy damage in this struggle, it might not even have the chance to slumber, and would simply dissipate completely.

"But even so, it's still very powerful..."

Su Zhou muttered to himself, comparing the power of the beast to his own. "My spiritual energy is already several times that of a normal High-level Transcendent, and the true form of Garuda's spiritual energy is about the same as my human form—but the total amount of the Water God's spiritual energy is ten times, dozens of times, or even more than mine!"

"Is the gap between the Commander-tier and the Transcendent-tier so vast?"

The giant whale in the sky didn't expend any extra effort to notice the tiny human figure on the ground observing it.

The deity summoned by its believers, the last message it received was not a plea for it to avenge them. The last prayer of the narwhal people was a request that the deity be able to salvage the shortcomings of the formation caused by its destruction of the array, asking it to personally control the lake water to submerge the maze, find the ancient water god main shrine in the depths of the ground, and retrieve its power.

——Ooooooh————!

It couldn't refuse the wishes of its children.

So the deity sang loudly, causing endless rain clouds to surround its body, and when forming a giant ring of water, it also stirred up rapid gales high in the sky.

In that instant, the dark clouds surged like an ocean in a storm, and the deity's cyan-blue spiritual power transformed into a halo, shining in the sky.

The Water God's voice reverberated through the heavens and the earth, causing the rain to pour down from the sky and the lakes on the ground to churn up waves tens of meters high, like an ocean in a hurricane.

Without the slightest hesitation, after the waves had churned to a certain extent, the giant whale, as if manipulating a part of its own body, controlled these enormous waves of lake water, surging towards the diamond-shaped labyrinth crack.

It was already impatient to explore the labyrinth, find its main shrine, retrieve its power, and then, once again lead its people to the next era!

All of this, although seemingly unrelated to the city of Nesser nearby, the Water God didn't waste any power to attack it, so the energy罩 (zhào) formed by the elemental formation was still intact.

However, the city was too close to the labyrinth.

This was originally an excellent geographical advantage, but now it had become a death warrant that people wanted to avoid. The monstrous waves controlled by the deity couldn't all pour into the labyrinth at once. The aftermath of their mutual agitation stirred up bursts of surging floods.

Then, in this way, they crashed towards the walls of Nesser!

"Not good! There are still many refugees who haven't entered the city!"

In the distance, Su Zhou, still thinking about how he could defeat the Water God, also noticed this. His expression changed abruptly, and he couldn't help but take a step forward. "Moreover, if the city walls are destroyed by the waves, then Nesser is finished! These waves will submerge the entire city!"

"Not only will those tens of thousands of refugees die, but the millions in the city... will die too!"

Frowning, Su Zhou knew very well that although Nesser's shelters were waterproof, if the entire city was submerged, then the shelters, which couldn't be opened or left, would just be larger tombs. Death was only a matter of time for the people imprisoned in the shelters!

In fact, dying trapped like that was worse than drowning!

But in reality, the giant island whale floating in the sky, the Water God of the previous era, didn't deliberately control the waves to submerge the refugees and destroy Nesser. It really didn't have any extra thoughts.

Just... what does destroying you have to do with me?

The existence of powerful beings, merely their existence, merely their ordinary actions, could easily destroy everything of the weak.

"Go!"

There was no time to hesitate. Su Zhou gritted his teeth, and his delicate face was slightly distorted due to anxiety. At the moment he made his decision, visible gales surged around him, and two hundred and forty storm seeds instantly recombined, once again transforming into a rocket-like structure.

Boom! A huge shockwave erupted beneath Su Zhou's feet, and the earth and rocks surged like waves, causing the ground to crack open. Su Zhou once again transformed into a rocket meteor. He would return at his fastest speed to block the floods that could destroy the city walls!

——At the same time, Nesser.

The lake water, gushing out with unprecedented ferocity, was surging, and the farmland and fisheries outside the city walls were now completely submerged.

