There's a skeleton dungeon connected to my basement.

Chapter 304, Defeating the Gods (Part 2 Combined, End of the Clock Tower City Arc)
The scope and impact of this horrific war were vast enough, but fortunately, it all took place two to four thousand meters underground.

Before the enraged rat-tamer could launch his final attack, the solid rock collapsed, and Xiao Yang's location was already torn apart by the aftershocks of the battle between the two gods.

They could almost easily alter the environment; the aftershocks of the battle erased large areas of solid rock beneath the ground.

However, the most direct manifestation of the power of these two gods was not the most terrifying aspect of this battle.

The most terrifying thing was the pollution that spread silently during the battle.

Sharp thorns sprouted from the stone, and a restless, sharp grinding sound came from the crevices in the shadows.

The power of the gods has long and permanently altered everything in this region.

During the battle, Xiao Yang slipped and fell towards the surging roots where the Silver Tree was located, and his figure disappeared into the surging roots without a trace.

He is undertaking a very dangerous endeavor.

"This is Plan B!"

These surging roots possessed immense power, and Xiao Yang suffered a terrifying attack upon falling into them.

It was almost strangled by these roots.

This puzzled him.

"Am I not human?"

Fortunately, even in Plan B, he had a backup plan. Xiao Yang took out the Pure Silver from his personal backpack.

He raised the pure silver in his hand high.

Even if the Silver Tree is in a frenzy, it shouldn't attack this thing in Xiao Yang's hand, which is formed from its own power.

The surging roots paused beside him, hesitating and halting their attack.

"Success."

This relieved Xiao Yang.

He held the pure silver in his hand high and began to move towards the core of the Silver Tree.

Not long after, they came to the Silver Tree once again.

The Silver Tree was now even weaker than when it first arrived.

The sharp thorns on the tree crown have been almost completely exhausted, leaving the entire tree bare.

I cast a probe spell at the silver tree in front of me, and the name I got was the same as before.

The Frenzied Silver Tree

Holding the pure silver aloft, he walked step by step toward the Silver Tree.

"Do you still remember that promise from long ago?"

Simply standing there and whispering the words had a remarkable effect; even the writhing and surging roots enveloping the Silver Tree paused for a moment.

Soon after.

The sound came out intermittently.

"Promise?"

Amidst his confused words, Xiao Yang moved the piece of pure silver in his hand closer to the Silver Tree.

The power of pure silver was largely drained by this weakened god.

It shrank significantly in size, but in return, the Silver Tree was awakened.

"My promise?"

The Silver Tree slowly came to its senses from its frenzy.

A somewhat weak voice rang out here.

"Hello, unfamiliar deity."

Xiao Yang seemed to be regarded as a god.

With very little ink, the Silver Tree, having recovered from its frenzy, was remarkably direct.

"What can I give you, strange god?"

There was not a hint of probing in his words.

"I want to forge this weapon."

Xiao Yang now had another complex blueprint in his hand.

Silver Tree understood what it had to do.

"Okay, but I want to make a promise with you."

What kind of agreement do we need to make between us?

"Do everything you can to protect humanity in this world."

"it is good."

Xiao Yang agreed to do something he was already planning to do.

The forging of the Silver Crossbow has officially begun.

The amount of pure silver that has lost most of its volume is somewhat less, but it still barely reaches the minimum level that can be used as a forging material.

Xiao Yang took out the forging hammer that Redbeard had given him from his personal backpack and began to forge the pure silver in his hand intermittently.

Time is of the essence. The war between the Silver Tree and the Plague Rats continues. Even though the Silver Tree has regained its senses, it is still at a disadvantage in the battle.

We can only go faster, and even faster.

As Xiao Yang pounded, the pure silver in his hand rapidly began to change shape.

Despite being a mythical material, Xiao Yang processed it with extraordinary speed.

The main material for the Silver Crossbow is pure silver. There are many other auxiliary materials, but they are not needed now. Xiao Yang asked the Silver Tree for some branches.

The only materials Xiao Yang used were pure silver and branches from the silver tree.

