Chapter 24-Promoting to a Deity

While Ernst finished his fight quickly, Nadia was having a heated battle with the three Saint-level magical beast for almost ten minutes. Presently, Nadia has a big advantage because of her defense and speed boost. Right now, the Saint-level Two-Headed Silver Dragon has only one head remaining, it was caught off guard, Nadia bit its head. The Saint-level Hellfire Phoenix was bloody all over its body and many of its feathers, were now gone. The Saint-level Black Dragon was also worst, one of it's wing was now only hanging, it can fall anytime.

Meanwhile, Nadia's armor also has many cracks, some areas are broken. She was also bleeding, but compared to her opponents, she is much better. It's was rare for her to fight a life and death battle, so she's gone all-out.

"Roaaaar!"

Suddenly, Nadia's huge figure vanishes and turn into a fire feather. On the other side, behind the Saint-level Hellfire Phoenix and Saint-level Black Dragon, another fire feather appears, but it instantly transforms into Nadia's real body.

"Roaaaar!"

The Hellfire Phoenix and Two-Headed Silver Dragon were caught off guard again.

"Bang!"

The Hellfire Phoenix head was grab by Nadia's claws and crushed it, while the remaining head of the Two-Headed Silver Dragon was entangled by Nadia's tail. Its remaining head were also destroyed. Instantly, two Saint-level magical beast falls from the sky.

"Roaaaar!"

Nadia looks at the remaining Saint-level Black Dragon, who is now scared for its life. Before it can escape, Nadia snarl its neck with her tail.

"Roaaaar!"

The Black Dragon screams in agony. Its breathing were getting hard, and its neck bone was cracking. Nadia strangles the Black Dragon's neck with all her might.

"Crack!"

The Black Dragon's neck bone were shattered. Its huge head had slump down, it is now dead.

"Roaaaar!"

Nadia roars loudly, celebrating her victory over the three Saint-level magical beast. She dive and collects the Saint-level magicite cores.

"Master. I've won."

"Good job Nadia." Ernst praise Nadia as he picks up the attribute bubbles drop by the three Saint-level magical beast.

As Nadia finished collecting the magicite cores, she returns to Ernst side and handed the cores.

Ernst now looks at the remaining Saints, he smiled at them. "Now, what shall I do with all of you? Should I kill you one by one, or you kill yourselves? You lusted our magicite gemstone mine and join forces to eliminate me, tell me how I should punish you?"

"Ernst, please don't kill us. Our Cult of Shadows was only instigated by the Radiant Church to attack your duchy. We can pay anything as long as you let us go." Affleck shamelessly shifts the blame towards the Radiant Church.

Heidens was furious at Affleck's betrayal for blaming them. "Affleck, you shameless bastard. We had agreed that our two forces are united in this action. Now you are putting the blame on us? You already forgot that if we succeed in obtaining the gemstone mine, your share shall be more than our Radiant Church."

Affleck just shook his head, but did not respond to Heidens. He waits for Ernst judgement on them.

Ernst watches the two groups with relish as they quarrel. When they stop bickering, he finally started talking. "Attacking our duchy and lusting for the gemstone mine was a big provocation against me. For now, I will not kill you, but you will receive punishments from me."

The former joint forces hearing Ernst will not kill them, heave a sigh of relief, but after hearing the other half of his sentence, they felt nervous.

Ernst continued speaking. "For the Cult of Shadows, each Saint will pay five billion gold coins. For the Radiant Church, each Saint will pay ten billion gold coins. I want your payment paid within one week. If not, I will visit your headquarters and chat with you for the whole day. In addition, you will recede your territories, I want half of the Anarchic Lands. Now go, take your army back with you before I change my mind. Scram!"

The former joint forces of Radiant Church and Cult of Shadows immediately retreated. The soldiers felt like they were pardoned. They left as quickly as possible as they want to avoid staying here any longer. Especially the surviving Saints, they left much faster. Afraid that Ernst might change his mind and kill them. They aren't concerned about the payment and the receded territories, as long as they are alive, others are insignificant.

The forces of Dawson Duchy, standing on the city walls hearing Ernst declaration and seeing the retreating armies, immediately cheered.

Ernst heals Nadia's injury. After the injury were healed, she change sher body back into a small one and landed on Ernst shoulder. Ernst flew back to the city of Cod. Upon landing, they were greeted by the soldier's cheers.

"Long live Ernst!"

"Long live Ernst!"

Ernst smiles and nodded at the soldiers then walks towards James, Douglas, and Roger's side.

"Father, Uncle Douglas, and Uncle Roger, please arrange to process the corpse of the three saint-level magical beast. After we receive the payment from the Radiant Church and Cult of Shadows, give one billion gold coins to our soldiers and divide it with them."

This announcement makes the soldiers more crazy as they chanted his name.

"Long live Ernst!"

"Long live Dawson Duchy!"

"Father, I know that you were worried about me earlier and blames yourself for not being able to help me. Don't blame yourself too much." Ernst console his father.

"Ernst, my son. Your father is useless, I can't even help you fight those Saints." James helplessly speak out these words from his mouth.

Ernst hugs his father James. " Father, don't look down on yourself too much, You can also do what I did in the future." Ernst said with a smile. "Are you interested in being a king of the kingdom?"

James was stunned but shook his head. "Ernst, I'm not interested in such worldly power. Neither your mother nor sister. I rather train hard to breakthrough Saint-level. We can just give the kingship to your Uncle Monroe or to his son."

Ernst nodded in understanding and looked towards Douglas and Roger. "Now there are not much obstacle, our forces can now unify half of the Anarchic Lands. May be, in three months, we can establish our kingdom."

