Chapter 823  : Arena

My red short sword was decorated with silver runes of light. It was double-edged, but both edges were so blunt that it would be impossible to even cut vegetables with them.

A statue of a silver masked figure served as the sword’s hilt.

He held a gavel in one hand, representing judgement of evil, and a silver balance in the other hand, representing the equality between the crime and the punishment. The chain at his waist held a codex representing the Original Codex of Law, the source of all Law.

These weren’t the original God Equipment, but as representations and with the sword creator’s special identity, this short sword in a way had also become Wumianzhe’s incarnation.

“Judgement, Vengeance.”

Wumianzhe’s figure faintly arose from the sword. Whenever this God representing Judgement and Law appeared, he would judge all crimes before him.

Wumianzhe’s eyes, which contained no self-will, locked onto all existences before him without a single trace of emotion.

What did it feel like to be stared at by yourself? It definitely wouldn’t feel good to be judged by yourself.

“Guilty.”

The moment that he slammed his gavel, I felt pain in my chest as a piercing pain went through my heart. I was unable to swallow all the blood I spat up, likely making my mouth quite bloody. Without needing to even look, just the pain from my limbs made me realize that my blood and flesh were flying everywhere and that I was seriously injured.

However, I was still able to laugh because Karwenz, who was right in front of me, was even more seriously injured!

The tall demon’s left hand was already cut off. His black magic sword was covered in cracks. It must have been a special weapon connected to his body. Everything below his right knee was completely missing. His entire body was covered in injuries and holes from his blood and flesh being torn off.

Any ordinary person would have died long ago in such circumstances.

Karwenz was torn and tattered all over, yet he still managed to vaguely maintain a humanoid shape, sort of like a broken doll that had been forcefully put back together again using glue. If it wasn’t for the fact that Karwenz had the power level of a Chaos Main God, this one attack would have been more than enough to kill him.

But, this was only the beginning…

Law Sword Vengeance continued to float in the air. Wumianzhe’s gaze remained fixed on the two “sinners”. Wumianzhe was currently analyzing our crimes. The next judgement would be even more fatal.“…Damn it, the demon ability to devour souls.”

Devouring flesh, blood, and souls to heal oneself was a common ability for demons. Naturally, I wouldn’t sit back and watch him heal himself. But, when I prepared to get close to attack him, I tripped and fell over in a pool of blood because I hadn’t noticed that everything below my knee was already completely broken and crushed.

Karwenz instantly completed his soul absorption. His collapsing physical body stabilized. Still, I laughed as I watched this while barely managing to raise my head.

“Foolish. Soul absorption is also a serious crime. Your next judgement will be even more fatal.”

“…You die and I will live.”

Karwenz’s words were simple and succinct, yet they meant that he had seen through everything already. As long as he could kill me before the next judgement, my Law Sword Vengeance would naturally stop taking effect.

“No, there’s actually an even simpler method.”

Karwenz instead suddenly turned around and started to leave. This was actually the biggest headache of all for me to deal with.

My Law Sword Vengeance was automated and obviously couldn’t move. It also had no ability to restrict a person’s movements. It would be easy to walk out of its area of effect to choose a new battlefield. Karwenz, a veteran of countless battles, had instantly seen through the weakness of my Law Sword.

Naturally, I could have added a power of restriction to my Law Sword when creating it, but adding more different powers would have only diluted and greatly weakened the overall strength of this sword.

In order to obtain power strong enough to kill a Main God, the only special effect I created my Law Sword with was the ability to reflect one’s own crimes upon the perpetrator.

Even though Karwenz had seen through my Law Sword’s weakness, I was naturally prepared for this as I had never designed my Law Sword to be used alone to begin with…

“Come, Ice Sword Northlands!”

Even though we had been inside the lowest level of the Chaos Abyss, the scenery here instantly changed to dark clouds and a snowstorm as snow started to rapidly pile up on the ground at a visible rate.

Even Karwenz paused in surprise for a moment when the ice and snow began to fall. Perhaps he never thought that he would experience the weather of the Northlands here.

I carefully controlled my arena of ice and snow, and successfully brought Karwenz’s altar to open the dimensional barrier into this battlefield as well.

The Northlands’ weather calamities likely wouldn’t be that effective against us, but when considering the Northlands’ history, I was quite confident in the Northlands weather’s destructive force against buildings.

Only after I trapped us in this ice arena would it also be possible to activate the second ability of my Law Sword.

“Now, it’s a battle of attrition to see who can last the longest.”