NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 1034
<1034 – Master of Darkness (12)>
You can tell how strong the Kangspek is just by looking at the Everlasting Grass.
With such high stats, even a baby could land a series of punches that are easily countered by a single tiny branch.
This principle equally applies to the Heavenly Sovereign.
The privileges enjoyed from sitting on the throne over the Eastern Empire.
The elixir consumed.
The functional experience points learned from countless mentors.
From the collection effects enjoyed as the emperor of the Eastern Empire, so many factors made the sovereign powerful.
As a result, a Battle Golem boasting Professor Level combat power was shockingly torn apart at a mere gesture from the Heavenly Sovereign.
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Mosquito Net Deployment
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Against this, Oknodie’s next move was to drop transparent stealth mosquitos that inflict various diseases and debuffs!
Having suffered near-total annihilation, the mosquitos quickly fed on Dark Mana and restored themselves, swarming down the hallway.
However, the Heavenly Sovereign’s wall was ridiculously high.
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Heavenly Sovereign’s Vast Wind Palm
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The sovereign’s gust swept away the mosquitoes charging down the hallway!
It was a response so effective that even Oknodie, who loved to torment his opponents, shuddered.
Not only did the Heavenly Sovereign sweep away the mosquitoes, but the attack also harmed Oknodie and the golems, sending Sing and Jiang tumbling back as they reached the hallway’s end.
‘Ugh. Boss Pattern Boost!’
Sometimes a boss’s patterns might get enhanced based on the cycle.
This is an event that occurs mainly when aiming for high scores and difficult play within a single cycle.
Most of the time, it’s because the Dragon Principal thinks that the guy is playing nice, resulting in an increase in difficulty, which made Oknodie curse the principal internally.
Sitting in the academy all day, doing nothing!
I do all the work while they just up the difficulty; it’s honestly infuriating.
‘Hmph. It’s not like there’s nothing you can do about it.’
The Heavenly Sovereign of the Eastern Empire.
That boosted pattern would eventually become clear if they repeatedly tackled the Eastern Region.
The collective intelligence of veteran players had all the lists of the Heavenly Sovereign’s boosted patterns.
If there’s a list?
Strategies would come following naturally.
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Armor Bomb Drop
Auto-Equip
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Oknodie dumped all of his saved-up armor pieces, prepared to pour them into a single Battle Golem!
Ordinary magical tools explode with interference effects when equipped multiple times, risking instant death or mana disasters, or even the maximum risk of dimensional collapse.
But what happens if you add a spare body to the Battle Golem’s body in the unused slots?
Just like a centipede monster with dozens of tentacles could wear multiple rings, armor too could be layered on multiple times.
In the end, it became hard to tell whether it was a golem or a gigantic anomaly with hundreds of extra bodies, but anyway, it was a successfully powered-up golem!
“What the heck is that?!”
“Did Oknodie summon an alien avatar?”
While Sing and Jiang were horrified by the menacing back of the giant modified golem visible from afar, the Heavenly Sovereign frowned at the golem that easily absorbed the pressure of the wind attack.
“A disgraceful monster.”
“The weird ones aren’t exactly respectable either, you know?”
“Why are you talking to me about weirdness?”
“Because the Heavenly Sovereign, ranked 1 in the Alliance of Necromancers, is the master of all weird creatures!”
“… Truly a perceptive child.”
If the late Gold Dragon Sorcerer, ranked 2 in the Alliance of Necromancers, was the master of all humans in the Eastern Empire, then the ranked 1 Heavenly Sovereign was the master of all weird creatures in the Eastern Empire.
Even the Hai Tai summoned by the Heavenly Sovereign was just a mythological creature with divine qualities, barely classifiable as a weird creature.
“But what changes if you notice it? There’s nothing you can do.”
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Master of Weird Creatures, Heavenly Sovereign
Summoning of the Heavenly Sovereign
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Four Divine Beasts
Phoenix, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Turtle
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The Sovereign’s court
Space Expansion
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Before the Heavenly Sovereign appeared were other mythological-grade beings from the world of myth.
Four raid boss monsters that could be encountered all over the Eastern region were summoned in one place.
As expected of the top-level boost patterns of the Sovereign, it was a truly vicious difficulty boss battle.
“Hmph. But once you strengthen your resilience properly, it’s nothing at all, right? Plus, we have plenty of summoned beasts to fight back!”
The enormous Armored Battle Golem, enlarged by the Four Divine Beasts, slammed into the giant Great Turtle!
While the Golem and the Black Turtle were entangled, Oknodie tore another summoning scroll.
Expectedly, spirit sculptors would rush over to utilize dimensional magic, so this time he used a different scroll!
