18.Power Unleashed!

Oliver has no intention of letting this abyss deity Tartarus go—after all, even the creator god Aether chose it to become the so-called underworld. There must be something special about this Tartarus. Killing him or taking him as a servant would both be excellent choices!

“Perhaps my gem space could use an underworld of its own.”

With this thought, Oliver has already reached Tartarus’s presence.

“You’re courting death!”

Tartarus lets out a ferocious roar, and the massive dark abyss begins to writhe violently. In the next second, a tide infused with the aura of darkness and death erupts from the abyss, surging toward Oliver! The power of this tide is utterly terrifying and sinister. Oliver can tell at a glance that it contains the primal rune of death and the primal rune of darkness. The two runes of death and darkness intertwine, radiating an immensely powerful force. If an ordinary deity were enveloped by such power, their body would immediately dissolve and perish, leaving only a spiritual form to be directly devoured by Tartarus.

But how could Oliver be an ordinary deity? With a slight sway of his serpentine body, chaos energy forms a solid, thick wall in front of him to block this deathly energy. Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle! The primal runes representing death and darkness are too formidable—Oliver’s chaos wall, upon contact with the black tide of death unleashed by his opponent, begins to melt rapidly, like ice meeting the sun.

However, before these walls completely vanish, Oliver’s massive serpent maw opens wide, spewing out a terrifying poisonous mist that spans millions of kilometers! Yet, under the shroud of this astonishing poison mist, Tartarus shows no discomfort whatsoever and instead lets out an arrogant laugh.

“So this is all you’ve got? Toxins? That stuff doesn’t work on me!”

The primal runes of darkness and death are among the more advanced primal runes, far stronger than ordinary laws. Because of this, Tartarus even has a certain immunity to the poisonous mist Oliver unleashed!

“So this is the power of darkness and death?” Oliver nods to himself inwardly. In truth, he had already suspected that his toxins might not be very effective against this opponent—he was just testing it out.

At this moment, seeing his chaos wall destroyed by the tide of darkness and death, with the tide pressing forward to attack his body, Oliver’s massive serpent form suddenly twists and vanishes into the chaos! He activates his skill: Stealth!

“Disappeared? That won’t work on me!”

Tartarus roars in fury, “Power of darkness!” He wields the primal rune of darkness, and the power of darkness is omnipresent within the chaos. In an instant, Oliver, hidden in the darkness, feels an unparalleled repulsive force pressing in from all around his body. His form, spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers, suddenly flickers in and out of visibility within the darkness.

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Oliver knows time is tight for him and hesitates no longer—he immediately activates his elemental manipulation ability! Boom! In an instant, countless elemental energies—wind, fire, thunder, water, ice—manifest in the void, forming a terrifying elemental storm that engulfs millions of kilometers of space-time, sweeping toward Tartarus! The elemental storm Oliver unleashes isn’t composed of simple elemental laws—it contains the primal runes of various elements! The power of primal runes enhances his elemental manipulation skill, making the might of this elemental storm utterly horrifying!

The primal runes of darkness and death are incredibly powerful, being among the most fundamental primal runes. Logically, Oliver’s elemental runes should be slightly inferior to these two. But the thing is, Oliver has a lot of primal runes! Fire, water, wind, earth, thunder, ice, light, darkness, wood, metal—a total of eleven! While his elemental primal runes are slightly less potent than death and darkness, the gap isn’t that significant. And what’s more, he has a whopping eleven of them.

The outcome of the battle is already obvious. Tartarus’s prized tide of darkness and death is instantly shattered by the elemental storm! The remaining elemental storm surges toward the abyss where Tartarus resides, causing the entire abyss to twist wildly as Tartarus lets out a piercing howl!

“Damn it, you’ve pissed me off!”

He roars in anger, and the massive abyss trembles violently as countless illusory spiritual forms emerge from its gaping maw! These spiritual entities come in all shapes and sizes, with varying levels of strength—they’re all the souls of deities Tartarus has devoured! No wonder the abyss land would one day become the legendary underworld—it’s already showing potential in that regard. The number of deities he’s devoured is staggering, numbering in the tens of thousands, forming an army of souls! After this soul army appears, even the chaos takes on a chilling, terrifying atmosphere!

“You’ll be the most powerful soul in my collection!”

Tartarus lets out a sinister laugh. However, his laughter quickly comes to an abrupt halt.

“Competing with me in soul power?”

Oliver laughs. His strongest stat on the panel is his soul power! Oliver’s soul power is listed at 22,000 on his panel! That’s a full 10,000 points higher than Tartarus, a Level 11 deity of the spectral type! His soul strength is utterly terrifying.

“Die!”

Oliver lets out a thunderous roar, and his immense soul power transforms into waves, rippling outward in all directions. The soul army Tartarus unleashed is thrown into disarray by this shockwave—many spirits open their mouths wide, letting out pained wails. Some even collapse outright, writhing on the ground in unbearable agony!

“Damn it! You’re just a Level 10 deity—how are you this strong?!”

Tartarus panics! He immediately tries to flee. As the “earthbound spirit” of the abyss land Tartarus, moving means dragging the surrounding deep dark matter along with him—an undoubtedly costly endeavor. But at this moment, Tartarus can’t afford to care about that. The dark abyss, in that instant, transforms into a rapidly fleeing black cloud, speeding through the chaos.

“Trying to run?”

Oliver narrows his eyes, and countless strands of chaos energy emerge from the void, forming chains that lash out toward Tartarus! While these chains can’t completely bind Tartarus, they drastically slow his movement. With a single motion of his body, Oliver easily catches up.

Tartarus grows even more frantic. “Damn it, what do you want? Let me go! My kin are scattered throughout the chaos—if you kill me, they’ll come for revenge, and you won’t be able to handle it!”

“I don’t necessarily have to kill you.”

Oliver smiles faintly.

“You… you’re not going to kill me? What do you want?”

“Become my servant, or die—you only have those two choices!”

“I’ll never be your servant!”