Becoming Their Guiding Spirit

The powerful sword techniques of Sun Breathing instantly severed ”Loken Williams’s” body. His arm was directly cut off, enraging the divine fragment.

With a furious roar, he charged straight into the crowd of researchers, melting and absorbing many of them into his own power. After gaining so much power from their flesh and blood in one go, the arm that had been severed by Lucas Reeve’s sword grew back from the stump, a solid arm made entirely of magma.

And.

His body was also undergoing a heaven-and-earth-shaking transformation.

Splat!

His other, intact arm suddenly exploded. Flesh and blood splattered and were quickly scorched, replaced by another thick magma arm. His body swelled up by an unknown amount. The skin on his chest cracked open, revealing scorching magma like that flowing from a volcano. Crimson bone spurs began to grow continuously from his spine.

His entire physical body gradually swelled.

Growing taller and taller.

In the end, he grew from a man of just over 1.8 meters into a monster over three meters tall. This transformation horrified the surviving researchers and the current director of the Structural Section. They all wanted to flee, but the only way out had now become a battlefield. Rushing in would be certain death.

”I want to eat you!!!”

Magma constantly flowed from the corners of ”Loken Williams’s” mouth. This reminded Lucas Reeve of Nian; magma also flowed from her mouth, though with Living Forge, he could also spew magma from his mouth.

”It’s all yours.”

Lucas Reeve voluntarily withdrew from Surtr’s body, and Surtr knew what she had to do.

She slammed her greatsword into the ground. Flames swirled around her body, and her purple eyes turned crimson.

”Laevatain!”

She whispered the name.

Then.

The next second.

The alloy floor of the laboratory suddenly cracked open. Magma seemed to flow out from the fissures, pooling behind Surtr, as if forming a lake of lava.

The next moment.

A massive black hand reached out from the magma, pressing down hard beside Surtr. For a moment, the earth shook, as if the entire laboratory was about to collapse under the palm’s strike.

”!!!”

The sudden appearance of the giant hand first terrified the divine fragment, but after the terror came elation. If he could devour this fragment, he would recover a great deal of his power!

Another hand, to the horror of the surviving researchers, reached out from the magma and grabbed the flaming greatsword embedded in the ground. Then, the headless, half-bodied torso of a four-meter-tall monster emerged completely from the lava. Even just its upper body was taller than ”Loken Williams’s” three-meter-plus frame.

The appearance of Laevatain completely broke the researchers’ composure.

A monster!!

Another monster!!

The divine fragment charged forward, condensing a greatsword of the same type from flames in its hand. The two greatswords clashed, and in an instant, a scorching heatwave blew the researchers against the metal walls. Their clothes melted slightly from the heat.

However.

There was still a bound boy on the operating table.

Lucas Reeve dodged a blow from the divine fragment.

He rescued the terrified boy and sent him outside.

The clash between divine fragments was not something a mortal could withstand. Even the shockwaves would likely be too much for a frail boy like him. As for the surrounding researchers and the current director of the Structural Section, Lucas Reeve had no interest in them. If they died, they died.

These fanatical researchers would stop at nothing for the sake of so-called science, brazenly calling the taking of others’ lives a ’sacrifice,’ yet cherishing their own lives as treasures. Lucas Reeve despised such disgusting people the most.

If these people had regarded their own lives as worthless, Lucas Reeve might have held them in slightly higher esteem.

The battle between divine fragments often appeared somewhat plain and unadorned.

This was especially true for two divine fragments that originally belonged to the same god.

After all.

Their moves were identical, making it nearly impossible to inflict any effective damage. All that was left was this kind of primitive brawl.

Gods could master all sorts of rules.

But divine fragments were not necessarily able to.