Volume 4 Chapter 524: The Holy Word of Creation and the Purification of Evil
Although the ensuing battle was dominated by pursuit and massacre, the number of the defeated ratmen was too large and it took several hours to finally end it.
Belegar also ran back happily carrying a grinning ratman's head and the Book of Hate.
Each dwarf kingdom and clan has its own book of hatred, which records the hatred for acts of harm or betrayal against the dwarves. The leaders of each generation will strive to wash away this hatred with the blood of their enemies.
For Belegar's Angrand clan, retaking the Eight Peaks Mountain is naturally the most important thing in the Book of Hatred, but today's battle also allowed him to clear a lot of small hatreds.
He also kept praising Mortiti and the other two to Levi, saying that the ratman had just set a trap for him, and thanks to the help of Mortiti and Maltis, he was able to break out of the siege and finally successfully killed the damn ratman.
Although Levi didn't recognize it, judging from Belegar's appearance, he should not be an unknown person.
But both of them were somewhat disappointed because they did not succeed in catching up with the Warlord Emperor or Doom Claw.
Levi was not surprised at all. Not to mention that those two guys were the bosses of their respective clans, and it was very likely that they were personally protected by the Big Horned Rat.
They are all legendary ratmen. Even if you two catch up with them, can you really defeat them?
After comforting the other party with a few words, Levi also introduced Isharion, Belegar, Khalida and others to each other, but they all acted rather coldly towards each other.
This is Issarion's nature. With the exception of Levi, who also serves the goddess and is of the same race, don't expect him to easily smile to the outsiders present.
Therefore, Khalida also showed the reserve and majesty of a queen. How could she take the initiative when the other party was so cold?
As for Belegar, he found that the other party was just like an ordinary elf, with a proud look that looked down on people, and was not as nice as Levi at all.
So he didn't want to pay too much attention to it, and only showed the most basic courtesy because of the other party's help.
He was disgusted in his heart, but Eltharion's Mist Expedition was indeed of great help to the war in Eight Peaks and even to all dwarves. He had to accept this favor.
As for the Red Prince, he remained silent most of the time. He was now trying to repay Levi for saving his life, so there was no need for him to steal the show.
Levi found their appearance intuitively interesting, but it didn't matter. In this situation, his appearance as a mediator became very important.
So he seemed to be chatting casually, making sure no one felt left out, and for a moment it seemed like he was playing it safe with everyone.
After a while, the system's prompt finally came. After a hard fight and killing an extremely astonishing number of enemies and many powerful enemies, he received another high evaluation for his legendary feat.
A considerable number of the survivors who fought to the end were either upgraded or advanced. Levi himself was directly upgraded to level 20, and was only one step away from becoming a legend.
"Your team has defeated three legends. Based on your contribution in the battle, a random portion of the opponent's legend points will be transferred to you. Random..."
"You have gained a total of 15 points of legend from the messengers of disaster - War Messenger, Plague Apostle, and Deceiver."
"Your combat level has been raised to level 20, your Celestial Mystic has been raised to level 10, you have obtained the blessing of the Seventh Heaven Mountain, and you have gained supernatural abilities - Bigu and Turtle Breathing."
Bigu: You don’t need food or water;
Turtle Breath: You don't need to breathe.
Levi was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he could receive the blessing of Mount Paradise again. However, these two supernatural abilities are also quite useful, especially the latter.
In many small planes, there may be no air at all, or it may be filled with poison. Even demons cannot survive in some of them, because most demons still need to breathe.
But after acquiring the Turtle Breath, his ability to adapt to it will definitely be greatly improved.
After reaching the legendary level, it is difficult to gain much experience points or loot by hunting ordinary enemies in the main world. However, those powerful beings are often high-level figures in various forces.
Therefore, gradually moving to many small different planes is a better choice.
Of course, this is a privilege only available to magic units. Warrior-type units like Belegar or Khalida cannot go there even if they want to.
"You can spend 777x777 gold coins as a gift to directly comprehend the special skill - Word of Creation."
Seeing this, Levi's breathing suddenly became rapid.
It wasn't because of the price. Although it was over 600,000 gold coins, which was so expensive that he almost thought he had read the number wrong, he was sure that it was definitely worth it.
