In the darkness.
Blood flowed.
Crimson Small Characters frantically refreshed, line after line:
"Attention!"
"When all other options had been exhausted, the Earth Coin made its choice."
"The Earth Coin released its power and helped you unleash the Earth God's true power: Earth Virtue."
"Earth Virtue, true power of the Four Saint Pillars (unique)."
"Description: Designate a source of attack. The damage caused by its attack will be shared by you and everything around you until it is gone. You will obtain a seed of that power and use Earth God Power to make it grow, until it is finally yours to wield."
"—Contain all things, sow all things, grow all things. Such is the earth's boundless virtue."
"You may not activate Earth Virtue again until you have fully mastered a seed of power."
The lightning giant lay in the crater, quickly reading through the prompts.
Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble!
The earth let out a deafening roar.
The lightning giant lay still, yet a strange sensation came over him.
This stretch of land—
No, the entire earth.
The whole earth was sharing the burden of that attack with him.
The power that annihilated everything kept spilling out of him, absorbed by the earth as it bore the violent impact and damage in his stead.
—That was why Luo River City had been erased in an instant.
Even now, the sharing continued.
Meanwhile, the wounds on his body grew lighter and lighter, gradually fading away.
—Without it, he would have been dead already.
"How ridiculous—"
The lightning giant sensed something and couldn't help taking a deep breath before struggling to his feet.
All movement around him became inaudible once more.
Every sound sank into dead silence.
"AAAAAAAH!"
The lightning giant roared and conjured a massive axe wreathed in lightning from the