"Yes."
Nathan Wang nodded:
"You break the golden branch, and you can come to kill me and become the next Nathan King!"
"There's no need for all that trouble. I have a simpler way."
George smiled and then reached out to press on the divine tree, forcibly infusing it with his immense spiritual power, beginning to invade the core beneath the tree.
By breaking and killing the previous Nathan King, becoming the new Nathan King, that is the way the divine tree originally chooses its king.
The king chosen in this way will fully inherit the will of the previous kings.
He has no intention of inheriting the will of the previous Nathan Kings, so there is no need to go through this process.
With his strength, he can directly invade the core of the divine tree with his spirit power, using his overwhelming strength to subdue all the wills of the previous kings, making them submit to him instead.
In this way, he, as the new Nathan King, would be above the divine tree, the master of both the divine tree and the divine realm, rather than their slave.
He would be able to understand all the secrets of the divine tree while not being limited.
In fact, as soon as he arrived on the Nathan Island and sensed the power of the divine tree, he could teleport over to control the divine tree, thus controlling the entire Nathan Island.
But he isn't a bandit, and he can't carry out such a coercive seizure.
He thinks that no matter how backward or unfavorable the Nathan Island may be, it is still the country and territory of others.
Since the people themselves do not have any objections, what right does anyone have to invade from the moral high ground?
To say it's spreading the spark of civilization is merely a pretext; in reality, it's nothing but naked piracy.
However, in this situation, the king of the people invited him over to help, asking him to become the new king and promising that he could do whatever he wants with the divine tree and the divine realm as long as he can resist the wills of the previous kings.
What else can he say? It's a good thing to have, and he shouldn't let it go to waste.
"What's going on? What are you doing!"
With George's forceful entry, the wills of the previous kings in the divine tree immediately began to resist.
The divine tree's thousand-year-old power may not be as strong as George's, but it is still a significant force.
So the entire kingdom and even the small island began to tremble in the midst of the confrontation between the two forces, causing the Nathan King to open his eyes in disbelief.
She didn't expect the situation to develop in this direction that she hadn't anticipated.
This guy is opposing the wills of the divine tree that have stood for a thousand years with his own strength and is gradually gaining the upper hand. It's simply incredible.
"King!"
At this moment, the nine Nathan Guards felt something was amiss with the divine tree and teleported from various parts of the island to this place.
When they saw George using brute force to forcibly subdue the divine tree, their expressions changed instantly, and they simultaneously launched an attack at George:
"Stop!"
As Nathan Guards, protecting the king and the divine tree is their duty.
They believed that George was destroying the divine tree at the moment, so they naturally had to attack George to protect the divine tree.
The Nathan King saw the situation and did not stop, as she was also somewhat at a loss at the moment.
She did indeed hope that George could become the Nathan King, but also according to the rules of the divine tree, by breaking the golden branch and killing her, not so brutally directly conquering the divine tree.
Although she had indeed said that she would allow the other to do as they pleased, she hadn't expected that the other would actually be able to do it.
"Light Magic · Judgment!"
Angel Alfonso, one of the nine Nathan Guards, acted fastest and used the family's light magic.
One after another, light-based magic circles lit up behind him, and arm-thick beams of light shot towards George, aiming to purify him on the spot.
"Thor's Law · Lightning Strike!"
Anthony, who is of divine lineage and possesses the bloodline of Thor from Olympus, is almost on par with Alfonso in terms of attack speed. He is naturally capable of unleashing powerful lightning from birth.
"Light Magic · Light Explosion!"
While subduing the wills of the divine tree, George also allocated a fraction of his consciousness.
He first launched a similar light magic, using water barrel-sized light beams to directly push Alfonso's light beams back and blow onto Alfonso as well, sending him flying out.
Then, he unleashed a burst of thunderous light, dispelling Anthony's thunder and performing the Thunderstroke of the Divine, stunning Anthony with a black lightning bolt.
Even if you were the godly descendant of Thor himself, you wouldn't be able to withstand his Divine Destruction magic, which is specifically designed to counteract gods.
"Human Alchemy!"
Just as he solved the first two, the attack from the third person had already come down from the ground.
It is one of the nine Nathan Guards, the precious metal Marcelo, who controls and synthesizes metal using alchemy to try to tie George up.
However, with a thought from George, the metal instantly turned around and tied Marcelo up securely.
"Kill!"
"Eat you!"
"Smash you!"
After solving the three remote attacks, another three close-combat attacks came charging towards George.
One pulled out his sword and sliced down from above, the terrifying blade aura seemingly intending to chop George into several pieces on the spot.
Another's body was enveloped in a kaleidoscope of energy, as if a god had descended upon them, their physical form rapidly swelling before they bit down fiercely towards George's head.
The last one lit up with various runes all over his body, rapidly growing stronger under the empowerment of the runes, delivering a punch that seemed to shake the heavens and earth and move ghosts to tears.
These three are also among the Nathan Guards.
They are respectively the descendants of the Japanese Ueno family, Yue Wang Wuxue, who refused to be drafted to participate in the invasion war and came to hide on Nathan Island. After joining the Nathan Guards, they became one of them.
The last generation of the Paradise Leader, Bedtia, the divine warrior born from the coexistence with the resentful spirit of the Dead Lake, joined the Nathan Guards after being defeated by a suspended challenge.
The female warrior, Gnothalten, is a native of the island and has inherited the Nathan rune power. With the help of runes, she can increase her own strength and defense, as well as heal her physical injuries.
Facing the attacks of the three close-combat Nathan Guards, George was equally unbothered.
Attacks of this caliber would be considered top-tier experts in the outside world, the strength of a sect leader.
But for him, it's too childish.
"Time Suspension!"
With a wave of his hand and a time magic, he paused the time for the three, immobilizing them in place.
Then one of them punched their head, restoring time to normal.
The three who attacked George all flew backward simultaneously.
"That's too strong, right!"
The Nathan King's pupil contracted rapidly.
Elias said that George was very strong, and she thought he was at most on the same level as Hanging Down, or maybe slightly stronger than Hanging Down. But she hadn't expected him to be this strong.
To rely purely on his own strength to suppress a thousand-year-old divine tree and to divert his attention to instantly defeat the attacks of six Nathan Guards.
It's worth noting that every Nathan Guard in the outside world is a top-tier expert.
"Heavenly Kingdom!"
The six Nathan Guards were all defeated, and the seventh Nathan Guard made his move.
The seventh Nathan Guard is the oldest among all the Nathan Guards, and also the most powerful one.
Her name is Alica Jokinna, and she uses the domain godly art of Heavenly Kingdom, which can pull the enemy's consciousness into endless Heaven.
The time in reality and the time within the Heavenly Kingdom are one to infinity.
In the outside world, only one second has passed. But within the Heavenly Kingdom, it might be dozens, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years.
