“Planetary Devastation!”
As soon as the words fell, Lu Minghao's two huge dragon claws slammed together. Relying on [Gravity Manipulation], the gravity ball, compressed countless times, was compressed to the size of a grain of rice with the squeezing of his palms. Then, Lu Minghao's dragon claws pushed, and the gravity ball slowly flew to the center of the sky.
Boom!
In the next second, the gravity ball, originally the size of a grain of rice, began to expand rapidly. Accompanied by a huge roar, the gravity ball, originally the size of a grain of rice, directly expanded to nearly a thousand meters in size. Immediately afterwards, the ground below began to vibrate violently, and pieces of land visibly bulged and flew into the sky.
“What is this?”
Demiurgeus gripped the ground tightly with both hands, struggling to raise his head and look at the constantly expanding gravity ball in the sky. In just a few seconds, the surrounding ground had become riddled with potholes, and the gravity ball in the sky was no longer recognizable, having turned into a huge mixture of soil and debris.
Moreover, the most serious thing was that as the sphere above grew larger and larger, the suction force also became more and more terrifying. Even the mountains not far away began to collapse and disintegrate continuously. As for the venom that Lu Minghao had spat out before, it had already been sucked into the sky.
At this moment, the entire sphere had turned purplish-black under the erosion of the venom. From time to time, monsters or beasts would be sucked onto it, only to be corroded away in the blink of an eye, leaving no residue behind.
“Demiurgeus, look over there!”
“What? How is this possible?”
Demiurgeus looked in the direction Cocytus was pointing, only to see the Giant Golem, which had barely escaped from the previous attack, gradually detaching from the ground and flying upwards. No matter how hard its huge body struggled, it couldn't break free from the suction force.
“The Giant Golem's own volume is too large to resist the suction from above.”
After Cocytus finished speaking, he raised his head and glanced at the giant sphere above, which was already nearly ten thousand meters in size. Although the Giant Golem's massive weight allowed it to better resist the force from above, it was precisely because of its large size that the suction it endured was even stronger.
Now, the suction force, which Demiurgeus and Cocytus, with their ordinary human-sized bodies, could barely withstand, was completely irresistible for the Giant Golem, which was tens of meters tall and massive.
“No, the Giant Golem has equipment from other Supreme Beings. We absolutely cannot afford to lose it.”
Looking at the Giant Golem flying higher and higher, Demiurgeus said with a firm expression. For them, the Guardians, the equipment on the Giant Golem was a trace left by their creators, the Supreme Beings, and it was something that absolutely could not be lost.
“Shall we use it?”
Cocytus raised his head and asked Demiurgeus, while also looking at the World Item, the Shanhai Sheji Tu (Picture of Mountains and Rivers), on Demiurgeus's waist. That was something Ainz-sama had given them before they left. Originally, Cocytus and Demiurgeus had never anticipated having the opportunity to use the World Item. With their strength, destroying the Human Kingdom, along with all its armies and strongmen, would be a piece of cake.
“Mm!”
With that, Demiurgeus released his grip on the ground and took off the World-Class Item, the Shanhai Sheji Tu, from his waist. The large scroll, about one meter in length, slowly unfolded, and traces of mountains and rivers appeared on the scroll.
This was one of the eleven World Items possessed by the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the Shanhai Sheji Tu, which had the ability to confine opponents to a different-dimensional space. The internal space was not only incredibly vast, but there were also more than a hundred types of spaces, each with a different environment.
Some spaces could continuously consume the enemy's stamina, some spaces were completely hopeless, some spaces contained various traps, and some spaces...
In short, once an enemy was hit by the Shanhai Sheji Tu, they would be directly trapped inside. The only way to escape was to pass through each space and finally escape successfully. Of course, if one was strong enough, one could also destroy the Shanhai Sheji Tu from the inside.
And once one successfully escaped, all the spaces would immediately be解除, and ownership of this World Item would also be transferred to the opponent.
Ainz Ooal Gown had used this method to snatch this World Item from an enemy and make it one of the eleven World Items of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
“A World Item, huh?”
