Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 50: Secret Contracts Can Be Played Like This Too?

That was a place not far from them, about ten meters away from the crowd.

Within this ten-meter distance, there was only an open space, with only the cracked earth spewing steam and flames.

Whether it was the skeletons of giant jawed beasts or human-headed crocodiles, they all seemed to want to crawl slowly within their own activity range, too lazy to cross the ten-meter distance to attack the group.

It was precisely because of this vacuum zone that everyone was able to catch their breath and was not immediately surrounded by the army of skeletons.

But when everyone looked in the direction the eyeball was pointing, they found that... nothing had happened!

Indeed, the remains of those giant jawed beasts were still crawling blindly, crowding together, with the sound of bones colliding constantly ringing out.

If there's anything amiss, it's that the skeleton of a human-headed crocodile lies quietly among the skeletons of the giant jaw beasts, as if it's been squeezed and can't move.

But this situation made the group, led by Chestnut, serious.

They knew Cardinal Tyrean's personality; he was always the type who rarely smiled and would never joke with his subordinates, let alone in this life-or-death crisis.

But then, a horrifying scene unfolded!

Centered on the human-headed crocodile skeleton lying on the ground, the ten giant jaw beast skeletons suddenly turned their bodies with incredible agility, no longer moving as slowly as before.

Then, their enormous heads all pointed at the human-headed crocodile skeleton lying on the ground and began to shake.

Judging from their appearance, it seemed like... they were performing some extremely bizarre ritual!

"Warp-rape! It's warp-rape! Quick, stop their ritual!"

Lieutenant General Bedivet's voice rang out from the military telegraph machine, furious but not directed at the members of the Prominence Nebula Squad. Instead, it was an expression of indignation at the evil of these undead, as he continued:

"In five seconds at most, one of you will be teleported to the center of their ritual, at which point all the surrounding undead will swarm you!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present shuddered.

They all sensed the treachery and danger involved, especially since it only took a mere five seconds from start to finish!

If Cardinal Tyrean hadn't noticed something amiss early on, and Vice Admiral Bedivet hadn't spoken up to warn them, it's possible that no one would have realized what was happening from the start of the ritual until its end.

They will suffer heavy losses in the end!

After all, the undead had previously behaved like mindless wild beasts that just wandered around aimlessly.

In fact, there were no strange signs before the ritual was launched, and as you just saw, there was no way to guard against it.

Xia Fa couldn't help but sigh inwardly. The demigods were indeed experienced. It seemed that with their remote guidance, the team's chances of survival would increase significantly.

"I come!"

Ethan, who was standing at the front of the line, suddenly spoke up. This burly man with short, military-style hair suddenly stretched out his arms toward the place where the ceremony was being held.

At that very moment, an inexplicable spatial fluctuation enveloped everyone.

It was as if countless invisible hands were spreading through the void, ready to swarm in at any moment, grab one of them, and take them away.

This is... the effect of Warp Plunder, it's about to take effect!

At the same moment, Ethan's muscular arms suddenly transformed into two purplish-black tentacles, speckled with suckers, from which white bone spurs extended.

He leaned forward abruptly, and his tentacles immediately extended rapidly.

Xia Fa's eyes flickered, and he recognized him immediately.

Tentacle Pact! This is a pact that the church strongly discourages, as it is easy to lose control once signed.

However, for an extraordinary individual like Ethan, who has a military background and whose mental fortitude far surpasses that of ordinary people, it is precisely because of this that he is able to sign the contract.

Because such dangerous secret agreements often also represent...power!
Ethan raised his arms, and his tentacles, which had grown to more than ten meters long, were raised as well. Then, he slammed them down on the skeletons of the ten giant jaw beasts that were performing the warp-and-plunder ritual!
Just as he was about to succeed, the human-headed crocodile skeleton in the center of the ceremony suddenly raised its head and opened its massive skeletal mouth.

The skull flew out of its massive mouth with a shrill cry, and the spine attached to the back of the head rapidly elongated.

The skull opened its mouth wide, its teeth rapidly becoming sharper and more menacing, and suddenly bit down on one of Ethan's tentacles!
Click!

The tentacle was immediately bitten off by the beast-like sharp teeth of the human skull. Ethan's face twitched, and he forcibly suppressed the look of pain.

Having successfully struck the skull, the man pressed his advantage and immediately lunged at Ethan's second tentacle.

The warp force permeating the void grew increasingly dense and intense. Seeing Ethan's tentacle being bitten off, if the ritual failed to stop, one of the team members would immediately be warped and abducted to the center of the ritual.
But just then, Ethan suddenly let out a low shout!
A strange scene unfolded: his other purplish-black tentacle rapidly transformed into a metallic sheen, reflecting a cold and heavy light in the firelight.

When the skull was bitten down, even the sharp teeth were shattered!

Ethan let out another low shout, and his now-metallic tentacles slammed down.

boom! ! !
This was a powerful, heavy, and brutal blow that smashed the human-headed crocodile skeleton at the center of the ceremony to pieces!

With a twist of his shoulder and a powerful sweep of his arm, Ethan cleaved the skeletons of the ten head-shaking giant jawed beasts in half, completely disrupting the ritual that was about to take effect.

The next moment, Ethan's tentacles quickly retracted and transformed into human arms.

It only took him three seconds from the moment he made the move to the moment he finished.

To Xia Fa's relief, when Ethan's other tentacle, which had been bitten off, retracted and transformed into a human arm, it was also completely unharmed.

He remembered that this seemed to be one of the abilities of the Tentacle Bond: damage to the tentacles would not transfer to the human body.

But what surprised him even more was how Ethan had managed to do that.
To be precise, how did he metallize the tentacles that were originally made of flesh and blood?

Xia Fa remembered that when he read the Book of Secret Contracts before, the Tentacle Secret Contracts did not have this ability.

At this moment, Chestnut seemed to have been prepared, and spoke quite seriously:

"As an Eagle-level superhuman, Ethan signed three secret contracts: the Tentacle Contract, the Gold Contract, and the Fire Contract. He just used a combination of the Tentacle Contract and the Gold Contract to metallize his tentacles and drastically increase their destructive power."

Xia Fa was slightly taken aback.

Can superhumans combine their abilities through secret pacts?

Although his Etheric Source Pact possesses the abilities of the seven basic elemental pacts, he can gradually combine them as he grows stronger.

However, he had previously thought that this was a characteristic inherent in the Etheric Source Secret Contract itself.

"Wait a minute, if that's the case, if I can obtain the Silver Throne, a supreme-level secret contract, wouldn't that mean I can combine the Silver Throne's secret contract abilities with the Ether Source's secret contract abilities?"

Although he didn't know what incredible or extremely powerful secret abilities the Silver Throne possessed, Xia Fa was already looking forward to it just by thinking about it, especially when combined with the abilities of the Ether Source Secret Contract.

Ethan, breathing heavily, turned to look at Shafa. Seemingly pleased with his successful attack, he smiled and said:

"Actually, Xia Fa, if it weren't for the unexpected turn of events, this operation of ours would have been a training exercise with an educational aspect, the purpose of which was to let you personally witness and experience the occult knowledge related to the secret combination."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Tyrean's anxious voice came again from the blood vessel-covered eyeball in the air.

"Quickly, another warp-and-plunder ritual is about to begin at the three o'clock position!"

(End of this chapter)