Imperial Crown.

Chapter 547 Raven, Gods Cannot Be Looked At Directly
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Just as the gaping maw of the Ridgeback Rhinoceros was only inches away from the three Elven Bone Orchids, the power of the fourth-tier magic, Titan's Wrath, in the sky finally completed its buildup. The next moment, a thunderous roar resounded through the heavens and earth, and countless bolts of purple and silver lightning descended from the sky, striking the massive body of the Ridgeback Rhinoceros squarely and without any embellishment!
In a mere instant, the terrifying size of the Ridgeback Rhinoceros was completely obliterated! From afar, it appeared as if the Ridgeback Rhinoceros had transformed into a pool of lightning, or a blazing sun, bursting forth with blinding light! What was once pitch-black night was now as bright as day for miles around! "Aow—" Yet, this terrifying lightning attack did not instantly subdue it; in fact, the Ridgeback Rhinoceros could still be heard letting out a final, heart-wrenching howl. This glimpse reveals just how monstrous and terrifying the Ridgeback Rhinoceros's defensive capabilities were!

Fortunately, it didn't last long. The rhinoceros's screams abruptly stopped, and with a rumble, its mountain-like body collapsed into a deep sleep, devoid of any life or breath.

Raven hurried over and, finding the three elven bone orchids intact, patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. He uprooted the three orchids and placed them in his ring. Then, Raven drew his Starry Rapier and walked towards the corpse of the Ridge Rhinoceros. The massive beast's body was covered in fine, spiderweb-like cracks of crimson flame, resembling charred, glowing embers.

puff
The rapier pierced the skull of the ridge-mounted rhinoceros, and soon, Raven unearthed a fist-sized magic core—a fourth-tier yellow sand magic core, an earth-attribute magic core. "Not bad," Raven finally smiled.

"The Hermit!" "Good brother!" "Good older brother!" "Did you get it yet?! I really can't hold on much longer!"

In the distance came Litanshi's anguished and desperate roar.

"Now you know to call me 'brother'? Too late!" Raven sneered, completely unmoved. The principle of "fortune favors the bold" is self-evident; everyone knows it. But the principle of "every man for himself" is equally well-known, yet few dare to act on it. Morals, character, etiquette, shame, gentleness, kindness, respect, frugality, humility… these are merely rhetoric to restrain gentlemen. What kind of gentleman is Raven? Besides, the other party is an orc. The ancestors were right—those not of our kind are sure to have different hearts! So what kind of relationship does Raven have with him?

"Good brother! Do as you say, I only need one!" "Please save me!" "Hermit brother!" However, just as Raven was about to get up and leave, Litanshi's voice, filled with fear and a deep sob, rang out again, pleading desperately.

"Hmm?" Raven's heart skipped a beat, his eyes darting around, and he shouted, "Coming, bro!" Although Litanshi was just an orc! But... well, let's be honest... a man without integrity cannot stand! The great Raven is, of course, a man of his word, a true gentleman! He was before, he is now, and he will be even more so in the future. After all—discretion is the better part of valor! Alas... what can one do when Raven is inherently kind and simple-minded?

"You two beasts! Have you ever heard of a palm technique that descends from the sky?!"

Raven swiftly arrived at the area where Litanshi was being chased and fleeing in a disheveled state. Litanshi was now a complete loser, terrified and helpless! His clothes were gone, he was naked, drenched in sweat, and struggling to stay upright, swinging a huge basket. His high-level enchanted staff was no longer a weapon, but a crutch for support! Raven felt a surge of satisfaction, but his face remained impassive as he roared like thunder. Immediately, his battle aura surged violently like a raging sea. As Raven unleashed the Desolate Falling Heaven-Imprisoning Palm, the entire starry sky suddenly darkened, and a gigantic hand, as if the sky itself had collapsed, descended from the heavens! Such a terrifying sight shocked not only the two demonic beasts, but even Litanshi himself, who stared in disbelief and horror! His heart sank; he knew Raven was using the opportunity of killing the demonic beasts as a pretext to secretly annihilate him, reducing him to ashes! Only in this way could Raven devour all the treasures in one gulp! They might even get his storage ring! Of everyone present, only Raven truly understood that, despite half a year having passed, he still hadn't grasped the essence of this combat technique! It was merely a facade! High-level combat techniques were simply too, too, too difficult to cultivate! Truly, it was harder than ascending to heaven!
The two demonic beasts weren't fools. Sensing the danger, they immediately veered left and right, fleeing in opposite directions. As they fled, their bodies emitted intense light, attempting to resist this terrifying human combat technique! They were also mooing pitifully. Where was the trace of their previous ferocious demeanor? After all, in the eyes of these two demonic beasts, this scene was nothing short of the end of the world!

