My Ability Is Role-playing

Chapter 630 - 624: The Rise of the Divine Court

Even as a seasoned mid-tier god, well-informed and experienced, Ling had to admit, he was a bit terrified.

Ma Ran’s performance caused his surrounding divine power to tremble, and his movements became somewhat stiff.

However...

Being a seasoned old monster, Ling quickly gathered his thoughts and maintained a combat state above the baseline.

He stared intently at Ma Ran.

Their eyes met, neither of them looking away, as their auras gradually rose and expanded, the clashing energies becoming increasingly fierce.

Ling, unwilling to lose in momentum, suddenly laughed heartily with confidence: "In the beginning, I was just suspicious."

"At that time, I had no evidence, but with some casual bluffing, you immediately exposed your identity."

Saying this, Ling looked Ma Ran up and down and critically remarked, "A genetically mutated super new type of insect race?"

"Although your aura is strange, the divine format and power of divine soul you simulated previously had almost no flaws."

"Even I couldn’t find a single piece of evidence."

"Recently, not many mid-tier gods have fallen, and among those who have fallen to the insect race civilization, there isn’t a single one."

"So..."

"You are a royal blood insect race hatched using the remains of an ancient god!"

Ling said with extreme certainty: "With mid-tier god’s combat power, you haven’t absorbed enough high-quality and fresh divine power during the embryonic stage. This makes you essentially a one-use weapon!"

"After one full-force battle, you will decay on the spot and completely fall!"

Saying this, he looked at Ma Ran with a look of regret: "A pitiful life that can bloom brilliantly only once but then withers completely."

"Even a god would sigh for such a fate."

Upon hearing the beginning of these words, Ma Ran knew that, as a fellow mid-tier god, Ling not only had strength surpassing that of Ji and Yan combined but also had superior combat experience and mentality.

Even when falling into a disadvantage, he could still think and reason calmly and rationally, constantly using words to attack the mind and striving to regain victory through various means in the battle...

Ling was not only a deity but also a qualified warrior.

Ma Ran had no doubt that such a guy would die with eyes wide open, roaring defiantly, rather than closing his eyes or covering his ears, shutting out all senses.

"Giving up" was a concept foreign to a warrior.

Seeing how hard the opponent was trying, Ma Ran decided to play along.

He glared fiercely at Ling, seeming to use ferocity and force to cover up his inherent frailty, while the black ceramic-like tail behind him lashed out irritably on both sides, with a hideous expression: "So what?"

"To kill you doesn’t even require my full effort!"

Upon seeing Ma Ran’s display, Ling appeared instantly composed and calm, as if he had taken a tranquillizer.

He believed that even if his guess wasn’t entirely correct, it wasn’t far from the truth—at least the "super new type insect race" in front of him could only fully exert themselves once.

Moreover...

The opponent cherished his life!

At least, before accomplishing a certain goal, he was unwilling to die easily!

In the blink of an eye, upon reaching this conclusion, Ling’s mindset became increasingly calm: "Hmm?"

"What if you come from some backwater corner, no matter how strong your ability?"

"In the end, your understanding is somewhat superficial."

"Do you think you can kill me?"

With these words, Ling calmly snapped his fingers, bringing his eight fingers together in a pyramid shape.

Buzz...

In an instant, the cold and dark vacuum environment was filled with billions of invisible, intangible existences.

Ma Ran even felt as if the dozens of kilometers around Ling were packed with some kind of sticky, gelatinous, elastic substance.

The naked eye could not capture the existence of those things.

However, using Spiritual Power and Soul Resonance to illuminate the area, Ma Ran immediately knew what these things were.

They...

Their appearance was like grapefruit-sized human brains, their surfaces full of grooves continuously wriggling.

Individually, they seemed ordinary and unremarkable.

Yet when these billions of transparent brains were combined, they appeared hauntingly and horrifically grotesque.

They constantly emitted some form of special frequency, combined with strange power, creating an invisible wave, and for life forms with insufficient strength in Spiritual Will and conviction, just glancing at them would result in immediate genetic collapse, mental chaos, and a monstrous transformation.

"Brains in a vat? No, just similar."

Ma Ran quickly made a judgment.

This combination of billions of transparent brains was actually a living organism.

Moreover...

It was perpetually dreaming, immersed in a world woven by Ling.

"Where I am, my loyal believers are also there."

Ling sneered.

The previous brief exchange had given him some "insight" into Ma Ran’s combat power, but no absolute confidence of victory, so Ling continued to use words as psychological warfare: "A deity capable of carrying billions of zealot followers with them, how powerful they are, I don’t need to explain, do I?"

It was well known that the greatest weakness of deities of the Divine Format System was their believers.

As recorded in the Divine Court, in the distant past, deities of the Divine Format System, although strong in combat power, were not in favorable situations.

Because once these deities had conflicts with others, if they couldn’t wholly destroy them, or even if they failed to eliminate every root, their followers would be slaughtered.

With the followers perished, the deities would be hung upon the "Wall of the End," suffering eternal torment of neither life nor death.

This was the original reason why those deities banded together.

And the Divine Court emerged among many Divine Format System organizations, achieving great unification simply because of a technological revolution—the Faith Power Crystalization technique!

During the Age of Barbarism, when deities acquired the Power of Faith, they would quickly convert it into their own formidable divine power, either to temper the divine body or provide data to optimize the divine format structure.

To not do so would indeed be foolish.

Because...

The Power of Faith has a shelf life.

Yes.

Much like the regular food of Earth humans, it has a shelf life, but for deities, the shelf life of the Power of Faith is absurdly short!

If it isn’t used promptly, it will spoil, turn into an obsession, and resentment, either dissipating quickly due to lack of replenishment or becoming negative energy life forms with a mission to hunt down deities.

Back then, deities of the Divine Format System, although powerful, had no guarantee of safety for their lives, forced to march relentlessly forward, rising to high positions so that none would dare touch their followers, or die miserably in faith wars.

The emergence of Faith Power Crystalization represented that the previously "limited shelf life" Power of Faith could be stored!

This was why the Divine Court, with absolute advantage, completed the great unification of the realm of Divine Format System deities and rapidly developed.

To this day, the Faith Power Crystalization technique has spread throughout the cosmos, no longer a secret, but the Divine Court has become an unshakable force and no longer depends on this core technology as it once did.

Even so, believers to deities remain both sacred and inviolable treasures and their fatal weaknesses!

A deity like Ling, daring to carry their believers with them, is either crazily foolish or highly skilled and bold.