Meng Lei released them from Absolute Zero’s hold. The dozen or so humans that had been unfrozen watched Meng Lei with fear and trepidation on their countenances. In particular, upon noticing the broken fragments littered all over the ground, they became even more frightened, so much so that their insides were close to rupturing from fear, and they were scared witless!
Dead?
They’re all dead?
Oh my god!!!
Meng Lei’s gaze swept across them. Then, he turned and walked toward President Fred and the other five academy presidents.
“Look at what you’ve done, Meng Lei! You’re in deep trouble! You’ve totally stirred up a hornet’s nest! The empire will never let you off, and neither will the Dragon Island, not to mention the Dragon God!”
Fred and the others were terribly distressed.
“Then let them come!”
Meng Lei flicked his fingers as he said, “I’ll kill one if one comes, and if ten come, I’ll kill a dozen! If all of them come, then I’ll just kill them all!”
“Meng Lei!!!”
Fred bellowed deeply, “Why have you become like this? How can you let down the spirit of the deceased President Amos?”
“No, you’re wrong!”
Meng Lei gazed at President Fred as he replied, “If Ol’ President knew about everything I’ve done, he’d only be happy for me! I know him better than you do!
“He doesn’t belong to the Dragons! Much less sworn allegiance to that bunch of rotten, depraved nobles and that so-called Golden Colossal Dragon emperor!
“Therefore, Ol’ President wouldn’t be angry over those guys’ deaths at all! On the contrary, he’d support me instead!”
At this point, Meng Lei sighed and added, “He knows what I want, and he knows the reason why I’ve done all that. He knows why I have to do so!”
“What are you planning on doing, Meng Lei?”
Fred shouted hoarsely, “You’ve killed His Majesty, you’ve killed all the high-ranking court officials, you’ve killed all the officials and nobles, and you’ve killed a good half of the Saint Domains in the empire! Tell me, what exactly are you planning to do?!”
Meng Lei gazed into the distance, and then, he slowly replied, “President, I’ve become a half-deity!”
Then, he left without a second word.
“A half-deity?!”
Fred and the others were astounded!
Despite having witnessed Meng Lei go on a killing spree and instantly kill a limits-level Saint Domain, thereby realizing that he might already have entered that unfathomable realm, having Meng Lei personally admit to it to them nonetheless still astounded Fred and the others to the extreme.
“A half-deity!”
“Meng Lei has attained half-deification?”
“Oh my goodness! He has actually attained half-deification!”
“This...”
It was only after a substantially long while that the six of them finally got over their astoundment and regained their senses.
In a low voice, one of the academy presidents said, “While attaining half-deification is certainly astounding, can he act so recklessly and brazenly just because he has attained half-deification? What kind of position would he be putting the Dragon Island’s grandmasters in?”
“Exactly! Does Meng Lei think that he doesn’t need to fear the few grandmasters just because he has become a half-deity?”
“That’s too egotistical of him!”
“I don’t know whether he’s being egotistical or full of himself or not, but Meng Lei definitely isn’t just purely killing people for the sake of it!”
Fred’s voice trembled as he said, “This is him fighting for power of faith! He intends to fight for the power of faith!”
“Fight for the power of faith?!”
A huge jolt went through everyone!
...
Killing the emperor! Slaughtering the empire’s higher management!
With that, one could say that he had thoroughly offended the Dragons, the Dragon Island’s half-deities, and in fact, even the Dragon God!
This appeared to be an extremely rash, foolish, and irrational act, but in truth? Of course it wasn’t!
Because in just that brief amount of time, Meng Lei had already received rich, handsome rewards!
Wealth: 2,583 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals
After killing over a thousand Saint Domains, he had earned a net profit of 2,583 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!
Was this transaction worth it?
There was no doubt about the answer—because this many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals was enough for him to do a lot of things.
Such as raising the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate to 100%;
Such as raising the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline assimilation rate to 100%;
Such as redeeming 25 Power of Divinity droplets;
And such as using the Limitless Pickup function 2,583 times!
Pray tell, compared to such rich, handsome profits, what did offending the Dragons even count as? What did offending the Dragon Island’s half-deities even count as?
Should they dare to attack him, he’d kill them all and turn them all into Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!
As for offending the Dragon God?
Meng Lei remembered that Ol’ President had once said this—deities that had already left Heaven’s Vault Continent couldn’t descend upon the continent in their true form.
At best, they could only send a divinity projection—and divinity projections could only utilize a half-deity’s level of strength.
Meng Lei had no fear of half-deities; after all, an adult Gods-Slaying Rat at 100% bloodline assimilation rate... could eat a deity!
Therefore, while it might appear rash, foolish, and irrational, it actually wasn’t at all!
With this many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, nothing in the entire Heaven’s Vault Continent fazed or frightened Meng Lei anymore!
Since that was so, then why not fight for the power of faith?
It was exactly like what Meng Lei had told President Fred—”I’ve become a half-deity!”
The underlying meaning behind those words was... “I’ve become a half-deity, so I need worshipers!”
And where were his worshipers going to come from?
The Dragon God Empire, of course!
For the sake of obtaining the huge piece of the power of faith “cake” known as the Dragon God Empire, he needed to get rid of the
