Chapter 595: Godslaying

Chapter 595: Slaying a God

Li Wei comprehended the rudimentary law of strength, breaking free from his cocoon.

Taking in the current state of Maple Leaf City.

He unleashed his fiery domain without a single moment of hesitation.

Every creature of the dark races within the domain's expanse spontaneously combusted.

Not even the legendary rank practitioners could withstand it.

Upon the city walls, the guards stared blankly as the enemy suddenly dissolved into heaps of flying ash.

Looking down at the ground, bursts of flame erupted across the earth, vanishing after a dozen seconds.

Every single enemy was dead.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, the guards realized what had happened, casting their weapons aside and sinking to their knees in utter disbelief.

"Is it over?"

"Is the war over?"

Weeping suddenly echoed across the battlements, and more and more people began to cry.

Guthwy stood at the edge of the wall, one hand resting on the stone, the other gripping her frost staff, her exhausted eyes fixed on that single sliver of light in the distant sky.

Though utterly drained, her eyes were filled with profound joy.

"Li Wei, you have finally returned!"

Reina was just preparing to rally her forces to resist the full-scale assault of the dark races.

In the end, she never expected the enemy to perish entirely in a single instant.

She stood frozen in place, and when she finally collected herself, she looked toward the distance in absolute shock.

"Is this your power? Li Wei..."

She knew Li Wei was powerful.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to battle a deity.

Yet she had never imagined he could be powerful to such an extent.

This was already no different from a god.

Lolth watched helplessly as her dark legion was obliterated at Li Wei's hands.

She did not dare step across the spatial rift into the Prime Material Plane.

The gods did not permit foreign deities to appear in the Prime Material Plane.

That was the domain of the gods.

It was not merely the deterrence of the gods, but also the laws they had established that prevented deities of other worlds from descending upon the Prime Material Plane.

Even if one wished to descend, an immense price had to be paid.

After Li Wei dealt with the dark legion threatening Maple Leaf City.

He turned his gaze toward Lolth.

Staring at the Spider Goddess Lolth within the Underdark behind the spatial rift.

After a brief pause, he flew toward the Underdark on the opposite side of the rift.

Lolth showed a look of surprise upon witnessing his actions.

"You... actually dare to come over."

Lolth was initially somewhat startled, but as she realized Li Wei's intentions, the corners of her mouth curled into a delighted smile.

Constrained by the laws of the Prime Material Plane.

The power she could exert across the void was severely limited.

If Li Wei mistook that for her full strength and wished to challenge her in the Underdark.

Lolth was more than happy to display her true might to him.

To let him understand the vast chasm between himself and a god.

Li Wei passed through the spatial rift, appearing in the Underdark.

The dark races near the rift fled for their lives.

The look they gave Li Wei was as if they were looking at a god of slaughter.

Utterly terrified, profoundly horrified, completely paralyzed with fear.

Neither Li Wei nor Lolth paid any attention to those fleeing dark creatures.

The only opponent in either of their eyes was each other.

Lolth licked her lips, her face breaking into a smile, "Very well, you have delivered yourself right to my door."

She extended a slender finger, lightly tracing the air as she softly uttered, "Web Domain!"

A long, thin strand of silk was pulled from her fingertip.

In an instant, the entire world was shrouded in a dense, suffocating web.

All external power was imprisoned by the webbing.

Li Wei could no longer mobilize the forces of the outside world.

This was Lolth's suppression of Li Wei.

Unable to utilize the power of laws to command external forces in battle, even gods would eventually exhaust their strength.

Battles between divine powers did not rely solely on one's own divine energy.

They were far more adept at using the power of laws to harness the forces of heaven and earth for their own use.

Just like now, Lolth had woven the entire world into her web.

Any prey trapped within this web would be affected by it, their strength suppressed, their movements restricted.

Li Wei could well use the fire containing the rudimentary law of strength to burn everything before him to ash.

But this could not cause a single scratch to Lolth.

The web Lolth wove was the world itself.

Li Wei could not escape the world, and thus remained restricted by the Web Domain.

Lolth raised her right hand toward Li Wei, her splayed fingers slowly curling into a tight fist, as if she were about to crush him in her palm.

Li Wei felt the silk wrapped around his body tightening along with Lolth's movements, threatening to snap his bones and tear his flesh.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

Several lines of fire ignited across Li Wei's body.

The silk tightly binding him was incinerated by the flames.

