Back at the War God’s Mountain, everyone was still in a daze, still bnkly staring at Ace as he allowed his body to flop onto Leo’s soft, furry back.

  He no longer had the strength to fight another battle, not that any mortal would dare to challenge him after witnessing his st strike.

  Still, before he and Leo could return to Arianna’s side, a powerful aura suddenly appeared in the skies above.

  Though he was drained, he knew better than to lower his guard ierritory, so the moment the figure appeared, Ace’s head snapped up only to see a crimson-haired man looking down at them all with an indifferent gaze, but the thing that shocked Ace was the overwhelming power the man radiated.

  Ace had met dozens of saints by now, but purely in terms of presenone were anywhere near as imposing as this man. The aura he emitted seemed to burn even brighter than the sun that hung in the sky to his rear.

  Still, that sholy sted a sed before turning into a dense killing ihat seemed to lower the temperature in the surrounding area.

  Ace had never seen the man before, but it didn’t take a genius to uand that he was the man who tainted his mother’s pure soul. He was the one who fuelled Ace’s desire to grow stronger most. It was he whom Ace had dreamt of sughtering in the most brutal way imaginable every night for over a year. He was the War God of the Yun ti – he was O’Brien!

  Sensing such a powerful killing i directed at him, O’Brien’s eyes immediately fell on the dark-haired teen.

  As a deity, he could very easily ceal his energy, preventing anyone from sensing him in the slightest, but he disdained such acts; he was an invincible deity who anded respect from everyone eared before him. As such, it was rare for anyone – saint or not – to dare even look directly at him, let alone show such a ed expression, and for it to e from a child, how could he not be taken aback?

  But as soon as he looked at the defiant teen, he immediately uood he was the one who had caused all the otion in his empire. Even so, he would never allow anyone who dared to show him such disrespect, even if they were a genius seen once every million years. His dignity was o be infringed on!

  Still, the most important thing right now was to find the source of that energy he sensed earlier. Although it was nowhere near powerful enough to threaten him, it still made him shiver slightly.

  “What happened?” O’Brien asked as he turo face his eldest disciple.

  “Well,” Fain began. “It all started when that child, Gol D. Ace, appeared with his group to challehe students from the college…”

  Whilst Fain was expining everything that happened, Arianna was watg her disciple trembling in a near untrolble manner in Lance’s arms. This was the moment they had all been most worried about.

  If Milianna was able to see O’Brien once more in person and all of them leave with their lives, they were 99% sure that Milianna’s soul would once again see an improvement and after that, the day Ace challenged aed O’Brien, Milianna’s soul should recover pletely.

  Unfortunately, this dangerous pn – proposed by her disciple – was a double-edged sword. Although it was true that it should be pin sailing ohey left here, it was also very possible that just by being in his prese could cause Milianna’s soul to worsen dramatically.

  What happened from here on out all depended on Milianna and her willpower. All she could do rotect her disciple and the rest of their group from harm’s way.

  As such, she focused her attention ba O’Brien, preparing herself to act at a moment’s notice.

  “… And that was when you arrived,” Fain expined slowly, making sure not to leave anything out.

  “You mean to say that not only did that energy I sense inate from that boy?” O’Brien asked expressionlessly. “But he used it to defeat a newly promoted saint whilst only at the sixth rank?”

  “That’s right, but tha…”

  “Your name’s Ace, right?” O’Brien asked before Fain could finish his sentence, watg as Ace dismounted his beast panion’s back to sit fag him on the back of the peak saint staged lion. “Be my disciple!”

  O’Brien watched Ace being carried onto Carter’s back but did nothing to stop them. After all, in his eyes, there was no way two trivial saints could stop him if he decided to make a move. If anything, their a was more cute than anything else.

  No one was shocked by the ‘and’ of the War God. The talent Ace showed here today was simply heaven-defying. He had already proved that he would fao bottlenecks until he became a deity, a being on the same level as the man speaking, and that didn’t even take into sideration the fact that his beast panion was a Divi who would also bee a deity eventually as well, or the fact that he had knowledge of such a fearsome mystic teique.

  Still, although they weren’t shocked, it didn’t mean they were happy about it either. Those from other forces were unhappy because, should Ace say yes, it would mean that the O’Brien Empire would have three deities iure.

  Those from the O’Brien Empire weren’t happy as Ace had all but humiliated their empire only to be awarded a position that most of them could only look up to. Still, it was bittersweet as they also uood it would only bolster their power iure.

  But the person most displeased with this development was Byrius. Not only had Ace killed his disciple and publicly humiliated him, he was also the disciple of his rival and greatest enemy – Aiden Rohault.

  No matter how they felt about it, the moment O’Brien opened his mouth, everyone already believed it was a done deal. When a deity speaks, the rest of the world had no choice but to obey. The only ones capable of ag against the War God were other deities, but that was why Ace’s response shocked them beyond belief.

  Ace’s eyes radiated pure killing i as he met the gaze of the man the world stood in awe of. “Fuck off!”

  It was only two words, but when they came out of Ace’s mouth, whether it was O’Brien himself, his disciples, or any of those present, they all stared at Akly, not knowing what to say, think or do.

  The only ones who were still calm – for the most part – were Ace’s group. They all khat with Arianna here, O’Brien couldn’t do anything to them. Well, most of them khat.

  As a former member of the O’Brien Empire, Cirulus had been all but indoated to fear and respect the War God. Still, he was a decisive man by nature. Since he had decided to stand by Ace, he would tio do so until the day he died.

  The other person who wasn’t able to remain calm was obviously Milianna. Her master had already told her that she was strohan O’Brien and that as long as she was there, O’Brien would never be able to do anything to them.

  Milianna knew Arianna wouldn’t lie to her, she knew she should believe her, but every fibre of her being etrified of the man in front of her, but not for her own sake. She was scared for her son. She was scared that O’Brien would take Ace away from her.

  Her whole body was trembling non-stop, and had it been any other time, her odd rea would’ve caught the attention of those present, but lucky for her, each of Ace’s as seemed to take their full attention.

  Had O’Brie his Divine Sense over their group, with the power of his soul, the shadow robe would do o nothing to stop him from seeing the identity of the wearer, but at the moment, he was way too distracted for anything else.

  “What did you say?” O’Brien asked bnkly as though he couldn’t prehend the boy’s reply.

  “I said, fuck off!” Ace repeated just as coldly as before.

  God or not, anyone who dared to touch his mother was nothing but a walking corpse in his eyes.

  “Good,” O’Brien voiced emotionlessly. “Very Good!”

  Even though O’Brien dispyed no visible emotion, none of those watg dared take a breath for fear of what was about to happen.

  “How long has it been sineone dared to take that toh me?” O’Brien asked as he stared up at the sky as though he were seriously w.

  “Since you’re so i on doing things the hard way,” O’Brien voiced slowly. “Have it your way.”

  As he said that, O’Brien disappeared from his previous position.

  The moment he moved, whether it was Ace, Fain or Desri, none of them were capable of following him with any of their incredible senses.

  Even though he didn’t specialise in speed, the speed of a deity was simply immeasurable for saints to follow. Well, most saints, anyway.

  Unfortunately for O’Brien, Arianna wasn’t “most saints”.

  O’Brien had only covered half the distance when his eyes widened in shod horror. Without a moment of hesitation, O’Brien immediately came to a halt and raised his arms, c them with his deity-level energy to block the ining sword-shaped beam of golden light.

  Once again, the audience was shocked speechless as they saw smoke rising from O’Brien’s arms as he looked deeply at the only human saint among Ace’s group.

  “I believe you were already told to fuck off!” Arianna said, still as calm as ever.

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