Some of the refugees from Mikelson Fort had entered the city, but many more hadn't had time to enter and were turned away by the tightly closed city gates.

Now, watching the roaring waves surging towards them, the refugees locked outside the gates showed expressions of despair. Immediately afterward, they were swallowed by the floods pushed forward like a wall... and finally returned to darkness.

It could be seen that the turbulent whirlpools stirred up in the floodwaters easily destroyed everything in their path. Whether it was farmland, farmhouses, or refugee carts, they were all smashed apart like building blocks. Houses collapsed, and the materials that constructed them transformed into floating wood and gravel scattered in the water, becoming dangerous underwater traps.

The torrential rain made the surging waves not only fail to decrease and weaken in momentum due to crossing the long distance, but instead allowed them to surge higher and higher.

——Nesser, at the city gate.

As early as when Elias had observed the waves churning in the distant lake, the young Duke had decisively ordered the emergency construction of waterproof dikes at the entrances of various city gates, blocking the city gates with anything that could be used.

"Quick, quick! Put in more effort, a little faster, we can block it!"

At this time, there were no roads left around the city gates of Nesser, only knee-deep water. Even the city guards with a little magic power found it difficult to walk in it. Every step they took had to contend with the surging undercurrents in the water.

The one speaking to boost morale was an old city guard. This elderly man, his hair half gray, was carrying a sandbag several times heavier than his own weight, moving through the water with big steps. He shouted slogans, leading a dozen young men behind him, also carrying sandbags, quickly walking towards the city gate.

Transcendent were far superior to ordinary people in these physical tasks. Even doing such physically demanding work, the old city guard, who should have been playing with his grandchildren long ago, could still shout loudly to encourage others while moving. "Put in more effort, everyone's families are in the shelters. We're not just fighting for ourselves, but for our families!"

This old city guard was the one who had let Su Zhou into the city in the beginning. After Su Zhou became a hero of Nesser, he often bragged about this to his colleagues and subordinates, saying that he was also one of the heroes who saved Nesser, eliciting many jokes or laughter.

But now, that face that used to be full of confidence when bragging was covered with cold mud and frost. When he arrived at the dike blocking the city gate, he forcefully pressed the sandbag he was carrying onto the sand and stone fortress that had already been piled into a small mountain. Then, the old city guard raised his hand and used his crude ice magic to condense ice blocks, blocking the gaps between the sandbags.

After all the young men behind him had placed their sandbags and frozen them in turn, the old city guard exhaled, wiped the mud off his face, and then anxiously watched the sandbag fortress that was still constantly overflowing with mud. He couldn't help but shout loudly, "Damn it, where are the other city guards and adventurers?! A dozen of us can't build such a strong dike!"

"They're at the other city gates." A seemingly honest and simple young man answered honestly, he had just put down his sandbag, his face full of fatigue and rain. "Some are at the shelters, reinforcing the shelter doors to prevent accidental water leakage."

This was indeed a very reasonable reason, and the old city guard was immediately choked. He could only stand in the water irritably, pacing back and forth, cursing, "Damn it, shelters first, that's the principle—but aren't the city gates important?! When the waves come, these sandbags and stones definitely won't be able to block them!"

At this moment, looking down on the entire city of Nesser from mid-air, it could be seen that teams of adventurers in the city were demolishing houses and using them as materials to block the entrances and exits of the city walls.

Among them, there were also a large number of spellcasters. They cast spells on the sandbags and stone bags, making them heavier and more solid in a short period of time. There were also some earth and water spellcasters who used earth-to-stone and ice-condensation spells to reinforce the waterproof barriers.

Everyone was preparing to resist the flood.

However, Nesser was too big, and there were too few Transcendent. Their actions couldn't be said to be useless, but they were really just a drop in the bucket. Teams of people were constantly busy running back and forth, putting out fires everywhere, like busy ants.

