Chapter 955: Chapter 502: Clearing Starry Sky City (Part 2)
The near-perfect spiritual energy conversion efficiency allowed a full strike at only the twelfth level of spiritual energy to penetrate the defense formed by the thirteenth level of spiritual energy of the Profanity Warrior.
Though it didn’t break through its spiritual energy, it dealt a heavy blow to its soul, causing its spiritual energy operation to become sluggish. Even the vast ocean-like total amount of spiritual energy was greatly consumed by this strike.
Rod finally smiled.
This was accomplished without utilizing any enhancement effects, completely in a normal state.
The spiritual energy consumed wasn’t much, the heat within the soul is dissipating.
In over ten seconds, he can launch the second strike.
The Profanity Warrior struggled to climb out of the rubble, with the monster’s deep spiritual energy pouring out continuously to mend the soul injuries, but in Rod’s Eye of the Soul, the white spot left by the strike stubbornly refused to heal.
"Rod!" Anna shouted anxiously, "Go on! Don’t wait for it to recover!"
Fighting a war of attrition against a monster is highly unfavorable. As long as there’s a method to defeat the enemy in one blow, no one wishes to waste time with a monster.
Rod is a strong hand in this regard, but she doesn’t understand why the usually vigorous Rod has slowed down at this moment.
Seeing the monster about to stand up, Anna was extremely anxious and suddenly gritted her teeth and charged forward, only to be stopped by Mephit.
"Don’t fret."
She said softly.
"Rod has his plans, trust him."
Anna saw Mephit’s eyes as calm as ice, and for some reason, she suddenly calmed down, pausing the swaying of her steed.
Rod walked towards the Profanity Warrior unhurriedly, the sound of spiritual energy floating echoing in the silent ruins.
The Profanity Warrior was enraged by his arrogant stance, letting out a greater roar, suddenly arching its body with its massive belly pointed at Rod in an extremely twisted state.
An even larger void appeared than before, a buzzing sound in the air, the world seemingly trembling.
The immense sense of danger awakened Anna, who called urgently, "Rod, dodge quickly!"
But Rod neither dodged nor avoided, instead accelerating towards the void.
seconds... 1 second...
Rod sensed the heat of the soul, silently chanting in his heart.
Ready!
[Truth] Activate!
[Divine Strike]
Super intense heat once again surged from the depths of the soul, piercing through Rod’s right arm like lightning.
The Star Sword suddenly accelerated, drawing an extremely bright trajectory, striking at incredible speed towards the center of the void, and hitting the soul within.
Boom!
A sound resonating through the heaven and earth.
The Profanity Warrior fell to its knees instantly, the void in the abdomen reverted, but the spiritual energy was pierced, leaving a huge void in the soul.
Rod immediately dispersed the Star Sword, his right hand seemingly gripping air, a sickle-shaped crescent flashed on the back of his hand, and the translucent hand plunged into its soul.
Boom!
Another sound seemingly from the void, the soul of the Profanity Warrior shattered and collapsed.
A thick black aura entered Rod’s chest, a line of text flashed before his eyes.
[Soul of the Profanity Warrior]
[Extremely Great Soul]
[A malformed monster formed from a soul filled with greed, evil, and desire, they are less a disaster brought by non-human darkness than a tangible manifestation of human sin.]
Great!
A wave of ecstasy surged in Rod’s heart, knowing that from now on, he finally possesses strong conventional combat capabilities like other Guardians.
No longer being two entirely different people when deploying or not deploying a big move.
[Truth] is simply a divine skill!
My combat system can entirely be built around it, attacking during cooldown, roaming when overheated, this is my fundamental fighting rule.
When encountering unbeatable strong enemies, I’ll initiate [Bloody Tears], [Giant God Power], and [Blank], in this state, I will certainly be able to subdue the enemy with [Truth]!
When clearing debris, I can use the Star Shuttle and [Wind’s Phantom].
