345 Chapter 345: True strength of the orc prodigy

"I never expected a day would come where I would be forced to use my clan's secret technique… I didn't use it because It required me to exchange my life force for power… It's only temporary but during that period, I will be invincible" Berivs answered honestly, not because he was afraid of Derik or Cyrus but because he strongly believed that they deserved to know since they are the only ones who have been able to make him use such a suicidal technique.

"Don't be a stupid little orc, no one is truly invincible… even I, the death element of this world can be killed!" Derik snarled. He would have loved to say more but he was stunned by Cyrus.

"How invincible are we talking about?" Cyrus asked with the usual smile which made his enemies feel uneasy.

Even though he had stopped Derik, he too believed in Derik's words and logic. No one in this world could be considered invincible, not even the creator. In their opinion, there is no such thing as a supreme being that can never be defeated, stuff like that only poops up in crappy stories and novels. As long as there is a being as powerful as that, there must be another being capable of defeating it. 

There has to be a balance, it's just the basic rule of nature. In the same way, the elements are weak against other elements and strong against other elements as well.

Their theory has been proven time and time again, and even now, the being they always viewed as the ultimate, the absolute will soon be forced to enter a battle where it may lose its life. In their eyes, the creator was no different from them, it was just another person that managed to achieve a greater realm, playing god.

"I apologize but I do not have the time to chat… I will put you and the death mage down… here and now!" Berivs roared as his body let out a bright glow and his green aura could be visibly seen, flowing through his body. His eyes completely turned blood-red as a thin line of green aura soon gathered around him, forming some sort of energy armor.

"It ends here…" Berivs muttered and his figure suddenly vanished.

Cyrus was about to respond to his words but then he felt the firm orc hands grab his face and forcefully drag him away towards the river located just beside the settlement.

"How?" Cyrus muttered in shock.

Not only was he too slow to see Berivs approach but he was too weak to struggled against him, he could only encase his body with his aura before they smashed into the river, diving even deeper.

It didn't take long before a loud bang sound was head, signaling Berivs had dragged Cyrus all the way to the bottom of the river.

Woosh!

Berivs appeared above the river in an instant and quickly punched down, instantly releasing a massive green fist that made Derik and Uram look like ants when compared to it. In fact, the two had to move out of the way to avoid getting struck by the attack. They could only watch the fist descend into the river from above, smashing into Cyrus who was at the bottom of the river but even then, Derik didn't look worried, he only looked slightly stunned.

He had to confess, he didn't expect Berivs to attain this amount of power in a short time. At first, he led himself to believe that Berivs had intentionally hidden some sort of information from them but after pondering on the issue for a while, he found it reasonable. In the past, he had consumed souls and used the life force of his victims to forcibly breakthrough to a new realm. In the past, he thought it was nothing and even believed he was able to progress so fast because of his innate talent or some crap like that, but he was wrong.

He only realized this after he tried to use his own power to forcefully help his disciples breakthrough the peak grade of the bronze realm into the silver realm but this action almost cost him his life. Even with all the power he had amassed as a gold realm master, he still struggled to do that much. This made him wonder how much power a person's life force contained. This explained why the creator bothered to create humans and beasts of other races and have them cultivate in this world. The creator knew as these people grew stronger, so will their life force and upon their death, when the life force is returned, it can use this to empower itself or one of its demigod candidates.

This explained why the creator was even eager to take the soul of Gin who was just a silver realm expert at the peak grade. Derik and Cyrus guessed it was planning to use that life force to strengthen one of its demigods or itself. And this happened for Kalos as well, when he died and his cosmic spirit attempted to steal his soul and consume his life force. If the soul of a mere silver realm expert like Gin could draw the attention of the creator, how much power can the life force of an orc at the peak grade of the gold realm possess?

"I see you are the only one who got to fight someone strong today, Cyrus… My luck has always been bad… hopefully, the one responsible for the barrier protecting these orcs will show himself or I will be forced to take drastic steps that even Demos will frown upon" Derik