Chapter 310

“You’re talking a lot for a pathetic god of corpses and garbage,” I shouted back, once again using the Dragon Avatar to speak.

As far as insults were concerned, it wasn’t exactly the most creative one I could come up with, but it still made him attack me with full force. He was already angry after losing two avatars in a row. Insulting to the basis of his existence pushed his anger even further.

This time, rather than engaging him directly, I dodged the attack and moved toward the center of his domain. “Let’s see how you feel once I start destroying your avatars as well,” he shouted as he turned toward Seldanna.

Interesting statement, making me wonder whether he even knew he was facing two gods — supposedly — at the same time, or the Eternals hid that particular nugget of information from him.

Not exactly impossible.

I didn’t want him tangling with Seldanna. She was inexperienced enough in using her powers that even with her actual body, I wouldn’t expect her to win against another god on neutral ground. And, in the domain of another god, only as an avatar ... it would be lucky if she could last a minute.

Luckily, I had the perfect bait. “I wonder how you’ll feel when I use the breach to dump your Divine Spark into the Primordial Aether,” I shouted as I flew away on my dragon, hoping that the possibility of losing more than a million sparks was enough to galvanize him.

After all, he had no idea that his Divine Spark was long gone, purified, and some even turned into stats to empower me further.

“You dare!” he shouted as he immediately changed his direction and started chasing my dragon avatar, the bait working perfectly. A little predictable, but understandable. A million Divine Spark was an impressive amount, particularly considering it had been absorbed perfectly. If he lost it, even capturing two of our avatars wouldn’t make up for it — as Eternals used a very lopsided exchange ratio when it came to trading Divine Spark.

I made a show of trying to rush toward the breach that his avatar was trying to close, only to be knocked away with every attempt. However, ultimately, it was just a trick to have an excuse to visit every part of his plane, my exaggerated mana attacks giving me to perfect cover to hide my detection spells.

Maybe I was a bit paranoid, but I wanted to make sure there was no other Eternal presence that could report some of my more suspicious moves. I had already pushed my luck enough with the secrets I revealed, even pushing my fake identity as an Ancient god to the limit.

Of course, I might have chosen a more reckless strategy if time was working against us, but that was not the case. With every second, his army got smaller while Seldanna continued to expand our nature reserve, creating a bigger hold for life in the domain.

At the same time, his reckless attacks drained quite a bit of the necrotic mana that was stored in the Aether dimension ... while a few secret wards I implemented there worked hard to turn the rest into nature mana in some warded packets, growing stronger with each minute.

Ready to go off the moment I confirmed the absence of the Eternals.

Of course, extending the battle meant giving a chance for the Eternals to return, but on that, I was a bit more confident. I had built a layer of detection ward over the planar border, made of tantric mana to make sure it could resist the ravages of Primordial Aether, ready to alert me for their approach.

And, in Primordial Aether, I was confident I could take any forces they would send to a relatively distant location like ours during an emergency — as far as that word has any meaning with the crazy dimensions of Primordial Aether.

Pity that I couldn’t say the same for what they could bring to bear outside the main material plane.

But that was a concern for the far future.

For now, I just needed to defeat my first true divine enemy, which was a great achievement even if he was completely lacking in any true tactical sense, which was only partially about my secret abilities. He was too used to corpse-wave tactics to develop a habit of reading the enemy tactics. Worse, he was too panicked by the prospect of losing his Divine Spark to even question why I was spending hours repeating the same trick again and again.

Not easily, I guessed, but much better than trying to come up with a method myself.

“Deal,” she said, her smile pressed against my cheek and disappeared, showing that, she might have exaggerated her displeasure slightly to earn a promise.

I had to admit, it was well played. She earned herself a punishment with that trick along with her gift — but I doubted that she would dislike it.

But, that was for the future. I teleported next to her. “Let’s go,” I said, then escorted her to the nature domain.

And, escorted an unconscious Mariel back.

It was time to awaken my cute headmistress.

{Strength: 65 Charisma: 65

Precision: 65 Perception: 65

Agility: 65 Manipulation: 65

Speed: 65 Intelligence: 86

Endurance: 98 Wisdom: 65}

{Purified Divine Spark: 938,885}

{ADDITIONAL SPARKS

Light - Chosen 7.4

Nature - Chosen 10

Knowledge - Chosen 10}

{MINIONS

GODDESSES

Elven Goddess

Goddess of Knowledge}