Hope Holy Fire

Han Wu's emotions were tangled, the Soul Fire in his skull leaping wildly.

In such a predicament, he had no way to break the deadlock.

He could only listen as Skeleton Soldiers were smashed into bone fragments, only vaguely see clusters of Soul Fire flicker out.

They had lost—lost completely.

Two Divine Beings joining forces to challenge a demigod was truly laughable.

But Han Wu was unwilling to admit defeat just like that. He was stifled to the extreme.

Within Han Wu's divine realm, the sky was shrouded in thick storm clouds as his mood shifted.

Sword Wind Iron Cutter and the Ember Dwarf tribe gathered at the temple, praying devoutly.

The voices of the believers crossed mountains and seas and reached Han Wu's mind.

Gods blessed their believers, and believers worshipped their gods.

If they could ease their god's worries, the believers were willing to abandon their lives and fight for their god!

Sword Wind Iron Cutter requested permission to fight!

The entire Ember Dwarf race requested permission to fight!

Billions of locusts flew about restlessly. They possessed no intelligence, yet they were willing to offer their lowly lives to their god.

Even if they were doomed beyond redemption, the believers were still willing to sacrifice their lives to sweep away the clouds from their god's path.

Just after midnight, a new day arrived.

A portal opened within Han Wu's divine realm.

Sword Wind Iron Cutter gripped four Storm Greatswords and stepped through.

Every Ember Dwarf was fully armed. At the forefront, God Hammer struggled to lift the Purgatory War Hammer. His entire arm was burned bright red, yet he refused to let go.

There were also several dozen enormous Extraordinary Lifeform Heavenly Demon Insects.

They followed close behind the Ember Dwarves and flew into the portal.

Until the limit of one hundred slots was reached.

No, it was not over yet.

Billions of locusts flew through the divine realm, their vitality especially vigorous.

With their mindless actions, they conveyed a single thought to Han Wu.

O God, please sacrifice us!

The pure voices of faith echoed through Han Wu's mind again and again.

A familiar Life Sacrifice formation emerged in the divine realm. The lives of billions of locusts became threads of light that flowed into the formation.

Far away in the Demon Abyss, an option appeared before Han Wu.

Unlike before, there was only one option this time.

Hope Holy Fire: Special item. Dispel darkness, sweep away negative statuses, and grant positive energy to the retinue. (A gift offered by believers to their god. Hope will bring miracles.)

Han Wu took out the Hope Holy Fire.

In an instant, the darkness throughout the entire area was scattered, and every negative status imposed upon the retinue was swept away.

Holy radiance surged from every member of the retinue.

Not even undead like the Skeleton Race or Demonic Beasts like the Minotaur Race were exceptions.

The Dark Frogman demigod's cry of shock rang across the entire area.

"How is this possible? How is this possible? A Divine Being can dispel my Darkness Divine Spell! Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Han Wu did not answer.

Holding the Hope Holy Fire, he left every enemy of the Dark Frogman tribe with nowhere to hide.

Especially the Mountain Swallowing Demonic Frog, as massive as a mountain, whose body crackled with sparks of electricity from time to time.

Han Wu guessed that Qin Shuang had been swallowed into the Mountain Swallowing Demonic Frog's belly.

"Go kill that Mountain Swallowing Demonic Frog!"

"Yes!" "By your command!" Sword Wind Iron Cutter and the Ember Dwarf God Hammer charged out.

The Iron Cutting Style, accompanied by the endless heat waves of the Purgatory War Hammer, blasted a huge hole through the Mountain Swallowing Demonic Frog's belly.

The swallowed Golden Crown Thunder Sparrow avatar was finally able to break free.

The moment she emerged, she hurled back a massive sphere of black lightning, blasting the Mountain Swallowing Demonic Frog into charred ash.

Seeing their god return, the Thunder Sparrow Retinue's fighting spirit soared, and their slaughter of the Dark Frogmen became even fiercer.

Several dozen Extraordinary Lifeform Poison Burst Heavenly Demon Insects that had flown out of Han Wu's divine realm on their own also found their targets and flew toward the Dark Frogman heroes.

Boom! Boom! After several dozen explosions, every Dark Frogman hero was blown to death.

Without the Dark Frogman heroes restraining it, the Bone Giant unleashed its full might.

Countless Dark Frogmen were trampled into pulp beneath its feet.

The situation was completely reversed.

Seeing that the tide had turned against him, the Dark Frogman demigod wanted to abandon his believers and flee.

But beneath the light of the Hope Holy Fire, no living being could hide, not even a demigod.

Having found the Dark Frogman demigod, Qin Shuang's Golden Crown Thunder Sparrow avatar swooped in and unleashed lightning strikes.

Though the Dark Frogman demigod held the lofty status of a demigod, his personal strength was truly mediocre. Especially after using divine spells several times in succession, he had consumed too much divine power and had no strength at all to resist the Golden Crown Thunder Sparrow avatar's heavy blows.

Only after Qin Shuang had tortured him until he was on his last breath, about to expire, did she stop. Turning to Han Wu, she said, "You're up next. According to our earlier agreement, I only want the divine body. Everything else is yours."

Qin Shuang knew clearly that without Han Wu, she would have failed long ago.

Han Wu slowly walked up to the Dark Frogman demigod.

The Dark Frogman demigod pleaded weakly, "Spare me. I'm willing to offer everything I have in exchange for my life."

Han Wu's heart did not stir in the slightest. He motioned for Sword Wind Iron Cutter to step forward and behead the Dark Frogman demigod with one stroke.

Only then did he say, "Once you're dead, everything you have is mine anyway."

But the Dark Frogman demigod could no longer hear Han Wu's response.

He had fallen.

With the Dark Frogman demigod's death, the Dark Frogman tribe's fighting spirit plunged to the freezing point.

Under the Skeleton Soldiers' coordinated assault, every Dark Frogman was killed, then transformed into Skeleton Soldiers.

All the Dark Frogman tribe's valuables were gathered up and piled into a small mountain.

Of course, the overwhelming majority were worthless cheap goods.

Only five items caught Han Wu's eye.

Placing the five items before Qin Shuang, he asked, "You really aren't considering taking one or two?"

Qin Shuang's Golden Crown Thunder Sparrow avatar stared at a sacred artifact shaped like an ornament. She liked it inwardly, but stubbornly said, "We agreed long ago. Other than the divine body, everything else is yours."

How could Han Wu fail to see that Qin Shuang had taken a liking to that ornament-like sacred artifact? He picked it up and placed it atop the Golden Crown Thunder Sparrow avatar's head. "You lent me 150 divine power before. Consider this the interest I'm repaying."

Han Wu's logic utterly defeated Qin Shuang.

That sacred artifact was worth at least tens of thousands of divine power, yet he treated it as interest on 150 divine power.

Did he take her for a loan shark?

At that interest rate, even stock god Buffett would weep, kneel, kowtow, and call them ancestor.

But since Han Wu sincerely wished to give it to her, Qin Shuang said she did not like it, while inwardly she was delighted and did not return it.

The task list was cleared, and the assessment was over.

Han Wu was just about to condense all his Skeleton Soldier retinue into cards and bring them back to his divine realm.

His homeroom teacher Tian Wen's voice sounded in his mind. "Han Wu, you've done well. The school leaders and recruitment staff from top universities want to meet you."

"What about my followers?" Han Wu was afraid of delaying the recovery of his retinue.

"They'll all be kept for you. The school won't mistreat you," Tian Wen urged.

Han Wu nodded and teleported back to the classroom.

Qin Shuang teleported back with him as well.

With delight written all over his face, Tian Wen called the two of them and led them to the academic affairs office.