In special cases, use [Spiritual Power Multiple Melodies].
This is truly perfect.
Rod couldn’t help but smile when thinking about his heroic posture in future battles.
He is no longer the same.
In the dream realm, the Book of Knowledge uttered a cheer and eagerly delivered the [Soul of the Profanity Warrior] to the Soul Altar.
"Master, quickly sacrifice it!"
With a thought from Rod, an invisible force twisted and disassembled it, several lines of text appearing before his eyes.
Soul Without Spirit +2 billion
Spirituality +20,000
Greed And Evil Thoughts +1 share
Devouring Soul Trait Blocks +18 shares
Soul Residue +9291 shares
——
Quite a harvest.
Finally, I have materials to repair the dream realm.
Rod was delighted internally, and asked, "Book, what is Greed And Evil Thoughts? What is its use?"
The joyous Book of Knowledge suddenly displayed a disgusted expression.
"This is a negative material used to create evil forbidden things, useless to us, but congregating it here can prevent the birth of new Profanity Warriors, they are very troublesome monsters. Once it absorbs enough materials, it quickly grows until becoming a terrifying unspeakable entity."
Rod nodded, just about to examine the corpse when Asa suddenly spoke.
"Hey, could you give me this?"
Rod frowned.
The Book of Knowledge promptly expressed opposition: "No way! You’ll absorb the evil thoughts and gain soul growth, this is harmful to us."
Asa said flatly: "I will go all out to help you deal with another Ancient Evil Thought, it absorbed more evil thoughts and is more powerful than me. If I don’t absorb, I can’t deal with it. Though my wisdom is stronger, its power surpasses mine... Moreover, being in your confinement is far safer than it."
Rod remained silent for only a second before answering: "Alright, but first I want to see your sincerity."
Asa smiled coldly: "You will."
Rod ignored him, advancing a few steps to the monster’s corpse.
Amidst the soaring black dust, it was evaporating, but due to being in the wild environment, the evaporation rate was slower, the corpse aspect could still be fully seen for the moment.
Rod gazed at its large whale-like belly, suddenly struck with an idea.
Could the missing Chucher and the seventh team have been absorbed?
This thought appeared and instantly occupied his mind.
Rod couldn’t help but ask, "Book, what happens if someone is absorbed by the Profanity Warrior?"
The Book of Knowledge was cheerfully repairing the dream realm with the mannequin, and answered casually, "They will be digested, dissolved, and absorbed, becoming nourishment for its soul growth."
"Is there a way to escape?"
"Piercing its soul is sufficient, but this is extremely difficult, its soul structure is very special, with greater resilience inside, subjected to the suppression of dark powers, making it extremely hard to destroy."
Rod nodded, already guessing there’s a seventy to eighty percent chance that Chucher and the seventh team were absorbed, otherwise it can’t explain why they suddenly went missing.
But how did all of them disappear together? Could they have been absorbed together?
This is a very basic mistake.
Rod pondered, then turned his head, saying: "Anna, collect its ashes."
Anna joyfully jumped forward: "Rod, when did you become stronger again?"
Rod replied casually: "Didn’t you know I’m a combat genius? The soul grows in the battle between life and death."
Anna smiled: "Indeed, you are such geniuses, after the Starry Sky City battle, Sister Jessica also experienced immense growth, and Archbishop said her soul trait might breakthrough and gave her a whole drop of Star Source... Perhaps soon, there will be a Commander among our Spiritual Woman Group."
Rod scratched his head, feeling this should not be solely because of the Starry Sky City battle, the blessing of the Main Star Priest also plays a large part, everyone involved in the Starry Sky City battle received huge enhancements.
And these are the pinnacle forces within Trolian.
Even Royal City is no longer the same.
Rod sighed internally.
Perhaps Trolian truly is on the path to rise and revival.
Indeed, it must be so.
Then let me add further strength.
Rod focused, activated the Eye of the Soul, continuing to search the battlefield for traces of the missing personnel.