I became a god through archaeology in the Wizarding World.

Chapter 138 Angels Fall, Blood Stains the Sky

"boom!!!"

With a terrifying roar that seemed to tear the eardrums of the entire world apart, a violent meteor, interwoven with black and gold, crashed into the pure white angel legion that was pouring down from the sky with an unreasonable force.

There was no probing, no chanting, only the purest and most primal clash of forces.

The moment Rhodes charged into the enemy ranks, time seemed to stand still for a brief moment. Immediately afterward, a visible, eerie dark golden shockwave of destruction swept outwards from him in all directions.

"Snap! Snap! Snap!"

Those two-winged angels who rushed to the front, wielding flaming longswords, didn't even have time to scream before their proud protective shields shattered like fragile glass before this dark golden shockwave.

The abyss's ultimate devouring power and the holy light's ultimate repulsion achieved a strange balance within Rhodes' body, unleashing a destructive force far greater than the sum of its parts. The moment the holy wings of those two-winged angels came into contact with this power, they turned black and rotted rapidly, as if splashed with strong acid, ultimately exploding into clouds of golden blood mist in mid-air, along with their divinely created bodies.

With a single blow, hundreds of high-ranking two-winged angels were reduced to ashes!

"This—this is impossible!"

"Heretical! How can he possess the aura of my Lord's primordial light?!"

"Form the array! Immediately form the 'Grand Cross Judgment Array'!"

The once perfectly aligned and imposing legion of angels was thrown into a moment of panic. For the first time, a feeling called "fear" arose in their minds, which were endowed with absolute rationality and coldness by the astral gods.

They couldn't understand why a demon god from the abyss could ignore the purification of the holy light and even use a corrupted form of holy light to slaughter them.

"Form an array? Faced with absolute power, you assembly-line-produced birdmen don't even qualify as cannon fodder!"

Rhodes's wild laughter echoed across the sky. His left eye was as black as an abyss, and his right eye was as dark as the sun. The "Calamity" sword in his hand had completely changed its appearance. The originally pure black blade was now wrapped with streaks of dark golden lightning. With each swing, it would leave a spatial rift in the void that would not heal for a long time.

He gave the angel legion no chance to catch its breath.

"Abyss Secret Technique: Dark Gold Asura Slash!"

Rhodes gripped his sword with both hands, raising it high, the Abyss Vortex within his body churning wildly. He poured the newly fused power of light and darkness into the sword without reservation, then slashed fiercely down at the dense cluster of angels attempting to form an array.

A crescent-shaped, dark golden sword aura, a thousand feet long, slashed through the sky silently yet irresistibly, like a red-hot knife cutting through butter.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a chilling cutting sound.

Wherever that dark golden sword energy passed, whether it was the angel's flaming longsword or their proud holy armor, everything was cleaved in two. A golden rain of blood fell from the sky, accompanied by countless tattered white feathers, scattering down upon the ruins of the holy city of Rumen below.

In just two battles, the vanguard legion descended from the Astral Plane lost nearly a third of its forces.

"Enough! You vile abyssal demon, cease your arrogance!"

Just as Rhodes was about to continue his rampage, a furious roar suddenly came from the enormous dimensional rift that stretched across the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a divine pressure, dozens of times greater than all the angels combined, poured down from the crack like a mountain crashing down.

The holy light seemed to be summoned, rapidly converging towards the center of the crack. Within that blinding light, a colossal figure, tens of feet tall, slowly emerged.

It was a six-winged seraph clad in magnificent platinum armor. His face was flawless, yet now it was filled with divine wrath. In his hand he held a greatsword of the cross, burning with pure white holy fire, and his six wings flapped slowly, each flap stirring up a holy storm in the sky.

Uriel, the six-winged seraphim and commander of the Seventh Legion of the Astral Realm!

"So you're the ringleader of this divine punishment?" Rhodes stopped his killing spree, holding the "Calamity" sword, which was still dripping with golden divine blood, in one hand, hovering in mid-air, and examining the huge luminous object in front of him with great interest.

"I am Uriel, Commander of the Seventh Legion, beneath the throne of the Supreme God of the Astral Realm!" The Seraph's voice, like a resounding bell, echoed across the entire continent, carrying an undeniable majesty. "Heretic Rhodes, you have stolen the faith of mortals, slaughtered the followers of the gods, and now dare to pollute the supreme source of light with the power of the abyss! Your crimes cannot be washed away even if your soul were burned in the holy fire for ten thousand years!"

