Achieving Demon Godhood from Unlocking Talents

In an instant, Lu Chao’s gaze locked onto the other side of the street.

At a street corner, a young man in a white long-sleeved shirt and khaki pants stood in the shadow of a skyscraper.

Unlike the panicked crowds fleeing past him, he showed no sign of alarm, standing perfectly still.

He had brown, curly hair and eerie green eyes—clearly a Caucasian from the old-era Mira Country.

At that moment, their eyes met through a gap in the crowd.

He broke into a morbid, intrigued smile, a flash of greed in his eyes, and made a throat-slitting gesture with his hand.

’Is it you?’

Lu Chao narrowed his eyes, finally pinpointing the source of the malice.

Greed, bloodlust, killing intent...

He had never seen this person before, yet those eyes—the eyes of a predator staring at its prey—felt strangely familiar.

THUD!!

The thought had barely crossed his mind when the brown-haired youth suddenly turned and strode away.

His gait wasn’t fast, yet he quickly created distance, turning into an alleyway.

Lu Chao frowned.

He could see it was a provocation, an attempt to lure him into a chase.

In that split second, gunfire still echoed all around, but the Superpower Bureau and the patrol teams were gradually getting the situation under control.

He made his decision and sprinted after him.

"I’m leaving this to you guys."

He issued the order to Chen Xiao and the others over his earpiece, then dashed across the street.

He felt no fear.

With all his abilities at his disposal, he was a Superpower Level expert.

Besides.

With such palpable killing intent so close, how could he ever relax until he understood the situation?

THUMP THUMP THUMP!

In an instant, footsteps echoed through the district’s alleyways.

The brown-haired youth in the white shirt led the way, with Lu Chao, clad in a black combat suit, hot on his heels.

The sound of gunfire faded into the distance as they delved deeper into the sparsely populated alleyways.

Soon, they were the only two left.

THUD!

The brown-haired youth stopped and turned around.

Apartment buildings loomed like giants on either side, blocking out most of the sun.

He stood in the shadows of a wall, staring at Lu Chao.

"I never thought the Holy Scripture would fall into the hands of a non-Mage."

"Why did you have to go looking for trouble?"

The mocking voice reached his ears. Lu Chao’s brow furrowed, but the confusion in his mind finally cleared.

’Holy Scripture... Magic...’

’So he’s after the magic book.’

’But how does he know I have it?’

"Now, tell me where the Holy Scripture is."

A cruel smile played on the brown-haired youth’s lips as he stared at Lu Chao. "Hand it over willingly, and I might consider leaving your corpse intact."

SNAP!

He snapped his fingers. The surroundings suddenly dimmed, as if he had interfered with some invisible force.

The next moment.

A two-meter-wide, spectral hand materialized behind him.

It was entirely an eerie green, a condensation of some kind of Magic Power.

Lu Chao’s gaze hardened. He recognized it as one of the forms of Magic mentioned in the book.

"Mage’s Hand."

"Oh?"

Seeing that he recognized the technique, the brown-haired youth raised an eyebrow.

"So you know what you’re looking at. It seems you’ve already skimmed the Holy Scripture."

He gave a sly smile, his eerie green eyes fixed on Lu Chao.

"A pity, though. You’re not a Mage, so you can’t possibly comprehend its mysteries."

"So..."

VMMM!!

The two-meter-wide, eerie green hand shot forward, instantly crossing the seven or eight meters between them and seizing Lu Chao.

Eerie green Magic Power flowed through it, making the Mage’s Hand seem almost alive as its five fingers clenched tight, trapping him like a cage.

"You only have one choice."

At some point, the brown-haired youth had raised his own right hand into an identical clenched fist, as if using it to control the Mage’s Hand.

His eyes filled with contempt as he threatened, "Tell me."

"Where is the Holy Scripture!"

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

The Mage’s Hand tightened violently, and a sickening crunching sound filled the air as it seemed to vibrate Lu Chao’s very bones, threatening to crush them.

As a peak magic wielder just one step away from becoming a true Mage, he had already killed countless Elite Level opponents.

And yet.

Faced with this crisis, Lu Chao’s brow suddenly smoothed.

There was no hint of pain on his face. He simply allowed the Mage’s Hand to keep tightening, compressing his flesh and bone.

With his senses magnified, he confirmed there were no other figures lurking in the shadows.

"Are you alone?"

Lu Chao asked, his tone oddly serious and curious.

The brown-haired youth froze for a second.

His brow twitched, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes. He was about to increase the pressure.

But then...

BANG!!

The Mage’s Hand abruptly burst apart, the ethereal green Magic Power dissipating on the spot.

The brown-haired youth suffered the backlash, letting out a muffled grunt.

Before he could recover...

SWOOSH!!