Soon, the prototype of a simple silver crossbow appeared.

The fact that Xiao Yang was able to achieve this level of success is inseparable from the characteristics of his secondary profession.

The Extraordinary Blacksmith

Rating: 20
Type: Secondary occupation
Features: Crude workshop, emergency forging

Introduction: Is swinging a hammer and hammering enough to become a qualified blacksmith?
Yes, that's how you become a qualified blacksmith!

Simple workshop

Quality: Epic

Effect: Simplifies the forging process, required equipment, and forging steps.

Introduction: Admittedly, this world may indeed possess miracles. You might be a blacksmithing immortal; I find it hard to understand how a mere iron hammer could perform even carving.

Emergency Forging

Quality: Legend

Effect: Allows you to add complete equipment, materials, and energy to complete the equipment being forged and accelerate the forging process.
Description: Fast and efficient!

The forging of the Deep Slayer and the Crimson Slayer enabled Xiao Yang to successfully become a Superior Blacksmith, and at the same time, he instantly leveled up his profession to the upper limit of the secondary profession, and also completed the selection of the secondary profession's characteristics.

Good luck, two traits, one epic and one legendary.

The rudimentary workshop allows Xiao Yang to forge items beyond the limitations of blueprints, while emergency forging can accelerate the forging process.

Both of these traits have their flaws and shortcomings, but when combined, they are extremely complementary, and together they can produce an effect greater than the sum of their parts.

For example, at this moment, Xiao Yang used a makeshift workshop to forcibly forge the Silver Crossbow, ignoring many necessary steps and materials.

Then, a large amount of equipment is deployed to forcibly push the forging progress bar forward.

Xiao Yang was self-aware; he knew that with his skill level, let alone forging a divine artifact, he might even fail to forge a piece of equipment of excellent quality.

Therefore, he focused all his efforts on leveraging his professional qualities.

The prototype was successfully constructed, and he took out pieces of equipment from his personal backpack one by one, then unhesitatingly put them into the prototype of the silver crossbow in front of him.

With the bonus from the professional traits, an illusory furnace seemed to appear out of thin air on the prototype of the Silver Crossbow. Every piece of equipment thrown into it would explode with a bang and disappear without a trace, becoming part of the forging progress bar in Xiao Yang's eyes.

Emergency forging can be considered another form of 100% success.

As long as you can afford it, you can also be ruthless enough to use so much equipment as "padding".

As each piece of equipment was deployed, the progress bar began to slowly rise.

First, there's the common quality equipment, then the green (superior), the blue (excellent), and finally the epic.

One piece of equipment after another was dumped onto the silver crossbow in front of Xiao Yang as if it were free.

"Success is the result of countless other things."

At this moment, putting everything else aside, Xiao Yang felt his heart aching terribly.

Unparalleled heartache.

All the equipment he had accumulated over the years, his personal collection, was poured into the forging of the Silver Crossbow.

The investment was so large that just thinking about it would give you a headache.

Good news! For now, you don't have to worry about those messy things clogging up your storage items.

bad news.

"They're all gone!"

The investment in these equipment resulted in a rapid increase in the forging progress of the Silver Crossbow, from 0% to 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80%.

Outside, the battle between the plague rat horde and the Silver Tree has reached its final stage.

The Silver Tree was defeated. Its surging roots contracted back and tightly enveloped its main body, forming a huge root ball.

Completely killing a god is not so easy.

The Plague Giant Rat wasn't in good condition either, but this time it was really fierce, biting hard at the root ball formed by the Silver Tree and dragging it bit by bit toward the ground.

Through this ritual and all this, the plague rat swarm only wanted to achieve two things.

First, determine the true and unique one; second, expel the numerous consciousnesses within your body through the birth of consciousness, and use them to nurture a truly unique family that belongs only to you.

A fanatical and corrupt retinue.

This is why He caused the corruption in the City of the Clock Tower.

To waste energy polluting so many ordinary things is certainly not a pointless act. Only those who accept the pollution can accept the consciousness that has been separated from Him.