Because the Holy Words of Creation is a lost special language that was once exclusive to the three major celestial races.
It is said that no mortal can understand more than four words, and no evil can utter any of them.
It does not have any evil-type words such as pain, despair, hatred and betrayal, but instead has an extremely delicate vocabulary of beauty, kindness and compassion.
It cannot be written down or translated into words in any form, as doing so would instantly strip it of all power and meaning.
This means that the existence of mastery cannot be taught or communicated in any form between each other.
There has always been only one way to obtain the power of the Holy Word of Creation, and that is the personal bestowal of the Seventh Heaven Mountain.
Therefore, even among high-level celestial creatures, very few can understand their existence.
Even someone as powerful as the half-step legendary Dragon Chief God Envoy, Soslan, only knew less than ten words. The Merciful Messengers might know more, but it would definitely not exceed double digits.
As for mortals, if they can master one of them, it will be enough for them to display extraordinary power.
The only thing that can be compared with it is the blasphemous words that only a very small number of devil dukes and demon lords are fortunate enough to master.
Instant death, paralysis, weakness, dizziness...
That series of powerful effects, coupled with the strength of the Demon Lords themselves, are extremely deadly to all non-god-level beings, and demigods may not be safe either.
And now, Levi has the opportunity to master the Holy Words of Creation.
Furthermore, the system didn't say whether to buy one or two, so does that mean...
When he thought of that possibility, even he couldn't help but tremble slightly, purely out of excitement.
Unfortunately, he thought that with this great harvest, he would be able to pay off most of the debt owed to Kalida. He didn't expect that the plan would have to be changed before it even started, and he would owe even more.
After a slight sigh, Levi said directly: "Kalida, how many gold coins do you have on you?"
"It's just some change, probably less than 100,000 yuan, what's wrong?"
Although Khalida looked calm and composed, everyone around her who heard this had almost the same expression:
Is this a real rich man? All the change is in units of ten thousand?
Levi was also speechless, but he didn't want to chat with the other party anymore. As soon as he opened his mouth, he saw Issarion throwing a space ring directly at him.
"This is what I gained from conquering the badlands. It's about 80,000."
Except for a very small number of God-chosen heroes, ordinary green-skinned natives do not need gold coins at all.
Not only because of the different currencies, the greenskins prefer to collect the teeth of various ferocious beasts.
Moreover, in the greenskin society, there is no buying, selling or trading in most cases. If you don't have something, you can just rob it.
So even though he conquered all the way, looted the treasure houses of many greenskin clans, and even killed legendary greenskins, he actually didn't get much.
Of the 80,000, half was looted by the greenskins when they robbed humans or dwarves and then thrown into the warehouse, and the other half was brought from the Ulthuan roundabout by him just in case.
This move was beyond the expectations of Belegar, Khalida and others. They didn't expect that this guy looked cold but acted quite generously.
Seeing this, Khalida also threw hers over, which contained more than 90,000 gold coins.
But despite this , plus what Levi earned this time, there is still a gap of nearly 100,000.
After expressing his gratitude immediately, Levi thought for a moment and then looked at another wealthy man present:
"Beilejia, lend me another 200,000, and I will leave the Zhendan Palace here for you to use."
Levi asked for a huge sum of money. He did this not only for the Holy Word of Creation, but also wanted to take the opportunity to consolidate his relationship with the other party.
Although he is borrowing money, as long as he repays it on time or makes the other party feel that the money is worth borrowing, he can still achieve good results.
"Then I will make you 10 sphinxes and 100 snake ladies. As for the Death Guards, it's up to you..."
Before he finished speaking, Belegar waved his hand and said, "Okay, Levi, given the relationship between us, do we still need to say this?"
"Without your help, we won't be able to face the three disaster lords at the same time."
The surrounding dwarf ancestors nodded their heads one after another. They were indeed very grateful to Levi.
When it reaches the legendary level, basically all weaknesses in various aspects will be greatly compensated.
Even if it can't fly, it definitely has anti-aircraft means;
Even if you don't know magic, you can definitely attack and harm spirits effectively.
Their spiritual bodies are certainly invincible when fighting against ordinary low- and mid-level infantry, but they are completely useless when facing true legends.
