The Magic Empire for 20,000 years

Chapter 206 Generous loot
Elian bent down and picked up the crystal longsword from the ground.

The sword was stained with golden divine blood.

"A sword that has killed a god is quite special."

This is the sword of Hoyland Sunblaze, a mid-level legendary warrior and brother of the Sun King. It is possibly the finest sword in the elven realm. Last night, Elion used this sword, his own, to accomplish the great feat of slaying the Sun Elf god.

Now, it has become a prize of Eldoron.

In addition, the Golem Legion also seized magical items and spell kits from 15 legendary spellcasters, including the Sun Elf King, as they overwhelmed them.

Even if it's just the personal equipment and items stored in the [Dimensional Bag] and [Storage Ring], the collection of a legendary spellcaster would undoubtedly be incredibly rich. It would contain a wide variety of high-level scrolls, potions, staves, rings, gems, and other precious materials—everything imaginable.

Not to mention, Larklas himself, who simultaneously holds the dual identities of the Chosen One and the King of the Sun Elves, carries an unimaginably luxurious collection of items in his personal Dimensional Bag.

A rough estimate suggests that the loot seized from the 15 legends was worth over 200 million gold coins, enough to create 100 stone golems. A significant portion of the loot also included strategic-level magical equipment that money couldn't buy.

Now, all these spoils belong to Eldoron.

The Elven court tacitly allowed Eldoron to take these items.

Compared to the crimes they committed, this is a very light price to pay.

Furthermore, the gains from this great battle were not limited to the material realm...

El-Erian looked around.

The high-ranking human spellcasters on either side are cooperating to set up a long-distance teleportation ritual.

They chatted and laughed, sharing the joy of victory.

The soldiers of Eldoron were in higher spirits than ever before, a stark contrast to the dejected Sun Elf soldiers in the distance.

The experience of working together to fight against a true god may be an even more precious gain.

They can even defeat gods, so what can stop them?
As the light of the collective teleportation illuminated, Elion gently patted the [Dimensional Bag] at his waist, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Here lie the most precious spoils of the war against the gods. In the chaos beforehand, Elion secretly took them when the elves weren't looking.

The remains of the Sun Prince incarnate.

It contains a trace of the divine essence of God!
Space is distorted.

In the bright light, the soldiers of Eldoron left the Sun Elf royal palace, which was mostly reduced to ruins.

……

The Elven Kingdom of Avando.

Prince Terani of the Sun threw himself into the raucous feast, drinking a thousand cups of wine in an attempt to forget the shame of the night.

As he drank the crimson wine once more, Prince Sunrise suddenly remembered something amiss.

Originally, with the destruction of his only battle avatar, the trace of divine essence contained within it should have returned to his main body within a few hours, becoming part of the divine power once again.

However, this precious divine power has not returned; instead, it has lost its connection with its original form and vanished without a trace.

"What's going on? Why hasn't my divine power returned? I can't even sense it at all!"

"It was intercepted by some external force?"

"No, mortals shouldn't have the ability to intercept the power of gods..." The god felt that his power had been permanently reduced by a small amount!
……

Eldoron Floating City.

The palace of El-Erian, the underground ceremonial chamber.

Inside the ritual magic circle was a corpse with incandescent skin and armor woven from solar flares.

The corpse of Prince Sunlight (incarnation).

At the chest of the corpse, a point of brilliant golden light was flickering, trying to escape and return to its owner, but it was firmly bound by the power of the magic circle.

"As expected of you, Elian. As a mortal mage, you always surprise me."

"A ritual that can bind divine power? What an interesting invention."

Beside her, Ain, dressed in elegant attire, remarked with emotion.

This god of knowledge has shielded us from all detection and sensing. Even the Sun Prince cannot perceive this hidden basement.

This is the authority of the [Knowledge] clergy.

"It was just an unexpected result of a research project. I only had the chance to try it today, and I didn't expect it to actually work," Elion replied very modestly.

What he didn't say was that this was the future, a simplified version of the initiation ceremony of the witch Dolores.

Through this ritual, Dolores bound the divine power of the fallen god of death, Naraku, absorbing his divine power and the divine authority of [Death], and became the new god of death, [Queen of Ravens].

However, the gods did not want another Death God as ambitious as Naraku, who commanded an army of the dead, to be born, so they forcibly separated the divine authority of the dead from the divine authority of death. Therefore, the Queen of Karasu only became the Goddess of Death, and did not wield Naraku's power to control the dead.

The inventor of this ritual has not yet been born in this day and age!
"Honorable God of Knowledge and Prophecy, can you help me purify this divine power and remove the aura of the Sun Prince?"

Elion reached out his right hand toward the corpse in the magic circle and gently pulled it.

The deity's remains vanished in a burst of light, and the brilliant golden light on its chest slowly drifted towards Ain.

This is a part of the Sun Prince's power. If left untreated, whether absorbed directly, forged into a divine artifact, or used as material in a ritual, it will attract the attention of this elven god of war, bringing danger to Eldoron!

"Easy to do."

Ain smiled and lightly touched the golden light with her fingertips.

The golden divine energy swayed in the air, seemingly becoming purer, and solidified into a brilliant golden gem.

All traces of the Sun Prince and his connection to this elven god were erased, leaving only the essence of the realms of [War], [Sun], and [Sun Elf].

Divine essence.

This is the original form of the gods, a divine power without form or personality, originating from the sacred source of the universe.

Later, these divine powers either naturally gave rise to wisdom or were endowed with personality by the faith of mortals, thus becoming all sorts of gods.

Ayn handed the golden gem to Elian, and kindly reminded him:
"I must warn you. There is a great risk if you absorb it directly."

"This could cause you to lose yourself, turning you into a war maniac who only knows war. Or you could explode and die, your soul burned away by the sun's fire."

She feared that this genius mage might be blinded by greed and do something irrational.

(End of this chapter)