A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 391 What's the difference between this and self-destruction?
Yes, not only was Pompeii deliberately stalling for time, but Chen Motong was also deliberately stalling for time.

Pompeii was stalling for time to check what capabilities she still had left, while Chen Motong was stalling for time purely for the sake of her best friend, Su Qian, and to seek benefits for her.

As mentioned earlier, Susie had already digested the Winner's Potion and unintentionally completed the promotion ceremony. Aso Makoto made the decision to have the Tokyo Diocese provide the potion materials to prepare a Sequence 4 Doom Mage Potion for Susie.

Not only that, Chen Motong also plans to use Pompeii's high rank to help Susie further digest the Cursed Mage.

Although I don't know the rules of playing the Doom Mage, just looking at the name of this potion, I think if I just throw some bad luck at Pompeii, he might be able to digest it smoothly.

This is the only remaining Dragon King. Chen Motong learned from Xu Lie that not only the Fire King and the Mountain King are honorary members of the church, but even the Ocean King and the Water King have been taken away by the church. The only wild Dragon King still wandering outside is Pompeii. If Susie misses this opportunity, she will no longer be able to throw the Misfortune Digestion Potion at the Dragon King.

Therefore, when Chen Motong saw that Xu Lie could suppress Pompeii, he immediately had a new idea. He used his virtual personality to communicate with everyone and make various requests, finally getting Xu Lie and the others to agree to buy time for Su Xi's promotion.

Xu Lie was also willing to delay. After personally mediating the conflict between the source matter and the underlying code of the universe, which had been very 'arduous', he now particularly wanted to train his members to advance to Sequence 1 as soon as possible so that they could work for him.

He readily agreed to Chen Motong's request.

Susie was also a hastily promoted doom mage. At the beginning of her promotion, she barely managed to conceal the incomplete form of the Mercury Serpent mythical creature before Erii sent her to the battlefield.

Upon landing, the Mage of Doom immediately activates his extraordinary ability – Mass Blessing, which greatly increases the luck of allies within 50 meters by consuming a significant amount of his own luck.

At the same time, he also cast a curse of doom on Pompeii on the other side, causing him to be plagued by bad luck and extremely unlucky.

In an instant, the myriad lightning snakes of the Word of Power: Wrath of Indra pounced. Xu Lie and Su Xi did not move, while the other members dodged. Although their speed was no match for lightning, they were able to 'luckily' dodge the lightning snakes every time.

Either the lightning bolts just missed, or they twisted away before striking the members. Thousands of lightning bolts swept past, but not a single one hit anyone!

This scene was utterly absurd; tens of thousands of raging bolts of lightning, enough to destroy everything, yet they couldn't wipe out the members of the Old Church. It seemed as if those tens of thousands of bolts of lightning were openly throwing the fight in front of the Sky and the King of Wind!

After realizing he was incredibly lucky to avoid being struck by lightning, Fingel tentatively stopped dodging, his eyes gleaming with a faint white light, clearly analyzing his current good fortune.

Then a lightning bolt struck Fingel without mercy, instantly turning him into a charred paper doll.

Yes, after Ince and Aso Makoto used the Paper Doll Stand ability multiple times, Fingel also learned this trick and used the Paper Doll Stand to dodge the attack.

"Tsk." Fingel continued dodging with a resentful look. Well, they were just extremely lucky right now, managing to 'just happen' to dodge the lightning every time they dodged; they weren't invincible.

Xu Lie and Su Xi behind him remained completely still. The former relied entirely on his own strength to withstand the attack, while the latter relied on a higher level of luck, which frustrated Finger. He couldn't imitate this kind of luck, and even if he did, he would never have Su Xi's kind of luck.

"???" Pompeii felt like Louis XVI in history, completely bewildered. An area-of-effect attack with tens of thousands of lightning bolts, yet it caused zero damage?

The only one that actually hit was Fingel's own foolish act of stopping his dodge, but in the end, he only managed to strike the paper doll without causing any effective damage. Are the Old Church no longer going to put on an act? Are they just using cheat codes outright?

Not to mention Pompeii, even their own people were stunned by Susie's collective blessing. Chen Motong stared blankly, actually arranging for a virtual personality to enter Susie's mental island: 'Seriously, sis, is this right? So lucky it's illogical?'

"Enough with the nonsense!" Susie was as efficient as ever in battle, with only one goal: to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible. "It's not just that we're lucky; it's mainly that Pompeii is unlucky, which is why many of his attacks miss."

'Attack quickly, my Mass Blessing won't last long.'

Chen Motong understood. It was relativity. When one side was lucky and the other was unlucky, the difference in their luck could create a huge gap. The only question was whether luck and misfortune could have an effect on the spiritual realm.

With this in mind, several virtual personalities once again forcibly manipulated Pompeii's mind, and Susie, cooperating with her best friend, unleashed an advanced version of the mental storm. There was no brilliance, no special effects, not even sound, but the invisible mind manipulation and the raging mental storm transcended physical distance and struck directly at Pompeii's mental body.

At the same time, Chu Zihang and Nuwa arrived, one on the left and one on the right, their flames mixed with the power of 'harvesting', and the dawn transformed into a storm, attacking Pompeii's physical body from both sides.

Pompeii clenched his teeth, enduring the excruciating pain from the storm raging in his head, and, following the rage triggered by these mental attacks, waved his hand to summon a real-world storm as well!
The hurricane howled, the mountains and forests wailed, towering ancient trees were uprooted, and thick branches were crushed like fragile matchsticks in the violent tornado. The dawn storm released by Nuwa was swallowed up by the tornado in minutes.

