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#724 - Chapter 724: The Power of a Punch
“....”
The instant the Giant King Ymir swung his fist, everything around him fell silent.
Because sound needs air to travel.
However, Giant King Ymir's power had reached an extremely terrifying stage.
His strength was enough to shatter space itself; the physical force of his strike alone was enough to compress the air around his fist to its limit.
Not only sound, but even the holy light emitted by the surrounding heroic spirits could not shine in this area.
Crack!
Crack, crack, crack!
Finally, in a realm of absolute silence, sound slowly began to emerge.
But from the moment these sounds appeared, the space where the heroic spirits had been was already collapsing irreversibly.
Void rifts suddenly appeared around the heroic spirits, extending in all directions.
Faced with such terrifying power, these heroic spirits, who could easily slaughter everything around them, rapidly began to dissipate.
Despite their best efforts to resist, Giant King Ymir was simply too terrifying, and they ultimately chose to dissipate in resentment.
One of the largest rifts even extended into Saint Karl's divine kingdom!
The consequences of this attack, besides annihilating all the heroic spirits, also caused an unprecedented blow to the divine kingdom of a high-ranking god!
And such a severe blow would inevitably trigger another extremely dreadful consequence.
That was, a living true god noticed this.
Noticed this battlefield!
“!”
A vague and ethereal gaze looked down upon this rift from above.
Then, his gaze slowly shifted from the center of his divine kingdom to Giant King Ymir outside the rift.
And then, his gaze locked onto Wu Wei, the abyss lord shrouded in abyssal aura.
In the next instant, the seething abyssal aura severed this gaze that should never have existed, cutting off all connections.
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“My heroic spirits!”
“Damn it!”
The Iron-Blooded Archduke, adequately protected by his equipment, barely escaped this calamity.
However, his mood at the moment was no different from if Giant King Ymir had killed him.
Because he had just discovered in anger that the Saint Karl heroic spirits he had recruited at great expense had been completely dispelled by Giant Ymir's attack.
Yes, dispelled, not killed.
Heroic spirits are different from hero units. These powerful units belonging to various gods are actually positioned in their respective armies similarly to how the Fallen Angels are in Wu Wei's army.
They also possess an immortal and indestructible essence, possess the will to interfere with physical reality, and can return to reality after being dispelled.
However, the biggest difference between heroic spirits and Fallen Angels is that:
The Fallen Angels controlled by Wu Wei belong to the Endless Abyss, and the Endless Abyss fulfills all of Wu Wei's requests as much as possible.
So although the Fallen Angel Liz has been killed many times, the price Wu Wei pays each time he resurrects her is almost negligible.
Simply put, the Endless Abyss gave Wu Wei the Fallen Angel Liz almost for free.
The heroic spirits held by the various gods are completely different.
These heroic spirits are the greatest reliance for these gods to maintain their authority.
This also leads to the fact that no god would give their heroic spirits to any lord at such a cheap price.
Once a heroic spirit is dispelled in the hands of a lord, these gods will not hesitate to take back their heroic spirits.
And if the lords want to use these heroic spirits again, it's not impossible.
However, the price they need to pay will be extremely high.
So although the Iron-Blooded Archduke can summon so many heroic spirits, he himself has also paid an extremely high price.
You must know that each of these heroic spirits he summoned is a spirit-level existence!
The price to summon such level of heroic spirits, although cheaper than spirit-level heroes, is not much cheaper.
So what Giant King Ymir shattered with this punch was not only the Iron-Blooded Archduke's confidence, but also his personal vault!
No wonder this lord, who was still high-spirited just a second ago, is now screaming in heartache.
However, the Iron-Blooded Archduke's scream inappropriately attracted the attention of a monster....
“What is that, there are still ants alive and yelling on the side!”
Just as the Iron-Blooded Archduke was in so much pain that he couldn't breathe, he suddenly felt a sense of impending death approaching him.
A soul-deep coldness made him unable to help but raise his head.
“Giggle!”
The next second, the teeth of this “Iron-Blooded tough guy” couldn't help but chatter up and down.
Because above his head, Giant King Ymir was staring at him coldly with a pair of scarlet eyes.
And the tumor-like organs on his head were wriggling crazily, probably because their host was excited.
This terrifying scene immediately scared the Iron-Blooded Archduke into using his most expensive and safest life-saving device, directly teleporting back to his own plane.
“Tch.”
“Humans, they really are a kind of creature that becomes more and more cowardly as life gets better and better.”
“Just two hundred years ago, in the Human Empire, there were still lords who could howl and swing their weapons at the invincible me.”
“But now...”
“Tzzzz.”
Giant King Ymir muttered about the current situation of the Human Empire, and slowly turned his head.
Then, a grin appeared on his face.
“Oh?”
“This human is a bit different.”
“Because I can actually smell the turbid and filthy scent of the human royal family on you.”
“Little guy...”
“You wouldn't happen to be a descendant of some human royal family, would you?”
This poor human, unsurprisingly, was naturally the First Prince Shi Renjun.
However, this prince, who had just abandoned Wu Wei and chose the Iron-Blooded Archduke, was now trembling, staring at the huge monster above his head.
But just as Giant King Ymir was about to do something to the First Prince of the Human Empire, a cold voice appeared in Ymir's ear.
At the same time, an abyssal wall, cast from solidified darkness, stood in front of the First Prince Shi Renjun.
“...”
“Ymir.”
“Stand down!”
On the empty earth, two pairs of equally scarlet pupils collided.