MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter - Chapter 1003

Chapter 1003: Chapter 103 The Final Gift Chapter 1003: Chapter 103 The Final Gift “Damn you, you monster,” even the Mother Tree couldn’t help but roar.

It was truly a trap; the last hope had vanished.

Just as Li Yao had said, he was never short of soldiers to charge into battle.

As Li Yao’s strength grew, so would his summoned creatures become more formidable and more numerous.

He naturally knew of the Dark Queen, this legendary figure. Given time, she could single-handedly equal a super elite legion, otherwise relying solely on the strength of the Undead would never have allowed them to dominate the territory of the once strongest Human Kingdom–a fact the humans had come to accept.

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to reclaim it nor did they dread the might of the Undead; what they dreaded was the Dark Queen herself.

As some have assessed, in single combat, the Queen might not be the strongest, but on the battlefield, she was undoubtedly the King.

Of course, with the Queen using the counter-feeding power of the Touch of Darkness to resurrect her ally, her capability in single battles had soared greatly, and she could tread an even mightier path.

And with the Valgari who could resurrect her after falling in battle, the mere thought of being an enemy to such a person filled one with despair.

The silver lining was that the Undead currently lacked any aggression. What the Dark Queen and the Undead Clan now desired most was to seek vengeance against the plague and kill the Lich King. Otherwise, The Ancient God World might well have fallen into endless darkness.

“No wonder, no wonder such a stubborn and proud being would choose you as her heir; a monster like you shouldn’t exist,” the Priest said as he looked at Li Yao’s pets and then at the Black Dragon Queen, and then at Li Yao’s skilled archery and furious attack power, suddenly filled with despair.

“Accepting your fate is good. You’ve absorbed so much of the starlight and moonlight, I have something that’s been dying of hunger. Why not satisfy it?”

With Li Yao’s words, countless black tentacles spread from his arms and legs.

“This is, this is the Ancient God’s body,” the Mother Tree’s apparition said, her face full of horror, “No, how could you possibly control such an evil thing? Which Ancient God’s body is this, and you’ve actually gathered two parts of it. No, I refuse to become nourishment for an Ancient God; kill me, kill me.”

Ancient Gods have always been taboo since time immemorial.

This world once belonged to the gods, until the Ancient Gods descended upon it.

Some say the Ancient Gods were the will that this world produced, while others say they were Evil Gods from the depths of the universe. They can attach to a primary plane, slowly taking control and devouring the plane, using it as nourishment to grow stronger.

But these are all uncertainties; what people now know for sure is that there was a great war between the Ancient Gods and the pantheon of gods, which ended the age of the gods and ushered in the twilight of the gods.

Afterward, the four Elemental Lords defected to the Ancient Gods, and the Elemental Army–along with the Faceless Ones created by the Ancient Gods, and the Yarki’s storming troops–swept across the entire world, plunging it back into chaos.

The Titan gods of the Temple of a Thousand Gods descended and, together with the remaining deities of the Ancient God World, as well as legions such as the Five Colored Giant Dragons, Mechanical Gnomes, Storm Giants, Mountain Giants, and others, they crushed the rule of the Ancient Gods.

But they could not kill the Ancient Gods, only sealing them deep underground around the world. Afterwards, they recreated the world and crafted the Eternal Well to absorb cosmic energy to repair this broken world.

Although more than a hundred thousand years have passed, the fear and terror of the Ancient Gods still run deep in people’s hearts, and the older the existence, the greater their fear of the Ancient Gods.

“Too late, I didn’t expect that you’d have gathered so much negative energy and even merged it with the endless moonlight, truly remarkable,” Li Yao said, as the Touch of Darkness crazily entwined around the heart, and the silhouette of the mother tree also shattered with a bang.

“What’s so remarkable about it, just an idiot who thinks he’s clever, but is actually foolish and stupid,” said the Black Dragon Queen with disdain.

Li Yao raised an eyebrow, “How so?”

“There are things you don’t know, so let me broaden your horizons,” said the Black Dragon Queen proudly as she glanced at Li Yao. “This one is quite the tragedy, a direct heir of the mother tree, but unfortunately had bad luck, taking root too far from the Eternal Well. It struggled to grow and after thirty thousand years, its roots finally touched the Eternal Well, but it absorbed its power for only a few months before the ancient war broke out, and then the ground shattered, and most of its roots were severed. It was severely wounded.”

“But actually, being an offspring of the mother tree, it inherently contained boundless energy from the Eternal Well, a pity that it was ignorant, had it not been for such power, could it have roots spanning a continent? This fool wasted tens of thousands of years. Had it grown evenly, it would have been heaven-defying by now. Not to say it would become a second mother tree, but at least far stronger than the so-called world tree,” she continued.

“Of course, it also had chances, but this one was innately paranoid, always following the dark path, first absorbing the essence of the Undead to become a dead tree, then trying to swallow the moonlight, biting off more than it could chew, resulting in having endless power but conflicting life and death forces, and with the continuous infusion of moonlight, the power it could wield was only at the fourth tier–truly pathetic and lamentable. This time, with the Touch of Darkness absorbing its dark stellar energy, although it will kill its consciousness, a new consciousness will be born, and the remaining natural force of life, as long as it doesn’t stray again, might still rise above. After all, it has strong roots. If it were an ordinary tree, it would have died long ago with such tampering,” she said.

Li Yao suddenly understood, although he did not know how the new consciousness in the previous life cut away these energies, it indeed was reborn from fire and grew stronger at an incredible pace.

With the infusion of energy, the Touch of Darkness frantically grew more tendrils, and from its original pitch-black inkiness, its body now had many shining spots, like stars twinkling in an inky sky.

Meanwhile, in the distant Undead Capital, in the Queen’s laboratory, the experiment failed once again.

The Queen, unable to suppress her anger and feeling somewhat disheartened–after all, such a great price had been paid and the research had made no progress–was understandably upset.

Just as she was about to vent her anger, she seemed to sense something.

“The Touch of Darkness, I had completely cut off any connection, so why do I still sense it?” the Queen had an epiphany, “Ah, it’s the tentacles on the soul, this time it seems they are truly severed.”

Simultaneously, her soul was infused with a powerful force, and countless pitch-black gases with specks of stars enshrouded the Queen.

The Queen dashed into her training ground like lightning, and the starry mist around her gradually solidified into an eggshell, enveloping her within.

The power continued to pour in for five minutes, and five minutes later, the huge egg suddenly cracked open, and a body that was perfect to the extreme emerged.

The Queen at this moment was completely different from before, like an unparalleled goddess. As she opened her eyes, the entire training ground seemed to light up, her eyes shining like the sun and moon…