MMORPG : Rebirth Of The Strongest Vampire God Chapter 1042 The next phase

Rudra sensed the perfect warrior's death ahead of everyone else.

"HE DID IT…. MAX HAS DEFEATED THE PERFECT WARRIOR" Rudra bellowed at full volume while all the celestials struggled to accept what they heard.

Excitement, shock, and bliss raced through the celestials like a raging blaze, and in just moments, they all erupted into wild cheers.

"QUICK, HELP ME DESTROY THE PERFECT WARRIOR'S SEED" Rudra urged, and in an instant, the fourteen celestials assembled on his celestial peak, set to release their most devastating techniques all at once.

As soon as Rudra ripped the seed of chaos from his body and laid it atop his celestial peak, six elite tier8 blasts and six karmic tier9 strikes hammered down on the seed simultaneously, wiping out not only the seed but Rudra's complete celestial peak into fine powder.

Another fragment of the perfect warrior's soul core crumbled into dust with the seed's annihilation, leaving his soulmancer Odin as the sole tether holding him to this universe.

"Come on now, Odin, honor your promise… old guy" Rudra whispered while gazing down from the celestial realm to the Rajput Capital, where the queen kept Odin as a prisoner.

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(Odin's POV)

Joyful tears flowed from Odin's eyes the instant he grasped that the perfect warrior was truly vanquished.

For almost ten thousand years, Odin had eagerly awaited this moment, and across that endless stretch, he often wondered if it might never arrive.

Six among the 14 celestials dwelling in the celestial realm had been hand-raised by him from nothing to serve as would-be rivals to the perfect warrior, each one superior to the last since Odin drew lessons from his errors and continually boosted the prowess of his selected heroes.

During that journey, triumphs occurred alongside plenty of blunders, and though he swore off meddling in worldly matters, a romantic entanglement happened, a child entered the world, and students were trained.

In the grand scheme, this universe's chronicles would no doubt brand him a villain—a sly orchestrator tugging at hidden threads—but Odin felt no remorse for his life's paths, because today those paths yielded victory as a hero he cultivated toppled the perfect warrior.

"Queen, please relay to Hazriel that she's like the daughter I never knew. Tell Micheal, Sariel, and Raphael I'm deeply sorry for shattering their faith, and if I could relive it all, I'd seek a different path. For the tombstone Max vowed to erect in the Rajput Capital, engrave these words: A proud servant of the Rajput Clan and the betrayer who felled the perfect warrior" Odin instructed as he drew a pitch-black dagger from his inventory, flashed a warm smile, and aimed it at his throat.

"This marks the finish for Odin the nameless deity; may history judge me fairly" he declared before driving the blade into his neck, with the queen, obeying Max's final commands, commencing to burn his form to cinders.

Unlike dispatching an ordinary ruler, ending Odin's life proved a grueling ordeal, as though the universe conspired against his passing.

Surrounding mana flooded into his frame, frantically striving to hold it together, yet through Odin's unyielding resolve and the queen's overwhelming might, he at last succumbed, breaking the final chain binding the perfect warrior to existence.

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(The celestial realm)

The perfect warrior's revival halted sharply once Odin took his own life, his soul commencing its eternal fade.

In that instant, the celestial realm's sky, shrouded in gloom since Max and Rudra obliterated the sun, burst into vivid light anew, accompanied by intense surges of energy.

The celestial realm looked on the verge of total ruin, but the savvier celestials recognized it wasn't the realm crumbling—instead, the universe was fusing with the Tower of Ascension.

Rudra along with the six other celestials who skipped using karmic essence against the seed of chaos and thus survived, stared at the sky's rift with wariness, clueless about their impending fate.

"Hercules fell? Fascinating…" A woman's voice echoed from past the fissure as a feminine silhouette gradually stepped forth.

The arriving woman boasted a human-shaped form, decked out in solid golden armor, a glowing halo floating over her head.

Her power hovered at tier9, and even though she appeared to hail from outside the celestial realm, her focus lingered on gauging Rudra and the group's strength, with Rudra detecting no peril from her.

"Such irreverence—15 key players in toppling the champion. What an outrageous group" the woman noted, and while Rudra lacked the backstory for her remark, he bristled at the mocking edge in her tone.

"Deities and mighty fighters of Universe Four, I am Hera, the prime goddess of the third universe. Representing the Olympian gods of the third universe, I applaud your victory over your universe's floor guardian and your eligibility to merge with the Tower of Ascension…" Hera announced, shifting from subtle jabs to her official role as envoy.

"Roughly two days from now, Universe Four's past will unwind, and the world you know will vanish, leaving only you and your champions to recall the prior era. Rewards tailored to your contributions in overcoming Hercules will be granted by the tower, based on the rankings. As your elder, I suggest pondering your reward selections wisely, since such a chance won't likely return. My visit ends here, but we'll cross paths again on floor 90 of the tower" Hera stated before retreating through the fissure she entered, offering no opening for Rudra or the others to inquire about the tower or what lay beyond.