Those time travelers that year

Of all the Campiones, Voban, who had lived for over two hundred years, had dealt with the heretical gods of the original world more than once or twice. He possessed six confirmed powers, meaning that at least six heretical gods had fallen at his hands.

When it comes to hunting, Voban is in no way inferior to the Blackblood Beast. Moreover, in the realm of hunting gods, Voban, who takes god-slaying as his entertainment, is far superior to Mara.

So how did the conflict between these two begin?

In fact, when Ciel began to reach into this world, while still acting as a whisper to lure Raistlin away from his original destiny, he had already taken the opportunity to throw several Campiones into it as well.

He instilled in them knowledge about how to become a god and gave them information about this world. Then, he just left the four unlucky guys to their fate. Anyway, Charles wasn't worried about their lives. He originally intended to use them to disrupt this multiverse so that his main body could enter it sooner.

Compared to the other three, Sasha Dejansdar Voban was undoubtedly very lucky. He did not fall into those planes where the gods were located, nor did he enter the Chaos Sea or the Mechanical Realm, which were equally dangerous even though there were not many gods.

This old man suddenly fell into the material world.

If Charles had known from the beginning that Marquis Voban was entering the Material World, he might have been quite pleased and included a guide to the Material World with the old man, allowing him to overturn the realm of the gods on Forgotten Realms and thoroughly muddy the waters. Unfortunately, Charles didn't know…

Voban awoke in a wild jungle.

The wild jungles of Earth are already incredibly dangerous, but this world is even more extreme. All sorts of ancient ruins and underground cities lie within, along with unknown dangers lurking there. But for Voban, the dangers of the jungle are nothing to brag about.

Although the powers were initially suppressed and rendered unusable due to changes in the world's rules, Campione's physical constitution remained unchanged. With his physical prowess alone, Voban was already a legendary figure in the material world. Combined with Campione's natural magic resistance, the old man practically roamed the entire jungle.

Upon waking, this Campione naturally learned of the knowledge Ciel had freely imparted. With intuition far surpassing that of a beast, Voban immediately confirmed that Ciel hadn't done anything underhanded. Of course, what Ciel intended to do remained a complete mystery to this Campione.

However, that doesn't matter. In a dangerous world, a strange world, a world where gods exist, a world that is both crazy and exhilarating for Voban, regaining all his power and taking this opportunity to resume his career is a good option.

For example, killing a god...

In the Material World, it's best to avoid the wild jungles. They are the graveyard of weak adventurers, a savage land far removed from civilized society, and a frequent haunt of worshippers of demons, monsters, and evil gods.

Mara's followers also frequented this area, so it could be said that Mr. Voban was very 'lucky' to encounter Mara's followers.

Mara's followers are mostly hunters, evil beastmen, rangers, druids, and so on—all experts in jungle survival. Their daily routine consists of hunting and offering sacrifices to Mara, the god of the hunt. The more powerful the prey, the more it pleases the god, and the easier it is to gain divine favor.

It's easy to imagine how different the attire of these guys who spend their lives in the wilderness is from that of Voban, who is dressed in 21st-century designer clothes.

That's the difference between a poor loser and high society...

Even if Voban suffered a bit here and his clothes got dirty, he was still much better off than these guys. So the conflict started. Mara's followers thought that Voban had wandered into the jungle by mistake, just like those unlucky souls who failed to teleport. Then they started to think about sacrificing Voban to Mara.

Then these guys went down.

Even with his powers sealed and temporarily unusable, Voban, with his Campione physique, remained a brute force of steel around the clock. Those Mara followers who intended to cause trouble were beaten to death by Marquis Voban's bare hands.

Even if there were priests of Mara among them, most of the divine spells or magic were simply ignored by Voban, and the enchanted weapons in the hands of Mara's followers could not really harm Voban; the weaker weapons couldn't even break Voban's skin.

