Heaven's Greatest Professor

Chapter 293: Corpse of a God

The warden burned with power as he stood between the moonspawns and Agnes. Extending the blade long enough to behead the humongous wolfish creatures, he charged at them, blade raised.

The divider, blazing in a golden light, bit through the twisting flesh of the moonspawns, cutting deep. Dark essence bubbled up in great quantity as the severed parts almost began to connect together. As if he would let that happen.

Surging with more power, he severed its head completely. Unfortunately, it did not die even after being decapitated. While its regeneration slowly worked to create another head, it struggled against him, not losing much of its prior aggression.

"It's going to be a nuisance to deal with," he mumbled, severing a couple of its legs. Even still, it did not fall.

"Try severing the core from its body," Agnes shouted from behind him, already engaged in battle.

"Or you could just move on to the next stage while I deal with these," he shouted back.

Agnes did not answer for some time. "Are you sure? There are a lot of them..."

He drilled the blade into the chest of the creature, ripping apart its heart before prying open its insides to finally sever all its connections from the core.

The moonspawn jerked on the ground before a ghostly spirit manifested from its body, crying at the warden. It jumped at him as though trying to possess the next intact body. Sadly for it, radiance essence shot from the blade and impeded its advances.

The corrupt spirit fled in crisis. He did not give chase and turned to Agnes, who was advancing towards the gate. Unfortunately, many moonspawn impeded her path.

Enabling [Wings of Radiance], he shot towards her, pushing away the one she battled. "I'll cover you."

He protected her from all the attacks that came their way as they advanced. He didn't try to finish the moonspawn off, only drove them away for a smoother passage.

Something triggered at the entrance, and he was a little too late. It appeared there was no combination to open the gate; instead, it simply needed a great amount of spirit power to open.

The gate opened, and the corrupt spirit made a last-ditch effort to save itself, only to find Agnes in its path. It tried to invade her body, but she immediately pulled in her Intent to fend off its advances.

It had already lost a great deal of its power; there was no way she would lose to it now. She tapped into the ambient dark essence and used it all against the demonic spirit, pinning it down completely under her suppression before swallowing it.

He raised an eyebrow as Agnes let out a breath. "Was the last part necessary?"

She shrugged. "I will digest its spirit eventually; it's how my power works." She turned her attention to the interior of the chamber they had opened.

He was planning to collect all the loot first before entering, but seeing her already approaching, he joined her.

Instantly, a terrifying surprising force restricted all of their essence. He clenched his teeth, immediately trying to tap into the Way to see if he could free himself from the suppression.

He could not. His expression turned ugly, finding the Way was completely lost from his grasp. No, there was no source of the Way within this chamber.

The interior was enormous and empty. It was clearly the source of all evil within the region, and the reason became apparent soon enough.

"Is that what you're looking for?" he croaked, eyes not moving from the skeletal corpse of a huge combination of human and wolf. Most of its flesh had already decomposed, with only some parts of the upper body and head pinned by a majestic spear lodged into its skull.

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Agnes was completely wordless, her hands pressed on her face. "That's the..." she tried to utter, her voice coming out shaky, "that's the corpse of a god."