Lolth gazed at Li Wei, a hint of curiosity flickering in her eyes, "Just how did you manage to comprehend a law so quickly?"

The prey had already fallen into the web.

Rose was in no hurry to draw the net closed.

She was far more intrigued by the secrets Levi harbored.

How had he managed to comprehend a fundamental law in a mere two months?

For anyone else, there was no progress bar for understanding the laws of the universe.

They could not glimpse how far along they were.

They could only spend vast stretches of time accumulating insights, chasing that fleeting spark of inspiration that might instantly illuminate a complete law.

In Rose's eyes, this was an endeavor that demanded decades, if not centuries, of uninterrupted dedication.

Yet the human before her had accomplished it in a scant two months.

Her reason for concluding he had mastered a primary law of force within two months was simple.

He had never displayed any such ability before.

For others, if they gained any inkling of a law, they could usually manifest a fraction of its power, even if the success rate was dismal.

This was because what they perceived were the complete, encompassing laws of heaven and earth.

In theory, the moment they caught a glimpse of inspiration regarding a law, they possessed the capacity to use it.

At the beginning, it might take thousands of attempts to manifest the law's power just once.

Only total comprehension guaranteed a flawless execution.

To be just two months away from total comprehension implied Levi had long possessed a profound grasp of the law.

Had he utilized it in combat, his success rate would have been at least fifty percent.

Yet she had never seen him deploy it.

Could it be that he simply feared failing to manifest the power, and thus abstained from using it in battle?

Seeing that Levi remained silent to her inquiry,

Rose grew displeased, narrowing her eyes at him. "No matter. I will make you speak."

Levi replied, "If we are to fight, then fight. Why do you waste so many words?"

Flames raced along the silken strands, spreading across the entire web.

The invisible threads surrounding Levi were instantly ignited.

The fire rippled rapidly through the web.

In the dim subterranean world, a massive, burning lattice appeared against the dark expanse.

Rose stared at the blazing threads, a flash of surprise crossing her features.

"Is this the law you comprehended? The sub-branch of burning under the law of fire?"

"No, this is the power of combustion."

The essence of fire was merely a phenomenon where air molecules around the reaction zone of an exothermic reaction were heated into high-speed motion, emitting light.

Fire was the energy released when material molecules fractured and recombined into low-energy states, separating, colliding, and bonding.

The interior of a flame was actually a restless sea of excited, drifting gaseous molecules, searching for partners to react with, releasing light and energy. It was that released light that allowed them to see the flame.

This was Levi's understanding of fire.

The primary law of force granted Levi a flame capable of accelerating the kinetic motion of the internal particles within a substance.

Thereby rendering the substance combustible. Before the primary law of force, the web of laws constructed by Rose was treated merely as another composition whose internal particles could be accelerated.

Divine particles?

Levi was not entirely certain of the specifics.

But this did not impede his utilization of the primary law of force.

Perhaps once he mastered higher-tier laws, he would understand the subtler components that formed them.

Those were the cornerstones that comprised the rules of the entire world.

The physical properties of matter were not dictated by ethereal, nebulous rules.

They were the consequence of the structural combination of matter at a microscopic level.

Similarly, the rules of the world possessed a microscopic structure that formed them and caused them to exhibit corresponding traits.

This was the Grand Unified Theory of world rules in Levi's eyes.

The very Tao from which the One was born.

Perhaps only the creator god knew what it truly was.

The burning web continued to disintegrate all the way to Rose's feet.

Rose looked at Levi and let out a disdainful, cold sneer. "The power of combustion? Of what use is that?"

"Allow me to show you my true power!"

Rose's body bent backward at an unnatural angle, transforming into a colossal, pitch-black spider.

Hundreds of eerie, violet arachnid eyes locked onto Levi.

Levi felt a sudden, suffocating constriction seize his entire body.

Yet the web of laws wrapping around him had already been burned to ash.

Where was this restriction coming from?

Suddenly, his limbs refused to obey his commands, lifted into the air as if he were a mere puppet.

"Web Puppet!"

Dozens of invisible silken threads connected to Levi's body, stretching upward into the endless sky.

At the vertex stood Rose, fully transformed into the giant spider.

The monster possessed dozens of pairs of legs, the tip of each limb tethered to a single strand.

The end of those lines commanded Levi's body.

Levi's physical form, and even his soul, were manipulated by the threads, rendering him a puppet through and through.

A triumphant smile spread across Rose's face.

