Mission Accomplished

Everyone was incredibly excited to have forged such a perfect weapon, so they held another banquet at the mansion.

"I've been eating a feast every single day; I've even put on weight."

Garen joked.

Ever since they arrived here, Yale had been treating them to fine food and drink every day, showing them such enthusiastic hospitality.

After the banquet, Linley felt inspired and began practicing with his heavy sword in the courtyard.

After practicing for a while, he suddenly left with a spirited expression.

Linley had learned of Garen's strength during their conversation earlier, yet he hadn't asked for his help; it seemed he didn't want to owe him too many favors, especially since he now possessed the strength to seek his own revenge.

Garen didn't mind, returning to the hotel he had booked to begin meditating and refining his spiritual energy.

He couldn't afford to abandon his own cultivation just because he had a system.

In fact, after strengthening his soul with the Soul Golden Bead, Garen's speed in deducing laws had become much faster than before.

Previously, in the Sunset Mountain Range, he had gained over a hundred thousand experience points in just over a month; if he could keep his mind calm and contemplate nature at that efficiency, he wouldn't even need 20 years to fully comprehend the Wind Element to the God Realm.

Of course, there would inevitably be bottlenecks in self-comprehension; it was impossible to progress smoothly all the way to becoming a god.

Without groups of magical beasts to grind for experience, hunting them one by one was actually quite slow, and no longer necessarily faster than deducing the laws himself.

Moreover, if he were to have a sudden epiphany while comprehending the laws, it would be worth more than grinding countless magical beasts.

He had already cleared out the Rank 9 magical beast groups in the Blazing Sun Desert and the Sunset Mountain Range, and most of the Rank 9 magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range were likely still on the front lines laying siege to cities. As for the Dark Forest and the Eighteen Northern Duchies, Beirut seemed to keep a close watch on them, so it was best not to go there and stir up trouble.

Transmigrated into the Yulan Continent, a material plane, he couldn't afford to be arrogant in the early stages even with a system. Sigh, how frustrating.

Garen decided that if he couldn't beat them, he would join them. After saving Doehring Cowart this time, he would interact more with Linley and Bebe to build a good relationship.

He remembered the system had a side quest earlier about soaking up the protagonist Linley's fortune, which suggested that this universe also operated on the concept of fortune; perhaps his own fortune would rise if he stayed with him.

At this point in time, he didn't know if Bebe had caught the attention of Beirut yet, but regardless, if he maintained a good relationship with it, there shouldn't be any major problems in the Yulan Continent in the future.

Stay low, develop stealthily, and don't act recklessly.

Just like that, Garen stayed in Hess City for several days, keeping a close eye on the movements within the city.

If there were a battle involving a large number of Rank 9 experts, he would certainly be able to detect the powerful fluctuations of combat.

On this day, just as Garen finished his cultivation, he felt a strange and intense fluctuation coming from not far away.

He quickly rushed toward the source of the fluctuations.

Before he could even get close, he saw a Rank 9 warrior carrying a greatsword quickly moving away from him.

Garen didn't stop to ask questions, as he had already seen the white light radiating in the distance; that was where the combat fluctuations were coming from. Not daring to linger, he flew over at high speed.

Inside a three-dimensional octahedron formed by six Rank 9 warriors, the ground was covered in blood, and piles of corpses lay strewn about, no longer recognizable as human.

Within the octahedron, a dragon-humanoid figure knelt on one knee, covered in blood with most of its scales shattered and a deep, bone-exposed wound on its chest. A white-bearded old man floated in the air, seemingly entrusting something to them, while a magical beast mouse was frantically attacking the barrier, but the barrier only rippled, showing no signs of breaking.

"Old man, don't be impulsive!"

Garen shouted anxiously.

Garen's speed was too fast; his voice traveled from afar to near. The moment the six Rank 9 warriors realized someone was approaching, a powerful murderous aura bore down on them, nearly causing their joint attack formation, which was close to the Saint Realm level, to collapse.