In the sky, Lu Minghao also noticed Demiurgeus's actions below. With just one glance, he recognized that the thing in his hand was a World Item. After all, in the original story, when Shalltear was controlled by Brainwashing, Ainz Ooal Gown had taken it out and given it to Mare to prevent enemies hiding in the shadows.
“However, I'm not one of those villains who obediently wait for the heroes to use their ultimate moves. And since we're all on the evil side, there's even less reason to do that!”
With that, streaks of lightning as thick as pythons began to flicker on Lu Minghao's silver-white dragon body. As Lu Minghao raised his dragon claws, silver-white lightning continuously gathered. In the blink of an eye, a spear nearly a thousand meters long materialized in Lu Minghao's dragon claws, with countless lightning bolts wrapped around it.
“Lightning Spear!”
In a ferocious roar, the silver spear, completely constructed of lightning, transformed into a beam of light and flew directly towards Demiurgeus. At the speed of light, the Lightning Spear instantly crossed thousands of meters and appeared in front of Demiurgeus. Just by getting close to Demiurgeus, one could feel a crackling sound in the air, and a faint burnt smell wafted from the tip of his nose.
At the critical moment, Cocytus had already appeared in front of Demiurgeus. His four arms tightly gripped his divine-class equipment, crossed in front of his chest. Mobilizing all his strength and magic, he slammed forward with all his might.
“Boom!”
In the next second, a terrifying explosion rang out, and a visible shockwave swept across. In the flashing lightning, the spear was firmly blocked in mid-air. Streaks of lightning several meters thick scattered like a torrential rain.
“So heavy!”
In a muffled grunt, Cocytus's body began to retreat bit by bit. The ground beneath his feet began to crack under the terrifying force. Layers of soil and sand were vaporized. In less than a second, a crater with a diameter of a thousand meters appeared on the spot and continued to expand and deepen over time.
Crack!
Just then, a sound like glass breaking rang out. Fine cracks spread along Cocytus's arms to his entire body. The silver-white insect carapace began to fall off bit by bit, and blood continuously seeped out. At this moment, Cocytus looked like a piece of porcelain that was about to shatter.
In just a few seconds, Cocytus had already been seriously injured, and even his life force began to plummet rapidly.
“Cocytus, dodge!”
Just as Cocytus was about to be unable to withstand it, Demiurgeus, who had finally completed the preparation of the Shanhai Sheji Tu, roared loudly. At the same time, Cocytus, without hesitation, used his last bit of strength, squatted down suddenly, and swung his four arms with all his might. Under the immense force, the four weapons in his hands shattered directly, exploding.
However, with this attack, Cocytus successfully bought a mere seconds, his body bursting forward to stand in front of Demiurge.
All of the above seemed to take a long time, but in reality, it was just a few short seconds.
“Activate!”
With Demiurge's roar, the World-Protecting Wall shone brightly, illuminating the entire world in an instant. When the light disappeared, the increasingly terrifying sphere of suction in the sky, the lightning spear close at hand, and Lu Minghao, who was swooping down, had all vanished without a trace. Even the monsters and demihuman army in the distance were gone.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The next second, the several giant golems that had been sucked into the sky all crashed heavily onto the pitted earth after the suction disappeared.
“Is it over?”
Cocytus looked at the desolate land before him and asked with a hint of uncertainty. Just now, in the instant he blocked the lightning spear, Cocytus even thought he would die there. The power of that attack was unbelievable even to him; just blocking it had almost cost him his life.
“No, it’s not over yet!”
At this time, Demiurge walked over and helped Cocytus up, then looked solemnly at the World-Protecting Wall in his hand. He saw that the central part of the scroll was turning pitch black at a visible speed, and the original landscape paintings on it were disappearing, or rather, being completely erased.
“This is?”
“That suddenly appearing dragon is forcibly destroying the space within the World-Protecting Wall. He will escape soon.”
“Then what do we do? Should we take it back and let Lord Ainz handle it?”
Upon hearing that the World-Protecting Wall was being destroyed, Cocytus subconsciously looked at Demiurge, but the next second, Cocytus shook his head. In just a few seconds of contact, he had already felt the opponent's powerful and terrifying strength.
If they really brought the opponent back to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, then if the opponent escaped from the World-Protecting Wall, even if all the guardians of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, plus Lord Ainz, could forcibly kill the opponent, the Great Tomb of Nazarick would suffer unbearable losses.
