113. Advent

The death of the witch and the arrival of Talos, the god of magic, are the two most sensational news in the Thumb Realm in half a year.

Wherever there is a thumb villain, there are voices discussing these two news, and they are happy to do so, the difference is that the former has suffered infamy and a thousand years of stench, and the latter has received countless praises, making people see the dawn of hope.

Some say that Talos is the supreme deity of magic, some say that he is a mage hero of extreme strength, and others promise to see him in their dreams and receive a legacy of teachings......

There are all sorts of theories about whether the news is true or not, but the most talked-about and hopeful thing is that the god of magic, Talos, has a way to lift the curse of the Thumb Realm, and that day will come soon!

Lift the curse and become human again!

When the news spread from the cities of Pisa and Sidon, the entire Thumb Nation was boiling.

The new generation of thumb people have never seen normal humans, and they can't even imagine how tall and big normal humans are, but it doesn't affect their yearning for "normal life" at all.

In the stories that grew up with them, normal humans are the overlords and rulers of this world, guarding their homes with magic, insects and rats are driven to the corners of the gutter, birds and beasts are only prey, and even magical beasts and magical creatures with extraordinary power cannot compete with humans.

They don't have to worry about the intrusion of behemoths, or struggle to survive in humility – the stark contrast between the past and the present makes the little thumb man hope come true.

To the mage community, the god of magic was a generous and enlightened forerunner of magic, who had never been hesitant to share advanced magical knowledge with them, and now offered to lift the curse.

The general public's horizons may not be as broadened as mages, but this does not prevent them from seeing a more hopeful future, so they do not hesitate to express their gratitude and worship to the god of magic.

In the seventh month of Talos's arrival in the spirit world, Scott, Ivan and others finally found a crack in a forest that connected the material plane to the spirit world.

Scott and his party will never forget that winter when a giant dream-eating butterfly with a wingspan of more than 12 feet passed through the rift shrouded in spatial energy and magical aura, broke through the laws of the world, and descended on the physical plane.

That is the incarnation of the god of magic, Talos, in his own plane!

The body is wrapped with a rich black and purple magical aura, mysterious, beautiful, and unexpectedly powerful, and the breath that inadvertently escapes makes people feel like they are facing the vast blue deep sea and can't breathe for a while.

What they didn't know was that during this period of time, in addition to teaching magic knowledge in his dreams for a fixed time, Talos spent the rest of his free time in the void where the ancient titan was sleeping, absorbing the breath of divine power, and his soul fire was growing all the time.

Up to now, Talos had absorbed the remnants of the killing power of the Gladiatorial Killing God, the unknown divine power that escaped from the Elder Titan God, and refined and devoured the three divinities of the earth, the storm, and the sea.

According to the information that Talos automatically received when he first came into contact with divine power and divinity—he did not know where this information came from, as if he was born to know it—divinity is not a certain spiritual wisdom spirit in the ordinary literary or theological sense, which is different from "human nature" and "animal nature", and is used to promote the benevolence, selflessness, and greatness of God.

To a certain extent, divinity does constitute the essence of the gods that are different from mortal things, but in the realm of divinity, divinity represents a more different concept, a very high and very special energy, born on the basis of faith or law.

Directly used to fight against the enemy is a relatively inefficient and extensive use of divinity, and the correct way to open it is to communicate with the Force Ocean, the Plane Origin Link, and immunity to low-level energy.

If Talos chooses to fuse the ocean divinity with soul fire instead of devouring the ocean divinity with soul fire and transforming it into power in the Terra plane, then when the ocean divinity accumulates and grows to a certain level, he will become a primary-divine creature.

- The more specific information Talos didn't know, and he guessed that it would take at least ten divinities to cause a qualitative change.

At that time, Talos will be able to link with the water elemental plane during battle, draw power, and automatically gain immunity to all magic, divine arts, and bloodline specialties related to the water element, as well as other factions' non-fifth-order spells based on [Ocean Divinity].

In other words, even the most ordinary primary-level divine creatures were not something that fifth-order professionals could compete with, and they had too many advantages.