So, the believer's demise caught Mara's attention, but he only saw Voban as a legendary, down-on-his-luck warrior. The next batch of expendable men arrived.

The main figure was a legend, whose sacrifice would bring Mara a great deal of divine grace. Thus, the group attempting to hunt down Marquis Voban included high-ranking priests and warriors, and the leader was a legendary beastman.

These guys have caused a lot of trouble. At first, they forced Voban into dangerous situations, making him extremely frustrated. This was mainly because the legendary-level orc leader wielded a weapon imbued with the power of Mara, a weapon capable of inflicting fatal damage on Voban. Add to that the priests, rangers, druids, and others fighting alongside him, and Voban narrowly escaped death at times.

When has the mighty Campion ever encountered such an utterly humiliating situation? In his prime, Voban would have easily annihilated these guys. Are legendary beastmen really that powerful? With the power in hand, they could kill instantly.

592. The Hunter 2

In any case, having narrowly escaped death, Old Man Voban was fighting with considerable frustration. But Mara's followers were unaware of this! They believed Old Man Voban's skills were limited to this, and adhering to the principles of hunting—to kill powerful individuals with a single blow or wear them down—they chose the latter, thus prolonging the fight…

The Campione's physique is quite interesting. Although Ciel believes the Campione's power is incomplete, their physical attributes are not. It's worth noting that the Campione gradually grows stronger with battle and time, and their control over their powers also increases. Ciel sees this as a manifestation of the Campione constantly adapting to the power they have usurped.

The more battles there are, the faster Campione grows. In this context, the more battles there are, the faster Voban adapts to this world. Then, the Mara followers who chose to stall for time suffered the consequences. The chase raged for a whole day, and Voban was almost driven to the brink of defeat. Just as victory seemed imminent, Mara's followers cheered and prepared to charge forward.

The disheveled Wobanzi revealed a ferocious grin on his face. Then, accompanied by a wolf howl, Wobanzi's body swelled up, transforming from an ordinary human into a gigantic werewolf with silver-white fur, thirty meters long.

What does a colossal werewolf measuring 30 meters in length mean? In this multiverse, no ordinary dragon is as large as Voban is now. This is a truly terrifying individual capable of slaying dragons with its bare hands.

The Greedy Wolves

This first power of old man Voban, in the midst of a life-or-death battle, finally broke free from the shackles of the world's rules, or rather, under the compulsion of the world's rules, truly merged with Voban, becoming a power that truly belonged to Voban.

Thus, Voban, transformed into a colossal werewolf, had all his injuries restored in sequence the instant he transformed. The cursed power within his body also began to rapidly transform according to the knowledge given to him by Ciel in order to adapt to this new world.

Having regained some of his strength, Voban tore the legendary-level beastman to shreds in the next instant. He also crushed the pair of iron claws in the hands of the Mara follower—weapons imbued with the power of the Black Blood Beast God, weapons that could be considered semi-divine or near-divine artifacts.

Logically, under the rules of this world, destroying an artifact comes at a price, unless you are a god. Marquis Voban is not a god, but unfortunately, his character card shows his name as Campione in the profession section.

By shattering this lesser or semi-divine artifact, Voban not only escaped any consequences but also directly absorbed Mara's divine power from the weapon. This time, the problem was much bigger than it appeared.

The killing of the believers was not a big deal for a god like Mara, who belonged to a chaotic and evil faction. After all, there were too many uncertainties in the material world. Who knows, a seemingly slovenly old man might actually be a mad legendary mage who enjoys building dungeons and watching foolish adventurers come to his death.

These kinds of guys can basically say to the gods—QNMD (a vulgar expression of utter disbelief).

So when a follower dies, even a legendary-level follower, Mara will at most be enraged for a while, then blacklist the culprit and have his followers hunt them down forever. But when a bestowed semi-divine artifact is destroyed, and the divine power he infused into it is completely devoured, that's a much bigger problem.