As the scroll vanished, what appeared was the Giant Monster Buzhaar.
Professor Buzhaar, who had lost his sanity and transformed into a Tentacle Monster.
“Grrraaaah!!”
[You are an ungodly beast. This strange monster, I will crush you to death.]
While the Giant Monster Buzhaar was busy taking on the White Tiger, Oknodie tore another summoning scroll.
Emerging from the dark fog was the Underworld’s raid boss monster, the Evil Eye, which was subdued by the Seonhwang in the Underground World.
A gigantic eye floating in the air that unleashes countless curses and magic upon its target, an 8th-tier Transcendent Being!
[Just like the title of Princess of the Weird suggests, she commands powers that rival the Heavenly Sovereign. I shall handle that embodiment of evil.]
The Azure Dragon, in its Great Serpent form, produced a wall of water to protect everyone from the Evil Eye’s gaze.
Looking at the lineup alone, it was tough to discern which side was the good one and which was the evil one among Oknodie’s summoned beasts!
The last Four Divine Beast, the Phoenix, felt immense pressure.
A group composed of four is always at its strongest and most dangerous at the end.
Just like the Demon King’s Four Kings, their Divine Beasts would be similar.
Princess of the Weird’s Four Great Weird Ones would likely be the same.
The Phoenix prepared not to lose either.
As a Great Firebird form, she possessed purifying flames, having an extremely favorable matchup against all kinds of weird creatures.
If Oknodie’s summons were of evil or wicked nature, stopping the Phoenix’s flames would be extraordinarily challenging.
[Greatest of the Four Weird Ones! Come at me!]
At the Phoenix’s shout, Oknodie eagerly tore a summoning scroll.
With a burst of bright light, the being that descended was a colossal Giant Statue of Steel, secretly developed in Professor Plato’s Research Lab!
The Steel Giant was created for the time when Plato would leave the Academy and return to the secular world, designed for the Kingdom of Florence to rise as the dominant power in the world.
Even compared to the massive Divine Beasts, the statue was so large it made them look like mere puppies, barely reaching a foot in height!
Feeling overwhelmed by that extraordinary size, the Phoenix was utterly bewildered.
[Why summon a giant like this when you’re the Princess of Weird Creatures?]
“Me? Why not?”
The MZ generation summoner’s inconsistent summoning!
The Phoenix, having been holding flames to destroy evil beings, was now caught off guard.
Even so, feeling it would be a waste not to unleash her collected power, she let it burst out, but predictably, the Steel Giant only slightly reddened its legs.
[Attack detected. Target confirmed. Counterattack commenced.]
The Giant attempted to grasp the Phoenix with its huge hand, merely sweeping the ground, and the Phoenix felt a threat to her life.
The mere movement of the Giant posed a threat even to the hallway under the influence of the Heavenly Sovereign’s space-expansion spell.
The hallway expanded as large as the creature inside it.
In theory, the hallway should grow proportionally to the size of the being within it.
But what happens if the energy required to maintain an excessively enlarged hallway runs out, unable to sustain even the minimum energy needed for the space-expansion spell?
Crack! Crackle!
Cracks appeared in space, and dimensions slowly started to split open.
Even without Oknodie opening a dimensional gate himself, a rift in space began to appear spontaneously!
The difference in the source of dark mana, which Oknodie’s summoned beasts sought to perfect, and the nature mana used by the Divine Beasts, determined victory and defeat.
While the Divine Beasts’ natural mana diluted into the dimensional rift, Oknodie’s summoned beasts drew greater power from the dark mana infiltrating from beyond dimensions.
Even as an Outsider, the summoned beasts received such high energy efficiency and synergy bonus that they quickly took down the Divine Beasts.
[The Armored Golem defeats the Black Turtle.]
[The Giant Monster Buzhaar defeats the White Tiger.]
[The Evil Eye defeats the Azure Dragon.]
[The Steel Giant defeats the Phoenix.]
[The Heavenly Sovereign’s Divine Beasts have been utterly defeated.]
[Stealing the power of the Weird.]
Oknodie had snatched enough influence to engage in a good deal of competition for true masters of the Weird!
But he didn’t rest on his laurels for the hard-earned rewards, seeking to gain even more decisive advantages.
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<Wave of Growth Magic>
<Target – Steel Giant>
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Oknodie, having already enlarged the massive statue, boosted its size further beyond limits.
As the Giant grew, the space-expansion magic of the hall collapsed into pieces.
Boom!!
The giant that breached reality as it descended instantly caused 43% of the area of the Hwanggung to vanish.
With each step, Sing, Jiang, and Sadi rolled back once more.
“Those guys are all just rolling people around.”
After rolling around all day, Jiang would probably earn rolling experience following Oknodie.