Chapter 221 : Chapter 221
Chapter 221. The God of Sleep, “Hypnos”
“This! Lady Sophia is being beaten so badly by a Huaxia human that she cannot even fight back. This absolutely cannot be real!”
“Lady Sophia is the Divine Contract Holder of Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and War. Her strength is second only to Lord Marco, the Divine Contract Holder of Poseidon, the God of the Sea. How could she possibly be unable to defeat a mere Huaxia human!?”
“Lady Sophia must be deliberately holding back. She must be!”
The five followers stared at the battle in midair in shock, hoping with all their hearts that Sophia would counterattack.
However, they were destined to be disappointed.
Under Jiang Yichen’s close-quarters assault, Sophia, who possessed Martial God-level strength, had no ability to resist at all. She was being one-sidedly beaten down.
Every time she took a punch, the sound of bones breaking came from her body. Then she spat blood, her face filled with pain.
She could not believe that a human body could be so powerful.
The golden armor was a pseudo-divine artifact refined by the cult leader, yet he had forcibly shattered it with the strength of his fists.
Was his physical body perhaps already comparable to that of a god?
Sophia’s eyes shifted from their earlier contempt to terror.
She had never imagined that the Child of Fate from the Oracle would be powerful to this degree.
BOOM—!
Jiang Yichen gathered his strength into a punch and slammed it into Sophia’s abdomen. Her body fell like a meteor from beyond the heavens and crashed heavily into the rune-covered stone wall, raising a dense cloud of dust.
Even the stone wall protected by runes was smashed into a large hole by the immense impact.
Not a single bone in Sophia’s body remained intact. Relying on sheer will, she broke free from the crater and fell toward the ground like a lump of mud.
Cough, cough!
She coughed up blood and struggled with a bruised, swollen face, looking like a writhing maggot.
Mei Xue’er was already so shocked that she could not speak. She even felt a little ashamed of herself.
Jiang Yichen had directly and one-sidedly crushed a Level-Nine Preacher with Martial God-level strength, and Sophia’s attacks seemed completely useless against him.
Was this really the strength an Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor should possess?
Mei Xue’er simply could not understand how someone who slacked off every day and even dragged others into slacking off whenever he had nothing to do could defeat a Level-Nine Preacher with Martial God-level strength without the slightest pressure.
As for herself, she trained hard every day and worked to improve her strength, yet she could not even withstand three moves from Sophia.
She felt a little lost. She did not understand why her hard work still could not compare to Jiang Yichen slacking off every day.
“Brother Yichen has become even stronger than he was during the Recruit Challenge.”
Su Linyu looked at Jiang Yichen’s back in midair. She felt happy, but also a little anxious.
She was happy that Brother Yichen had become stronger, yet anxious that she could not keep up with him.
Her gaze fell straight ahead, toward the Divine Contract Barrier emitting pale golden light.
At this moment, Chu Xingchen was suspended in the air. A dazzling golden light bloomed from the center of his forehead, as if a golden vertical eye were looking down upon all living beings.
Su Linyu admitted that she felt a little envious. She could only comfort herself by saying, “It’s all right. There will be more Divine Ruins in the future. Once I possess the Laws, I will be able to take another step closer to Brother Yichen.”
She smiled and encouraged herself.
At this moment.
Jiang Yichen rubbed his fist, stared at Sophia on the ground, and sighed.
“You foreign Divine Contract Holders are rather tough.”
After taking so many punches, if she had only possessed the strength of an Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor, she would have died long ago.
He had not expected Sophia to still be alive.
He walked up to Sophia, stepped on her head, and asked, “What is the Child of Fate from the Oracle?”
When Sophia had said those words earlier, he had felt very puzzled.
What nonsense was this Child of Fate?
“Bastard… You dare blaspheme the follower of the great Goddess of Wisdom and War. You will suffer…”
Hearing this religious rhetoric, Jiang Yichen applied a little force with the foot stepping on Sophia’s head. Her head visibly compressed and deformed.
Sophia’s face turned bright red, as if she had suffered a tremendous humiliation, and her entire body began to tremble.
“Speak. What is the Child of Fate?”
Sophia gritted her teeth and said, “You… are the Child of Fate, the one who must be killed according to the Oracle.”
?
Me?
Jiang Yichen pointed at himself, his expression puzzled. When had he become the Child of Fate?
Please do not do this. I only want to slack off.
He was just about to ask the reason when he saw Sophia staring in one direction, an eerie smile appearing on her face.
“Since I cannot kill you, then I shall ask the great God of Sleep to strangle you! Haha…”
Hm?
Jiang Yichen frowned slightly. An even stranger laugh suddenly came from behind him.
“Hehe, little brats, are you ready to welcome my slaughter?”
That voice!
He looked toward the sound and saw a handsome man in a long robe suspended in midair, toying with a silver dagger in his hand.
“Sleep God? He is only a Divine Contract Holder…”
Jiang Yichen suddenly felt empty air beneath his foot. Sophia somehow found a burst of strength from nowhere. Her body was wrapped in a layer of golden light, and she broke free at extremely high speed.
She transformed into a streak of golden holy light, grabbed the five followers, and hurled them toward the Sleep God in midair.
The sleeping Sleep God had only slaughter in his eyes. Seeing the heads delivered to him, he swung the dagger in his hand.
The five followers instantly turned into headless corpses. Their rolling heads had wide-open eyes, as if they had never expected to be killed by one of their own.
Jiang Yichen was stunned at first, then immediately reacted. The Sleep God’s resurrection mission seemed to be Kill in Dreams.
“Jiang Yichen, stop her quickly! Right now, the Sleep God only needs to kill one more person to complete the resurrection mission for Hypnos, the God of Sleep!”
Mei Xue’er shouted at the top of her lungs, her expression incomparably anxious.
If the Foreign God revived, all of them would die here.
Jiang Yichen was just about to move, but in the one second he was distracted, the Sleep God had already grabbed Sophia by the neck and was slowly cutting open her flesh with the silver dagger. An unprecedented excitement appeared on his face.
“Great Hypnos, God of Sleep, I am willing to use my life to summon your return!” Before her death, Sophia prayed with a smile.
Splurt!
The dagger sliced across Sophia’s neck. With his blood-covered hands, the Sleep God lifted Sophia’s head.
“Hahaha, hahaha, it is done. My collection room is full. Hahaha…”
The Sleep God suddenly burst into mad laughter.
Mei Xue’er’s eyes trembled with fear. Her body went limp, and she collapsed to the ground.
“It’s over.”