158 William, The God Of Fire

Taking the safe, Ning Shi returned to the dormitory.

Because it was personally sent by Hu Changjun, the box was not password-protected. Ning Shi opened the box directly, and there were two stones inside.

One was green and the other was amber.

The surface of the stone had many blood-red stripes that looked like forked branches, like the blood vessels in the human body.

After staring at the stone for a long time, one would feel that the stone was beating, and one’s heart would beat faster and faster with the stone.

This magical power was characteristic of an S-level spiritual crystal.

Now that he had two S-level spiritual crystals, Ning Shi was short of A-level spiritual crystals.

He was now at Tier 8 in both his transformation and strength type, and he needed to absorb an A-level spiritual crystal to reach Tier 9 first before he could use an S-level spiritual crystal to upgrade his dual-type abilities to the overlord realm.

To upgrade from Tier 8 to Tier 9, he needed 10 A-level spiritual crystals. Ning Shi had two abilities, so he needed 20 A-level spiritual crystals.

Fortunately, the official reward was another 5000 merit points.

Without hesitation, Ning Shi logged into the awakener forum. The price of A-level spiritual crystals had not increased for the time being, still at 200 merit points for one. Ning Shi used 4000 merit points to exchange for 20 A-level spiritual crystals.

After placing the order, he looked at the message on the forum that it would only arrive at 9 am the next day.

Ning Shi planned to head to Central City after he received the A-level spiritual crystals and upgraded his ability.

The Black Maple Kingdom was a country to the north of the Mieln Federation.

This country was close to the West Arctic Ocean in the east and the Taiding Ocean in the west. Its area was close to 10 million square kilometers, and it was the second richest country in Saturn.

Due to the higher latitude, many places in the Black Maple Kingdom were covered in ice and snow, which was not suitable for human habitation. As a result, the permanent population was not high, only about 40 million people. The entire country could be said to be vast but sparsely populated.

As the neighboring country of the Mieln Federation, the most powerful country in the world, the Black Maple Kingdom’s army could not be strong.

Its National Defense Force only had about 50000 people, but the Black Maple Kingdom had been contaminated with the Mieln Federation’s habits, and their media reporting and propaganda abilities were very strong.

When such a country had an insect disaster, with its vast territory, the insect disaster did not engulf the entire country immediately.

After that, the Black Maple Kingdom’s media began to show their might on the international platform.

They bragged that they were the first country to slow down the attack of the insects and asked for international help.

Especially from its neighbor, the Mieln Federation.

The Mieln Federation was also very nervous about the overwhelming insect disaster in their neighboring country. However, they did not provide any help. Instead, they set up defensive fortifications at the border with the Black Maple Kingdom.

Seeing the Mieln Federation’s actions, the head of state of the Black Maple Kingdom cursed at the press conference and announced on the spot that the weapons in the inventory would be distributed to the civilians. They also called on the people to organize a spontaneous battle or to escape to the Mieln Federation.

In the end, he said in tears at the press conference, “The insect disaster isn’t a matter of one country. The insect tribe is the common enemy of all mankind. In the face of such a terrible enemy, all mankind must unite.

“In order to show the Black Maple Kingdom’s sincerity, we are willing to offer 20 S-level spiritual crystals as a reward. Whoever can help the Black Maple Kingdom repel the insect tribe will be able to receive 20 S-level spiritual crystals!”

This huge reward caused a sensation in the international community.

Everyone believed that the Black Maple Kingdom would be able to afford 20 S-level spiritual crystals with their many years of accumulation.

After the swarm of bugs devoured the vast forests in the north and west of the Black Maple Kingdom, they did not attack the capital of the Black Maple Kingdom immediately.

The situation was in a stalemate.

After Ning Shi put the S-level spiritual crystal into his backpack, he saw the press conference of the head of the Black Maple Kingdom while browsing the news.

There were also reports on the insect disaster in the Black Maple Kingdom.

Ning Shi had personally participated in the war with the insect race. He understood the purpose of the insect race’s war. Everything was for resources.

After the swarm of insects had devoured most of the material on the surface of the Black Maple Kingdom’s land, they would send out insects to investigate whether there were energy mines like black crystals underground.