Litanshi was utterly exhausted! Resigned, he lay down on the ground, sprawled out in a starfish shape, quietly accepting his impending death! Destroy him already! He was truly exhausted.

boom

As the giant hand crashed down, dust filled the air, rocks shattered, fluorescent magical plants burst with nectar, the earth shook violently as if it were hanging upside down, and hundreds of towering ancient trees were smashed and broken into pieces with a crack and a crash!

"cough cough"

To his surprise, Litanshi was only slightly injured. Although he was dazed and disoriented from the shockwave, he was still alive. Even if Raven's technique was weak, it couldn't have been completely powerless! The main reason was that Raven's target wasn't him. Since he was going to be a good guy, he might as well go all the way. Therefore, when using this technique, Raven deliberately avoided the area where Litanshi was. He was positioned perfectly between his index and middle fingers!
"Are you alright?" Raven walked over, his hands behind his back, and asked casually.

"No," "It's nothing." Litanshi's expression was a little unnatural. He was angry at Raven for not helping him, feared Raven's powerful strength, and was also grateful for the life-saving grace he had just received. All his dissatisfaction could only be hidden in his heart, and he dared not show it at all.

"It's good that you're alright. Let's run! The commotion here is too great; high-level elf powerhouses will definitely be coming soon." After saying this, Raven fled into the distance. Litanshi watched Raven's retreating figure with a complicated expression, silently following closely behind.

"Brother Hermit, are you a mage?!" Several days later, the two rested by a pool. Litanshi, having finally recovered, asked cautiously. While fourth-tier transcendents were rare, they were still plentiful on the Miders continent. Moreover, even the highest transcendents, without inherited combat techniques, were simply not as powerful. But mages were different. On the Miders continent, mages were synonymous with "noble." Their status and position were second only to nobles. This disparity stemmed from the fact that both transcendents and mages required vast amounts of precious resources for cultivation, which was impossible without the patronage of nobles. This determined the difference in their status. Resources were equivalent to territory; the larger the territory, the more resources one controlled. In most cases, high-ranking mages were even more prestigious than low-ranking nobles. After all, the future of a mage was limitless! If the human named Hermit before him were a fourth-tier high-level mage, then without a doubt, Litanshi's status would be half a notch below his.

“No.” Raven shook his head decisively. The reason the other party guessed that he was a mage was probably because he had seen the terrifying scene of Titan’s Wrath. Raven explained, “Those are magic rune stones that I bought from a mage at a high price before I came here.”

"Oh~" Litanshi suddenly realized, and you could clearly hear that he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hehe," "Hehe," "Haha," Litanshi suddenly let out a few nonsensical, hollow laughs, and the atmosphere suddenly became awkward. After rubbing his hands together like a fly, Litanshi said with a hint of embarrassment and shame, "Brother Hermit, my Elf Bone Orchid..."

"Tsk," Raven slapped his forehead, feigning forgetfulness, and sighed inwardly. He took out an Elven Bone Orchid from his ring and handed it to the other person. He had originally planned to use the life-saving favor to keep the Elven Bone Orchid. But this idiot had absolutely no sense of social etiquette! Raven had no choice but to reluctantly hand over the Elven Bone Orchid. Fortunately, this time he had gained a fourth-tier Yellow Sand Magic Core and two fourth-tier Elven Bone Orchids. Either way, he wasn't at a loss. It was just a pity about the carcass of that Ridgebacked Rhinoceros. It was a treasure trove! All sorts of alchemical treasures! It could be used to refine potions or enchanted items, and could fetch at least hundreds of thousands to millions of gold coins! Unfortunately, he didn't have a large enough spatial ring, and he didn't have the time to deal with it, so he had to discard it.

The human and the orc exchanged an awkward yet polite smile, tacitly pretending nothing had happened.

“Brother Hermit, you rest here for now. I’ll go prepare lunch for us.” Litanshi stood up and brushed the dirt out of his anus. He’d been running around like headless chickens for the past few days, and he was still completely naked, his dark basket right in front of Raven’s eyes. Raven turned his head away and nodded silently.

Once Litanshi was some distance away, Raven immediately activated his Martial Soul and began searching for the dwarf Girida. No kidding, how could Raven not be tempted by the ruins of the Seven Deadly Sins Tomb? The Tzeentch Palace had given Raven the Heart of the Devourer, allowing him to not only advance to the fourth-tier transcendent but also awaken his Martial Soul, the Void Extreme Divine Eye. As time passed, Raven increasingly discovered how useful his awakened Martial Soul was! It was because of it that Raven found the Black Scorpion who owed him money, summoned the lustful Margaret, and used the unsuspecting dwarf Girida and women to guide him on his adventures. The only drawback was that this Martial Soul couldn't help Raven increase the power of his combat techniques! In that respect, it was rather useless. In fact, Raven had suspected more than once that his slow progress in cultivating combat techniques was likely related to his Martial Soul. Perhaps due to insufficient energy, he was unable to unleash the true power of high-level combat techniques!