This was the ultimate profound mystery of the Law of the Web that she had mastered.

Even a deity,

should they fail to detect her threads, would fall under her control.

Granted, ordinary deities were highly sensitive and vigilant toward any fluctuations of laws foreign to their own.

Even if Rose wished to use her threads to control other gods, opportunities were exceedingly rare.

Furthermore, ordinary deities seldom exposed their true physical forms.

Controlling a divine avatar held no meaning for Rose whatsoever.

She had previously used her Web Domain to create widespread fluctuations in the laws of magic, secretly laying down silk threads to manipulate Levi—threads that he never sensed at all.

Only then did she fully seize control of Levi’s body and power.

Turning him into her puppet.

Her conversation with Levi wasn’t mere idle chatter—it was a distraction, an opening she crafted with precision.

Above him, hundreds of spider eyes gleamed.

"Now you can tell me your secret," Rose said.

Levi slowly opened his mouth. "My secret is..."

Whoosh!

Flames surged upward, engulfing Levi's form.

In that daze, Rose saw a ten-colored sun suspended within the boundless astral realm.

"My secret is... I’m no longer human."

Before Rose appeared a superhuman flame giant, millions of meters tall.

Levi, transformed into the Flame Titan, looked down upon her.

The spider silk wrapped around his body snapped one by one as he expanded.

At this moment, he *was* the sun.

One ten-thousandth of stellar power erupted forth, converted entirely into pure destructive force.

Master of elementary force laws, Levi now wielded this energy completely.

One ten-thousandth of a star’s might.

Rose’s web of law-bound silk was fragile before him—a mere tug and it tore apart.

This was the overwhelming pressure of vast divine strength.

Though Levi may have lacked finesse compared to Rose, who had immersed herself in the manipulation of law for millennia—

If technique failed, then raw power would crush her outright.

Seeing Levi’s transformation, every one of Rose’s hundreds of eyes widened in shock.

She activated the puppet strings meant to control Levi, trying desperately to seize hold of his body once more.

But after unleashing his full might, Levi radiated such thick layers of divine energy that they formed an impenetrable shell.

Rose’s controlling silks could not pierce through.

She could no longer command his body.

Aghast, Rose cried out, “Why do you possess so much divine power?!”

Levi reached out toward her with his right hand.

Rose saw a flaming five-fingered mountain descending from above.

She fled swiftly across her webs.

Countless strands materialized from thin air, blocking before Levi’s descending palm, attempting to resist its fall.

All were torn asunder, consumed by fire.

No matter how frantically she dodged or struggled, the colossal hand came crashing down.

The Five-Finger Mountain pressed atop Rose’s head, forcing her deep into the earth, leaving behind a massive imprint.

Deep beneath the surface world, a vast canyon shaped like five fingers was carved into existence.

An odd sensation stirred in the center of his palm.

Levi lifted his right hand—and there emerged a hole in his palm.

Rose burrowed inside, digging furiously up his arm toward his core.

Having endured Levi’s strike,

Rose suffered grievous wounds herself.

Nearly half her eye-cluster shattered; dozens of her legs broken.

Driven to desperation, she began fighting with abandon.

WHOOSH-BOOM!

A pillar of fire erupted from Levi’s palm.

Out flew Rose along with the flames.

Midair, she caught hold of several silk threads to halt her descent, drew in a deep breath, and consumed nearly half her remaining divine essence.

"Spider God Domain!"

Upon the million-meter-tall Flame Giant countless spider silks manifested.

These threads restrained Levi’s movements, slowing them dozens of times over.

Rose stared intently at him, her surviving eyes spinning rapidly as she searched for weakness.

Levi possessed far too much divine power.

Even Rose had to admit—if brute divine strength alone determined victory, she stood no chance.

Two paths lay ahead:

Retreat and flee.

Or find his weak point, strike decisively, and defeat him.

Hundreds of her eyes swept across Levi’s entire being.

Yet none revealed any flaw.

If forced to name one—it would be that Levi’s body was composed purely of divine energy.

Such a construct paled beside the true form of a god.

However, the sheer volume of his divine power compensated for that very vulnerability.

SNAP-SNAP-SNAP~

Silk threads coiled around the Flame Giant began snapping taut.

Levi burned away a tenth of his divine strength, unleashing even greater force.

With lightning speed, he seized Rose.

Above Levi’s head, a colossal portal materialized.

He grasped Rose and vanished into the gate, disappearing from the underground world.

(End of Chapter)