Chapter 477: The Secret of the Totem

The power of the Kingly Path is immense, but it is not without limits. Take a newly ascended god as an example—his power can only last for about three breaths; beyond that, he suffers from the backlash of the rules, harming himself before harming others.
However, as long as within this time limit, this technique allows for infinite sword energy attacks. Of course, it does consume one’s mental energy. But the souls of true gods are extremely strong, so even in just three breaths, their energy is far from being exhausted.
As for those below the rank of demi-gods, even if they gain recognition from such a divine weapon, they likely cannot use it more than a few times. This is why divine weapons often lose their power when in the hands of mortals—not because the weapons are not powerful, but because mortals cannot bear the enormous cost of using them!
Bigel’s secondary divine weapon, the Horn of Plunder, was shattered after withstanding three attacks from the Sword Energy of the Heart of the King. Its divine radiance vanished, and it fell out of control.
Without the divine weapon to protect them, the two orc true gods immediately found themselves in a life-or-death situation. At that moment, the emerald-green light surrounding Donald spread unimpeded into Bigel’s domain, quickly taking control of it and trapping him.
“Impossible—” Bigel screamed in disbelief amidst panic.
It turned out that Donald had been suppressing his own domain to avoid resistance, so as to analyze the rules within his opponent’s domain. Now that he understood those rules, he reversed the situation and took control of Bigel’s domain. Bigel’s domain became like a grasshopper in a child’s hands, completely at his mercy and unable to resist.
If it were an ordinary true god, even a powerful higher god, they could only forcefully destroy another true god’s domain through external means. Calculating such domain rules takes a long time, while battles between true gods are usually brief, often decided in the blink of an eye—leaving no time for one true god to analyze the other’s domain.
But thanks to the powerful computational and analytical capabilities of the Book of Truth, combined with the assistance of his two divine entities, Donald managed to do this, surpassing even higher gods.

The Orc Plunder God Bigel could no longer afford to be surprised—facts had proven that the strength of those two human gods might not be inferior to theirs. Moreover, by surrounding them tightly, both his own domain and Kara’s domain were under control, leaving them with only a thin layer of protection. Such a powerful natural attribute domain was undoubtedly stronger than his own.

“How could your domain be stronger than mine?”

The mistake of these two orc gods was thinking that ordinary orcs were far stronger than humans, and thus assuming they would be stronger than human gods as well. They never expected that even without using divine artifacts, these two Celtic human gods could fight them on equal terms, even holding a slight advantage. With the powerful effects of those two divine artifacts, as long as they didn’t leave the battlefield immediately or choose to self-destruct, it would be easy to defeat them!

Without answering Bigel’s question, Donald immediately used the Book of Truth to imprison the two orc gods and suppress them within the Kingdom of Truth.

Since neither he nor King Charles of the North had created their own divine kingdoms—at least not openly—it would be difficult to imprison these two great gods for long using ordinary methods. If they managed to escape, it would be troublesome!

So Donald simply revealed his Kingdom of Truth, lying that he had obtained it by chance!

After all, Charles was his ally, so he probably wouldn’t ask too many questions.

After dealing with the two orc gods, Donald also retrieved the two damaged sub-divine artifacts. He then teleported back to above the Holy Sword Fortress together with Charles.

At that time, the warriors on both sides were still looking up, waiting for news of their gods’ battle.

When the dark golden veil that had dominated the sky was suddenly reversed and swallowed by emerald green light, the orcs hadn’t yet recovered their senses when they found that the totem of their god, protected by their leaders, disappeared. Even the strongest orcs couldn’t stop it with their attacks.

At the same time, thunderous cheers came from the human fortress.

By now, even the stupidest orc realized their god had failed. They completely lost their will to resist. Before the human army even moved, the orc camp began to disintegrate. No matter how the shamans, priests, and commanders shouted, they couldn’t stop the collapse of the army.

What was the scene like when nearly a hundred thousand orcs scattered?

It was a sea of people, stretching as far as the eye could see.

It was then that the Celtic commanders ordered the fortress gates to be opened and sent troops in pursuit.