Facing the storm, Chu Zihang decisively transformed his entire body into steel, enduring the wind blades capable of slicing through ancient trees as he charged towards the storm's core. The wind blades slashed at him relentlessly, shattering his steel outer layer and leaving bloody gashes. However, incredibly, not a single wind blade struck a vital spot, thus failing to halt Chu Zihang's advance.

Almost cut to pieces, Chu Zihang charged faster and faster, finally reaching Pompeii. Murasame slashed down with 'Harvest', but Pompeii managed to block it with his dragon wings, which were barely distracted by the attack!

The power of 'Harvest' once again injured Pompeii through the dragon's wings, causing him pain and weakening his mental defenses. Chen Motong and Su Xi, his best friends, seized the opportunity and joined forces to almost break through Pompeii's mental barrier.

Even more fortunately, the Dawn Storm, which was originally contained and absorbed by Pompeii's protective storm, inexplicably appeared at the eye of the storm, driven by the hurricane, and swept towards Pompeii, scraping off many dragon scales like killing a fish.

Pompeii instinctively dodged, trying to create distance and jump to another tree, but the treetop snapped immediately upon landing, showing no mercy and causing Pompeii to fall. He tried to flap his dragon wings to take off again, but unfortunately bumped into two dense twigs that blocked his path, making everything go wrong.

This only fueled Pompeii's anger. What the hell was this? He felt like the whole world was targeting him, and the more he fought, the more frustrated he became!

When Pompeii violently tore the two large trees apart with his dragon wings, the gale and lightning around him momentarily became chaotic.

Fingel seized the opportunity, pointing with his left hand that the ancient trees near Pompeii's fall collectively came to life, growing sharp thorns to embrace and restrain Pompeii. Fingel then pointed with his right hand, and more than a dozen giant mud and rock hands stretched out from the forest floor, grabbing at Pompeii.

"Get in the way, get in the way! I don't believe you can keep hiding!" Pompeii's eyes gradually turned blood red, and he unleashed the full power of Indra's Wrath, while simultaneously resisting the mental attacks and rapidly gathering and compressing wind and thunder.

Soon, a massive energy sphere, over fifty meters in diameter and imbued with devastating wind pressure and countless electric snakes, took shape. Pompeii made no attempt to control it, simply letting the wind and thunder energy sphere explode!
They attempted to eliminate the obstructing forest and the old church members who were repeatedly lucky enough to dodge their attacks.

The devastating shockwave of wind and thunder spread without any blind spots, leaving no room to dodge or avoid. Pompeii, which was closest to the sphere, could withstand the attack thanks to its strong resistance to lightning and its control over air currents, at most suffering some broken scales.

The living trees and more than a dozen giant hands of soil were all crushed into dust by the high-speed shockwave that carried wind and thunder. The earth was plowed with deep ravines, and all matter—trees, rocks, and even the air—was completely ionized and destroyed by this torrent.

"What's the difference between this and self-destruction?" Xu Lie shook his head. Relying on the uniqueness of accommodating errors, he stole even more irrationally, directly taking away the fate of all the members present, including himself, who were impacted and would be affected in a second, and transferring it to Pompeii himself.

The devastating shockwave spread rapidly, and as all the members prepared to use their respective means of survival, they suddenly realized that Pompeii's fully compressed shockwave had caused no damage whatsoever. How strange!

But the members quickly realized that Mr. Mistake must have struck again!

Everyone was overjoyed. Since this thing was harmless, they could go all out!
Ignoring his injuries and bleeding profusely, Chu Zihang unleashed a second burst of blood, hurling Murasame as a flying sword. Not only did it carry the "harvest" effect, but it also activated the Iron-Blooded Knight's "weaponization," making Murasame even faster than a cannonball. It sliced ​​through the sky and pierced the defenseless abdomen of Pompeii!
Immediately following was a second mental/spiritual storm from Chen Motong and Su Xi, which shattered Pompeii's mind. Fingel and Erii began casting spells; the former summoned earth spikes that pierced Pompeii's limbs, while the latter condensed moonlight and fired a piercing moon arrow.

After much preparation, Makoto Aso finally finished making the paper doll he had been cutting out in front of the enemy lines. He aimed it at Pompeii and tore off the doll's head!

Pompeii's vertebrae suddenly let out a mournful cry, and an invisible force snapped the vertebrae connecting Pompeii's head and body!
Pompeii was truly powerless to resist. He himself did not understand why, inexplicably as if he had been forced to eat the entire Indra's thunder and lightning ball, his body was torn apart and charred from the inside out.

The sudden destruction from within left him with no room to defend or dodge, leaving him no choice but to stand still and take all the damage!
After the shockwave completely dissipated, there was not a single good piece of land within a hundred miles of Pompeii. Trees and grass were all cleared away, and the ground was three feet lower. Only a few spikes protruded. Pompeii looked as if it had been burned, its whole body charred black. Its head and body were at a sixty-degree angle. It had not yet fallen, only because of Fingal's piercing spikes.

With Erii's moon arrow piercing his heart and Murasame's sword embedded in his abdomen, Pompeii was wreaked havoc by various complex forces. He suffered severe physical injuries, not to mention mental ones, and was almost completely overwhelmed by Chen Motong and Susie.

With both material and spiritual aspects rotten, Pompeii clearly lost its vitality and could no longer survive. The Church of the Old Ones' hunt for Odin was a complete success, and Odin perished as a result!
(End of this chapter)