Chapter 654: Ascending to Godhood

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the direction of Mount Creation.

Watson brandished the Magical Origin Spear with all his might, clashing against the Dragon God Orianna.

Green life lightning wrapped around his body, causing it to be charred black everywhere. On the other hand, Orianna was mainly unharmed by the Magical Origin Spear. That was because, without the help of the power of the race chess pieces, he was only a demigod, while the aura of Orianna was comparable to that of a god-king.

“If this continues, I will lose. I hope Nia has already relocated the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Kings and the Dwarven Kingdom.”

As the King of Angels, a genuine sovereign-tier elite, Nia was able to display the power of a god-king. If she was there, she could help him resist Orianna. She was not there because Nia was helping to transport the people of the Kingdom of Kings to the divine realm.

At that moment, only he and the 100,000 Blackmoon Knights remained in that world. They were in charge of supporting those gods to carry out his plan.

“It’s about time.”

Watson rapidly waved the Magical Origin Spear in his palm, transforming it into a high-speed rotating shield to intercept one of Orianna’s attacks as he calculated in his heart. He rapidly soared away and back into the world.

A shard of the world barrier over his head shattered, revealing the holy realm’s abyss behind him. He wished to take advantage of the opportunity to go from that small world and enter the divine realm. Then he would blow up the entire small world.

He had a nostalgic look on his face. That world held a plethora of his recollections. He recalled the moment he had moved here. When he first arrived, he had become one of the Garry family’s eight children. He had swept away the borders to improve his chances of survival. He had risen to the position of largest manor owner. Following that, he fled the borders and worked tirelessly to become King of the Holy Dragon Kingdom.

He had already stormed through three kingdoms and was on the verge of uniting the continent. However, he had no choice but to abandon that world. That filled him with remorse.

“Today’s devastation will pave the way for my new existence in the future. One day, in the divine world, I will construct an even larger and more magnificent Kingdom of Kings!”

After making up his decision, Watson would fly out of the vacuum when suddenly, thunder and wind screamed behind him. A massive divine empire in the shape of a ship plummeted from the sky. That divine empire was strewn with arrowheads from every direction; just glancing at it would cause people to lose their bearings.

“Watson, where do you want to go? Stay here for me. ”

Ear-piercing laughter erupted. Agares, the God of the Wind and Navigation, appeared behind the ship-shaped divine palace with an angry look.

Ares, Diana, Goddess of Moon and Love, Gaia, Mother Earth, and other gods stood by Agares. There were six of them, including the original kingdom’s seven gods, which Watson was familiar with. The leader was Baldur.

“Hand over the thing in your body, and we will let you live. Otherwise, you will die here,” Baldur said calmly as if he was announcing Watson’s death.

“Stop dreaming. Even if I die here, I will not give you the system.” Watson remained calm in the face of peril.

Aside from the fact that the gods before him would not let him go unless he handed over the system, he also did not know how to pass it to them. Therefore he refused their request.

“Unfortunately, you have no choice except to die here.”

As he extended his right hand to Watson, Baldur’s eyes flashed coldly. A giant sword scraped against his back, and a bright divine kingdom appeared. Many people flew out on void warships as throngs of blazing void rays descended on Watson.

They were not regarded as powerful among the divine army that assaulted the small world at the time and could not even be compared to a sovereign-tier elite like Orianna. As a result, they chose to act at the end since they were confident that they could flee even if Orianna confronted them. They had, as expected, made the correct wager.

They had anticipated Watson’s escape route and had planned to intercept him early on. Watson was trapped.

“You are certain I am dead? You are mistaken. If I knew you held a grudge against me, how could I not be on the lookout for you during the invasion?”

Watson was initially nervous, but then he laughed.

“What did you say?”

On the contrary, the expressions of Baldur and the other gods changed. Just behind them, space cracked as a massive spatial tunnel emerged. The Goddess of Shadow and Potion flew out of it. She broke the bottles in her hands with ferocity.

“These medicinal bottles can temporarily paralyze starlight-tier and even peak starlight-tier gods. They can be regarded as my trump card. Watson, I have spent a lot of money on you. Please keep my donations in mind. You must fuse more items for me when you visit the divine world. I do not want to be a god-king, but at the very least, let me reach peak starlight-tier. That is all.”

As the potion container was destroyed, a plume of pitch-black smoke filled the air. Baldur and the other gods who were engulfed in smoke went silent. The smoke did not hurt anyone; it just paralyzed them, and the paralysis would not last long.

“Sidi, you traitor! You have aligned with Watson.”

“Just you wait. When we recover, we won’t let you off. ”

Sidi twisted her lips in response to her old companions’ heated curses. “You phrase it as if you will let me off the hook if I do not assist Watson. I have already made up my mind to follow Watson. You, on the other hand, should reflect here.”

Watson had already crossed over their bodies and followed the broken world barrier into the divine realm as he spoke. Looking down from the abyss of the divine universe, the small world below was constantly crumbling. It was like a beautiful piece of porcelain that was cracked.

