Chapter 216: The Age of Gods! The Pantheon's Expedition

Mortals have limits.

Since the end of the Age of Ancient Gods, the boundaries of mortals have become increasingly clear. When faith in the gods emerged and the professional system of the new era was completed, the limits of mortals have basically been solidified.

That is the upper limit bottleneck of career level 40.

But if you know more about the history of dragons, you will know that the ancient dragons can break through the upper limit of biological level 40, and a strange advanced dragon form can raise the biological level to above 60. In addition, there are some old guys from ancient times, such as Iollum, who also broke through the upper limit of professional level 40.

Xiao En has now reached the limits of mortals.

Even though he has been promoted to a demigod in the field of knowledge, his mortal side is still firmly restricted by this limit.

After the end of the Ancient God Era.

After reaching level 40, many legendary warriors want to continue to improve their strength. The only way is to become a quasi-divine being and thereby master some of the power of the gods.

“神性生物（神格等级0）——半神或者微弱神力（神格等级1-5）——弱等神力（神格等级6-10）——中等神力（神格等级11-15）——强大神力（神格等级16-20）——神上神或伟大存在（神格等级21+）。”

This is the limiting bottleneck that traps countless powerful people in the entire multiverse.

After their professional levels can no longer be raised, the only thing they can pursue is the godhood level. However, to obtain the godhood level, they must master certain laws of the gods. However, believers in the gods are very wary of potential competitors, which makes it very difficult to deify the gods in many worlds.

In the crystal wall system of the multiverse, there are many old guys with endless lifespans. Many of them have reached the limit, but cannot be deified. In the end, they can only live in seclusion in embarrassment and wait for the gods occupying the positions above to fall before coming out.

However, there are some special beings that can break through this level limit, such as the Old Ones and Outer Gods in the Far Realm, and the 'End of Days' mentioned in the Space-Time Hub.

The Deified Dragon is a relatively common advancement that has the potential to break through the level 40 cap, but there are only a few such dragons in the entire multiverse.

Mausoleum, high walls.

Xiao En's figure tore open a space rift and directly entered the mausoleum of death. Behind him was Pandora, who had just grown long hair, and Pafu, the alien soul from Sigil City.

These two can be considered Sean's disciples. Pandora is a psychic, and Pafu is an enchanter who prefers the alchemical path.

——“5级奥术师/5级心灵学者/10级奥灵师/20级大奥灵师【知识半神-神格等级3】（挑战等级50+）。”

Xiao En is now a level 43 demigod of knowledge. After slaughtering countless pillars of flesh and blood in the inner world, he has almost maxed out his mortal professional level.

After reaching the maximum level, you can no longer upgrade.

Whether it was Sean, Ms. Hecate, or other demigods of death, they were all stuck at the bottleneck limit of level 40. After entering this stage, everyone seemed to have come to the same starting line again, and everyone could only pursue the improvement of the godhood level in order to break through higher limits.

There are only demigods in the weird kingdom, so most people are at level 45. The veteran demigods have reached the upper limit and cannot improve further.

After Xiao En caught up with the professional level of mortals, he was actually no less capable than any veteran demigod.

Even the current Ms. Hecate would not be much stronger than Sean. It was like playing the game World of Warcraft in the previous life. When the level cap was 70, everyone had reached the upper limit and their own foundation was actually not far apart. The only difference was the personal field, equipment, experience, actual combat and other factors that affected the specific performance.

The laws of the domain determine that the many demigods excel in different areas.

On top of the high wall.

An exquisite silver-haired girl who looked like a doll emerged, Cecilia, the chief disciple of the Path of Death, the woman who dug out Sean's brain and almost made him into a mummy.

She stared at the figure that appeared in the sky ahead. After struggling for a moment, she bowed her head respectfully and said, "Sir Xiao En!..."

Now she no longer has the ability to face Xiao En directly. Whether in terms of strength or status, the gap between the two has become too big.

Those who are protected by the high walls are still a little short of something after all.

Xiao En's eyes were calm, and he said calmly: "I want to see the chief of the Path of Death."

