Xion Ch38: Challenge 4

7 months after duel.

My preparations hadn’t been swift enough. Elves were poor riders, and moose were poorer mounts. Getting a few elven aspirant warriors to try and ride a moose wasn’t hard. Breaking the moose into reliable mounts was more difficult. From what I could determine, they couldn’t be trained to pull chariots either. A moose’s value stopped at their meat and hide. I found a species of pigmy horses, but it would take decades of selective breeding to make one strong enough to bear a rider.

So, I scrapped the mounted elves' plan in favor of archers. Longbows weren’t easy to master, but in only a month, most elves could put an arrow where they wanted it at 100yrds. Their keen eyes, qi enhanced bodies, and height gave them an incredible advantage in that regard. In addition, their longbows were made of a glowing yew that didn’t mind losing a branch in exchange for a moose.

As it turned out, moose became something of a currency more than a mount. So my plan to herd and breed them wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

I walked over to a limb poking out of the and uprooted it. Long silvery roots came up with the limb. It wouldn’t be long before it formed a whole avatar by its growth. All it really needed to grow was water and sunlight.

My qi sense felt, tasted, and heard the sunlight stream into the limb, and by some complex process, qi was refined from it. The limb of the avatar did naturally what Zosimael attempted to teach me. No breathing technique was involved; instead, its disembodied will pulled the light into itself, almost like a single constant breath.

Challenge 4 Slay the Gods 3months

Forest God Slain: 10 Red Pills

Skull God Slain: 10 Blue Pills

Plains Pantheon Slain: 15 Green Pills

My fourth challenge was harder than any before it. I hadn’t managed to kill a single god, and this one only gave me 3 more months to succeed. Well, it wasn’t like I was weak. I had trained myself every day as much as my regeneration would allow. While I could use a little light and move like any warrior with a spear, those weren’t my goals. While deadly, a mid-range light technique wouldn’t allow me to kill the forest god. I couldn’t store as much light as Samael, much less an avatar.

There was only one thing I could focus on to separate me from the others. Qi and qi control used in conjunction with my weights allowed me to increase the strength of my body dozens of times over. First, I made my weights as heavy as possible through runes, and with qi, my body surpassed human limits. Then I made a familiar bond with Lotus and started gathering mana. In short, I worked on the basics as much as possible in preparation for a terrible war.

My training arc had finally ended, and I was ready to fight. Not only were kaiju my opponents, but I had a whole pantheon to destroy. After eating some of their flesh, there was no telling what powers they would give me or how much stronger I would become. I had trees I could use as throwing knives, a dragon in my inventory, and a massive summoning circle in my back pocket.