Not every god is like Losanda, whose incarnation was beaten and bled, and whose blood was then used to create a divine artifact, which he didn't seem to care about at all.

Generally speaking, divine power is something every god values ​​highly. If their divine power is stolen, they will go on a rampage, slaughtering anyone who tries to take it; if it is taken from them, the consequences will be irreconcilable. Sensing that its divine power left in the prime material world had been devoured, the Black-Blooded Beast, the god of the hunt, Mara, flew into a rage. Ignoring the suppression of the prime material world, it directly channeled its divine power into it, creating a phantom to kill the one who dared to devour its power.

Then, Marquis Voban shattered his illusion with a single slap. Yes, casually. Having regained his first power and fully mastered it, Voban completely overwhelmed Mara's followers. The illusion Mara had descended upon was simply used as an unknown technique of this world, shattered by Voban's full-force attack. This illusion, too, was created by Mara through divine power. By shattering it, Voban naturally absorbed a portion of Mara's divine power as well.

Things have gotten really serious...

Amid Mara's furious roar, all the followers of the God of Hunting in the Prime Material World sensed the wrath of their deity. Having had his divine power devoured twice, Mara was enraged and planned to descend into the Prime Material World in an avatar, intending to kill Voban with his own hands.

However, before Mara even arrived, the anger accumulated from being hunted down, along with the benefits gained from absorbing Mara's divine power, had already caused the old Marquis Voban to decisively erupt in fury.

Instead of running away, he actively began tracking the followers of Mara, following them all the way to Mara's altar—which was actually a village of orcs—and began his unstoppable stealth. Ranger/kill, Druid/kill, Orc/kill, Wild Monster/kill... Just as Voban fought his way to the innermost part, Mara's avatar was descending.

The altar was smashed to pieces by old man Voban, and Mara's avatar, which had just arrived and hadn't fully descended, was torn apart by the old man, who also devoured Mara's divine power once more. These three consecutive humiliations completely bewildered the God of the Hunt. Meanwhile, the raging gods watched the spectacle unfold, seemingly even planning to contact Voban and betray their own side.

Conversely, after smashing one of Mara's altars and annihilating all the beastmen and Mara's followers, Old Man Voban was quite surprised to find that the [Cage of Servants of Death], which he had usurped from the Egyptian god of the underworld Osiris, had also been unsealed within his powers.

"The actions of the gods stem from the paths and functions they fulfill, and this is also the source of their power..." Muttering these words from the knowledge given to him by Sharl, the colossal werewolf standing amidst a pile of corpses burst into maniacal laughter. "I understand, hahahahahahahaha..." Now, Voban understood how to restore his power. It was simple: continue fighting and killing with madness.

Campione's power originated from the gods, and his authority was usurped from the gods who did not obey him. In other words, as long as Voban focuses on causing trouble for the gods of this world, his power will recover at an even faster pace.

593. The Hunter 3

Having figured out how to restore all his power, Voban embarked on a journey of unparalleled stealth... well, how should I put it? It wasn't exactly unparalleled stealth, it was basically just killing, killing, killing, and crashing his way through the car.

It's important to understand that in the material world, due to the relatively underdeveloped state of civilization, civilized societies are extremely rare compared to the vastness of the world. In the wilderness, there exist various ruins, remnants of buried civilizations. These ruins are mostly either inhabited by powerful monsters or occupied by various cults.

This is why the adventurer profession is so developed in the Material World. Because the wilderness beyond civilized areas truly holds many surprises.

Unfortunately, these 'surprises' didn't seem to welcome Voban. So, during the monster-hunting process, demons, devils, ancient beasts, ancient dragons, cultists... a whole host of dangerous elements came out to kill Voban, this outsider. Then they discovered that he was not an easy target at all, but a deadly force.

