Chapter 472: Bella’s Breakthrough
Aiden’s fingers lightly tapped on his knee, making a clear, steady sound.
With every tap, the Law of Space gave off a faint resonance.
"The ruined city in the west..."
"It seems the Golden Great Wall has pushed them too hard. Now they’ve started hiding underground."
Aiden gave a cold laugh, and the corner of his mouth curved into an icy smile.
"Do you need me to take people there and wipe it out?"
Jade gripped the hilt of his sword. Killing intent surged in his eyes, and a faint sword hum sounded from the blade.
"No."
Aiden stood up. His white robes fluttered in the wind, making him look like a god looking down on all living beings.
"I have only just become a god. My aura is too strong. If I move, those old monsters in the Abyss will notice at once."
"Besides, now is not the time to fight them head-on. We need to learn what they are really doing first."
"Send our best spies to investigate. I want to know exactly what is going on inside."
"Yes!"
Jade accepted the order. His body turned into a bright streak of sword light and disappeared into the sky.
...
Three days later.
Inside the Tower of Laws, the atmosphere was so heavy that it felt hard to breathe.
Jade stood before Aiden once again. His handsome face was completely pale, and his eyes were filled with shock and fear that he could not hide.
"Did you find out?"
Aiden sat on his divine throne, his expression calm, as if nothing in the world could shake his mind.
"We found something... but what’s inside is a hundred times stranger than we imagined!"
Jade took a deep breath and tried hard to calm his pounding heart.
"The spies reported that tens of thousands of Reclassers have gathered in that underground base. Every one of them is giving off strange law energy."
"The terrifying part is that their Strength is almost the same as the aura of the Heavenly Demons!"
Aiden narrowed his eyes. A cold light flashed deep within them.
"Heavenly Demons?"
"Yes. But that Strength has been changed. It is now extremely close to the human law system."
Jade’s voice trembled slightly.
"The Dawn Society has stripped away the chaos and madness from the Heavenly Demon Strength, then forcefully fused it with human class laws."
"It is a kind of... ’humanized’ Heavenly Demon Strength!"
"They are mass-producing terrifying Reclassers fused with the aura of the Heavenly Demons!"
Boom!
The divine stone beneath Aiden instantly turned to dust. Terrifying killing intent swept through the hall like a tsunami.
Humanized Heavenly Demon Strength.
This was not only blasphemy. It was also a brutal violation of the boundary that had existed between Earth and the Abyss for ten thousand years.
Aiden thought of Yves’s final words.
The Heavenly Demons were originally part of Earth’s first laws.
And now, the Dawn Society was using this method to steal and fuse with that forbidden Strength!
"There’s something even stranger."
Jade gritted his teeth and continued his report.
"The deepest area of the base is sealed by an extremely complex ancient barrier."
"I pushed my Divine Eyes to the limit and even used law-based sight, but I still couldn’t see through it at all."
"That place is very likely hiding the leader of the Dawn Society, or their most important ’humanized’ test subject."
The hall fell into a deathly silence.
Aiden rested his chin on one hand. Countless clues flashed through his mind like sparks of lightning, crossing and colliding.
The altar in the northern ruins.
The Dawn Society that had vanished without a trace.
The projection of the Demon of Pride.
And now, the "humanized" base in the western region.
None of this was a coincidence.
"This is a coordinated plan."
Aiden spoke slowly. His voice was low and firm, filled with the wisdom of someone who had seen through everything.
The Abyss was testing them openly, while the Dawn Society was working in the shadows.
"They are waiting for the right moment. A moment to completely tear apart Earth’s laws and bring back the Lord of the Primordial."
"Alliance Leader, should we act now? We can destroy this cancer directly!"
Jade took a step forward, sword intent surging around him.
"Not yet."
Aiden raised his hand and stopped him.
"If we alarm them now, the mastermind behind all this will only hide even deeper. Keep watching them. Do not move."
"I want to see what they are really trying to create."
Jade bit his lip and hesitated, as if there was something else he had not said.
Aiden glanced at him.
"Is there more?"
"One more thing... When our spy was leaving the edge of the base, he saw a familiar figure."
Jade lowered his voice. There was even a hint of disbelief in it.
Aiden’s eyes instantly became as sharp as blades. His terrifying gaze almost cut open the space in front of him.
"Who?"
"Orrin."
Jade said the name.
"Wasn’t he badly wounded by you in the last battle? His Inner Spirit was almost destroyed, right?"
"But he didn’t die. And... his position in that base seems much higher than we expected."
"Even those monster Reclassers who have fused with Heavenly Demon Strength kneel and bow when they see him."
As Jade finished speaking, the temperature in the hall seemed to drop to freezing.
A cold smile slowly appeared on Aiden’s face. The killing intent in his eyes was almost solid.
