Chapter 95

Ang discovered that the essence of life was truly amazing. A lifeless stone, when a drop of the essence was placed on it, suddenly showed signs of life.

What is the essence of life? Growth, instinct, consciousness, wisdom—thus Ang sensed the stone sending out a message to him: "Stepped on..."

"Oh, quickly take your foot away."

However, the life essence on the stone could not last long and soon disappeared. Ang dripped another drop on it and found it just standing there, so he stepped on it again and sensed it sending out a message: "Cracked..."

Then it cracked.

The stone could not sustain the life essence for long, so Ang found a bone, a piece of wood, a horse's head, a pillow... anything he saw, he would drip a drop of the essence on it, and many wondrous changes occurred.

The bone actually grew some bone tissue, a dead tree that had been dead for many years turned green and sprouted a small bud, the horse's head naturally turned into a unicorn, and now no one cared whether it was a unicorn or not, always referring to it as a horse, and the unicorn was too lazy to deny it, as it couldn't deny it anyway.

Its unicorn horn had grown two-thirds of the way, already forming a complete horn, but it still couldn't resonate with lightning. It was thought that it would have to wait until the horn was fully grown.

Unexpectedly, a few drops of the essence of life made the unicorn immediately feel a current surge from its tailbone to its forehead, and with a crackle, the unicorn horn sparked with electricity.

"Power up! I'm powered up! Hahaha, I'm finally powered up! I'm the child of lightning! The son of thunder..." Lightning's proud declaration was cut short as a thick arm wrapped around him, a large hand gripped his unicorn horn, and Zige's voice sounded in his ear: "Little horse, what's powered up?"

Lightning, with tears welling in his eyes, released the lightning power he had just generated from his unicorn horn: "You're the horse, your whole family is horses, see the power of the son of thunder!"

Zige shuddered, feeling a pleasant electric shock!

The power of the Thunder Lord in her blood stirred, making her excitedly hug Lightning: "Oh, little horse, little horse, you're so cute, do it again, harder, electrify me."

Lightning sadly realized that he was the son of thunder, but the other was the Lord of Thunder, he was the child of lightning, but the other was the god of lightning...

Except for the unicorn's horn, everything else quickly lost the essence of life. After testing and finding that it had no negative effects on plants, Ang boldly dripped a drop on a small sapling.

The sapling didn't change much, just curiously sensing Ang. It now knew that some things wouldn't grow, like the big thing in front of it.

No matter what, it could make it produce the essence of life, but most of it couldn't last long. Playing like this, a bottle of the essence of life was all used up.

Gathering the necessary people and preparations, Negris activated the teleportation array, and a strange-looking human and a silver coin were teleported over.

Negris's gaze fell on the strange human. Why was he strange? Because he didn't look very real and had no signs of life.

The other's gaze also fell on Negris, and he said with some pain: "God of Knowledge, you've lost weight."

One sentence made Negris explode: "Kubada, am I thin? Am I thin? Are you blind? I'm young!"

The two old friends, who hadn't seen each other for over a thousand years, greeted each other with a special way of cursing.

"What's your situation?" Negris asked, looking at Anthony's indistinct form.

"Divine Substitute, can only last twenty-four hours. Fortunately, I know this trick, otherwise I wouldn't have escaped," Anthony said, still shaken.

It had been many years since he had experienced such a dangerous situation. As the mighty Black Knight Emperor, he used to only ambush others, never expecting to be ambushed himself.

"You're quite something. Two Sword Saints, six High Mages, and a Demon Slayer and a Realm Breaker, and you still managed to escape. Tsk tsk, over a thousand years, and your strength has improved," Negris said, shaking his head.

Such a lineup, not to mention ambushing a powerless bishop, could easily take down a dragon. After all, bishops are spellcasters, and once a Sword Saint gets close, they're basically done for.

The main reason for their failure was likely underestimating Anthony's strength, not expecting him to have the close combat ability of a dragon, and setting up the ambush as if he were a spellcaster, leading to their failure.

Actually, it wasn't a complete failure. They had even accounted for Anthony's Divine Protection, setting up goblin bombs on the teleportation array in the secret base, sending him and the building sky-high.

Who would have thought he could use the rare Divine Substitute? As long as you live long enough, you might develop all sorts of strange abilities.

Anthony shook his head: "It might be more than that. I suspect Nicholas was there too. I sensed some aura when I was escaping."

Oh, that adds a High Bishop-level divine caster. Sometimes, divine casters are the hardest to deal with. For example, Anthony's close combat ability is on par with a high-level Sword Saint, but with the Divine Word, he can blow the opponent's head off.

You never know what kind of power a divine caster can borrow. If you encounter a divine caster of the Goddess of Harvest, one glance can make you pregnant...

Of course, divine powers and divine casters have levels. A small priest can't use the Divine Word to kill something far beyond her level.

"Never mind, let's not talk about it. Let's try to cultivate a body for you. Do you have any fresh blood, flesh, or other body tissues?" Negris asked.

Anthony took out his blood-soaked bishop's badge.

Ang tilted his head, extended his wrist in front of him, and it disappeared. When he pulled it back, he had a badge similar to the bishop's badge: "I have it." He probably meant to say "I have it too," but he shortened it.

"Oh, Leonard's Divine Knight badge?" Anthony raised his wrist, possibly to reach out, but didn't dare to.

"What is this?" Ang pointed to the flashing symbol on the badge and asked.

The symbol kept flashing. Although Ang didn't care what it was, after a while, he wanted to ask.

"Oh, this is the highest mobilization order. Everyone who receives this order must be ready to fight at any time," Anthony said.

Negris curiously pointed at Anthony's bishop's badge: "Mobilize who? Your badge is also flashing, do you need to be mobilized too? As a High Bishop, wouldn't the entire human diocese need to be mobilized?"

Anthony laughed: "We'll talk about it later. I don't have much time left. Help me cultivate a body first. I'm curious, how do you think you can cultivate my body in twenty... oh, we've been talking for so long? Only eighteen hours left. What method can you use to cultivate my body in eighteen hours?"