Ascending the Heavens as an Evil God

The two Black Base champions defending the white lane were two Star Rulers who were complete strangers before this.

There were very few occasions where Star Rulers teamed up to begin with, so there were many loners in the Myriad Heavens Starry Road. But they just had to meet the perfectly-coordinated Ying Ge and Zi Dian combo right at the start, making these two feel somewhat helpless.

This also wasn’t the first time that the two from the Black Base had entered Champions World. They knew very well that coordination between champions in a team of two would impact the battle greatly.

Therefore, from the beginning, the two of them never planned to seek any meritorious achievements. Rather, they simply sought to not make mistakes, which was why they hid behind their city wall all this time.

This tactic seemed to be very effective. At least so far, the Ying Ge-Zi Dian team that had tacit coordination between them could only attack the city wall but couldn’t kill these champiions.

However, this deadlock was broken when the opponent’s third wave arrived.

Those two champions were still hovering in the air when they suddenly sensed a fluctuation of laws among the minions on the ground.

"Prodigious Realm power, it’s a champion!" One of the Star Rulers was immediately startled. Right when he wanted to call out to his companion to be careful, he saw the one-eyed Star Ruler beside him stare behind him with horror.

Before he could do anything, he felt a sudden pain in his back. The terrifying strength behind the attack practically swatted him out of the air.

But it wasn’t over yet. He didn't have time to turn around at all before another series of attacks descended.

The tearing pain on his body made the Star Ruler both surprised and furious. He knew that he had little health left, but he just couldn’t figure out…

‘How can there be such a powerful opponent?’

‘We’re still within our city walls!’

He was absolutely right. Almost at the same time he died, a beam of light suddenly shot out from the city wall and slammed into the enemy behind him.

For champions at this stage of the game, the city walls still held considerable attack power.

Even if Gu Nan had circled around Mi Luo and Mi Tian and killed them again, successfully ranking up his Evil God Physique to Level 2, he still couldn't withstand the damage dealt by the city wall.

The laser beam pierced through his chest. The searing heat from the high-energy attack left a scorched mark on Gu Nan, and even his tissues began to char.

But he still didn't intend to leave. His gaze shifted to the one-eyed Star Ruler beside him who was still alive.

The latter’s mouth twitched slightly. He had nowhere to escape, so he could only lift his hand helplessly and strike at Gu Nan.

At the start of the battle, almost everyone picked offensive abilities in order to gain a pushing advantage, so the one-eyed Star Ruler could only try and see if he could kill Gu Nan right now.

Of course this was impossible.

A Gu Nan with three abilities unlocked was much more flexible than he was. Before the other party’s attack even reached him, he had already “Blinked” behind the enemy, continuously swinging his shadow sword down.

This time, however, his Shadow Sword Overlay had gone into cooldown, so he had to tank another attack from the city wall.

After tanking three consecutive laser beams, Gu Nan finally succeeded in killing the one-eyed Star Ruler, while he himself was also riddled with holes.

"Can't tank it, can't dodge it. It really is a Prodigious killer," Gu Nan spent the last of his strength to instantly leave using Blink while muttering.

The city wall’s laser beam was mostly composed of the power of laws, yet it also came preinstalled with the “law nullification” characteristic, so most of the damage directly acted upon Gu Nan’s body.

It was fortunate that Gu Nan ranked up his defensive ability twice, or else he probably wouldn’t even be able to tank one hit.

However, another 1,000 champion coins were deposited into his account, and he also reached Level 3 from the EXP gain, which made Gu Nan feel gratified after all was said and done.

Two more streaks of white light flashed across the sky again. Ying Ge and Zi Dian helplessly exchanged a glance. They finally knew why the two enemy champions on the other lane kept dying so miserably and frequently.

‘This Gu Nan has clearly unlocked three abilities—he can kill enemy champions by himself!’