Back then, this woman's attitude towards Xiao En was also condescending, because Xiao En at that time was not worth mentioning, and now Xiao En looks at her in the same way. In the world of demigods, mortals are mortals after all. He doesn't have the energy to care about the past, and he doesn't care about it.

The silver-haired girl, Cecilia, said respectfully: "The Chief is already waiting for you, Excellency."

After saying that, her gaze fell behind Sean, looking at Pandora with a curious look, and Pafo with a shocked expression. The latter had never seen such a majestic building, as if it was an enormous mausoleum that divided the continental shelf into different time zones.

Endless high walls stretched to the end of the sight, and beneath the walls were millions of undead creatures. He saw tens of thousands of flesh and blood puppets with a challenge level of 13 alone.

"If this force is sent out, it will probably be able to flatten the entire continent's Old Ones!"

A thousand years have passed since the Dark Age ended.

The Path of Death has been silently accumulating strength. The corpses from the real world have been made into countless mummies, skeleton guards and flesh and blood constructs.

Xiao En's figure gently fell down and slowly walked into the high wall.

Behind him, Pandora looked at the soul worms moving in the mausoleum with curiosity, and raised her fingertips slightly, and a soul worm exploded into pieces of meat on the spot. Her psychic talent was very strong. She had a psychic pool equivalent to that of a level 5 psion just after her promotion. Her basic intelligence was raised to 21 points after reading the "Eternal Chase" and it could be said that it was even more exaggerated than the genius great arcanists of the past.

Mausoleums of the dead are scattered across the vast plain, with countless nameless tombstones in the center.

Xiao En felt an incomparably grand and huge magic formation, with the entire planet's continent as the base formation. The twelve zodiac signs cut through the planet's geomagnetic energy and divided the twelve time zones into the root laws.

The one who presided over the maze of the twelve realms of Nirvana was the current chief of the Path of Death. He rarely set foot outside the high wall, and would never leave the black obelisk in front. He also did not interfere in the internal fighting of the demigods of the Path of Death, because he had his own mission.

To put it in the simplest way, the Weird Kingdom needs a 'Lich King'.

The undead creatures that have been born in the Dark Ages for a thousand years must have a demigod of death guarding the Black Spire to control them under the will of death.

This is a natural disaster of the undead that has been prepared for a thousand years!
"The human counterattack has not really begun."

“These nameless tombstones are the moment when the stars truly descend!”

Xiao En didn't know how many heroic souls were buried here. At the end of the Dark Age, humanity lost nearly 90% of its population, and countless powerful people fell. The souls of these people became part of the path of death.

The other part is the black giants wandering on the earth.

"Take them to Lady Hecate's library."

The shadow of a banshee emerged, and as Sean gave the order, she immediately turned around and led the two people behind her to the tomb of Lady Hecate.

The teacher has many death tombs.

Inside the high walls is the place where Xiao En studied. In fact, he doesn’t know whether the one who taught him was the teacher herself or her incarnation.

In front of a black spire that is tens of thousands of meters high.

Xiao En came here again and felt a huge earth vein energy, as well as the sleeping Mr. Gate, whose body was in this black spire. When the gate of the high wall opened, it was the moment when the undead disaster was launched and swept across the entire planet.

"You came……"

A tired whisper sounded.

This spire, which seems to have an obsidian surface, opens a heavy door. There is no gap in its entire body, as if it is a whole piece. It can only be opened from the inside of the spire. This is the eye of the Death Path and the core of the entire maze. Controlling it is equivalent to controlling the huge energy pool of the Twelve Realms of Nirvana of the Clock.

An emblem appeared at Xiao En's fingertips, with a pattern of wheat ears dotted with stars on it. He ignored the open door, anchored across the space, took a step forward, and appeared outside the study of the Chief of Death.

Ding!
The emblem fell along the open door and onto the desk in front.

A white skeleton, wearing a black arcane robe, sat on the desk, its hand bones dragging its chin, staring at Xiao En in front of it, the soul fire flickered in its eye sockets, and it said calmly: "I have been waiting for this day for a long time."

Xiao En looked directly at the Chief of Death in front of him. Unlike before, he could not look directly at him. He sat in front of the desk with an expressionless face. Behind him, the matter was reshaped, and a simple chair was constructed out of thin air.