The air vibrated as if an arrow had been loosed from a bow.

The next instant.

A black shadow flashed before his eyes. He felt a heavy impact on his chest, followed by a burst of searing pain!

ACK!

He spat out a mouthful of blood as his body bent like a bow, his feet leaving the ground as he was sent flying backward uncontrollably.

The man from Ring City, the one with the crew cut he had treated as prey, now stood where he had been moments before, his right fist still held in a punching pose.

’This!’

His pupils contracted, his face a mask of shock and fury.

In that moment, the brown-haired youth knew he had gravely underestimated his opponent.

Intense pain radiated from his chest through his entire body. Just as he was about to lose his balance in mid-air, he hastily opened his mouth and formed a hand seal, preparing to cast a spell.

"Ro..."

But...

SLAP!

Lu Chao’s free left hand shot out, grabbing his head and clamping over his mouth.

The magical incantation died in his throat. He could only watch helplessly as his head was grabbed and slammed toward the concrete ground.

SLAM!!

The alley floor trembled. He lay flat on his back, staring up at the sky.

His furious, shocked eyes stared fixedly at Lu Chao’s frowning face. At the critical moment, a hazy layer of eerie green light had appeared beneath his head, a barrier that had absorbed the entire impact.

’Magic scrolls?’

Lu Chao frowned. He clearly saw three parchment scrolls float away from the youth’s body, rapidly burning to ash.

Clearly, it was by using these scrolls that his opponent had managed to cast another spell despite having his incantation cut off.

SWOOSH!!

In an instant, a piercing whistle came from both sides.

A glance from the corner of his eye revealed two gales of wind coalescing out of thin air into arrows—obviously another spell cast by the burning scrolls.

At the same time.

The brown-haired youth momentarily struggled free, opening his mouth to utter an incantation and unleash another technique.

"Hu..."

SLAM!!

Lu Chao slammed his head into the ground again, cutting off the incantation a second time.

The wind arrows flying through the air struck him, but they let out a sharp CLANG, as if hitting a steel plate.

The brown-haired youth’s eyes widened in disbelief.

The Lu Chao in his line of sight had already entered the Iron Bone State. He had simply tanked the wind arrows, shattering them on impact, and now his fingers clenched, grabbing the youth’s face once more.

SLAM!

SLAM!!

Again and again, Lu Chao unleashed his full strength, even employing the force-generation technique of his Stacked Force Fist.

The muscles in his arm bulged like concrete pylons as he pinned the youth’s mouth and head, relentlessly smashing him into the ground.

SLAM!

SLAM!!

CRACK!

With the sound of something shattering, the eerie green light beneath the brown-haired youth’s body exploded, and his head finally slammed into the bare concrete.

THUD!!

Blood spilled out. The youth’s eyes rolled back in their sockets, and he seemed dazed.

Seeing his chance, Lu Chao struck out, shattering the youth’s jaw to prevent him from speaking again.

He then grabbed the youth’s arm, dipped his fingers in the blood on the ground, and pointed them at the concrete floor.

"How did you know I had it?"

he asked in a low voice, staring intently at the man, demanding an answer.

The brown-haired youth’s expression twisted with shock, anger, and resentment.

’It was just a moment of carelessness... How could I be defeated so quickly?’

SLAM!

Lu Chao slammed his head into the ground again. The jolt of pain snapped him back to his senses.

His vision barely cleared as he looked up.

He saw Lu Chao’s eyes narrowed, filled with killing intent.

In that instant.

A chill shot through the brown-haired youth’s heart. He gritted his teeth and swallowed his humiliation.

’As long as I can survive this, I’ll have a chance to kill him.’

He subconsciously raised a hand and, using his own blood, wrote several lines of text on the ground.

He then suppressed his seething hatred and looked up at Lu Chao.

’A Mage can pay a price to perform a divination and sense the Holy Scripture’s approximate location?’

’The Holy Scripture possesses a unique spiritual nature and leaves a trace on anyone who holds it for a long time.’

His eyes flickered. Lu Chao was starting to understand.

He then asked a few more increasingly detailed questions.

The doubts in his mind gradually dissipated.

It turned out that right after he left Ring City, the Mages from the God-Worshiping Church had sensed the Holy Scripture and had even tracked it to the vicinity of his old rented apartment.

After a few setbacks, this man had split from his own group and, following the divined location, had tracked him all the way to Red Maple City by himself.

And now.

As he looked down at the brown-haired youth who seemed to be admitting defeat and begging for mercy, he could see something else.

The youth’s hidden, venomous hatred was reflected in Lu Chao’s mind, exposed for what it was. Nothing could hide from the Fixed Star Observation Method.

So.

"Sorry."

CRUNCH!!

Lu Chao shattered the man’s head with a single punch.

"Dead men are safest."

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