Chapter 1483: Chapter 1483: Power of the Divine Being?

[Daytime City Building]

[Everyone has a city in their heart, and dreams are to transform it into reality.]

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“The power of the city replica that ‘K’ used in Dawn City?” Di Man coldly scanned the silent city around him, eventually focusing his gaze on He Ao. “When did you do it? How did you bypass my perception? If you summoned this city in front of me, I wouldn’t be able to miss it.”

He furrowed his brows deeply, “I’m not like that fool from the Order Church who hasn’t ascended to an Angel yet, unable to sense this mutation of extraordinary power.”

“You were always outside the city, weren’t you? The Dark Lizard was driven here by you, otherwise, it wouldn’t have taken such a long detour.” He Ao raised his hand, a slight mixture of red-yellow and purple glowing in his palm, this was the residual extraordinary power from the Dark Lizard’s core.

After redeeming Daytime City Building, the city doesn’t generate out of thin air, but requires sacrifices.

And He Ao had long prepared the sacrifice, which was the Life Core that the Dark Lizard had transformed into.

The core was not entirely naturally produced by the Dark Lizard; He Ao had sealed most of the Dark Lizard’s life force into it using the last bit of War God’s power.

This was one of the reasons he had to deal with the Dark Lizard first.

With mutual consumption, if he hadn’t dealt with the Dark Lizard first, he would now have to face an Angel-tier exotic beast and wouldn’t have enough sacrifices, nearly missing the opportunity to use Daytime City Building.

“You deduced I was outside the city, and the one inside was just a clone,” Di Man’s eyes slightly raised.

“The active presence you placed in the city wasn’t your true self, the true self left long ago, avoiding the Elderly’s surveillance, while secretly going to Denno City to drive the Dark Lizard to Ains.” He Ao calmly gazed at him, the faint purple glow gathered at his fingertips.

“You’re very clever,” Di Man slightly lowered his eyes, “Actually, I was originally planning to take advantage of the chaos with the Dark Lizard, find a way to sneak into the city and lay low, but this time the fool in South City unexpectedly got smart and opened the monitoring angel array early, so I had to wait until the Mirror Butterfly arrived to enter the city.”

He sighed lightly, gazing at He Ao, “But what does this have to do with your city evading my perception?”

Saying this, his words suddenly stopped, as if he realized something, his gaze lifted, scanning over the prosperous city suspended upside down in the sky.

Then he lowered his gaze, looking at the city around him that was almost identical to the one in the sky, suddenly realizing something.

Finally, he smiled faintly, “So, from the start, you overlapped this city with Ains, when I entered Ains, I actually entered your illusory city.

“A powerful extraordinary ability causes a noticeable mysticism wave when used, but when it’s completely integrated into a magnificent city, the originally noticeable wave becomes like ink dropped into a pool, no longer so conspicuous.”

He lightly clapped his hands, “Ains’ complex angel-tier items, along with the dense population and souls, helped you conceal the anomalies of this city, let me guess,”

His gaze became excited, “You started unfolding this city from South City, when the Mirror Butterfly appeared, all attention was on Boris and the Mirror Butterfly’s battle, using the residual waves of their fight to cover up the negligible stir from your city unfolding.

“Let me think, the overlapping parts aren’t entirely identical, but rather gradually deepen, though you most likely unfolded this city in South City, South City wasn’t the deepest intersection between this city and reality.

“You know, when I first entered the city, I was at my most sensitive and alert, so any abnormal extraordinary elements at this time could expose your plan.”

He looked at He Ao, “So you created a staircase, from South City to the city center, where the intersections between illusion and reality increased, gradually replacing the real city with the illusory city.

“Like gradually boiling a frog in warm water, misleading my perception little by little, until I entered this ward, fully entering your illusory city.

“Just now, while I was delaying time preparing the hidden space, you were actually fully separating this city from the real city, sending unrelated people out to accomplish your ‘imprisonment’ of me.”

He sighed longingly, “A clever method of ‘concealment’, an interesting strategy; this is far more stunning than your deductions.”