Voban, transformed into a colossal werewolf thirty meters long, tore an ancient dragon to shreds with his bare hands. Under the reactivated effect of the [Cage of Death's Servants], a corpse dragon was created directly by Voban. Then, with this enslaved corpse dragon, Voban embarked on the path of the 'Mountain Bandit King'. Various 'outlaws' who had ruled the mountains fell one after another, while the old man Voban rampaged through the mountains like a demon, slaughtering his way across nine streets.

The unfortunate souls he killed were resurrected under the influence of the [Cage of Death's Servants], eventually forming a horde of over a thousand undead. Moreover, this undead horde wasn't just cannon fodder like skeletons and zombies; each one was preceded by a combat class of 10-15 levels according to the world's class hierarchy. The majority were rangers, warriors, druids, and other combat classes, with occasional appearances of priests, mages, warlocks…

This series of transformations immediately created a catastrophe that shocked the entire material world.

This was no longer something that only Mara, the god, had noticed; rather, it had attracted the attention of a considerable number of gods in succession. The raging gods, while pondering what exactly Voban was, were reminded of those super monsters from the outer realms by its ability to devour divine power.

It's quite obvious, however, that Voban still seems to be a mortal, yet he can both devour divine power and possess power similar to that of a god. Something doesn't seem right!

But judging from the looks of it, this seems to be a target that can be used, doesn't it?

However, at this moment, because of the monkey's impressive performance, most of the gods, especially the powerful ones, turned their attention away from the material world and did not pay much attention to what was happening in the wilderness. Although he didn't know that someone had helped him attract the attention of the gods, Voban still intuitively sensed the urgency of time.

After all, in his original world, the disobedient gods were mortal enemies of Campiones like himself, and he didn't believe the gods of this world wouldn't recognize his identity. At this juncture, the faster he recovered all his power, the more likely he was to survive the impending hostility from the gods.

So old man Voban erupted, controlling a high-quality army of thousands of undead to advance madly, while summoning wolf packs to track down the ruins hidden in the wilderness and the 'prey' hidden within them.

In particular, Voban, a follower of Mara and harboring a grudge, personally taught these guys what 'hunting' meant. Many beastman villages located in the wild jungles and Mara's altars were destroyed by Voban's army, further fueling the wrath of this god of the hunt.

It must be said that in the Prime Material World, the more remote and desolate the area, the more monsters and troubles there are. In civilized circles, a professional level of 10-15 is considered a powerful figure, but here they are practically worthless, like cannon fodder. Even legendary professionals, who are relatively rare in the Prime Material World, are everywhere.

Then they all fell to their deaths, their souls forcibly imprisoned, and even their gods could not pull them back. They were all captured by Voban's [Cage of Death's Servants] and turned into members of the undead army below.

Even though things had come to this point, Voban was no longer able to control the entire undead army individually. However, with a heavy heart, Voban only retained the core control and loyalty permissions, relinquishing everything else, which was equivalent to giving all the converted undead a great deal of freedom.

Those undead who gained considerable freedom did not say anything about enduring humiliation or hardship in order to break free from Voban's control.

Those whose souls were controlled by Voban had completely given up hope, especially the followers of Mara. Their God was unable to save their souls or allow them to ascend to God's kingdom under Voban's control. As the saying goes, the deeper the faith, the greater the hatred.

The Mara followers, who had been turned into undead by Voban, hated the Blackblood Beast to the core. They believed that it was because of this useless god that their souls were enslaved and condemned to eternal damnation. They cursed the unwitting hunter god with the most vicious words.

For this, having gained some freedom, they not only did not hate Voban, but one after another swore allegiance to Voban and knelt down.

This phenomenon is not limited to Mara's followers; the followers of other demons, devils, and other evil deities also experience the same thing. This is an undead army with an average combat class level of 15, and when this army goes berserk, it is a catastrophe within a catastrophe.

The undead imprisoned by the [Cage of Servants of Death], though now servants of Voban, have gained a kind of immortality as a result.