Why fight the Silver Tree so frantically?

Only the power of another god of life could enable Him to be born.

Meanwhile, only those beings who have continuously absorbed the blood and power of the Silver Tree from birth to death are capable of inheriting its power and separated consciousness. The Plague Rats have been plotting this grand scheme for many years.

Everything was going smoothly at first.

Whether it's the war against the Silver Tree or the cultivation of these suitable carriers.

He even orchestrated a portion of the dungeon's rules to ensure the success of this grand plan.

But now the situation has turned out like this.

What exactly went wrong?

As I pondered this question, a figure slowly emerged.

Yes, that's right, it's all because of that damn weirdo who suddenly barged in.

His appearance and his interference made everything spiral out of control and become chaotic.

However, it's not that there's no chance to salvage the situation.

There is still a chance.

All you need to do is devour the Silver Tree as quickly as possible, expel the numerous wills within your body, successfully create your own familiars, and then slumber in their faith.

In this way, when one awakens from the long slumber, one will still be able to ascend to greatness.

"There can be no mistake, there can be no mistake, that's it, that's it!"

Amidst their frantic pronouncements, goosebumps kept sprouting all over their bodies. These goosebumps burst open, revealing heads of all sizes that began to devour them. Suffering this torment, the plague rat swarm quickened its pace.

………….

Clock Tower City, in front of a simple and crude tower.

As the somber tolling of the bells rang out, all the corruptors in the city gathered at that moment.

The plague rats dragged a huge clump of roots out of the bottomless hole.

These corrupt individuals were summoned for the purpose of the subsequent ritual.

It frantically gnawed at the tangled mass of roots in front of it, trying to devour the Silver Tree as quickly as possible.

The surrounding area was densely packed with decaying residents who had completely transformed into giant humanoid rats, standing there dumbfounded and staring.

As the gnawing intensified, the massive clump of roots became increasingly difficult to resist.

until a certain moment.

It began to collapse as a whole.

An irrepressible joy appeared on the faces of the plague rats, but at this moment, they began to retreat.

As he suppressed his other selves, this guy became less and less like a bizarre evil god, and more like a cunning person, or a rat.

The shattered roots, the dim and completely lifeless silver tree, and Xiao Yang holding a dazzling silver crossbow.

Xiao Yang was extremely unethical; he completed the calibration and firing process almost the instant his figure was revealed.

The dazzling silver crossbow bolts—this god-slaying weapon, forged by Xiao Yang, didn't shine so brightly in its first attack.

The silver crossbow bolt did not cause any exaggerated ripples; it was silent and stealthy, like a dark thorn suddenly streaking across the sky.

This weapon last appeared at the end of the Age of Dragons.

The silver spikes shattered the scales that represented eternal scars, ending the age of dragons and bringing light to the world.

Today, this weapon has appeared once again, just like the last time it made its debut.

The silver spikes shattered the madman's pointless delusion of trying to enter the realm of eternity.

Like those giant rats that died silently underground, this one, who had almost defeated all the others who tried to be the only one, had a slender silver branch piercing its forehead.

His eyes widened in disbelief as he collapsed.

Xiao Yang created a miracle. In fact, even the Silver Tree itself probably can no longer reproduce the Silver Crossbow in this world.

That was a special era, when the Silver Tree, as a young and sacred being born from the beginning of time, was at the peak of its power.

He was able to forge such weapons back then, but he cannot do so now.

But Xiao Yang did it.

Today, he once again defeated the gods with his silver crossbow.

Even so, this came at a considerable cost.

Almost all the equipment, except for the rare items and the Crimson set, the Righteous Consolation set, and all sorts of materials, including Spirit Coins.

Everything was put into improving and accelerating the forging of the Silver Crossbow.

Even at the last moment, Xiao Yang regurgitated the last bit of plague rat divinity that he hadn't completely consumed in his divine state and fed it to the Silver Crossbow.

He has become completely penniless.

But it's all worth it.

Before this rough tower, as the multi-headed giant rats fell, the death knell on the tower tolled once more, and countless dazed corrupted beings surrounded it. Xiao Yang, holding a rough silver crossbow, took a step forward.

