A Broke Nobody

"Showing off before an expert!"

Kolan sneered. He had sensed the Soul Attack.

But the Soul Attack was too crude and too weak.

It posed no threat to Kolan at all.

As a Death Mid-God, he was far more skilled at Soul Attacks than Delkang, an Earth Mid-God.

Now Kolan was completely confident he could kill Delkang.

He had held back only because he didn't want to kill him so soon.

He wanted to hone himself and grow stronger.

"Damn it! How dare you use me as a whetstone!" As they fought, Delkang also realized what Kolan was up to, and he flew into a rage.

He was a dignified Mid-God from Hell, yet he was being used as a whetstone.

It was a tremendous humiliation for Delkang.

Enraged, Delkang attacked even more furiously.

He completely disregarded how much divine power he was using up.

After all, a god's divine power wasn't infinite. It had limits.

It was just that fights between gods usually ended quickly, so the amount of divine power they had rarely made much difference.

An hour later, as Kolan continued to improve, Delkang could no longer launch any threatening attacks against him.

"Die!" Kolan had lost interest.

He swung his blade.

Their blades collided.

A surge of gray energy ignored Delkang's physical defenses and plunged straight into his body.

Delkang shuddered. His eyes rolled back, and he fell to the ground.

He had been unable to withstand Kolan's Soul Attack and had perished.

Kolan took the divine artifact, Godspark, and Space Ring.

He put the divine artifact and Godspark into the Space Ring, then bound the ring with a drop of blood.

The Space Ring accepted its new owner, which meant Delkang had no Saint Domain True Body or other Divine Clones.

"Hm? So these are Ink Stones. What a pauper—just a thousand of them!" Kolan saw a thousand black stones, each about the size of a finger, inside the Space Ring and muttered to himself, "Looks like Delkang came from Hell."

Ink Stones were the currency used in Hell.

Aside from the thousand Ink Stones, there were only a few chunks of ore.

Kolan was disappointed. How could someone be this poor?

After a brief rest to recover, Kolan set off again a month later to find his next opponent.

His next opponent was a woman. She was very beautiful, but cold and aloof, with an icy aura about her. She wielded a silver whip.

She was a Water Element Mid-God!

As soon as they clashed, Kolan realized she wasn't skilled at attacking. Her physical attacks were rather average, but her defense was excellent.

Her whip struck like a water serpent, while she used continuous ripples of water to deflect force when defending.

It was quite unusual!

This was Kolan's first time fighting a god who cultivated the Water Elemental Laws. It was completely different from when he had been in the Saint Realm.

At first, Kolan had some trouble adjusting, but he gradually adapted to her attacks and defenses.

Their battle lasted three days and three nights.

At last, the woman seemed to lose patience and transformed into a gigantic, water-blue serpent.

This woman was actually a Divine Beast!

The enormous water-blue serpent was covered in blue scales. Its body was more than ten meters thick, and it was a full three thousand meters long!

A bone-chilling cold emanated from it.

Kolan soon discovered that in her Divine Beast form, her defenses had increased dramatically, and her attacks had grown considerably stronger as well.

Her serpentine body was slick, and it deflected much of Kolan's attacks.

"Roar~~"

The water-blue serpent opened its jaws wide.

A tremendous suction force burst forth, trying to swallow Kolan.

"Hm? An Innate Divine Ability?" Kolan raised an eyebrow and immediately used Fused Divine Power, forcing his way free of the serpent's suction.

The water-blue serpent's move reminded Kolan of the Innate Divine Abilities possessed by Divine Beasts.

Some Divine Beasts had Innate Divine Abilities, while others didn't. They varied in strength and were all different.

Clearly, the water-blue serpent's Innate Divine Ability was relatively weak.

It couldn't compare to the God-Eater Rat's God-Eater, and Kolan guessed it was nowhere near as strong as the Ba Serpent's Innate Divine Ability, either.

"Boom~~" Kolan swung his blade, but it failed to pierce the giant serpent's scales.

The true power of the strike, however, lay in its Soul Attack.

"Ah~~" The giant serpent let out a scream.

Then it plunged from the sky and crashed to the ground.

Its life force rapidly dwindled.

Soon, it was gone.

Kolan took her divine artifact and Space Ring, then waved a hand and stored the giant serpent's corpse in his Space Ring.

There was no time to examine it now. He would study it properly after leaving the Necropolis of the Gods.

Saint Realm magical beasts were valuable from head to toe, and Divine Beasts were even more so.

Their scales could be made into armor, and their meat was delicious. Even their blood was precious.

Kolan bound the Space Ring with a drop of blood and quickly checked what was inside.

There were two thousand blue stones about the size of a finger. A disquieting energy was contained within them.

Kolan guessed the water-blue serpent had come from the Water Divine Plane, and that the blue stones might be the currency used there. He just didn't know what they were called.

Kolan didn't leave right away. Instead, he began recovering his divine power.

Even in the Necropolis of the Gods, he could draw divine power from the Ocean of Divine Power, just as he could on the Yulan Continent.

A month later, Kolan went to find the third and final opponent on the thirteenth level.

His opponent was a thin young man in a black robe. He cultivated the Darkness Elemental Laws and specialized in stealth and assassination.

Unfortunately, he couldn't escape Kolan's soul perception.

Kolan killed him with a single slash.

Though the thin young man was a Mid-God, his body was pitifully ordinary. He specialized in stealth and assassination, but that was completely useless against Kolan.

Kolan had just killed the thin young man when he spotted the High Priest and the War God.

The moment they saw Kolan, they reacted like mice spotting a cat. They didn't even come over to greet him. Instead, they jumped in fright and hurried down the passage, retreating to the twelfth level.

"Am I really that scary?" Kolan muttered to himself.

He was clearly a very amiable person. He had always gotten along well with others and never schemed against or harmed anyone.

And now, they were making him seem like some terrible villain.

Kolan shook his head, put the divine artifact and Godspark into his Space Ring, and bound the ring with a drop of blood. It contained three thousand Ink Stones and a few chunks of ore. There was nothing else. Another pauper.

The thin young man wasn't a Divine Beast or a Special Lifeform, either. He was simply a human who had cultivated to become a Mid-God.

Kolan reached the passage from the thirteenth level to the fourteenth. There was another disc there, and this time the number of Soul Gold Beads had increased to twenty.

Kolan smiled. Though he still grumbled to himself that Beirut was stingy, he picked up the Soul Gold Beads and absorbed them carefully.

The Soul Gold Beads were easy to absorb. They immediately turned into Soul Essence and strengthened his soul.

The sensation of his soul growing so quickly was so pleasant that Kolan couldn't help letting out a contented sigh.

It felt wonderful. He almost thought he was getting addicted.