Chapter 543: The Fatal Blow of Fate
The monstrous creature resembled a combination of a dragon and an alligator, but it had no tail. Starting from its neck, it had a serpent-like head and neck, along with four massive feet armed with ferocious claws and eight terrifying tentacles resembling snake tails. Such a horrifying appearance was enough to scare ordinary people to death. Yet even more terrifying was the size of this ancient abomination. No wonder Babylonian legends described the world-destroying demon Tiamat as one that could open its mouth to swallow the sky and earth. With such a size and the power of a near-god, swallowing a small plane was not a problem at all!
It was unfortunate for Tiamat’s remaining will. As the master of the God’s Tomb, it had long noticed the ruins of this temple embedded in its territory during the great war. How could it miss the chance to be reborn?
However, since this region was part of a divine kingdom, it inherently resisted Tiamat, an fallen being. Moreover, the core of the temple possessed extremely strong defensive capabilities. With less than one-tenth of its former strength, Tiamat could not break through the limits of a higher god and thus lacked the power to shatter the temple’s defenses. It could only assign this task to its subordinate, Jin Gu, hoping to gradually destroy the temple’s barriers.
As a collection of resentments, Tiamat’s remaining will lacked the wisdom it once had and could not realize that the temple’s defense system could not be broken through by prolonged attacks. As a result, it wasted years in vain before Donald and the others took advantage of the situation.
Fueled by anger, Tiamat revealed its true form, reaching its peak strength. At this point, Loki’s black flames were of little use, and Tiamat’s true form had defense capabilities hundreds of times stronger than its shadow form. Some spells could no longer penetrate its surface to take effect inside; at most, they could cause minor damage to its skin. Such harm was utterly insignificant for an ancient dragon hundreds of kilometers long!
“Fight while retreating!”
After observing the battlefield, Donald signaled to Loki. Loki, who placed his trust in Donald, was no longer the extreme and stubborn evil god of before. Hearing Donald’s words, he immediately intensified his attacks.
With Loki holding off Tiamat, the greatest threat, Donald was free to deal with the monsters blocking their retreat as quickly as possible.
The problem with these monsters isn’t their strength but their sheer numbers—just as too many rabbits can still kill a person. If Donald were given some time, dealing with these monsters wouldn’t be a problem at all, but what they lack is precisely time. So Donald didn’t want to go through the trouble of killing them one by one. Instead, he chose the easiest method: with a wave of his hand, he released a massive beam of divine light that instantly eliminated half of the monsters in their path. Even these strongest monsters, who weren’t at the semi-divine level, couldn’t withstand the power of the projection of a higher-tier divine artifact and disappeared into the divine light. Donald then trapped them all in the projection space of the Book of Truth. Although this space was currently occupied by the ruins of the Quetzalcoatl Temple and thus couldn’t focus on suppressing these monsters for now, it should be remembered that there were also beings like the King of the North in that projection space. Having been notified in advance by Donald, they joined forces. With their domains of power fully activated, they quickly separated these monsters, and it wouldn’t take long to deal with them one by one. At this moment, Tiamat, in her true form, began moving her enormous body toward Loki and Donald. The impact of her hundreds of kilometers long body would carry unimaginable force—even a supreme god’s true form, without any defense, would likely suffer severe injuries if it took this strike head-on. If pure strength reaches a certain level, it can reach the level of rules, matching the power achievable by divine spells of the same rank. Faced with this strike carrying the might of heaven and earth, even Loki had no good options other than retreating far away or bracing up all his defenses to take it head-on. But in this restricted space of the divine tomb ruins, the former was impossible, and with Loki’s current strength, the latter probably wouldn’t yield any good results. At that moment, a golden book-shaped light appeared in front of Donald, along with a charred black wooden page—the Destiny Book, a high-tier divine artifact from the Babylonian pantheon. Donald was already fully communicating with this high-tier divine artifact. But just how formidable are high-tier divine artifacts? Under normal circumstances, beings below the godly level simply don’t qualify for divine artifacts to recognize them. Even true gods, unless they are as powerful as supreme gods, can’t master the use of a high-tier divine artifact in just ten days or half a month.
Fortunately, with the help of the Book of Truth, which was also a projection of a higher-grade divine artifact, it was possible to use the Book of Fate to launch an attack before entering Tiamat’s sacred tomb ruins. However, Donald wasn’t willing to reveal the Book of Fate, a higher-grade divine artifact, for fear that other true gods might be envious. So he planned to infuse the power of the Book of Fate into the projection of the Book of Truth, allowing this projection of a higher-grade divine artifact to exert greater power without revealing its true existence. Now, faced with this situation, he had no choice but to do so. After the projection of the Book of Truth and the actual Book of Fate appeared, Donald drew in a trace of Tiamat’s energy, gathered a wisp of divine power at his fingertips, and made a stroke on the Book of Fate. “Seize!” As soon as Donald spoke, he saw the ancient evil dragon, wielding the power of heaven and earth, suddenly tremble. Its forceful impact was halted, and it fell from the sky as if it had lost its soul, generating a thunderous roar akin to an earthquake. “Hurry up and leave!” Donald, who had exhausted almost all his divine energy reserves and whose transformed form had shrunk by nearly half, shouted at Loki in exhaustion. Judging from Donald’s condition, it was clear their advantage wouldn’t last long. Loki stopped trying to expand his gains and immediately transformed into a gust of wind, carrying Donald away at high speed toward the edge of the sacred tomb. The few remaining monsters blocking their path were no match for a powerful being like Loki; they were instantly torn to pieces by the wind into pools of flesh and blood without even a pause. Just a breath later, when Loki and the others reached the edge of the sacred tomb, they heard a fierce roar coming from behind. A massive wave of sound rushed toward them. Loki, now in the form of wind, didn’t resist but created a defensive barrier behind him. Then, a powerful force blew them both out of the sacred tomb’s boundaries. Another loud roar came from behind!