Today, he aims to achieve both the title and the accomplishment of being a god-slayer and a god-killer.

The death of the strongest consciousness in the plague rat swarm, who was on the verge of success, does not mean the death of the plague rat swarm.

It simply signifies the complete failure of the ritual, a fall from the path of self-consolation and ascension to greatness.

One of the guys started screaming.

The evil god's messenger stared in disbelief at what was happening.

It collapsed to the ground, and one rat head after another sprouted from its body.

"You think...you think you've succeeded?"

"Thanks for defeating that guy."

"I do not like you!"

"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

"help me!"

Incoherent words kept escaping from the mouths of the guy who had collapsed to the ground.

By the way, the last sentence was spoken by that unlucky rat-tamer whose body was possessed by his own god.

But this can't really be considered bad luck. For a believer in an evil god, what could be more joyful than merging into the body of the god they worship?

With a touch of curiosity, I observed the changes that were taking place on the messenger of the evil god.

If it is not stopped, the plague rat swarm will soon return.

To some extent, the Silver Crossbow is not very effective against swarms of plague rats with their collective instincts.

Fortunately, Xiao Yang was prepared for this situation.

Slowly approaching.

A tainted fragment of silver appeared in Xiao Yang's hand.

The plague rats had always dreamed of eating the Silver Tree, and now he was fulfilling their wish.

The power of the Silver Tree erupted from the swarming plague rats.

Some weak plague rat swarm consciousnesses were separated, turning into black rats that fell off the rat tamer and scattered across the field.

it's not finished yet.

There was even more power from the Silver Tree, and Xiao Yang threw out piece after piece of silver fragments.

"What are you doing!"

"stop!"

"I can negotiate with you!"

After being fed continuously, the plague rat swarm soon collapsed, turning into scattered rats. These rats were captured by the Corruptors who stood there dumbfounded, or simply merged into the bodies of the Corruptors on their own.

Soon, a new race was born.

He cast a detection spell, and a name appeared before Xiao Yang.

Corrupted Ratmen

Xiao Yang helped the plague rat swarm skip the first step of the ritual and directly complete the final step of their plan.

In an instant, a complete and powerful evil god collapsed into a scattered and newly born corrupt race.

Of course, the plague rats did not die.

He is now even harder to kill than before; if even one ratman escapes, then he is essentially alive.

Even if all the ratmen on the field are dead, they can still crawl back up.

This is an evil god, incredibly difficult to kill.

However, it's unlikely that it will be able to climb back up.

Xiao Yang did not intend to slaughter all these corrupt ratmen.

Even though these guys might seem a bit difficult to deal with right now, it won't be a big problem, there's still a god on the field.

The Silver Tree, exhausted and weak, expressed its gratitude to Xiao Yang.

"Thank you, stranger."

After expressing their gratitude, they returned along the same path. As they sank, a large group of noisy and struggling ratmen were carried along by the roots of the Silver Tree like skewers of candied hawthorns and sank into the ground.

A new corrupt race has been born, but a long-standing, terrifying god of evil is about to fall into oblivion.

A fascinating displacement reaction.

At this moment, everything in Clock Tower City finally came to a temporary end.

Xiao Yang saved the city, successfully thwarted the conspiracy of a terrifying evil god, and successfully forged a powerful divine weapon.

Everything has finally come to an end.

No, there's still a tail left. Looking up, not far away, there was a guy lying on the ground, the evil god's messenger who had been chasing Xiao Yang for a long time, who had just regained a bit of strength.

Xiao Yang's gaze fell on him at that moment.

"One more missing!"

The plague rat swarm did not die; it was merely forcibly sealed away. Xiao Yang's desire for a god-slayer and a god-slayer was thus thwarted.

But maybe the legendary assassin can get his hands on one.

A wide smile spread across his face as he held the deadly Silver Crossbow in his hand, aiming it at the rat-tamer in front of him.

"Perhaps you can smile now."

(End of this chapter)