There was a brief silence.

Xiao En said softly, "I want to see the remaining pages of the Golden Scroll."

The Chief of Death smiled and nodded, "Yes. This is the power of the demigods."

Xiao En continued, "I want the information of the great arcanist Nether, including the secret scrolls of the three major spellcasting systems."

Chief Death hesitated for a moment and said, "That's fine."

"Your merits warrant such authority."

After saying this, the demigod lich in front of him raised his hand slightly, and three scrolls covered with mystical marks appeared out of thin air.

——Creative Master, Spiritual Master, Transformation Master.

The current professional system was revised later. Before the birth of mages, wizards were a general term that included the abilities of mages and warlocks. The three major systems of Nether Archmages are Energy Archmages, Psychic Archmages, and Transformation Archmages. Their spellcasting methods are completely different from those of today's mages.

In addition, Karsus, the guy who killed the goddess of magic, is the Psychic Master.

Xiao En moved his fingers slightly, and the three scrolls in front of him disappeared.

The Chief of Death stared at him for a moment, raised his finger bones, and tore open a space crack. Inside was a void treasure land, which contained many treasures since the Dark Age. A fragment of a page, like a golden snake scale, gently fell into his palm and then flew in front of Xiao En.

The demigod lich said calmly: "The golden scroll originated from the ancient witch era. It was completed by the scaly people and the ancient elves together."

"Many things are not applicable to the current spellcasting system." Xiao En said calmly: "I know."

This page of the golden scroll was unlikely to help him break through his limits. Many of Nether's great arcanists had seen the golden scroll, but only a few could break through the upper limit of 40. But since these were included in the legacy of the Dark Age, he, as a newly promoted demigod of the Weird Kingdom, would eventually borrow them to take a look.

Chief Death knocked on the table, looked at Xiao En in front of him, smiled and said: "Many visitors from other worlds have appeared recently."

"They brought knowledge from other crystal wall civilizations."

"You guys did a great job."

Xiao En said calmly: "This was all part of the plan."

Both the bizarre kingdom and the real kingdom are now in a stage of rapid development. The knowledge possessed by visitors from other worlds represents the essence of their civilization. The entire planet Terra is like a shriveled sponge, constantly absorbing nutrients from the other world.

Of course, visitors from other worlds are also plundering the immortal divinity on the planet Terra, and some have already successfully killed the descendants of the Old Ones.

mutual benefit.

Visitors from other worlds brought new knowledge, purified the environment of the planet Terra, and seized immortal divinity from it. Their appearance also improved the ecological structure of the entire planet, which was equivalent to cleaning the house for the indigenous people in advance.

The first step is divinity, the second step is domain, and the third step is priesthood.

The appetite of visitors from other worlds will grow.

The Chief of Death pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked, "Are you interested in taking my seat?"

"With your current strength, controlling the twelve stages of Nirvana in the clockwork, it is possible to bring the power of the maze lock to its limit!"

Xiao En shook his head decisively and said, "Not interested."

A maze is also a prison.

Because there must be someone to maintain the operation of the twelve realms of Nirvana in the clock. If Sean sits on it, he will be the most powerful demigod in the weird kingdom (with a nearly endless pool of mana), but the shackles of this position are too heavy, and he will lose his freedom once he sits on it.

The reason why the Chief of Death is great is that He sat on this seat for a thousand years.

Countless knowledge flowed into Xiao En's brain.

When he stood up, the Chief of Death in front of him said slowly: "You should also send an avatar to attend the Demigod Conference next month."

"The future that the astrologers were peeping into has changed again."

Astrologer.

A demigod that Sean has never seen before. He doesn’t know what path he is on, but he is good at prophecy spells, which may be the field of destiny.

Xiao En frowned when he heard this and asked, "What did He see?"

Chief Death said calmly: "The time for the Old One to awaken has been advanced."

"The appearance of visitors from another world."

"Also, you guys have been constantly hunting down the Old Ones, causing the next awakening of the Old Ones to be greatly advanced."

"They feel the threat from the alien gods!"

"We may be facing a tough battle."

The Butterfly Effect.