"Die!"

Garen slashed out with the God-Slaying Blade, which cut through the white light like tofu, cleaving one of the Rank 9 warriors in two.

Ding: Killed Rank 9 warrior, gained 1209 experience points.

The other five Rank 9 warriors vomited blood in unison, their states instantly wilting.

"Garen!"

Linley was overjoyed. He had been too confident earlier, underestimating the joint attack technique of the six Rank 9 warriors, leaving himself severely injured and nearly losing his life, almost dragging his good brother Bebe and Grandpa Doehring down with him.

Garen had no time to respond to him now, fearing that Bebe might come over to steal the kills. He unleashed the laws of the Wind Element, and as a series of afterimages flashed, all five Rank 9 warriors were slain.

Ding: Killed Rank 9 warrior, gained 1211 experience points...

Five consecutive notifications followed, all experience points gained. Only then did Garen run over, nod at Doehring Cowart, and help Linley up.

Ding: Completed side quest 'Save Doehring Cowart', rewarded with 'Soul Mutation'.

"Holy crap, a surprise! What the hell is a real surprise!"

In an instant, Garen felt his soul power increase tenfold, and his spiritual energy was strengthened significantly as well.

A blade-shaped soul slowly condensed and appeared above his soul ocean.

A soul that usually required Saint Realm spiritual energy to condense had already taken shape while he was only at Rank 9.

Garen was ecstatic. Soul Mutation—this was a special phenomenon in the Panlong universe that led to becoming stronger, and it was extremely rare.

There were many benefits to Soul Mutation; after becoming a god, the fusion of two types of divine power could increase their might tenfold.

Moreover, one could fuse different profound mysteries of two different laws. Once the profound mysteries of the same law were fused, their power would increase tenfold.

And the fusion of two different laws' profound mysteries had ten times the power of two profound mysteries of the same law, which was equivalent to the fusion of three profound mysteries of the same law—that was a hundred times stronger than unfused profound mysteries.

The tenfold increase in soul power not only improved the speed of comprehending laws, but both soul attacks and soul defenses would also become much stronger.

In short, there were nothing but benefits.

He would finally be able to truly fuse two types of magic, which would exponentially increase their power. Previously, even a simple combination of the two had doubled the damage, so a true fusion would likely increase it tenfold, much like the fusion of Laws and Profound Truths.

If two Rank 9 spells could be perfectly fused, their might would probably be on par with a Forbidden Spell.

Garen fell into a daydream, unable to extricate himself.

"Garen, Garen..."

"Hm?"

It turned out to be Linley calling him, waving a large hand back and forth in front of his eyes.

"Garen, thank you so much this time. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Linley was still feeling lingering fear. Just moments ago, Grandpa Doehring had already begun instructing him to take good care of himself in the future. Although he didn't know what method Grandpa Doehring would have used to resolve the deadly situation, Linley's intuition told him it was a consequence he could not accept; a strong, ominous premonition had washed over him.

It was at that very moment that Garen arrived in time, helping him escape a certain death.

"Hey, what's there to thank between brothers?"

Garen waved his hand dismissively.

"Linley, Garen, you two should leave this place quickly. Otherwise, if more experts from the Radiant Church arrive, it will be troublesome."

At this moment, Doehring Cowart spoke up to offer a timely reminder.

Looking at the crowd slowly gathering hundreds of meters away due to the intense fluctuations from the battle, Garen grabbed Linley and quickly departed the area.

Not far away, Yale, George, Reynolds, and the group from the Dawson Chamber of Commerce happened to be passing by. They saw the backs of Garen and Linley from afar and were just about to shout out, but were stopped by Munro Dawson.

"That is a gathering point for the high-ranking members of the Radiant Church. They killed high-ranking members of the Radiant Church, and we are currently in the Radiant Church's sphere of influence. Do not make a scene, or our situation will become very dangerous in the future. Pretend nothing happened, and we will find an opportunity to reunite with them later."

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