Chapter 356 The Gods Intervene

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The speech of the Demon King sent shivers down Planta and everyone else. Their eyes stuck into the two portals the Demon King of Miasma had created almost as if effortlessly. From within one portal, the sight of their world, Earth, was revealed, and from within the other portal, the sight of a Wasteland filled with darkness appeared.

And from within that Wasteland, countless eyes and an amorphous, chimeric body appeared, countless and monstrous tentacles started emerging from within this portal, as the Demon King started laughing, all while using each of his tentacles to create smaller portals, where the tentacles of the aberration coming from the first portal started to sneak through!

"Hahahah… Meet my TRUE BODY! Isn't it the perfect form to visit your world?"

Meanwhile, within the Wasteland Dark Continent, the Players that were observing the Demon King's movements were left speechless as they saw his enormous body begin to crawl across a portal in space and time.

"What the heck is happening?!"

"Is this an event? Is the Demon King escaping to another area of the map?"

"Wow this is unexpected!"

"C h ase it down!"

The Players quickly ran towards the Demon King's back, his enormous body moved incredibly slowly, but his tentacles, tails, and other limbs shook furiously as the ants approached him. Enormous shockwaves of chaos energy made the ground tremble, sending higher level players flying into the skies.

Their attacks continued to rain down the Demon King, however. High Level Players were mostly all hardy veterans with several tricks up their sleeve. Powerful Ultimate Magic Spells, Ultimate Weapon Arts, and all sorts of insane attacks rained upon the Demon King's rear while his true body was trying to get out of this wretched place.

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"Nnnngggh! You damn ants! You dare think you can even stop me?!"

The Demon King was furiously attacking them back, but the Players couldn't had expected any better now. They had hundreds of Elixirs saved inside their inventories, and simply popped one whenever their HP went down to dangerous numbers

BOOOM! CLAAASH! CRAAASH!

"AAGGH…! Y-YOUUU…!"

The Demon King thought everything was going as planned, but never truly expected the Players he had seen every day would become such annoying rats now. Perhaps due to him messing around with the System's powers and laws, the powerful impenetrable defenses he held were weakening severely, and the Players were able to deal actual damage to him, although pitiful alone, when they were over fifty high level players attacking together, his HP was actually taking big hits!

FLAAASH!

Suddenly, a ray of light emerged from the skies, the presence of the Gods had made itself clear within the Continent of the Demon King! Although they were unable to do much themselves due to the laws inhibiting them, they were able to do this much against the Demon King's true body!

Their divine light shone brightly, impacting the Demon King of Miasma's true body, and weakening his stats and defenses!

BOOOOMMM!!!

"GUUUAAAAAGGH…!"

The Demon King of Miasma's scream echoed across his continent as a third of his body was already going through the portals that his second body and soul within the Forest of Beginnings had created for him.

The High-Level Players were left flabbergasted as they saw the scene in front of them. The might of the gods was presenting itself to them, and the shining light not only weakened the Demon King, but also enhanced their stats temporarily!

Ding!

[The Shining Light of the [God of Creation] has interfered!]

[Oh heroes! The World is in great peril! Stop the Demon King of Miasma from escaping into a different Area of the Map by hitting his back as much as you can!]

[You've been granted the [God of Creation's Special Blessing], a temporary buff that enhances all your Stats by +100% and your damage dealt by +200% against the Demon King only!]

[The Demon King of Miasma has been punished by his insolence! He has received the [God of Creation's Stigma], lowering his total defensive stats by -90% temporarily!]

[You only have a small amount of time, stop him before it is too late!]

[You will receive incredible rewards worth of a hero if you manage to deal the most damage!]

[A New Damage Ranking has been created. You will receive amazing rewards based in how much damage you deal to the World Boss!]

"Ooooh!"

"This is definitely it!"

"That Planta actually weakened him enough to trigger some sort of World Event again!"

"Alright, let's take it down before that newbie does it!"

"Yeah, we've not been spending so much time into this damn game for nothing! Get to it everyone!"

"RAAAAAAAHH!"

The Players were manipulated and incentivized to act and fight, using their strongest blows and drinking down their healing items as they fought, obsessed with ranking high into this new system of damage dealt that would determine great rewards for them!

Using their powers and authorities, and sacrificing large quantities of their Divine Essence, the Gods decided to act at long last, stopping the Demon King's true body from completely doing as it pleased. Now, it was trapped in between the portal and the continent, only his vicious tentacles were creeping into Earth, however.

The Gods within the Heavenly Realm atop the skies of the World looked in panic down into the world. The Continent of the Demon King still was within their jurisdiction and the System, and the Demon King was only able to break through thanks to his soul in the Forest of Beginnings.

"This is as much as we can do for now!" The God of Creation sighed. "The Forest of Beginnings is away from our jurisdiction. The Demon King has contaminated that place and corrupted the system boundaries, making it so our authority cannot be extended over there…!"

"But Planta…! She'll…" Gaia started to panic as she looked down into the world. Even when she had the body and powers of a Goddess, she felt utterly hopeless.

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