But just when everyone was overwhelmed, an even worse situation appeared.

——The waves had arrived.

Rumble rumble rumble... The sound of the waves sweeping in from the distance was like thunder.

On the city walls, the city guards and adventurers responsible for observing the situation had pale faces, because just picking a corner of the scene in front of them was hundreds of thousands of tons of waves roaring. This was an attack that even an Elite-tier professional could hardly block with his own strength.

Wherever the waves passed, the moat outside the city and some fortress towers were all destroyed and washed away, and the trees along the way were uprooted. Even some overly thick trees were directly broken by the waves because the waves were too powerful.

Outside the city walls, the cries of the refugees who had been struggling to survive suddenly went out, and inside the city, those refugees who were lucky and fast enough to enter the city also looked back in fear at the city gates, which had been blocked by various sandbags, stones, and ice.

But at this time, the gaps in those waterproof dikes were anxiously bursting out streams of water, causing them to widen their eyes in terror.

The first wave crashed against the city walls. Although the city walls were stable and looked like they could withstand it, the city gates suddenly shook violently, as if they had been hit by a giant hammer.

The temporarily blocked dike was now teetering, but it managed to withstand the first wave. But the reason why a wave is called a wave is precisely because there is always a second wave.

Boom! Boom!

A huge impact sounded, and another wave crashed down, violently striking the city gates on the outside.

Then, the city gates were breached. The turbid waves instantly washed away all the sandbags and stone bags. At this time, the city gates were simply like runaway water taps, and violent water gushed out from them, pouring into the city.

"It's over, it's all over..."

The flood rushed in, sweeping through the streets like the impact of the great magic 'Torrential Burial'. The rocks on the streets and the houses beside them were instantly destroyed, turning into ruins and debris. The city guards who had been desperately trying to stop the flood hid in areas with less water, watching this scene in despair.

"It's all been a waste of effort..."

They saw that their labor could not even withstand a few impacts, and their faces immediately turned pale. The high-pitched cries of the giant island whale in the sky made them feel even more desperate and helpless.

"Ahhhh! Help!"

The water could not be stopped, so they could only retreat temporarily and see if they could build a few buffer zones in the inner city.

But an honest city guard who had been reinforcing the waterproof dike was accidentally disrupted by an underwater undertow and was immediately washed away. Fortunately, before he was really swept into the rapids, he happened to grab onto the window sill of a house that was half-submerged, preventing him from disappearing directly into the water.

It could be seen that the house itself was also teetering under the impact of the water, as if it could collapse at any moment.

"Come over here, grab the rope, I'll pull you over."

In the safer area where the water flow was relatively calm, the anxious old city guard raised his hand and threw a rope, letting the honest young man grab it. With the strength of a Transcendent, pulling a person was not a problem.

"Thank you, thank you Old Captain for saving my life!"

The young man, who had survived a great disaster, quickly grabbed this life-saving straw. He pulled on the rope bit by bit, pulling himself back to the safe water area—but at this time, another accident occurred.

A piece of driftwood that had been swept in with the wave, sprayed out from the city gate. It was like a cannonball, shooting diagonally towards the water area where the old city guard was!

——He could block it!

But if he wanted to block it, he had to use both hands, which meant he had to let go of the rope!

In this split second, the old city guard made a choice. He roared angrily, exerting all his strength for the last time, directly pulling the young city guard out of the water, sending him flying in the air, and the whole person landed towards the calm water area.

At the same time, he himself was hit by the driftwood.

In a short moment, the old city guard lost his voice, sank into the water, and was washed away by the water.

"Captain?!"

Falling back into the water from mid-air, breaking away from the undercurrent, and regaining his ability to move, the young man's first reaction was to widen his eyes and look for the old city guard who had saved his life.

But the Old Captain had been washed away, and he could no longer see him.

In the water, the old man had not died immediately.

And in this turbid and rapid water flow, the old city guard could vaguely hear many voices.