Of course, if things really develop in the worst direction, the dwarf gods will definitely not stand idly by.
This is the confidence of a race with a powerful pantheon behind it!
Belegar quickly had the gold coins taken out of the treasury. With the ratmen collapsing across the board, the Iron Pillar Hall, the King's Hall, and even the ratmen near the treasury all ran away and disappeared, which made it easier for them to act.
Then they surrounded Levi while commanding the troops to continue cleaning the battlefield, repairing defensive facilities, and consolidating multiple defenses.
Even Eltharion was no exception, because Levi now clearly had big things to do, and he was indeed very interested in the Celestial Mystics.
After all, this profession is not only extremely rare, but there are only a handful of people who can survive the siege of many demons, devils, and evil gods.
At least apart from Levi, he had never seen or heard of a second living celestial mystic.
The same was true for Maltis, Mortiti and others, especially the little female dragon Catherine, who was quite envious.
Even though the gold coins were in a space ring, she couldn't suppress her excitement just by hearing these numbers.
Under the Dragon God, how many dragons can accumulate so many gold coins before death?
Levi was not in a hurry, but issued several more orders. In addition to alert, defense and cleaning the battlefield, Zhou Miyin also had to take people to deal with the corpses.
Although the value of the corpse is greatly reduced after the three-headed lord of disaster is summoned as a sacrifice, it may not even be possible for the vampire to transform it into a higher-level undead, and can only be converted into a zombie.
However, the plague on the corpses of the ratmen still exists, and there is no guarantee that it will not attract the attention of Nurgle, one of the Four Gods of Chaos, so it is better to be safe.
Of course, the first person to be attracted by such a brutal war would undoubtedly be the Blood God Khorne, but with the dwarf gods watching, he definitely wouldn't dare to join in the fun.
After giving these instructions, Levi spent such a large sum of money that made Penthesilea feel quite distressed and began to comprehend the Holy Word of Creation.
In an instant, he only felt endless words that represented light and beauty, melodies that completely transcended the mortal world and echoed the sounds of heaven. They began to wash over his body and mind, cleansing his soul, making him feel like he was floating in the air and almost losing himself.
But after a brief trance, the divine power in his body gave him strong support. Levi quickly woke up and began to try to calm his mind and try to discern the content contained in these melodies.
But everyone around looked at Levi with wide eyes.
Obviously, there was no change in his body, nor was there any light emanating from him, but at that moment, they felt as if he had been sublimated, and he couldn't help but attract their attention and minds.
Majestic? Handsome? Elegant? Holy?
These words do fit him, but they can only describe a small part of him. They feel that they can't think of the most appropriate words no matter how hard they try.
Even in the dark, someone had a very bold idea in his mind:
In terms of appearance and temperament alone, Levi now might even surpass some real gods!
I don’t know how long it took, or maybe it was just a moment, Levi opened his eyes again.
He didn't know whether his current situation was good or bad, because he seemed unable to utter even a word, but he did gain new and powerful power.
First, if he wanted, he could perform magic through the Words of Creation.
Others will not hear any changes in spells, but when these magics are related to holiness, light, and goodness, they will automatically be blessed with various spell feats.
Including but not limited to: strong, delayed, silent, instant, extended, widened, explosive and mixed, etc. He can freely choose to activate one or more of them.
The rest are fine, as he already has most of them, but the final mix is worth mentioning.
If a spell has two attributes, he can freely adjust the ratio of the two attributes.
If it was a Yangyan Explosion, he could make it look sacred on the outside, but actually be full of flames inside, or vice versa. This could perhaps be used to harm the enemy at certain special moments.
Considering that he also possesses a supernatural ability - Holy Power Transformation, he can convert most magic attributes into holy magic by consuming additional magic points.
Except for a few special magics such as the Finger of Death, other magics will be strengthened by the Word of Creation.
This kind of enhancement can be combined with his own expertise, which is equivalent to getting the blessing of two expertises.
The more powerful the magic, the greater the enhancement will tend to be.
Next is the special expertise - Knowledge of Light. When casting magic related to holiness, light, and goodness, the casting cost is reduced by 20%, the casting speed is increased by 10%, and up to 4 special gain effects are granted to all friendly forces around.
