The three quickly made their way through the dark passage.

All three were peak experts. Even if Minsk's strength had somewhat suffered over the years, he could still keep up.

Unlike the last time he tracked the Jade Banshee, this time Marvin felt an indescribable pressure.

He could faintly hear a beating heart.

This definitely wasn't the Dungeon Core's heartbeats.

Everything felt old.

He was a bit nervous.

He calmed down after glancing at the new information on his interface.

He had already become a lot more powerful.

Even if the Wilderness God did resurrect, he wouldn't be completely unable to retaliate.

...

Because the previous event had wrapped up so suddenly, and because Marvin was rushing from the Wilderness Hall to the Regis Ruins, he could only check his gains on the road.

The results were very surprising. He hadn't expected that killing an Ancient God's avatar that had already been nearly unconscious would increase his strength so substantially.

This wasn't reflected in just the hundred-plus thousand experience points, or the 12 Comprehension points, but also most significantly in Marvin's advanced False Divine Vessel having a formidable evolution!

The advanced False Divine Vessel had been given to Marvin by the Fairy guarding the Chromatic Dragon God's Divine Source.

In order to get it, he'd had to put that hot potato in his storage.

Despite the Fairy guaranteeing that Dragon God Hartson, who had been playing dead, wouldn't be able to locate that thing, that was on the assumption that Marvin didn't provoke him. But that thing had always been a time bomb. Dragon God Hartson wasn't only on the level of someone like Dark Phoenix; he was one of the peak powerhouses in the Universe.

After Marvin left the Elemental Plane of Water under Louise's cover, he checked for a bit before confirming that this thing wouldn't trigger a disaster, which slightly reassured him.

As for the Dragon God's Wrath instance follow-up, he wasn't too clear about it. Professor and the others should have handled that matter properly.

And with Louise's help, the Water Elemental Sovereign should have temporarily lost his interest in the matter.

This was the best news for Marvin.

It was a pity that from another point of view, the advanced False Divine Vessel he received wasn't as useful as it should have been.

The False Divine Vessel gifted to him by Endless Ocean could absorb Divinity and add some Divinity bonuses, but it didn't have a direct strength increase.

After fusing the advanced False Divine Vessel with his own Divine Vessel, it only seemed to become a bigger vessel.

Apart from that, he didn't find any new functions of it.

The Fairy said that the Divine Vessel would need to be cultivated for a very long time because it had been with her for so long and also because Marvin's was quite different.

Thus, he temporarily didn't bother with it.

That advanced Divine Vessel had always been calmly revolving within his body, only offering some helpful bonuses.

It didn't even seem to react after Marvin killed Greater Demon Balkh.

At that time, Marvin obtained many Comprehension points and had a faint feeling that his Divine Vessel had absorbed something, but he didn't find anything afterwards and thought he had imagined it.

After all, False Divine Vessels were among the few things Marvin was unfamiliar with in this world.

As the crystallisation of the wisdom of Humans, surpassing the Universe Laws and the Gods' limits, they weren't that simple.

Marvin originally thought that it would continue to remain mostly inert, but when he crushed the Wilderness God, time seemed to come to a halt.

Marvin noticed that when the space they were in collapsed, the Life-Severing Ivies formed bitter faces, and those faces were attentively watching Marvin.

Ultimately, those vines dissolved into cyan smoke, which shrouded the place for a short while before gradually disappearing.

They merged with Marvin's body. To be more precise, something within Marvin's body took the initiative to absorb them.

Marvin was puzzled at the start, but after looking at his interface and checking his body's condition, he understood.

He hadn't expected that he would be able to absorb the Wilderness God's remaining power!

The advanced False Divine Vessel was naturally the reason for that.

This "supreme treasure" that the Fairy had claimed was on the level of Artifacts had finally shown its effects.

A part of the essences had been absorbed by the Essence Absorption System and turned into experience and Comprehension, becoming a great help for Marvin's class system. The remaining power had been completely assimilated by the False Divine Vessel.

This was why the ivy all disappeared after Marvin killed the Wilderness God's avatar.

If not for the False Divine Vessel, they might have had to fight with the remaining ivy. After all, even though the Wilderness God's avatar had already died, the remaining Life-Severing Ivies would still be left as a bunch of brainless monsters.

After helping everyone survive, Marvin profited greatly.

On Marvin's interface, the information about the advanced False Divine Vessel appeared in front of him:

[Advanced Divine Vessel… Divine Power Pool established…]

[Power Absorption…]

[Domains detected, fusing Domains…]

The lines of logs were dazzling.

