"I am merely the god of war; winning or losing is none of my concern. My only responsibility is to initiate the battle!"
It seems that Ares is the same in any world derived from Greek mythology, so it is perfectly reasonable for him to provoke Luo Tian now.
In fact, Luo Tian had already been watching from the sidelines when Ares revealed his identity.
The reason Atreus wasn't saved immediately was simply because Flash wasn't off cooldown yet.
While it's possible to strike from too far away, the aftershocks might knock Atreus out first.
After all, Ares was a mid-level god who was only one step away from being a powerful god. Even Luo Tian would have to put in a lot of effort to deal with Ares, which was much more difficult than killing the god of sacrifice and offering.
Therefore, Luo Tian didn't take Ares's verbal provocation too seriously, but instead spoke with interest:
"I'm getting more and more curious about which world's Ares you are."
"The original Greek mythological world? It seems much weaker than I imagined. You're probably not qualified yet."
"Saint Seiya world? Your outfit doesn't look that cool, it's definitely not a divine armor."
"Marvel multiverse? Ares does exist in that world, but with your current strength, you're not yet at the level to become a superhero."
......
On this desolate wasteland of bones, Luo Tian began to comment on each of the Ares as if they were his own treasures. The expression on the face of the Ares on the chariot gradually changed from arrogance to shock.
Even though he once possessed a vision that transcended realms, allowing him to glimpse himself in different worlds, he was still no match for Luo Tian, who could recite the details of each Ares as well as he did.
Finally, as if remembering something, Luo Tian suddenly stopped and looked at Ares with great interest.
"You're not that idiot Ares who got killed by Kratos because of his own stupidity, which ultimately led to the slaughter of the entire Greek pantheon by Kratos, are you?"
Luo Tian's words instantly ignited Ares's fury. His warhorse neighed, and Ares, as if millions of soldiers were following behind him, charged towards Luo Tian with overwhelming force.
The sky trembled at that moment, and the earth poured out its fury, with scorching lava engulfing everything on the wasteland.
"Those who insult the gods shall die!"
A terrifying roar of anger rang out.
"Oh!"
With a muffled sound, the trembling of the sky stopped, and the raging magma that had been gushing from the earth froze in an instant.
The giant hand, entangled with the souls of millions, easily crushed the powerful war chariot, along with the projections of millions of soldiers.
Then, a not-so-large hand reached out from the void and grabbed Ares's head, a cold voice slowly asking:
"What did you say?"
Chapter 155 Death and Rebirth!
Whether it was a celestial phenomenon or the glory of war, everything was frozen in time.
Just as Ares shattered the Great Annihilation of the Unyielding Sword Demon with a single punch, the overwhelming power devoid of any aesthetic appeal and the purest suppression of strength transformed what should have been an earth-shattering battle between true gods into the most unadorned and simple combat.
He crushed the war wagon, then grabbed Ares's head and asked the most convincing question in a calm tone.
The fervent fighting spirit that had been radiating from Ares's face began to gradually subside.
Judging from Luo Tian's silent approach and the incredibly powerful aura of death, he could tell that Luo Tian was very strong.
But he never imagined just how powerful Luo Tian would become.
With a single blow, the war artifact he had cultivated using the five planes of the Gu was shattered, and the projections of the billions of soldiers who had descended from the divine kingdom were also obliterated. Such power was completely beyond his imagination.
War is the divine profession most adept at combat, and Ares believed that with his methods, he might not be without the power to fight against powerful deities.
But in front of Luo Tian, he was defeated without complaint and without any power to resist.
Ares' lips trembled slightly as he tried to say something, but in the end, all he could manage was a long sigh in front of Luo Tian.
"Are you done talking?"
"Then go to hell!"
As the calm words fell, Luo Tian exerted a slight force with his right hand, and the golden head shattered instantly.
The head transformed into specks of golden light and rose into the sky, while the headless corpse crashed down, utterly losing its life.
Ignoring the headless corpse on the ground, Luo Tian turned to look at the demonic sword he had thrown aside, and Atreus, who had fallen unconscious after being severely injured.
Reaching out to pick up the Demon Sword, Luo Tian surprisingly didn't hear the Sword Demon's usual boastful remarks. It seemed that Ares's punch that shattered the Great Annihilation had also greatly affected him.
"So the Unyielding Sword Demon is utterly useless!"
After placing the demon sword into Atreus's hand, Luo Tian said to Ivynia:
"Take him and leave first!"
After Ivyia nodded seriously, she waved her right hand lightly, and an invisible force lifted Atreus and the magic sword together, carrying them away towards the desolate city.
After Ivania disappeared from sight, Luo Tian turned his gaze to the headless corpse on the ground not far away.
Standing before the corpse, Luo Tian tilted his head curiously, looking at the body before him, and said:
"Do you think I'm so blind that I can't even tell if you're alive or dead, or are you cosplaying as the God of War Xing Tian, trying to steal his position?"
As Luo Tian spoke, the headless corpse trembled and then actually got up from the ground on its own.
A low, guttural sound emanated from the headless body within its abdominal cavity.
"I thought you would be wise enough to give up now."