Watson had no idea if the struggle between the gods from tens of thousands of years ago was similar. However, he could already visualize the awful war scenario of ancient times via the destroyed world.

Watson took a deep breath and maintained a complicated expression. He reached out his right palm to the falling small world. “Fusion system, activate.”

That small world was packed with things he would fuse, from minor goods and tools to various kinds of magical power. At that point, all of those things were fused.

The kingdom and its territory were the two most important things that Watson had previously fused. That was the first time he would merge an entire world.

[Congratulations, Master, for a successful fusion. You have obtained a sovereign-tier tool, Universe Fragment.]

[The universe fragment is a sovereign-tier item.]

[A fragment formed after the universe was shattered.]

[Effect: It can support the survival of most starlight-tier life forms. It can be fused with other universe fragments to form a complete universe.]

[Additional Effect: After the universe fragment is shattered, there will be a sovereign-tier energy storm.]

Watson clenched his hands as he gazed at the vast expanse of land that resulted from the fusion.

Rumble!

The universe fragment erupted with a thunderous bang. Many of the gods inside the universe fragment used their hands to touch its glass-like barrier. They appeared to be in a hurry to leave. Unfortunately, no matter how hard they tried, they could not breach the universe fragment’s impregnable security. They could only stand there and watch as the universe split splintered into scorching energy particles that consumed them.

The God-king of Cthulhu and the God-king of Hell were consumed in the same way. Even the God-kings were unable to escape the devastating detonation.

The massive explosion brightened the god-tier emptiness, reflecting numerous massive star regions nearby. Many gods raised their heads in terror, staring in awe at the dreadful blast.

“Fusion system, activate.”

Watson did not come to a halt after the explosion. He reached out his right hand to the center of the explosion. Clusters of gods’ remains leaked from the universe’s pieces, transforming into light and fusing in the abyss before flying toward his body.

Those gods’ remains were created following the deaths of several gods. The gods had initially entered the small planet to murder him and steal his race chess pieces. The gods were then treated as if they were turtles in a jar, and they were all killed. The relics of tens of thousands of gods were a formidable force. That force was more than ten times stronger after being merged. He had quickly progressed from a demigod to a god after those were implanted into his body.

Buzz!

Watson’s body trembled uncontrollably. Every pore in his body erupted with light. The light emitted from his pores encircled him, becoming a compacted magical source. Every pore had at least one source of magical power resting on it, and both Watson’s starlight robe and the crown on his head had altered.

The starlight robe’s scope had extended, and the robe that had begun as a nebula had grown to include the entire starfield. His crown decoration has also transformed from plain metal to the shape of a world. His crown appeared to be similar to the jade pendant that hung on the garment of the Dragon God Orianna. A similar amount of power might be magnified to the size of a star.

Watson’s body swelled significantly after becoming a god, transforming him into a gigantic. His eyes were as bright as the sun and the moon. He could open his mouth and blow out a breath, transforming himself into a cosmic storm.

The most noticeable difference was that the power in his body had mingled with his prior combat aura and magical power, transforming it into divine power. The divine power was a greater level of power that only gods could wield. Watson’s life form was radically different since his body was filled with tremendous force.

He had become a true god and had a powerful existence comparable to that of a god at that point.

After transforming into a god, Watson reached out his hand, and a golden and magnificent kingdom appeared above his head. That kingdom, which resembled the Kingdom of Kings, was surrounded by earth, fire, water, light, darkness, and other magical sources of various properties. It was his divine empire. His divine empire had grown immensely stronger since attaining godhood. It was the same as the kingdom he had fused with the system.

Numerous human, sea folks, dwarves, and even elven soldiers floated forth from the divine kingdom, led by Nia. Watson had just asked Nia to guide the citizens of the Kingdom of Kings to their new location. How might certain people who could not move in time be taken into his glorious kingdom? The total number of lives in his divine empire amounted to more than a hundred million. In addition, the weakest of those beings possessed platinum-tier strength.

More than a hundred million platinum-tier—or even sovereign-tier—creatures lived in his divine kingdom. Watson’s tremendous faith manifested itself as a considerable cascade on the surface of his body. It burned like a flame, causing Watson’s hair to transform from its original golden color to a leaping brightness.

Every strand of hair was a fiery red, and it was difficult to put into words how stunning that scene was.

“Your Majesty, congratulations on becoming a god. Long live His Majesty! Long live the Kingdom of the Kings!”

The people from Watson’s divine kingdom, regardless of their race, bowed respectfully to Watson. Their eyes were filled with reverence.

When Watson was not a god, he could only rely on the chess pieces to fight against a peak starlight-tier existence. Since Watson had become a god, was he not comparable to a sovereign-tier elite?

The most powerful being in the universe was a sovereign-tier elite. Watson could lead them to occupy a large starfield in the divine realm and become an overlord at that level.

Their targets were no longer mortals in the small world but gods. Their ultimate goal was to reach the sea of stars.

Watson turned around, nodding in response to his people. His enormous eyes were fixed on the shattered pieces of the universe. He could sense several auras that were not dead from the fragments of the universe.

He extended his right hand toward those auras.

