Everyone's Class: One Effort, 10,000x Bonus Reward! - Chapter 422: The Swarm Ritual
The altar was built from the skulls and bones of countless powerful beings. Pale green ghost flames burned on top of it, shooting straight up toward the dark ceiling.
At the very top of the altar, an ancient stone platform floated in the air.
The stone platform was half green and half white. The sun, moon, stars, and all living things were carved into its surface. It gave off a vast and terrifying pressure that made the heart tremble.
A Demi-Sacred Artifact—the Transmutation Altar!
However, at this moment, the Transmutation Altar was tightly wrapped in countless dark green law chains.
The other ends of those chains were connected to a terrifying being.
It was a figure sitting on a throne of white bones.
He had the body of a human, but six savage bone wings grew from his back. His whole body was covered in purple-gold armor, and his eyes burned like two green flames.
A High-Tier Demon God from the middle layer of the Abyss—Pellira!
“Fuse!”
Pellira suddenly opened his eyes and spoke an ancient, hard-to-understand demonic spell.
Boom!
With his roar, thousands upon thousands of low-level members of the Swarm beneath the altar exploded at the same time, turning into a massive cloud of blood mist.
The blood mist flowed into the dark green chains and turned into an extremely cruel refining power.
The Transmutation Altar let out an unwilling cry. The golden law light on its surface began to fade little by little under the corrosion of the blood mist.
“Soon… Once I refine this Demi-Sacred Artifact, I will control the Law of Transmutation and rise to become a Supreme God!”
Pellira’s eyes shone with almost insane excitement and greed.
He madly pushed the Demon God power inside his body, pouring it endlessly into the Transmutation Altar.
In the void, Aiden stood quietly in the shadows.
A faint flash of purple-gold divine thunder passed through the depths of his eyes as he watched everything coldly.
“Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and a Demi-Sacred Artifact that is being refined.”
The corner of Aiden’s mouth lifted slightly, but he did not rush to attack.
A direct assault was not the best choice.
The final counterattack of a High-Tier Demon God was no small matter. On top of that, there were hundreds of thousands of Swarm troops ready to throw away their lives to stop him.
He had to make sure he could take back the Transmutation Altar without fail.
After all, Irene’s recovery depended on it.
“System, scan Pellira’s refining progress.”
Aiden said silently in his mind.
[Ding! High-Tier Demon God Pellira has been detected forcibly refining the Demi-Sacred Artifact, “Transmutation Altar.” Current progress: 87%.]
[Notice: When the refining progress reaches the critical point of 90%, Pellira will need to deeply merge his Inner Spirit with the core origin of the Transmutation Altar.]
[At that time, his Inner Spirit defense will drop by 90%, and he will be unable to stop the refining process. If he does, he will suffer a backlash from the laws of the Demi-Sacred Artifact.]
Hearing the system’s voice in his mind, a cold smile flashed in Aiden’s eyes.
“The 90% critical point, huh…”
“What a perfect grave.”
Aiden stood with his hands behind his back, like a god hidden in the darkness, quietly waiting for his prey to walk into its own dead end.
At that moment, even the wind seemed to stop completely.
Only the endless roars of the Swarm, and the funeral bell that was about to ring for a Demon God, echoed through the underground world.
…
Time passed, second by second.
Above the bone altar, the pale green ghost flames burned more and more wildly.
Thousands upon thousands of Swarm warriors lined up and threw themselves into the sea of fire like moths to a flame, exploding into clouds of blood mist.
[Ding! Transmutation Altar refining progress: 88%…]
[Ding! Transmutation Altar refining progress: 89%…]
The system’s alerts echoed again and again in Aiden’s mind.
On the bone throne, High-Tier Demon God Pellira’s breathing became extremely heavy.
His Inner Spirit had already begun to spill out from between his eyebrows. It turned into countless tendrils, spreading toward the deepest part of the Transmutation Altar’s core origin.
This was the most critical step.
It was also the moment when his Inner Spirit defense was at its weakest.
[Ding! Current refining progress: 90%!]
The moment the system’s alert sounded, a sharp light burst from Aiden’s eyes.
“Now!”
Aiden shouted in his heart.
Buzz!
The void trembled slightly.
Without making the slightest sound, Aiden’s figure vanished from the gap in space.
Law of Space—Teleportation!
When he appeared again, he had already crossed the defensive line of hundreds of thousands of Swarm soldiers and landed directly at the top of the thousand-zhang bone altar.
“Who is it?!”
Pellira’s pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints. A powerful sense of danger swept through his whole body in an instant.
But at this moment, his Inner Spirit was deeply merged with the Transmutation Altar. He could not move at all, and he could not stop the process!
Aiden’s face was cold. His black hair whipped wildly in the fierce wind.
He raised his right hand, and an extremely bright golden flame gathered in his palm with a roar.
The flame was burning hot and holy, like a blazing sun that had fallen into the mortal world. It gave off a mighty power that could cleanse all evil in existence.
Legendary Rank Skill—Divine Golden Sunflame!
“I brought you a little gift.”
Aiden’s lips curved into a cold smile.
[Ding! Detected that the host has used the skill “Divine Golden Sunflame.” The 10,000x Critical Hit System has been triggered!]