With the appearance of the scarlet blood eyes, Raven witnessed a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life!
After so much time, the woman and Girida had long since found the location of the ancient tomb. However, the woman had miscalculated; Slaanesh's Palace was not an ancient ruin, but a still-functioning altar palace! Raven not only saw the woman and the dwarf Girida, but also a dragon… a dragon twice the size of Zolzahn, at least at the sixth rank! He also saw elves… elves that looked like angels! Behind the elves, their martial spirits were now manifesting—a tree with gnarled branches, towering to the sky, and leaves like a canopy! The World Tree? Raven didn't recognize it. He only felt that the tree before him was multicolored, shimmering with gold, and radiating seven dazzling divine lights. With just one glance, his Void Divine Eye trembled violently, as if it had been sprayed with chili water, and crimson tears streamed down its face. "Hah!!" Raven roared suddenly, immediately increasing the flow of his battle qi, barely managing to maintain his composure.

"Thieves from another race, you've come to the wrong place."

The elven woman stood suspended in mid-air, her voice resounding like a thunderclap. If others merely resembled or imitated deities, this elf's demeanor was akin to a true god incarnate! As her words thundered, the void beneath her surged with wind and thunder, forming a colossal, boundless eye of a hurricane! It slowly spun beneath her feet. The sky above was thick with dark clouds, congealing into a terrifying spectacle capable of shaking the entire universe! Within her magic, humans were as insignificant as ants. Dragons and altars were nothing more than larger ants. Was this a forbidden spell? Or a domain? Raven was horrified! He strained his crimson eyes, hidden within the void, not missing a single detail! This elven woman was at least a seventh-tier expert! At least a seventh-tier powerhouse! She had very likely broken through to the eighth tier! The eighth tier, in the current Middles Continent, truly was the realm of a "land immortal"! A grand, fateful voice echoed continuously. It was clearly a destructive curse, yet in this terrifying scene of heaven and earth upside down and mountains collapsing, it seemed to fit together beautifully like musical notes.

Upon seeing this, the woman and the dwarf naturally fled frantically. But no matter how fast they went, they couldn't escape the area covered by the magic.

The next moment, the terrifying scene created by the magic slowly closed in like a lid and the bottom of a pot, completely annihilating the woman and the dwarf!

"You've finally arrived." The elven woman suddenly turned her head slightly to the left, her beautiful face devoid of any emotion. "Raven, one cannot look directly at a god."

As her words fell, Raven's Void Eye vanished with a bang. Meanwhile, Raven, thousands of miles away, let out a painful scream of "Ah—!"

"Jill!" "My little Jill!" "My dear Jill!"

Raven roared with all his might.

"Good brother!" "What happened to your penis?!" Litanshi heard Raven's wailing from afar and immediately ran back without hesitation, asking with extreme concern on his face.

Raven: ...

“No, it’s Gilida!” “He…” “He’s dead!” Raven said, catching his breath. He wiped away the few hot tears he had forced out of his face.

"What?!" Litanshi's expression changed drastically upon hearing this. "Gilida is dead?!" he murmured in disbelief. "How did he die?"

Raven shook his head, not answering the question, but instead said, "Good brother, we must avenge Gilida!"

"it is good!"

Litanshi nodded heavily, his voice filled with sorrow and genuine emotion, saying, "To be honest, I should apologize to you, Hermit. I was prejudiced against you before, but I never imagined you were such a loyal and devoted person! I, Litanshi, swear that from this day forward, you, the Human Hermit, are my best brother!" "From now on, I'm the boss, Gilida is the second, and you're the third!" "Don't worry, brother! No matter what happens in the future, I'll go to great lengths for you!"

"Walk."

"We're going to save our second son right now!" Litanshi shouted resolutely!
"That bastard! Even at a time like this, he's still trying to take advantage of me. When he was begging for his life, he kept calling me 'Hermit Brother,' 'Hermit Big Brother,' 'Hermit Elder Brother'... Now that there's no danger and he knows I'm not a magician, he's subtly elevated himself a level, becoming Raven's 'Big Brother.'" Raven cursed inwardly, but on the surface, he nodded emphatically and shouted excitedly, "Big Brother!!!"

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(End of this chapter)