"Crime? Exonerated?"

Rhodes seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hahaha—you high and mighty false gods, you always have this disgusting face! You treat mortals like cattle and sheep, ruthlessly harvesting their faith; you have ruled this continent for thousands of years with your so-called papacy, causing countless people to die in ignorance and oppression? Now, I have merely overturned your table, and you jump out to talk to me about your crimes?"

Rhodes abruptly stopped smiling, his right eye blazing with dark gold light, and an undisguised, brutal killing intent locked onto Uriel.

"In this world, might makes right! If you can kill me, I am a heretic; if I can slay you, I am a new god!"

"Utterly arrogant! Die, heretic!"

Uriel was utterly enraged by Rhodes' arrogance. He raised the greatsword in his hand, and the six wings on his back flapped violently.

"Sacred Domain - Absolute Purification!"

In an instant, the sky within a hundred miles transformed into a pure white world. Within this realm, all elements were forcibly expelled, leaving only the purest and most domineering holy light. This holy light, like a materialized flame, frantically pressed and burned against Rhodes' body, attempting to completely evaporate the abyssal aura within him.

"A domain? What a coincidence, I just grasped one too."

Facing the Seraph's all-out attack, Rhodes advanced instead of retreating. He slowly closed his eyes, and the Abyss Star Vortex within his body stopped spinning at that moment, then exploded in a reverse manner.

"Abyss Realm: Chaos of Light and Darkness!"

"Buzz"

Centered on Rhodes, an absolutely black sphere instantly expanded. But unlike the pure darkness of the past, this black sphere's surface was covered with dark golden patterns.

When the absolutely purified holy light struck the realm of light and darkness, it did not cause a violent explosion, but instead emitted a tooth-grinding "sizzling" sound.

Uriel was horrified to discover that his sacred domain, which he was so proud of, was being devoured bit by bit by the opponent's domain!

That's right, it's about devouring!

After Rhode merged the Seed of Holy Light into the Abyss, his Abyssal power no longer feared the Holy Light; instead, it regarded it as the best nourishment. The stronger the Holy Light released by Uriel, the faster Rhode's domain expanded.

"This is impossible! Light and darkness can never coexist, that's an ironclad law of the universe! What kind of monster are you?!" A look of terror finally appeared on Uriel's perfect face.

"The ironclad laws of the universe are written by the strong."

Rod's voice suddenly rang in Uriel's ears.

Unbeknownst to them, Rhodes had broken through the barrier of the Holy Domain and appeared above Uriel's head like a ghost.

"You're too slow, big bird."

Rhode gripped the "Calamity" sword with both hands. The dark golden lightning on the sword had been condensed to its limit, transforming into a thin layer of sword light that exuded an aura of destruction.

"No!"

Uriel roared and instinctively raised his greatsword to parry.

"Clang!"

A crisp snapping sound echoed through the heavens. The greatsword of holy fire, bestowed by the astral gods and hailed as indestructible, was cleaved in two like scrap metal before Rhode's sword, which was imbued with the power of light and darkness chaos!

The unstoppable "Calamity" sword slashed diagonally down along Uriel's shoulder.

"Pfft!"

Golden divine blood gushed out like a waterfall. Rhode's sword cleanly severed Uriel's three pure white wings on his right side!

"ah!!!"

The seraph let out a bloodcurdling scream, its enormous body tumbling violently in mid-air, golden blood splattering across the sky.

"May the Overlord be mighty!!!"

Just then, a deafening cheer erupted from the ground below.

Gareth, leading the Abyss Demon Army, and Victor, controlling dozens of newly awakened enormous bone dragons, have arrived on the battlefield.

"roar!"

Dozens of ancient bone dragons, their bodies wreathed in eerie green phosphorescent flames, soared into the sky. They spread their wings, now nothing but white bones, and spewed out deadly dragon breaths that were highly corrosive, crashing heavily into the remaining legion of two-winged angels.

The angels, already terrified by Rhodes's killing spree, were instantly plunged into a one-sided massacre when faced with this group of fearless undead behemoths.

"My Lord, Lilith has not failed in her mission!"

A seductive black figure traversed space and arrived beside Rhodes. The Succubus Queen Lilith knelt on one knee in the void, her hands raised high a compass that radiated ancient starlight.

It is the prized possession of the Eastern Magic Council—the Time-Space Star Chart!