[Critical multiplier: 10,000 times!]
Boom—!!!
The golden fire, which had only been the size of a fist, expanded millions of times in an instant under the power of the system.
It turned into a huge golden sun that covered the sky, lighting up the entire dark underground basin as if it were daytime.
The terrifying heat instantly burned away all the pale green ghost flames around the altar.
Within several miles, the air was completely dried out in a single moment.
“Break!”
Aiden pressed down with one hand. The golden sun fell with the power to destroy everything, smashing hard toward the point where Pellira and the Transmutation Altar were connected.
“Damn you! How dare you!”
Pellira let out a hysterical roar, his eyes filled with fear.
Rumble!!!
The golden sun exploded with a deafening blast. Endless holy golden flames turned into a storm of destruction and swallowed the thousand-zhang bone altar in an instant.
Pellira, who took the full force of the attack, let out an extremely miserable scream.
With the 10,000x critical hit, Divine Golden Sunflame had reached a terrifying level of power beyond imagination.
And worse for him, this was the deadly moment when Pellira’s Inner Spirit defense had dropped by 90%, and he could not move at all.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
The golden flames madly purified the dark green law chains wrapped around the Transmutation Altar.
A series of crisp cracking sounds rang out. Those evil refining chains melted before the holy golden flames like snow under the spring sun.
“Pfft—!”
As the origin chains were forcibly burned apart, Pellira spat out a huge mouthful of dark green Demon God blood.
This was the terrifying backlash caused by the interrupted refining process!
In that instant, his Inner Spirit suffered a heavy blow. His once solid body began to turn faint and unreal.
The refining ritual had failed at the very last step!
Without Pellira’s control, the Demi-Sacred Artifact, the Transmutation Altar, suddenly began to shake violently.
Buzz!!!
A vast blue-white light, as wide and powerful as an ocean, burst out from the Transmutation Altar and swept wildly in every direction.
It was the origin law storm of the Demi-Sacred Artifact!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The hundreds of thousands of Swarm soldiers at the front were hit by the law storm. Before they could even scream, they were turned into dust.
The bone altar collapsed with a thunderous crash, and broken stones flew everywhere.
“Ahhhhh! Thousands of years of my work!”
From within the smoke and dust came Pellira’s almost insane roar.
He shot up from the ruins, his six bone wings beating wildly and stirring up endless demonic energy.
His eyes locked onto Aiden, who stood proudly in the void. The hatred in his gaze was so strong it almost became real.
“Lowly human! I will tear out your soul and torture it for ten thousand years!”
The overwhelming pressure of a High-Tier Demon God descended with a crash.
It was the terrifying aura of a divine powerhouse. In that moment, the space within a hundred miles completely froze.
Crack! Crack!
The space around Pellira began to collapse over a wide area, revealing the dark, chaotic currents of the void.
“Die!”
In a mad rage, Pellira attacked. His withered demon claw swept out fiercely.
Boom!
Endless Space Force of Laws turned into a ten-thousand-zhang tidal wave, carrying the power to destroy everything as it crushed toward Aiden.
…
In that instant, space folded and shattered like a broken mirror.
The massive wave of Space Force of Laws turned into countless transparent void blades, sealing off every path of escape around Aiden.
“Teleport!”
Aiden’s eyes narrowed. The mana inside him erupted like a volcano as he tried to slip into the void once again.
But the space around him had already been completely locked down by Pellira’s Demon God domain. It had become thick and heavy, like liquid metal.
Bang!
Aiden had only managed to move half his body into the void before he was forcefully shaken back out. A thin line of bright red blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
“Trying to use space in front of a High-Tier Demon God? How foolish!”
Pellira gave a cruel grin. His six bone wings suddenly flapped, and countless black space storms rose between heaven and earth.
This was the first time Aiden had fought a true High-Tier Demon God head-on since his Class Change.
That suffocating pressure of law felt as if it would crush every bone and every cell in his body into dust.
“You are nothing but a level 50 insect, yet you have actually touched the power of space law?”
Pellira stared hard at Aiden. The shock in his eyes was even stronger than his towering rage.
In the Abyss, the law of space was a forbidden field that only a very small number of high-level Demon Gods could touch.
But this human in front of him had not even gone through the level 100 lightning tribulation, yet he could use teleportation so skillfully!
“This boy must not be allowed to live!”
At that moment, Pellira’s killing intent reached its peak. It even surpassed his anger over the destruction of the Transmutation Altar.
“Dying to this move is your honor—Space Strangulation!”
Pellira pointed one bone-like finger into the air.
Rumble!
The space within a thousand meters collapsed in an instant, turning into a huge black hole that released a terrifying power of devouring and tearing.
Endless chaotic void currents rushed toward Aiden at the center like a giant meat grinder.
Aiden took a deep breath. The calm in his eyes was almost unnatural.
“Legendary Rank shield—Elemental Holy Shield, activate!”
Buzz!
A colorful elemental light barrier rose around him with a boom. But before that world-destroying Space Strangulation, it looked terribly weak and unstable.
Crack!
It lasted only half a second before the Elemental Holy Shield was covered in spiderweb-like cracks. Then it shattered with a loud explosion.