…

‘D*mn it! How did things turn out like that?’

The God-king of Cthulhu used the few remaining tentacles to carry the chess pieces and escaped. He constituted less than one-tenth of the Cthulhu race. When he arrived, he brought with him almost 10,000 people. There were barely a few hundred individuals left after a severe explosion. That caused his heart to bleed.

He would not have gone there if he had realized the Kingdom of Kings was so powerful. In the end, he was unable to seize any race chess pieces. Instead, his race had incurred significant losses.

The God-king of Hell also had the same thoughts as him. He also carried the race chess piece and flew out at the same speed as he did.

At that moment, the God-king of Hell’s face was bruised and swollen. Many parts of his body were charred black. The number of god-kings he brought with him was also less than one-tenth.

“Those mortals detonated the world they were in. Why would they do that? Are they not afraid that they will enter the divine realm and be enslaved by the gods after the world is shattered?”

Inwardly, he cursed Watson. The God-king of Hell was not stupid. At that moment, he no longer thought about how to snatch the race chess piece from Watson’s hands. He was thinking about how to escape from Watson’s side.

However, he wanted to leave, but Watson disagreed.

A gigantic hand filled with light descended from the heavens. The surface of that massive hand was engulfed in blazing flames. A closer examination reveals that the burning material was the source of the magical force discharged out of the pores on the back of the hand. At least a thousand magical sources encircled a single hand.

The explosion initially harmed the God-king of Cthulhu and the God-King of Hell. They can not employ their full might anymore. Furthermore, they were obstructed by that big arm, rendering them much more impotent to resist.

The God-King of Hell unleashed his Divine Kingdom of Hell and called an army of hell’s monsters. Cthulhu’s God-king also unleashed the Spiritual Pollution power of his race chess piece, attempting to contaminate the hand’s owner’s mind and wreaking mayhem.

Unfortunately, none of those worked. The Spiritual Pollution’s strength brushed over the giant’s palm as if it had no impact. The demons summoned through the Gates of Hell were considerably more dangerous. They were reduced to ashes before they touched the flaming hand. On the contrary, the enormous arm grasped and crushed the Gates of Hell.

Crack!

There was nothing in front of the God-king of Cthulhu and the God-king of Hell as the Gate of Hell cracked. The enormous arm snatched them up.

“Help…”

“No!”

The two god-kings shouted out in fear as they felt the increasing strength in their arms. They intended to ask for mercy, but they could not finish their sentences. The enormous hand had already snatched them and smashed them into a gory puddle.

Watson’s blows were too powerful for the god-kings, who were at the peak of the starlight tier. It was the equivalent of killing two mosquitoes.

Watson waved his hand after squeezing them to death, and the Cthulhu and Hell chess pieces in their hands immediately flew into his palms. He combined them with the three-in-one racing chess pieces using the technique.

[Congratulations, Master, on a successful fusion. You have obtained a sovereign-tier tool, the Starry Sky Human Chess Piece.]

[The Starry Sky Human Chess Piece is a sovereign-tier tool.]

[Effect: that tool possesses the abilities of the five race chess pieces—human, dwarf, elf, Cthulhu, and Hell Baron chess pieces.]

[Additional ability: the Starry Sky Hell (an indescribable hell filled with unknown colors and spiritual pollution). It contains a large number of weapons and traps belonging to the future. Even gods would not be able to survive in it for long, and its range can cover several star fields.]

In addition to the original three-in-one race, the fused race chess piece contained two extra pieces—the Cthulhu race and the Hell Baron race. The five races’ emblems ringed the base of the chess piece, with humans at the center.

He extended his hand to receive the new race chess piece. Two wholly different energies crept into his body from the starry skies.

Those two energies, which contained scary and inexplicable power, arrived from the starry skies. They raised his power by a smidgeon from god level, and he was on the verge of becoming a highgod.

“You can choose. Submit or die.”

Watson took a look around him. Those who had served alongside the God-king of Cthulhu and the God-king of Hell, as well as those who had not died, the Cthulhus and the Hell Barons—they knelt in the vacuum, their faces filled with horror.

Watson had become the king of the five races.

His eyes traveled past the gods of those two races, settling on the other gods who had escaped from the universe’s last fragments. More than a thousand gods had escaped, most of whom were dragons. The Dragon God Orianna stood before them, her body encircled by green lightning.

Watson’s words were mainly directed at her.

Watson’s statements elicited no response from Orianna. Instead, she raised her fist, and the twisted green lightning became intertwined in midair, transforming into a long spear that spanned the cosmos. It was difficult to put into words how massive that spear composed of green lightning was.

Orianna was afraid that her strike would shatter the small world while they were in it before, so she held back. Her spear was the length of a hundred worlds and the width of a dozen planets. She slashed the nebula with the momentum of slashing it. Watson brought the attack to a close.

“It seems like you have made your choice.”

Watson’s gaze became apathetic. He had intended to let go of Orianna. She was, after all, the Dragon God. He did not want to make things too awkward for the sake of the dragons.. When Orianna insisted on attacking him, he had no intention of being courteous.