He gazed at He Ao, “However, I still have one doubt.”

He scanned around the surrounding buildings, “The array protecting this ward seems like it was personally set up by Berlick; if this is your illusory city, he probably wouldn’t have enough time to set up an array for you, right?”

Evidently, this array misled him greatly as well.

But before He Ao could respond, Di Man continued to smile, “I figured it out, he created an array that can quickly unfold by some method, prepared for you long ago,”

He gazed at He Ao, “If I’m not mistaken, you just now mimicked the old President’s disguise method; that was also provided by him, right? You had long communicated?”

He Ao shrugged, remaining noncommittal.

Actually, he hadn’t communicated with the Elderly; the Dark Lizard came too suddenly, and at the time, he hadn’t investigated anything clearly.

Compared to the complexity of this incident, the time left for him to investigate was simply too short.

It was even during the battle with the Dark Lizard that he faintly realized that the mastermind possibly wasn’t in the city, but outside.

Therefore, when he unfolded Daytime City Building and came to the city center, seeing the compressed array and disguise items the Elderly took out, he was still a little bewildered.

But these two items were also prepared by the Elderly long in advance, he originally had an intention to disguise as the old President and set a trap, only without sufficient control over the mastermind, he hadn’t implemented it.

But these things just happened to help He Ao.

A reliable teammate indeed saves a lot of trouble.

“Kid, I admit you do have something,” Di Man said with a light sigh, gazing at He Ao, “But since this ‘ward’ of yours is fake,”

He raised his head, glancing at the truly hanging Star Pharmaceutical Building above, “Then what’s in that building is real, right? You haven’t ‘hidden away’ that President; he has been there all along.”

He Ao didn’t respond to his question but rather smiled at him, suddenly asking, “The Dark Lizard back then, you drove it out from the Nest, didn’t you? It wasn’t the Kewort Group controlling the Dark Lizard all along, it was you.”

Upon hearing his words, Di Man merely laughed lightly, “I can see you’re very angry.”

He lightly raised his hand; the radiant illusion of the city suspended in the sky trembled violently, next, under the illusion, the dull void seemed to be torn apart by a giant hand, descending from the heavens.

“There’s something you might need to know,” Di Man gazed at He Ao, continuing to laugh, “The Dark Lizard originally didn’t have such strong aggression; its bloodthirst and slaughtering is all because I drove it, the southern wilderness of Denno originally didn’t need so many people to die, but I sent them along, oh,”

He laughed softly, “I’ve seen your records, your family, your relatives, your friends seem to have mostly died in that ‘disaster’.”

He sighed lightly, making a sympathetic expression, “I’m so sorry.”

That great hand descending from the sky already hit the magnificent building hard.

Hundreds of meters of high-rise were directly wiped out by one-third under this single palm, the flying rubble and dust like a fog covering the firmament, descended from above.

He Ao’s retreating silhouette also lost its support at this moment, falling from the sky.

“I can feel, you are the city’s core.” The enormous hand held Di Man’s body, allowing him to remain standing in the sky.

He lowered his head, gazing at He Ao, “So it means, by killing you, I can return to reality?”

“Do you want to try?” He Ao gazed at him, his expression unperturbed.

Blood-drawn patterns emerged on his back, resembling both a weapon and a tendril, a complex character ‘K’.

Brilliant red radiance erupted from his back.

‘War God’s Fury’ had entered cooldown, and due to He Ao’s forced use, the cooldown time seemed to have extended.

But to He Ao, whether or not he had that, he could still harness the War God’s power.

In the distant northern land, a figure hovering in the center of an abandoned building suddenly opened its eyes.

Brilliant red radiance gathered on the figure’s body, and in the next moment, it suddenly disappeared.

At this moment, on ‘Paxiu’s’ body, the surging red radiance gathered abruptly, pouring into his body, amplifying his power.

Simultaneously, purple radiance unfolded at this instant, merging with the surging red radiance.

“Interesting.”

