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"Hah!"
George let out a loud shout that erupted over the pier like a clap of thunder, sending powerful sonic waves sweeping rapidly toward Crestet.
Caught in the blast of the sonic waves, Crestet's body stiffened, a look of pain crossing his face as the spiritual energy within him instantly fell into disarray.
This caused the darkness encroaching upon George to slow down significantly.
Seizing the opportunity, George stomped his feet onto the ground. The earth immediately splintered, and large chunks of rock were jolted into the air.
"Off you go!"
George's body turned into a series of afterimages. Using the large rocks as footballs and Crestet as the goal, he unleashed a barrage of explosive kicks.
Under George's terrifying strength, the speed of those stones soared past the speed of sound.
Because they were moving so fast, the friction between the stones and the air even ignited flames.
In the eyes of the Nighthawks and Mandated Punishers on the periphery, those were no longer stones, but terrifying meteors trailing fire.
"You've got a damn Golden Right Foot, don't you!"
Over on the side, Klein marveled internally at the abnormality of George's physical body while silently lampooning the situation.
"Danger!"
Crestet, having just recovered from the sonic attack, saw his expression change drastically. He could no longer afford to maintain the darkness and spiritual entities. Instead, he retracted all his spiritual power and funneled it entirely into the Sword of the Goddess.
At this moment, if he tried to drag George into the darkness again, he feared he would be smashed to death by George's meteors before the darkness could even envelop him.
Seeing Crestet's attack interrupted and forced into full defense, Raelda, up in the sky, didn't stay idle either.
Rich in combat experience, he knew that if they didn't use their full strength today, they might truly be handled by George.
If two-on-one they still couldn't beat George, then he and Crestet, two High Deacons, would lose face completely.
Moreover, they would lose the initiative in the upcoming negotiations.
"Storm! Storm! Storm!"
A roar entirely different from George's echoed throughout the city of Tingen. The water in the large river beside the pier transformed into giant hands, reaching out to grab George.
Simultaneously, Raelda's eyes turned white, and countless bolts of lightning rained down, blanketing the area George occupied.
And that wasn't all. A terrifying tornado rose from the ground, wrapping the lightning and water currents in its center to form a wind barrier. This was to prevent George from escaping and to keep the energy from leaking out and affecting the innocent.
"No wonder they're called demigods; they truly have a bit of the flair a god should have."
Wrapped in the triple powers of wind, water, and lightning, George didn't feel the slightest bit of fear. Instead, his eyes lit up.
He wasn't afraid of the power levels in this world being high; he was afraid of them being too weak to be of help to him.
If a demigod possessed this much strength, then the true gods might be even stronger than he had previously estimated. This also meant that once he reached Sequence 0, he would likewise obtain greater power than expected.
Although his other avatars were also devouring worlds and obtaining even greater benefits, devouring and merging an entire world was not something that could be done in a short time.
Normally, several decades or a century would be considered fast. Even with his various avatars' strengths constantly increasing and interacting with each other, it would take at least eight to ten years.
But in this world, if things went quickly, he might become a Sequence 0 in just a few years. As his strength grew, he could help his avatars in other worlds devour and merge their worlds even faster.
"Unfortunately, this kind of direct elemental attack is even more useless against me."
Standing amidst the lightning, George clenched his right fist and took a deep breath. Like a giant beast devouring the heavens, he caused the tornado maintaining the barrier to shake violently.
"Gomu Gomu no—Break!"
He threw a fierce punch. His terrifying strength brought with it a horrifying fist pressure; a transparent fist of air transformed into the shape of a dragon and soared toward the sky.
In one fell swoop, it dispersed the water hands, lightning, and tornado that Raelda had created with his full power.
Afterward, George leaped to a position even higher than Raelda and flashed him a slightly mischievous smile.
"A-da-da-da-da-da!"
His small, pink-and-white fists blurred like a machine gun, slamming air-fists one after another onto the wide-eyed, unresponsive Raelda.
"Holy crap, Pegasus Meteor Fist!"
Klein couldn't help but lampoon again in his mind.
Following that, he saw Raelda plummet like a meteorite, crashing hard into Crestet—who had just finished swatting away the flaming stones below. The two of them instantly turned into a tangled mess on the ground.
"Stop! Stop fighting!"
Raelda and Crestet stood up with bruised and swollen faces. Seeing George land and charge toward them again, they hurriedly waved their hands to end the battle.
Through the fight just now, the two understood in their hearts that against the freakish physical body George had displayed, they really weren't his match.
At the very least, it would take a Sequence 3. And even then, whether a Sequence 3 could win was uncertain.
"It seems the two Deacons believe what I said now."
George stopped in his tracks and pulled back his small fists.
He could already feel that the potion within him had been completely digested, indicating his performance was a success.
"We believe you!"
The two nodded in unison.
The sparring over, George and the two High Deacons began their true exchange.
Only this time, it wasn't in the open clearing outside the pier, nor was it conducted like an interrogation. Instead, they sat in a private luxury booth at the Evil Dragon Bar, communicating face-to-face as equals.
This was the difference in treatment brought by different levels of strength.
"Regarding your current situation, Mr. George, we are currently unable to judge the exact cause.
However, you can join our Church. That way, through the Church, we can slowly help you find the reason."
Crestet was the first to extend an invitation to George.
If George were truly a Sequence 3 or Sequence 2, Crestet really wouldn't dare to easily invite him to join the Church.
This was because experts of those sequences were basically either high-ranking members of some organization or the avatars or offspring of some evil god.
But George was different; he was clearly only a Sequence 7. Furthermore, he had passed the Goddess's inspection—he was simply naturally brilliant and naturally strong of body.
As long as they pulled him into the Church, it would be equivalent to the Church gaining a major powerhouse.
More importantly, George followed the Seer pathway, not the Evernight pathway. Thus, his later advancement would not consume the Beyonder characteristics of the Evernight pathway.
At his level, he naturally knew many secrets that ordinary Beyonders did not.
For example, the three major laws of Beyonder characteristics:
The Law of Beyonder Characteristic Indestructibility, the Law of Beyonder Characteristic Convergence, and the Law of Beyonder Characteristic Conservation.
The Law of Beyonder Characteristic Indestructibility states that Beyonder characteristics are never destroyed or diminished; they simply transfer from one carrier to another.
The Law of Beyonder Characteristic Convergence states that high-sequence items of the same pathway will intermittently and unconsciously attract mid-to-low sequence Beyonders to their vicinity.
There is a tendency for them to aggregate together, and high-sequence beings can sense this attraction. Neighboring pathways also share this attraction.
The Law of Beyonder Characteristic Conservation states that Beyonder characteristics are conserved across neighboring pathways. If there are more high-sequence characteristics, there will be fewer low-sequence ones.
Each pathway can have at most one Sequence 0, or three Sequence 1s. A Sequence 0 and Sequence 1 cannot exist simultaneously.
(End of Chapter)