"Well done, Lilith."

Rhodes glanced at Uriel, who was groaning in agony below, then looked up at the dimensional rift in the sky, still radiating holy light. He knew that Uriel was merely a vanguard; the true old monsters of the astral plane were attempting to descend through this rift.

"False gods of the astral planes, don't you like to descend? Today, I'll shut that door on you!"

Rhodes grabbed the Time-Space Star Chart and poured all his power of light and darkness into it.

The star chart, which had originally emitted a soft starlight, instantly turned into an eerie dark gold upon contact with Rhode's power. The pointers on the star chart began to spin wildly, and the surrounding spatial laws were violently distorted.

"Give it to me—together!"

Rhodes roared and hurled the spacetime star chart in his hand at the dimensional rift high in the sky.

The dark golden star chart swelled in mid-air amidst the wind, transforming into a massive, sky-covering magic array that forcefully blocked the center of the dimensional rift.

"Heretic! How dare you obstruct the descent of the gods?!"

From the depths of the rift came an extremely ancient, majestic roar, filled with boundless rage. A gigantic hand, radiating seven-colored divine light, attempted to reach out from the rift and crush the dark golden magic array.

"Old man, you've overreached!"

Rhodes's eyes turned cold, and his figure vanished from his original spot in an instant. The next second, he appeared directly beneath the giant hand.

"Abyssal Secret Technique: Fang of Godslaying!"

Rhodes concentrated all his strength into the tip of his sword, transforming himself into a dazzling dark golden pillar of light that pierced fiercely into the palm of the seven-colored divine hand.

"boom!!!"

An unimaginable, terrifying explosion erupted at the edge of the crack. The divine hand that had attempted to force its way in was actually stopped by Rhodes...

The sword pierced a large hole, and seven-colored divine blood poured down like a torrential rain.

"Roar!" A painful groan came from the depths of the crevice.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the dark golden spacetime star array erupted with dazzling light, and the laws of space were forcibly reversed. The dimensional rift, which stretched for tens of thousands of miles, began to close rapidly at a visible speed amidst the unwilling roars of the star god.

"No! Commander, save me!"

Below, Uriel, who had lost half of his wings, looked at the closing crack, and finally despair appeared in his eyes.

He frantically flapped his remaining three wings, trying to escape back to the Astral Plane.

"Since you're already here, don't leave."

Rhodes's icy voice was like the pronouncement of death.

He descended from the sky, stomping heavily on Uriel's back, forcing the high and mighty seraph to fall to the ground.

"Bang!"

Uriel's enormous body crashed into the ruins of the holy city of Rumen, creating a bottomless crater.

Rhodes slowly descended to the edge of the pit, looking at the dying seraph at the bottom of the pit without a trace of pity in his eyes.

He raised his right hand and aimed it at Uriel's chest.

"Abyss Devours".

A miniature dark golden black hole formed in Rhode's palm. The remaining divine essence and life force within Uriel were forcibly drawn out, like rivers flowing into the sea, and continuously poured into Rhode's body.

Amid Uriel's desperate screams, his perfect, divinely created body rapidly withered and weathered away, ultimately turning into ashes. Only a sixth-order angel core, radiating brilliant light, remained, falling into Rhodes's hands.

In the sky, the last two-winged angel was also torn to pieces by the bone dragon.

The massive dimensional rift was completely closed under the forceful intervention of the spacetime star disk, turning into a faint void scar.

The rampant holy light vanished, and the sky returned to its characteristic dark red hue of the Abyss Demon Realm.

The entire ruins of the holy city were deathly silent.

Gareth, Victor, Lilith, and thousands of abyssal demons and undead bone dragons all stared at the man standing at the edge of the giant pit with a near-mad, god-like gaze.

Rhodes slowly turned around and casually tossed the sixth-order angel core to Lilith.

He raised his head, gazing up at the now-closed void scar, a chillingly arrogant smile playing on his lips.

"False gods of the astral plane, this is just the beginning."

"Wash your necks and wait. Before long, I will personally tear open that crack and drag you all down from that high throne, one by one!"

Rhode planted the sword "Calamity" heavily into the scorched earth in front of him, his dark golden eyes sweeping over the land that had just undergone divine punishment.

"Pass on my orders!"

"The Abyss Empire is officially established today!"

"Target: Astral Plane!"

A deafening roar of cheers soared into the sky, announcing that the world had fully entered the Dark Ages belonging to Rhodes.