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Chapter 89: Votive Power
🕑 Added 2025-12-06 16:00:15 +0000 UTCLevi closed his eyes.
He actually had a solution for the current situation.
For instance, with the buff from his Constellation, his Electro-element Vision had already accumulated a full 240 stacks of Chakra Desiderata.
If Levi were willing to unleash that 'Musou Isshin,'
while it might not recreate the spectacular 'Musoujin Gorge' from the world of Genshin, clearing the field and washing the ground of the plain wouldn't be as difficult as imagined.
However, it was the same old story.
He had been holding onto a major move like this not to use a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
It was a 'gift' reserved for Ottar and the other executives of the Freya Familia.
A mere Hyakinthos, even if he had leveled up to Lv.4 according to the public announcement,
did not qualify for such a grand funeral from him.
Indeed, for the five reinforcements from the Freya Familia, Levi didn't mind sparing their lives, as their powerful Familia offered potential profits.
But the captain of the Apollo Familia had been on his kill list from the very beginning.
Levi didn't want to waste time.
...a method to annihilate his opponent.
Levi exhaled a breath and opened his eyes again.
The mana dispersed in the air was instantly imbued with a layer of ice element under his control.
Immediately, a cold aura spread out.
In the blink of an eye, it formed a thick area of white fog in a radius of over 600 meters.
—Mana Burst: Ice Fog Domain!
The inspiration for this move came from the pre-assassination ninjutsu from the Village Hidden in the Mist in the world of Naruto: 'Water Style: Hidden Mist Jutsu'.
The original jutsu, besides obstructing vision, also filled the mist with chakra, which could, to a certain extent, resist the Byakugan's clairvoyance and thousand-mile sight.
But for Levi, it was the exact opposite.
Within the Ice Fog Domain, his 'vision' was infinitely amplified, while the vast number of tiny, dust-like ice crystals suspended in the air could be inhaled into the lungs of outsiders, causing a certain amount of damage.
In the Ice Fog Domain, Levi had an absolute home-field advantage.
An adventurer's constitution would basically guarantee their combat effectiveness in the white fog domain from Lv.2 onwards.
But what if, on top of 'Mana Burst: Ice Fog Domain,' he added 'Transcendence: Baleful Omen,' which could create coordinated Electro-elemental attacks?
And so, in the divine mirror watched by the people of Orario, the pendant at the pale-golden-haired youth's waist suddenly lit up with a purple glow.
Behind him, a translucent eye-like sigil condensed from Electro-elemental power inexplicably appeared.
Not only that, less than half a second later, an arc formed on each side of the sigil, meeting at Levi's waist and transforming into a circular ornament with a total of twenty-four small orbs of light, including the eye sigil.
Seeing this scene, the ordinary citizens of Orario were fine. Even Lv.6 adventurers like Riveria only thought Levi was using some kind of magic—although the number of magic types he had used since the battle began had already exceeded the limit of his Falna's magic slots.
But the gods in the Denatus hall, who had spent an incredibly long time in Tenkai, were not ignorant novices.
Someone immediately cried out in alarm:
"Resolve?!"
The 'gods' of the DanMachi world were born as 'transcendent beings,' but that didn't mean they hadn't studied other powers during their boring past.
Among them, naturally, was 'Resolve,' or in other words, 'Faith.'
This was something that, in theory, was sufficient to allow a human from the lower world to ascend to godhood.
At the very least, they could become 'immortals' who live forever.
However, the accident more than 3,000 years ago had already proven that this path was a dead end.
Faith comes from intelligent life, is essentially the flash of the soul, and has infinite potential.
But humans, as a short-lived race, are also fickle.
The Resolve they provided was very prone to 'corruption,' just like the 'Tainted Sacred Flame' in Olympia, sealed away on the western side of the continent by layers of barriers.
Yes, the small cluster of 'Sacred Flame' that came from Tenkai and should have been watched over by Hestia was, in fact, a conceptual crystal formed from the power of faith.
It was just that under normal circumstances, the fuel for this Sacred Flame was not the Resolve provided by humans of the lower world, but the unchanging conviction bestowed by the eternal gods. This was how the purity of the Sacred Flame was maintained.
But Prometheus's attempt to bring the small Sacred Flame to the lower world had ultimately ended in failure, one might even say tragedy.
...Back to the main topic.
Resolve was a very dangerous power, at least in the eyes of the gods, and not something humans of the lower world should come into contact with.
And for this very reason, Apollo, seizing the moral high ground, immediately stood up and shouted at the twin-tailed goddess in the distance:
"Hestia, you embezzled from your post and taught this dangerous power to Levi Bright?!"
Although Hestia was also a bit surprised by Levi's decision to reveal his trump card, it was only a slight surprise.
"Apollo, are you blind? The magic Levi is using comes from the ornament at his waist."
Beside her, a god heard her words and asked curiously:
"Where did that ornament come from?"
Hestia spread her hands, feigning innocence:
"He picked it up."
And it was true, wasn't it? Yesterday, after Levi finished testing the Constellation's effects, he casually left it on the table, and this morning he picked it up again.
Everyone could tell the blue-ribboned girl wasn't telling the truth.
However, considering the Resolve used by the youth in the divine mirror came from the ornament at his waist, and it seemed to have no connection to the 'Tainted Sacred Flame' from Olympia, they said no more.
The reason was also very simple.
Levi, located within the area designated for the War Game, knew that once he used the Electro-element Vision at his waist, he would inevitably attract the attention of the gods.
But he ultimately chose to expose it to the public eye.
The reason, well, was simple.
He couldn't just never use the two magics that came with the Tenkajin-constellation.
Otherwise, there would have been no point in redeeming it.
Moves like this, which involved the secrets of Tenkai, needed a suitable occasion to be revealed.
Obviously, during a War Game was a very good time.
With Levi's understanding of Hestia, the latter would definitely provide a suitable excuse.
The pale-golden-haired youth, who was moving rapidly across the plain, suddenly stopped.
Although his perception was blocked by the magic item Hyakinthos was wearing, the Eye of Baleful Thunder, a skill from another world's gods that could automatically unleash follow-up attacks, would obviously not miss even the slightest change in the air.
The moment Hyakinthos inhaled the ice crystals within the Ice Fog Domain and felt discomfort, a bolt of lightning descended from the void onto the area where he was.
And because of the water vapor and ice crystals that had naturally condensed within the domain, it spread out in an instant.
"Guh, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!"