1. Boost morale and temporarily increase resistance to fear and charm;
2. Boost skills, the next casting cost is reduced and the effect is improved;
3. Boost combat power and gain temporary health points, which will become invalid after being attacked once;
4. Boost your bravery and increase the critical hit rate and critical hit damage rate of your next attack.
(Not effective against inanimate objects such as constructs, undead creatures, elementals, and extremely evil creatures such as demons and devils)
Based on Levi's current strength, the range is a circular area with a radius of 25 meters centered on him. The specific effect varies according to the strength of each friendly force.
Since there is no restriction on the class of spells, Levi can use the lowest-level magic with the fastest release speed to make the surrounding friendly forces benefit from four kinds of buff effects almost all the time. This is much more powerful than ordinary battle skills.
When he was in the Underdark, Levi was amazed and admired by Teclis's power. He could create multiple spell chain effects with just a small magic cast. Now Levi himself has similar abilities.
He began to understand a little. No wonder, apart from a few war heroes known as military gods and war marshals, few indigenous people mentioned how high someone's battle level was, or how strong their battle skills were.
They just express their admiration and yearning for powerful mages, because mages really have the ability to change the entire battlefield by their own strength.
Moreover, he had a feeling that this was just the beginning. As his strength continued to increase, he might be able to discover more applications of the Holy Word of Creation.
As for that note, it is completely understandable. Constructs and the like, whether they receive benefits or treatments, are very different from ordinary people .
"You can choose new magic. The current random magic list is:
7th level magic: Sagemang's Ice Claw Prison, Boulder Trap, Otherworldly Protection Bubble, Limited Wish;
8th level magic: Lightning Ring, Labyrinth, Burning Cloud;
9th level magic: Meteor Explosion, Avalanche, Cleansing of Evil. "
Perhaps the system also knew that Levi had reached level 20, so it gave him a little congratulations. The list of magic to choose from this time were all excellent, but unfortunately he could only choose one of them.
After a little thought, he chose the final cleansing of evil.
With Sunburst and Hammer of Justice, he is no longer particularly lacking in output magic, not to mention that he has Elegy, Penthesilea, and the new Red Prince around him.
But cleansing evil is holy magic at first glance, and it will probably be very interesting when dealing with evils such as vampires and demons in the future...
Cleansing Evil (9th level): Tear the filthy and corrupt soul of an evil creature from its body and temporarily seal it in a diamond. The creature's original body will wither and disintegrate into ashes.
The evil soul sealed in the gem will undergo a gradual transformation, reflect on its past evil deeds, and slowly find the flame of kindness in its heart.
After a period of time, this small spark will grow into a raging flame.
After one year has passed, the creature's soul must adopt the same good alignment as the caster, with only slight deviations in details (for example, if the caster is lawful good, the creature can choose neutral good, but absolutely cannot choose chaotic good).
When the soul fully repents, the diamond breaks into pieces and becomes a new body for the creature, allowing the soul to return to it, and the creature becomes a good subordinate of the caster.
If the diamond shatters before the soul repents, the creature's body and soul return to their original form, and the creature is in the same state as before the spell was cast.
The creature will then retain all memories of the time it was sealed in the gem, and will regard the caster as an enemy and do everything in its power to destroy him.
Special 1: Risk your life for goodness. Each time you cast this spell, you will sacrifice 50-100 points of life to goodness and justice, and you will not be able to recover this damage in any way within 30 seconds.
Special 2: Casting this spell requires a diamond worth at least 1,000 gold coins. When the target's soul is trapped inside, the diamond's hardness and health value, etc., will depend on your strength and the quality of the diamond.
Special 3: Casting the spell requires at least 100,000 experience points. The stronger the target, the more experience points will be consumed, but it will not exceed 3 million at most.
Special 4: If the target is a vampire without a soul, a ghost without a body, etc., the spell will be adjusted accordingly, but in any case, once the spell is successfully cast, the target's entire essence will be trapped in it.
Special 5: One year later, when the soul repents, you can spend extra strength and materials such as elemental crystals to shape the target into a celestial creature of the same camp as yours (such as an angel, an archon, or a Gedin, etc.).