In the shelter, tense discussions... In the city, the cries for help from the refugees, women, and children, and more desperate wails... The city guards and adventurers frantically shouting and casting spells...

The old man who had sunk into the water could suddenly hear the cries of the entire city, and the fighting voices of others in this desperate situation.

"It's not bad."

He wasn't afraid of death. To be honest, this was the old city guard's true thought—anyway, the apocalypse was coming, so whether he died sooner or later didn't seem to make much of a difference.

"But, it's a pity." In the middle of his consciousness fading away, the old man couldn't help but think with some regret, "I originally wanted to live a little longer to see what the so-called apocalypse was all about, and what method that thing would use to kill me... Now I'm dying early, I can't see it."

"It's a pity... Heh, Lev, you little brat, you're still young, I saved your life, so it's not a loss."

"But, be sure to remember, help me see, see what this apocalypse will do... to this world... how..."

His thoughts gradually cut off.

His breath dissipated.

At the same time, above the sky.

A cyan meteor tore through the rain, piercing the atmosphere. It descended from the sky, carrying a long arc, and directly crashed into the water in the city, stirring up layers of huge waves.

This time, with the water layer cushioning the impact, Su Zhou, who had arrived at full speed, didn't waste much of his reserves, and he repaired the injuries on his body and regained his ability to move.

"Died?"

Rushing to the city gate that had been broken open by the waves, he looked in the direction where the old city guard had been washed away, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Su Zhou knew that old city guard. He was the one who had let him into Nesser in the beginning. This guy liked to be a teacher and often taught the young city guards about life experiences, whether it was magic skills or the techniques of extorting people.

He was naturally not a good person. He often used his duties to extort passing visitors and caravan members. He would even run up to greet him and try to get close to him, and he vaguely regarded himself as a hero of Nesser, with an extremely thick face.

Su Zhou didn't really like this old city guard, but he also knew that this was a normal human being, with both good and bad sides, so he would normally talk to him and chat.

But now, today, at this moment. This old man, who had not failed his duties, used his life to save the life of a young city guard.

This old man, who had children and grandchildren and could have lived a smooth life before the apocalypse, had made his choice.

Boom, thunder rumbled—above the sky, thunder snakes danced, and the pale lightning illuminated the entire city.

The silent Su Zhou could hear that the entire city was filled with countless cries for help. The cold torrential rain and exploding thunder further exacerbated the situation.

Most of the ordinary people who had not entered the shelters were on the roofs of their houses, shivering and trembling as they watched the increasingly turbulent and rising water in the city, not knowing what to do. The vast majority of Transcendent were reinforcing the city walls, and no one had time to help them.

"Who can help us..." This was a man's desperate voice, with the sound of women and children sobbing beside him.

"Save Fina! Save her, sob sob sob, save my Fina..." This was a middle-aged woman's desperate cry.

"Mommy, mommy!" This was a child's cry.

These voices seemed to resound in Su Zhou's heart, causing him, who was still maintaining calm on the surface, to clench his fists.

——They were clearly unrelated to him... He didn't know these people. Su Zhou wasn't even from this world. Whether these people lived or died, what their future would be like, had nothing to do with him.

Theoretically speaking, that was indeed the case.

But, why, even though he knew this very well, why was he still so sad, and... angry?

"What the hell is going on with this world?!"

Anxiety, irritability, and the unwillingness to accept his own lack of power, at this time, Su Zhou's heart was filled with endless doubts. "It's already the apocalypse, and they're still killing each other, still fighting each other—this kind of world!"

"Why?!"

——Why?

For some reason, deep in Su Zhou's heart, that part of the evil soul residue belonging to the Royal Five Extremes Divine Thunder True Art, in the inheritance of the State Preceptor that had already been absorbed, revealed a doubt that was exactly the same as Su Zhou's now, as if it were resonating.

