Avenger

"Huff huff…"

Shelley stood at the forefront of the Metal Life, her divine consciousness expanding, vigilant against potential attacks.

Over the past million years, perhaps due to the influence of the Four Divine Beast families, many clans that originally resided in cities had left, engaging in trade among the lofty mountains.

Whenever the Metal Life from other planes of the Four Divine Beast families returned to hell every hundred thousand years for bloodline awakening, they often faced attacks and plunder.

Fortunately, under normal circumstances, most attacks by bandits could be repelled.

The might of the Main God's power is a hundred times stronger than that of the upper gods. Even an ordinary lower god using it could temporarily elevate their strength to that of a five-star demon.

While other clans of the Four Divine Beast families lacked this power, they had four Main God ancestors. Thus, the Main God's power was always available.

Elders escorting family descendants to the heavenly secret Mountains for bloodline awakening would also bring back a substantial amount of Main God's power from their ancestral lands.

This Main God's power served as their reward for developing peripheral clans and the safety guarantee for new family members.

Due to Kreiss's influence, Shelley remained cold-faced, devoid of interest even in communicating with younger clan members.

Seeing Shelley like this, the younger clan members dared not act recklessly, retreating to practice in the rooms of the Metal Life. Only the voices of Laila and Kreiss resounded cheerfully in the Metal Life.

Along the way, occasional waves of bandits were all killed by Shelley.

As for Kreiss, her Water-based divine clone had a foundation from Roy's guidance. Over a million years, she had evolved into a six-star demon by merging three kinds of arcane laws.

However, the Fire-based clone fell far behind. Although also an upper god, it hadn't merged arcane laws and possessed the strength of an ordinary four-star demon.

Facing these attacking bandits, Kreiss's Fire-based divine clone had no resistance unless using Main God's power, otherwise easily falling victim to a certain-death rhythm.

Most people who came to plunder the Metal Life of the Four Divine Beast families were teams led by six-star demons, with five-star demons as team members.

Some successful bandits even had a few drops of Main God's power, making them the most troublesome.

However, fortunately, Shelley had plenty of Main God's power in her hands. Even if encountering a seven-star demon, she could gain the upper hand when using Main God's power.

If lucky, she could even counter-kill a seven-star demon that wasn't skilled in speed.

"Finally, I've been waiting for you…"

Several hundred kilometers outside Fans City, in the mountains, a young man looked at the floating stone in his hand, his eyes filled with hatred almost overflowing.

He could never forget the Metal Life in that floating stone.

Over a million years ago, the city where his family resided had its lord killed by an elder from the Four Divine Beast families. Because his family didn't want to become a vassal of the Four Divine Beast families, they chose to rebel and eventually escaped from the city to the remote mountains.

After surviving for hundreds of years in those mountains, the young man, while on patrol, encountered a Metal Life from the Four Divine Beast families. Seeking revenge and desiring more Main God's power, they, led by their family patriarch, attacked the Metal Life of the Four Divine Beast families.

Unfortunately, the elder leading the Metal Life wasn't a six-star demon but a stronger existence than a seven-star demon - a Shura.

The man's father, Colclough, was a seven-star demon. Yet, even after using Main God's power, he was killed in one move by that Shura.

None of the accompanying elders survived.

Thinking of this, the man put away the floating stone and flew towards the mountaintop.

However, before the young man could reach the summit, he was struck by a burst of green light.

"Tayde, why are you here instead of patrolling?"

"Don't we small fries have to come up if there's no leader's order?"

"Damn it!"

Tayde rose from the ground, his armor emitting a red light.

This armor was an upper-grade artifact. Despite previous attacks, it hadn't caused any harm to him, thanks to this armor's protection.

"Kreman, go round up the brothers. This time, we'll make a big move!"

"Yes, Lord Douglas."

...

Shelley remained cold-faced, emitting large swaths of fiery red light to incinerate the bandits attacking them.

"We need to pick up the pace."

Shelley bit her lip.

Over the past million years, she and the other three elders had traveled to and from hell over a dozen times. They felt that as time passed, hell was becoming increasingly chaotic.

This time, even halfway through the journey, they had encountered twice as many bandits as the last time.

In reality, Shelley could handle most bandits even without using Main God's power.

However, to save time on the journey, she would usually use Main God's power to eliminate bandits as soon as they appeared.

How Kreiss was treated was the business of Elder Roy. What she needed to do now was to safely and quickly lead everyone back to the heavenly secret Mountains.

"Boom!"

Just as Kreiss was about to fly back to the Metal Life, a burst of sound echoed from the distant sky.

A black-red spear tore through space, carrying powerful momentum as it attacked Kreiss.