Talos did not regret his decision to directly refine the three divinities, after all, once he chose to fuse the divinity, there was a high probability that he would not be able to hide the church that was most sensitive and familiar with the power of the gods, and it would inevitably attract inquiries and investigations.

If Talos is a fifth-order epic knight, even if he becomes a primary divine creature, there is room for justification - reputation is the basis of faith, and with the reputation and prestige of a fifth-order professional, there is indeed a possibility of giving birth to divinity, which is nothing more than a matter of talent and luck - but in the third order, the inside story is intriguing, and it is worth investigating and torture by the church.

In comparison, divine power is much simpler, it is just a kind of power used by the gods, which is equivalent to the spiritual power consumed by the mage using spells, and the holy power consumed by the priest using divine magic, which is often consistent with divinity and priesthood.

During this time, Talos absorbed eleven divine powers from the Elder Giant God through the Divine Power Enchantment, plus the remaining one before, a total of twelve, all of which were stored in the soul fire in case of emergency.

Limited by the identity and strength of mortals, Talos's utilization of divine power is not efficient, to be exact, low, but the explosive power of burning divine power at a critical moment can still temporarily raise his combat power to the level of a fifth-order epic knight.

This is very remarkable, Talos thought proudly, it is another hole card for extinguishing mouths, and it can't be shown in front of people like soul fire and the watch world.

In anticipation, Talos continued to inhale the aura of divine power, but this time, no matter how long he spent the soul fire, it could no longer contain additional divine power, and it seemed that it had reached some kind of upper limit that he could not detect for the time being.

The Dream Eater Butterfly form couldn't train his combat expertise, let alone learn his bloodline expertise, so Talos began to try to refine his divine power!

Probably derived from the relationship between the ancient giant gods, the refining of the divine power that was still below the divine nature of the original level was far more difficult than the devouring of the three divinities in the Terra plane.

The energy that fills the divine power is undoubtedly huge, with deep darkness and evil, like a thundercloud in the making, and you can intuitively feel the danger and power just by looking at it.

Among them, there are countless mixed and chaotic thoughts, like swimming fish, sometimes appearing, sometimes hidden, sometimes gathering and sometimes scattering, and when facing the calcination of the soul fire, they rush up and merge into a torrent.

Talos, who was refining his divine power for the first time, was careless, his mind was almost crushed by the torrent, lost in it, and was corrupted and assimilated, but fortunately, these chaotic thoughts were not controlled by the owner, and all kinds of reactions were all instincts to resist being refined, so they were quickly turned into ashes in the calcination of the soul fire.

What really trickled Talos was the will that lurked beneath these chaotic thoughts, pure and tenacious, holding all the energy in a divine power in place, immovable under the calcination of the soul fire.

"This is the imprint of the will of the ancient giant god, which actually runs through the entire divine power, which can resist the refining of soul fire!"

At first, Talos was afraid that the will of refining would alarm the Elder Titan God, so he entered the surface world, but it turned out that he was too worried, and after a day passed, not only did he fail to refine a little divine power, but he made himself mentally exhausted.

"Is there really something that can't even be refined by soul fire?"

Refining the soul, faith, and divinity, the soul fire has always been invincible, and Talos is unwilling, giving birth to a stubbornness.

He rested for two hours, cheered up and continued to refine his divine power.

Time passed little by little, and when the third day came, the will of the ancient giant god who was stoic in his divine power was finally ignited and slowly burned, and Talos successfully pulled out a trace of energy from it and threw it into the soul fire.

It may be the subtle psychology of "what you can't get is always the best", or it may be the joy of reaping the fruits of your labor, and as the soul burns and feels the growth of strength, Talos has a feeling of fluttering immortals, immersed in it, and even forgetting time.

Five days had passed since the first divine power had been fully refined, and when Talos had passed through the spatial rift and descended to the material plane with the body of the Dream Eater Butterfly, the soul fire had already transformed from the initial tender green to grass green with the help of the seven divine powers.