Gol D. Ace In Coiling Dragon

After a few of the saint-level experts died from each of the forces, the Gol Empire sent Killian and his classmates to investigate.

During their investigations, Killian and Alissa discovered that it was an unknown Demi-God of the Edict of Death doing the massacres.

Not wanting to be found out, the mysterious Demi-God tried to kill the two saints quickly, but Killian and Alissa were far from ordinary. Although neither had the strength of a Demi-God individually, they weren't far off, and together, they were even more powerful.

The fight escalated quickly, and the Demi-God realised they were too powerful to hold back, so he went all out, but even still, they fought him to a standstill. In the end, the Demi-God used his Edict of Death to manipulate other ordinary civilians to attack the two saints, and Killian hesitated, unable to do anything that could harm them.

His hesitation allowed the Demi-God to target Alissa on her own and quickly suppress her, and just as he was about to strike to kill, Killian moved, no longer caring about the safety of the civilians under the necromancer's control and took the strike on behalf of his wife.

As an expert who specialised in the Edict of Death, most of his attacks are soul-based, and this one was no different. The attack targeted Kilian's soul and caused him to lose consciousness immediately.

Unfortunately, before he could finish the pair off, the rest of Killian and Alissa's classmates arrived and forced him to escape.

Alissa was too worried about Killian to care about his escape. Instead, she rushed him back to Milianna, who was widely acknowledged as the greatest healer on the continent. Although she was still just a mid-stage saint, her comprehension of the Edict of Life had reached the Demi-God Stage, and she had even completely comprehended the law of Light's profound Mystery of Purity.

Milianna managed to successfully wipe out the remnant energy of the mysterious Demi-God's death energy, but it was too late; Killian's soul had already received too big of a shock and was in the process of mutating.

Everyone was worried, but there was nothing they could do to help; it was all down to Killian to pull through. All they could do was direct their anger towards the Demi-God, who they later learned was called the Grand Warlock, a Demi-God who had escaped from the Gebados Plane.

Unfortunately, it seemed like the Grand Warlock was intent on hiding.

The reason the Grand Warlock was committing all those massacres was to create a treasure that could increase the power of one's soul. He was doing it for his boss, Beaumont, another Demi-God, one even stronger than him, that had escaped the Gebados Plane with him. Unfortunately, it didn't look like this would be possible any longer.

He had heard of the monsters from the Yin-Yang Pavilion, but he believed it to be the stuff of fiction, but after seeing two saints fight him to a standstill, he couldn't help but believe it.

In the end, he decided to tell Beaumont and let him decide on what to do.

Despite being warned, Beaumont told him to continue the massacres but to do it in the Baruch Empire instead, as they were the only Empire without a powerhouse that could fight against a deity. Seeing the fear in the Grand Warlock's eyes, Beaumont agreed to go with him.

Not long after, the massacres started back up in the Baruch Empire. Having heard what happened and understanding that they were the weakest of the three Empires without Linley's presence, they asked for assistance from the Gol Empire. And Killian's classmates were all too happy to agree.

Unfortunately, because no one knew which city was going to be targeted next and because the targets were deity-level experts, it was too hard to track them.

After a few months, they finally ran into the Beaumont and the Grand Warlock. Unfortunately, despite how much they'd improved over the last nine years, fighting two Demi-Gods at once proved too difficult for the group, especially as Beaumont was faintly approaching the Full God Realm. Still, they did manage to fight the two deities off, albeit only barely.

But after that battle, Beaumont became less arrogant, choosing to massacre only random, small, unaffiliated cities and villages for his goals, making it even harder to be tracked.

It was a few months later, after Emperor Jordon of the Rohault Empire stepped in, that they were finally able to track Beamont and the Grand Warlock down successfully.

Unfortunately, even though Jordon Rohault was now a Demi-God, as someone who had merged with a Divine Spark, he was the weakest kind of Deity; as such, although he was able to somewhat balance the scales, it wasn't enough.

In that fight, Hazer, the second youngest of the five Armand brothers, died, and Faye was left with grievous wounds.

Things looked like they were about to go from bad to worse as Alissa faced what looked like certain death, but before the Grand Warlock could finish Alissa off, Killian, who had been in a coma for the last several months, arrived.

Killian went on to show invincible might, killing the Grand Warlock with a seemingly casual swing of his battle axe, the aura of which shocked everyone present to no end. Despite the fact that he was still just a mid-staged saint, the power of that last strike easily surpassed the average Demi-God to the point where even Beaumont, an expert who was infinitely close to the Full-God realm, felt threatened.

Feeling the situation was getting further and further out of his control, Beaumont now wanted nothing more than to escape. Unfortunately, Killian had other ideas.

Killian ended up forcing him to stay and fight, but what shocked Beaumont even more was that despite going all out, Killian remained able to easily fight him to a standstill. In fact, he even looked like he was yet to go all out.

The truth was, after Killian woke up, he felt more powerful than he ever could've imagined. Even his soul had transformed into that of a deity, giving him the ability to use "Godrealm".

Still, before he got to test out his new abilities, he spread his Godrealm, wanting to find his wife and friends, which was when he saw them on the losing side of a battle against two deities.

As such, instead of fighting seriously, Killian was using Beaumont as something of a whetstone to test himself.

Most soul-mutates are typically two-way soul mutates, like Yunaia and Olivier, meaning they see a tenfold increase in power when using fused elemental energy, but as a three-way soul mutate, Killian's power saw a 100-fold increase, taking his power from that of a saint to faintly touching the power of a genuine Full-God.

As soon as Killian decided to stop holding back, Beaumont went from barely holding his own, to being thoroughly suppressed, especially as Killian's weapon handling was also leagues above his own.

In the end, Beaumont attempted to turn tail and run, but Killian refused to let him go and chased him through the skies of the Yulan Continent.

Finally, Killian did manage to chase him down and kill him in The Great Botha Levee – an extremely famous spot in the Yulan continent, which, according to legend, was built even before the start of the Yulan calendar, back when Arianna's Qingya family still reigned supreme, making it easily over 10,000 years old.

As far as levees went, the Great Botha Levee was extremely strange. It was like a massive dock that stretched all the way to the centre of the Yulan River, a river so powerful that it was capable of grinding even mountains down. However, the Great Botha Levee had existed for over 10,000 years without so much as a blemish.

Still, as Killian's final strike fell, it tore straight through Beaumont's body and onto the Botha Levee, which was also chopped in two.

What Killian didn't know was that the Botha Levee was actually a magical monument that acted as a seal that prevented those in the Gebados Plane from crossing over.

As soon as Killian shattered the seal, countless powerful auras emerged, flying straight out of the Gebados Plane and into the Yulan Plane.

The seal had only shattered for a few seconds before Beirut arrived on the scene and promptly fixed it, preventing anyone else from escaping. Still, by then, hundreds of experts had already fled, the weakest of which were peak saints.

Beirut explained what was on the other side and the kinds of experts Killian had just freed. As a result, Killian felt distraught and was determined to do whatever he could to fix things, but Beirut merely shrugged and said what will be will be and that when Ace and the others get out of the Necropolis of the Gods, they can handle it then, until then, it would be best if they tried to avoid provoking any of the unfathomable old monsters who managed to escape.

After that, whether it was the Yin-Yang Pavilion or the three great Empires, they all closed their doors temporarily. Unfortunately, tragedy still hit.

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