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Chapter 385

The forest space once again warped, to the point where Negri was able to see a part of the main hall. Life Bearer was probably unable to maintain the entire domain for much longer.

Mequik was fighting against the other Righteous Gods by herself, even though she had the home field advantage, she would still have to pay a heavy price to do so.

Although the Mana Fetus' Divine Artifact was most likely a trap, when it came to traps, if one couldn't even deceive themselves, they wouldn't be able to deceive the Righteous Gods either.

With a loud wail and the sound of something breaking, the Mana Fetus appeared in the forest. Lisa had most likely returned to her body.

The thin threads that bound her gigantic body snapped one by one, countless humanoid creatures were desperately wriggling inside her gigantic stomach.

They were those who had undergone rebirth.

The Mana Fetus' rebirth didn't have a 100% success rate in the first place, as not a single person would succeed in every Mana Banquet. Although those who succeeded had their innate talents improved, they only had a single chance at rebirth, and most of them couldn't escape the fate of death.

After death, they would return to the Mana Fetus' stomach.

And now, these people had all become Lisa's puppets, completely under her control, turning into a group of half-human, half-undead creatures that the House of Mages called the Withered.

Lisa's family had been destroyed, she was sealed away for over a thousand years, her body had been modified into a weapon, so her endless resentment erupted in an instant. It could be said that everyone here was basically her enemy.

The seven Gods had destroyed her home, the Great Magus had captured and modified her, the mages had used her as a rebirth and mana production machine. Among them, even Guangnai's group who had saved her were only using her, and they were also allies of her mortal enemy, Eternal Heat. Even those who didn't hold a grudge against her were coveting the Divine Artifact inside her body.

Enemies everywhere, this was Lisa's current situation. Because of this, she could no longer endure the resentment she had been suppressing for so long, so she immediately unleashed her full power to destroy everything.

Mana poured out like a tidal wave, drowning everything in its path. The Withered inside her stomach had also been released along with the tide of mana, attacking all living beings. These monsters' lives had already been reclaimed by the Mana Fetus, so they were constantly suffering the torture of death, so they were filled with absolute hatred towards all living beings.

Therefore, when these fellows were released, they attacked any lifeforms that they could sense.

Negri's body was still wrapped in that layer of flesh cocoon. Vitality magic was flowing through the cocoon, transforming it. Once the transformation was complete, Negri's second Divine Embryo would begin to gestate.

The Ursine Priest had now returned to his human form. The pressure from the three layers of stacking life forms was too much for him, and he was also cut in half. Although he had recovered with the help of life magic, the tall and burly Ursine Priest seemed to have overdrawn his kidneys.

When the mana tide came, a large number of Withered Ghosts rushed towards Negri because of the large amount of life mana flowing in Negri's body. Because they had been living in the Mana Fetus' stomach for a long time, their physique had long changed. Although they had lost the ability to cast spells when they were alive, they had been bred with mana resistance.

The majority of magic didn't have any effect on these Withered, instead, it would only stimulate them and make them even more excited and violent.

Some of the people who survived the aftermath of the battle between the Upright Gods were killed by the Withered Ghosts. After all, apart from the Church's knights and a few of the Path of Witchcraft, most Mystics relied on magic to fight.

However, the Withered seemed to have been bred to fight against mages. Aside from their mana resistance, they could also tear through mana barriers with a single swipe of their claws.

Negri looked at the Withered that were rushing towards him. These things' life source was connected to the Mana Fetus, so if Negri wanted to use the Vitality Destruction Barrier to absorb their vitality and destroy their life structure, he would have to transfer his ability to the Mana Fetus. Otherwise, these guys would at most be injured, but their bodies wouldn't collapse.

After Guangnai developed [Vitality Lock], Negri discovered another weakness of his [Vitality Absorption] ability. Against these puppets whose life source was controlled by someone else, it was very difficult to deal any fatal damage.

However, this was how the world worked. It was unrealistic to think that a single ability could solve every problem. Everything had its own flaws and limitations, and what Negary needed to do and had always been doing was to overcome and break through these flaws through various methods.

"Vitality Release!" Negri's veins shot out from his hand to attack the Withered that were rushing towards him. At the same time, Negri borrowed the ability of the golden sphere that had been hovering next to him and unleashed it on the Withered.

Their bodies suddenly began to deform. Although the golden sphere's ability was the [Lord of Evolution], which granted positive effects most of the time, for these puppets whose life source wasn't under their control, this kind of evolution wasn't allowed.

The Withered's bodies quickly changed, but to no avail. The result was that their willpower began to awaken, instinctively rebelling against the Mana Fetus in an attempt to regain control over their bodies.

The result of this was a loophole in their puppet relationship, which allowed them to be caught by Negri and absorbed by his [Vitality Siphon Barrier], causing their bodies to collapse.

However, the Withered were only a small problem, the current problem was the ownership of the Mana Fetus, Lisa.

Although Lisa had broken free from control and was going berserk, there were at least five Righteous Gods here. Even if they were clones, they could easily suppress Lisa. It was just that the Righteous Gods were wary of each other, which was why Lisa was going berserk and wreaking havoc.

All of a sudden, Lisa's presence was rapidly decreasing. This unknown decrease caused Negri's gaze to become serious. A Righteous God had acted, but there were two of them who didn't show any obvious signs of doing so.

One of them was Dark Wanderer, whose strength was on par with Eternal Heat and Life Bearer. He represented the dead who hid in the shadows, as well as assassination. The other should be The Unreachable Gate.

Without synchronizing his information with Guangnai, Negri didn't know about The Unreachable Gate's nature, so he was guessing that it was Dark Wanderer and The Unreachable Gate who acted.

However, the other Righteous Gods weren't the same. They had fought alongside The Unreachable Gate in the Moon Tree world, so they quickly discovered The Unreachable Gate's traces.

The Unreachable God was the most reclusive among the seven Gods, his unique trait made it so that he would never openly act, only secretly devouring those weaker than him to supplement his Pathway.

After noticing this, the other Righteous Gods also acted, but Mequik was still the most impatient. After all, this trap that she had created, the so-called Divine Artifact inside belonged to her, and it was also the key to controlling the Great Magus.