This rendered all spells, divine arts, and magical items targeting the undead ineffective. Attacks and damage could only destroy their bodies, not kill them completely. With just a thought from Voban, they could be resurrected under the power of the [Cage of Death's Servants]. In the original world, maintaining such a large-scale undead army would require Voban to expend the vast majority of his power and energy. But in this world, it was unnecessary. The thousands of high-quality undead had already attracted the attention of the Death Force. Even though the current God of Death disliked undead creatures, it didn't stop the flow of the Death Force from actively taking over the energy maintenance work and providing power to the [Cage of Death's Servants], allowing this undead army to grow ever larger.

Although the average quality started to decline, once the quantity reached tens of thousands, it was too late to stop.

Not long after, in the desolate regions of the material world, the undead scourge was rapidly spreading, and finally, when the 'Bane's Fall' came to an end, it completely attracted the attention of the gods.

Voban has officially come into the sight of the gods of this world...

594. The Hunter 4

By this time, Voban's undead army had amassed a full ten thousand strong, and a high-quality one at that. To gather such a large and powerful undead army, Voban had destroyed at least a hundred wilderness ruins and settlements of uncivilized creatures.

This includes orcs, beastmen, trolls, goblins, ogres, and more... Voban, who has achieved godlike status through countless battles, now commands as many as twelve legendary-level undead minions.

Among them are three legendary beastmen who originally worshipped Mara, four chieftains of beastman tribes who worshipped the beastman gods, two cult leaders who worshipped the devil, and three true dragons who have entered the realm of legend.

In terms of both quality and quantity, Voban is the undisputed lord of the Scourge and the true monarch of darkness in the current material world. Having reached this level, even without Voban's personal intervention, his twelve legendary undead servants are more than capable of directly annihilating an avatar of weak or low-level divine power. Even against a powerful divine avatar, they can fight to a standstill.

The commotion Voban has caused has already resounded throughout the entire Material World. Even though he has not yet come into contact with the civilized circles of the Material World and is still wreaking havoc in the wild jungle, the attention of the gods means that the upper echelons of the Material World's power have all become aware of Voban's existence.

This naturally caused great concern, and powerful city-states such as Waterdeep and Silvermoon began to secretly contact each other. Several chosen ones of the gods gathered to discuss how to deal with the great changes brought about by Voban.

While the followers of the evil gods caused considerable turmoil after the fall of Bane and several other leaders of the evil faction, the other evil gods quickly divided up the followers left behind by Bane and the others, thus stabilizing the unrest. However, the momentum created by Voban immediately stirred up the already calmed waves once again.

Ambitious schemers and conspirators learned through various channels about the terrifying undead scourge that Voban had gathered in that barbaric world outside of civilization. Some felt disgust, some harbored hatred, and some with ulterior motives were secretly plotting how to contact Voban or even exploit him.

Compared to those evil elements, the gods of the evil camp, especially those who lost face and power in the chaos caused by Voban, began to frequently issue divine pronouncements, mobilizing their followers to oppose Voban. These guys, because their private interests had been harmed, were far more enthusiastic than the followers of the benevolent gods.

The greatest losses were, of course, suffered by Mara and the orc gods.

The former is now helpless against Voban. Limited by the rules of the prime material world, Mara can only rely on his incarnation as the most effective means. He really has no way to deal with Voban now.

If you go down there, just wait to be ganged up on and beaten to death!

Its followers in the prime material world have been relentlessly pursued by Voban, who has wiped them out one after another, even sacrificing three legendary-level core forces, leaving it severely weakened.

Now, the Blackblood Beast could only suppress its anger and order its followers to quickly relocate to avoid further losses.

Don't forget, among Voban's current undead servants, there are quite a few former followers of Mara. These guys who have turned into undead hate Mara to an extreme degree and are doing everything they can to find more 'colleagues' so that they can embrace death and become slaves like themselves.