Neither of them provided any help during the entire "tower dive" process. At best, they merely helped push the wave forward, giving Gu Nan a chance to approach the enemy.

In the game’s jargon, Gu Nan’s development had far outpaced the other side now that he had six kills under his belt.

That, combined with the fact that his ability configuration was that of an assassin to begin with, enabled him to achieve such an unimaginable result.

"But with your current injuries, I'm afraid it’ll take a long time to recover, won’t it?" Ying Ge asked Gu Nan just as he returned to their side.

Gu Nan, who’d continuously tanked the tower shots, really did look a little miserable right now.

The city wall’s laser beam contained a disintegration attribute, causing Gu Nan's entire left hand to be riddled with densely-packed small holes. This appearance alone was enough to drive those with trypophobia crazy.

And although champion fountains existed in Champions World, they were only good for respawning champions and didn’t have any effect like accelerating healing.

"Yeah, it’ll take at least a few days to recover," Gu Nan agreed.

While it was true that the Evil God Physique was very powerful, without Praise of Dawn to speed up recovery by three times, it was impossible for injuries like this to recover quickly.

Ying Ge secretly sighed in relief. In the end, this Gu Nan wasn’t monstrously invincible. "Then you—"

However, before she could finish, Gu Nan's figure had already shot out again. He threw himself at the enemy’s city wall while leaving such a sentence:

"You guys keep pushing, I'll go execute myself[1] first."

……

When Gu Nan respawned from the fountain and returned to the black lane, Wu Gui had fully carried out his instructions, concentrating all subsequent minion waves in front of the city wall.

There were already four White Base commanders standing beside Wu Gui, which meant that she’d frozen four waves in front of the city wall.

Mi Luo and Mi Tian had already returned to the frontlines, and they were staring at the White Base’s city walls with conflicted expressions.

They didn’t know how the opponent kept all these soldiers right in front of the city wall without advancing forward, but this situation made them very miserable.

Their own soldiers constantly entered the city wall’s attack range and were then killed by the city wall and the enemy soldiers’ coordinated attacks, while the enemy soldiers suffered few casualties.

Correspondingly, the two of them couldn’t earn experience and champion coins either, so they could only watch as more and more enemy waves gathered in front of the city wall.

They tried all kinds of methods, but they still couldn't stop their own soldiers from advancing. No matter how they threatened or cajoled, they couldn't stop these ignorant masses who’d been brainwashed.

It wasn’t until the fifth wave when the two finally realized… It was the commander!

“Esteemed champions, what exactly do you two want to do?!” The Black Base commander who’d finally been detained glared at Mi Luo and Mi Tian.

The two brothers, one old and one young, glanced at each other and thought, ‘If we knew what the enemy wanted to do, then we wouldn’t be standing here!’

But no matter what, they couldn’t sit idly by and watch their own soldiers throw their lives away meaninglessly.

At that moment, a shadow slunk to the sky above the enemy’s city wall. The obvious law fluctuation startled the two of them. They knew that that guy had returned.

"You’ve worked hard." Gu Nan looked down with satisfaction. Four minion waves were gathered together on the ground.

"Why did it take you so long to return this time?" Wu Gui was a little baffled. She saw the white flashes light up the sky a long time ago.

Gu Nan didn't say he "returned to the city for free" for a wave, which wasted some time. He just said, "Cut them loose. We'll head straight to the high ground this wave."

"How do we cut them loose?"

Gu Nan glanced back at her. Then, with a casual wave of his hand, the four commanders were flung directly off the city wall, smashing into the ground in front of the Black Base minions.

T/N:

[1] Executed: If a champion dies and hasn't been damaged nor been inflicted with a debuff by an enemy champion in the last 15 seconds (in this case dying to the tower/turret/city wall). In some cases it could be strategically advantageous for a player to purposefully be executed as an alternative to dying from an enemy champion; in doing so, the enemy receives no gold.

Gank: To ambush unsuspecting enemies. Portmanteau of 'gang kill'