All My Professions Have Divine-Level Talents

'I had everything prepared!'

'I still had a backup plan! Even if I lost everything, I still had a backup plan!'

He couldn't speak, couldn't make a sound.

'This mist... it's poisonous...'

It was a very common, simple toxin, one that merely prevented its victim from crying out.

Lu Cang withdrew his War Spear.

There was already a massive cavity in Saint One's chest.

Saint One collapsed to the ground. He coughed up blood as he fell, but still used all his might to turn and crawl desperately back the way he came.

He looked toward the entrance he had come through.

'If I can just get my equipment back, get back the things I brought with me.'

'I still have a chance.'

'Even if I can't obtain Reincarnation, I can still live.'

'Just get out of here alive...'

'Even if I don't obtain Reincarnation, then I'll just become invincible in this life!'

However, when he looked back, he discovered that all the equipment and storage items he had taken off by the entrance were gone.

'Wh... y?'

He whipped his head back to look at Lu Cang. Lu Cang's face was that of a total stranger, a face he had never seen before.

To Saint One's eyes, he was still an enigma, a face he couldn't place.

Despair flooded his mind.

He looked at Lu Cang, his mouth agape, but no words came out. His heart was completely gone. Even as a Mage and a Mechanician, he could not survive such a grievous wound.

In this lifetime, he had not chosen a Profession that would increase his physical Constitution.

There was no way he could survive the loss of his heart.

At least, not in his current state.

He tried to activate his Flesh Magic to regenerate, but in his current weakened state, he couldn't possibly break through the powerful Restriction on the robes he wore.

It wasn't just the robes.

The entire Reincarnation Hall was under a magic-suppressing Restriction.

He could only project his consciousness, weakly asking Lu Cang, "Is this... the Trial of Reincarnation...?"

Lu Cang didn't answer. Instead, he produced a Dagger.

He grabbed Saint One's head, lifted it, and plunged the Dagger straight into the back of his neck.

A soul was jolted out of the body!

Lu Cang raised his hand and claimed the soul.

The soul floated in his hand, now completely under his control.

The soul wore an expression of shock, yet it still held a stubborn, resentful obsession.

It struggled, staring at Lu Cang.

Only then did Lu Cang finally speak.

"Yes. This is the Trial of Reincarnation."

"Unfortunately, you did not pass this Trial..."

Saint One's tiny soul gazed up at Lu Cang's tall, imposing figure.

"Is that so... It seems I have been defeated in a Trial..."

Lu Cang felt Saint One's obsession faintly dissipate.

He accepted his failure, finding release in the end.

Lu Cang did not reveal the lie he had fabricated.

'Sigh... Sweet dreams, Saint One.'

The last wisp of Saint One's consciousness dissipated. He was truly dead.

There was no earth-shattering battle. A single thrust of a spear was all it took to utterly end a Reincarnator who had lived for eight lifetimes.

The child's body lay on the ground, its eyes empty and vacant.

A faintly blood-colored sky cast its afterglow upon the false Reincarnation Hall.

And just like that, the dust settled. Everything was over.

The event didn't even cause a ripple large enough to stir the distant Sea of Trees.

Lu Cang did not leave immediately.

Instead, he sat down beside Saint One's corpse and gazed at the soul swirling in his right hand.

He couldn't help but feel a faint sense of melancholy.

'How hard can it be to kill someone?'

'Appeal to reason, move them with emotion... all things have a weakness. If not physical, then in the Mind. So long as they are human, they will have an obsession. Threaten them with that obsession, and they will surely reveal an opening. If it's a Demon, then it lacks true wisdom. You play to your strengths, avoid theirs, attack their weakness with your power—it's still a kill.'

'To kill someone, you don't necessarily have to be much stronger than them. You can even be far weaker in terms of raw power.'

This was also why Lu Cang had to kill Saint One.

It might have seemed that his opponent no longer recognized him. As long as Lu Cang didn't go looking for trouble with Saint One, the two of them could have gone their entire lives without ever interacting.

But in reality, this moment—with his enemy in the light and himself in the shadows—was the perfect opportunity to kill him.

If he had let Saint One go, how could Lu Cang ever know what kind of traps his opponent might set?

Today, he was the one who had set a trap themed around Reincarnation, waiting for his target to walk right into it.

If he had let him go, the next time he encountered some prize worth fighting for, how could he be sure it wasn't a trap set by Saint One?

'Should I be so arrogant as to think that possessing so many Divine Talents would make me fearless of any scheme devised against me?'

'Heh...'

'It's really hard to say.'

Even in his premonitions, there was one instance where Saint One had turned the tables and killed him during the assassination attempt, using the Celestial Base Saint Sky City—a weapon powerful enough to destroy the entire Miselux Continent.

'If I let my enemy come fully prepared, how could I dare say with any certainty that I wouldn't be the one getting killed?'

'No matter what I do, it's hard to feel at ease.'

Lu Cang looked at the corpse beside him. "Sigh. If I hadn't obtained the legacy of Reincarnation, perhaps you and I could have become good friends."

"I actually feel like you and I would have gotten along. Our ages are similar, our souls are both adult, and we both have the power to look down on everyone else."

"Plus, you're not really a bad person. You even seemed like you could have been a hero..."

"If we weren't mortal enemies, maybe we really could have gotten along."

"And I quite liked your Root Magic, too."

The more Lu Cang spoke, the emptier he felt inside.

"Sigh... I can only say these things now that you're dead... There are some things kept in the heart that you can never tell another living soul. You must have been the same, right? After living for so many years, there must have been secrets you could never speak aloud."

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