Dodola went on unceasingly. “Next, every part of the Steel-Winged Angel’s body is a weapon. If you assimilate the bloodline, your offensive power will also greatly increase!
“You’ve never seen how the Steel-Winged Angels wove to and fro and crisscrossed left and right at will as they slaughtered the Devils during the war between the Gods and the Devils. The sight is simply too terrifying!
“Lastly, as well as most importantly,” Dodola’s eyes shone keenly and brightly as it said, “The Angel Gods are an extremely powerful clan of gods. This is especially true in the Celestial Realm, where they hold fearsome power and authority!
“If you own the Steel-Winged Angel bloodline, you’ll have a chance of receiving the Angel Gods’ priority grooming and receive a great deal of benefits for free like the Titan Spiritual God!”
“The Angel Gods’ grooming...”
Meng Lei’s eyes lit up. The allure was rather great. Would the Angel Gods be like the Theodore clan and bestow upon him a few hundred existential planes as his territory, too?
“As they say, big trees provide great shade. If you can join a powerful force, it’ll be greatly advantageous toward your future development and growth!”
Dodola snickered and asked, “Why do you think native true gods like the Dragon God and the Beast God desire so much to join a powerful force yet are unable to?
“It’s because they aren’t qualified enough! Now that you have such a fantastic opportunity, you mustn’t let it pass you by! Otherwise, you’ll receive divine punishment!”
“That makes sense!”
Meng Lei nodded incessantly. A shrewd glint flashed in his eyes as he said, “Even if we take a step back and assume that I don’t wish to join the Angel Gods, the assimilation of the Steel-Winged Angel bloodline itself is tantamount to having an additional choice!”
“Yes, that’s exactly it!”
“Alright, I know what to do now!”
Meng Lei nodded repeatedly. Then, he resolutely gave the command. “System, plunder the Steel-Winged Angel bloodline!”
“Ding! The Steel-Winged Angel bloodline is classified as a higher life form’s bloodline. This pair of Steel-Winged Angel wings belongs to an Eight-Winged Steel Angel,” The system stated coldly, “Price Estimation: Plundering said bloodline requires 19.6 million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!”
“(⊙_⊙)? 19.6 million?”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp. “That’s too freaking expensive! I won’t plunder it anymore! I won’t plunder it anymore! I can’t afford to!”
At once, the system’s presence vanished.
“Have you succeeded?” asked an excited Dodola.
“It failed!”
Meng Lei gave Dodola a wry smile. “This pair of wings belongs to an Eight-Winged Steel Angel. I can’t afford the cost of plundering it!”
“An Eight-Winged Steel Angel?”
Dodola was greatly disappointed. “Eight-Winged Steel Angels are comparable to higher deities. It has indeed exceeded the range of what you can plunder. It’s understandable why you wouldn’t be able to do it!”
“Yeah! I can’t plunder it mainly because it’s too expensive!”
“Expensive?”
“My bad, what I mean is that it’s too high a grade! When I become stronger, perhaps I’ll be able to plunder it in the future!”
“Alright! Speaking of which, this is rather strange, though. Why would an Eight-Winged Steel Angel’s—and on top of that, one who even has a metal-origin divine body—wings show up in a place like this?”
...
Meng Lei cast a habitual glance at his stats interface upon exiting the Tower of Time and started to take inventory of his new gains.
True enough, the interface had changed again!
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Primeval Bloodline: Primordial Human <16%>, Assimilated Bloodlines: Gods-Slaying Rat, Divine Netherworld Phoenix, Hundred-Armed Giant)
Wealth: 49.41 million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals
Physical Body Constitution: Metal-Origin Divine Body (1%)
Spirit: Half-Deity (Pinnacle-Grade)
Others: Some increase
“My Physical Body Constitution has become a metal-origin divine body!
“1%?”
“‘1%’? What does the ‘1%’ at the back mean?”
“Ding! A friendly tip: The metal-origin divine body is formed using metal-elemental laws of nature as a source. The host’s body is flesh and blood. Hence it hasn’t perfectly integrated with the host.”
“It hasn’t perfectly integrated with my body? In other words, the ‘1%’ represents my metal-origin divine body’s assimilation rate? It’s surprisingly rather similar to bloodline assimilation rates!”
Meng Lei understood now. He asked, “System, how much does it cost to buy credit for the metal-origin divine body assimilation rate?”
“Ding! Raising the metal-origin divine body assimilation rate by 1% requires 1 million Divinity Crystals!”
“1 million... Divinity Crystals? Forget it, forget it!”
Meng Lei broke into a resigned smile at once. “That’s too expensive. I won’t fetch that high a price even if you sell me off!”
After adjusting his frame of mind, Meng Lei then continued to look through the treasures. There was a very ample amount of treasures in the Titan Empire’s treasury. Hence he looked forward very much to what he would see next.
He collected the items as he looked through them.
At last, he came to a box. The box measured four by two meters in length and breadth and was one-meter-tall. Densely packed laws of nature runes were inscribed all over it.
With Meng Lei’s prowess in his comprehension of laws of nature, he could tell at once that these runes formed a sealing magic circle.
“I wonder what’s inside the box for it to actually be sealed?”
Puzzled, Meng Lei began to break the seal. This didn’t pose any problem to him at all.
The seal was broken a brief moment later. Right away, a dense, rich aura of blood and death emanated from within, and the temperature around them fell by a few degrees out of the blue.
“For it to actually give off such a strong aura of blood and death, what can this possibly be?”
Meng Lei opened the box. A blood-red beam of light shot out
