Chapter 502 - Berserker God

Ant God collected 200,000 Power Stones and offered them to the statue, which opened its mouth and absorbed them all at once. The copper statue revealed a gleeful smile before turning red.

That was when Ant God noticed that his core race had all been blessed with the first stage of berserk, with their overall stats receiving a huge boost.

The blessing had made his units 15% stronger, and his points shot all the way up to 810 billion. Ant God was very pleased with the results and thought he had found a way to become stronger.

Recalling that Han Wu’s points had increased twice earlier, he wondered,

Does that mean the shrine can empower my units twice?

Ant God eyed the statue with cautious distrust. However, aside from turning redder, nothing else about the copper statue seemed to have changed.

Checking the inscription on the shrine, he noted the conditions for the next blessing. “Offer 2 million Power Stones to receive the battleaxe of the Berserker God.”

Once again, he ordered 2 million of his black ants to kill themselves, collected their Power Stones, and offered them to the statue.

After absorbing the Power Stones, the statue turned a deep red, as if dipped in blood. Ant God then felt the stats of his units boosted once more by 15%.

His points had risen to 920 billion, just 10 billion away from first place.

This was a good chance to surpass Crouching Dragon. He already had 920 billion points, so what was another 10 billion?

Glancing at the statue once more, he read the new conditions. This time, he had to offer 20 million Power Stones to obtain the armor of the Berserker God.

Ant God hesitated. 20 million black ants were a lot to sacrifice, but he was just a step away from first place. Moreover, stronger units would undoubtedly help him in this ceremony.

After much contemplation, he finally gave his order to have 20 million black ants kill themselves. Power Stones piled up like a mountain before the statue.

The statue’s body shone as if covered with flowing blood. Meanwhile, Ant God waited impatiently for the statue to grant him the power he needed to overtake Crouching Dragon as first place.

But that was when something unexpected happened.

The statue opened its blood-red eyes, growing ever larger until it broke through the shrine and turned into a muscular giant. Ant God reacted quickly, instantly putting distance between him and the shrine, but the Berserker God refused to let him go.

It roared with a voice like a ringing gong. Any being within a certain radius could no longer move at all.

Ant God and his black ants were stuck in place.

The Berserker God approached him and bit off his head in one go.

Ant God died just like that, without even getting the opportunity to fight back.

On the ranking board, his name turned red, shifting to the bottom of the board as his points were reduced to zero.

The Berserker God, unsatisfied after merely snapping off Ant God’s head, swiftly devoured his body too. Strangely, the black ants remained standing, their eyes stained red as bloodlust engulfed them.

The humanoid black ants had become berserkers and were twice as powerful as before. Furthermore, they were no longer Ant God’s units but the subjects of the Berserker God.

“Kill everything!” bellowed the Berserker God.

The berserking black ants scattered in every direction, killing anything that crossed their path. Han Wu had been meditating and checking the reports from his units while keeping an eye on the ranking board.

When Ant God’s points dropped to zero and fell to the bottom of the ranking, Han Wu was immediately put on guard.

Zero points meant death.

But who had killed Ant God? Han Wu had a bad feeling when he recalled how Ant God’s points had risen twice. If he was not mistaken, a foreign God sealed within a shrine had likely killed Ant God.

“If I kill it, I can get another Divine Ego,” Han Wu mumbled, ordering his units to search for the foreign God. The other candidates had also noticed what had happened to Ant God’s points, but none knew why.

How did Ant God’s points rise so high before falling to zero? What had happened? Suspicious, they continued to explore. That was when some of them encountered the berserking black ants.

Subjects of the Berserker God were indifferent to pain, charging recklessly with incredible bloodlust. Their only purpose was to slaughter any life form they encountered, regardless of whether they were injured in the process.

Many of the candidates’ units were killed, which inevitably caused their points to drop. Worse still, the Berserker God would grow slightly stronger every time the berserking ants landed a successful kill. Only after its subjects killed more than a hundred million life forms did the Berserker God reach a bottleneck.

After some struggle, it finally broke through, becoming an Earthsunder life form. However, this wasn’t the limit of its strength. Discontent with its growth, it started personally hunting the candidates directly.

If the Berserker God could consume a candidate’s body, it could then control their units, allowing it to gain more subjects and naturally grow stronger.

𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

It had been extremely bored while sealed. In contrast, this slaughter seemed truly euphoric, making it feel invincible after so long.

Rampaging through the area, it came across an unshakable youth. This youth was also a candidate, and behind him were ten humanoids from the Wyrm race.

The Berserker God, believing the youth to be easy prey, roared and tried to eat him.

At the same time, the ten humanoid Wyrms behind the youth attacked. As Earthsunder life forms, they easily suppressed the Berserker God and subdued it.

The youth stepped forward with a needle-like sword called Wyrm Cutter, which he easily stabbed through the Berserker God’s skull, killing it.

He then retrieved the Berserker God's Divine Ego and wiped off the blood from his Wyrm Cutter.

“Time to find the next one.”