Orrin.
A stray dog who should have died had somehow become one of the core members of the Dawn Society?
"Interesting."
Aiden slowly stood up. The phantom of a god flashed behind him and vanished. The terrifying pressure made the entire Tower of Laws tremble.
"It seems this show is getting more and more exciting."
The moment Aiden’s words fell, a thunderous sound rang out.
Boom!
Above Celestial Imperial City, an indescribable wave of the Law of Light suddenly erupted.
The wave was pure and vast. It carried an overwhelming divine aura, like a silent storm sweeping across the entire sky in an instant.
It was calmer than the heavenly tribulation Aiden had faced when he became a god. There was no violent thunder.
But the pressure within it was a hundred times deeper than the tribulation itself.
The entire Tower of Laws shook violently. The dark golden divine light that had filled the hall was swallowed by endless pure white light in that instant.
"This is..."
Aiden suddenly stood up and took one step forward. In the next moment, he appeared at the very top of the Tower of Laws.
Jade followed close behind.
When she looked up at the sky, she froze in place.
And it was not just them.
At that moment, countless Reclassers throughout Celestial Imperial City all raised their heads in shock.
The sky, which had been covered by a golden curtain of light, had now turned into an endless ocean of milky white.
It was the purest Law of Light, without even the slightest trace of impurity.
Buzz-
A pillar of light beyond description suddenly tore through the many layers of space separating Earth from the Abyss and descended with overwhelming force.
At that moment, the breakthrough light of Radiant Blade’s true body entering the Supreme God realm was like a blade of judgment.
It instantly lit up the night for thousands of miles, turning it as bright as day.
Even the endless gloom that had covered the ruined city in the western region all year round began to melt away like snow under this light.
"Supreme God... This is the breakthrough light of the Supreme God realm!"
Aiden took a deep breath. Golden light flashed wildly in his eyes, and a storm rose in his heart.
He could feel the source of this Strength.
It was Bella!
Deep inside the Ancient Battlefield, she had forcefully broken through the barrier of the Supreme God realm and successfully advanced!
The pillar of light in the sky began to shrink rapidly.
Endless Laws of Light gathered above Celestial Imperial City, finally turning into a giant sword that seemed to connect heaven and earth.
The sword trembled slightly.
In an instant, the void shattered into countless shining fragments.
Then, a peerless figure slowly stepped out from the broken space.
She was dressed in white, as pure as snow, and her feet were bare.
With every step she took, pure white lotus flowers made of law bloomed beneath her feet.
This descending avatar was no longer the phantom that had only thirty percent of her true body’s power.
This was a terrifying incarnation formed from Bella’s Supreme God realm power, holding a full fifty percent of her true strength!
Boom!
The moment her body fully formed, a terrifying pressure descended upon Celestial Imperial City.
It was heavy like a mountain of stars and vast like an endless sea of stars.
Thud...
"Luke the Tyrant," who had just arrived below the Tower of Laws, instantly turned pale.
His legs went weak, and he almost fell to his knees.
Beside him, Victor’s bones were also cracking under the pressure.
Cold sweat poured down his forehead, and his eyes were filled with fear.
In front of this God-King Rank pressure, these proud Mythic Rank geniuses were as small as ants.
Bella ignored the countless looks of awe and shock below.
With a flash, she landed at the top of the Tower of Laws.
She stood quietly in front of Aiden.
Her expression was still as calm as an iceberg that had not melted for ten thousand years.
But deep in her cold, beautiful eyes, there was a joy she could not hide, along with a faint ripple of emotion.
"I broke through."
Bella looked at Aiden. Her voice was like clear water flowing over stone-pleasant to hear, yet carrying a sacred tone that allowed no doubt.
Aiden looked at the peerless woman before him, and a sincere smile slowly appeared on his face.
"Congratulations."
Bella raised her head slightly and looked at Aiden’s handsome face, which was also shining with divine light.
Then she spoke softly.
"Thinking back, traveling with you through the Ancient Battlefield was the first time in ten thousand years that I truly gave everything I had."
"Not as a guardian protecting others, but as a companion fighting side by side."
"And that chance... came because of you."
Her words were soft, yet they seemed to carry a Strength that reached straight into the heart, echoing beside Aiden’s ears.
Aiden paused slightly, a little surprised.
Then the smile in his eyes grew even deeper.
The two of them looked at each other from close range.
For a moment, the entire void seemed to fall silent.
Only the subtle resonance of the Force of Laws around them remained.
After a short while, Radiant Blade, who had always been cold, proud, and distant from everything, had her long eyelashes tremble slightly.
She was the first to look away.
On her snow-white neck, a very faint and beautiful blush appeared.
But it vanished almost as quickly as it came.