The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend

The six had 1.6 trillion points between them, which put them far above the first place-holder Crouching Dragon, yet the gap meant little because a Demigod was fundamentally different compared to a God. Their armies were small, and their strongest unit reached only the King rank. They didn’t even have a single Sage life form. Even with heavy blessings from foreign Gods that multiplied their strength, they would still lose to Han Wu’s Earthsunder life forms.

Han Wu sent Karot, the weakest of his Earthsunder life forms, to deal with them. Karot launched a sweeping torrent of fire that engulfed the entire coalition army. Every life form beneath the Unique rank vanished in a flash of ash.

A quarter of their points disappeared, and they panicked. They had believed their massive score made them undefeatable, but Han Wu’s strength shattered that illusion.

“Run away! Take your units and run. We can survive this!” one of them shouted, and the other five fled with their units.

Han Wu wouldn’t let them escape so easily, so he summoned his four Great Dragons. Their dragon breaths merged in midair as darkness, lightning, fire, and chaos coiled together and erupted in a super breath attack that chased the fleeing units.

The combined breath attack overwhelmed everything in its path. Only High Lords and above managed to survive the hit. Anything at the Lord rank and below died on impact. The four Great Dragons had already limited their breaths to widen the attack’s radius. Without that restraint, even Sage life forms would’ve died on the spot.

When the breath attack faded, the six noticed that only a tenth of their units remained. Their total had fallen from 1.6 trillion points to 60 billion. Their faces turned ashen. They had clearly failed and no longer had any real chance at the inheritance, yet surrender was impossible. They had to fight to the bitter end.

Han Wu watched them and decided to help them. He ordered Amelia to fly into the air with her wooden sword. She poured Life Energy into it and lightning crackled across the grain. Under her control, the lightning turned into lightning lances that penetrated every unit the six Demigods commanded. Their points dropped to zero, and they were eliminated.

“No need to thank me,” Han Wu murmured as the six blurred out of existence.

The outcome was harsh, but it was still the best result for those who had lost because they were still alive. Several other candidates had died at the hands of the foreign Gods.

Han Wu’s fame rose swiftly after he defeated six candidates in one go. At the same time, many spectators had taken notice of his eight Earthsunder life forms.

“Earthsunder life forms... They are so powerful, and he has eight of them. I think he will inherit the Blood Coliseum,” one of the spectators said.

Someone beside him didn’t agree. “Are you blind? The first place-holder, Crouching Dragon, has ten Earthsunder Holy Wyrm Knights.”

“Ten of them? My goodness. Who could beat him?”

“That’s right. Crouching Dragon is the strongest, so he will definitely become the inheritor.”

Undoubtedly, the crowd cheered for Crouching Dragon. Close to 75% believed that he would win, while only 10% placed their hopes on Han Wu.

Crouching Dragon was unstoppable, but Han Wu knew nothing about the crowd’s confidence in his rival. He drove his units toward the center of the Dueling Lands rapidly. The poisonous gas ring made early control of the center worthwhile because that position allowed a stable base that could crush anyone who wandered in later.

Others had reached the same conclusion, including Crouching Dragon, who marched with his powerful army straight toward the center.

Before long, the two candidates encountered each other. Each side judged the other’s strength by the sheer number of units on the field. If they clashed in earnest, the battle would come down to who commanded more Earthsunder life forms. Crouching Dragon had ten, and their powerful aura carried the mixed scent of insects and Great Dragons.

Alpheus gagged when he caught their scent. “The stink of mongrels. What a foul reek.”

The Holy Wyrm Knights bristled at the insult and wanted to tear off Alpheus’ head. They despised any insult to their lineage, and nothing stung more than the word mongrel.

“Kill them!” shouted one of the Holy Wyrm Knights. The other nine charged at Alpheus together.

Han Wu wouldn’t let his units get hurt. He waved his arm, and Steely protected them with a sweeping hurricane.

Crouching Dragon, who had just become a Major God, watched Han Wu warily as the powerful hurricane churned around them. For a God to nurture so many powerful units, Han Wu was a genuine prodigy.

Even so, Crouching Dragon wouldn’t back down either. He applied his Divine Skills on his core race and even handed each of the ten Holy Wyrm Knights a single pill. Their muscles bulged once they swallowed them, and their strength surged.

When he saw them consuming pills, Han Wu chose that moment to strike. Dark Locust cried out a battle oath, plunged into the center of the ten Holy Wyrm Knights, and detonated himself.

The Self Detonation of an Earthsunder life form hit with devastating force. The blast dragged every knight into its radius. All ten suffered injuries, and two of them staggered with severe wounds that left them unable to fight for long.

Dark Locust had defeated two of them with a single blow to help tip the odds in Han Wu’s favor. Steely then used Steelcutter and merged all 100 greatswords together. He swung it in a wide arc and heavily injured two more Holy Wyrm Knights.

Unfortunately, Steely suffered damage in the exchange because several Holy Wyrm Knights bit off multiple arms.

The battle had just started, and Han Wu and Crouching Dragon were already left with six Earthsunder units.

Crouching Dragon looked visibly upset about losing four powerful fighters. He couldn’t let them fight like this and activated his Consumption Jurisdiction. He consumed the four heavily injured Holy Wyrm Knights and the six lightly injured ones into his body.

With the aid of drugs, Crouching Dragon was temporarily as strong as a Heavenrender life form. His aura radiated raw power that no one could stop. He grinned and attacked Han Wu.