——Why doesn't it rain? Why are there locust plagues? Why are there blizzards and torrential rains, floods and tsunamis? Why is there always suffering in this world?

If Heaven and Earth don't give... can we only take it?

Su Zhou couldn't understand what the will representing Heaven and Earth wanted to do. Was it a god? Or the great existence that constructed this world, the guy named the Lonely Sovereign? No matter who it was, why did He design such a world? What was His purpose...?

There was no time to think more.

Because another wave of giant waves was coming from the gap in the city gate, like a wall of turbid water pressing down on them, a giant beast of water rushing towards them at high speed.

"Damn it!"

And Su Zhou had made his choice—he had made it long ago. This time, it was just completely giving up thinking and no longer being confused.

——I just can't sit idly by, I just can't let it go!

Unable to hold back any longer, in the face of the torrential rain and rushing floods, Su Zhou roared, his body flashed, and he directly came to the front of the city gate, in front of the flood that was surging forward, and then the cyan-purple spiritual light all over his body turned, and instantly transformed into sparkling blue light!

Su Zhou opened his hands, and the Five Spirits Color Scales on his chest were rapidly operating, converting all of his spiritual power into water spiritual power. A dazzling blue halo lit up in his eyes, and a triangular spiritual light pattern formed between his eyes and chest. Vast spiritual energy gushed out from it, as if it had been extracted from the deep sea abyss, exuding endless coldness and moisture!

The inheritance of the Dragon King of Tianchi—the Míng Xìng Transformation Dragon Art!

This inheritance of the former master of the Tianchi Sea Area, the Dragon King of one realm, was instantly pushed to the extreme by Su Zhou. He could feel that the water around him suddenly became extremely close. With the help of water assistance, the youth felt that he could easily control all the water within dozens of meters around him.

But, not enough! Compared to Su Zhou's usual wind assistance, lightning, and natal cyan-purple demonic fire, even with water assistance, Su Zhou felt that his control over the water was really too unskilled, and the range was really too small.

At this time, Su Zhou was a little regretful about his destructive personality... If it wasn't because water-type techniques rarely had the ability to directly destroy and destroy, so that he didn't take it too seriously and put most of his energy into other aspects, with water assistance, he, a dragon-blooded dragon descendant, would definitely not only be able to control so little water.

In fact, if it wasn't because the Nesser family was good at water magic, and even the entire study was full of water magic books, this time Su Zhou might not have been very interested in actively learning it.

"Get back here!"

Facing the surging waves, Su Zhou shouted loudly, his eyes completely transformed into dragon pupils, and the gray-white fluorescent dragon scales all over his body were frantically absorbing the impact of the surrounding water.

It could be seen that under the control of the Míng Xìng Transformation Dragon Art and water assistance, equally surging waves were forming in front of him—not just water magic, but also two hundred and forty storm seeds were operating at full power, stirring up gales.

Wind assisted the water. The waves controlled by Su Zhou collided with the waves at the city gate, making a roar that surpassed thunder! The rapids intertwined, forming countless whirlpools.

Even, the waves initiated by humans stirred up a reverse current. It not only directly blocked the waves from surging in again, but even rushed out in the opposite direction!

"Not enough!"

But Su Zhou knew that he had done his best, but he had only blocked one wave. Such waves were almost endless, and to really block them, he needed to do more!

And the other city guards and adventurers also discovered what was happening at the city gate and immediately let out joyful cries.

"It's Lord Su Zhou! When did he come back?!"

"We're saved! I was desperate when I saw that the city gate wasn't blocked..."

"Lord Su Zhou, please save us and let us get through this disaster..."

Some people had even started praying to Su Zhou.

But the current Su Zhou couldn't hear anything.

Operating water assistance and wind assistance at full power, using the Míng Xìng Transformation Dragon Art and the Zhou Tian Storm Armor, and controlling all the surrounding water and gales, Su Zhou was multitasking at this time, blocking wave after wave of waves filled with wood, mud, sand, and stones.