According to the insect tribe’s understanding, if a piece of land did not have a single energy mine within a radius of hundreds of miles, then the land was barren and worthless.

They would not start a war for this land.

This was because war would also cause casualties to the insect tribe. Without energy ores to replenish, the dead bugs would be consumed in vain.

This was also the reason why the insect tribe did not attack everywhere after devouring the Bei Shi Nation and Fei Li Island.

Moreover, there were insect tribes that were good at perception. They could also sense that there were experts at the level of insect commanders gathered in the capital of the Black Maple Kingdom.

If they attacked rashly, it would definitely cause great casualties. In the situation where they could not get replenishment of resources, the insect tribe was not willing to make a loss.

Therefore, after the insect tribe had taken over half of the Black Maple Kingdom’s territory, they stopped their attack.

According to Ning Shi’s analysis, if there was no other purpose, the swarm should not attack again.

It was a pity that the people of the Black Maple Kingdom did not know the characteristics of the insect tribe. Even if they knew, the insect tribe had gathered on their own land, and they could not be at ease.

Therefore, they promised a huge reward.

Seeing the reward offered by the Black Maple Kingdom, Ning Shi had a deep and intuitive understanding of the gap in the development of the awakeners inside and outside the country.

In the country, every S-level spiritual crystal was extremely precious. In such a large country like Yunmeng Kingdom, there were only nine S-level spiritual crystals left in storage.

As for the Black Maple Kingdom, which wasn’t even considered a powerful nation in the Western world, it was willing to take out 20 S-level spiritual crystals.

At night, Yun Moxiang sent a video to Ning Shi and said on WeChat, “This is the picture taken by the national satellite combined with a short video taken by someone at the scene. The relevant scene has gone crazy on the international internet. The Pantheon of Gods is in full swing!”

It was a Short Video that was one and a half minutes long. Ning Shi clicked on it.

Fire!

Fire was everywhere!

It was burning all the matter in the picture.

The flames were extremely red, and it looked like the image had been set too high, causing the color of the flames to be distorted.

In the flames that engulfed everything, there were crackling sounds as countless insects were burned into nothingness.

A thin man walked out of the flames. He was wearing a white wizard’s robe, his hair was gray, his eyes were golden, his eye sockets were deep, and his nose was high.

The way he dressed was very similar to wizards in Western legends.

He was bathed in the flames, but his clothes and hair were not burning. The flames in his hands were like an obedient pet elf.

Ning Shi recognized this person. His photo often appeared on the awakener forum. He was the first awakened in the human world, William the fire demon.

The video had been edited. After William appeared, he walked in the air as if he was taking a stroll in his courtyard. Wherever he passed, flames filled the sky, and the insects retreated like stray dogs.

All the insects retreated to the new border of the Black Maple Kingdom at an extremely fast speed, back to the insect world.

The video ended there.

Ning Shi knew that the insect tribe was not afraid of William. Perhaps something had happened in the insect world, or the insect tribe thought that the Black Maple Kingdom’s territory was no longer valuable, so they chose to retreat.

Otherwise, with the spirit-devouring insect king’s strength, there would be hundreds of insect commanders under them, and even insect kings that were stronger than the overlord realm.

It would be easy to defeat William.

But the rest of the world didn’t know.

After watching the video, they felt that William was the God of Fire of the new era. He had forced back the insect tribe by himself.

After the Bei Shi Nation and the Jade Island Nation were destroyed by the insect disaster, everyone was in a panic.

Many pessimistic people believed that the end of the world was coming and that humans were no match for the insect tribe.

But William’s appearance gave many people hope. They saw the might of the top human powerhouses.

A one-man army defeated the insect disaster.

For a time, William’s name and story spread throughout the entire planet.

William, the God of Fire, had gained a large number of fans all over the world. Countless people called him the strongest human.

The Pantheon of Gods also used this wave of propaganda to completely whitewash themselves. In foreign countries, they went from a cult organization to an officially recognized formal religion.

Countless people joined the Pantheon of Gods with faith in the God of Fire.

Yun Moxiang was right. The Pantheon of Gods’ momentum had already been formed.