Levi's first thought was that this effect seemed to be much stronger than he had expected.
Even the camp can be forcibly changed. No matter whether the other party is willing or not, once the spell is successfully cast, you can forcibly redeem the other party. This is the most thorough way to be treated like a dog.
Even though good creatures could fall, angels could serve evil gods, and even in the Abyss there were fallen angels of the Dawn, they would never have this opportunity under the eyes of himself or Lilith.
Although it is still possible to rescue the sealed person if the diamond is broken within a year, once the release is successful, Levi can hand the diamond to Lilith for safekeeping to ensure that it is safe.
The only problem is that one year is still a bit too long for a hero chosen by God like me.
But it doesn’t matter. For many purely kind creatures, redemption may be very important, but for Levi, it is just an additional thing. He wants to use this magic to make his opponent completely lose his resistance.
If it is used to deal with Manfred, Black Arkhan, and even the Vampire Queen...
Then wouldn't it be easy to seize the Nine Volumes of Nagash and Khalida's revenge from the other party?
When he thought of this, Levi couldn't wait any longer. Once he collected all nine volumes of Nagash, he might be close to becoming a god!
When he turned around again, he saw the crowd around him, some of them were amazed, some were sighing with emotion.
He naturally understood what was going on, as he had not completely lost his ability to perceive the outside world.
But he didn't have the energy to explain in detail. He hadn't rested since the White Girl Mountain. After opening the treasure house of the Eight Peaks Mountain, he continued fighting for more than ten hours. He was really tired this time.
He dealt with it casually and learned how to activate lightning that he had obtained before. He also asked his subordinates in the fairy palace to start deploying defenses.
Belegar can show his generosity, but he must also show that he keeps his promises.
Seeing this, everyone stopped asking further questions, because to be honest, most of them were a little tired, so they decided to finish the work at hand and take a break.
Levi then turned to look at Eltharion. Before he could ask, Eltharion took the initiative to respond: "I will go to Haimen Pass."
In fact, he had no interest in supporting these dwarves. He just wanted to take revenge on the Big Belly King - Gollum. But since it was the goddess's wish, he would naturally obey and try his best.
Haimen Pass is the only seaport city for the entire dwarf tribe. Not only does it have an extremely special status, but it also has a good geographical location. Even their own fleet can temporarily dock there.
So no matter from which perspective, it is necessary for him to go there in person.
Levi nodded: "Okay, I will stay here for a few days to see how the situation is, and then go north to Silver Peak."
Eltharion fully understood this. The vampires of the House of Lahmia had been spreading rumors that the Lady of the Lake was living in seclusion in Silver Peak, so many knights from the Kingdom of Bretonnia were deceived.
Being sucked to death or being enchanted into a vampire's servant is considered a relatively good end, but there are actually some worse ones.
The goddess has always been brooding over this, but due to various pressures she had been unable to reveal her identity, and she did not have enough external power, so she had never been able to deal with the other party.
But now that Levi has decided to go there, he will definitely make the other party look bad.
But he still reminded her: "The goddess seems to have some plans for her, you'd better confirm it again."
Levi certainly knew this, and he was even almost certain that Lilith was trying to use a substitutionary trick, otherwise she would not have sent Lucia and Alucard as undercover agents.
Well, maybe it's for fishing.
After all, her identity is so special, she is the oldest vampire queen.
No matter whether it is Black - Arkhan, the ancestor of the blood dragon - Amber Wallace, or powerful vampires such as Dracula and Manfred, they are all directly or indirectly related to her. Monitoring her will definitely not be in vain.
After a brief pause, Eltharion continued, "I will leave you five teams of 20 Tar Ghavor-Griffin Knights. I hope you will not refuse."
"Oh, this is very valuable. Thank you very much."
Of course Levi would not refuse. Not to mention him, even the Dragon Prince or the Phoenix King would be full of praise for such a gift.
Because their fighting power is basically equivalent to that of 5 giant dragons.
At the same time, he was also thinking about preparing some return gifts. The Kingdom of Iris was famous for its flying troops, but its infantry was relatively inferior.
If I give him some constructs like the Sphinx, he surely won't refuse, right?