The cyan-purple spiritual power all over his body had already been completely transformed into deep blue under the conversion of the Five Colors Scales, and the full operation of the Míng Xìng Transformation Dragon Art even caused a layer of things that seemed like dragon scales, or something else, to slowly bulge out and grow from the top of Su Zhou's head and back.

It was simply like dragon horns and dragon spines.

If it was a orthodox cultivator, this process of the body changing due to the excessive operation of the technique would be called going crazy. And if it was quasi-Dao, it would be even more rebuked as a non-human way, disrespecting the human body.

But, if it was to better protect humans, to obtain power, and cause the body to change—then what could be more worthy of praise than this change?

And this was the meaning of cultivating the 'True Form'.

The excessively violent spiritual power operated in the body, and the cycle of Heaven and Man added to it, going a step further. The power of this excessively operating technique was so great that even Su Zhou's firm body couldn't withstand it and needed to be constantly regenerated to support it.

Buzz! With a soft sound, smooth cloud and water spiritual patterns appeared on the surface of Su Zhou's body. He indifferently took out a piece of jade marrow from the armed belt around his waist, directly bit it open and swallowed it to replenish spiritual power and regenerate his body. The youth concentrated on controlling the water and the gales, and around him, a layer of translucent water appeared. This water, completely composed of spiritual power, formed an unbreakable shield, intertwined with the storm armor, forming a wind and water mixed ring.

Wind assistance and water assistance had broken through to a new realm at this time.

"Rise!"

Finally, with another low shout, traces of spiritual blood overflowed from Su Zhou's mouth and nose. Then, he gathered all his strength and stepped on the earth—immediately, the violent spiritual power, carrying hundreds of tons of force, was skillfully transmitted into the earth. It could be seen that layers of soil also bulged forward like waves, constructing an undulating wave-shaped structure inside the city gate passage as a buffer, blocking the speed of the water flowing in.

Immediately afterward, he used the storm seeds to control the gales and destroy a house next to him. Su Zhou used the gales with all his strength to carry the remains of this hundreds-of-tons of house into the city gate. Soon, he destroyed the second house, and the third one.

It could be seen that hundreds of tons of mud, sand, and rocks were being swung in the air by Su Zhou like toys. This was simply non-human power, the power of the Transcendent-tier. He had reached the extreme, and no other Transcendent-tier could do things like Su Zhou.

Gradually, as Su Zhou frantically used the ruins of the houses to block the city gate, the water flow slowed down—the city gate was blocked again.

After some time had passed, no more water came from the other side.

The flood had been completely blocked.

"...I did it."

Standing in the water that had calmed down, the youth, whose hands were trembling, breathed heavily. He looked at the city gate in front of him, his eyes flashing with a light called joy.

——At this time, Su Zhou's regenerative reserves were at thirty-five percent.

Above the sky.

The giant island whale, while controlling the waters of the Three Lakes to explore the labyrinth, keenly noticed that on the ground, someone seemed to be resisting its power, blocking a part of the flood.

So it curiously cast its gaze down, looking in the direction where the other party was.

Then, the Water God discovered that the one blocking its flood was the human who had killed its believers—in an instant, anger surged, and the curious heart was instantly transformed into anger and the determination to kill the other party.

But, it was, after all, a god. It understood that the sacrifice of its believers was precisely to allow it to restore its power. The last prayer of its life was for it to come and complete its purpose.

Therefore, it absolutely could not let the other party's sacrifice be wasted. The matter of killing this small human could wait until it had finished its important business.

At that time, it would use this city as a burial for its believers!

——Ooooooh!!

After a high-pitched cry, the Water God suppressed its anger and continued to explore the labyrinth.

And in a place that neither the joyful Su Zhou nor the angry Water God noticed.

Nesser Duke's Mansion, underground secret room.