Several teams from Dalaran, possessing an advantage in flight, had already launched ahead to carry out their lord’s mission: to eliminate as many orcish forces as possible. Donald assigned such tasks with the aim of accumulating soul power to the greatest extent possible, believing that this power would surely be useful in the future. As for whether such mass killings were cruel, aside from the fact that orcs were not considered part of his own race, the fact that the orcish elite could send an army of a hundred thousand meant that these people were willing to be sacrificed. The principle of survival of the fittest was far more brutal in primitive orc tribes than in human societies! Moreover, orcs belonged to the Chaos faction, so killing them would not affect Donald and his allies’ faction, nor would it incur any backlash from the world’s rules. There was nothing left for Donald and his allies to do in the war, so the two true gods returned to the capital together, leaving the remaining matters to be handled by Selt’s elite. In the palace’s forbidden area, this underground complex had now been transformed into a true altar sanctuary, serving as King Charles of the North’s temporary dwelling in the main world. When Charles was away, it was guarded by Selt VII, the legendary holy spirit. Of course, with two true gods now under Selt’s command, few outsiders would dare to test them, so Selt VII mainly dealt with important matters submitted by the royal family. “Xize! We’re back, and Donald has some good news for you!” As soon as the King of the North returned, he couldn’t help but cheerfully speak to Selt VII. Without further delay, Donald took out the body of the demigod Axce, whom he had promised to Charles not long ago. Even without the divine fire and the original owner’s soul will, the presence of divinity still kept this body highly active, much like those in a vegetative state in his past life. However, the demigod’s immortal body had become a kind of alternative unconscious life form. If left unchecked, perhaps after countless years, it might give rise to a new soul will under the stimulation of divinity. Seeing this healthy and vibrant body, even Selt VII, usually so composed, couldn’t help but become excited. Although an orc true god’s body was more valuable than a demigod’s, Donald understood that Selt VII would never accept one. It was likely he would rather give up a body than abandon his prejudice against orcs.

So he didn’t bother doing those things; leaving King Celt VII familiar with this body, he invited Charles to enter the Land of Truth together.
Inside the divine realm, the King of the North glanced around and exclaimed, “What a powerful divine realm! This must be the realm of a mid-tier god, right?”
“Donald, you’re really lucky. I even start to believe the rumors that you’re the revived True God!”
Donald didn’t explain anything and just said with a smile, “It’s just luck. Now let’s see how to divide these two spoils!”
Two Orc True Gods meant two divine bodies and divine essences, with the divine essence being the most valuable spoil.
There were also two damaged sub-divine artifacts— the Bull Bone Shield was almost beyond repair and only worth being remade. As for the sub-divine artifact made of special ox horn, Donald was quite interested. It could withstand the slashes of the Sword of the King’s Heart, not just once, which meant its material could at least be used to create a lower-tier defensive divine artifact!
As for the souls of the two Orc gods, after becoming True Gods, their divine flames had largely merged with their divine essences. Even if separated without damaging their divine essence level, they wouldn’t hold much value—far less than the souls of demigods as spoils.
While the King of the North pondered what spoils he wanted, Donald focused his gaze on the totem of the Orc God.
After obtaining the totem, Donald didn’t bother using his divine essence to calculate anything. Instead, he took it directly into the Land of Truth and then had the Book of Truth scan and analyze it, quickly yielding results that amazed him.
He was greatly impressed by the dictator’s plan to revive himself.
“I never expected a dictator who wasn’t good at prophecy to have anticipated his own downfall before being overthrown by the gods and prepared in advance, leaving such a contingency plan. This is truly worth learning from.”
According to the analysis by the Book of Truth and Donald’s own subsequent analysis, each Orc God totem in the Orc tribes likely contained a trace of divinity left by Ughesh. However, this divinity was too weak and hard to detect, even unremarkable to the weakest demigods. Thus, even if some human gods knew about the existence of the Orc God totems, they didn’t take them seriously. And since the human elites below hadn’t received any guidance from the gods, they naturally weren’t aware of the secrets within.

The human gods did not know that these Beast God totems were actually the most important sacred artifacts of the dictator Ugesh. Although individually, they couldn’t even be considered sacred artifacts—only the strongest among them barely reached that level—these totems of various orc tribes were Ugesh’s top-secret weapons for resurrection!