"Don't worry young master, starting from tomorrow we will attack the cities controlled by the Radiant Church and Cult of Shadows. After your battle with them, the news will spread quickly around the Anarchic Lands. I'm very sure when we arrive at their cities, there will be no resistance to our forces." Douglas said confidently.

The previous battle determines the state of affairs in the Anarchic Lands.

In the morning, the army of Dawson Duchy swept and conquered every city. The soldiers of each city upon their arrival surrenders immediately. Because of this, the other half of the Anarchic Lands will be unified at astonishing speed.

At the same time, the news of Ernst battle against the combine forces of Radiant Church and Cult of Shadows quickly spreads across the entire continent.

While the forces of Dawson Duchy were unifying half of the Anarchic Lands, Ernst was staying in the pocket dimension. He was absorbing the attribute bubbles that he had collected after the battle against the Radiant Church and Cult of Shadows. After absorbing the attribute bubbles, his physical attributes have skyrocket. While his physical attributes increases, his attunement towards the elements have increased again by another level. He had already felt the compression of vibration into a single layer.

All of a sudden.

"Rumble!"

Ernst opens his eyes as he feels an enormous, unique, irresistible surge of force descended. The surrounding space became deformed, seemingly separating him from the nearby space. Ernst entire body started to rise.

His body was not under his control at all as he was rising in midair.

The natural Law descended!

Countless amount of earth elemental essence poured towards Ernst, a unique force searching his soul and mind putting together everything he knew about The Laws of the Earth. Ernst wait patiently, not long after, a black gemstone with earthen yellow light appeared in front of him.

"Divine spark!" Ernst feels a burst of happiness in his heart. He pushed the divine spark to the side as the sword shape soul was split in two.

"Aaaargh!"

Ernst could not avoid screaming as the pain of splitting soul was beyond his endurance, he breathe deeply, a few moments later when the process ended. He watched as one of the two smaller sword shape soul made its way towards the divine spark and merged with it.

Ernst, scans the elemental sea within the divine spark. The elemental sea was turbulent as waves rising and crushing down. The surface of the elemental sea was made of elemental essence, while beneath it, it was a boundless divine power.

The deeper one went into the elemental sea, the purer the divine power was. Currently, Ernst easily breakthrough the surface of the liquid elemental essence and can sense a depth of about one hundred meters below the surface.

Ernst recalled the second gift from the God that he had received. "Upon reaching the Deity-level, my divine power will be ten times than ordinary Deity. Based on the original canon, Linley only managed to sense ten meters below the surface of liquid elemental essence, while he can sense one hundred meters. Indeed, it was true."

He felt amazed as the natural Laws created a divine body while his other smaller sword shape soul return to his original body. The divine body was identical to his original body, the only difference was the hair color. Instead of his original blond hair, it has a yellow hair. He uses his divine power to create a black warrior outfit for his divine body.

Ernst, use his divine power to increase the strength of his original body. His original body slowly began to transform. His skin, muscles, veins, internal organs and even his bones all began to transform and grow more powerful. However, the transformation did not last long and ended shortly. He feels that his body was more powerful than before. His bodily defense is comparable to a God defensive artifact.

"Hahaha. I'm finally become a Deity. Who would believe a twenty-one year's old Deity appears on the Yulan continent. But I should not be too arrogant, according to the original canon, Beirut had seen far too many geniuses in the vast universe. He even saw someone promoted to a Deity in ten years from birth. First. I must consolidate my power and see if I can upgrade my previous attacks.

While Ernst was promoting to a Deity, the descent of natural Law was not hidden from the Deities of the Yulan continent.

On the cave mansion inside the War God Mountain, a red-headed man who was meditating, suddenly open his eyes. He perceives the descent of natural Law. "Someone who was promoted to a Deity on his own? Who is it?" He used his divine sense to scan his empire and nearby territories and noticed the newly promoted Deity comes from the Dawson Duchy.

"Interesting, a twenty-one year old Deity. Two years ago, Cesar was promoted to a Deity, and now another one appear again. Is promoting to a Deity now, so easy? Was there really something wrong on how I taught my disciples? Ernst seems right, only by facing countless life and death battles can one easily improved and gain enlightenment. All my disciples are either idle or in close door cultivation. They only fight once in a thousand years. Sigh…." War God O'Brien thought and little disappointed about his disciples when he compared them to Ernst.

"Fain!" War God O'Brien call his disciple through divine sense.

"Master, What do you need me for?" Fain answered through his mind.

"Send my congratulation to Dawson Kingdom in the Anarchic Lands once it establishes. Ernst was promoted to a Deity."

"Yes Master." Fain replied with respect.

"What? Ernst was already a Deity? We just had a fight two years ago. I even mocked him before our battle. He can't forget about Ernst mocking look and sentence, 'I will be promoted to a Deity before you do.' It now becomes reality. He is just twenty-one year's old. The youngest to become a Deity in the entire Yulan continent." Fain's felt envious, it was hard to accept. He was training for five thousand years, but still a Saint, while Ernst was only living for twenty-one years yet, he was already a Deity.

Similarly, The High Priest, Dylin and Cesar uses their divine sense to find out who was the new promoted Deity. They felt surprise but kept their composure.

On the metallic castle of the Forest of Darkness, an elder looking man with long beard smile as he watches the descent of the natural Laws. He thought, "Hmmm, a twenty-one year old Deity. Not bad. Keep up the good work. If you become a Highgod in a thousand years, I will consider you as one of my candidate."