In front of the entrance to the element array control area.

"Are you really going to do this, Duke."

A guard who was protecting Elias Nesser and had come to this place knelt on the ground with a complicated expression. He bowed slightly to the gray-eyed youth in front of him and said in a low voice, "Reversing the element array... Duke, there's no turning back once you do something like this!"

The element array was the protection array. It was a giant array that could maintain a normal speed of element conversion within a certain range, and it was also the biggest reason why humans in the Tartadis world could survive the apocalypse, maintain civilization, and even build shelter cities.

Its principle was to artificially control, accelerate or decelerate the speed of element conversion, and ensure that the element data within the scope of action was normal. It was a god-level array that could only be built by the powerhouse of the past at least near god.

Reversing the element array, to put it bluntly, was to give up maintaining stability and instead promote chaos. What this brought about was naturally pure confusion and apocalypse-like destruction.

Reversing the array was generally used for the array to self-destruct, so as not to be seized by others. However, it could also be used to attack, launching all the element power accumulated in the array.

It was just that no matter which effect it was, the element array of the relevant city could only be activated by the people of the family who controlled the array—this was also the most important authority for the families who controlled the shelter cities in various places to maintain their rule.

The guard actually knew very well that in the case of such a natural disaster, it didn't matter whether Nesser had the element array or not. Most people were probably not going to wait to die due to element imbalance. In that case, it was better to convert it into an attack and give a hard hit to the giant whale that would bring destruction to the city.

However, self-destruction was one thing, and the burden required to control the element array to reverse and launch an attack was another matter.

Controlling such an attack...

"You will die."

Saying so, the guard couldn't help but raise his head and look at Elias, who had a calm face, but his arms and calves were still trembling a little. He really couldn't understand: "Duke, you just need to run away. Don't you have a life-saving teleportation scroll? You're still young, we won't blame you if you run away."

"But I won't forgive myself."

And Elias, the young Duke who had not been in office for a month, smiled, and he answered calmly: "What's more, this is not a must-die — and, anyway, it's the end of the world, isn't it? There's no difference between dying sooner or later."

Although that was what he said, the guard could also hear that the other party's tone had a trace of uncontrollable fear and nervousness.

But... the reason why people were people was because people would firmly do things that made them afraid because of certain things, again and again.

"And after all, I'm a member of the Nesser family." Saying so, Elias took a deep breath. It was not until this time that he finally regained his true calm.

The boy turned his head with a smile and walked into the core control area with big strides: "I'm the person you call the Duke... I'm also a member of the Nesser family!"

——Father, as a dark child... I can also do this kind of thing!

And the guard looked at the other party's back. The man who had lived in Nesser for decades stood up and bowed deeply to the young man's back.

Everything happened within a few minutes.

——The flood hit Nesser, and it broke through a city gate at first, but then it was blocked by a person.

Immediately afterward, the city's protection array dimmed, like a fire in the wind.

The light of the array had dimmed.

——Ooooooh——?

Even the Water God in the sky noticed this. It was a little strange, because it had not yet begun to destroy this city. In that case, the element array should not be destroyed by the flood so quickly. It was not so delicate.

But, just as the giant whale was puzzled, a sense of extreme danger came.

The next moment

A pillar of pure white light rose from the ground, piercing the sky—in an instant, the vast energy contained in the light pillar even changed the weather in this area for a short time: the dark clouds suddenly dissipated, and the sky, which was originally covered with haze, suddenly became clear, revealing the dim light of the stars and moon behind.

Boom!!!!

The light pillar that reached the sky blasted on the body of the giant island whale, and the other party's blue light shield and layers of thick armor melted silently in front of this pure white light pillar like a cream wall in front of a torch. This white light swept across the sky, and the power of the element array overshadowed the world.

——Ooooooooh——!!!1

Several seconds passed before the devastating shock wave erupted from the island whale's body. It wailed and slowly fell from