Di Man watched this scene, and once again an invisible giant hand emerged from the sky, falling to strike He Ao in the sky.

Wrapped in light, He Ao was directly struck by this giant hand, carried downwards towards the ground.

Yet just as he was about to touch the ground, the surging radiance suddenly burst forth, resisting the descending hand.

——

Hidden Space

“You seem a bit anxious?”

Suspended high in the sky, the elderly man gazed down at the shadow human shape, chuckling softly.

“Berlick, I admit, you’re quite the actor.” The shadow lowered its head, preparing to rip open the Hidden Space in the next moment, intending to vanish from there.

The main body had been held up, but his clone was still in Ains, directly heading there now was still possible.

This was his Hidden Space; come and go as he pleased—

The Hidden Space which he was about to tear open only revealed a narrow fissure, and then it was stretched taut.

And behind this gap were countless shimmering red radiance.

Those beams of radiance intertwined like thunder, forming a giant net structure, weaving together the deepest part of the space.

“You’ve stalled me for this long, I ought to be somewhat prepared, shouldn’t I?” The elderly man suspended in air gazed at the shadow below, raising the magic wand in his hand. The dazzling thunder and clouds gathered above his head, spreading rapidly across the firmament and into the entire space.

Boom——

With a dense sound, the brilliant thunder descended from the sky, surrounding the twisted shadow.

“Damn.” Underneath the brilliant thunder, the shadow human shape suddenly tightened, flowing out in all directions.

——

Inverted City

Surging radiance like blazing sun resisted the pressure of the giant invisible hand, then burst forth suddenly, melting and tearing apart the giant hand like fire melting snow.

Immediately, the radiance hesitated not, shooting straight into the sky towards Di Man.

“Huh.” Di Man watched the radiance rushing towards him, standing in the sky with no intention to dodge.

Numerous invisible hands instantly appeared before him, coalescing into a giant invisible wall.

The crimson radiance hit the wall, pausing for a moment, then exerting force to forcibly drill open the wall.

Striking towards Di Man behind the wall.

Di Man observed this with calm composure, the corner of his mouth slightly lifting, “Quite something.”

Accompanied by his words, the void behind him began to deform and fold like wrinkled paper.

In that instant, the entire space seemed to tremble violently, as if some terrifying power was awakening from ancient slumber, descending from the sky with an extreme sense of oppression.

The dim void was suddenly torn open, as if something was reaching out from the depths of the void.

The entire void resonated with sounds like popping beans, twisted and turbulent pollution even tore the void into curls.

The surrounding city and skyscrapers seemed to be swept by an invisible storm, flattened in an instant, turning into dust and ruins.

Continuing, the invisible force reaching out from the void seemed to begin ‘moving’.

In the next moment, the brilliant radiance rushing towards Di Man suddenly paused, as if struck heavily, retreating backwards.

The enveloping radiance faded backwards, revealing He Ao’s body, as he gazed at the sky overhead, focusing on the direction where the void was torn.

At that moment, he clearly saw the specific shape of the invisible object,

It was a hand reaching out from the void, a slender hand.

The hand appeared ordinary, yet an oppressive terrifying aura continuously emanated from it.

Just the aura spreading from this hand was like a giant hand clutching one’s throat, pressing against one’s chest, making it difficult to breathe.

This oppressive feeling had long surpassed the angel tier, approaching even closer,

Divine Being.

“Little one, I don’t have excessive time to play around with you now,” Di Man still stood in the sky, his head lowered and demeanor calm as he watched He Ao, his gaze indifferent, as if looking at a struggling insect,

“Until now, you still don’t understand what you are facing. What do you think I rely on to enter this city so effortlessly?”

He lightly raised his hand, countless invisible giant hands suddenly emerged from the firmament, “Under absolute power, all strategies are mere illusions.”

The dense giant hands gathered together, forming an endless mass, like the sky collapsing downward, carrying a suffocating breath, pressing towards He Ao.

“You aren’t the first to say these words to me.”

He Ao calmly watched Di Man.

In his palm, the red and purple radiance were completely intertwined.