These logs then appeared:

[Advanced False Divine Vessel (First Advancement) (degree of fusion 13%)]

[Divinity: 7/36]

[Domain 1: Slaughter (Using 3)]

[Domain 2: Shadow (Using 3)]

[Domain 3: Plant Metamorphosis (Using 2) (Recover 1)]

[Divine Power Pool: 14]

...

A small distorted space appeared within the False Divine Vessel.

This space was called the Divine Power Pool by the False Divine Vessel. As the name implied, this was a space used to store Divine Power. Divine Power originally belonged to the Gods and as far as Marvin knew, the only ways to control it were through transforming Faith Power or swallowing others' Divine Power.

Clearly, Marvin's share of Divine Power was obtained from the Wilderness God avatar.

He not only got two points of Divinity (Plant) from him, but also obtained a great amount of Divine Power.

Those 14 points represented how much Divine Power he'd gained.

Of course, if he couldn't use Divine Spells, Divine Power became meaningless. Moreover, if he couldn't replenish the Divine Power Pool, he would use up this power sooner or later, so he hadn't been as excited about it initially.

But he soon found out a very important bit of information.

Domain Fusion.

Legend powerhouses grasp Domains, Gods merge with the Laws, and False Divine Vessel holders manipulate the Laws!

After the advanced False Divine Vessel gained a large amount of power, it fused with Marvin's Domains as well as the Domain he swallowed from the Wilderness God.

Thus, he now had three Domains, far exceeding the reach of ordinary Legends.

The most frightening part was that he could use Divine Power to make these Domains tangible!

This was a very frightening concept. Marvin didn't realize it at first, but afterwards, the information that kept appearing gave him a new understanding of the advanced False Divine Vessel's power.

Ordinary Legends could at most draw support from their Domain's Laws to defeat their enemies.

They couldn't make their Domains tangible and turn them into their own weapons.

But Marvin could. The prerequisite was using the Divine Power inside the Divine Power Pool.

Of the three Domains, [Slaughter] and [Shadow] were the Domains Marvin had formed himself. Thus, these two Domains could only consume Divine Power, and couldn't supply Marvin with it. He didn't have any Faith Power from followers, after all.

The third Domain, [Plant Metamorphosis], seemed rather weak, and was probably the weakest Domain controlled by the Wilderness God. But it had a very powerful advantage, which was to replenish the Divine Power Pool!

Through his connection with the False Divine Vessel, Marvin learnt that the so-called [Recover 1] meant that each week, Marvin would obtain 1 point of Divine Power through the Plant Metamorphosis Domain!

It offered some additional possible development paths for Marvin, albeit only a few.

'No wonder these Ancient Gods are so powerful, totally different from the New Gods. They can gain Divine Power through their Domains!'

Marvin suddenly understood.

Unknowingly, he came across a taboo issue in the Gods' realm.

With regards to the differences between the New Gods and the Ancient Gods, the most noticeable characteristic was whether they ascended through the Fate Tablet. But in fact, New Gods and Ancient Gods were like two different kinds of lifeforms.

New Gods could only draw from the Faith Power of their followers and turn it into Divine Power, but Ancient Gods were different.

Including sinister Evil Gods like the Wilderness God, they were all able to absorb Divine Power directly from the Universe.

No wonder there were no Ancient Gods participating in the attack on the Universe Magic Pool, besides the Plague God who wished for chaos.

But there was surely another reason for him to participate in the attack. It might not be as simple as Marvin had thought... They didn't only attack for the 4th Fate Tablet!

There must still be a huge secret hidden behind.

...

In any case, after obtaining the ability to materialize his Domains, Marvin now had the strength to go head to head with Gods.

But this was in theory. Marvin didn't know what would happen in practice.

He only knew that if he met with another event like being trapped in the Wilderness Hall, his Legend Laws wouldn't be removed again, because he could make his Domains tangible, allowing him to have strength on the same level as Gods.

Although it would use up his limited Divine Power, it could greatly bridge the gap in power between Gods and mortals.

Marvin understood how the Winter Assassin was nearly able to assassinate a God.

In their previous discussion, he had learnt that Isabelle's teacher also had a False Divine Vessel!

'In this world, becoming a God really isn't the only path to break through the limits and gain formidable power.'

Marvin's confidence was rekindled.

He tightly gripped the daggers in his hands and suddenly disappeared, causing Hathaway to look over in surprise.

The end of the passage appeared before them.

An earth-shattering roar echoed!