Luo Tian scratched his head, looking rather troubled, and said:
"Shouldn't we have eliminated them completely to better suit the market?"
"After I kill you, you can die in peace, and I can go home and continue slacking off in peace. Isn't that a win-win situation?"
Ares looked at Luo Tian's genuinely troubled expression and fell silent.
After a long pause, Ares finally spoke in a deep voice:
"This gentleman seems to be from the East. Have you ever heard the old Eastern saying, 'One should be lenient when one can't'?"
"I acknowledge your strength, but even if your power rivals that of a top-tier deity, completely annihilating me would be no easy task!"
"Elimination?"
Luo Tian looked at Ares with a puzzled expression and extended his right hand.
"Like...this?"
With a gentle flick of his right fist, the power of the Soul-Sucking Strike was unleashed to its fullest extent almost instantly.
The jumbled code stacked by the passive ability of billions of dead souls trembled, and the number of layers that Luo Tian could release, which had now reached level 3, was completely different from before.
The flesh on Luo Tian's right arm exploded, and the powerful force that had just surged out of his body brought a huge backlash to Luo Tian. The power of billions of dead souls swallowed everything like a world-destroying tsunami.
Above the sky, dense dark clouds suddenly gathered, completely obscuring the originally clear sky. Even the sunlight could not penetrate the dense cloud layer, turning the entire world into a scene of darkness.
Beneath these dense, dark clouds, dark purple lightning quietly gathered, and the boundless sea of lightning transformed into divine punishment, seemingly about to tear apart all the impure people in the world.
However, this manifest divine punishment was merely a world feedback mechanism triggered by someone.
A similar world feedback mechanism also appeared when Luo Tian clashed with the will of the abyss, except that the main battlefield was in the abyss at that time.
Luo Tian had used all his trump cards to intimidate the Abyss before he was able to draw a global response from the aftershocks.
The source of this triggering of the world's feedback mechanism was within the Star World, so it was naturally not the same as before where all the trump cards had been used. However, it was enough to show how much Luo Tian valued Ares.
In Luo Tian's view, the God of War, who could be resurrected, was an enormous threat. If he were to absorb the power of the War Constellation and kill a few more Ares, he might really cause some great trouble.
The best option for Luo Tian is to eliminate potential troubles with absolute power before they arise.
Ignoring the terrifying divine punishments covering the sky, Luo Tian's right hand, bearing the Soul-Sucking Pain Strike, swung towards the headless corpse in front of him.
"war!"
An angry roar resounded beneath the rolling thunder, as if trying to tear through the endless darkness and gain a glimmer of hope.
A majestic divine kingdom descended from the heavens, and in that vast and sacred world, believers who died in war engaged in endless battles on the battlefields of the divine kingdom's plains, giving birth to a great will to fight.
As a top deity who is only one step away from powerful divine authority, Ares's divine kingdom is already as solid as any other plane.
Any being that dares to invade the divine kingdom will face endless battles with heroic warriors whose fighting spirit has never waned in thousands of years and will crush all enemies.
But... this is only the case when Ares is facing a god of equal rank.
As the Soul-Sucking Strike landed, destruction descended!
The entire divine kingdom collapsed under that hand that symbolized death, and all the holy spirits, whose power was comparable to that of a weak god, and the countless heroic warriors perished.
Everything in the divine kingdom collapsed and returned to the palm that symbolized death, as if everything had returned to the singularity at the time of the Big Bang, and everything turned into silence.
Then, the outstretched palm slowly closed, completely crushing the remaining divine kingdom.
Everything, including Ares's true form, seemed to have been completely erased by that supreme and immense power of death.
However... Luo Tian glanced at the status panel.
The passive layer increased wildly as Luo Tian crushed the divine kingdom, and the erratic code it displayed made Luo Tian feel a chill run down his spine.
However, not even a tiny +1 experience point popped up, which is completely inconsistent with Ares's identity as a transmigrator.
Unless... Ares didn't die!
As his thoughts wandered, Luo Tian's gaze fell upon the main battlefield of the plane in the distance, before the magnificent city gate.
Chapter 156 Let them experience destruction!
In the main battlefield of the plane, the fierce battle has reached a fever pitch.
Several incarnations of true gods and their subordinate gods have already joined the battlefield.
Although the incarnations of the true gods in the five planes have a numerical advantage, these subordinate gods belonging to the true gods behind the three major religions are no less powerful.
Subordinate gods are those powerful beings in the Divine Fire Realm who, having no hope of obtaining divine office, choose to sell themselves to the true god.
They rely on their status as subordinate gods to obtain a portion of the authority shared by the true god, and use this as the foundation to achieve the realm of the true god.
Subordinate gods are far weaker than ordinary, weak true gods, and are also subject to the true gods behind them.
However, with the support of the true god behind them and the help of the Undying Pass Army Formation, they were still able to contend with the five incarnations of the true god.
After all, none of these true gods who descended in avatars were able to reach the level of intermediate divine power. Although their true god avatars surpassed the power of the Divine Fire Realm, they were not yet at the level of weak divine power.
On battlefields where gods are at the level of deities, even the most ferocious Behemoths dare not easily set foot in the areas where they are fighting.
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