And this was still based on the premise of successfully eliminating the opponent. If they failed to eliminate the opponent, then the Great Tomb of Nazarick would be destroyed, and the last benevolent Supreme Being, Ainz Ooal Gown, would also die at the opponent's hands.
At that time, he and Demiurge would be the greatest sinners of Nazarick.
“Let’s go!”
The next second, Demiurge, having made up his mind, randomly opened a teleportation gate, threw the World-Protecting Wall in his hand into it, and turned around without hesitation to walk towards the giant golems. He had to report this matter to Lord Ainz.
This world was not as simple as it seemed on the surface. The dragons were not as weak as they had seen. The power displayed by this silver-white dragon alone had completely surpassed them. The next plan had to be changed.
“Mm!”
On the side, Cocytus, who had recovered somewhat with the help of healing potions, nodded in agreement. The current situation was indeed not suitable for continuing the previous mission. Compared to destroying those human kingdoms that had already lost their resistance, the demihumans and dragons they had ignored were the top priority.
Half a minute later, with the combined efforts of Demiurge and Cocytus, the Supreme Being's equipment and props on the seven giant golems had been recovered. As for the seven nearly scrapped giant golems, they were left in place, after all, the most important thing on them were these equipment and props.
“Let’s go!”
After putting the last prop into the dimensional pocket, Demiurge looked back at the dilapidated land, raised his hand and opened a teleportation gate to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, preparing to return and report the matter here.
“Careful!”
But just as Demiurge was about to step into the teleportation gate, Cocytus beside him suddenly showed a shocked expression and shouted loudly at Demiurge, while taking out four spare weapons and rushing towards Demiurge without hesitation.
“Where are you going? Can you take me with you?”
On the other side, after being reminded by Cocytus, Demiurge reacted immediately and instinctively used [Greater Teleportation] to try to leave here. It was a pity that just as Demiurge was about to be teleported away, a silver-white, ferocious dragon claw protruded from the teleportation gate, and the huge dragon claw directly grabbed Demiurge in its hand.
Bang! Bang!
At this moment, Cocytus, who had noticed something was wrong at the first moment, finally arrived. After seeing Demiurge being caught, four weapons simultaneously slashed at the dragon claw. In just a short moment, Cocytus had completed nearly ten thousand attacks, and each attack was in the same position.
It was a pity that his originally invincible slash was so weak under the obstruction of the dragon scales. The silver-white, huge dragon scales only showed a shallow trace under his attack, and this trace disappeared with a gust of wind.
Crack!
After seeing that his attack was useless, Cocytus, who did not intend to give up, raised his knife again to attack, but before his long knife was swung, the teleportation gate opened by Demiurge came the sound of collapse. A ferocious dragon horn appeared from the teleportation gate, which was originally only the size of a person, followed by a ferocious and terrifying dragon head the size of a hill, which began to squeeze out little by little.
The space collapsed under its terrifying power, and large pieces of space fragments like glass began to fall off. The entire space was like fragile porcelain in front of the ferocious dragon, being wantonly played with and destroyed.
The next second, a silver-white dragon with a height of nearly fifty meters and a length of nearly a thousand meters appeared in front of them again, but this time Demiurge had been firmly grasped by the dragon's claws, and Cocytus, who was already seriously injured, had lost the ability to resist.
“Little guy, you really gave me a big surprise just now.”
The ferocious and huge dragon head approached Demiurge, and the vertical dragon eyes were full of cruel gaze at the little ant in front of him who was not even as big as his own eyes. At this moment, Lu Minghao, who had completely entered the identity of the Platinum Dragon Lord, began to perform with all his heart.
“Who are you?”
Demiurge looked at the giant dragon close at hand, and could even clearly feel the sweet and fishy gas in the dragon's mouth, but Demiurge was not afraid at all, just looked at the other party calmly and asked.
“Platinum Dragon Lord!”
Saying that, a cruel smile appeared on Lu Minghao's dragon face, and he lowered his head to look at Cocytus in front of him, who had obviously exhausted all his strength but still did not intend to give up resisting. He planned to play an interesting game.
“Little bug, you want to save him, don’t you?”