The dormant old days began to awaken early because of the death of their clansmen, and the anomalies in the inner world became more and more frequent. Although everyone had anticipated this scene when the plan began, when it really came, people still felt tremendous pressure.

"How many old days have awakened ahead of time?" Xiao En said in a deep voice.

The Chief of Death was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "All!"

"The astrologers saw the star of death."

“When it appears in the Terra galaxy, the stars will align, and all the sleeping Old Ones in the entire galaxy will awaken at the same time!”

After all, reality is not playing games.

When humans start to counterattack, the Old Ones will not wake up one by one, as if they were sending their heads off. If they want to wake up, they will wake up all at once. The reason why the Dark Age was so tragic was because the stars were linked together, and many of the Old Ones descended into reality at the same time. If they only came one by one, humans would still have a chance.

Xiao En paused for a moment and said slowly: "What are our chances of winning?"

Chief Death said calmly: "30%, but it's worth a try."

"Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. When Amon opened the door and passed the law, this day was inevitable. It was just a matter of time."

30% sure.

Chief Death is right, it is definitely worth a try.

Xiao En's figure turned and left. Before walking out of the study, he whispered, "Will the old pillars come?"

Chief Death shook his head and said, "I don't know. It's unpredictable."

"This is the worst-case scenario. If the Old Ones don't come, our chances of winning are about 70%."

"Let's clean up this planet first."

"Humans are the ones who are suited to returning to reality."

Xiao En took a step forward and appeared outside the black spire. He looked at the endless nameless tombstones in front of him, and then at the mausoleums of death in the distance.

This battle.

They have been preparing for a thousand years. Whether death can suppress reality depends on the final arrangement of the unknown people.

Won.

Humanity returns to the material plane and starts over.

Lost.

The main material plane completely fell, and the survivors in the cracks of the planes could only find ways to escape to other crystal wall systems.

This is a deadlocked game that has lasted for a thousand years.

When the Old Ones completely devour the laws of this planet, the Twelve Realms of Clock Nirvana can no longer protect the real kingdom. If the doorway is not opened, it will be a slow death. If the doorway is opened, the Old Ones will wake up early.

This battle is almost inevitable.

However, when the gate was activated this time, there were too many variables when it was opened. The gods from the multiverse descended, allowing the power of the other world to enter the weird kingdom. At the same time, Xiao En rose up as a chess player and joined the game with the old days. With his current strength, if he spared no effort, he could even extract the vitality of the entire planet. He can be regarded as a god of knowledge close to medium-level god power.

Only if this round is won can everyone truly take a breath, take back the root laws of this planet, and turn their gaze to the endless starry sky in the distant universe.

Holy Terra needs to give birth to a powerful pantheon.

Whether it is the indigenous people who are deified, or visitors from other worlds who are deified, or even the appearance of gods from other worlds who descend, as long as someone can become a god, it is enough.

This is a brutal war!

The intensity is no less than the battles among the gods in the ancient god era. What is being competed for is the fundamental laws of the world, and its embodiment is [priesthood].

Because the law of the priesthood lies with the Old One!

"Pantheon."

Xiao En cast his sights towards the endless starry sky in the distance. Holy Terra was a blank area for gods, but when the first deified person successfully ascended to godhood, it would be linked to the legendary Pantheon. Back then, the God of Justice - Tyr led 200 high-level alien gods (Challenge Level 25+) to expedition to the Kingdom of Tianyu, opening up the "Leap of Justice" and prompting the birth of the Three Gods of Justice.

Nowadays.

Among those high and mighty gods in the Pantheon, is there anyone who dares to embark on an expedition to a distant country?

Xiao En didn't know about other gods.

But Lord Death and the Supreme Holy Light of Mount Heaven should take action.

The guardians of the space-time hub and the time dragons are also waiting for the Pantheon's response, because the Pantheon's overall strength in the multiverse will always be number one.

Once this battle begins.

The weird kingdom has officially entered the [Age of Conferred Gods]!
If mortals are lucky enough, they may be able to pick up divinity, artifacts, fragments of godhood, or even a wisp of uncontaminated blood of God dropped in the war, which may allow mortals to make rapid progress (obtain a divine blood creature template).

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(End of this chapter)